Here is the Washington Post story on the detention of Faisal Shahzad, the suspected bomber in New York — or at least a person of interest.
Here is the Wall Street Journal story on the same.
The man is a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan and was detained as he was trying to fly to Dubai.
Guess what words are not mentioned in either story?
If you guessed “muslim” and “Islam” pat yourself on the back. Neither this administration nor the media wants to foster any resentment toward the violence inspired by that religion.
Only tea partiers are violent.
I guess this guy was really angry about healthcare reform passing. It really is pathetic that you’re more likely to see the words “racist” and “Republican” together in the newspaper these days than “terrorism” and “Islam”.
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Leopard1996 (Diary) Tuesday, May 4th at 6:45AM EST (link)Hell even Fox was not mentioning that part of the story. It took an interview with some jackass lib decrying our foreign policy before that part came out. But maybe the AP feels that if you mention any of the crapistan countries the assumption is made.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg says...
Eric Olsen (Diary) Tuesday, May 4th at 7:01AM EST (link)“”If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything,”
Yeah…but NEVER a Muslim, right???
“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.” – Ayn Rand, Anthem
He was only building the bombs that Americans are unwilling to build.
NeoKong (Diary) Tuesday, May 4th at 7:26AM EST (link)We need to celebrate the rich diversity of our terrorist community.
After all…America is the melting pot of jihad and when you look at at it…aren’t we all descended from immigrants ?
There is also another terror related story that we are supposed to overlook as well.
The super secret elite and deadly murder kill teams of the Hutaree militia were released on bond.
I guess they couldn’t build bombs as cheap as forign labor could.
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He was only building the bombs that Americans are unwilling to build.
NeoKong (Diary) Tuesday, May 4th at 7:35AM EST (link)We need to celebrate the rich diversity of our terrorist community.
After all…America is the melting pot of jihad and when you look at at it…aren’t we all descended from immigrants ?
There is also another terror related story that we are supposed to overlook as well.
The super secret elite and deadly murder kill teams of the Hutaree militia were released on bond.
I guess they couldn’t build bombs as cheap as foreign labor could.
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But for the fecklessness of these terrorists
romeg Tuesday, May 4th at 10:32AM EST (link)The fecklessness of the Obama regime would have cost hundreds if not THOUSANDS of American lives. This administration had better keep a very close watch on the Tea Party movement. After all, they pose a much greater threat to his administration and to him becoming a lame-duck, one term president than all the Muslim Radicals in the universe.
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis
Something else missing
Jive_Dadson Wednesday, May 5th at 6:00PM EST (link)Aliou Niasse, a Senagalese Muslim immigrant who works as a photograph vendor on Times Square, was the one who alerted the police to the smoking van.
I don’t think the US is currently killing Senagalese civilians with Predator drones.
And another RedState sleeper cell is activated
civil truth (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 6:12PM EST (link)2 years, 7 months, no diaries and this is your first comment.
At RedState, another thing missing is that our moderators don’t read you Miranda rights, they just vaporize your account.
Don’t forget, though, that it’s your guy in the White House who’s taken ownership of the Afghanistan war and ordering these drone attacks, deal with it on your side of the divide, if you’re determined to put the blame for this guy’s bad behavior on our government.
Or you could grow up and start to realize that lots of bad guys have their own agendas to advance independent of what we do – rather than your narcissistically assuming that they are simply passively reacting to some U.S. actions.
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On Obama, we are in agreement
Jive_Dadson Wednesday, May 5th at 7:55PM EST (link)My guy is not in the White House. My guy is in the House. Fourteenth district of Texas, to be specific. Obama is an abomination. He’s the one ordering the drone attacks, you know.
I stand corrected on your political affiliation, but that doesn't change my rejoinder
civil truth (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 10:33PM EST (link)Narcissistically blaming the U.S. for the bad actions of our foreign enemies is still anathema whether it’s coming from the anti-war, Marxist left or the isolationist right.
Especially when they soon acquire got missiles that can reach us from thousands of miles away carrying their WMDs, “Fortress America” isn’t going to work then, just as castles didn’t work against gunpowder.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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Understanding is not blame
Jive_Dadson Wednesday, May 5th at 11:36PM EST (link)When a burglar breaks into your house to steal your money, it’s not blaming you to point out that it was money that the thief was after. Knowing why he did it does not excuse the thief for his criminal act. Putting explosives in Times Square is a reprehensible criminal act. Recognizing why he did it does not excuse the crime. The terrorists that are captured and those who make videos and tapes are unanimous. They do what they do for revenge.
