See Dubya: The Evil Wheel Gets the Liberal Grease
If Terri Schiavo had been dehydrated to death at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Dick Durbin would be reading her autopsy report from the Senate floor.
So writes George Neumayr in the American Spectator. He’s bringing it around to this:
The Democrats, many of the same ones who lounge about at Special Olympics events until the photographers have left, are calling for larger portion sizes for terrorists while cutting off food and water to humans they all but call blind, deaf, and dumb. The evil always have a better chance of surviving under the ministrations of liberalism than the ill.
In fact, being evil is a good way to enhance your treatment at the hands of liberalism. Terri Schiavo had no recourse to the Geneva Conventions. But terrorists at Guantanamo Bay do. Protections extended to criminals are disappearing rapidly for the disabled as Democrats like Dick Durbin assign to an army that has saved the lives of millions a culture of death that they themselves spread.
The bolded portion is especially important. Liberalism presumes the best about people and creates systems that the evil can easily exploit. Conservatism assumes–in accordance with religious teaching, tradition, and eons of painful experience–that people are self-interested greedy bastards one step away from blood-flecked anarchy, and creates a system to channel those base desires into a world in which good can prosper.
If the government gave Bibles to schools, Durbin would have a heart attack on the Senate floor. But when the government, with our money, gives Qurans to Jihadists, Durbin is happy. Turban Durbin! Shame on you.
On a lighter note Wow. I thought on-site hands-on reporting was dead. Hmmm, maybe CNN, MSNBC and the networks (liberal mouthpieces that clamor for our soldiers to lose, first feel ashamed (I don’t believe) and second learn to report, instead of spew anti-patriotic propaganda.
On a lighter note, this is hillarious post – “Larry King, A Serial Husband, A Monogamous Polygamist, and the joys of Multiple Fatherhood.”
He has been married seven times with 6 kids and got some stupid “National Father’s award.” haha
http://satire.myblogsite.com/blog
David (03f14c) — 6/16/2005 @ 11:48 pm“If Terri Schiavo had been dehydrated to death at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Dick Durbin would be reading her autopsy report from the Senate floor.”
How hard does one have to look to pretend not to see the difference?
actus (3be069) — 6/17/2005 @ 5:14 amAs evil as those at Guantanamo are, they were never caught in battle, nor has any probable cause been shown for their detention.
So I guess a GB prisoner is evil first and foremost and thus deserving of torture, with no more than the possibility that he actually might have committed an act of war and/or a crime?
Forgive me, but Terry Schiavo is a drop in the bucket. The vaunted distinction between severe brain injury and the unprovable PVS is ultimately one of degree.
Labels of good and evil are not substitutes for judgement and adherence to the law.
biwah (f5ca22) — 6/17/2005 @ 6:49 am“How hard does one have to look to pretend not to see the difference?”
I don’t know, it seems about as illogical as the “If you’re so pro-life, why are you against the death penalty!?!” line.
Angry Clam (f05866) — 6/17/2005 @ 8:23 am““If you’re so pro-life, why are you against the death penalty!?!””
I’ve always thought that line as an attack on the simplisticness of hte “pro-life” moniker, rather than a substantive attack on people’s position.
actus (cd484e) — 6/17/2005 @ 8:29 amYou don’t know the smug idiots that I do.
Plus, “pro-choice?” If we want to get into simplistic and idiotically confusing labels, that’s it.
Angry Clam (f05866) — 6/17/2005 @ 9:18 amHey, biwah, those at Guantanomo were caught in battle or in other acts of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and in other places. There is probable cause to hold them, since they are illegal combatants, that is, not in uniform and/or not fighting under the flag of a government. As such, the Geneva Conventions do not apply, since you have to be in uniform and/or fighting under the flag of a government in order to be given POW status. No one has to show you probable cause. Islamic fascists started this war in the 1970’s. We are only now fighting back.
Again, the Geneva Conventions do not apply to spies and terrorists. Speaking of torture, what do you call beheading hostages or captured soldiers? From what I have seen, the detainees are being treated quite humanely, and the interrogation techniques are among the most mild in military history.
Charles D. Quarles (593219) — 6/17/2005 @ 10:22 am