Letters to the Editor
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Svensker might've pegged GB right
Golden Boy, you refuse to answer what you think we should do about Muslims in America and keep hollering "enemy within"! Why is that?
If you were an American, it seems, you'd care to resolve the situation either by building bridges or in a Malkinite way. But you don't. You are only interested in fostering division.
You are not an American. Period.
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Isn't the standard that refusal to answer is assent?
So, if GB wants to impute any meaning at all to refusal to answer, he's got it exactly backwards. But then GB uses his gonads to do his thinking for him - you know that in the back of his minds, theyz gonna take all our white wiminz!
It's always animal house - "The Negroes took our dates!"
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It isn't terrorism if you do it with tanks...
...or planes, or well-equipped soldiers, or any other *expensive* way of waging war.
I am sure, if you gave them the option, Golden Boy, the Palestinians, Iraqis and other "Enemies" would be utterly *thrilled* to be allowed to kill Israelis and Americans with planes and tanks.
If targeted civilian killings are permitted, under the US Republican Code Of War (it *isn't* permitted under the Geneva Conventions), then whether such attacks are made with tanks, planes, or a single person with a bomb-belt should be irrelevant. It should also be irrelevant which side is the perpetrator.
But for some reason you insist that supporting suicide-bombings is less moral than supporting the same thing, only this time it's "us" doing it and without having to actually die to kill anyone. In fact, you claim that *not denouncing* suicide-bombings is morally inferior to *supporting* killing civilians with tanks and planes.
Congratulations, sir. You're the very model of a moral singularity.
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Maybe if we tell him he's right, he'll go away.
You really don't get how big a bloody fool you're making of yourself, do you?
-- Iokannan in the Well
You're right - I've rarely ever seen anything more foolish than someone trying to turn the comments section for a Glenn Greenwald blog into an anti-Muslim echo chamber. (That's what LGF is for.)
Or maybe he just wants a pro-Golden Boy echo chamber. He's basically said that he wants everyone to agree with his assessment (despite his erroneous reasoning), and then what?
He won't discuss anything further, even when tasked with the question of what to do about the danger he claims exists. He just wants us to agree with him.
Not only is it foolish, it's weird. But, maybe if we agree with Captain Obvious over there that al Qaeda is bad (and the sky is blue and grass is green, for good measure), he'll go away? He doesn't seem interested in any discussion beyond that.
He's probably just going to use this thread somewhere else to show that "liberals don't care about terrorism" or "Democrats are weak on national security."
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Denning, Jojo, and Ondelette
Denning, you may be 100% correct about everything else you've ever posted. There is really only one thing that I'm absolutely sure that you are wrong about, and that is my nationality.
Sorry, but this has to be most absurd series of attacks on me I've ever seen. Yes, I am an American. Period.
What is it exactly that you want me to answer, Jojo++? Is it the question of "What should we do about Muslims?" It's a dishonest question, but I'll tell you anyway. The answer is this - Nothing. I do want to see us discuss Islam rationally, however - its origins, its practice, and its doctrine. In light of these poll results, I'd think more people would be willing to do so.
And guess what, Ondelette et al? I'm not a Christian. I had to smile at your challenge to name an open, tolerant religion; that doesn't really seem to come with the territory, does it? I won't defend Christianity - why would I, when I am unsympathetic to its doctrine and practice. But Islam - the violent, illiberal, expansionist ideology founded by a warlord in the seventh century - is the worst of the bunch. That's the Islam I'm talking about, Ondelette - is there another Islam, that I've been inadvertently slandering all day?
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Please, be my guest
Contact the FBI, Salon.com, anyone you can think of.
Given the increasingly overt and bizarre threats from LWM
I'm sure they are still interested in contact with all resident alien agents of a foreign power, even if it is only Israel.
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Xenosh
But for some reason you insist that supporting suicide-bombings is less moral than supporting the same thing, only this time it's "us" doing it and without having to actually die to kill anyone. In fact, you claim that *not denouncing* suicide-bombings is morally inferior to *supporting* killing civilians with tanks and planes.
- Xenosh
Really? Where did I say that? Terrorism, in my book, is the deliberate targeting of a civilian population for political ends. I have never posted in favor of any violent actions against anyone. I think you are fighting a straw man Golden Boy. I am not in favor of the war in Iraq, for example. Well - I've argued against terrorism all day and then get accused of supporting terror - doesn't speak much for my persuasive skills, does it? ;)
At least we know UsedtobeKristin is unpersuaded.
Seriously though, find where I support killing civilians and post it. That is an absolutely false accusation to make against me.
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Now he's the victim again
But it's always been about him...
Sorry, but this has to be most absurd series of attacks on me I've ever seen.
Better contact the FBI:
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Call (202) 324-3000 or write to the following address:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
You know how to contact Salon.com
Tell them all about "the increasingly overt and bizarre threats".
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Svensker re West Paterson vs. South Paterson
It wasn't WEST Paterson and it wasn't thousands of people but there were a few people who did seem to be celebrating in SOUTH Paterson on 9/11.
That was ugly and stupid, but it wasn't deeply representative of the neighborhood, where I can still enjoy good food from good peaceful people such as those at the "Halal Burrito" place.
A sabra friend of mine was in Hoboken on the morning of 9/11 and -- though absolutely NOT celebrating the dark cloud across the river -- this sabra did react immediately by talking about what she saw as a silver lining, which was that the US would feel greater solidarity with Israel. That was ugly, too, but there was some truth in it.