What if another terror attack just before this fall's elections could save many thousand-times the lives lost? I start from the premise that there is already a substantial portion of the electorate that tends to vote GOP because they feel that Bush has "kept us safe," and that the Republicans do a better job combating terrorism. If an attack occurred just before the elections, I have to think that at least a few of the voters who persist in this "Bush has kept us safe" thinking would realize the fallacy they have been under.
Are these guys serious, or is it a case of too much cannabis?
Saturday, August 26, 2006
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What Russell Shaw proposes is typical political dogma (in this case from the Left), and his ideological lenses damage (or severely taint) his construct of history.
Franklin D. Roosevelt — the democrat from New York — dealt with Nazi terrorists accordingly, with much more harshness and severity than G.W. could ever come close to.
Nazi terrorists (or "insurgents" or "freedom fighters") were dealt with in even a swifter manner when they were caught on American shores. The goal of these Nazi terrorists was to sabatoge American infrastructure. Roosevelt had them tried and executed within, if my memory serves, a matter of weeks. I don't remember if it was firing squad or electric chair. They died as martyrs of fascism -- how touching.
Similarities can be found during Lincoln's administration and his dealing with terrorists who hailed from the South.
When it came to executions, Lincoln could also be quite lenient (he was no monster). For example, the largest execution in United States history took place in Mankato, Minnesota. Lincoln ordered the original list of Sioux who were supposed to be hanged to be widdled down to some thirty-eight men (and a Lakota friend of mine says one woman was hanged too).
Nowadays (when they aren't collecting their own shit and piss to throw on American MPs) Islamic-fascism terrorists sit in cells, read the Quran, and organize hunger strikes. I guess in a way it creates jobs, at least for ACLU lawyers.
As far as hoping for a terrorist to strike America before the election... well, this tells us that Shaw is more concerned with his particular Political Party than with human life (be they Americans or his mother).
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