Democrats have been touting a narrative of victimization in the wake of their unpopular vote to extend health-care-as-welfare benefits to 32 million Americans. You've heard of blaming the victim? This is praising the perp. Democrats who ignored their constituents are now playing victim. Many of the claims, such as the plausible but unproven allegations of epithets hurled at congressmen walking to vote, have been crassly employed within Democrat fundraising appeals. Pat Buchanan, in a must-read column on the subject, notes: "Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of 'aiding and abetting...terrorism.' New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the tea-party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht." Nobody killed, nobody hurt (unless feelings count)--that's neither terrorism nor pogram. As Buchanan points out, nobody was even arrested at the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill. Now comes news of the arrest of a Philadelphia man for threatening Congressman Eric Cantor. "Remember Eric at our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given," the disturbed man said. "You're an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abomination." Cantor is a Republican. This doesn't fit the narrative. Don't count on MSNBC giving it saturation play. Some threats are more equal than others.
Christian Militia? Round em' up!
Wannabe Islamist terrorists that want to mass murder infidels? Move on, nothing to see here.
"Can we build you more foot baths?"
Or, the proper headline for yesterday's papers:
Islamic terrorists bomb Moscow subway; Christian militia rounded up in US
You never hear in the news, "two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north."
Mark Steyn has a pretty good take on this in his book "America Alone". His contention is that demographics will do us in the West in and that it is the more heavily populated Islamic Middle Eastern and Third World countries that have will continue to be the hotbeds for the terror laden interpretations and teachings of their holy book.
In other words - there is no stopping the Islamic terror that will come our way. Within the last fifteen to twenty years it's been bubbling up more frequently with the big hit in 2001 and all we can do is to be vigilant in our own protection from it. There will be no end to George Bush's "War on Terror". At least in the immediate future.
The more I think about it, that's probably why JFK was murdered by the mob in retaliation for the murder of Marilyn Monroe instead of by a Soviet Communist ideologue. Cuz we'd already proven that McCarthy-ism was hysteria, right?
