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June 10, 2005
The Fruits of Fruitcake Ideologies
It may seem that the cartoonishly hyperbolic and utterly groundless anti-American rhetoric spewed by privileged liberal elite phonies through our media and universities — although it often harmonizes perfectly with the harangues used to motivate their unlikely allies, Islamofascist terrorists — is just a lot of harmless noise. Maybe an imam in the Middle East can use down-with-America diatribes to turn young men into homicidal maniacs, but over here, it's just a pose, right?
Right — and wrong.
Many grown adults who continue to cling to the adolescent ideology of the Left need to lean on irony. But even if they can look you in the face and tell you that 9/11 was about the "haves and have-nots" without smirking, there's not much chance they'll give up their Club Med vacations for stints at terrorist training camps, if only because deep down most of them know that their point of view is a fashion accessory, and if The New Yorker changed its editorial policy, their professed beliefs would quickly follow suit.
But teenagers don't have the balance and perspective that comes with accepting yourself as a total fraud. When they adopt a pose, they are likely to think it's real. So when you force-feed the young a constant diet of anti-American propaganda — as our media and schools do — the troubles and confusion that often accompany the adolescent years can result in a very dangerous sociopathology that might last into adulthood with disastrous results.
Take the case of Adam Gadahn — the demon offspring of tie-dyed moonbattery and radical Islam. Without these corrosive ideologies, he might have been just another messed-up kid who eventually got his act together. Instead he turned out to be a monster — a breed of monster we may be seeing more of in the future.
Apparently the same person now known as "Azzam the American," Gadahn was born Adam Pearlman, the son of a 1960s psychedelic musician. He was raised on an Orange County goat farm.
At the age of 17, he traded heavy metal and Christianity for Islam. The local mosque booted him out for attacking an employee, but he apparently found Muslims closer to his own wavelength when he left the USA for Pakistan, where he was associated with al Qaeda honcho Abu Zubaydah. He attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Here's some of the wisdom Gadahn shared with the world in a video obtained by ABC News:
After decades of American tyranny and oppression, now it's your turn to die. Allah willing, the streets of America will run red with blood matching drop for drop the blood of America's victims.
Noam Chomsky meets Osama bin Laden.
"He's so angry at the United States, that he's obligated to seek revenge," said former FBI agent Jack Cloonan.
Not knowing what earthly reason he would have to be so angry at the USA, I can only guess that the anger came first, then came the channeling of that anger against America, which made him prime recruiting material for radical Islam. The world is always going to have its shared of pissed-off young men with too much testosterone and not enough self-esteem. Now instead of getting mad at their parents or teachers and maybe dropping out of school, they can apply their anger to something grand: hatred of America. Instead of a loser dropout you have a loser terrorist, one who might end up setting loose the biological agent that kills half the country.
Maybe this analysis is off the mark with Gadahn. I'll admit I'm making some assumptions. But if it doesn't fit him, I'll bet it fits others. Remember Johnny Taliban — who was first drawn to Islam by moonbat icon Spike Lee's Malcolm X?
Anti-Americanism is just a fashionable pose to some. But we shouldn't forget that there are people who will take the Michael Moore rhetoric seriously. It's not hard for moonbattery to escalate from a mild sickness to a deadly disease.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 10, 2005 7:10 AM
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Anti-Americanism, or Anti-Stop Telling Us Lies? Michael Moore may have made some stretches, but there were some facts included, which is more than one can say about the prevarications spewed forth by the Republican machine. Count the bodies like sheep to the rythym of the war drums.
Posted by: Rob B. at June 10, 2005 12:01 PM
Wow, Rob...so you think that someone joing al-Qaeda and striving to kill Americans doesn't qualify as "anti-Americanism"? Isn't that the epitome of anti-Americanism? That sort of deluded reasoning doesn't really shock me so much as sicken me.
Posted by: Josh at June 10, 2005 12:44 PM
Rob: the only sheep I see are the liberal kind, bleeting selfrighteously in a language I don't understand, with their heads deep in the government food trough and thus oblivious to the approaching tornado that will destroy both them AND the farm.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at June 10, 2005 1:13 PM
I was referring to "Anti Americanism" that translates into "that's not the way we see it" mindset of the right, not the killing of Americans. What this kid has done is wrong, not only because it involves 'Muricans, because it involves killing.
