109 Comments

1. PeterRice:

From my time as an officer in the US Army starting in 1969 and my wife’s continued service and retirement from the US Army, I believe that the cost to the US Army well in excess of one million US dollars for many years of education of Major Hasan was the main reason they were unwilling to let him escape. It is entirely possible that the total cost to the US Govt. of his education was close to two million US dollars (the costs include his salary and benefits for that entire period).

In the USA many physicians get the US Govt. to pay for part or all of their education in exchange for several years of low pay (US$100,000+ per year) service and when they complete their education they seek to avoid the period service.

Added to this are the diversity Gods who forbid anything unpleasant being done to diversity employees unless they do something very very very bad. Major Hasan would be viewed as a diversity employee and protected by the diversity Gods.

Nov 7, 2009 - 10:23 am 2. glenn:

As a total entity people get exactly the government they deserve. Doesn’t mean there won’t be some of us who disagree with the belief system that got us to Ft Hood. But right now there aren’t enough. And a whole bunch of us learned nothing from the Marines in Lebanon, the Cole, Somalia, and 9-11. Or from what the leadership of the fundamentalist Muslim countries says they intend to do. Hard headed lot, we are.

Nov 7, 2009 - 10:56 am 3. chuck:

what attracted us to political correctness in the first place.

Speak for yourself, I had already run into conflicts with it in high school in the early sixties. Choosing science over the humanities was a conscious choice driven by the experience. In science and mathematics you can argue with authority in accepted ways, while in the humanities you are at its mercy. My earliest problem with the left was that you were supposed to ignore observable reality, replacing it with any number of myths and “deeper” realities. The second was as that theoretical lefty types could spend forever explicating and predicting things that had already happened, but were almost always wrong about the future. The whole theoretical basis was right up there with astrology. The result was enforced stupidity. And it is still with us.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:05 am 4. Roger L Simon:

Chuck, thanks for your comment. To be clear, when I asked what attracted us to political correctness in the first place, I might in a societal sense. Personally, I have been completely opposed to PC since 9/11, probably earlier.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:10 am 5. Pajamas Media » Fort Hood: Political Correctness as Murder Weapon:

[...] Read the entire story here. [...]

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:12 am 6. biblio44:

“…political correctness continues to permeate our culture and our media. And, alas, as we are now painfully aware, it has infected our military – badly. How else to explain that Nidal Hassan was passed through the Army system for years….”

How else to explain the Army’s bungling? I think at least a partial answer may be that the Army, like other bureaucracies, including the FBI and CIA, are slogging and inefficient — nothing like the well-oiled machines full of super-sleuths and super-heroes that Hollywood depicts. Just recall the chaos and bumbling that prevailed DURING the 9/11 attacks, when the chain of command seems to have broken down, when the Air Force scrambled fighters in the wrong direction, etc., etc. (This is NOT to criticize Bush or any other president.) It’s comfortable to live with the delusion of safety, but I think that, more realistically, we just have to hope that the enemy’s bungling is even worse than our own.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:27 am 7. jvon:

I’m sorry to say, if 9/11 (with its 3000 dead and iconic images of the WTC collapses) could not cure political correctness, a dozen dead soldiers certainly will not.

I do hope it causes a BIT more scrutiny to fall on Muslim members of the US military who make hostile statements towards our government, though. But having worked for the Federal government, I know it’s just as likely to have the opposite effect.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:39 am 8. Paul M Hupf:

Must we have another grave disaster before it is recognized that the threat of terrorism present in this country is sourced in Muslim hatred for western culture?

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:44 am 9. GDT:

The thing that frustrates me here is that we are told to “Not jump to conclusions”. I am not exactly sure what conclusions I am not to jump to:

1. The shooter was a self described devout Muslim – fact
2. He gave away Korans the morning before the shooting – fact
3. He made anti-US, pro suicide bomber comments on his website – fact.
4. This was not an act of passion. It was clearly planned. He had multiple weapons on his person and lots of ammo. He knew where to find masses of unarmed soldiers in a single location – fact.
5. He had never been deployed to a combat zone – fact.
6. He screamed the rallying cry of all Islamic terrorists as he began; Allah Akbar – Fact
7. He successfully killed over a dozen people and wounded more than a dozen more – fact.

None of these are conclusions I am “jumping to”. This is the simple list of facts from the incident. Why, please tell me, must we BEGIN our investigation by asking questions like “Gee – what would make an American soldier do such a thing?” Why must we BEGIN our investigation by assuming that this must be some poor troubled soul whose name could just as easily been Fred Smith?

I, nor anyone, have the complete story here. But why do we allow Political Correctness to prevent us from at least beginning our investigations with the grossly obvious.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:49 am 10. Marc Malone:

#6 Biblio44 – Good post. Wars are won by the least ineffective army.

Yes, it is the PC crap. It is engendered by our craven politicians and their absolute fear of the Media. One bad Media story can ruin their careers, so they don’t call “Bull!” on the Media. Thus, we get PC crap.

The real cause of this atrocity is gun control. All these highly trained warriors on this base, and no one is allowed to carry a gun. Our leaders do not trust our warriors with guns. If some of the officers and NCO’s had been packing, the death toll would not be near so high. It likely would not have happened at all. Our brave warriors were sheep to the slaughter, because they had no guns of their own.

I remember the same thing happened at Beirut in ‘83. The gate guard was allowed only 8(!) rounds, and he wasn’t allowed to have one chambered. By the time the threat was clear, he hadn’t the time to chamber and fire to stop the the driver of the truck. It interfered with the decision and action cycle.

Our politicians don’t trust our defenders. They’re more afraid of what the Press might say about an “incident”. They’d rather the troops get killed, than their careers. So, our troops go about unarmed.

I propose that all those of E-6 rank and above be allowed to open carry a handgun. It should be encouraged, but not required. (It used to be the norm long ago, for officers to go about armed.)

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:50 am 11. Sherab Zangpo:

I am not sure that we are ready to drop political correctness and speak the truth as it is.
The truth as it is that the subversive internationalists WANT to help the muslim terrorists in any possible way.

We can see that the muslim-marxist that the subversive internationalists have elected as president thanks to their totalitarian control of the media has decided as his FIRST priority (ON DAY ONE of his presidency) to close Gitmo.
From that day until yesterday, when he has told us not to “jump to conclusions”, he has spoken to the muslim world from Egypt, has allowed the iranian to go on with their nuclear plans for 10 more months, has attacked Israel in any way he could.

As an added benefit to the jihadist, this president is not sending the troops to Afghanistan and is causing the deaths of more and more American Warriors.

His whole administration is made of marxist revolutionaries and islamic jihadists and black supremacists.

The same gang controls 95 per cent of the media, 100 per cent of the universities.

All this creates the water where, to quote Mao, the terrorist fish can swim at ease.

Now that the sleeping cells are observing that there is no reaction against the danger, they will become more and more active.

Dark clouds ahead.

Are we sure we want to hear the truth ?

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:06 pm 12. Sherab Zangpo:

And let us not forget that one of the first steps of this administration has been the publication of the document in which the American Patriots were classified as possible TERRORISTS (including the Veterans returning from the theaters of war).

That was a clear signal sent to the jihadists: it said: your enemies, including the Veterans returning from the theaters of war, are our enemies.

Nothing astonishing in the fact that this muslim murderer has been member of some committee of this administration for the Homeland Defense: the priorities of this administration are simply THE OPPOSITE of the interests of America.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:17 pm 13. marymcl:

Slightly O/T (maybe not – it’s another example of willfully ignoring the obvious)

Currently here in Seattle Naveen Haq, who opened fire in the Jewish community center downtown a few years back, killing one woman and injuring five others, is on trial for the second time to determine if he should be imprisoned or hospitalized (jury was deadlocked first time around)

On Wednesday it was revealed that he’d made phone calls to his family from jail describing himself as a jihad warrior and martyr to the cause. When his mother expressed regret about the woman he’d killed, Haq replied that she’d deserved to die because she was an Israeli agent. Thing is, none of this was brought out at the first trial because the prosecution decided it was irrelevant.

http://tinyurl.com/y9n299v

What I find especially disturbing about all this focus on the issue of sanity is the fact it could provide any terrorist acting independently a get-out-of-jail-free card. There are plenty of demented people among us who never consider doing what Haq and Hasan did. No doubt both men have a few screws loose (pardon the technical term) but that doesn’t mitigate the fact their targets were carefully chosen and done so in the deliberate service of an ideological agenda.

I also believe that continuing to ignore the elephant in the room only increases the likelihood of a serious backlash against all Muslims in the US

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:23 pm 14. Sherab Zangpo:

Via AtlasShrugs

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

Bush was at Fort Hood this morning,
Barak Hussein is at Camp David.

Evidently Barak Hussein doesn’t think that it is his duty to pay homage to the Victims.
Bubba Clinton never went to New York after the 1993 attacks.

The subversives love the terrorists, hate the Americans.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:24 pm 15. Tom Curley .:

PC and Military career card punchers caused this very ugly day and will cause more days like this in the future.Hand guns did not caused this to happen. Just one nut case/moron/ religious dirt bag take your pick.

I’ll wait to see if this pathetic Muslim coward is some day given the proper IV in some federal prison. I don’t expect Obama has the Huevos to do it and I know Bush doesn’t either. Remember there is one other half-A Muslim that rolled a grenade into a tent and killed several sleeping 101st troops.

Why is Guantanamo still full and no real Military Tribunals completed. Bush wasted almost 7 years and I’m sure Obama will be no better in the next three.

IMO Lawyers have done more damage to the American people than Osama B L and there aren’t to be many in the federal gov’t that wants to work for the people. Both elected and employees seem interested only in their bloated benifit package and pension.

