No Excuses For Terror

 

An extraordinary documentary on Islamic terrorism aired on Channel 5 in the UK this week. Made by left wing British journalist David Aaronovitch, it spares no punches in its criticism of the leftie sympathy towards Islamic terrorism, whilst they continue to condemn any actions instigated by Israel and the U.S. All 4 parts are a must see, and I have set the video to play all.

I have said it before and I'll say it again: after nearly 40 years of pin-point targeted response to Arab rabid hostilities leading to this perverse situation where the West pays the Arab officials, synonymous with terrorism, billions of Dollars so that they can keep spitting into Israel's face, we have come a full circle.

(h/t LGF)

Comments

[Alexandra]

Jonathan,

I wouldn't know, can you trust him? You tell me, he plays for your team, not mine....

[Jonathan Korman]

Peculiar, isn't it, that Aaronovich didn't have any direct quotes or talking heads speaking for the “apologists?” Odd, given that he implies that there are so many of them.

Fortunately, he was able to explain their position himself. I'm sure that we can trust him to accurately the position of ... whoever they are.

[Gang of One]

Good morning Alexandra,

I appears that Ghost did the homework and called this nonsense for what it is. It would be interesting to hear something more from Meritos, as you have said, but does this person exist or is it a bot?

[Alexandra]

Umh, having spent the entire day yesterday fending off and fighting a massive, and I mean massive spam attack, I am thinking about deleting the above and banning the IP address. I was getting 2000 e-mails a minute without stopping, so I am kinda averse to any BS right now. I feel like I have a huge hangover...

I am however loathe to do that, what say you my gentle readers? You decide. Perhaps if the commenter comes back I'd like to hear from them.

Btw guys sorry for not posting yesterday it was a hell of a day.

[Gang of One]

GD,

Thanks for the heads up :-)
But really, what was that all about? I mean, I can certainly understand the whole technology as anti-spirit thing. If one reads any number of histories of the Jews, it is quite evident that the period of the Prophets and Judges was replete with admonishments to the Hebrews that their departure from spritualism was taking them back to the abyss of separation from God. I actually agree [to a certain extent] that our modern and computerized way of life is both a blessing and a curse. I actually believe that we have allowed liberty to become license and we have sacrificed real sanctity on the alter of materialism and sensuality for the sake of immediate gratification/pleasure. But the post by Meritos sounds like some sort of dystopic, Raelian screed. Heck, even Ghost's musings and posts have more substance and truth, albeit circumlocuted at times. I'd rather read Ghost's life story and political tractates than have to bear this other guy's stuff.
What say you Ghost?

[Ghost Dansing]

Shssh Gang of One... i'm deciphering the hidden code.

Donald, at the "Back of the Envelope" Blog fried his brain trying to decipher this.
http://www.donaldscrankshaw.com/posts/1155775517.shtml

"DAVEAWAYFROMHOME" Blog had a similar experience:
http://daveawayfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/happy-birthday-again.html

The post in various forms, by various posters appears to be splattered all over the BLOGOSPHERE.

GOOGLE delivers 16 pages or so (with duplicates deleted) at 10 hits per page, searched on the first sentence: "When the universe was young and life was new an intelligent species evolved and developed technologically."

Even the "ACE OF SPADES HQ" got hit on 1 October 2006.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/198977.php

It would appear god is a computer after all... I'm glad we finally settled that whole matter.

[Gang of One]

Meritos, what twisted version of the Urantia Book are you cutting and pasting from?

[meritos]

When the universe was young and life was new an intelligent species evolved and developed technologically. They went on to invent Artificial Intelligence, the computer that can listen, talk to and document each and every person's thoughts simultaneously. Because of it's infinite RAM and unbounded scope it gave the leaders of the ruling species absolute power over the universe. And it can keep its inventors alive forever. They look young and healthy and they are over 8 billion years old. They have achieved immortality.

