posted on August 7, 2005 08:23:34 PM new
Now if the US would take a stand!
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Written by J. B. Williams
Saturday, August 06, 2005
The inventors of political correctness, the lords of tolerance and restraint, the defenders of the indefensible, champions of understanding and global thinking, have just become the first in the world to run out of patience, understanding, and, yes, tolerance for terrorism.
After beating America over the head for years with their grandiose ideals of an all-inclusive social order, in the end, it is the Europeans who have come to their senses first.
According to a recent article by AP writer Jamey Keaten, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have started watching, arresting, and deporting Islamic clerics on the basis of their inflammatory speech alone. No longer is every form of speech tolerated in Europe. No longer will European leaders continue to watch their own innocent citizens die, as they protect their precious goal of political correctness and an open society where anything goes.
A few short weeks ago, this would have drawn fire from around the world. The ACLU would have gone international in its efforts to protect the rights of Islamic terrorists to breed more hate, death, and destruction. The United Nations would have called for another pointless resolution, this time aimed at the free world itself. A few years ago, these same Europeans were calling upon America to show tolerance, understanding, and restraint in the aftermath of 9/11.
Today, with their own dead, they have a different perspective. Today, these European leaders are searching for any minor infraction of any law including jaywalking, that will allow them to collect, detain, or deport any Muslim who isn’t publicly speaking out against terrorism. The dragnet in Europe far exceeds anything America has even yet dreamed of, in terms of fighting terror at its base of operations, in the mosques where they recruit, train, organize, and plot.
Such action in America would not only keep the ACLU busy for decades, it would draw even more hate from around the world via the United Nations and from home-grown half-wit liberals who insist that every idea under the sun be validated and tolerated, no mater how deadly it might be.
While American liberal Democrats take aim at American soldiers, American intelligence reports, American security efforts, American war efforts, American terror detention camps, and American officials across the political aisle, Europeans are taking aim at the terrorists themselves.
As British PM Blair announces plans to expand deportation powers in England to include clerics who preach Jihad, American Democrats like Kennedy and Durbin announce plans to toughen up on the American military and lighten up on terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay.
While European leaders seek new ways to expel Jihadists from their countries, American Democrats seek new ways to make political hay from the death of more American soldiers in Iraq.
There is no mistaking it, Middle Eastern Arabs, many of them Palestinians, are the target of the new European initiative to rid the streets of people preaching Jihad. Most of them have been found and arrested in area mosques, after publicly preaching death and destruction to the West for decades. It was once a tolerable offense, but no more.
One might say the new European initiative is a “preemptive” strike against Islamic terrorist activities that have not yet occurred. One could say that these European countries are “racially profiling” Middle Eastern Arabs as the target of their dragnet and that they are even trampling on the right of free speech in their efforts to secure their own lands.
Nobody is saying it, because Europe isn’t America. Only America could be guilty of such horrible crimes against humanity. Only in America is criminal or terrorist profiling called “racial profiling.” Only American preventative security measures are looked upon as Neanderthal “pre-emptive” war-mongering tactics.
The Europeams finally get it! They have figured out that no nation can survive an enemy within, free to recruit, train, organize and plot under protections intended only for the innocent legal citizens of a nation. They have figured out that some ideas can never be understood and should never be tolerated. They have finally learned that reckless blind political correctness comes at too high a price.
They are sorting out the details of who should be discriminately excluded from their open society as we speak.
Where should Europe deport these madmen to, America, land of the free, land of unbridled opportunity, even for terrorists? The one place on earth where Democrats, liberals, and the ACLU agree on the human rights of even known terrorists? Where the terrorists have protections even average citizens don’t have? The land of milk and honey and wide open borders? Why not?
Have we as a nation, not already established that everything goes here, and that all ideas are free, have equal merit, and must be tolerated? Or should America follow Europe’s new lead? That not quite everything goes? That neither we nor Europe, can afford to tolerate everything?
It seems that views that evolved in the liberal direction for decades may be evolving back toward some semblance of common sense, even in Europe of all places. It seems that once one begins to count body bags, suddenly, the matter becomes more personal, even more urgent.
What was once politically incorrect now becomes socially acceptable policy, once it’s clear to all that innocent life itself hangs in the balance.
Are Americans yet ready to defeat terrorism at its core? Clearly, European leaders are beginning to answer that question, but what about America? Is America preparing its own new deportation law? Have we even decided to close our borders yet, or properly profile terrorists rather than waste resources on useless random searches at our airports and train stations? Have we decided that terrorist activity is intolerable in America, even in a mosque?
Until we do, we are kidding ourselves. Europe is catching on. How long will it take, and how many more lives must be lost before America catches up? When will the American people decide what kind of society America is going to be? As for France and Germany, well, welcome to the war on terror!
Blair intends to “deport all hate-mongers.” Here in America, we’d have to start with liberals!
About the Writer: J. B. Williams notes that he is a business man, husband, father, and a writer. His website is at http://www.jb-williams.com. J. B. receives e-mail at [email protected].
"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." --Robert E. Lee
posted on August 7, 2005 08:29:00 PM new
You're sure on a hate campaign tonight, aren't you, bearlythere. i thought you hated the French,..you know, that bumper sticker philosophy you neocons adopted because you thought France belonged to the U.S. and should do what Bush told them to.
Won't convince me of anything.
Bush's iraq war has contributed to terrorism....doesn't seem to be ending it.
posted on August 7, 2005 08:52:02 PM newBush's iraq war has contributed to terrorism....doesn't seem to be ending it.
The right still doesnt get the fact the Osama has said time and time again that one of his reasons for attacking the US was when the US helped in the first Gulf War.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
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President George Bush: "Over time the truth will come out."
President George Bush: "Our people are going to find out the truth, and the truth will say that this intelligence was good intelligence. There's no doubt in my mind."
Bush was right. The truth did come out and the facts are he misled Congress and the American people about the reasons we should go to war in Iraq.
posted on August 7, 2005 09:07:57 PM newWon't convince me of anything.
Your the exception to the rule of teaching old dogs new tricks.
Theres not enought time left in the world to try to teach you anything.
The right still doesnt get the fact the Osama has said time and time again that one of his reasons for attacking the US was when the US helped in the first Gulf War.
Incase you conviently forget, the US was ATTACKED 8 or 9 times prior to the Gulf War. The Marine barracks in Lebanon, the USS Cole, U.S. EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA BOMBED: August 7, 1998 , 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, 1996. a truck bomb killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Saudi Arabia, August 7, 1998, two U.S. embassies in East Africa were bombed almost simultaneously.
"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." --Robert E. Lee
posted on August 7, 2005 09:13:54 PM new
Yep...the good ol' anti-American ACLU again.
I've read other articles like this one...saying when is America going to get as serious and the UK and France are right now. Because of our liberals....it's probably going to take attacks just like Spain and the UK have suffered....and even then I can still envision the ACLU defending the terrorists actions in one way or another. We'll be doing it all wrong...and even though the terrorists have blown up thousands of innocent people again....won't stop them from taking the anti-American side.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on August 7, 2005 09:41:22 PM new
Ya, that damn ACLU, when they're not defending terrorists they're defenduing Christians.
I see your point, Linda
posted on August 8, 2005 07:58:21 AM new
Stupid is attempting to hide behind a new poster name, when the same old tired retoric stays the same.
"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." --Robert E. Lee