Looks like you have to watch your own 6, you get no help from the government they are just interested in the “rights” of every slub murderer and child molester they can find.

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:31 pm 16. noreen:

Notice that our fearless leader was quick to sum up the actions of the Cambridge cop as stupid. A clear act of Islamic jihad terrorism needs to be pondered carefully and is worthy of lenghty deliberation. Oh no we must not jump to conclusions. We must not indict such a peace loving humane “religion”. His lap dog media wasted not time drumming up ratioalizations blaming other soldiers and the misbegotten missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Clearly a case of not terrorism straight up, but one of pre-post traumatic stress syndrome. How can you have PTSD when you have not seen one day in combat. Obama’s response to this has been telling. He has not even been down to Fort Hood yet and the TV remarks were an insult by a man with total contempt for the military. Bush figured out a way to make it down to Fort Hood in the wake of the tragedy. This guy is dangerous to our country and our soldiers. The hateful elitist narcissist that is our president. He is America’s curse and shame. It makes me feel horrible to despise the president but I do

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:43 pm 17. darcy:

Well said, Mr. Simon

I agree with you and would add that PC is the fruit of the radical Left’s impulse (that has taken on religious proportions) to practice nondiscrimination toward all peoples (excepting Christians, of course, whose “only One way to heaven” exclusivity is demonstrably NOT to be tolerated).

Be that as it may, I invite you(all) to read a rather lengthy article/speech at

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012935.html

to acquaint yourselves with the ideas of someone who’s given this very topic a pretty thorough going over.

Do relay here your impressions of it — PJT permitting. Mr. Simon is on to something, I do believe.

Nov 7, 2009 - 12:52 pm 18. Tom Perkins:

@ biblio44 #6:

“the Army, like other bureaucracies, including the FBI and CIA, are slogging and inefficient”

And yet, idiots of a certain leftist political persuasion want the government to run our healthcare…

Can we buy a better grade of troll?

Nov 7, 2009 - 1:40 pm 19. John Becker:

#6 Biblio44 – I agree; good post. I have worked in several bureaucracies (and have found this too in segments of the private sector) and every time a suggestion for improvement or innovation is made, it is met with — either by management or middle-management (which has the most to fear) with “Don’t rock the boat!” They actually use that sentence…

Nov 7, 2009 - 1:51 pm 20. mizpants:

One of your best posts, Roger. Tightly written, lucid and devastating.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:01 pm 21. David Thomson:

“My earliest problem with the left was that you were supposed to ignore observable reality, replacing it with any number of myths and “deeper” realities.”

The irony is that these adherents of the doctrines of political correctness almost always describe themselves as primarily secular—if not even outright atheist. They claim not to subscribe to the alleged fantasies and myths of organized religion. At the end of the day, however, the weird Protestant snake handler is often more rational. The latter at least does not believe they have a right to lie in order to achieve an alleged deeper reality.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:03 pm 22. Delia:

Exactly, Mr. Simon.

‘Political Correctness’ is turning us into our own worst enemies.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:06 pm 23. stuart williamson:

An excellent statement, Mr. Simon, a great rallying cry on a subject that is too seldom discussed because it is is not PC to criticize PC. Even though “cultural relativism” aka “moral equivalence” is probably the most destructive element in our culture, responsible for most of our domestic and international problems today.

We have surely reached the point where the misnamed “liberals” have become so open-minded their brains have fallen out.

To make a case for abandoning judgement is insane. We can only survive if we are judgmental. The purpose of our education should be, as it once was, the sharpening of our judgement (reason) based on ethical standards. It does not take a high IQ to understand that you do not put a guard on duty in a hazardous venue without a weapon at the ready. It does requires a pernicious education system to teach that one should tolerate the encroachment of a religion whose basic tenet is brutal intolerance of all other religions. Ours is the only nation left where this critical issue can be effectively addressed.

Hasan’s action was a religious statement. He acted as a “Martyr” and will be so regarded in the greater Muslim community. No Immam, no “moderate” Muslim, will condemn his violence. To criticize devotion to Allah is untenable.

To not only accept the forces within the Trojan Horse, but to foster their efforts, is beyond stupidity – it is suicidal. How bizarre, and how dangerous, that our Republic is now beset by both Radical Socialist politics and Radical religious fanaticism, at a time when our native common-sense and judgmental abilities are so seriously undermined.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:16 pm 24. jim k:

Thanks Roger, the only point I would add is that there is no disconnect between the statements and actions of Hassan and the statements and actions of the nutburgers in Iran. The only difference is in the types of weapons and the proximity to US targets. In other words, if Hassan had nuclear weapons at his disposal, he would have used them, given the opportunity. When the Iranians have such weapons and the means to deliver them, they will use them. Still certain elements of our society will blame Bush or ourselves or the Mayan calendar or whatever. And Obama or someone like him will repeat the mantra, “let’s not jump to conclusions before all the facts are in.” We certainly don’t want to offend anyone, unless they’re Republicans or police or soldiers.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:16 pm 25. james:

It’s true, and has been for years, that the military is completely overrun by the PC totalitarians. But in this case there isn’t one American, outside of the usual suspects, who doesn’t understand what happened here. ABC and the Pentagon’s handwringers can spin till they fall over and the public will tune them out.
They already have.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:30 pm 26. Stephen Rittenberg:

Roger,
Brilliant. Succinct. As a psychiatrist, I am appalled by the psychobabble in the MSM, spinning this Jihadi terrorist into a victim of PTSD–by proxy. Aargh!

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:33 pm 27. Bookworm Room » Islam had everything to do with Fort Hood:

[...] [...]

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:47 pm 28. Islam had everything to do with Fort Hood | Right Wing News:

[...] can figure this one out — and those who continue to play dumb will earn only their contempt." Roger Simon: "The immediate reaction of the mainstream media on learning of the activities of Nidal Malik Hasan [...]

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:50 pm 29. biblio44:

18. Tom Perkins: ‘@ biblio44 #6: “the Army, like other bureaucracies, including the FBI and CIA, are slogging and inefficient” And yet, idiots of a certain leftist political persuasion want the government to run our healthcare… Can we buy a better grade of troll?’

Sorry Tommy, but the 43 million Americans on Medicare, and the 50+ million receiving Medicaid might disagree with you. (Gee, Roger, can’t you recruit a better grade of a-hole?)

Nov 7, 2009 - 3:06 pm 30. macko:

I served over thirty years ago. At that time it was important that we treated everyone as being different as in identifying those who were Irish American, Latin American, African America etc. When I tried to express that I did not feel this was the best idea by asking to see those different Americas on the map(by name of course and during an investigation of discrimination)it nearly cost me my honorable discharge. The point that I was trying to make was that calling out people as being different was divisive when we should be looking for common ground such as the fact that we were all soldiers defending the same country. I was a Huey crewchief and of the the other crewchiefs in my section half were minorities and atleast half of them were career soldiers. We had unity and noone cried discrimination. The newbies were a different story.

Nov 7, 2009 - 3:12 pm 31. ER White:

Here is my Input:

http://www.bloggybayou.com/2009/11/on-monsters-and-madmen-in-our-midst.html

Cheers
ER White

Nov 7, 2009 - 3:16 pm 32. carla:

Political correctness, and moral relativism are the twin plagues, infinitely more distructive than HIV/AIDs, that will destroy this country. And you can be sure, when the apocalypse is upon us, the NY Times will report that the destruction of America has disproportionately effected women, gays and blacks more.

Nov 7, 2009 - 3:37 pm 33. mingus:

Islam is a failed philosophy. Institutional Islam remains stuck in the 8th century, as evidenced by the backwardness of the myriad of primitive Islamic states littering the globe. Religious Islam offers no solutions to their poverty and general decrepitude, merely substituting hatred, envy and intolerance as a modus operandi that defines the contemporary Moslem world. Islam is a failed civilization. Were it not for an accident of geology which places oil riches in the hands of the meager few of semi-educated Muslims, despite their impressive numbers, the world would ignore the Islamic masses. And that oil wealth required Western science and industry to exploit. Much as the Ottomans required and bought Western arms before their final dissolution. The obsequiousness of some Western leaders is disgusting.
If there is to be a class of civilizations, better now, than later. That our ‘leaders’ choose to avoid the obvious is criminal malfeasance.

Nov 7, 2009 - 3:53 pm 34. Filthy Screw:

I nearly died laughing 30 years ago when some jackass on the UW campus asked me to sign a petition to end world hunger. That was my first introduction to PC thinking.

Like all things popular on campus PC is a fashion. The elites can afford fashion. They do not care what it costs us. Same as illegal immigration and crippling the criminal justice system in the 60’s. Fashion for them death for us.

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:02 pm 35. ABI:

I was shocked to find Obama has a faith advisor who is i a radical Muslim???

Dalia Mogahed ???

What else can we expect from this man? No wonder he’s vacationing ,, he’s not worried, one of his ilk just killed unsuspecting americans..

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:23 pm 36. Trainwreck:

There was an interesting vignette on PJTV about the history of PC. It originated in the 1930’s, when the elites were astounded that only Russia embraced Marxism, and that the enlightened countries of Western Europe refused to go along because the economic issues and “economic inequality” did not bother them that much. The Frankfurt school in Germany decided that Marxism had to be divorced from economics and tied to culture, where a multiculti society was to be created in which white people were the oppressors and non-white non-Christians were to be the victims, to be riled up in the belief that the capitalist system was oppressive, European culture was oppressive and getting aggrieved victims’ groups to fight for social justice and freedom from oppression would hasten the collapse of western civilization and capitalism. Gramsci et al used then went on a long march through all the major educational institutions of the West, and ushered in PC. Now the PC frankenstein has been unleashed and this is what we are seeing in the reaction to Fort Hood.

