Place Your Trust in Government: THEY’LL Protect You

And if you believe that, you are a blooming idiot.

A teen is suspended for fighting. He threatened to blow up the school this past Friday.

Today, he stormed into the school and started shooting. So far, he appears to be the only fatality: he saved us tax dollars by killing himself.

As for the details:

  1. The regular security guard at the school was on vacation.
  2. Two other security guards were recently laid off.
  3. The school was across the street from an FBI office.

A lot of freaking good the FBI did.

The New USA: Waging Global War on Christians

10/10/2007: This is one more reason why we ought to reconsider the neocon agenda.

Invading Iraq–in 1991–was a bad idea. Not only was there no American interest at stake–this was all about the New World Order–our failure to complete the job only guaranteed that we would return.

In 2003, we went back into Iraq. If our mission was to finish off Saddam, we accomplished that: he’s dead now. Unfortunately, we have turned that into a nation-building exercise that we cannot win. That is because the parameters of victory are not within our control: those belong to the Iraqis.

Unfortunately, we have to concede the Law of Unintended Consequences: Christians in Iraq are worse off today than they were under Saddam Hussein. They are persecuted more now than before; they are fleeing the country more now than before–especially in greater proportion than their Muslim counterparts.

This has also been the case in Israel-Palestine, where Israeli pullouts in Gaza, the West Bank, and Hebron–in addition to our support for “democratic processes” in Palestinian territory–have only bred new ratholes of Islammunism. As a result, Christians are under increased oppression now than before. The Arab Christian constituency is dwindling, as they are fleeing the Middle East in droves.

The latest kicker, of course, is the latest effort by the Bushies to curtail a Congressional resolution calling the Armenian slaughter–which killed about 1.5 million Armenian Christians–the first genocide of the 20th century. The Bushies, of course, are worried that such a resolution could damage U.S.-Turkey relations, upon which we depend for our supply routes for American troops in Iraq.

While I question the wisdom of a Congressional resolution in 2007 about a genocide that happened in 1915 (92 years ago)–we have more issues of immediate importance before us, and it is not our job to be the moralizers in the world–to call the Armenian slaughter anything less than genocide is a travesty.

On the other hand, our military efforts have been particularly damaging to Christians, as our World Democracy Revolution has failed to bring true religious freedom to the people for whom we claim to be fighting. Without such freedom, it is legitimate to ask what we have really accomplished.

To that effect, the necons on the right and neocommies on the left are equally bankrupt: the former fail to see the shortcomings of their agenda; the latter couldn’t give a damn about Christians.

Sadly, as a result, America is–via unintended consequences–waging war against Christians.