There are no left wing bad guys as far as the media is concerned *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Mar 05 2010 at 4:07 pm | Filed under: Media matters
As you might have guessed, despite his self-identification as a Democrat, his Bush-loathing and his Truther beliefs, the MSM is characterizing the Pentagon shooter as a “right-wing extremist.” Allahpundit asks almost the right question:
Is it possible to be a “left-wing extremist” anymore or do nuts who embrace some lefty ideas before launching an attack automatically fall under the broader heading of “anti-government,” a term that’s conveniently also used to describe conservatives’ opposition to statism? That’s why CSM ended up labeling him a right-winger, I suspect. Righties want a smaller federal government and Bedell hated the military and the military’s part of the federal government. Voila!
I think he’s giving the media too much credit for analyzing someone’s beliefs as anti-statist and then analogizing that belief with a conservative’s intuitive sense that, the more power individuals cede to the government, the more dangerous the government becomes.
The real question is, “When will the media stop using ‘right-wing extremist’ as a euphemism for ‘evil’”?
Go up to any liberal you know, especially a media type, and ask “Was Hitler right wing or left wing?” I guarantee you that, nine times out of ten, your intrepid liberal will answer “right wing.” Same for Mussolini. And because Mussolini had the Fascist Party, “fascist” = “right wing.” Did you get that? The fact that it’s historically completely wrong, the fact that both Hitler and Mussolini were hard core Socialists who threw nationalism into the mix (and, with Hitler, a solid helping of antisemitism) is completely irrelevant to these liberals. Here’s the syllogism:
Hitler and Mussolini were right wing fanatics (screw the historic record)
Hitler and Mussolini were evil
All evil people are right wing fanatics.
So, now a new syllogism:
John Patrick Bedell used a gun
Guns are evil
John Patrick Bedell is a right wing fanatic.
Or perhaps this one:
John Patrick Bedell shot at people (even though they were part of the war machine and probably deserved it)
It was evil to use a gun to try to kill people (even though the victims were in the war machine and probably deserved it
John Patrick Bedell is a right wing fanatic
It’s all so easy once you get the hang of it. And please remember not to confuse your liberals by asking them about such “evil” people as Mao, Stalin and Kim Jong Il. You’re likely to get long, confused answers about how they weren’t/aren’t really that evil, how they’re trying to cope with the problem of modernizing backwards cultures, how their real problems arose because of the way in which the arrogant right wing fanatics tried to isolate them, etc. And mostly, you’ll once again get a wall of evil and, most likely, be told that they’re not really Leftist systems, they’re military dictatorships. (And yes, I’ve gotten that response.)
UPDATE: As for Bedell, I’ll give Zombie the last word about loony-toonz and their murderous schemes:
Now, just for a moment, let’s set aside the false guilt-by-association game everyone’s always playing. We all know that John Patrick Bedell and Joseph Stack are basically insane, plain and simple — as are any number of similar whackjobs who periodically go loco and erupt into violence. Violent psychopaths often incorporate some seemingly random overarching theme into their mindset, and on occasion that theme involves politics. Whenever someone like Bedell or Stack goes ballistic, every pundit jumps into the fray and tries to spin the outburst as “exemplifying” the political viewpoint of those with whom the pundit disagrees.
But that only rises to the level of a valid argument when a distinct pattern emerges. If, say, 5,000 suicide bombers in a row are invariably Islamic fundamentalists — well, OK, we’ve got a problem with the belief system, not just with the individuals. Yet I don’t see a pattern in these “going postal” violent outbursts which seem to happen perhaps three or four times per year, every year, no matter who’s in power or who’s president: it seems that the “philosophy” (if you can even call it that) of each of the attackers is unique, idiosyncratic and just plain illogical. Even so, if he starts shooting or killing when a Republican is president, he is deemed a left-wing psycho (see: Charles Manson); if he starts shooting or killing when a Democrat is president, he is deemed a right-wing psycho (see: Joseph Stack). But the truth is, paranoid people simply feel threatened by the external power structure in general, so they lash out at any symbol of authority, regardless of its political affiliation.
So, instead of playing the blame game so unapologetically employed by the Left when they feel they can spin things to their political advantage, I’m not going to say that Bedell’s actions at the Pentagon epitomize the leftist worldview. Rather, he was just crazy, as clearly indicated by his belief in the craziest of modern crazy conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truthism.
