Gotta be shrill some days...

[elfs]

Sometimes, you just have to point at something with outrage. Yesterday, Glenn Beck was interviewing Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, and during the conversation Scheuer said this:

The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. Because it's going to take a grass-roots, bottom-up pressure. Because these politicians prize their office, prize the praise of the media and the Europeans. It's an absurd situation again. Only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.

Oh. My. Gods. How stupid do you have to be to earnestly hope for the deaths of millions of Americans? Especially when you're doing so to further your own vision of what America should be, your own political point of view? How different is Scheuer's pronunciation that "our only hope..." is mass murder, from Osama's declaration that America's only hope lies in mass conversion to Islam or death?

Good grief, these people are insane, aren't they?

Adam Serwer has it exactly right: "This is not unpatriotic. You can wish all manner of horrors on this country, but as long as these horrors might serve a specific political agenda, you're not being unpatriotic. Unpatriotic is a public health care plan. Unpatriotic is a judge modifying subprime mortgage loans to keep a roof over someone's head. Unpatriotic is phosphate free detergent. Patriotic is wishing for a terrorist attack on the United States."

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Diversity of Viewpoint

[(Anonymous)]

I think that Michael Scheuer, unfortunately, is right. And I don't think that Scheuer is "hoping" for millions of deaths, but commenting on the stupidity of the voters lately and saying that a wake-up call of unprecedented proportions is the only way out of this.

Maybe when your energy bills double with no effect on either the climate or other countries actions - except that they become even cheaper in relationship to the USA due to lower energy costs and cause more job losses by luring more manufacturing away - the average American might decide that Cap & Trade isn't all that wonderful - but I'm not counting on it.

Or maybe the average voter will realize just how much Obama outright lied to get elected and get pissed off about it. (If your taxes aren't higher, and the dollar not badly inflated, in 2 years I will quite happily retract those words.) Or how fraudulent Al Franken's election was when there were more votes tallied than voters who appeared at the polls in some districts. (He reminds me of a particular - and quite excellent - Murphy Brown episode circa 1995 where a horribly unqualified Republican was elected to the U.S. House by riding in on the coattails of the Contract with America movement.)

I, for one, do not want the USA to become like Europe. If I wanted that I'd move to Europe. And in your situation so close to our northern border I cannot believe that you are unaware of just how many Canadians who can afford to do so come south for their medical care and pay for it entirely out of their own pocket. The most financially healthy hospitals in the country are in your north-west nook of the woods because of this.

I am also surprised that you listen/watch to Glenn Beck. He would not have seemed to be your cup of tea.

--DB_Story

Re: Diversity of Viewpoint

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Sir Elf is practicing Sun Tsu, as far as listening to the opposition... 'course, *listening* to the opposition is better than what the opposition does.

Gripping hand? Yeah, I wish folks *would* get pissed off en masse about how snookered we got with Obama.