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RE: Freedoms...
The Cuban regime is almost pathologically homophobic, which, as was mentioned, doesn't seem to bother our elite "opinion makers" one bit. They don't seem to be bothered by the notion of preventive detention arising from "pre-crime" scenarios either...
Joined: viernes, 01 de febrero de 2008 Location: Germany
RE: Freedoms...
I am always a bit fascinated by Che Guevara, because all you have to do to see all the things liberals (or at least, some on the Left) claim about themselves go out the window, on the issue of Che:
- Armed - check
- Loved war and fighting - check
- Hated gays - check
- Hated "artists" - check
- Was most likely a racist - check
- Sent many people to their deaths, without a trial - check
- Believed world peace was for wimps - check
Next time you debate a leftwing person, you might want to bring this up. For instance, Steven Spielberg once said that meeting Fidel Castro was the most important day in his life !! The self-delusion of the Left never fails to amaze me.
Che was in essence a fascist with a gun and a beret. And yet, most left-wing people or perhaps many of them still idolize him. University students have posters of him on their walls in Italy and France, and t-shirts of their hero.
[Edited by John Bunch on lunes, 23 de noviembre de 2009 11:12]
Joined: viernes, 01 de febrero de 2008 Location: Germany
RE: Freedoms...
Rauol Gerecht, in an interesting essay yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, details how the U.S. is far too "politically correct" in its policing of Islamic terror suspects. If you compare it with how France conducts its own anti-terrorism, the French are not afraid at all of being labelled "Islamophobic" and they just "do what needs to be done" (funny how all their buildings are still standing, too). The terrorists of course know how to use the American fear of being "insensitive" to religion, for their own purposes. Britain and the U.S. and Canada all show blindness toward the internal threat, due to this political correctness in their policing. France and most continental countries do not.
And Gerecht goes on to say that we are on the wrong track in America. Instead of "hermetically sealing off Islam" from any criticism, and mouthing platitudes about "the religion of peace" (which is how we deal with Islam currently), we should be actively engaging Muslims in dialogue. We should demand more. We should want and seek dialogue with Muslims and imams. What is there to fear ? Maybe we can learn from each other. If Islam has elements which are "great" (and it most likely does have very positive aspects), we should get to know that. But we should also make some demands in return for the demands placed on us. Gerect states that only intense dialogue with the West brought an end (mostly) to slavery in northern Africa and the Middle East, and provided women with more rights. If that dialogue had not been there, due to a fear of being "insensitive", slavery would still exist and women would be 2nd-class citizens throughout the Middle East.
So let's forget about "sensitivity", in favor of dialogue. Let's demand this from our leaders. Let's demand this from the imams (and in return, we will listen to them). Let's open the doors of real dialogue !!
[Edited by John Bunch on lunes, 23 de noviembre de 2009 15:39]
Joined: viernes, 01 de febrero de 2008 Location: Germany
RE: Freedoms...
Another small victory for Islamists in their relentless drive to purge the West of freedom of speech, assisted by "progressives":
The Hate Crimes Prosecution Isn't For Those Who Made The Death Threats
Dutch Parliament member Geert Wilders, whose film Fitna warns of the threat to Western civilization from Islam, will be tried for a hate crime in The Netherlands, writes Bob Unruh on WND:
The film calls on Muslims to remove "hate-preaching" verses from the text of their holy book.
...Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, has been living under 24-hour protection from police since 2004. Al-Qaida has called for his murder.
...Wilders has called the prosecution an "attack on freedom of speech."
"In this country, you are apparently allowed to criticize only if you are politically correct in how you express yourself," he has said.
Blogger Diana West wrote on Wilders' website, "It is not just the repression ... of Islam that Wilders is outspoken about... He is equally if almost singularly outspoken about the political remedies necessary to halt the extension of Islam's law. Such remedies include stopping Islamic immigration and deporting agents of jihad. These are simple measures any democratic state that wished to repeal Islamization would take. ... It is a political trial, then, in the worst sense, that we are about to witness. And it is about more than the future of freedom of speech. The trial of Geert Wilders is about the future of freedom."
European countries like Britain and The Netherlands are, more and more, having their own laws used to protect those who seek to destroy western freedoms and western societies. Many Muslims in Europe seek to turn European countries -- those have (stupidly) taken in mass quantities of immigrants who will not assimilate -- into Saudi Arabia II.
Visit Europe while it's still Europe. (Before you have to put on your Chanel burka before entering France.)
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RE: Freedoms...
Bush said:
- And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower,
- the TV was obviously on, and I used to fly myself,
- and I said, "There's one terrible pilot."
and I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
I agree that Bush is notorious for confusions, but the only thing he confused here was that he thought he had seen public TV, while it was indeed a special transmission for him.
Or can you find any other explanation? What could he have confused with what?
Here is a more complete excerpt:
President Bush has stated on two occasions that he saw a plane hit World Trade Center 1:
QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?
BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE)
Thank you, Jordan (ph).
Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."
"I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on..." [whitehouse.gov]
There is a problem with the above statements. There was no live video coverage of the first plane hitting the tower. There couldn't be. Video of the first plane hitting the tower did not surface until AFTER the second plane had hit World Trade Center 2.
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