President Obama, your policies are causing Conservatives to muster. I suppose that means you’ll be closing up shop and going home. That’s the ‘logic’ when it comes to America continuing to hold terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.
They say Gitmo is a rallying point and recruitment tool for terrorists. They say a lot of things. Cheap talk from empty suits.
The Senate just voted to keep the terrorists where they are. But that won’t do. The State Department, and the White House have other plans for them.
If President Obama has his way, the detainees would be transferred to US jails. They would begin turning up in our Courts, championed by lawyers provided surreptitiously from CAIR, and openly by the ACLU. And when they beat the wrap, which some might, they’ll be set loose on American soil. After all, we can’t send them home again. So, it’s asylum for men who conspired to kill our soldiers, and bomb us to rubble.
This is another case of the Left fretting over World Opinion, and placing foreign interests above US interests. Maybe we should just embrace the Caliphate the Islamists have planned for us. I doubt they would be any worse than what we’ve got now.
Here’s an idea. Just send them home. Let them rejoin their comrades in terror. Let them take up arms against Imperialist America. And, when they again face the US military, let the chips fall where they may. Soldiers don’t like facing the same enemy twice. The detainee problem will be settled as it should have been in the first place.
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theunderground Friday, May 22nd at 3:37PM EST (link)I’ve lurked around redstate for some time now and I’ve seen some intelligent diaries, and I’ve seen some inane ones (This is the internet after all).
But first, let me save you some time, because I’m sure you’ll stop reading after this part: I describe myself as a liberal.
Now, your immediate point is that President Obama is causing conservative forces to muster. I simply cannot find anything that shows any type of support for this. A Research2000 poll that came out today shows the GOP congressional approval rating at 20%, the same poll shows a growing number of Americans believe that since taken office Obama has moved the country towards the right direction.
Yes Pelosi and Reid are sitting at or near the 30% mark for approval, but your own leadership sits at 21% or lower.
And your next bit is just simply unamerican. There is sadly no other way around it. Claiming that the court system is biased is one thing. But saying that the rights and freedoms that make America better should be denied a human being is the antithesis of what we’re made of. The more we blur the line between what makes the enemy the enemy and what makes us us the less value the battle has.
My final comment concerns your point claiming the Left cares more about world opinion than US interests. I can understand how at first glance it would be easy to construe the concern on the Left lies with the terrorist lying on the ground with a collar around his neck, groveling in a pile of feces. But the reality is the real concern is about the American standing over him, pointing and smiling. The real concern is that America doesn’t define itself as the biggest kid on the playground that is going to push you to the ground and take your ball because it can. America defines itself as the kid that stands up to the bully. The one everyone else can look to and envy and respect. As a liberal I feel no compassion or remorse for any horrible act committed against any prisoner in Gitmo. My concern is for the souls of the Americans who committed those acts, because in a rational world and in a rational society we would arrested and prosecute people for those acts.
Just my 2 cents.
I will never stop.
molybdanthan (Diary) Friday, May 22nd at 5:41PM EST (link)Not reading. Not writing. Not thinking for myself. Never.
Polls? You’re going to come at me with polls. Forgetting for a minute that most are cut out of whole cloth, the GOPers with the low numbers aren’t popular with me either. I’m brand new to RedState, so I won’t presume to speak for any of the others here. But, if you keep lurking around, you’ll see spirited debate going on everywhere about this topic. There’s a real push against incumbency, and a call for the cleansing fire to burn away the overgrowth and dead wood in Washington.
The court system isn’t just biased, it’s hopelessly ineffective, and often corrupt. Judges overturning the vote of the people happens all the time. Here’s one that I saw firsthand. A man in my hometown brutally murdered a clerk and customer at a gas station. There was no question of his guilt. The camera caught everything. He was sentenced to die for his crimes by a jury of his peers. But the ACLU has pushed for retrials in all cases where execution was involved. Because of this, he plead guilty the second time around, and his lawyers were able to get his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. We could do nothing. Through legal chicanery, the citizens of my state are forced to support a murderer, while his victims get no second chances. I don’t like that. If you want other specifics, I’ll be happy oblige you. Just let me know.
Being American is unamerican. We’re in Bizzaro World here. Laws make outright theft and murder legal through the welfare system and abortion. Businesses are being nationalized by the day. All to prop up the Left’s vision of America.
But dissent is in jeopardy through Political Correctness and outright violations of the 1st Amendment. Speak out against the corruption, and watch out. Look what happened to Imus, Limbaugh, and now Savage. More will fall, possibly even you, if you’re not liberal enough. Read your Orwell.
All this self-flagellation from the Left over the terrorists is a smokescreen and a screed. You have to know that. We’re still talking about water boarding, and what/when Pelosi knew, instead of focusing on the Obama Economic takeover of major US industries. Speaker Nancy is a shield for the Left. She’s gone as far as she’ll go in station and popularity, and thus expends her political capital to protect the fledgling liberals waiting to succeed her. And they’ve got such grand plans. Ask yourself, why did the Dem Congress spend more time on steroids in baseball than the multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill?
I would like to know if you’ve donated any money to a veterans charity. Does your heart swell for all combatants, or just the other side’s? And tell me again of torture, after you’ve witnessed a late-term abortion.
World Opinion. What a sham. In ‘None Dare Call It Treason’ John Stormer traced the origin of that term. It arose during the Korean War, as a way for the libs to protect Chairman Mao and the Communists of China from total annihilation. Later, Senator Kerry used it to liken US soldiers to the Hun. It’s total moral equivalency meant to humble the mighty, and tell giant Gulliver to lay down and be bound by the Lilliputians. The Left resides bodily in that World. Fine, stay there. I choose to go another way. Others will join me on the path.
There are enough atrocities in the past to go around. I’m not suggesting we forget any of them. But I’m not a wall flower. I’m trying to move us forward. Since you probably support the social activist-cum-politician, you’d think I’d have your tacit approval. The future I envision won’t end in pogroms.
Thanks for your comment. A record of your two-cent donation has been provided to the IRS, and will be added to your outstanding balance. Bail-out recipients the world over thank you too, for being such an informed guy, doing your part by putting all these world saviors in office. They couldn’t have done it without you.
G'Bye (nt)
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David Hinz (Diary) Friday, May 22nd at 6:20PM EST (link)After all, everyone KNEW that Saddam Hussein was a bully, thug and killer, and everyone KNEW that he needed to be removed — that he supported terrorists and terrorism — but everyone except President Bush was too afraid to actually do it.
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Bill S (Diary) Friday, May 22nd at 7:02PM EST (link)but latest polling data shows that equal numbers of Americans identify as Republicans as Democrats. That’s a several point swing from the Dem advantage over the last couple of months. My guess is that it’s a response to the socialist takeover of the gubmint.
But I don’t know why I’m responding, because frankly, I could care less what a mental midget like yourself thinks.
Moral authority is fo’ suckas.
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Where did you go? Back underground.
molybdanthan (Diary) Friday, May 22nd at 9:52PM EST (link)You were registered for 9 days, and only posted that 1 comment. I’m honored that my diary entry piqued your interest, and that my reply sent you packing.
The days of ‘silent majority’ are over. Don’t think you can get away with anything anymore.
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JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, May 22nd at 6:06PM EST (link)I know a couple Obama voters who are desperate for 2010 to get GRIDLOCK back in DC and stop the insanity of SPENDING and one crisis after another crisis….they are just sick to death of all of this debt….I just smile and agree
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