The not so hidden cost of PC
Published: November 12, 2009
The cost of our political classes’ obsession with multiculturalism and Political Correctness is not just sanctimonious news conferences and racial special interest groups. It’s death and injury as residents were reminded last week.
We were reintroduced to Anastacio Miranda, an illegal alien in PWC doing work Americans didn’t want to do. Unfortunately, while making his vital contribution to the economy, Miranda found time in his off-hours to murder three people and shoot two others after a toddler’s birthday party.
Later we learned Maj. L. Eduardo Caraveo, a Woodbridge resident, was a victim of Fort Hood Muslim murderer Nidal Hasan.
Naturally, the first item on the agenda after the shooting was assuring Muslims that although another follower of Islam had bagged a few infidels, every step would be taken to prevent
potential “backlash.“
Rather than worry about ticking time bombs in the Army, our leaders make sure rednecks don’t stock up on sheets and ammunition at Walmart before heading for the nearest mosque.
And if the mosques here are anything like the mosques in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s going to be quite a firefight.
But that’s not going to happen. A few louts may yell “towelhead” at a niqab-clad pedestrian out for her morning constitutional, but that’s about it.
Strange isn’t it, when abortionist George Tiller was murdered, the media had no problem discussing “fundamentalist Christians” while unconcerned about “backlash” against Baptists.
And in Seattle police had no problem calling Christopher Monfort a “domestic terrorist” but then his name is Christopher Monfort.
Islam is the last topic authorities discuss when it comes to Sudden Jihad Syndrome incidents. The standard line is it was a “lone gunman,” “isolated incident,” “random act of violence” that was perpetrated by a “troubled individual,” who was “under stress,” “harassed” or otherwise forced to “snap,” “act out” or “explode.”
As long as the investigation of this “cry for help” doesn’t turn up a cell phone with Osama on speed dial, investigators are going to find a secular or psychological reason. They will be very careful not to connect any dot that results in a picture in any way offensive to Islam — The Religion of Peace.
The same investigators and media that can’t find the Muhammad in the haystack will detail every time someone hurt Hasan’s delicate sensibilities with “name-calling and harassment.“
But how do people discover Hasan and other grievance-collectors are Muslims? Most people have no idea I’m a Christian because my life does not model Christ as it should. I could be an environmentalist, Buddhist or even a Unitarian.
What tips these rednecks off? Is it the scimitar, spitting on the ground as a Jew walks by, the Allahu Akbar bumper sticker? Scratch the Allahu, that’s what Hasan said while shooting infidels.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. is concerned that speculation about the Muslim faith and the motives of Hasan could spark retaliation against Muslim soldiers and hurt diversity within the Army.
Casey lugubriously added, “I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here,” which must be real comforting to the relatives of the dead and wounded.
In fact, it’s unity that gives you strength, not diversity. But Gen. Casey appears to take his Multi-Culti Kool-Aid straight.
Judging by the general’s standards, Major Hasan was a man of strongly diverse opinions, but it didn’t add much to the Army’s strength. The good major proselytized to his patients, declared he’s a Muslim first and American second, claimed the war on terror was a war against Muslims and suggested non-Muslims be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
But apparently no one informed Army investigators because they didn’t want to be seen as Islamophobes.
The only place Hasan and I share even partial agreement is his belief Muslims shouldn’t be in the military. I’m ready to trade and let the homosexuals in if we can keep the potential jihadists out.
Please spare me the “only ten percent of Muslims want to slit our throats.” Why aren’t the 90 percent taking steps to prevent the 10 percent from acting?
Episcopalians go out of their way to make homosexuals “safe” in their churches in spite of the damage it does to the denomination. Why can’t Muslim imams discourage potential jihadists and alert authorities when they learn of their existence?
There’s got to be something going on in mosques. I don’t think Muslims are more entrepreneurial than Christians and therefore more likely to open a Terror-Is-Me franchise. The place to begin prevention is in mosques.
So if you remain a fuzzy thinker who believes, contrary to all the evidence, that “diversity” is uniformly beneficial to the country, I invite you to visit the graves of Miranda’s victims and drive by the Dale City home of Maj.Caraveo.
Michael R. Shannon is owner of MANDATE: Message, Media & Public Relations, located in Woodbridge.
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Pwanon I believe I asked you this before but you did not answer my question. If removing Saddam Hussein from power was so important in 2003, then shouldn’t the blame fall on President George H. W. Bush for not doing so when we had troops in Iraq in 1991? If the crimes committed by Hussein were so horrendous why were they allowed to continue for 12 more years by Bush? It seems father and son were in disagreement on that subject. You continue to say Hussein was a ruthless dictator but do not equate that to how it affected America when our concern was with terrorist attacks and Code Orange status.