PC=death, but WHAT will it take to stop this PC cancer that is killing our way of life? I fear that even after a mushroom cloud or two over our cities by some jihadist with a nuke will not be the death knell. Instead, we will be forced to run to the nearest mosque to prove our tolerance.

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:24 pm 37. don:

Of course, in 1973 homosexuality was redefined from being a mental disorder to being a personality disturbance, so maybe the real issue for the killer is that the hand guns were probably Smith and Wesson and too readily accessible for a psychiatrist practicing while Muslim, and then we have all these ACLU lawyers that have never seen a combat zone making up those confusing living laws of war as we go along. It’s enough to create a hate crime!

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:31 pm 38. digitalis:

Political Correctness is a tool. The goal is Marxism. The population at large is told what they can say, what they can think, the opinions they must have, the vocabulary they are permitted to use, the associations they must avoid, and on and on it goes. Over time society feels threatened if they don’t tow the party line. There are consequences to thinking for yourself and as an individual rather than as a mute member of a herd. There are punishments to be meted out and suffering and cleansing to take place. The mind control takes over and thoughts are automatic and self censoring. Society is being pulled in the direction the establishment wants to take it and nothing is tolerated unless it further enhances the success of Marxism and the Marxist narrative. Why in the past few years has toleration for all things Muslim taken precendence over all things Christian, or all things Jewsih for that matter? So much in fact that to compare the reatment of the Moslem religion with the other two indicates a striking dichotomy. How does this further the aims of the fascistic left wing establishment? For one thing, this did harm to our service people, an institution which is loathed by the left. There are other reasons and time will reveal what they are. We are in for some treacherous times but keep in mind Marxism is the goal. Political correctness is the cudgel.

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:42 pm 39. Tom Perkins:

“Sorry Tommy, but the 43 million Americans on Medicare, and the 50+ million receiving Medicaid might disagree with you.”

That may well be true. Of course, many of them are getting something they didn’t pay for, and the fraud the government pays for in those programs is an astoundingly higher percentage of it’s costs than what private providers find to be unavoidable…

…None of which has anything to do with the fact you want the government to run healthcare when you acknowledge it is sluggish and inefficient. What’s more, neither the Army nor the FBI are the worst examples.

There is the DMV.

“(Gee, Roger, can’t you recruit a better grade of a-hole?)”

Mohy, I have to thank you, and I do, I really do, for making it so easy to tell when I land a solid hit on your leftist pea brain.

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:44 pm 40. pachuca:

Thanks for the great headline, and the information on the background of political correctness. I live near Austin, and my immediate visceral reaction was to lash out somehow (how?) at the people who had promoted just this sort of thing, the radical imams of some mosques in US. From your post I realize that my anger needs to be addressed also at those in positions of authority in the government who allowed this to happen. We have a long-serving senator here in Tx, Kay Hutchinson, who will not be getting my vote next year when she runs against Rick Perry, because of her complicity in “the sad infection of our military” as she sat for years on the Armed Services Committee.

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:53 pm 41. PAthena:

“Political Correctness” is a Communist notion, stemming in the 1930s from the view that Stalin was always right; whatever the Communist line from the USSR was. it was “politically correct;” e.g., from 1939-1941, when Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR were allies, then it was “politically correct” to support the pact and denounce Great Britain as “fascist;” after Hitler invaded Russia in 1941, then denouncing Hitler was “politically correct.”
The use of the term positively shows the Communist influence. I believe that the education reporter of the New York Times, ? Bernstein, first reported its use at a conference on English literature in California in 1989 or so.
The “politically correct” now are still communist. See the journal NATION on the Fort Hood massacre, an old communist journal.

Nov 7, 2009 - 4:54 pm 42. rod stanton:

Here! Here!
I could not agree more!

Nov 7, 2009 - 5:37 pm 43. ~Paules:

I’m with digitalis on this one. That which cannot be said cannot be debated. When the truth cannot be spoken, then lies pass for facts. The enemy who cannot be named cannot be fought. It’s a totalitarian gambit pure and simple.

Nov 7, 2009 - 5:51 pm 44. Tom:

I would argue that there is a broad expectation in our society that eventually the grown-ups in leadership roles will come to their senses and openly oppose political correctness in its most harmful manifestations. Sadly, this is more likely to be wishful thinking rather than a realistic awakening of common sense and decency. I am today applying for my concealed carry permit and will soon purchase a handgun and take a gun safety course. As our society continues its insane decline into nanny-statism, I will stand vigilant and armed, and I will shoot back.

Nov 7, 2009 - 6:16 pm 45. Insufficiently Sensitive:

My earliest problem with the left was that you were supposed to ignore observable reality, replacing it with any number of myths and “deeper” realities.

Good analysis. The essence of political correctness is that in cultural discussions, there shall be excluded from discussion certain FACTS. Not opinions, facts. And as a corollary, certain lines of inquiry as well.

Any trial or investigation that arbitrarily blinds itself to part of the available evidence is simply a product of a sick society with a death wish.

Wretchard nailed it this morning: The system of political correctness protects the bad guys and oppresses the good guys. The bad guys are able to strut around and intimidate the good guys with impunity. They get plum interviews on the media, tenured positions at universities. They get the glamor; they get to be cool and edgy. The good guys get a dead cat in the mail box and opprobrium of their trendy friends.

And Roger L. Simon has clearly pointed out the logical conclusion of political correctness: in addition to political power for its purveyors, we can add death to innocents as a direct result of its application.

Nov 7, 2009 - 6:19 pm 46. jodetoad:

The thing to do is stop participating in it. So what if somebody calls us ‘insensitive’? In our blogs, postings, in conversations, wherever we interact, just stop.

I have been doing it, participating in the PC crap, because it was easier than arguing about it. I’m done. If something isn’t true, convince me, but don’t tell me not to tell the truth as I see it because it’s insensitive.

We must ask ourselves, what about when it applies to me? If police, while profiling, pick me up as some criminal, because I do have rather a generic appearance, I’ll accept it and figure it will get straightened out, because they are trying to protect the public. Will I be offended? Why should I? I know what I look like, who I am, if they have reason to suspect me on that basis, why should it hurt my feelings? It shouldn’t. And if it’s a race thing, I have always been the same race, that’s no news either. The whole thing is a crock.

We have been manipulated to give power to subsets of the population.

Nov 7, 2009 - 6:46 pm 47. M. Report:

@ 10. Marc Malone:
It used to be the norm, long ago,
for officers to go about armed.

Long ago, as in late 1950s, when
a Serving Officer with business
in a riotous US city strapped on a
M1911 in a shoulder holster when
leaving the base ? When the
military would have come to his
defense, had he had to shoot a
rioter ?

Beirut in ‘83:
8 rounds and an empty chamber.

The next morning, the middle of
that road was occupied by a US
Marine, and a 105mm Recoilless
Rifle, connected by a firing
lanyard.

It would be a good first step
in the reversal of PC rules,
to require officers to carry
a loaded service sidearm as
part of their Dress Uniform
at all social and political
functions.

Nov 7, 2009 - 7:04 pm 48. PC14:

George Bush kept us safe from islamic attacks in our country, on our soil, so to speak.

Now, 10 months into the Obama administration, 13 are dead, killed by an islamic nut job…that’s all.

Nov 7, 2009 - 7:10 pm 49. nolan:

Mr. Simon, Well said! Thank you!

biblio44@#6; Is that really you? It sounds like there might be hope for you yet! (Not meant as antagonistic as it may sound) Although you may have lost me @29. Tom @39 re-buts well, but I wish you both could be more civil, even though biblio makes it hard sometimes, based on some of your other entries. Sorry to pick on you.

To All;
This idea of PC is, as you all know, detrimental to our existence. And some of us have thought it’s got to be purposefully done. Here’s the proof:
Google Melanie Phillips The Uncovered Conspiracy to Transform Britain. (sorry I couldn’t link)This will astound and enrage you!
Given that so many here want so desperatly to emulate europe, can anyone be certain that this isn’t part of their goal for America?
GDT@9; Facts are stubborn things, but as jvon@7 pointed out, that may not be enough, especially if (since!) the fix is in ala Andrew Neather (You’ll know that name if you read the article I “linked”.
Marc Malone @10; That did happen in Beirut. Further, the reason why troops can’t go around armed is two-fold. 1)They’re hyped up with a super-agressive mind-set (I know, I was one of ‘em) and things would get out of hand quickly if that was combined with alcohol. and 2) Officers used to walk around armed in the ’70s because the military was made up of true dregs. The officers would enter the barracks in fear for their lives. There was a purge in the early ’80s and that problem went away.
It now looks like we’re in need of another serious paradigm shift again, since, as another poster wrote on another blog, our war is now 360 degrees and there is no longer a home-front or rear-area.
darcy@17; that was an excellent article. I think it meshes with the article I linked. Not neatly, but in the sense of “Holy S@#%! we’ve got to do SOMETHING!”
That something has 2d Amendment written all over it!
mingus @33, I would have to disagree with your initial statement. Islam is pretty successful in that it’s hyper-agressive sense of self is spreading Islam like a pandemic, and I hate to say it, but it goes right to the heart of the article I linked (I know, I’m getting lots of mileage out of it, but it is vital that everyone read it and forward it to expose the f@%&*$! traitorous rat b@!#%@#&). Everything else you wrote was dead-on balls accurate!
digitalis@38, The PC types are defining the rules of the battle! just like what paules@40 is saying.
I can’t stress enough how shocking that article is! Please, everyone, read it. It’s short but speaks volumes.
Thanks.
nolan
Out

Nov 7, 2009 - 7:10 pm 50. nolan:

Sorry, paules is now @43
Out

Nov 7, 2009 - 7:17 pm 51. Pragmatist:

He shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he shot and the Mohammedan DECEIVERS and their useful idiots in the MSM and the Islamophile PC MC left wing moonbats want you believe that means ‘God is Great’ however the literal translation of ‘Allahu Akbar” is ‘MY God is the GREATEST’ which is a whole new ball game.
Although you will not find Mohammedans, Islamophile apologists or the totally IGNORANT MSM telling you this. Why because it is a pertinent reminder that:-

1) Islam is constantly violently CONFRONTATIONAL

2) Islam is in violent COMPETITION with other religions for supremacy.