Now it so happens that I think US foreign policy is counter-productive, and all too often immoral and illegal. That does not mean I am an isolationist. I think the US ought to allow us to do honest business with whomever we want, and to travel where we please. A very wise man said, “When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.” The current US foreign policy isolates us. Liberty would have the opposite effect.
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civil truth (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:09AM EST (link)including an elucidation as to what I refer to as narcissistic. Can’t guarantee that, though, as I’ve much on my plate.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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Sorry, I'm finding it difficult to find a coherent argument
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:42PM EST (link)The Islamists started this war, which is a continuation of a conflict that has been going on for over 1200 years, so the U.S. is a late-comer to this conflict. They attacked us on 9/11 and there going to find any opportunities they can to fight us no matter what we do. I don’t have enough info to assess the military effectiveness of our predator drone campaign, but that tactic is not responsible for their strategy of looking for ways to attack us – if we didn’t use drones, they’d find another pretext.
Attributing everything to “revenge” is a diversion – any action we take can become grounds for “revenge” – not to mention a thousand years of history that can be twisted into grounds for “revenge”. So putting the onus on our side is irrational.
Pretext – that’s what the drone complaints are about – if if not that, they’d find something else, so long as we fought them. They don’t believe and actively oppose by force our Western values of liberty, rights of the individual, etc (and their rule of law is Sharia). To view them as seeing the world as we do is narcissism that is dangerous because it is delusional.
Our values and way of life are not an entitlement; untimately they have to be defended by force by those who use force to take it away from us – and preserving our liberties in the process is complex – I recognize that our supposed “defenders of liberty” can use that power to turn on us and become tyrants – but you can’t escape that danger by ducking conflict.
But we certainly are in agreement that the Obama administration is a real and present danger to our liberties. And those that oppose the Obama administration are not necessarily on the side of liberty – they just may want to be the one in power instead.
But we’ve got to play with the cards we’re dealt with – and virginity is not an option as we’ve already been violated.
…Not sure how coherent this commend ended up, I tried, but perhaps I’m like that proverbial pot
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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That's a start
Jive_Dadson Thursday, May 6th at 1:58PM EST (link)You say, “I recognize that our supposed “defenders of liberty” can use that power to turn on us and become tyrants.” Very true.
Now try to recognize that it has already happened. Osama is getting exactly what he wanted. We meekly stand in line and take off our shoes at the airport. We kowtow to rude and antagonistic “screeners” with blue rubber gloves and strip-search machines. We stop for “border guards” hundreds of miles inside the country and submit to warrantless searches. The congress passes retroactive laws absolving anyone guilty of warrantless wire-taps. Obama claims the right to assassinate anyone, anywhere without due process of law or benefit of habeas corpus. Soon we may need to have a permit from the government to work – a national ID card that the feds can take away if and when they please.
After spending trillions on overseas adventures that have come to no good, the country is bankrupt. That is the best result that Osama wished for. He got it.
Actually, it's an act of war.
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 2:05PM EST (link)And in this case, also an act of treason.
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Jive_Dadson Wednesday, May 5th at 11:37PM EST (link)Look up the word narcissistic. (Don’t be surprised if you find Obama’s picture next to the definition.)
To clarify my use of narcissistic
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:50PM EST (link)I was using this term to refer to someone who assumes that they’re the focal point of everyone else – that everyone else’s thoughts and behaviors are referenced to themselves.
In domestic politics, an example is the assumption that everyone who disagrees with Obama is doing so solely out of racism because Obama’s black, rather than recognizing that there’s a whole realm of philosophical and practical reasons based in a long historical legacy that leads to opposition.
In the foreign affairs, it’s the assumption that every world conflict in some way is a response to something that the U.S. does – that we’re so important that others cannot have their own disputes that don’t involve us some way.
And BTW, Obama’s picture can be found in the Preface to the Screwtape Letters.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Words
Jive_Dadson Thursday, May 6th at 2:02PM EST (link)Egocentric is the word. It means literally, “I am the center of everything.” Narcissism is a psychotic personality disorder. Obama’s got it bad.
No disagreement here
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 2:09PM EST (link)…within the constraints of armchair psychology, of course. But his public words and demeanor paint a rather convincing portrait…
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/