Who specifically has their heads in the government food trough, besides the no-bid contractors and friends of the GOP?
Posted by: Rob B. at June 10, 2005 1:26 PM
Rob's worldwview basically boils down to: "Everyone who disagrees with me is a liar." So, trying to talk sensibly and point out facts to him is wasted effort.
Posted by: V the K at June 10, 2005 1:45 PM
What this kid has done is wrong, not only because it involves 'Muricans, because it involves killing.
But it involving Americans would alone suffice - right?
Posted by: Occam's Beard at June 10, 2005 2:01 PM
The best thing about liberals and anti-corporate types is that they are afraid of guns. A friend of mine in Olympia Washington (Rachel Corrie land) told me once of the revolution going on there. I countered him with the fact that the neo-nazi white pride groups in the woods outside of Seattle are the only real revolutionaries because they have guns and the will to use them. He said that the moonbat revolution will come with mass protest, I told him protesters can be silenced with bullets. It certainly gave him food for thought.
Posted by: AG at June 10, 2005 2:12 PM
The idea that you believe you HAVE facts is a wasted effort, VtheK. It's as if what you hear from the figureheads MUST be true, they said it.
Nice AG, at least you are of the same mindset as your leader; "If they don't like it, shoot 'em". Are you sure you're not really one of the Libertarian "Guns for Tots" meatheads?
Posted by: Rob B. at June 10, 2005 3:59 PM
AG, you are scary. So anyone who disagrees with you is game for a shooting gallery? I'd much rather have the "anyone who doesn't agree with me is a liar" reputation to be honest.
I must say that if you don't like what your children are learning in school, there are numerous conservative private schools to send them to. If you don't like the media, then don't support it. Stop reading newspapers, stop watching television.
Posted by: Brandon at June 10, 2005 4:17 PM
Fortunately, the scenario AG posits will never be realized, nor is it exactly accurate. I can't envision an armed group of far-right militia-types wading into a hippie circle jerk guns blazing, though similar things have happened in other countries where such violent recourse is the norm. On a foray into Democratic Underwear on November 4, I read so many calls to arms and revolution that I literally stayed near or carried my gun for the next 3 weeks. No, if anyone in this country adopts the doctrine of revolution and disruption, it will be the anarchist left...
And Rob...if that were true ("If you don't like em, shoot em"), you'd have been dispatched with a bullet in the ear long ago, as probably would most of the population of earth. Logical reasoning is fun.
Posted by: Josh at June 10, 2005 4:29 PM
I really doubt AG is advocating shooting anyone, but only pointing out how full of nothing left-wing "revolutionaries" are. Although I certainly wish he wouldn't give moonbats the idea of playing with guns.
Posted by: Van Helsing at June 10, 2005 4:33 PM
It's as if what you hear from the figureheads MUST be true, they said it.
And with your crowd, it's "If the voices in my head say it, it must be true."
Posted by: V the K at June 10, 2005 6:37 PM
"And Rob...if that were true ("If you don't like em, shoot em"), you'd have been dispatched with a bullet in the ear long ago, as probably would most of the population of earth. Logical reasoning is fun"
At least you are aware that most of the population on earth is opposition to your right wing nut job club.
Posted by: Rob B. at June 10, 2005 9:21 PM
Remember what I said about logical reasoning? Well, logical reasoning would tell you that no one likes everyone else they coexist with. Therefore, your statement of "If you don't like em, shoot em" would yield a vast amount of people killing a vast amount of people killing a vast amount of...do you get it yet? Or are you simply a stark, raving idiot? Wait, I know that answer already...
Posted by: Josh at June 10, 2005 10:26 PM
I'm surprised any of you wingnuts can coexist; how do you remember the most recent lie to trot out?
Posted by: Rob B. at June 11, 2005 10:47 AM
"I can only guess that the anger came first, then came the channeling of that anger against America, which made him prime recruiting material for radical Islam."
VH, that analysis did not hit me the first time I read it. I think you are exactly right, it leaves the young who are angry for any reason open to the far left. The left is good at recognizing any anger in the young and exploiting it.
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at June 12, 2005 10:57 AM
