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November 28, 2006
Who Are These Guys?
by Tina Grazier
The left in our country along with their friends around the world are bound and determined to cut the United States of America, and her right-wing administration, down to size. The evidence can be found in countless news stories and headlines every day, stories about apparent "failures" in the war, so-called" prisoner abuses, inept or inadequate use of diplomacy, and procedural and legal overstepping. The constant hammering away over the past few years has paid off according to one source following the recent elections:
"The right-wing stranglehold on Congress has been broken," declared Joelle Fishman, chair of the Communist Party USA 's (CPUSA) political action commission, to a meeting of its 81-person National Committee this past weekend. Fishman noted, "This is a victory being celebrated around the world."
Propaganda works. Accusations and insinuations are difficult to counter. Seeds of doubt, once planted are bound to sprout, especially when given daily doses of food, water and sunshine. The media is all too willing to supply plenty of these and the crop of noxious and deadly weeds naturally follows. The mood has definitely shifted.
America may have lost the will to win the war, and that's just fine by these guys. A recent story describes the intention to prosecute Donald Rumsfeld and impeach the President:
"But a German prosecutor is now considering whether to go after Rumsfeld and more than a dozen other high-ranking American officials for alleged war crimes at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo... The initiative came from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which filed a 200-page complaint in mid-November on behalf of 11 Iraqis who claim to have been abused at Abu Ghraib and a Saudi national with similar claims about his treatment at Guantánamo. It's the sort of thing CCR does--an obvious add-on for its domestic litigation against
antiterror measures, its appeals for Lynne Stewart (convicted message-carrier for convicted terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman), and its recent efforts to mobilize demands for the impeachment of President Bush." Jeremy Rabkin, The Weekly Standard
We saw the pictures from Abu Ghraib. They were not something that painted America in a positive light or made any of us proud. Yet I wonder at the ability of the left to ignore the obvious possibility that this was an isolated incident, a breakdown in procedures or command. Without the sensational headlines this story would have died and the military would have continued to investigate and prosecute any wrongdoing. Justice would have been served. Incidents such as these, made bigger than life by the media, condemn the entire leadership and, by association, an entire nation. Was the motivation guilt? Or was the story made big on purpose? How do we explain the left's ability to completely ignore beheadings, car bombings and the like? These stories barely rate a mention. The following first-hand account from a story titled "Slaughter in the mosque: a new terror for Iraqis" by Ned Parker and Ali Hamdani in The Times UK online can be found color=red> HERE:
"They wrapped him in a nylon sheet. They held him on his side. He was begging. One man sat on his legs, the other on his hips. A third guy, in black, remained standing and took the sheath off his knife and yanked
the guy's hair and recited ya Allah, ya Mohammed, ya Ali (the revered Shia figure) and then called out the names of the Imams (Ali's descendants) and rested the blade on the Amariyah guy's throat.
"The guy begged them and screamed for God to save him. But the man started to cut and shrieked ya Allah, ya Allah . Then there was a cracking sound like a sheep being slaughtered. The man pulled off the Amariyah guy's head. His eyes were still open.
"He wiped his blade with a cloth. I waited four hours but it felt like 400 years. When they came for me, I collapsed. They pulled me from under my arms. The sayed was there. I begged him, for God's sakes, my father is sick and old. He will die from shock." The sayed smiled and told Mahmoud they were releasing him. He was thrown in the back of a car, blindfolded, and taken to the Karrada district of Baghdad . Only when he got home did he discover that his family had paid $10,000 -- a huge sum in Iraq -- to free him. Mahmoud still dreams of the man being
murdered. He wakes up screaming: "Don't slaughter him. Please don't kill him."
Countless atrocities and human rights abuses as well as terrorist acts go on every day around the world. People are being slaughtered and abused, enslaved and oppressed in every conceivable way...yet the focus of evil for the left is the President of the United States and his administration. Claiming to be against war and for the oppressed they fail to defend, protect or liberate any of these while at the same time waging a covert war against those who will. They defend those who would deny the same to any of their victims while failing to support efforts
to liberate those same victims for the sake of peace. This demonstrates an unbelievable ability to hold two conflicting views in the same space in their heads, at the same time...without exploding!
Who are these guys, these leftist crazies? If you don't know I suggest you make an effort to find out.
Posted by Post Scripts at November 28, 2006 09:16 AM
Comments
Look, I'll be the first to admit it's hard to read about these injustices and atrocities sometimes. But, I can't turn away from the truth, even when it's disgusting like the torture and beheading of that man.
If we are going to help preserve this nation as it was originally, then it's my humble college student's opinion, that we have to have a passion for the truth backed up by the courage of our convictions and this is what I see in everything Tina writes. To me, she is like a modern day Betsy Ross, but with a pen instead of a needle. She inspires me to do better.
I fight back now, I challenge my radical liberal teachers when they try to feed me their phony propaganda. It makes me sick what they say sometimes, but I won't let them get away with it, not anymore.
I am determined I will hold them to be honest and accountable, even if my GPA suffers for it (and it has).
Cassandra L. student at Butte College and about to graduate!
Posted by: Cassandra L. at November 28, 2006 10:11 AM
Cassandra I couldnt agree more with your comments, and I personally thank you for standing by, and publicly defending your positions.
Please let us know when something especially absurd is said or taught, I for one would be very interested to get a first hand acount of what is being taught in our colleges.
Posted by: Nick Freitas at November 28, 2006 03:49 PM
Cassandra, for those of you who don't know, is my daughter and I will see her later on today and try to get some examples of the liberal dogma that is forced on her in her college classrooms.
However, I can tell you a few years ago I was stunned to find radical hispanic propaganda in his California history book. Probably a LaRaza teacher put it in. Anyway, this was a chapter dedicated to the heroes in the underground in the current barriors of L.A. that aided illegals by sheltering and educating them to the welfare safety nets available here.
This was including free medical and emergency aid money. They also noted their secret "Well Baby" program that encouraged illegals to have their children in the U.S. This wasn't secret in Mexico, in fact it was advertised.
I didn't find any of this activity particularly heroic or noble, which shows how out of touch I am!
Posted by: Jack at November 29, 2006 09:37 AM
"If we are going to help preserve this nation as it was originally, then it's my humble college student's opinion, that we have to have a passion for the truth backed up by the courage of our convictions..."
Cassandra, I applaud you for the stands you take, for the depth of character you have developed, and for the simple understanding that great results will come from ordinary people stepping up in small ways every day. We need not be superhero's to make a difference....just the passion for truth and courage you describe will do. Thank you too for your kind words about me.
I join with Nick in encouraging you to share your college experiences with us.
Well done humble college student!
Posted by: Tina at November 29, 2006 10:21 AM