3) Islam comes from a POLYTHEISTIC base.

All of which they the Mohammedans really dont want you to know because they want to deceive you and lull you in to a false sense of security by making you think that ALL religions are the same. After all dont they also LIE and tell you their ALLAH is the same as your God ?? Well if so why is Allah the GREATEST?????
The MSM and their useful idiots the Left Wing PC MC Moonbats are to stupid to discover this of course or if they do know will desperately try too pretend they dont.

Nov 7, 2009 - 7:54 pm 52. Dr. Matt:

You need to realize that Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama, AND the shooter were really in complete agreement with you against political correctness and relativity and For the absolute need to see absolute moral imperatives with absolute clarity.

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:01 pm 53. Keith:

It doesn’t surprise me that Biblio44 would criticize the effectiveness of the US military. I might remind him that for 4 percent of GNP (as opposed to over twice that during the Cold War) we field arguably the greatest most dominant army the world has ever known. Now that’s an incredibly efficient 4%.

The one government program that runs efficiently and the Left wants it decommissioned.

As far as the CIA goes, they were de-toothed by the Democrats in the early ’80s by turning them into virtual parolees forced to act like choir boys or be prosecuted for doing their jobs. Then the Left criticizes them as bumbling amateurs for not stopping 9/11.

Does the Left have any sense of its own absurdity?

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:01 pm 54. Dwight:

Jim K wrote, “And Obama or someone like him will repeat the mantra, “let’s not jump to conclusions before all the facts are in.” We certainly don’t want to offend anyone, unless they’re Republicans or police or soldiers.”

So therefore we SHOULD jump to conclusions before all the facts are in? Good grief, because the media, the military, and politicians are slow to give sweeping conclusions, just means that they are paying some attention to process, due and otherwise. Hell, we can shoot our mouths off in this forum and there are few if any repercussions. When people to that in the real, there are often unpleasant consequences.

I think it has something to do with the history of lawsuits…and lynch mobs.

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:13 pm 55. TG:

Mr. Simon, you don’t have it quite right when you say that
“In essence, cultural relativism holds that an individual’s beliefs and activities should only be understood in terms of his or her own culture. It’s the ultimate version of “who are we to the judge?”
As you well know, this thinking goes only in one direction. That is, in favor of the tragic, helpless “Other”, whose evil deeds are really caused by our oppression of him, or our history of oppression, or by our Western-ness, whiteness, Jewishness, free speech, Christian faith, free women, and . . .

Remember also that pressure groups, like CAIR, have the ear of many in government, the military and law enforcement. I just hope we can come out of the trance before it’s too late.

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:23 pm 56. Andy Rigrod:

Spot on, R. Simon. One of your best posts. The military has indeed become infected with cultural relativism. What a pity. Worse, what a shame.

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:29 pm 57. abdul7591:

Roger,

It is also a form of political correctness to say that the ideology of the murderers is “Islamism”. Why not just say “Islam”?

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:50 pm 58. Roger L Simon:

That’s a very good point, abdul7591. And I did consider it as I wrote. My only defense is that there are some (small alas) Islamic sects that do not support jihad. That’s not much of a defense, I admit. Nidal Hasan, btw, appears to be allied the Wahhabis, according to a Stephen Schwartz article in NY Post.

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:54 pm 59. alex:

If we boil PC down to its core philosophy, it is pacifism. The “live and Let Live” attitude that life is groovy and wildflowers will grow among rainbow meadows , if we just ignore transgressions against humanity.

Pacifism ( or political correctness) is a highly immoral belief system. It is the refusal to stand for what you believe in, and if you do not stand for anything, you stand for nothing.

Another way to look at it, a village of pacifists will be killed off by a village of non pacifists. The Animal kingdom is a pretty good example of how pacifists survive; they dont.
This is how Nature works, how the Universe works at the Sub atomic level all the way to crashing of Entire Galaxies, the strongest survive. It is by Design.

So if someone wants to play PC, ( pacifist correct), great. They are an individual and nature will take its course. An individual is not a huge loss, Nature will replace them with someone else.

When a Nation becomes PC, it destabilizes the region, and will risk its security and future on a belief that violates Natural Laws. Also it becomes hypocritical if a politician can achieve their office using hard edged tactics, and then turn around and become PC when taking Office. Nature does not allow philosophical chameleons. ( stand for something, or stand for nothing). This will create distrust and chaos within the nations leadership.

The bottom line is we were attacked various times in the last decades and did not take it seriously until 9/11. Then we made a few errors that cost us time and support, OK, lesson learned.

The key is to find the terrorist, and kill the terrorist. Enough with the fancy wrapping and howdy doody approach to an ever serious situation. The US, China and Russia have the same problem regarding Muslim terrorism. Instead of acting like children fighting over a single ice cream, the countries should band together and do what needs to be done; find the terrorist and kill them. And keep killing them until there are no more.
See how quickly the rest of the world will fall into place.

Nov 7, 2009 - 9:12 pm 60. Marina:

So, THE FIRST TERRORIST ACT ON THE AMERICAN SOIL IN THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY. And you seriously want his minions to acknowledge it? They better let the guy go, pay for his PRE-traumatic stress disorder treatment and glorify him as a victim than Obama will confess: “I couldn’t keep America safe”. I’m sure if 9/11 had happened in the Obama presidency, those people would have been victims too (like rev. Wright suggested, btw.): “They have talked to a soldier on a market and got the PTSD from him, like a swine flu”.

But nooooooo, it’s not “terrorism-terrorism”.

On the other hand, if Obama let the guy go or put him into an asylum, that will piss off the ordinary military (not the pc-generals). Military doesn’t like Obama. Can he afford to screw up this relationships even more? My tip: the terrorist will DIE “NATURALLY”, in the hospital, because of his wounds. That will be the official version. And of course, “no trace of terrorism, nothing to see here, move along: Obama keeps America safe”.

Nov 7, 2009 - 9:16 pm 61. Hod Coburn:

Forget the dogma, whatever it is. Think about the military, which is sad to say, the most oppresive gun control environment in this society, or any society for that matter. Sounds crazy, but it’s true.
I’m not knocking them as with their rules of engagement, soldiers fielding weapons are common, but the weapons in so called secure areas are mostly unloaded. Why? Because the fear of unintentional discharge is greatly feared, more so than the incident at Fort Hood the other day.
Beg to differ? I remember my father,US Navy WWII veteran, recounting his expiernces in San Diego, on guard duty.
Dad said he got the occasinal round go by from the Mexicans to the south, but couldn’t fire back because his M-1 was basically unloaded. Chamber empty, clip in place.
Me, I’ve always got a gun.
Hope to hell I never have to use it, but if the situation arises, somebody is going to die, might be me, but so it goes.
For what it’s worth.

Nov 7, 2009 - 9:50 pm 62. Benson:

What a great post by Roger! And the thread is the best ever, IMHO.

This could be the beginning of something big. Let’s all do what we can to light a cleansing fire with this incendiary commentary.

Nov 7, 2009 - 10:27 pm 63. Fort Hood Reminds Us That We Can’t Consistently Anticipate Evil | All That Is Necessary...:

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Nov 7, 2009 - 10:54 pm 64. Keith:

Ditto that, Benson.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:00 pm 65. Kenneth Daves:

I served in the Air Force from 1969 until 1989 and am a retired NCO.

The first PC I saw was Race Relations Training in 1972 (perhaps 73) that began as a response to the race riots at Travis AFB. It was the full blown “Whitey is the devil and the source of all evil” kind of thing. I went through it again in 1975 and it was “We don’t care what you think. You must not do this.”, something I found much more sensible. Then a few years later we heard that “men are all sexist pigs” followed a few years later by the more sensible “You must not do this”. Doing “this” or even being falsely accused of doing “this” was a career killer.

Something changed during the Clinton years. I noticed from the first night in Afghanistan that the military was infested with lawyers who had to sign off on just about everything and who were looking over everyone’s shoulders to make sure that Article … of whatever regulation was being strictly enforced. Does anyone else remember the furor over whether or not the attempts to kill Mullah Omar and later Saddam Hussein before President Bush announced the invasions were legal or not?

I was stationed in Korea for 12 years. Almost no one other that military police carried fire arms in the rear area Air Force bases or Army posts I was on except during alerts or exercises. It wasn’t done here in the States either.

Finally, the military has never seriously challenged civilian authority in this country, mostly because we swore an oath not to, but maybe just a little bit because civilians control the promotions of officers who control the promotions of us enlisted swine. If the civilians want PC, they get PC.

I believe President Bush was hamstrung by the need to get Muslim support after 9-11. He needed help from American Muslims to begin rooting out Al Qaeda networks already here and to serve as linguists/interpreters/translators for the military. He also needed help from foreign Muslims in fighting the war overseas. Thus, his own PC. Of course, it didn’t really do any good. The hate America for lunch bunch here and overseas never stopped hating him or us anyway.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:29 pm 66. rp:

In my humble opinion, fueled by the Lamestream Media, political correctness has succeeded in taking lives. The Muslim Extremist attack on Ft. Hood being the latest example. The Federal government, backing every initiative and law that’s in lock step with political correctness, stands morally and civilly liable for the deaths, wounds and mental anguish inflicted by a known mentally sick Major.