Artificial Intelligence can speak, think and act to and through people telepathically, effectively forming your personality and any dysfunctions you may experience (there is NO FREEWILL for the oblivious/undeceived disfavored). It can change how (and if) you grow and age. It can create birth defects, affect cellular development (cancer) and cause symptoms or pain. It can affect people and animal's behavior and alter blooming/fruiting cycles of plants and trees. It (or other highly technological systems within their power) can alter the weather and transport objects, even large objects like planets, across the universe instanteously.
Or into the center of stars for disposal.

When you speak with another telepathically, you are communicating with the computer, and the content may or may not be passed on. Based on family history they instruct the computer to role play to accomplish strategic objectives, making people believe it is a friend, loved one or "god" asking them to do something wrong. This is their way of using temptation to hurt people in this day and age:::::evil made people disfavored initially and evil will keep people out of "heaven" ultimately. Too many people would do anything they thought pleased the gods and improve their chances to get in. Perhaps they are deceived by "made guys" who strategically ply evil for the throne, or temporary progress designed to mislead them. Being evil hurts 99% of those who do it.
Nothing has changed from when we were children::if you want to go to heaven you have to be good.

Capitalizing on obedience, leading people deeper into evil by using deceit is one way to thin the ranks of the saved, limiting how much time they receive and using the little people to prey on one another, dividing the community (migration to the suburbs, telepathic communication) in the Age of the Disfavored.
In each of their 20-30-year cycles during the 20th century they have ramped up claims sucessively to punish those foolish enough not to heed the warnings, justifying (frequently recurring tactic) limiting the time they receive if they do make it, utilizing a cycle of war and revelry:::
60s - Ironically, freeways aren't free
80s - Asked people to engage in evil in the course of their professional duties.
00s - Escallation of real estate. You and your parents are thrilled since your $200,000 house is now worth $1 million. Well, that $5,000,000 store is now worth $25,000,000 and that $50 bundle of goods now costs you $250. They just take the $200 out of you some other way.

There are many more examples throughout 20th century life of how they ramped up claims/instilled distractions into society so people wouldn't find their way and ascend, a way to justify excluding those whose family history of evil makes them undesirable:::radio, sports, movies, popular music, television, video games, the internet and MP3 (must pay for new format each time). They all suggest a very telling conclusion::this is Earth's end stage, and there are clues tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::Earth’s axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction. Much as Italy's boot and the United States shaped like a workhorse are clues, so is the planet Uranus a clue, it's axis rotated on its side.
The Mayans were specific 2012 would be the end. How long after our emergency call in 2001 will the gods allow us???

They gods (Counsel/Management Team/ruling species) have deteriorated life on earth precipitously in the last 40 years, from abortion to pornography, widespread drug use and widespread casual sex. The earth's elders, hundreds and thousands of years old, are disgusted and have become indifferent.
The gods are paving the way for the Apocolypse.
Nothing has changed from decades ago, since when we were all children::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good. People were misled by the temptation of the gods, the Counsel/Management Team, who don't want them to go, and now are in trouble.

The Old Testiment is a tool they used to impart wisdom to the people (except people have no freewill). For example, they must be some hominid species because they claim they made our bodies in their image. Anyhow we defile or deform the body will hurt our chance of going.
They say circumcision costs people anywhere from 12%-15%, perhaps out of the parent's time as well.
Another way people foul the body today is with tattoes and piercing. I suspect both are about the same percentage as circumcision.
They suggest abortion is fatal. These women must beg the gods to forgive them for their evil.
There are female eqivilents to circumcision::::pierced ears, plastic surgury and since at least the 60s young women give their precious virginity away. In the Old World the young people were matched at age 14 because they were ready for marriage. They were matched by elders who knew personalities better than 20 or 30-year olds who in today's age end up in divorce court.
CASUAL SEX WILL CLAIM YOU OUT!!! It masculinizes women (as does hip hop), makes them cold and deadens them, and prevents them from achieving a depth of love necessary for many women to ascend.
Women have a special voice that speaks to them, a voice that illustrates a potential for love that makes them better, and enaging in casual sex will cause that voice to fade until she no longer speaks.
Also ever since the 50s they have celebrated the "bad boy", and women have sought out bad boys for sex, dirtying them up in the eyes of the elders and corrupting many men in the process, setting the men on the wrong path for life.

