Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Where Is The Outrage

We have recently seen days of violent and even deadly protests which stem from a silly cartoon series printed in a Danish newspaper.
 
I have heard plenty of concerns voiced by those on the right side of the aisle and the President today stepped to the front of this issue decrying the loss of life and property because of these cartoons.  I have yet to hear, and perhaps I've just missed it, anything from the left in this country.  Accordingly, much can and should be inferred from their silence.
 
I'm not going to point fingers and call anyone un-American.  And yet, as I have said before, what is the left's true purpose.  We have senator Patrick "Leaky" Leahy demanding of the Attorney General that he provide them, in open session, with the identities of those being monitored under the NSA program authorized by President Bush.  Both Mr. Leahy and the distinguished Senator from NY, Chuck Schumer, are making every effort to stop or make ineffective, this very important and vital intelligence gathering tool.  This, added to their reticence and in some cases outright rejection of the Patriot Act, creates with me at least some cause for concern.
 
I have heard and read some go so far as to accuse the left of treason.  I don;t believe they are that forward thinking.  In fact, I believe that their motives, underscored by their silence on the cartoon issue, are far more narcissistic and introverted.  The left knows, as do most of us, that the War in Iraq and the NSA program when combined with the Patriot Act, have managed to prevent of deter another terrorist attack on US soil.
 
Add to this their inability to get any real traction on their domestic agenda and the continuing improvement of the US economy, they have no other real grounds to attack on.  Their very political livelihood could well depend on this fight.
 
So, even in the absence of any objective proof, and in spite of the average Americans views on this subject, the left has staked out, many of them their very political careers, on this current avenue of attack.  And this requires them to stay fairly quiet about the cartoons issue despite the fertile grounds for blaming the Bush White house for the unrest.  Lets face it, the left have presented no plan or ideology of their own to correct what they are crying is wrong.  They are to busy politicking to actually have a plan.
 
And so, while I do not think we can accuse them of treason, they are in fact being what they have always been.  Blind to facts and truly out of touch with the American mainstream.
 
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Monday, February 06, 2006

The Dem's Just Don't Get IT

With all the recent rhetoric from the political left about a judicially conservative judge being out of the mainstream, it strikes me as a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black. 
 
As I watched some of the Senate Intelligence Committee meetings today it struck me how out of the mainstream the Democrats and their special interest group constituents truly are.  In correlation with the hearings for justice Alito, they maintain their advance in the face of popular consensus.  The public, by a 2-1 margin in even the partisan polls, supported Justice Alito.  The public, by a slightly smaller margin, agrees that the president has the legal authority to use his NSA program to keep Americans safe.
 
Despite the attempts by General Hayden and AG Gonzales to outline that this program does not nor will it extend to "domestic" surveillance, the democrats on the committee still accuse the president of "spying on innocent Americans".  It has been made very clear that any "domestic" surveillance has been routed through the proper entity, ie: the FISA courts.  And yet the senators insist that AG Gonzales and the president have used the program to "search peoples homes", "opened their mail", and "listened in on their private phone and email conversations" despite a complete lack of evidence to support it.
 
Not one individual has come forward claiming to have had their fourth amendment rights violated.  So I ask you...who is out of the mainstream?  My own view based on their complete inability to listen to the facts and interpret them...would be the Democrats and their far left special interest groups.
 
 
 
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Sunday, February 05, 2006

Deity Discrimination

My friends, we have a severe case of "Deity Discrimination". We need to contact our representatives in Washington and demand that affirmative action be extended to cover this insidious form of discrimination.

In all sincerity, I am disturbed more and more by the mainstream media's newfound religious deference and sensitivity to Islam. This is a marked departure form their norms when the cartoon or article is related to the Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. If my readers will reflect back a few years, you will recall that we were told that art exhibits (funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts), depicting a cross in a jar of urine, or a picture of Christ covered in manure, are merely expressions of free speech. Now, these same media outlets won't reprint a series of cartoons by a Dutch cartoonist that are merely a reflection of the outrage of islamist violence. Where, I ask you, is this artists right to free speech.

To make my point I present this quote from the artist himself. "I personally cannot help contrasting the reaction to these cartoons with the reaction to those that refer to Jesus and are apparently quite acceptable. In fact, in the latter case, it is apparently the Christians who need to get "with the program" not the cartoonist.". Personally, I have to wonder where the Mainstream media's sympathies lie. The NY Times has severely hampered our ability to surveil potential Islamist terrorist in our own country with their outing of the NSA program established by the Bush administration. They have repeatedly hammered on this administration with regard to it's purported legality (or illegality as they claim). They have repeatedly mis-characterized the program as "spying on innocent Americans". Even though they have not presented any evidence or individual who has actually claimed they were harmed by this program.

In short, our own mainstream media outlets are guilty, in my opinion, of aiding and abetting terrorism on behalf of the extreme leftist special interest groups. They denounce and decry Christians and their beliefs at the drop of a hat, yet they will not support the right of an artist to say what many of us think with regard to the radical islamist religions that practice terrorism.

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