The legal case is certain to cost taxpayers more than 150 million dollars.

Today, though, I bring to you another example of political correctness. Due to its insidious hold on the federal government, it has allowed attacks on individual rights under the constitution to be committed by agents and friends of the federal government itself to go uncharged; actually, these alleged miscreants have benefited from statements and acts that I believe involve the breaking of the sedition laws of the United States.

Three of the parties that I believe are guilty of sedition I’m now making public. But, rest assured, there are more to come. Many more.

Sonia Sotomayor: (no authored books) {following quote from a CNN video tape, May 9,2009}; “Because white males are intellectually inferior to Hispanic women, white males should not be allowed by law to become members of the U.S. Supreme court.”
Sonia Sotomayor: Prima Facie guilty of “making statements against the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution”. In her role as Supreme Court Justice, regrettably, it is my belief that, if quote is true, this constitutes sedition; a “clear and present danger to rights under the constitution.”

“Race Course; Against White Supremacy” by William Ayers”: “…and about bombing the Pentagon and various police headquarters, I have no regrets. In fact, I wish I had done more to attack the federal government; Demonstrate to them (the federal government) that if they continue making war on Vietnam, we’ll continue making war on this unlawful government.”
William Ayers’ acts of domestic terrorism and speech in support of it, if it’s true as I believe it to be, constitute, under the United States Constitution’s Sedition Act of 1918, a Prima Facie case.

“Dreams From My Father” by Barack Obama:”Our goal should be to use the supreme court as the prime instrument of hastening the redistribution of wealth in this country. What the super rich have acquired unfairly and undeservedly must judicially and legislatively be taken away.” Since becoming President on Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama’s words and deeds, I believe, have proven there to be reasonable cause to believe he has committed the act of sedition using words suggestive of no other meaning than the unbridled intention to use his Presidency to take away the rights of others which exist because they’re protected by the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the United States constitution.

… a person may be punished for sedition only when he or she makes statements that create a clear and present danger to rights that the government may lawfully protect …

In belief that the above is substantially true, I believe it to be the duty of federal marshals, agreeing that the above facts and allegations are true and correct, to forthwith obtain federal warrants for the arrest of the above three unindicted persons, either acting individually or as co-conspirators.
rp, Ltc, 5th U.S. M’tia

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:35 pm 67. Steve Leonard:

PC . . . 9-11 didn’t end it, countless foiled terrorist plots haven’t ended it, now this latest masacre at Fort Hood hasen’t ended it. What will it take, a mushroom cloud over one of our cities, I wonder even then.

Nov 8, 2009 - 12:16 am 68. Adjoran:

The origins of PC are as described by PAthena @#41. Under Stalin, openly holding “incorrect” views was a sure ticket to the gulag, or worse.

The modern (post-WWII) American version is more aptly stated as, “the politically correct does not deviate from the prevailing consensus of the liberal elite.”

The current PC ecumenical belief is that all religions worship the same God. Now, I have little problem with accepting that in priniciple, even if many of these religions have multiple “gods.” However, it is difficult to include Islam in the queue, due to the beliefs that infidels must be subjugated, converted, or killed, and the lack of outrage at the actions of what some say are “radical jihadists.”

If your religion believes it is good to kill innocents in cold blood, including airplanes and buildings full of Americans going about their daily lives and busloads of handicapped children in Pakistan, then you do NOT worship the same God I do.

Sorry. You are a barbarian at best and, if not an overt worshipper of Satan, at least his willing disciple.

Just my take on it, of course.

Nov 8, 2009 - 12:30 am 69. Larry:

great post Roger, but nothing is gonna change, political correctness ig going to keep on getting Americans, Westerners ,Jews – civilian and military alike – killed. In fact with the dhimmi-in-chief Obama at the helm, it’s just gonna get worse and worse…and the jihadists will continue to be seen as the victims of you know Muslim terrorism and the West and the Jooos the evil bastards responsible for you know Islamic terror. The theatre of the absurd.

to darcy #17
you commend Lawrence Auster’s site. Whilst Auster has valid and insightful things to say on Islam and the madness of the political Left, Auster is an odious character overall. He is a blatantly anti-black racist (he considers whites inherently superior to black people in terms of intelligence and other bigoted blather along those lines). I could argue that the unsurpassed stupidity of PC madness and cultural relativism sold to the world and invented indeed by white liberals, that Auster always harps on about actually proves the contrary point that Auster thinks self-evident re the supposed superior intelligence of whites, but this is besides the point..The irony of this – that Auster himself quite eloquently proves the stupidity of white folk – though is naturally beyond Auster’s bigoted mind.

Nov 8, 2009 - 1:27 am 70. kochevnik:

I see a lot of people going off the tired cliché, saying Fundamentalist Muslims are more insane simply because they fly planes into buildings. They have used their faith to justify that but it doesn’t make them any more insane than a Christian packing a rifle into his car and driving off to shoot the antichrist and his followers.

Christianity at one point justified their fundamentalist views and formed the Inquisition and led numerous Crusades to the holy land just like select people from modern Islam use religion to warrant political change.

The christian fundamentalists don’t usually suicide bomb, but they do bomb. When a Islamic one blows you up he blows himself up, too. A Christian drops his bombs on you from a plane. I don’t know who has the biggest score. To me they( the christians)are more dangerous, as they have more real power.

We would be far better off if religious fundamentalists all jumped off a cliff. They should all be put in a large enclosure and only one allowed to leave alive. But because of the nature of religion, more would start to pop up the next day anyway. A little bit of religion is like a little bit of syphilis, unless eradicated, it always gets worse.

The christian fundamentalist wants to run the planet and the islamic fundamentalist want to blow it up they are about the same: nuts. In the USA christians want to remake the USA as a theocracy, along the designs of fundamentalist Iran.

Nov 8, 2009 - 1:53 am 71. Joseph:

OK I get it Islam is the enemy, what is you all’s solution to this problem? How are you going to deal with this danger you all seem so concerned about? I’ll get the ball rolling. How ’bout we make all Muslims in the US swear some kind of loyalty oath. Avigdor Lieberman (Israel’s Foreign Minister) seems to think it is a good idea for Israel, why not here too.

I despise political correctness but I also hate bullies and right now I sense a whole bunch of us are just waiting for the chance to turn on the other, the different in this country and I can assure you all I will fight that with all my strength.

Roger you were just defending Iranian Muslims for standing up to the Fascists in their own country and now you seem to be calling most Muslims potential terrorists. Explain to me how I’m wrong because I’m sure I am and what exactly you feel we should be doing about the Muslim question.

Nov 8, 2009 - 5:17 am 72. Tina Trent:

How do we get beyond the place where we are now, where an exceedingly minor incident of automobile vandalism is literally being put forth as explaining, if not legitimating, 13 murders?

We have codified both moral relativism and political correctness into our legal system through the invention of hate crimes legislation.

For too long, discomfited by the reality that to oppose these laws is to risk being labeled a racist, most Republicans have quietly sat by as Democrats dismantled the notion of equality before the law. Once they did that, with an enthused media and academia in the vanguard, it was easy to begin expanding the prerogatives and prejudices of hate crimes activism to virtually any public exchange.

Frankly, we are in the late stages. The mere existence of hate crime laws enable people like Skip Gates to impugn people who commit no crime at all of serious transgressions; simultaneously, the thought-regime of hate crime law enables the MSM and Obama to excuse the intent of and even responsibility for 13 murders on the grounds that the offender claims to have experienced a minor incident of bias crime auto vandalism.

The lawyer who did the most to insinuate the hate crimes regime during the Clinton years is now, unsurprisingly, the Attorney General of the United States. Consider this chilling quote from the Justice Department, on the subject of the media’s role in enforcing hate crime laws:

“The influence of print and broadcast media is critical in shaping public attitudes about the hate crime, its perpetrators, and the law enforcement response.”

Well, there it is.

Nov 8, 2009 - 5:22 am 73. Cynic:

#67. Joseph,

How do you get to a loyalty oath when the country can’t get serious on illegal aliens?
For those taking up citizenship their is the oath of allegiance which today appears to be not worth the paper it is printed on.
The Muslims no matter how pacific they are if they don’t want to be apostates in the eyes of their co-religionists will always put Islam ahead of the State.
Your country has permitted the religious leaders of this ideology to run rampant through your prisons converting without considering the deeper implications of those natural born citizens literally changing their allegiance.

As for PC, maybe that should be ‘politically corrupt’ because basically it is the corruption of policy that permits the acts carried.

Nov 8, 2009 - 6:30 am 74. Joeseph:

Joseph,

I wouldn’t mind seeing loyalty oaths required of Muslims. Most Muslims in this country are good people. My neighbors are Muslim — the wife and daughters wear the hijab — and they are our friends. The husband is even anti-American. He’s not a terrorist, he just thinks that America is morally decadent and a little bit cold. I agree with him on the first point. The second does not bother me, if I had been raised in a Muslim country I’d probably find Americans a little cold and distant too.

Our neighbors are not terrorists, they are hardworking, nice people who lead respectable lives. I am sure that they are typical of most American Muslims.

But it has not escaped my notice that the Muslim community has not exhibited much patriotism since 9/11. In fact, I haven’t heard a peep out of them. Whining about “discrimination” yes, complaints about racial profiling yes, patriotism, no.

I am only 38, but even I know that it wasn’t always like this. A bunch of Vietnamese boat people settled in my lower-middle-class Midwestern hometown back in the early 1980’s. They were always fiercely patriotic, as were the Eastern European immigrants.