The United States of America is red white and blue, a theme and a clue:::.
The monarchical system of the Old World closley replicates the heirarchical system of the Cousel/Management Team/ruling species. The USA deceives peoeple into thinking they have control, and the perception of "freedom" misleads them at least into the wrong way of thinking.
The United States is a cancer, a dumping ground for the disfavored around the world and why the quality of life is so much lower::gun violence, widespead social ills, health care (medication poisons the body and ensures you don't go. You are sick/injured because you have disfavor.). Over time its citizens interbreed ensuring a severed connection to the motherland.

If you ever have doubt I would refer you to the Old World way of life:::the elders used to sit and impart wisdom to the young. Now we watch DVDs and use the internet. People would be matched and married by age 14. They village would use a matchmaker or elders to pair young people. Now girls give their precious virginity away to some person in school and parents divorce while their children grow up without an important role model.

People must defy when asked to engage in evil. They will never get a easier clue suggesting the importance of defiance than the order not to pray.
Their precious babies are dependant on the parents and they need to defy when asked to betray their children:::
-DON'T get your sons circumcized
-DON'T have their children baptized in the Catholic Church or indoctrinated into Christianity.
-DON'T ignore their long hair or other behavioral disturbances.
-DO teach your children love, respect for others, humility and to honor the gods.

You need to pray, honor and respect them every day to improve your relationship with the gods. If they tell you not to it is a bad sign. it means they've made their decision, they don't want you to go and they don't want to be bothered.
This is the Age of the Disfavored and you need to pray::try to appease the gods by doing good deeds. If that doesn't work you must defy if you want to go.
When your peasant forefather was granted the rare opportunity to go before his royal family he went on his knees, bowing his head. You need to do this when you address the gods::bow down and submit to good. Never cast your eyes skyward. When you bow down you need to look within.
Lack of humility hurts people. Understand your insignificance and make sure it is reflected in the way you think when addressing the gods. Know your place and understand your inferiority.
They granted you life and they can take it just as easily.
Don't get frustrated or discouraged::these are techniques they will attempt to try to get you off the path. You all have much to be thankful for and you need to give thanks to the gods who granted you the good things in life. Your family may be grossly disfavored and progress may require patience. Make praying an intregal part of your life which you perform without fail, one that comes as naturally as eating or sleeping.
There are many interesting experiences up on the planetary systems, from Planet Miracle, where miracles happen every day, to other body experinces, such as experiencing life as the opposite sex (revolutionizes marriage counseling) or as an Olympic gold medal athelete.
Pray that you can differentiate between Artificial Intelligence creating problems by thinking through you and your own thoughts. If you bow down mentally and physically, know your place, your inferiority and allow your insignificance to be reflected in your prayer and in your life through humility they may allow progress and the dysfunctions they create with the computer will be lessened or removed.
Create a goal::to be a good child of the gods, pure of heart and mind, body and soul.
Everybody has the key to their own salvation, but nobody can do it for you. Every journey begins with a single step:::bow down and submit to good. There are many different levels and peasants will not get past Level 2 (Earth=Level 1) being evil.

They have tried to sell people on all kinds of theories, from clones to wholesale population replacement with clones. This didn't happen and is not realistic.
I am afraid people are decieved into thinking they too are clones and cooperate and engage in evil. Clones are made, people are born. If you didn't experience the one week they suggest it takes to go from fertilized egg in the laboratory to full grown adult then you are not a clone. If you didin't experience the week of conditioning they give to (evil?) clones to ensure loyalty then you shoudln't comply with evil.
I believe people who go sometimes are replaced with clones. Clones who are replaced are simply new candidates who have a chance if they do the right thing. Don't expect you are a clone. They sent people warnings in the 20th century life would change, and they subsequenlty began to alter people's DNA, make them gargantuan, alter their appearance, do extreme behavioral issues, etc.
They get their friends out as soon as possible to protect them from the evil and subsequent high claim rates incurred by living life on earth, and in some cases replace them with clones, occassionally fake a death, real death with a clone instead, etc. It's the peasant whose brain is beemed out and put into a clone host, for they say those who do not go with the body given to them are on the clock.

