Painful as
it was I watched press conferences by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
yesterday on the recent bombings in New York and New Jersey. This is something that I rarely do, so
annoying is it to watch and listen as these committed leftists deliver their
carefully crafted messages designed to manage the perceptions of the
gullible. But I felt that, as a blogger,
it was sort of my civic duty.
I don’t
believe either one of them mentioned the term “radical ISLAMIC terrorism,” but
it’s possible that I just I missed it when my brain automatically tried to tune
their voices out (it can’t be helped, sorry).
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that I didn’t miss it. Obama pre-scolded the press, warning them not
to get ahead of the investigation and to wait for information to be selectively
doled out to them. I read that to mean
that the investigation will be overseen by the feds, with Obama’s people
micromanaging the distribution of information so as not to conflict with the
Left’s propaganda about Islam being the religion of peace and other
crapola. In other words, he doesn’t want
the press asking any annoying questions or uncovering any inconvenient facts
about the people who are trying to kill us.
Then he knitted his brows together in a stern look that said, “Don’t
mess with me.” I resisted the urge to
hurl tomatoes at the TV (it’s a new TV).
What really
struck me about both Clinton’s and Obama’s statements today, however, was the
unified message that Americans must not “give in to fear” because this is what
the terrorists want (assuming they really are terrorists; maybe they were just
out for a stroll one day and decided to leave a few bombs around). I find it kind of ironic that the Left, who
are always trying to stir up fear about one thing or another (racism,
homophobia, “climate change,” etc.), are conveniently unified in their message
on rejecting fear of terrorism (Islamic terrorism, but of course this goes
unsaid by Clinton and Obama). As I
listened today I thought again how disturbingly contradictory this is to our
natural instincts for self-protection. Fear
is the God-given, inner mechanism that tells all creatures to get into self-defense
mode, and do the things we need to do to protect ourselves. Why does the Left keep warning us against
it? Common sense would tell us to be
reasonably guarded of all things Muslim, just as common sense makes us teach
our children to be wary of strangers.
Nobody worries about hurting the stranger’s feelings. We expect strangers to understand that the
safety of the child comes first.
Similarly, we shouldn’t be made to feel guilty or bad because we listen
to our instincts about protecting ourselves; but unlike the parent caring for
the child, the leftists don’t care about us and our safety. That’s critical to understand. Being liked by Muslims, inside or outside of
this country, and appearing to be superior in their acceptance of others (while
they themselves are heavily guarded, of course) is what Clinton and Obama and
other leftists care about. And of course
they have their political motives as well.
They don’t want voters switching sides to the candidate that appeals to
their desire for security, therefore the leftists remind those voters every
chance they get not to be “ruled by fear.”
In her statement Hillary Clinton was careful to add that if we should
see something, we should say something.
Each of understands, however, that doing so is likely to get us branded
as “racist” or “Islamophobic” by the Left if our suspicions happen to be
wrong. They’ve made sure of that.
I remember
the many times when I was a girl and then a young woman that I would be walking
somewhere and men that I didn’t know would pull up in their cars and offer me a
ride. With the words of my father
echoing in my head (“Don’t ever accept rides from strangers”) I would always
decline, even if they seemed nice and even if I was tired of walking. Now I watch crime shows about girls and women
who end up raped and/or dead after accepting rides from men they didn’t really
know, and each time I’m thankful that I heeded my father’s warning. He cared about me. Parents who warn their children to stay away
from strangers do so because they care about them. The leftists don’t care about you. They care about themselves. But at least one person cares about you, and
that’s you. Listen to the voice in your
head, and when it tells you to be afraid, be afraid. Then act accordingly.
~CW
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