Don’t stop, though, with the material I’ve quoted above. Please read Zombie’s whole post — especially the updates which have a slew of information about Bedell’s political ideology. I’ll agree with Zombie that Bedell was crazy, but the facts indicate that the reporters who try to tie his particular pathology to the right are roaming very far afield indeed.
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So then….if we can get the military to take control of the government and establish a dictatorship, we’re the good guys again??
Be still my heart…!!!
Since Obama is a mad dog, it is not hard to figure out that the pack is going to be come insecure, rabid, and suicidal.
All these people cropping out of the woodworks is because Obama can’t lead the nation, Left or Right. So people explode and use violence as a means of getting what they want, given that the Social Economy and Social Utopia of the Left ain’t providing it.
The Left thinks you reduce violence by creating more reasons for people to be violent, calling them names, and isolating them from ‘mainstream culture’.
Here’s the irony. Whenever the Left wants to isolate people, it increases violence. Look up how many people the Democrats killed in WACO, including the children. Ain’t the military dictatorship that did that. It was you mofos. Elian Gonzalez didn’t get shipped back to prostitution central Cuba by right wingers either. That was you mofos.
When the Left wants to ‘free up people’, ala Chavez, Putin, and Khomeini, it automatically increases violence. So in cases where proper isolation could reduce violence, the Left goes for the opposite methodology. In cases where isolating people in America increases the rampant suspicion and dysfunction of American society, the Left will isolate whereas with Chavez and Mao, they would have ‘embraced new concepts’.
The Left is the source of human evil. You don’t need to go any farther than that. There’s all kinds of extremist ideologies around. But only one philosophy, the Left, ties them all together.
When people are consistently targeting civilians and children, to the exclusion of any other target, it’s time to get the head out of the Nile and admit that it ain’t just a mistake or a collateral damage issue. That is their primary target. It isn’t a mistake. It isn’t because they had good intentions and just messed up. It’s cause they like killing civilians and children.
You couldn’t get a better propaganda image than Elian Gonzalez for how cruel the Demoncrats are when it comes to immigration. Yet they get the immigrant vote, somehow. Just like they get the Jewish and Black votes. Nothing but cattle, slaves, and serfs. To be used as the Masters see fit.
That’s how it has always been. America tried to change the status quo, but people keep wanting to slip back into the safety of slavery.
If consistency were currency, the media would rank as the wealthiest liars, giving politicians second place.
People use violence because they think it’ll get them what they want. And people go out of their way to create spectacular mass casualty events because they wish to be recognized as leaving a mark on the world. And the media is something they know will blow it up and make it something of grand importance.
If people seek an element of facilitation to mass slaughter, look no further than the media’s sickening self-aggrandizement as the purveyors of truth and legitimacy.
I am not under the impression that I need the government to protect me from crazies. In so far as creating a methodology for ascertaining the motivations behind violence is useful, it is useful to lead the sheep off a cliff, into the adoring hands of the All Father-Mother Government.
The Left, whether it is by their guilt at creating rampant revolutionary ideology and memetic viruses, or because of their unstable, unjust, corrupt, and megalomaniac obsessed leadership style, create violent rampages where ever they exist. People with autonomous wills decide for themselves what method will gain their self-chosen goal. The Left, regardless of their free will hating Utopia, still must accede to the reality of human will. They just do so by providing weapons of destruction to those likely to use them. Whether this is like AQ using suicide bombers or AQ using ‘volunteers’ and then detonating their vehicle with the occupant unaware and still inside, is rather meaningless. Both can and has been used by the Left. Their agents can self-destruct willfully, as seen before, or they can do so at the control of the oligarchical Leftist robber barons.
In all spheres of human existence, crime always requires opportunity and capability. Without either opportunity or capability, crime cannot happen. The Left’s social engineering efforts reduce the ability of society to resist crime, making criminal acts successful where before individual citizens could have suppressed the crime. It doesn’t matter what ideology the criminal has, when the Left empowers criminal violence against citizens and reduces the ability of a citizen to defend them self from external powers, such as the Leftist totalitarian bent. The Left also reduces the prosperity and wealth of a nation, generating greater opportunity for crime and desperation. When one class thinks it right to redistribute wealth to themselves, theft, crime, and murder become all the more normal and accepted. When violence is approved for one goal, it becomes easier to approve greater levels of violence.
