Rep King's Hearings Against Muslims

Joined
Apr 16, 2006
Posts
23,295
Media
0
Likes
11,402
Points
358
. . . this has everything to do with the party of fear keeping the fear alive, so that people like you will be scared and vote for their ridiculous causes. What is next? Gays, Hispanics, women, pretty much anyone who isn't a white man.

Sounds like the scapegoating and fueling hysteria that brought about Nazi Germany has returned.
 

vince

Legendary Member
Joined
May 13, 2007
Posts
8,271
Media
1
Likes
1,674
Points
333
Location
Canada
Sexuality
69% Straight, 31% Gay
Gender
Male
The NY Times has more.

WASHINGTON — For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken voice in Congress about the threat from terrorism, he was a fervent supporter of a terrorist group, the Irish Republican Army.

“We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry,” Mr. King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island, where he was serving as Nassau County comptroller, in 1982. Three years later he declared, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”

As Mr. King, a Republican, rose as a Long Island politician in the 1980s, benefiting from strong Irish-American support, the I.R.A. was carrying out a bloody campaign of bombing and sniping, targeting the British Army, Protestant paramilitaries and sometimes pubs and other civilian gathering spots. His statements, along with his close ties to key figures in the military and political wings of the I.R.A., drew the attention of British and American authorities.

A judge in Belfast threw him out of an I.R.A. murder trial, calling him an “obvious collaborator,” said Ed Moloney, an Irish journalist and author of “A Secret History of the I.R.A.” In 1984, Mr. King complained that the Secret Service had investigated him as a “security risk,” Mr. Moloney said.
Now, King's standard of good versus bad terrorism seems to have a lot to do with whether King supports the cause in question, but has also specified some characteristics of acceptable terrorism. Here's what he told the Times:

Of comparisons between the terrorism of the I.R.A. and that of Al Qaeda and its affiliates, Mr. King said: “I understand why people who are misinformed might see a parallel. The fact is, the I.R.A. never attacked the United States. And my loyalty is to the United States."
So Mr. King gets to differentiate between good terrorism and bad terrorism. Good terrorism being that which he thinks helps get him elected in New York. Good terror doesn't happen on US soil, apparently it does happen in Ireland though.

How do asses like this get elected?
 

maxcok

Expert Member
Joined
Nov 17, 2009
Posts
7,153
Media
0
Likes
125
Points
83
Location
Elsewhere
Gender
Male
It really is very simple. There are bad people that want to murder people, and force the copulation of the Western world to their will.
Oh my god! They're going to fuck us against our will?! :eek: Quick. Hide the womens and chilluns.

Does anyone else remember the number of attacks on the U.S. post 9/11? ZERO!
EXACTLY! So I guess we're doing something right. If you've followed the testimony and read the research I posted, you would know that the mainstream Muslim community, which includes virtually all American Muslims, in cooperation with law enforcement has been very instrumental in keeping us safe by exposing the rare extremists in their midst. So why the sudden urgency for scapegoating, grandstanding public hearings? I'll tell you why, because now that the Repub/Teabag majority controls the House, they have all the committee chairmanships and get to decide what hearings to hold. In other words, they're doing it because they can. They're just ratcheting up the hysteria and pandering to the lowest common denominator of their voter base - ignorant, xenophobic, Christian fundamentalist Teabag "conservatives".

Understanding who the enemy actually is and how he operates is the key to defeating him. Again, why is it not ok to have hearings about how they are operating in our own back yard?
Thanks for reminding me. I've been meaning to replace the burned out lightbulbs in my backyard security light since sometime last fall. Who knows, there might be some mooslim terrists lurking out there. :scared1:

 

Who_Dun_It

Just Browsing
Joined
Apr 4, 2010
Posts
218
Media
0
Likes
0
Points
51
Sounds like the scapegoating and fueling hysteria that brought about Nazi Germany has returned.

I just used that analogy last night at dinner. Poor economic times, a return to conservatism, and a return to nationalism is what spawned the Nazi party and Hitler.

Sure has, seems like it has been going on for a while now too:frown1: