Like whenever they talk about “censorship”, that’s just a coverup for their blackops campaign of real government censorship.

you beat me to my point. We have been beholden to the left in this country for a long while now; we have so gotten used to self-censorship in so many ways we dont even realize we are doing it. In the larger political arena, self-censorship is not the right phrase, but pre-emptive obediance comes closer; Republicans routinely, even reflexively, check their political impulses based on the likely outcry sure to come from the left. This goes beyond what could be considered normal political give and take, since the liberal’s patrimony is from the hard left, and dare I say it, the communist front oganizations that are still to this day operating with impunity within our borders, ready to flare up at any the least provocation. This stops a lot of action from the Republicans, I assure you. Preemption indeed.

PS Merry Christmas

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22956_Rushdie_on_the_Religion_of_Peace&only

Within this Talibanist morality, there is room for great slabs of delusion and hypocrisy. In Shalimar the Clown, Rushdie shows sparingly how the jihadi fighters of Afghanistan have sex with adolescent boys, and the next day chop to pieces men they have dubbed “homosexual”. “One of the great untold stories of al-Qa’ida is that they are all these men who f-ck little boys. They all have these disciples who they’re ostensibly training in the way of the warrior, but they’re also enjoying. For a while, then they go off – and they have their wives and families at home. It’s like Classical Greece.” Does he think Osama bin Laden has done it? “I wouldn’t like to say,” he says tactfully. “He’s an Arab, he’s not an Afghan. But Mullah Omar, he’s another story…”

He senses soft racism in the refusal to see Islamic fundamentalists for what they are. When looking at the Christian fundamentalists of the United States, most people see an autonomous movement of superstitious madmen. But when they look at their Islamic equivalents, they assume they cannot mean what they say. “One of the things that’s commonly said by Islamists is that it’s acceptable to bomb a disco, because a disco is a place where people are behaving in a disgusting way. Go away and die – that’s all bin Laden wants you to do. It’s not just about Iraq, it’s about ham sandwiches and kissing in public places and sex with girls you’re not married to.” He pauses. “It’s about life.”

It pretty much backs up the thesis that the Islamic Jihad don’t see penetration of boys by men, as homosexual sex. Only if you are the one in the subservial, role, do you become ‘homosexual’. Thus we have power complexes all over again.

It also explains a little bit of why Iran’s mullahs back a lot of weird pedophilia behavior with their fatwahs. Iran isn’t Arab. For one reason or another, the place where Islam originated, Arabia, translates Islamic beliefs into something separate than the places that they conquered.

Sort of like the differences between Britain and America, in a way.

The military calls hostile territory “Indian country”. Places where you need to remain vigilant, or suffer the consequences.

It ain’t the World Wide Jihad for nothing.

The one place that is safer than usual, would be around American bases in Germany. You get the benefit of German hospitality, with the knowledge that there is at least backup somewhere away. The Germans as a culture is very orderly. It serves as a buffer against chaos. Batten Wurtemburg is a good place, just make sure to stay away from the rich folks. But not even the military will protect you if you go off alone. Salamander recently wrote about a female white Major who was alone in that Asian country that begins with a K, or thereabouts, and disappeared off the face of the earth. Also an American soldier and his wife was enroute back to their base in a South American island/country, and they were stopped by the local police, seized, interrogated, beaten, and then had to walk back to their base.

As Salamander said. The world is a cruel place and it has always been a cruel place. Bush ain’t going to kill nobody, to force anyone to release an American, that is for sure. Until he does, there are no safety nets in this game.

P.S. got curious so I looked up this map about ami bases in germany

http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/infocus/bases/map_interactive.html

Although having said that, in the spring of 1975 I emerged from the Green Park tube station one morning, walked about eighty yards westwards to go look at the then brand-new Jaguar XJ-S in the dealership window overlooking Piccadilly, and the damn tube station exploded behind me, thanks to some of my Irish cousins.

Being Irish myself, of course, I’d have been severely pissed off had I been caught in the bombing.

