Someone Else Bin Laden Has Beaten
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Kevin
Via Glenn Greenwald, we see that Powerline has surrendered to Bin Laden:
Who is Keith Ellison? (22)
I believe we ran 21 posts in our “Who is Keith Ellison?” series last year before Ellison was elected Minnesota’s Fifth District representative last November. I summarized the Ellison research in the Weekly Standard article “Louis Farrakhan’s first congressman” and the companion post “Keith Ellison for dummies.”
This week’s Star Tribune report on Ellison’s new cause [due process for al-Haj] prompts me to resurrect the series for part 22 . . . Reader Norm Carpenter asks us to connect the dots, from Guantanamo, to Al Jazeera, to Ellison. Who is Keith Ellison, and whom does he represent?
And what terrible crime did Ellison commit? he demanded that people — particularly an accredited journalist — be given hearings and trials at which they would either be convicted or released. And that brings out the smear machine.
Well, let me give the boys at Powerline another example of an American hating traitor:
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
That is from the Declaration of Independence, perhaps, to steal a line, the most masterful expression of the American mind. Or, it least it used to be the most masterful expression of the American mind. But now, apparently, those words mean nothing to the people at places like Powerline and the White House. They have abandoned a principle so important hat it helped lead to the founding of the country, despite their strident demands that we all respect their patriotism. it is a strange patriotism that turns its back upon the founding ideals of a nation at the first sign of danger. The country could use quite a bit less of the White House’s patriotism if that is how they wish to define it.
No, some combination of fear, bigotry, and a deep seated authoritarianism (which, in the end, is just another kind of fear. Authoritarians want some Big Strong Leader to protect them, to make everything all right, to keep the bad thoughts out of their precious little heads. To be an authoritarian follower is to be afraid of the world all of the time) have lead them to throw away everything good and decent about the country because Bin Laden conducted one successful attack on the country. Bin Laden has already beaten these people. He has, with one blow, caused them to abandon the ideals that Bin Laden was fighting against and, by so doing so, take the kids of actions that cannot but help Bin Laden “prove” that his propaganda about the country is correct.
Bin Laden has beaten them.