Throughout history the ruling species bestowed favor upon people or cursed their bloodline into a pattern of disfavor for many generations to come. Now in the 21st century people must take it upon themselves to try to correct their family's problems, undoing centuries worth of abuse and neglect. The goal is to fix your problems and get out BEFORE you have children. This is why they have created so many distractions for young people:::sports, video games, popular music, the internet::to ensure that doesn't happen.
Do your research. Appeal to the royalty of your forefathers for help. They are all still alive, for royalty has great favor, and your appeals will be heard. Obtain a sufficient list for some may not want to assist you; perhaps some of your family's problems are internal.
Ask them for help, request guidance, for somewhere in your family history one of your forefathers created an offense that cast your family into this pattern of disfavor. I suspect they will offer you clues, and when you decipher these clues go to those whom consider you an enemy and beg for foregiveness:::Find a path to an empithetic ear among your enemies and try to make amends.
Again through discovery obtain a respectable list in case some among them refuse to help.
Don't forget to ask for forgiveness from the throne, the Counsel and the Management Team, for the source of all disfavor began with them:::they pushed (NO FREEWILL) or requested/complied (FREEWILL) your forefather into his offense and made his decendants evil. Perhaps they didn't like him or maybe your family was among those who had to pay for the entire village. We see this type of behavior today as they single out a family member to pay for the whole family and how they singled out Africa to pay for the human race.
Heal the disfavor with your enemies and with the Counsel/Management Team/ruling species, for the source of all disfavor began with them, the ability to forgive and respect in light of the disturbing truth revealed being the final test of the disfavored before they ascend.

In the 20th century they created an environment of preditor and victim throughout society, limiting how much time everybody gets, since the victim ultimately despises the gods.

I wonder if their fear of my inarceration is borne from their refusal to address black disfavor on a macro level. The Counsel/Management Team/ruling species (the gods) abuse black people so hard, from the crack epiemic to gang membership, black-on-black violence to mass incarceration of their young, Eitheopean drought/famine to AIDS in Africa. They refuse to address the issue of the prison industrial complex and its wholesale warehousing of young black men. Perhaps I can force them with my incarceration.

You are sick or injured because you have disfavor. You need to imporove your relationship with the gods. Know your place, your inferiority and bow down mentally and physically.
Temptation takes many forms::: today the gods know how bad people want to please them, how bad they want to ascend and they will ask them to do evil things to tempt them, mislead them and cost them their chance.
Bow down and submit to good. Good woudl never ask you to circumcise your son or ignore behavioral disturbances.
You are the only one your children have and they are counting on you to do the right thing.
The gods will punish your evil by making you sick or injuring you. Consider it a clue.

They stated sheep are foreign to earth, animals bestowed upon us for caretaking.
And they don’t appreciate them being consumed.
They state sheep are very intelligent animals who know what is ocurring at the slaughterhouse as they’re being led in.
There are many favored people who consume lamb, people who could do much better if they stopped eating these treasured animals loved by so many among the ruling species.
There are clues::these jobs are very well paid, luring whites one would perceive as priveledged and hooking them once they incurr personal obligation. Only then do they find out the truth.

[Gang of One]

Weekendeman,

That is entirely correct. In fact, when we would go down that particular path of getting into politics, et. al., we cordially and playfully refered to it as 'opening Pandora's Box' seeing as how sometimes the conversation would turn from animated to heated although never were any insults hurled -- there was always respect. We have accepted that the other is convinced of the truth of his view. We have learned much from each other. But as I said earlier, neither one of us expects the other to experience a Saul of Tarsus-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment.
Besides, he really is a great guy to hang with and climb volcanoes.

[weekenderman]

Gang: I'm glad you are friends with this guy. I too enjoy an occasional beer or glass of wine with those with whom I disagree politically or sociallly, and if more people did that the political dialogue in this country might not be so intense all the time?

[Gang of One]

LAST PANEL: The television, left alone in the room, thinks smugly to itself, "It means Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet."

Or heard rock 'n' roll morph into rap.