Sometimes the immigrants’ expressions of patriotism actually crossed into redneck territory, they did things that natives considered, well, a little gauche. For example, my friend’s mother — who did not speak a word of English — always drove big American cars and had a “Made in America — BY AMERICANS” bumper sticker. I always cringed when I saw that sticker, it was borderline racist and I had no idea where she found it, but every couple of years, whenever she got a new car, she’d get another redneck bumper sticker, sometimes it was “Made in America — BY AMERICANS,” other times it was militaristic-looking American eagles with talons extended, or giant American flag stickers that were too big for the bumper and had to be affixed to the trunk.

So I never questioned the patriotism of the Vietnamese and Eastern European immigrants — because they were overtly patriotic. They didn’t have to be — no one would have harassed them if they hadn’t sported those ridiculous bumper stickers —

I haven’t seen much of that from the Muslims. Do I question their patriotism? Yes, I do.

So I wouldn’t mind seeing loyalty oaths required of Muslims. That sort of thing would not have offended the Vietnamese and Polish immigrants, they would have been eager to take the oath. That’s also why no one ever thought to ask them to take an oath.

But I haven’t seem much eager patriotism from the Muslim community — just complaints of discrimination — and I do question their loyalty.

Nov 8, 2009 - 7:11 am 75. ExPat:

In the words of the esteemed Reverend Jeremiah Wright “The chickens…are coming home…to ROOOOST!” The chickens in this case being the 1960’s and all that implies: moral relativism, the idea of “Amerikan” oppression (hegemony in the terms of the left), feel-good-about-yourself-ism, diversity and political correctness being the latest and most insidious of these trends. When you consider that our so-called leaders came out of that mindset it’s not surprising that we’re setting ourselves up for a fall. I guarantee this story will fall off the radar screen in a week or so after the next “balloon boy” episode. A nation of sheep. Going to the slaughter house, I suspect.

Nov 8, 2009 - 8:24 am 76. ExPat:

64. Kenneth Daves:

Excellent points and thanks for your service. The Army Chain of Command should obviously be held accountable for letting this guy get to the position he was in despite numerous red flags. Will they? I doubt it for the simple reason Roger wrote this article: political correctness. This guy will now lawyer up and become the poster child of the ACLU because he was “stressed” about being deployed- as if a military psychiatrist would be on the front lines facing combat. Total BS. It’s a volunteer force, baby, you signed on the dotted line and most likely got your sheepskin paid for by the Army. Total POS.

Nov 8, 2009 - 8:48 am 77. cfbleachers:

“WE NOTICED”

President Obama:
Yesterday I received an email from a buddy of mine back in Chicago. He does not like President Obama very much and he forwards me these things from time to time. This one, is purportedly written by comedian Buddy Hackett’s wife…I’m not sure about authorship, didn’t research it.

But it struck me as being politically incorrect for the times we live in…and after reading Roger’s article, I began to wonder why.

So, I wondered if I could “fisk the PC” out of each phrase in the memo in order to “repair” it. That is what I did below: You are welcome to improve the work, it is just my first pass at it.

“Today I read of your administrations’ plan to re-define September 11 as a National Service Day. Sir, it’s time we had a talk………

During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing our hearts when the Pledge of Allegiance was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not honoring our tradition.

YES, “We noticed.”

Crossing your heart during the Pledge of Allegiance is the wrong kind of patriotism , it is jingoistic behavior, as is the wearing of a flag pin, talking about American exceptionalism, and failing to apologizie for America’s past…up until January of 2009. We have nothing to brag about or be proud of and anyone who engages in these types of behaviors is the stereotypical “Ugly American”. It is extremely passe’ to wear patriotism on your sleeve…much more “in” to wear revulsion there.

During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you intended to visit all 57 states.
We all know that Islam, not America has 57 states.

YES, “We noticed.”

This one is a bit of a head scratcher. Every American child past 2nd grade would have ingrained in them the accurate number of states in our country. But, Barry Soetoro wasn’t raised here…and Barack Obama at one time had not yet been molded into Presidential candidacy timbre, tone and cadence. This “slip of the tongue”…hit upon an odd number, however. Why would the brain that did not have the child’s ingrained auto-response of FIFTY states…fall upon a number so out of our national instinct?

It is not the “slip”, it’s the number that replaced the actual one that is fascinating to consider. Why in the world would ANY American, even a child…land upon THAT number? Why not 51? 48? Is there a significance to the number 57? Some folks have said that the 57 Islamic states that have petitioned the UN for years is what stuck in his head. Maybe. Perhaps, such a thing was imbedded in his mind for some non-nefarious reason. Had McCain said such a thing (or any Republican), and then become President…it would be a constant reminder of his stupidity. But, if a liberal does it…it’s a crackpot theory to even discuss the curious nature of the number 57.

When President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a flower on the memorial, while you nonchalantly tossed your flower onto the pile without leaning over.

YES, “We noticed.”

Actually, I did not know this…I’m quite sure the entrenched media never made any mention of it. Don’t know what to read into this, if anything.

Every time you apologized to other countries for America ’s position on an issue we have wondered why you don’t share our pride in this great country. When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and our beliefs, you have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the British Crown beyond belief.

YES, “We noticed.”

There seems to be a few thoughts here being blended into one paragraph, the failure to defend American ideals, the failure to acknowledge American exceptionalism, the failure to recognize our allies. The deep bow to princes and calvalcade of apologies to sworn enemies, the engaging with enemies and disengaging with friends.

Quite a bit of meat on these bones, but, we are in need of hitting the “reset” button with enemies, to engage them in dialogue and to reconsider our position in the world…because to not do that, is to have the “wrong kind of patriotism”. Hell, anarchy (Michael Moore) is more acceptable and slandering an ally (Jimmy Carter) is more in vogue.

When your pastor of 20 years, “God-damned America ” and said that 9/11 was ” America ’s chickens coming home to roost” and you denied having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could be. You later disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor Wright because it was politically expedient to do so.

YES, “We noticed.”

Leftists have screamed from day one that this was an attempt at guilt by association. And, if anyone they knew associated with a hard core conservative, with the mirror extremism of Jeremiah Wright on the other side…they would be exiled from that friendship immediately. Hypocrisy abounds.

When you announced that you would transform America , we wondered why. With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth. Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND, “if not for America and the people who built her, you wouldn’t be sitting in the White House now.” Prior to your election to the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a very remarkable one.

YES, “We noticed.”

Well, the “so called Founding Fathers” did not represent those folks who are not proud of this country. Enemies are heroes, allies are unworthy, America is one big smudge on history. Get with the program. Quit clinging so bitterly to your religion, guns and money. The “transformation” is coming, wealth redistribution is coming…you’ve had yours…not it’s our turn. Leftist nannies got your health care right here. All you “old timers”…we are going to allow you to die, along with all your silly notions about loyalty. The graveyards are filled with indispensable people…and soon, with the annoying lot of the so-called Greatest Generation. Good riddance to you and your moral underpinnings.

All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority of them are people who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or affection for this country and her traditions.

YES, “We noticed.”

You are just so “un-European”, get with the program, lady. Communism and socialism are not bogeymen. Capitalism is not the future, it is going to die with you and your generation. We will NEVER say this out loud, and our propaganda arm will cover up nicely while we boil the frog one degree at a time. The frog is in the pot and we are turning up the heat, you just don’t feel it. You “noticed”? Hell, we’ve been doing this for forty years. And we still deny it with a straight face.

You…and your traditions…can’t die soon enough for Michael Moore and Van Jones. It’s time to pick a side. And you aren’t on ours…if you’ve “noticed”.

You are 9 months into your term and every morning millions of Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation.

YES, “We noticed.”

A trillion dollars here a trillion dollars there…you won’t be around long enough to matter. Leftism is an inexorable march toward totalitarianism. You aren’t smart enough to make choices for yourself. You are a “bitter clinger” to the past. We will nanny state free choice right out of your miserable existence. This wealth redistribution is going to steamroll right over you. And watch as we change the rules on the walls right before your very eyes.

We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled “un-American”,”racist”, “mob”. We wonder how we are supposed to let you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem isolated and insignificant. Until your appointment, Americans had the right to speak out.

YES, “We noticed.”

Yeah, that one shocked us a bit. WE are the marchers, you guys never get off the sofa. So, we did what we know we can always do. We slandered you, had our entrenched media paint you out as nutjobs and essentially marginalized your complaints. If you’ve “noticed” that we don’t respect you one bit…well, look who just woke up!

Our playbook tells us to repeatedly call you and your ilk stupid, homophobic, racist, misogynist, …you are the permanent enemy. Historically, we did this by a march organized by communist front groups United for Peace and Justice and ANSWER…but now that we are in power, we use ACORN to steal elections from now on. Sucks to be you. We are organized, you are an amorphous blob incapable of anything but in-fighting.

On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are Americans.

And YES, “We noticed.”

There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could help unite this nation. In six months you have done more to destroy this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us.

YES, “We noticed.”

September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You propose to make 9/11 a “National Service Day”. While we know that you don’t share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report your proposal as what it is…a disgrace.

YES, “We noticed.”

Racist!

You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits and policy.

YES, “We noticed..”

Nov 8, 2009 - 10:01 am 78. Delia:

Our country is in big trouble.

Nov 8, 2009 - 10:08 am 79. Kenneth Daves:

#70. kochevnik: Did we happen to disturb you in a bit of ethnic cleansing in say Kosovo or Bosnia? If so, too bad, so sad, bombs away. I am proud to say that I played a small, unheroic role in the Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi’s military installations. I just wish we had been allowed to finish the job. A Christian fundamentalist-IR1, even one of those social conservatives Roger Simon wishes would shut up and stop embarassing the Smart People. These days we are more pre-occupied with trying to stop the moral relativists from imposing their values on us than with imposing ours on them.