“And the needless and ever so costly in terms of life, time, resources, moral standing and dollars invasion of a country that was actually a benefit to us in the War on Terror - being an enemy of Iran, AQ and the Taliban.“
Ah, too funny.
You see…this is why any reasonable debate with you is absolutely impossible.
Everything you post is phenomenally packed with rhetorical nonsense, such as the above quote.
Do you really thing Iraq was any kind of assistance in any matter related to AQ, Iran, or the Taliban?
I mean…after all, you’re the one who boldly annouces that you KNEW that Saddam was “bluffing” all along to keep Iran at bay.
Yet somehow, you knew more than the intelligence services and spies that Iran had running into Iraq all the time.
What could Saddam possibly have had to offer? Yet somehow we should’ve aligned ourselves with a guy who spent 30 years killing and raping by the hundreds of thousands?
How prescient of you, dummy.
What a f’ing joke you are.
And speaking of Billy Jeff’s “blueprint.“
What was his response to the first terror attacks? Some superficial arrests, treating a terrorist attack like someone knocked off a 7-11?
How about the bombings of our embassies?
How about the bombings and murder of 17 sailors aboard the Cole?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No wonder AQ was such a monster by the time GWB got into office.
Billy had literally done NOTHING to oppose them for 8 whole years.
Truly…You’re complaining about the President that…in your words…led us to “winning” the war on Terror…
Yet you STILL can’t stop dancing around the fact that the President before him did NOTHING, even while we were attacked REPEATEDLY.
And you expect to be taken seriously by anyone?
And God forbid you actually debate the complete neutering of the CIA undertaken by Bowing Barry.
Or the completely reckless, irresponsible decision to treat KSM like he’s an American citizen accused of a crime, even though he’s a mass-murdering terrorist…that has NO legal rights…and who masterminded the murder of 3,000 Americans.
No. Of course not. Because you’re such a tremendous, pointless, witless hypocrite that you’re only capable of talking about the one President who actually FOUGHT the war, as opposed to the one who refused to, and the other who’s aiming to do the same.
H*ll…we can’t even get Barry to acknowledge publically that Hassan was a Muslim, much less a Muslim terrorist…
Or even call a terrorist attack anything other than a “man-caused disaster”, for fear we might offend the oh-so-delicate Muslim world.
Yet here you are…still banging away at the one guy who actually made progress against AQ…
What…a…clown.
Take your big red shoes, your oversized striped pants, and your squeezable red nose, and duck back into the circus with the bearded lady, Ron.
“There are two giant elephants in the room that you can’t seem to see.“
Actually, the one elephant in the room is Iraq.
And the needless and ever so costly in terms of life, time, resources, moral standing and dollars invasion of a country that was actually a benefit to us in the War on Terror - being an enemy of Iran, AQ and the Taliban.
The other ‘elephant’ in the room is really a piss ant - you - for lacking the courage to admit your hero was wrong - and prolonged the War on Terror and cost of American lives in the process.
“So much for that blueprint, eh?“
You tell me. You’re the one making a case for the Bush blueprint.
I’m just following the timeline you laid out:
1. Bush 41 agencies failed to gather proper intelligence or Bush 41 choose to ignore intelligence and yes, 5 weeks after Clinton was inaugurated, AQ attacked American soil at the World Trade Center on 2/26/93 - We weren’t kept safe under the Bush 41 watch.
Now you like to blame Clinton for this. Of course, this falls into what vmj calls a ‘lie of omission’ as you know Clinton had nothing to do with it.
2. From that point forward, Clinton kept us safe on US soil. The very laurels you hang on GWB.
3. Until .. AFTER Clinton left office, and his national security intelligence provided GWB a memo that AQ planned to attack again, using airliners, which GWB promptly ignored and went back to riding his mountain bike in Crawford.
4. THEN we got attacked by AQ on 9/11/01.
5. And, if I understand your ‘blueprint’ theory, Bush went into action and invaded Afghanistan - an action which I earlier pointed out I fully supported.
Maintaining the timeline and thus the ‘blueprint’:
6. GWB then declared OBL was Wanted: Dead or Alive and committed our resources to that end. Again, I supported this.
The Taliban was on the run. AQ was being - as you say - smashed “into a million little pieces” and we had no further attacks on our soil.
So far, the ‘blueprint’ is working.
7. Then what happened? Oh yes, Bush invaded Iraq to (A) look for WMD (B) free Iraq from rape (C) entice Muslim terrorists to a neutral country for Bush to kill or (D) as you and Cheney like to claim, fight AQ there, who of course .. wasn’t there.
8. And GWB flew onto an aircraft carrier to proclaimed “Mission Accomplished”. Which it wasn’t.
Now again pwanon, this is YOUR take on the blueprint, not mine.