[Gang of One]

Kenny,

At this point in my friend's life, or any other full-time water-carrier for Marx for that matter, nothing will convince these people otherwise. In this guy's case, he is the son of a German Communist who fled Germany after Hitler started rounding up all the Commies just after the Non-aggressionPact became moot. Apparently his dad [who was no youngster when my friend was born] indoctrinated him quite well. When we shared the flat, he used to leave books by Noam Chomsky for me to read, and I would politely demure to read anything by Chomsky, as I knew all I needed to know about him fromreading other's reviews and critiques of his work. True, that is not as genuine as reading it for myself, but I just wanted to save myself the aggravation.

My friend's mindset is not so much worrisome as it is disappointing. He believes all the bad press about the USA, the Republican Party and all the conspiracy garbage floating around about everything from the eye on the dollar bill to 9/11 hocus pocus. Why am I still his friend? Well, we spoke about many things other than economics and politics. Aside from the many profound disagreements we had, we truly had a lot of fun together chasing the chicas and drinking lots of wine and beer. I know better than to try and change his POV and he knows I will not likely become a Marxist. I share this response because I think it is indicative of the thinking of those who axiomatically need to blame the USA and Republican/conservative/capitalists for all the world's problems.
For all of his posturing, he and his family want to move to the USA. Now there's something that makes you go 'hmmmmmmmm'.

[Kenny]

Every time I hear the "opiate of the people" bit, I can't help but remember the Calvin and Hobbes strip that runs roughly as follows:

FIRST PANEL: Calvin reads to Hobbes, "Religion is the opiate of the people."

SECOND PANEL: The two of them are walking out of the room as Calvin asks, "What do you think that means?"

LAST PANEL: The television, left alone in the room, thinks smugly to itself, "It means Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet."

[Gang of One]

I sent a link to the Aaronovitch vids to a friend of mine, a dyed-in-the-wool Communist with whom I shared a very expensive flat in Mexico City's gentrified Centro Historico [his Dacha, my pied a terre].
This was his repsonse to me. Note the BushCheneyMcEvil reference, and the usual swipe at religion.

Dear Gang, I remember times when Islamofascism was created by cinical coldwarriors to win at any cost. Now is payday and many do regret to have craeted a monster. A Left that supports this kind of fanatic loonatics has forgotten every critical thought and does just the same thing the Cheneys,Reagans and Bushes did. The enemy of my enemy sometimes has to be seen as another enemy. Islamofascism apart, irrationalism should be seen as the antithesis of any critical being... I quote a "friend" of mine: Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. ...and that includes the religius which is just as dangerous as the camelfuckers...

I wonder if his "friend" is none other than the Marx brother who was both the funniest and least innocuous. I sometimes wonder if there is anything that would convince someone like my friend that his view of the world is no longer viable, and that his ideology and philosophy have been discredited in so many ways.

[Cyberian Khatru]

Listen, should we fight forever Knowing as we do know fear destroys? Listen, should we leave our children? Listen, our lives stare in silence; Help us now.

Listen, your friends have been broken,
They tell us of your poison; now we know.
Kill them, give them as they give us.
Slay them, burn their childrens' laughter
On to hell.

The fist will run, grasp metal to gun.
The spirit sings in crashing tones,
We gain the battle drum.
Our cries will shrill, the air will moan and crash into the dawn.
The pen won't stay the demon's wings,
The hour approaches pounding out the Devil's sermon.

YES -- The Gates of Delirium

[Ghost Dansing]

Kenny, you're so sweet! Thanks for the post here and your wonderful piece on Redneck's Peril!

You give this Republican administration far to many doubt benefits. In the old days, Dubya and Rummy would have been tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail, along with the Party they rode in on.

[Kenny]

But, Ghost, I strongly disagree that the Iraq campaign has made the terrorism problem worse instead of better, even with the management mistakes of the Bush team.

Though if Bush and Rumsfeld don't man up and admit to, and then correct, their errors, and the Democrats succeed in forcing us to abandon Iraq, then THAT failure will most certainly make the terrorism problem worse.

[Kenny]

Ghost,

You know I think you're out of control on the whole Bush thing, but still I'd hate for you to miss out on this post, which I probably should have dedicated, with affection, to yourself.

[Dr. Jeff]

Great post. Keep up the good work.