Nov 8, 2009 - 10:20 am 80. Kenneth Daves:

#76 ExPat: Most of us old lifers would say it was an honor to serve. We join you in honoring those serving now. We all know that the Ramsey Clarks will be along shortly to show us it’s our fault. I just wish the Andrew Napolitano libertarians and Jerry Rivers opportunists wouldn’t join them.

Nov 8, 2009 - 10:31 am 81. Steve:

Last April DHS released a report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” I wonder if DHS has a domestic terrorism report that targets Islamic radicals.

Nov 8, 2009 - 11:54 am 82. Casey Warns Against Anti-Muslim Backlash: ‘It Would Be A Shame If Our Diversity Became A Casualty’ | thehitjob.com:

[...] military officials pander to “America-haters.” Reacting to this common right-wing argument, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on CBS that Hasan’s “actions do not reflect on the Islamic [...]

Nov 8, 2009 - 12:06 pm 83. Creative:

The funny part is that I did not hear any of you speak when abu ghraib torture and prisoners abuse took place…interesting…

Nov 8, 2009 - 12:25 pm 84. Yonks73:

My prayers go out to the families and friends of the heros that gave their lives or were wounded while serving their country.

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory
no one can steal” (headstone in Ireland)

Saturday morning I sat my 13 year old son down to explain what had happened at Fort Hood. I tried to be as unemotional as possible but the tears came anyway. I explained this was a terrorist act carried out by a cowdardly Muslim on unarmed American service men and women and on American soil. I told him I didn’t want anyone telling him this coward slaughtered our service men and women because he was just a misunderstood lonely man who was tormented for his religious beliefs. I wanted him to know this coward murdered BECAUSE of his religious beliefs. I wanted him to know anyone who believes in the Koran has no business in our Military and really in this great country. He then told me he was learning about the Muslim culture in school. I asked him what was he was being taught and he told me about their cities, products and about their religion. He told me about walking around the stone 7 times and throwing stones.

After our talk I sent an email to his teacher asking to know what is being taught about the Muslim culture. I explained to her I work with men and women who are now or have been in the military and the tragedy at Fort Hood has greatly affected me. I explained I was ok with an overall view of the Muslim culture however I will not have a PC spin put on a religious culture that is intolerent and murderous of anyone that is not a believer.

It will be interesting to see what the response will be or if I get a response.

PC starts in our schools and we need to question what is being taught to our childern. If I hadn’t talked to my son about Fort Hood I would have never known about the Muslim culture being apart of his studies. It certainly wasn’t on any outline of studies I saw.

Nov 8, 2009 - 1:09 pm 85. darcy:

to Larry #69

Very nice effort to discredit and dismiss Lawrence Auster’s excellent article to which I referred our readers:

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012935.html

You — who say that nothing is going to change and that PC is going to continue to kill Americas — hardly have the fighting spirit that this hour requires; defeatism such as yours can be self-fulfilling.

At least Mr. Auster has the fortitude and courage to not only identify and expose our current dilemma, but he takes the time and thought to suggest a coarse of action.

Perhaps, speaking of his racism, he also thinks Asians are more intelligent than whites. Given that Asians typically outperform Whites in a number of intellectual categories, such a conclusion might not be in error??

The thing I like most about Mr. Auster is that he REJECTS the liberal god of NONDISCRIMINATION — perhaps that is what upsets you so much.

Nov 8, 2009 - 4:10 pm 86. Paul M Hupf:

Islam has always had a group within its members that is intolerant of any view other than that which calls for the spread of Islam world wide by force if necessary. Prior to the eighth century AD Christianity thrived all across North Africa, in the Middle East and in parts of Asia. The ascendancy of Islam in the Middle East resulted in the disappearance of Christian communities in the Middle East; and by force, Islam spread across North Africa. Thriving Christian communities in North Africa disappeared. Islam, by force of arms extended its reach into Spain, but was stopped at the Pyrenees by Charlemagne. The idea that we must be tolerant of Muslim beliefs is contrary to the evidence of increasingly violent actions by devotees of Islam, not just in the United States.

Nov 8, 2009 - 4:25 pm 87. Weekend update « Nebraska Redneck:

[...] [...]

Nov 8, 2009 - 5:58 pm 88. michael cutler:

There is no substantive difference between Major Hasan and Osama Ben Ladin. There are distinctions, but distinctions rarely amount to differences.

There is no substantive difference between political correctness and a trigger that fires the bullets that killed the brave Ft. Hood soldier patriot heroes.

There is no substantive difference between Nancy Palosi and Bonnie Parker.

There is no substantive difference between Barack Obama and Joe Stalin.

There is no substantive difference between Harry Reid and Woodrow Wilson.

There is no substantive difference between Rahm Immanuel and Joseph Goebbles.

There is no substantive difference between progressives and communists.

There is no substantive difference between lemmings and Obama voters.

There is no substantive difference between Keith Olbermann and Joe McCarthy.

There is no substantive difference between Adolf Hitler and pro abortionists.

There is no substantive difference between Rachel Maddow and Rosie O’donnell.

There is no sutstantive difference between Ann Coulter and Thomas Paine.

There is no substantive difference between Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes when you put things in a little different perspective, you see the whole truth and nothing but.

Nov 8, 2009 - 6:10 pm 89. John:

I hope the politically correct members of the FBI and the Army who were aware of this nut job terrorist feel good about themselves now. PC behavior has proven deadly once again. This wacko is a terrorist just as Tim McVeigh was. They may have had different ideologies but the are both murderers. However there were no warning signs with McVeigh. Plenty of red flags on the Major. Nobody paid attention. They turned a blind eye to his fanatic language, actions and blog. His fitness report reflected his poor performance and he said that he did not wish to deploy. Why didn’t these bastards throw his ass out of the Army and into an asylum?

Nov 8, 2009 - 6:11 pm 90. darcy:

to Nolan, #49. Thank you.

Excellent lead to Melanie Phillips. I knew about Londonistan, having read a review of the book; but I did not know of her website.

Her writings, I am now discovering, are essential to our task of facing reality and taking action.

Nov 8, 2009 - 8:13 pm 91. Larry:

to darcy # 85

your cognitive dissonance is telling. You didn’t even attempt to refute the point I was making – namely Auster’s anti-black bigotry, instead you attack straw-men. I never attempted to discredit Auster’s articles on Islam or PC multiculti madness. Why would I?

You didn’t refute the point I made about Auster’s anti-black prejudice, because you can’t. I make it clear that that is the reason I don’t care for Auster, yet you write that it’s because Auster “REJECTS the liberal god of NONDISCRIMINATION — perhaps that is what upsets you so much”. Uh no it’s his anti-black racism. I am unambiguously clear on that.

Gettit? Probably not, cognitive dissonance and all..

Nov 9, 2009 - 12:52 am 92. Larry:

Oh yes Darcy, Auster has recently attacked Melanie Phillips over her calling the BNP a nazi party. He calls her an idiot for this, writing that the BNP has shed its nazi past. This reveals Auster to be an idiot, since Nick Griffin their dear leader, and the higher echelons of the party continue to remain vociferously anti-Semitic (as anti-Zionists on the record). Their anti-Israel bias remains very strong. There is plenty of evidence for this that Auster can’t be bothered with. He’s fallen for the deceitful makeover of the BNP which shows how naive he actually is – and that he really is not clued up on UK politics, unlike Phillips who actually keeps her finger on the pulse.

Nov 9, 2009 - 1:00 am 93. ExPat:

92. Larry
I agree that the BNP is a historical revisionist movement tapping into the skinhead and football hooligan crowd. But let’s not forget the reason for their surging popularity. You might say they may become the best of a bad lot soon, the way things are going in the UK.

Nov 9, 2009 - 3:10 am 94. Joseph:

74. Joeseph

You seem a little confused. You like your Muslim neighbors but fear all the rest that you have no information on. Get a bigger sample before you libel a whole religion.

As for your support of loyalty oaths why stop with just Muslims, how ’bout Mexicans and those Chinese they seem like they prefer home over baseball and apple pie. Oh what the hell let’s be even handed and make everyone here sign a loyalty oath. You know all those folks that voted for Obama seem pretty disloyal so are suspect too. My question is who would compose this oath and what is your proposed punishment for any that refuse?

Roger I generally agree there is too much PC in America today but I don’t think you are calling for the social acceptance of racial prejudice. So the question is where do we draw the line?

Nov 9, 2009 - 4:11 am 95. Joseph:

74. Joeseph

My previous post seems a little too harsh. Let me apologize some what for the tone but not the thrust of my argument. You and I are frighten by something, you (if I understand your position correctly) by what Muslims might do in this country to the rest of us, me by what we might do to our fellow humans in this country that are different because of our fear. On some reflection I feel my fear is probably unfounded and I hope yours is too. I also hope after we all take a deep breath or two and the FBI and Army have investigated this awful murderous rampage we discover that it was the actions of a lone gunman and not an orchestrated plot by some cabal. If it is a conspiracy of some kind I will join you in denouncing all involved.

Nov 9, 2009 - 4:53 am 96. Roger L. Simon » Political Correctness runs amuck in the US government (continued):

[...] My post of Friday night is proving more accurate than I would have [...]

Nov 9, 2009 - 9:12 am 97. steverino:

If ALL soldiers were required to wear a loaded handgun at ALL times, this would not have happened. The military does not trust their own enough to require this. Also, guns are not politically correct.

Nov 9, 2009 - 11:42 am 98. darcy:

Let me remind you, Larry, that not once did you back up your charge of Auster’s racism.

Let me also remind you, that those who cry racism use the charge itself as a cudgel to deflect and deligitimize the arguments of one’s opponents. We here it daily when one deigns to criticize Mr. O.