I - you may realize - keep asking you if invading Iraq helped the WoT or if it distracted from furthering our cause? You respond with the sound of crickets.
It was during this period of 5+ years that GWB dabbled in Iraq that yes, OBL became less of a target. YOU have admitted this yourself in the past when you consistently point out that if we’re killing lieutenants, OBL doesn’t really matter - assuming he’s dwelling in a cave somewhere.
So when YOU say “It was…and is…an “active” pursuit to this day” you either know you are lying or you’ve just pulled your own noose a little tighter.
And I do note you put “active” in quotes. Is this so you can define your take on “active” as meaning “doing nothing” later?
8. So continuing under the Bush blueprint - we witness a surge in Iraq, while we witness no surge in the War on Terror. Why was that?
Was protecting the virginity of Iraqi women more important than protecting American lives on our soil?
In fact, was protecting Iraqis more important than protecting American service men and women at ANY of our facilities?
I will point out that under GWB’s watch, there were one hundred times more AQ attacks on Americans than during the Clinton watch. More American troops died under the GWB watch than the Clinton watch. This is a fact that I assume you’ll somehow attempt to spin in a future post.
9. And GWB’s ‘blueprint’ was to reduce the pressure on AQ and turn his attention to liberating another country - one that held no threat to America?
And you ask me if “lying a natural condition of yours?“
I point out the facts. I ask pertinent questions which you refuse to answer. You call me a liar and ‘un-American’ while the entire time you use this forum as a place to place GWB on a pedestal while making bookends of Clinton and Obama for the eight years of Bush failures.
So I in return ask you that which you asked me “I mean…is it compulsive, and something you can’t control…or do you actually aim to be as dishonest as you are?“
10. Today America faces a resurgent AQ in Afghanistan, a recognized Taliban-supported elected Afghan government, embolden attacks on American soil and a president NOW faced with a decision of continuing the Afghan-lite program of GWB or increasing our military presence in Afghanistan - to what end?
“It will never be wrapped up with a nice little bow, and a tag that says “the end” attached to it.“
And yet you continue to declare the War on Terror “won”. Using your earlier WWII analogy, I point out the Germans and Japanese also were ‘wonning’ in the early years of the war.
Now I love the fact you also continue to declare ‘victory’ over me. And you know, if your idea of ‘victory’ is continuing to tug on that rope you’ve tossed over the tree branch and tighten that noose around your neck, then hey, I’m rooting for your ongoing success.
“such a shallow, sheltered life of cowering in his parent’s basement den; hiding from all the terible boogymen right outside the front door; living on cheetos and playing computer games while fantasizing about being a real warrior who goes out and slaughters the islam terrorists by the truckloads;“
Ah man…it gets funnier and funnier to watch you two queen postulate about who I am and what I do for a living.
I can assure you…if you had any idea, you’d feel so phenomenally stupid for all of these desperate, witless grasps.
But I’m not like you two arrogant clowns, and I don’t use this forum as my personal diary.
I don’t need to…since, also unlike you two clowns, I have character…and friends…and a life.
So I keep my sh*t to myself. You prefer to let yours run down your legs for all to smell.
No thanks.
“Now, you don’t really need to answer because every intelligent person knows the answer is “yes”.“
Then clearly you know the answer to be “no”...because nobody’s ever accused you of being intelligent.
There are two giant elephants in the room that you can’t seem to see.
1. One President…that would be GWB…chose to fight the War on Terror, and fought it well during his tenure.
There is a mountain of evidence to support this…and you’ve said as much in saying that we are “winning” the War, whether OBL is alive or not.
Whether you think he went far enough or not, his administration had to deal with an AQ that had grown infinitely in strength and organization over the course of 8 surrenderous years…
Embloldened by the fact that Billy Jeff refused to defend us against their attacks, even when we were attacked repeatedly.
And further emboldened by the fact that the Sudan OFFERED OBL TO US on a silver platter…no strings attached…and we didn’t take him.
So…one President fought, and fought well.
The one before him did absolutely nothing.
And you’re here b*tching about the one that…as you say…led us to the point where we’re “winning”, as opposed to the one who did absolutely nothing but tuck tail and surrender.
How do you expect to be taken seriously in light of hypocrisy that grand? Really?
2. Throughout all of these pages, you have…and continue to…float the most lunacy-laden, crazy conspiracy theories that any sane person finds not only distasteful, but prima-facie evidence of mental illness on your part.
Such as…it was GWB’s fault that Hassan murdered Americans at Ft. Hood.
GWB wore a transmitting device during a nationally televised debate, with an earpiece in and Karl Rove on the other end of it.
GWB went AWOL.