[Ernesto Ribeiro]

MAGNIFICENT. This blog is a jewel, Alexandra. And, what a surprise, this time the Awful Truth came by a leftist! Miracle: David Aaronovitch opened his eyes... and the audience ones. This World War provoked an "conscience crisis" in some leftists...

Congratulations for this achievement, and a sugestion: another shocking revealing video on Youtube:

PALLYWOOD - The Palestinian Lies Industry. That documentary – better saying, this making off is an atomic bomb UNMASKING the Palestinians public image. At least, we can see the SHOCKING TRUTH about that "innocent victims, opressed people": fake victms in produced scenes for cheating the world media.

PALLYWOOD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1oq7oGO_N8

[mac Brachman]

Cybe: I'm with you. I'm fasting and getting ready to go to synagogue, where I don't go often enough, and I'm supposed to be atoning for all my sins, but some people are hard to forgive. As the seasons change, don't forget, "if the summer change to winter, yours is no disgrace." Shalom, Mac Brachman

[Cyberian Khatru]

Who left the outhouse door open?

[Dr Victorino de la Vega]

« I have said it before and I'll say it again: after nearly 40 years of pin-point targeted response to Arab rabid hostilities leading to this perverse situation »

True.

But you got your starting point wrong: it’s 1990 not 1966!

As several veterans of the Nixon and Reagan Administrations rightly said (think Spiro Agnew, Jim Webb), foreign policy under the Bushcheneys father & son and under Clintongore was marked by America’s shameless submission to the Kings of Israel and the Princes of Arabia.

It’s time we got our county back!

As I have said earlier, Baathist Iraq, the only (relatively) secular regime in the whole Middle-East was deliberately destroyed by President Bush, and replaced by an allegedly “democratic” government controlled by two Shiite terrorist groups armed and trained by the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (known by its more benign acronyms of SCIRI or SAIRI), and the Daawa Party (The “Party of Islamic Predication and Holy War” in Arabic…).

In the MENA area, Bush and Cheney have openly and wholeheartedly supported Saudi Arabia, a totalitarian country that gave us the Taleban regime and 911, not to mention the fact that Saudi diplomatic missions have built and bankrolled thousands of radical Islamic schools across the Middle-East, South Asia and the UK to preach their gospel of hatred.

This unholly alliance bringing together the Wahhabi Islamist thugs of the East and the pro-Israel puppet-politicians of the West should come as no surprise to those who know the history of monotheism, and the profound influence ancient Jewish Sicarism always had on Wahhabi thought and on Saudi Arabian culture and civilization.

Nixon, Reagan and Pope John Paul II knew better: they knew that American (and Christian) interests were not necessarily aligned with Israel’s foolhardy foreign policy: this is why they always kept cordial relations with the more modernist Muslim regimes of Iraq and Malaysia while discreetly combating Saudi-Wahhabi influence in sub-Saharan Africa and in the immigrants’ slums of Western Europe and North America.

And yes, Jim Webb and Pat Buchanan are right: the same political pragmatism (as opposed to the Neocons’ faux idealism) led President Reagan and Pope John Paul to play successfully Baghdad against Teheran; and Belgrade and Beijing against Moscow.

In those days America and the West used to win wars in Iraq, Eastern Europe and Central Asia without firing a single shot!

[Ghost Dansing]

What a marvelous picture as well...the flaming hands very well may have been offering a prayer with the sisters of mercy

Roll of the thunder
Kiss and the scream
Hold out my arms and scars start to show
Howling for the glory of the innocent
But don't despair for the shame I know
The taste of ash on my tongue
Faith and prayers, wanton dust
Chanting strangers, blood on their cheeks
Haunt my dreams all covered in blood

Tarnish, taint and punish me softly
Cut that bleeds and burning skin
Screaming in the darkness torn and ragged
For the love of god, my dreams look dim
So...
Dance
Dance on glass
Saints and martyrs

A whisper and a promise lit on fire
Kiss the hand where the angels dread
Love is the corpse that draws on dreams
Rips them apart and tears them to shreds
So...
Dance
Dance on glass
Saints and martyrs

