My new motto is to call anyone in the GOP and Religious Right 'lunatics'. It just seems to cover what we're talking about here.
How is the PC doing? I need to come in soon and check out the logs.
ur friend,
linus
]]>It would be embarrassing. For both of us. :-)
]]>Let me ask you something, Fred. I want to take your propositions from the Dilemma in Fort Hood post and substitute fundamentalists/religions for ethnicity. Remember, only one has to be true.
1. Most fundamentalists harbor a smoldering anti-mainstream anger against those that they believe mock and persecute them for their beliefs. They would find satisfaction in the killing of those that they believe are standing in their way of creating a theocracy, such as gays, abortionists, health care reformers, the educated, people of different ethnic origin, etc. The "other" who die are killed in a just cause, and their deaths should be celebrated.
2. There are extremist fanatics within all religions in America. The act of Nidal Hasan might just as easily have been perpetrated by a Christian, a Jew, a black, a white, a man, a woman - no religion, certainly not Muslims, is disproportionately inclined to perpetrate or support this type of evil deed.
Do you still see both of these propositions as being false, or do see you #2 as true?
]]>From the NY Times today (read the whole thing, it's interesting):
Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that Major Hasan believed he was carrying out an extremist’s suicide mission.
...they believe that he may have written inflammatory Internet postings that justified suicide attacks, though that has not been concretely established.
...a senior American intelligence official said on Saturday that there were no known co-conspirators at this point. “Hasan is the only name that’s emerged so far,” said the official...
Over all, the inquiry is somewhat more subtle than many criminal cases in which investigators try to piece together a timeline of a suspect’s activities. The inquiry into the Fort Hood shootings is turning into a deep psychological exploration of the mind of a suspect in a mass killing.
Yes, your book is still unwritten, so I think you should get your skates on and start writing. You have a fantastic story. Who knows how many current lunatics you might inspire to start thinking about climbing out of the unlit, unloving, and dated basement they've been dwelling in and calling home for most of their lives. :-)
]]>And one brave cookie. If I go to Free Republic or Red State via the Internet, I come away feeling like I need to clean my computer. Up close and personal would be traumatizing (I'm not kidding), although in your case the results seem worth the experience.
Your ship of state metaphor is cool. I would add that not only did they switch the charts, they also put sugar in the engines and we've had to use the damn oars for turning. :-)
One of their central tenets is to marry religion and the state in the service of war and lies and the elite group's dominance.
I absolutely recall the Strauss conversation. I don't think it's a coincidence that the rise of the Neocons tracks the rise of the Religious Right. Both groups believe in the power of power, and where they diverge is only in the scope of that power. Neocons believe in global hegemony, while the GOP and Religious Right keep it on the national level. In all cases, the ends justify the means of keeping and retaining it, as the leadership of the groups noticed.
I honor the path you are on today. Just know that you are loved and appreciated. And always welcomed.
]]>The second reason why the hate campaign against GLBT is not surprising is that most of those connected to state power, for instance Nsaba Buturo & Co. are born-again, rigid, fundamentalist, revivalist Christians who bring to the public policy process and the management of state affairs, their religious bigotry that they pass off as public morality and ethics.]]>