Fit to be Fried

In my last post in this series, I laid a little knowledge on you about the Military-Industrial-Complex and the Nanny/Welfare-State, and in this post, I’ll explain how this ties in with my original point, which was to lay bare the diminishing “American Spirit”, and to explain where it went.

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For someone so keen on going to war with radical Islamic terrorists (and yes, that’s what we’re doing, it’s not like we’re tangling with the IRA or the KKK in the “International War on Terror”), President Bush seems to enjoy nothing better than stabbing his own troops in the back to curry favor with radical Islamists. One of our boys had been using a Koran for sniper practice, and instead of standing up for him, our esteemed Commander in Chief has promised that this soldier will be punished. For shooting a BOOK and offending the muslim community. He didn’t hurt any civillians, the incident is unrelated to any raid, and has nothing to do with anything that could be perceived as a war crime. We had an acronym that summed this sort of thing quite well, while I was in Iraq- BOHICA: Bend over, here it comes again…

Two civilians and a Nato soldier have been killed in Afghanistan during a demonstration over the shooting of the Koran by a US soldier in Iraq. The protest by over 1,000 people in Chagcharan turned violent after the crowd tried to storm a Nato base. President Bush apologised earlier this week for the Koran incident, in which a copy of the book was found riddled with bullets at a shooting range in Iraq. He also promised the soldier would be prosecuted.

So what is there to prosecute?

The Islamic community has been whipped into a fervor over this incident, the likes of which they used to reserve for Dutch cartoonists and expatriate novelists, and have been calling for this man’s head

Again, for shooting a BOOK

Our President is showing the world just how spineless Americans can really be by giving in to the Islamists’ demands. Instead of kowtowing to them, he should have brushed them off like the bunch of cry-baby cave-people they are- would this fly in the States? If some liberal artist shoots a Bible or a Torah as part of some bullshit performance art piece, or worse, wipes his/her ass with it, pisses on it and throws it into a fire, said individual would receive no punishment at all, his/her actions being protected by the First Ammendment. No matter what amount of religious fervor built up in opposition to such actions, they wouldn’t stand a chance of seeing such an insult being dealt with in the way these Islamists are demanding. More than likely, the offended Judeo-Christians in this scenario would be told to quit crying over what was essentially nothing, and to go develop a sense of humor. This is what Bush should have done, instead of capitulating. Hell, more have been hurt by the Muslim protest of the Koran shooting than were harmed in the actual shooting, as two were killed in the ensuing riot that broke out.

Is this justice? Or is it a tale told by an idiot, a bunch of bass-ackward cave-dwellers sharing half a brain and a hive mentality, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing?

Do these people really have nothing better to do than riot over something so trivial?

Hell, if we’re going to start rounding up Americans who’ve offended people while visiting other countries, half the population who’ve ever been abroad would have to be locked up and shot in the back of the neck, including yours truly.¹ Hell, there’s a particular illegal immigrant who’s come through my wife’s line at the Grocery store and, when asked if he’d like to donate a buck to Texas Children’s Hospitals, blew his top and said that if it wasn’t for Mexicans only, he wasn’t donating shit. He then went on to rant about how Americans needed to get over themselves, how how we never did anything but whine, and that “we’re gonna be running things here soon, so you better get used to the idea.” I don’t know about you, but I found that pretty damn offensive, especially because all my wife had done to set him off was ask for a charitable donation, which she had been asked to do with everyone who came through her line. Does this give me the right to call for this man’s life? Suppose, instead of racial diatribe, he’d been an atheist, and had gone off on a rant about the stupidity of believing in God- would I have the right to call for him to be punished for what, to me, would be blasphemy? Of course not. This sort of behavior is a throwback to the days of witch trials and inquisitions, which may be where we’re headed if we keep rolling over for the very people we should be fighting. In fact, I think I’m going to go out and get myself a Koran to use as target practice, as a show of support for our troops over there. if anyone else out there would like to do the same, send me a pic, and I’ll post it in a special section here.