Fighting the War on Error

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
- Political & Social Activist Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)

Monday, April 02, 2007

Michelle Malkin is wack

Every once in a while, I run across something so good, I just have to copy/paste it to my blog and bring it to you with simply a few comments, and this is one of them.

Michelle Malkin is one of the premiere right-wing fear and hate mongers in America today, but this piece from her Website is one of her "best" pieces of work yet. Take a read...

Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,
You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.

I am John Doe.

I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.

I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.

I am John Doe.

I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.

I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda [sic] shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.

I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.

I will act when homeland security officials ask me to "report suspicious activity."

I will embrace my local police department’s admonition: "If you see something, say something."

I am John Doe.

I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing "scholars."

I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders.

I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.

I will challenge your attempts to indoctrinate my children in our schools.

I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.

I am John Doe.

I will support law enforcement initiatives to spy on your operatives, cut off your funding, and disrupt your murderous conspiracies.

I will oppose all attempts to undermine our borders and immigration laws.

I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.

I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.

I will not be cowed by your Beltway lobbying groups in moderate clothing. I will not cringe when you shriek about "profiling” or "Islamophobia."

I will put my family’s safety above sensitivity. I will put my country above multiculturalism.

I will not submit to your will. I will not be intimidated.

I am John Doe.
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Now, take a read at what Jesus' Patriot put on his Website as a response to Malkin. I wish I could say that I authored this piece, because it's simply brilliant:

Michelle Malkin
Out Lady of Concentration Camps


Dear Mrs. Malkin,

Although I enjoyed your (Jesse's?) "I am John Doe" piece, I think you held back a little bit. I reworked it to make your point a little more clearly.


Dear traitorous Brownislamunistofascist, Homoislamunistofascist, Femislamunistofascist, Poorislamunistofascist, JehovahWitnessislamunististfascist, Hebrislamunistofascist, and/or Libislamunistofascist,

You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.

I am Michelle's hood.

I am tucked away in your neighbor's sock drawer, your boss's personnel files, and your Republican National Committee's campaign playbooks.

Talk radio hosts wear me in their studios. Columnists stroke my soft white cotton for inspiration. Pundits use me in lieu of Viagra.

I'm part of the official uniform of the Washington Times and the unofficial uniform of the National Review, Fox News, and ABC Radio. Mickey Mouse wears me to Disney board meetings.

I am Marty Peretz's muse and Lou Dobbs's raison d’etre.

I am Michelle's hood.

My owners will never forget the shame they felt when a brown man was promoted over them, when a homosexual tricked them into arousal, when a feminist convinced their wives that they were equals.

They will never forget that Jews don't love Jesus, that Jehovah's Witnesses are cultists, that the poor are just lazy, and that liberals are traitors.

I am Michelle's hood.

I serve as a symbol of conservative values.

I motivate Republican voters.

I inspire Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity, and Michelle.

I am Michelle's hood.

I will be with those who racially profile.

I will be with those who torture. Link

I will be with those who spy on our citizens.

I will be with those who lynch homosexuals.

I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.

I will not submit to your concepts of decency. I will not be intimidated.

I am Michelle's hood.

Well, that's it. I think it makes your point much more clearly. I hope you'll consider using it.

Heterosexually yours in a chaste and biblically appropriate kind of way,
Gen. JC Christian patriot.
So, there you have it, straight from Jesus' General. If you haven't checked out his Website, get there when you have a spare half hour. You'll need it, because you won't be able to visit it for just a few minutes.

It's people like Malkin who make me frightened for the future of our country. Not her specifically, because she's simply a hysterical lunatic, but people who follow and listen to her and actually believe this garbage. She must have some sort of following, or she wouldn't have the fame and notoriety she enjoys. I'm guessing her followers are just like Ann Coulter's - horny, white male Republican sheep who can't think for themselves, watch Fox News like it's some sort of religion, and who blindly utter "Support the Troops" and have bumper stickers that read "As for me, I stand with my President, George W. Bush."

Like Coulter, it's frightening to me that someone with these messages can gain any traction in American, but so it goes. Malkin is the hotter Coulter, but they are both ugly lepers on the inside.

Her blatant, overt jingoism and xenophobia add nothing to our political discourse, other than to stir up hate.

I quote retired General Tommy Franks, who said following 9-11:

"If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. [again] or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. The Western world, the free world, would lose what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."

I'll take the word of Tommy Franks over the shrill voice of a Republican hack like Malkin.

Should we be vigilant? Absolutely. But, if Malkin were so concerned with Homeland Security, she'd be writing letters to the leaders of this administration and Congress, who have seen fit to sell the American people short when it comes to protecting us. All one has to do is walk around any large American city to see where the deficiencies lie, and there are many.

Any American who wants to discriminate against a foreign national in the name of homeland security is easily duped; these are probably the same people who readily concur that individual Welfare is a big problem in our country, all the while ignoring corporate welfare, which costs the U.S. Treasury hundreds of billions every year.

Malkin tries to tap into the collective psyche of hateful, narrow-minded people who would rather be angry at an Arab (these people probably call them rag heads) than at our government, which, it bears repeating, has done appallingly little to protect us.

But, Dick Cheney wouldn't have you believe this - he's constantly on television, bragging that there hasn't been another attack since 9-11. Honestly, I attribute that to luck more than anything else.

Our enemies sure must be stupid, we have so many flaws and holes in our homeland security.

Heaven help us if they ever wake up and get smart.

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Major hat tip to Crooks & Liars and Jesus' General for Malkin's letter, Jesus' response, and the pictures in this post

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