The point is, the world has not at any time been an outstandingly safe place, but having been around a fair piece of it, I have arrived at one conclusion (and I arrived at this conclusion decades ago, having ridden elevators that hadn’t been inspected since the day they were installed that broke; watched rusted bolts fall out of the Eiffel Tower: witnessed the chaotic ineptitude of Italian ambulance crews at a car crash; noticed a cable car cable unraveling in Venezuela, etc., etc.) (Judyrose would love that sentence!) and that conclusion is: when you leave the USA, you are on your own. You cannot count on the idea that they – any of them – have inspected, repaired, or maintained anything; you cannnot count on any of them – police, fire or ambulance personnel – having been more than cursorily trained or equipped; and you cannot depend on anyone reacting to any emergency in a manner that you would regard as consistent with your expectations.

Throw Islamofacism and the current climate of obdurate political correctness into that mix, and I say again: I would not visit London or Paris right now if they were across the street. London is not the London that you visualize in your mind’s eye anymore, and Paris never was.

Our son lives in southern France (don’t ask) and the last time we were there only weeks before 9/11 was so uncomfortable that we practically kissed the ground around the British Air desk at the Montpellier airport. For instance, we found a cigarette stub inside an empty suitcase in our hotel room. Neither of us smoke????!!!!

France is loaded with angry Moslem men and boys (women and girl children are never in sight), most of whom are citizens of la Belle and since they don’t work, they had the leisure time to hang around and stare at us with hate filled eyes. At that time, there was no overt violence, but we couldn’t wait to get out of there.

We haven’t been to England since they have been taken over by the RoP and have desire to do so. Last time we were in Scotland, they hadn’t begun to cower like cowards in front of the practitioners of the RoP, so had a wonderful time. We drove around the British Isles extensively and enjoyed the sights and the hospitality of the people.

However, That was then and this is now.

There’s so much to see in the U.S. of A. that one need never leave our borders for a wondrous vacation. It funny that liberals disdain U.S. vacations as they do almost all of American culture. Of course, they’re wrong about this just like they’re wrong about everything else.

If you haven’t already, take the kids to the big parks, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, also the great Salt Lake area, the mesas, the canyons, the immense caves, the painted desert, the badlands, pueblo and other Indians sites. Every area of our country has wonders to behold like great cities and museums, the Big Apple alone is worth a week or two and don’t forget the eastern mountains and the changing of the leaves, the rugged coast of Maine and the unbelievably beautiful beaches and bluffs of Block Island. In fact all the many thousands of miles of coast line offers open beaches to delight the eye, and our southern waters are warm enough to swim in the year round.

Want to go out of the country, visit the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise and Jasper and the glaciers. We loved Calgary which is nestled up against the mountains. We also liked touring around Mexico, but right now I wouldn’t test their political stability. We drove from Laredo to Guadalajara passing unbelievably beautiful scenery from the moonscape near Zacatecas to the wonderful little town of Colima which is so charming, we had to actually force ourselves to continue to trip.

Lots to see in our hemisphere.

Do not go to Europe, or London. Unless you are picking up family members to bring back to the states, permanently. If you must, bring along people that you trust and that can defend themselves and you if required.

I don’t personally give a damn about the philosophical reasons, I would prefer you not go because it isn’t safe. Anyone traveling beyond the continental United States, is taking their life in their hands.

You can read the rest of the article here. The phrase “preemptive obedience” applies perfectly to a situation in which a teacher and a school reacted so violently to anti-Islamist perceived insult that they sicced the police on a child, even though it does not appear that the “Asian” students themselves objected.

Those with power live and prosper, those without… attempt to survive as they may. Every time and everywhere, it is true, true, and true.

They want to win.

But they don’t got the firepower that we do, do they?

I certainly know I’m reminded of that cold, dark, drab place, and it makes me shudder to think it may one day be my home.

They’ll have to annihilate the entire Marine Corps first. It can be done, but they aren’t going to be able to do it without consequence.