Another example of how nice doesn't make right...
I just read a great article in the LA times by Jonah Goldberg "The price of 'nice' for Canada" who highlights the downfall of our fellow Canadian Americans. They truly believe they are nicer then the US so that is why they can avoid our problem with terrorism...in other words we kick the hornet's nest with a stick and they just put a fence around it with a sign saying "Ssshhhh...hornets nesting." Goldberg points out that their recent uncovered terrorist plot was by their very own Canadian raised Muslim people. Where have we heard that before...Britain...France? Just when Canada thought thay had found the corner on the market of how to avoid terrorism in their country.
What makes it even more laughable and further shows how they continue to delude themselves...Canadian officials in an effort to not point out that they were Muslim terrorists, referred very nicely to the men as having "varied backgrounds." Good grief...in what...height????
Indeed, there's good reason to believe that niceness is part of the problem,not the solution. Many Canadians (and Americans and Europeans) cling to a deep-seated belief that more multiculturalism, more interfaith dialogue, more "understanding," more Western apologies, more acceptance of Sharia, more "niceness" will fix the problem.
Just a few weeks before the alleged Canadian terror plot was revealed, a sociology professor penned an essay in a Canadian newspaper boasting how well "multiculturalism works in Canada." Canadians are blissfully immune to the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe and the U.S. caused by jihadi terror, argued Augie Fleras, and this has created a climate of progress and social peace. Fleras might want to revisit that.
But if Europe and the U.S. are any guide, it's doubtful Fleras and his confreres will have any epiphanies about the failures of multiculturalism. The Danish cartoon controversy was a perfect example of appeasement. A host of Western leaders indulged jihadist outbursts and threats to behead cartoonists and journalists by denouncing, in Bill Clinton's words, "these totally outrageous cartoons against Islam." Sen. John Kerry joined in the moral equivalence: "These and otherinflammatory images deserve our scorn, just as the violence against embassies and military installations are an unacceptable and intolerable form of protest." And French President Jacques Chirac tut-tutted that "anything liable to offend the beliefs of others, particularly religious beliefs, must be avoided."
In Canada, the retreat into denial was instantaneous. At the news conference announcing the arrests, officials said the alleged plotters came from "a variety of backgrounds" and the "broad strata" of Canadian society because "some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed." They might as well have said the accused plotters were diverse because they all liked different ice cream. The relevant fact was that they were all Muslim and nearly all attended a single radical mosque. But it would be rude to mention that.
In a meeting with Muslim leaders the day after the news conference,Toronto's chief of police reportedly boasted that the government never mentioned the alleged terrorists' religion. Well, isn't that sweet. I'm sure the next time Islamists set out to chop off lawmakers' heads or murder the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Co., they'll keep in mind how nice you were about all this.
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Lone Ranger, you make a wonderful point for American voters, as well. What happened to the halcyon days of the Clinton administration (no war, only trivial domestic terrorism by Islamists, economic perfection)? What happens when adults take over?
The sleeping press which never mentioned the looming recession on the horizon, or the spread and organization of al Qaeda globally,
or dwelled on illicit use of the police state (slaughtering children in Waco), wakes up and starts writing article after article about the deaths soldiers, the onset of the economic downturn, collateral deaths of possible civilians in Iraq.
Naturally, the opposition party seeks to fuel the "malaise" with gay marriages in Massachusetts and a plethora of aggravating, attention-getting activism. But the imminent danger you report in Canada is even more threatening for us. The antimilitary-dai;y press complex will lull us all back to complacency, again, while real threats go grossly under-reported.
I wonder whether any of those 17 terrorist wannabes could even find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map. They just wanted to blow something up. And they come from a culture where blowing something up is as common as scratching an itch. Lefties, whether in Canada or here, truly don't understand the nature of evil.
I was waiting outside my son's high school in North Hollywood one afternoon, when there was a drive-by shooting. The shooter was hanging outside the car, sitting on the window-ledge. My instinct was to jump out of my car and throw him head-first onto the pavement. But I was belted in, which saved either my life or his.
The point is, I looked directly into the shooter's face and there was nothing there. He didn't look frightened or hateful or exited or anything at all. He just looked like someone you'd pass on a sidewalk. He didn't appear to even know he was doing something wrong. That's evil.
The Canadians and the lefties in America have no idea what we're dealing with.
"The Canadians and the lefties in America have no idea what they are dealing with." You are so right, but unfortunately they will probably find out.
I do have to let you know though, that there are many conservative Canadian Bloggers out there. I ran into one: www.abfreedom.blogspot.com and through him, many more. Most of them are in Alberta, which is trying to secceed from Canada altogether because of the Liberalism having Canada by the throat. Because of a newly-elected Prime Minister however, things are improving... slowly to be sure, but all the damage done cannot be undone overnight.
I came over because I really enjoyed a comment you made on Mark's blog: "I personally believe there is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." I may steal that line from you because I absolutely love it! :)
Go ahead, I stole it from Rush. I never follow up on conversations over there. I figure once I've stated my position, there's nothing else to be said. Debating with liberals is like arguing with children. I don't argue with children.
They've been careful about not coming over here.
Vigilis, that was Tonto's post. She's smart.
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