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cyranoMaking more curry--updates on that later, I'm certain.
Silent Bob is also thwarted by my lack of sneakers.
LJ user phillipalden posted this article from News Day about a terrorist attack on a building in Iowa that didn't make the news. I sure didn't see anything about it, anyway. These are people who hate us, who want to see us dead. They have organized, in the name of a bloodthirsty violent god, to commit violence and threaten violence in order to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. There is no reasoning with them. According to my government, this means that I am not just authorized but downright morally obligated to bring that violence back down upon their heads.
But I'm probably not going to go out and buy a gun so that I can put a bullet in Clayton Waagner's twisted and unChristian brain. I will instead rely on the laws upon which this nation was founded and which give this country the potential to be a pillar of freedom, democracy and liberty to arrest him, try him in a court where he is presented with the evidence and testimony against him, allow him to testify in his own defence and dig himself into a giant hole, and then convict him and put him in a small metal box for the rest of his life.
I guess that makes me a cowardly CutAndRunoCrat.
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Edited to add a link to phillipalden's next post in which he writes his own words about the future. He has a lot more faith in it than I do, but I hope he's right and I'm wrong.
Silent Bob is also thwarted by my lack of sneakers.
LJ user phillipalden posted this article from News Day about a terrorist attack on a building in Iowa that didn't make the news. I sure didn't see anything about it, anyway. These are people who hate us, who want to see us dead. They have organized, in the name of a bloodthirsty violent god, to commit violence and threaten violence in order to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. There is no reasoning with them. According to my government, this means that I am not just authorized but downright morally obligated to bring that violence back down upon their heads.
But I'm probably not going to go out and buy a gun so that I can put a bullet in Clayton Waagner's twisted and unChristian brain. I will instead rely on the laws upon which this nation was founded and which give this country the potential to be a pillar of freedom, democracy and liberty to arrest him, try him in a court where he is presented with the evidence and testimony against him, allow him to testify in his own defence and dig himself into a giant hole, and then convict him and put him in a small metal box for the rest of his life.
I guess that makes me a cowardly CutAndRunoCrat.
EDIT:
Edited to add a link to phillipalden's next post in which he writes his own words about the future. He has a lot more faith in it than I do, but I hope he's right and I'm wrong.
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Ahem. It's "back up two spaces and lose your FUCKING turn".
Date: 2006-10-30 11:09 pm (UTC)It's a little like all the folks who decide they won't consider what any blogs have to say because blogs sometimes use dirty words. "Yes, I'd agree with you, BUT you used that word. I can't listen any more, because you used the wrong word, so nothing else you say could possibly matter."
"Casualty" continues the metaphor of "war". You can quibble with the use of metaphor in the article, but once you accept that the author calls this a "war", those injured by the prosecution of the war (and a bomb threat is an injury by any reasonable definition of the word) are casualties.
Stopping reading just because a metaphorical "war" has metaphorical "casualties" smacks of wanting an excuse not to listen. Maybe that's not who you are -- but the dismissal of an article on the basis of one word used to extend a metaphor? Did you vote for Nader? :) :)