What? Me worry?
People have been asking me for a while if I feel scared about the fact that there was a foiled plot to perhaps blow up my place of work. The short answer is absolutely not. The long answer is that if I worried about everyone that wanted to blow up Parliament, I wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning. I get mail every day from crazies all over this country who, I'm sure, would love to see the hill turned into a crater, and those are just the ones that are writing. Everyone wants to blow something up. Few have the inclination to actually do it. Fewer still have the wherewithall to actually accomplish it. We arrested a bunch who got closer than most. Good for them for following their dream. Better still for CSIS and the RCMP and whoever else had been watching them for two years before they caught them in a sting. Think about that. Two years. Did this little terrorist cell even have a chance? They were just getting strung along. Everybody, I encourage you to go out and support your local terrorist network. It looks like they can use all the help they can get.
What's irritating me about this whole thing is the way people are reacting to it here and here. Kinsella and all involved with iamnotafraid can be forgiven, people that are afraid need something to rally around and there needs to be community building. I'll support it even if I feel it's needlessly alarmist. The first link, however, is the rambling of an idiot. May I quote? Thank you.
... The question is how to marginalize Islamic radicalism in places like Canada? In one sense, it’s actually quite simple. If they’re not citizens and they’re preaching jihad, you ship them out of the country so fast it makes their turbaned heads spin. If they are citizens, then you watch them like a hawk, and if they so much as spit on the sidewalk, you come down on them like a ton of bricks.
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Canadians might want to ask themselves: Do we want to continue with a senselessly extreme form of hypersensitive multiculturalism and risk tolerating the sort of people who would take advantage of our good nature and behead our leaders? Or do we want to cut the nonsense and become a serious participant in the war on terror, not only for our own sakes, but for the good of all civilization?
I've left out the bits where he criticizes psychological "experts" (his quotation marks of disdain, not mine) for attempting to understand why people would want to attack their home, and the bits where he typecasts the entire Muslim world as a hotbed of jihadist activity. What scares the hell out of me is that there are still so many people out there that seem to think that "cracking down" on extremism somehow works. When you target everyone with a turban and "come down on them like a ton of bricks" you only turn moderates into extremists. When you decide to become a "serious participant" in the war on terror you're only going to make yourself a target for people who might get a whole lot closer to blowing something up.
A note to the author in question: do not write anymore. You are far more dangerous to the people of this country than the terrorists are. And "senselessly extreme multiculturalism" isn't a pipe-dream, it's the future. Get used to it whitey.
What's irritating me about this whole thing is the way people are reacting to it here and here. Kinsella and all involved with iamnotafraid can be forgiven, people that are afraid need something to rally around and there needs to be community building. I'll support it even if I feel it's needlessly alarmist. The first link, however, is the rambling of an idiot. May I quote? Thank you.
... The question is how to marginalize Islamic radicalism in places like Canada? In one sense, it’s actually quite simple. If they’re not citizens and they’re preaching jihad, you ship them out of the country so fast it makes their turbaned heads spin. If they are citizens, then you watch them like a hawk, and if they so much as spit on the sidewalk, you come down on them like a ton of bricks.
[...]
Canadians might want to ask themselves: Do we want to continue with a senselessly extreme form of hypersensitive multiculturalism and risk tolerating the sort of people who would take advantage of our good nature and behead our leaders? Or do we want to cut the nonsense and become a serious participant in the war on terror, not only for our own sakes, but for the good of all civilization?
I've left out the bits where he criticizes psychological "experts" (his quotation marks of disdain, not mine) for attempting to understand why people would want to attack their home, and the bits where he typecasts the entire Muslim world as a hotbed of jihadist activity. What scares the hell out of me is that there are still so many people out there that seem to think that "cracking down" on extremism somehow works. When you target everyone with a turban and "come down on them like a ton of bricks" you only turn moderates into extremists. When you decide to become a "serious participant" in the war on terror you're only going to make yourself a target for people who might get a whole lot closer to blowing something up.
A note to the author in question: do not write anymore. You are far more dangerous to the people of this country than the terrorists are. And "senselessly extreme multiculturalism" isn't a pipe-dream, it's the future. Get used to it whitey.
posted by B-Boy Nothing at 9:31 AM
1 Comments:
And now for your roomate flame of the week...
You're an idiot. And just as dangers to this dialogue as the people you label "dangerously alarmist."
BTW, people should be asking me how I feel about the recent arrests, seeing as a small pipe bomb brought in through the tourist information kiosk would off me in a hearbeat.
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