OPEC slashed global oil prices because Bowing Barry…as a candidate…told everyone to pump up their tires.
All of this craziness has two things in common:
1. There’s absolutely no proof to back up any of it…making you look like an idiot every time you spout off about it.
2. Only the weakest, most suspeptible of minds could possibly believe such nonsense, much less have the total lack of sanity that would prompt posting of this craziness in a public forum.
Truly…how do you expect to be taken seriously after all the absolute lunacy you’ve manifested throughout these pages?
No need to bother with an answer…I know you won’t “man up” and admit when you get caught stepping out on lies and lunacy.
“I think a key problem here is your ongoing misuse of the word “won”. “
Actually, Pwanon is also misusing the word “we.“ I can readily understand that someone with such a shallow, sheltered life of cowering in his parent’s basement den; hiding from all the terible boogymen right outside the front door; living on cheetos and playing computer games while fantasizing about being a real warrior who goes out and slaughters the islam terrorists by the truckloads; would want to fantasize that they had a role in “defeating” terrorism. However, in the real world that normally sane people live in, Pwanon has had no moe of a role in “winning” the global war on terror than a goldfish.
Pwanon; leave saving the world to real men, and go back to fantasizing about having a life.
Or are you ready to enlist in the Army, and go fight AQ over there so you don’t have to fight them here - in your basement?
“You should’ve done that about 6 pages ago, and saved yourself a ton of embarrassment.“
Except you provide just too much entertainment value for myself and others.
I mean, how often do you get to watch someone such as yourself tie a rope around their neck, select a tall tree, toss the rope over a high branch and proceed to pull their own feet off the ground?
“We have won the War on Terror resoundingly since 9/11.“
I think a key problem here is your ongoing misuse of the word “won”. We may be ‘winning’ the war on terror, or we may have ‘the upper hand’ on the war on terror, but we clearly have not ‘won’ the war on terror if we are continuing to fight the war on terror.
Get it?
“At no point did anyone…least of all GWB…“give up” on finding/killing OBL. It was…and is…an “active” pursuit to this day.“
And thus I ask again - and you will refuse to answer again because it is your policy to NEVER admit defeat - ‘would we be further along in the War on Terror if GWB had not diverted our resources, attention and troops towards overthrowing Saddam, bogging us down for 5+ years in the Iraqi Civil War?
Now, you don’t really need to answer because every intelligent person knows the answer is “yes”.
““provided a comprehensive blueprint for how it should be fought” and when I summarize that blueprint, you tell me you didn’t say to follow the blueprint.“
Just out of curiousity…is lying a natural condition of yours?
I mean…is it compulsive, and something you can’t control…or do you actually aim to be as dishonest as you are?
At no point did anyone…least of all GWB…“give up” on finding/killing OBL. It was…and is…an “active” pursuit to this day.
To say so would be a fairly large denigration of the efforts of the brave men and women of our special forces, as well as the folks at the CIA.
Of course…OBL would likely be sitting in a cell somewhere in the United States had Billy Jeff taken him into custody when the Sudan OFFERED him to us with no strings attached.
So much for that blueprint, eh?
I know, I know…you won’t comment on that because you’re too much of a hypocrite to substantively comment on anything, preferring the road of rampant dishonesty and paper-thin rhetoric instead.
“And by following this blueprint, Bush ‘comprehensively won the War on Terror during his tenure in office’ yet “The War on Terror will be PERPETUAL” - I guess because it wasn’t won during his tenure in office.“
Again…how are you this absurdly incapable of understanding reality?
We have won the War on Terror resoundingly since 9/11.
This is demonstrated in any number of ways…not the least of which is that until a Muslim madman started shooting on a military base 10 months after GWB left office, no Muslims had attacked us here since 9.11.
Sorry that smashing AQ into a million little pieces, marginalizing their leader, destoroying their base of operations, killing/capturing the vast majority of their senior leadership, and preventing any further attacks on our soil isn’t good enough for you.
It’s good enough for anyone with half a brain and the slightest shred of care for this country, so clearly…it wouldn’t be good enough for you, since you lack both.
Muslim terrorism is not going away. It will be around…and be dangerous…as long as Islam is in existence.
Thus…it is a perpetual threat, and one that we can only remain vigilant about and aggressive towards in perpetuity.
It will never be wrapped up with a nice little bow, and a tag that says “the end” attached to it.
Only the most fantastic of idiots…like you…would even conceive of such a ridiculous notion.
Please…don’t give up.
Keep grasping for air. It’s so phenomenally entertaining that I can hardly set aside the sadness in watching a grown man drown like a passenger in Teddy Manslaughter’s drunkenly driven car.
“I give up.“
You should’ve done that about 6 pages ago, and saved yourself a ton of embarrassment.
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