Saturday, March 8, 2003

The joys of blackballing. As a dissent-crusher of some repute, I think I have found a truly inspired means by which this noble art may be perfected. Perversely, my inspiration was provided by the insistent bleatings of one of our commenters offering his tale of purported woe in response to this posting by Perry. According to the commenter, Mr.Briant, Hollywood celebrities who have engaged in anti-war activism are now being subjected to 'McCarthyite' persecution. It has to be said... [Samizdata.net] Here's something you don't see every day--one of the Crusaders (from England, no less) arguing in favor of open US government persecution of those who speak against the conquest of Iraq. comment () trackback ()  6:22:39 PM     NY Times: "Fadi doesn't see anything strange about using American self-help tapes to get a job at an American company, while at the same time harboring hatred of the American government to the point of self-annihilation." [Scripting News] I don't personally have any problem with people hating the American government. Unfortunately, people who actually become terrorists don't stop at hating the government, they hate the people as well. Perhaps they've been misled by propaganda about how the government represents the "will of the people," or something. Whatever the reason, terrorists are fools for attacking the people instead of the government. comment () trackback ()  6:14:20 PM     Alleged robber shot to death in Flag City had criminal history. The Stockton man who was shot to death when he allegedly tried to rob a truck driver Wednesday night had been out of jail only since Dec. 17. Ira Joe Braggs, 52, had an extensive criminal history that included armed robbery and burglary, San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Nellie Stone said. Braggs spent about four years off and on in state prison since Sept. 27, 1996, according to records from the California Department of Corrections. Braggs was shot to death late Wednesday night after climbing into the cab of a truck, beating up the truck driver with the butt of a gun and trying to rob him, Stone said. [Lodi News-Sentinel] Here's a story you won't read about in the Los Angeles Times. Although this article doesn't say so, a poster on the 1911 Forum Board reports reading in an earlier article that the truck driver had a concealed weapon permit. That's very fortunate for him, considering the rarity of such things in the hands of peasants in this state. comment () trackback ()  3:48:45 PM     Mind Our Own Business. How would you feel if you woke up one morning and all the TV news outlets were blaring that Russia and China, in a joint declaration, had said that America's weapons of mass destruction were a threat to world peace, and unless they were destroyed, Russia and China would disarm the United States and change its government? I expect it would make your cornflakes taste sour. Now, it's very hard to say anything good about the government of North Korea. If ever a government mimicked the totalitarian nightmare described by George Orwell in his novel "1984," it is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Even its name is Orwellian, since it is neither democratic nor a republic. The people are controlled and indoctrinated every waking hour from the cradle to the grave. Even so, we have no right to tell North Korea that it can't develop nuclear weapons. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea has every legal right to withdraw from it. There are provisions in the treaty for just such an event. As a sovereign nation, it has every right to develop any kind of weapons it wants. [Charley Reese] comment () trackback ()  1:24:23 PM     Charles Sebrell at LewRockwell.com - Adolf Hussein? - why comparing Hussein with Hitler is grossly inaccurate. [trt-ny] Always on the lookout for sympathy, the warmongers have added a twist to their emotional appeals. Their original demands were to destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, then they demanded a regime change. They have now added that the allies (the best allies money can buy) are there to liberate the Iraqi people. I have no doubt the Iraqi people will be liberated alright, they'll be liberated of 20 billion barrels of oil. [End the War on Freedom] A good article on why the Crusaders' constant comparison of Iraq and Nazi Germany is dishonest. comment () trackback ()  11:30:08 AM

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