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2005-12-10 Fifth Column

StrategyPage: Torture, Lawfare and Television

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Posted by ed 2005-12-10 19:24|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ed,

Your last comment is dead on. From what I've been reading the U.S. military now in Iraq generally despises the few "embeds" that have been willing to go out with them due to the left-wing anti-US slant they put on everything they write. It's a really, really, really bad sign when the people who defend a society begin to hold great segments of it in contempt.

As for lawfare, chalk that one up as another pernicious effect of multiculturalism. As I recently read, nothing in a multiculti society can be "left unsaid" because there is no common societal background that imparts the same values and behaviors to all segments. In a multiculti society varying ethnic and religious groups have nothing more than a legal relationship with one another and everything has to be spelled out. Consequently, laws that were passed prior to the multiculti infection can be and are being used to the great detriment of the country as a whole. My opinion is that this will get worse before it gets better and that part of the cure will be the violent suppression of the ACLU.

As I've written here before, I remember hearing that one of the signs that American culture has irretrievably fractured is when an ACLU office somewhere gets firebombed and the local fire department refuses to respond. I really don't think we're too far from that point right now.

There was a book twenty or so years ago that asked what one would say or do if one happened to see police raiding the NYT and hauling editors and writers off to jail. At the time I read the book I thought I would be very alarmed at seeing such a thing. Now, were I to see such an act, I'd fervently cheer the police on in hopes that the NYT staff were finally going to face the charges of treason I believe they fully merit. I'd personally love to see Pinch, Bob Herbert, MoDo, and the rest of their US-hating ilk doing a perp walk to the Black Marias on 42nd St.

Posted by mac 2005-12-10 22:00|| 2005-12-10 22:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I saw that episode of L&O CI. It sucked and swallowed! Moreso then Usureal. Never again.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-12-10 22:57|| 2005-12-10 22:57|| Front Page Top

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