It was liberals or progressives who wanted to expand the bounds of speech. Not so much anymore.
Erin Ching - college student - recently said "What really bothered me is the whole idea that at a liberal arts college we need to be hearing a diversity of opinion." Ummm, Miss Chang you attend an elitist college with 1500 students that costs more in a year than the three cars my family uses for transport and travel...combined. You are exactly the person who needs to hear diversity of opinion so you don't become vaccinated against common sense in your own little private protected world of group think.
What does this opinion have to do with terrorism though? Well, speech has become a sort of terrorism where opposing viewpoints are denigrated. There can only be conformity according to the former protectors of speech.
Unfortunately, this politically correct group think or group don't-think creates an environment where only one opinion is allowed to exist instead of the exchange of ideas. In Great Britain there is actually a list of people not allowed to enter the country because of their viewpoints...not their actions, but their viewpoints.
While Great Britain forgets it roots in the Magna Carta and keeps out "hate monger" Michael Savage while not informing anyone which of his views were deemed a threat to national security it seems indifferent to the jihadi-cool system it has helped foster in Britain.
John of the ISIS Execution Squad who recently killed James Foley had a clear British accent and took on the name of John Lennon of the Beatles in an apparent reference to his British roots. (Wasn't John a peacenik?) The US Department of Justice has reportedly opened a criminal probe and the Muslim Council of Britain denounced Foley's "abhorrent murder." What else were they to say though?
You may remember a few years ago the similar attack on soldier Lee Rigby...except that was on the streets of London itself. It took almost no time whatsoever for the case to move from one of outrage to one of hand-ringing and self-reproach about the Islamophobia that might have caused the murder. What? how about these two jihadis had a plan, executed their plan, and went about it in a cold, controlling manner?
That of course might qualify me as a threat to the British state though. Silly me here supporting their soldiers instead of the criminals who committed an act of home grown violence against their own. According to news accounts, Ms. Rigby, the mother of the slain soldier immediately turned to thoughts of her own son's execution after hearing of the Foley incident. Perhaps it was the eerily similarity where Muslim militants where trying to cut off someone's head?
Another news account that quotes a British Member of Parliament informs us that twice as many British born Muslims fight for ISIS (The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq) as fight for their homeland where they were born. This is outrageous and should show the insidious nature of the opponent we both fight.
While conservatives are mocked for asking questions about the opponent and who we fight, it is both liberals and conservatives who will pay the price for bargaining with terrorists. These terrorism troops have no desire to play nice with others and they are the equals of Hitler's storm troopers...taking horrific orders and executing them with stunning simplicity. While conservatives are attacked for being Bible thumpers, what do you call Islamic jihadi-cool initiates...Quran Quacks? Of course not, because that would not be politically correct speech. We wouldn't want to call evil, you know, EVIL? That wouldn't be polite and more importantly...it might hurt their feelings. I doubt it would hurt their feelings any more than it would hurt your neck as they begin to hack away, but that is another issue isn't it?
What is clear is that these people are not criminals, but soldiers fighting their own holy war. If we had a strong President, he would not have waited for these situations, but would have carpet bombed ISIS while they were marching in columns months ago. Now they have returned to the guerrilla tactics that make them much harder to stamp out.
While we worry about whether or not we are practicing gentlemanly war or are Islamophobes and speaking with correct verbiage, innocents are having their heads sawed off with six inch knives. Do not kid yourself. This is not going to stay overseas. Eventually they will be here in the United States playing the same game because we are too scared to call them what they are: evil. Only evil will take an independent journalist and commit this atrocity and do not think they will not do the same here.
That is the issue we face. Do you get it now?
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