The Revolutionary philosophers such as Marx, provide the germ of chaos that then gets molded by the twisted minds of the Lenins and Stalins into mass graves. It’s a refinement process, not necessarily a straight line between A and B. The correlation, however weak, still continues to manifest, however. It would be natural for criminals to seek justification for their chaotic and law breaking behavior from revolutionary idealists. Criminals first and foremost justify everything they do as right, because of the ‘wrong’ did to them by somebody else.
The normal human psyche requires a justification to kill, because there is a certain level of cognitive dissonance when a human utilizes violence. Our evolutionary processes have programmed us with at least a basic sense of the need for social cooperation in the pursuit of self and species survival. Natural sociopaths and serial killers are not, on the norm, very common amongst human beings. Most of the murderers in the world still require a justification, an excuse, to use violence. People that can go from full social affability, to killing in less than 5 seconds, are lethal weapons and may not even be thought of as normal humans anymore. Some of them are serial killers. Others are warriors or civilians. Serial killers get the most press because they tend to need to use their abilities a lot, given no societal limitation. Others, people that kill just as well if not better than the most efficient serial killers, have a solid internal integrity holding them together within the confines of greater societal writs. The serial killer can kill and feel no remorse because he cares nothing for society or cooperation, thus can violate the normal social compact at will. Others require excuses or rage or justifications to kill, for the same reason.
The threat from somebody that needs excuses to kill is real. But compared to the threat potential from people who don’t need an excuse to kill, is negligible. A person that can handle the worst serial killers, without the need for government, police, or military aid, has little reason to bow their knees to the liberal freaks in return for guarantees of ‘protection’. And that is precisely why Leftists must disarm the population. A free and armed people need bow their heads to no one. A slave race, however, is a different matter.
Essentially, the killers you see are not all that different from you. In point of fact, serial killers are more of a gap to you, than you are to the recent attempts at Ft. Hood and elsewhere.
You, just like the others, require a justification to kill and are rational enough to pick out the best means to go about achieving you goal, whatever it may be. To claim somebody is crazy, is simply an ignorant attempt at self-denial. Their reasons may not make much sense, but that is an issue with comprehension not insanity, the inability of a person to tell fantasy from reality.
Governments always tell people that there is an external or internal enemy that ‘sacrifices’ must be made to protect the people from.
It’s an age old tool of human manipulation. I’m surprised the so called ‘educated class’ of the Western 21st century are still taken by it. Then again, that depends on what kind of education they got it, or should I say brainwashing.
The Democrat rulers said the WACO compound was full of anti-government extremists. Did that justify the full scale slaughter of every man, woman, child?
I cannot allow such cowardly self-deception and lies to cover this world in the form of government justification and authority.
Do they think that the Tea Party Movement can be disappeared with as convenient a burst of violence as the WACO compound? That they can simply order those like Elian Gonzalez be kidnapped, with the threat of the gun from those that love and protect him, and be sent back to the hell hole of a country called Cuba without any worry about the future consequences?
Don’t think you can wipe out the defenseless and weak of humanity without repercussions. Don’t think you can push them into the extreme verge of desperation and fear, and then believe they will accept whatever you deem fitting for their fate. They will fight. If they do not, they will die under the hands of the Leftist totalitarian Utopia or the Islamic Caliphate or any number of other organizations. That’ll just make them martyrs, because the Utopian mass murderers won’t stop requiring sacrifices.
Somebody else will become the ‘anti-government’ militia. They will then need to be eliminated, like the Democrat leaders decided to eliminate, ‘by accident’, Vietnam and Waco.
Contrary to popular opinion, killing people doesn’t actually erase the original motivation to fight. Via insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, so long as the native population sees a chance for victory against their oppressors, they will continue to resist. Your only solution is to kill all of them, if you refuse to adjudicate and address their real concerns. The United States military, represented by General Petraeus, took the route of population centric counter-insurgency: to preserve the people, regardless of the risk or length of time/resources.
You will have a hard time convincing me the Left and their Democrat freaks would do anything that enlightened in this country or any other. Again with the self-deception and denial. Again with the refusal to believe the obvious.