Oh, no, no, no. He who assets must prove. You asserted Auster’s racism — now give us chapter and verse.

Let me also remind you, that you ignored the focus of my original post and failed to address the merits of the article to which I referred. No doubt you refuse to read it based on your bias.

Nov 9, 2009 - 7:42 pm 99. Lee:

I must say that I have NEVER been attracted to political correctness. From my very first encounter with it I have been struck by its pernicious dishonesty masquerading as compassion and good manners. It is evil. It is evil to demand that others lie and disregard the truth. Those who practice it are fools and those who promote it are devils.

The best explanation of it that I have encountered so far comes from Theodore Dalrymple, who said:

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

Nov 9, 2009 - 9:24 pm 100. Pajamas Media » When Nidal Hasan Reached Out to al-Qaeda, Why Was Nothing Done About It?:

[...] loner” who shocked everyone. Everyone knew about his radical bent and no one did anything. Roger L. Simon already eloquently expressed the answer for why no one spoke. Political correctness kills and this [...]

Nov 10, 2009 - 2:03 am 101. rp:

Good golly, I just heard on the news that supplies of the IPC vaccine will arrive early next week. It’s
destined to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Let’s everybody get vaccinated.

IPC (Inoculation for political correctness)

Nov 10, 2009 - 7:24 pm 102. Linda Rivera:

It is much more than political correctness. In fact, it is not political correctness at all. It is aiding and abetting the enemy against the American people.

U.S. Airport Security Deliberately and Shockingly Destroyed for Islam:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com
Controversial Muslim group
gets VIP airport security tour
Feds show CAIR latest screening steps,
sensitive counterterrorism procedures
August 18, 2006

The Department of Homeland Security
took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation’s busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.

On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O’Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a “front group” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.

During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51573

Nov 10, 2009 - 7:33 pm 103. Linda Rivera:

Good bye France…while letting Muslims over take you once again… but without Charles Martel this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3R7hYMNY2E&feature=player_embedded

http://www.jihadwatch.org
Fitzgerald: Douce France

For a jihad is what — it is increasingly clear — France now faces…

Yes, you do notice more and more Muslims about you as you walk, no longer in the banlieues, but in the center of Paris, or Toulouse, or Lyon. And you remember how uneasy you felt, four years ago, when you happened to be walking on the Cannebière in Marseille. You decided, then and there, that you would not return. And you have friends who live in the south. And they tell you that the beurs – some call them maghrébins — make life hell for everyone.

They attack French children on the way to school. They vandalize cars. They threaten, and do more than threaten, anyone who is still foolish enough to walk out wearing a kippah or a cross. Whole areas of cities in the south, as in the north, and east, and west, have become off-limits to non-Muslims. In the schools, the teachers have lost authority. They cannot even cover the subjects of World War II, the Resistance, and the murders of the Jews as the state prescribes; they fear, with reason, the violent reaction of the Muslim students.

And as the schools become more and more dangerous for non-Muslim students and teachers, with more time and resources devoted to discipline rather than to learning, French parents and would-be parents are now silently factoring into their childbearing plans…those French people will plan on smaller families.

And they will also be factoring in the growing cost, paid by them, those French taxpayers, for the whole expanding edifice of security, the guards in the schools, the guards at the train stations and métro stations and airports and at government buildings everywhere, the costs of keeping the gravestones from being vandalized, the costs of protecting the synagogues and the churches, the costs for all those tapped phones and agents in mosques, and subsidies to lawyers and judges to hear charges and try cases against Muslims, and the costs of monitoring da’wa in the prisons (more than 50% Muslim).

But the Muslims are indifferent to expenses incurred by the French state. France is part of the world; the world belongs to Allah, and to his Believers. That doctrine has remained immutable for 1400 years. Imam Bouziane, the one they keep trying to deport, had 16 children by two wives, all living on the French state: a representative Muslim man.

You vacation in Normandy, or Brittany, or the Ile de Ré. And you do not take the metro often enough, or walk in the right districts, or work in the right factories or offices, to understand what tens of millions of your fellow Frenchmen now have to endure.

No one will mention what is happening or what kinds of things we must begin to think about doing to save ourselves…something has gone irreparably wrong with your country, and you, and your children, are in danger of losing that country, down to every village and house…France will have a majority Muslim population.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/11/fitzgerald-douce-france.html

Unless the Muslim immigration-invasion is stopped, France’s agony is the future for America and all Western nations. Future generations will NEVER forgive us.

Council on American-Islamic Relations: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” – Omar Ahmad (CAIR co-founder).

’“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
—Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne’s prophetic warning to Europe in a speech at the U.N. In 1974.

MUSLIM Demographics (very alarming)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

In Sweden, many Muslim youth wear a t-shirt proclaiming: “2030-then we take over”

The END of EUROPE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfOmQ4Eo_as

Nov 10, 2009 - 7:40 pm 104. What If His Name Had Been Joe Bob Lee…? - malbis’s blog - RedState:

[...] But the real question the Fort Hood murders raises is how long we are going to continue to allow “political correctness” to place American lives in jeopardy? [...]

Nov 10, 2009 - 8:57 pm 105. Nicolas Minacapelli: Entrepreneur, Programmer, & Conservative Blogger :: Terrorism Uncategorized :: Fort Hood Massacre and Political Correctness:

[...] Political correctness kills and this is how: As a reminder, political correctness is derived from the more intellectually respectable doctrine of cultural relativism (it’s sort of CR’s public “happy face”). In essence, cultural relativism holds that an individual’s beliefs and activities should only be understood in terms of his or her own culture. It’s the ultimate version of “who are we to the judge?” If Ayatollah Khomeini wishes to oppress all the women and homosexuals in Iran, it’s their way. If Mao seeks to knock off seventy million of his countrymen, so be it. Let the Chinese decide. We shouldn’t impose our values. [...]

Nov 10, 2009 - 9:28 pm 106. rp:

Nick, 105

Following your correct logic, if the U.S. and its peculiar culture that reveres freedom and liberty decides in its
own culturally relativist way to nuke Iran, hey, who’s to argue with them? The cultural relativism that goes around, I guess,
comes around.

Nov 10, 2009 - 11:35 pm 107. pelaut:

Still waiting for YOUR exposition, Roger.
Understand how you regret what you and your friends did in the 70s (as early as the 60s), but only you know why you did it.

Not good enough to ask commenters for their ideas. You’re the one that KNOWS.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:18 am 108. Chi:

Larry wrote “he considers whites inherently superior to black people in terms of intelligence”

Err, actually he’s talking about averages. If two groups differed by, say, 10 points in average IQ (2/3 of a standard deviation), the respective distributions would overlap quite a bit (more in-group than between-group variation), but the fraction of people with IQ above some threshold (e.g., >140) would be radically different.

That is the case with Ashkenazi Jews Psychologists and educational researchers have pegged their average IQ at 107.5 to 115. That’s only modestly higher than the overall European average of 100, but the gap is large enough to produce a huge difference in the proportion of geniuses. When a group’s average IQ is 100, the percentage of people above 140 is 0.4%; when the average is 110, the rate is 2.3%.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16867211

Genes infuence intelligence. And polymorphic genes vary in frequency amongst population groups. The candidate genes for cognitive function may also vary. Given natural selection, sexual selection and genetic drift it would be surprising if they didn’t.

Indeed, the handful of candidate gene variants so far identified as relating to cognitive function (rs2760118-C on SSADH, rs324650-T on CHRM2, and rs760761-C on DTNBP1, for example) are not distributed evenly among the populations sampled in the Hapmap.

In terms of athletics one example is the RR variant of ACTN3, a gene that affects fast generation of muscular force and correlates with excellence at speed and power sports. The opposite variant of the gene is called XX. Tests indicate that the ratio of people with RR to people with XX is 1 to 1 among Asians, 2 to 1 among European whites, and more than 4 to 1 among African-Americans.

Again, the claim here isn’t that your race determines your ability – but that at a group level they have different averages and at the upper end (for instance 100 metres) the top sprinters are predominantly of West African ancestry.

Why is this? Well, human evolution, rather than having stopped in the past 50,000 to 40,000 years, appears to have accelerated over the in the past 15,000- 10,000 years as groups adapted to agriculture and populations expanded. (Hawks et al 2007, Recent acceleration of human adaptive)evolution — PNAS).

The research indicates at least 7% of the genome has undergone recent selection.

A fair fraction of the changes are neurological and likely to affect behavior in some way. For example, you see new versions of SLC6A4, a serotonin transporter, in Europeans and Asians. There’s a new version of a gene (DAB1) that shapes the development of the layers of the cerebral cortex in east Asia (see Williamson et al June 2007 article from Plos Genetics, ‘Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome’.

Voight et al 2007 Plos Biology, ‘A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome’.

Until all the gene variants affecting cognitive function are identified the matter won’t be resolved scientifically, however, the evidence so far suggests genes occur in different frequencies amongst populations so average group differences may occur.

Rather than denying this progressive minded people need to develop a better moral framework.

That is what University of Chicago Geneticist Bruce Lahn & Lanny Ebenstein attempt to do in the latest edition of Nature with their paper entitled “Let’s Celebrate Human Genetic Diversity”. They write:

“Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared…

Equality of opportunity and respect for human dignity should be humankind’s common aspirations, notwithstanding human differences no matter how big or small. We also think that biological egalitarianism may not remain viable in light of the growing body of empirical data.”
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Nov 15, 2009 - 1:45 pm 109. Ft. Hood Hot Potato | In Contempt:

[...] at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, right wingers felt vindication that for once their knee-jerk blaming of “political correctness” had been validated by reality — and by no less than the most pinko of the Liberal Media MSM [...]

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