December 04, 2008
How likely is the "accident" theory?
A prominent SF Jewish gay pro-Israel activist goes to his Arabic class--which was cancelled, but he didn't get the message--and somehow forces open the door of an out-of-order elevator and falls down the shaft and is killed. Police are calling it an "accident."
Read here.
Of course they call it an accident. THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW! Don't want to know they're at war.
Same as huge numbers of other people don't want to know. Like these:...So why are so many prominent Western media reluctant to call the perpetrators terrorists? Why did Jon Snow, one of Britain's most respected TV journalists, use the word "practitioners" when referring to the Mumbai terrorists? Was he perhaps confusing them with doctors?
Why did Britain's highly regarded Channel 4 News state that the "militants" showed a "wanton disregard for race or creed" when exactly the opposite was true: Targets and victims were very carefully selected. Why did the "experts" invited to discuss the Mumbai attacks in one show on the state-funded Radio France Internationale, the voice of France around the world, harp on about Baruch Goldstein (who carried out the Hebron shootings in 1994), virtually the sole case of a Jewish terrorist in living memory?...
Especially sickening to me is that American Jews don't want to know. Or rather, liberal Jews. They've converted to a new secularist faith, and desperately wish that the crazy uncles in their mental attics would just go away, and stop the God talk, so they can assimilate in peace, and enjoy being Eloi.
FOOLS. If you are Jewish, there are millions of people on this planet who would enjoy killing you. Personally. With their own hands. And they don't care that you've discovered flower-power and you think weakness and passivity will make war go away and everyone live as brothers-in-insipidity.
And this would be less of an evil if "liberals" were only endangering themselves. But appeasment tends to get other people killed.You may not be interested in war,
but war is interested in you.
-- Leon Trotsky
ALSO: I wrote a post a couple of years back, about the way police almost always label lone-wolf jihadis as anything except......Islamic terrorists. They are always said to be mentally disturbed individuals who were upset by their purely secular personal life.....even if they put a Koran in their pocket and start killing people. I can't find the post now. Does anybody remember any key-words I can search for?
Update: Never mind, I found it. The key-word was "Bosnia." GO READ IT!
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Posted by John Weidner at December 4, 2008 07:29 AM
I read about this death on the internet, it seems to be quite a loss. Do you really think this may have been something other than an accident? That had never occurred to me.
Posted by: John in Dublin at December 4, 2008 05:42 PMIf you set out to imagine the person in the Bay Area jihadis would like to kill most, you could hardly beat Kliman. And it is a very unlikely sort of accident, one where a number of things have to go wrong.
Posted by: John Weidner at December 4, 2008 07:22 PMWho the hell forces an elevator door open? If the elevator door does not open, there is clearly something wrong with it, and you go to use the stairs. Oh he was murdered all right.
Just in case, I'll bet you there was a backup assassin waiting in the stairwell.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 6, 2008 12:54 AM1) Rhetorical posturing aside, there is not 28 grams of difference between Bush and Obama, between Republicans and Democrats generally, on the main point. The question is not whether to go after the Islamist enemy, but how. Mr. Bush's approach, which included changing a regime in Iraq as well as Afghanistan to tilt the balance of power in the Middle East away from the crazies, was more or less inevitable.
2) the real decision-making has been taken out of the hands of voters, and put in the hands of elite judges and lawyers. The will to confront this extra-constitutional migration of power was not there, even under Reagan.
David Warren