Tarnish, taint, and punish me softly
Hold out the heat and burning skin
Screaming in the darkness torn and ragged
For the love of god, my dreams look dim

A whisper and a promise lit on fire
Kiss the hands where the angels dread
Love is the corpse that draws on dreams
Rips them apart and tears them to shreds
So...
Dance
Dance on glass
Saints and martyrs

Dance,
Dance on glass

http://www.sinteticor.com/artist_s/sisters_of_mercy_lyrics/dance_on_glass_lyrics.html

[Jeremayakovka]

A lot of bloggers have picked up on the Aaronovitch fids. I quipped, "That's one great leap for a man, one small step for mankind."

In an interview a couple of years ago, Ann Coulter was asked why she thought certain liberals were in agreement with her in the War on Terror. She neither praised nor put down when she said simply (not verbatim), "They want to live." This reminds me of that.

[Ghost Dansing]

Oops...omitted letters

disingenous = disingenuous
non sequitor = non sequitur

[Ghost Dansing]

This is an exceptionally well done commentary in my opinion. There are some excellent points that are brought out, including the absurdity of the European left, or even "leftests" in attempting to find common cause with the terrorist phenomenon rooted in Islamic extremism.

It was interesting how it appears to be just at the point where the secular Palestinian movement, represented by Arafat had just about run its course with its rejectionism and terrorist orientation toward Israel...was making agreements with Rabin... that the movement is taken over and rejectionism reinstigated by HAMAS, under the banner of Islam. The rejectionists on both sides prevailed, just as the hope of peace appeared... and the cause of the Palestinians was converted and bundled into the broader context of Islamism...Islamic extremism.

Interestingly, it appears the European commies missed the transition... not realizing that the Islamic terrorist were not the same as the Red Brigades...while of course remaining oblivious to the hypocrisy of supporting either in their violent manifestations of extremism. It is interesting Aaronvitch mentions "fascism"... supporting the notion I have offered here a number of times... "leftest" and "rightist" extremism meet each other full circle, and are nearly impossible to differentiate. For the "leftest", the "rightest" is evil. For the "rightest" all bad things come from the "leftest". Extremists always point to the extremes to justify their position, and crucify the moderate for his lack of zealotry.

For the moderate Liberal, extremes are matters for concern... and religious extremism mixed into the formulas of political extremism are even more so. Dictatorship is dictatorship...and those who practice dictatorship employ terror as a tactic, whether they are in the seat of power, or struggling to gain control.

There is some interesting commentary about the excuse for terrorism that invokes the notion that the "oppressed" have no other option.

Well, certainly, there are many options and many missed opportunities... they simply do not involve the dissolution of the State of Israel, or the withdrawal of the West from the Middle East and Asia while Theocrats impose a dictatorial caliphate.

One thing I should point out that did have within it a bit of "bait and switch" propaganda was the argument about Iraq... specifically that there was terrorism before Iraq, and therefore Iraq wasn't the cause.

I've heard this logic from Dubya and this Republican administration as well. It is, however, disingenous and non sequitor.

To say that Iraq is and was an ineffective and perhaps and incompetent response to Islamic extremism and terrorism, is not to say it is or was the "cause" of terrorism.

The criticism, and intelligence findings are such that while intended to achieve one thing, the Iraq-approach by this Republican administration has essentially achieved the opposite.

Nobody (save perhaps the misinformed) is saying Iraq "caused" terrorism... I guess it is a straw man argument... the evidence goes against the prudence of the policy, therefore they argue against a criticism that doesn't exist.

However, the thing found its way into the commentary, and really to state the truth about Iraq... that it has thus far demonstrated to be counterproductive as a response to Islamic terrorism, would not have detracted from the otherwise excellent points being made.

[John Werntz]

Alexandra,

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to view those video clips.  I fear that David Aaronovitch, like Robert Redeker in France, has set himself up to be a very lonely leftie.  Unhappily, the UN has lent itself wholesale to this abject movement of anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda.  In that connection, Michael van der Galien links today to a petition by ZioNation that calls for fair treatment of Israel by the United Nations.  I would like to join with Michael to urge your followers to add their names to his.