Actually….while it was a gun that ended their lives….it was something much more dangerous that actually killed them. This weapon is stealthy and more evil than any gun. It’s something that is too often ignored and not only kills people, but also causes people to lose their jobs and can completely ruin a business. It has invaded our country in an epidemic that makes the Bubonic Plague look like a minor case of the sniffles.
So what is this evil that I am speaking of?......It’s Political Correctness.
Political Correctness by definition is “a term denoting language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social offense in gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, handicap, and age-related contexts”
That’s obviously an academic definition and not a “real world” definition….because that definition makes political correctness seem as if it is a good thing. (remember what I said about it being “stealthy”) The key to modern-day political correctness is however found in the definition….”seeking to minimize social offence” . While on the surface, most people might say…”I don’t want to offend anyone”….what really happens, is that we try so hard not to offend someone, that in the process we offend a LOT of people….or worse yet, in the case of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack…..we see people killed. All in the name of “seeking to minimize social offence”.
While President Obama made an attempt to sound “presidential” in his remarks at the Ft. Hood memorial, he stopped short of calling the shooter what he was….A TERRORIST. Now before you jump up and tell me that he was just following his own advice…..(You know the advice that he gave on the day of the shooting where he said “We don’t know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts”) .....let me say..."Yeah I'm sure that’s what it was….he didn’t want to jump to any conclusions, before he had the facts". That is admirable…..but it is only admirable when you are consistent in its application. What about the episode where one of his Harvard professor buddies was arrested by police who were responding to a 911 call at a home….you know the one where someone reported that there were two men breaking into a house?.....Do you remember what he said following that incident?.....here are HIS words….(I have highlighted certain parts)
“Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
So let me get this right….(stay with me because I’m not very smart) A professor (friend) is arrested for what was reported to be a break-in….the police respond and do their job….no one is physically hurt…you don’t have the FACTS (by your own admission)…..and yet, it’s ok to make a public proclamation that the “police acted stupidly”? Did I get that right?......BUT….on the other hand…here is a guy that has killed 13 people and injured 43….while yelling “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire…..and we are told not to “jump to any conclusions”….before we have all the facts. Why? Political Correctness…..we don’t want to offend any Islamic Extremist Terrorists….We can offend thousands of police officers by calling them stupid without any facts to base that on….but not a Jihadist who kills 13 people…Yeah, that makes sense.
Now I know that someone is saying right about now….“well it was the first day and the president didn’t know the facts” (even though we know that lack of facts don’t really matter when its comes to making a statement about white police officers arresting a black man)….but let’s let that one slide….But what about the day of the memorial….I’m guessing that as president….you have pretty good access to the facts…(just a guess on my part though)…With all of the facts that had come out about the shooter and his ties to radical Islam….why was there still no statement about terrorism? Here’s what President Obama said at the Ft. Hood memorial “They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great American community. It is this fact that makes the tragedy even more painful and even more incomprehensible” …..First of all, it was NOT just a “tragedy”, it was an act of terrorism. Secondly, with the facts that were in, just up to that point….what was “incomprehensible” about it?....The shooter was (by his own admission)… a “Muslim first and an American second”…..He had told colleagues that “Muslims should rise up against American aggressors”….It was a fact that he did not want to go to Afghanistan and kill Muslims…(although, as a psychiatrist, it’s not likely that he would have been asked to kill anyone)….although it was obvious that he was ok with killing fellow American soldiers….. It is a fact that he had several contacts with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam overseas who has come under scrutiny for possible links to terror groups as well as a "spiritual adviser" to three of the 9/11 hijackers. It is a fact that he made numerous statements to colleagues regarding his radical Muslim views. The Washington Post reported on its web site that “Hasan turned a medical presentation at Walter Reed into a rant on Islam in late 2007”. The same article also reported that “colleagues at Fort Hood said they had complained to higher-ups that Hasan was anti-American”. So tell me again what was incomprehensible…..For God’s sake…he was a terrorist….just admit it….(just a note to Obama’s speech writers: you don’t have to fly an airplane into a building to be considered a terrorist)….
But it’s not just Obama who is tripping over himself to be “politically correct”. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said the following on CNN’s “State of the Union”….”frankly, I am worried — not worried, but I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that. It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well”. Yeah as a General in the Army…and certainly as the Army Chief of Staff….my number one concern would be that our diversity could become a casualty….13 unarmed soldiers at an Army Base….not so much….but the death of diversity would certainly be a tragedy.
We are dancing around the issue of Islamic terrorists who want to kill Americans…..like a 5 year old doing the pee-pee dance. We will make this killer a victim, because of “religious persecution”, rather than call it what it is…..TERRORISM. I am certainly not saying that ALL Muslims are terrorists. However…please read carefully….If Islam is really a “religion of peace”, like we are told to believe….then where are the leaders of this peaceful religion, who should be standing up and calling for an end to this type of thing? They’re simply not there. When some idiot, so-called Christian kills an abortion doctor….while it didn’t take long for the media to point out his “Christianity”….it also didn’t take long for Christian leaders to stand up and say that this type of thing is NOT acceptable. So where are the Muslim leaders who should be doing the same thing? When are we going to stop this nonsense and call things what they really are.....I think that as long as our “leaders” are not willing to call a terrorist a terrorist (even though the evidence is there)…..and as long as we as citizens are afraid of being called a racist....as long as we afraid of being be sued...or worse yet....afraid of being charged with a "hate crime" for speaking up when we suspect someone might be plotting something like the Ft Hood terrorist attack….then nothing will change…..and we will continue to see this type of thing happen again and again. That kind of fear only means one thing....the terrorists have succeeded, by definition, at what they set out to do.........Then Again….That’s Just Me
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