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Friday, July 07, 2006
Diana West :: Townhall.com Columnist
We musn't rile the terror-mongers
by Diana West
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Van driver: "They can do whatever they want and I can't?"

Policeman: "They've got their way of doing it. The way you did it was wrong. You've got one second to get back in your van and get out of here."

Van driver: (bitter) "Freedom of speech."

This vignette wasn't law and order in action. It was desperate, craven appeasement. As the bobby put it, "You say things like that, you'll get them riled." And we mustn't get them riled. Let Choudary and his band of thugs praise mass killings, threaten more attacks and advocate murder by beheading on London streets in broad daylight -- but don't get them riled.

Still, Choudary did end up in a British court of law, and this week a British judge handed down a verdict. Choudary has been found guilty of ... staging a demonstration without giving the required six days' written notice.

Tsk, tsk. That'll be $1,400 in fines, please -- easy enough to pay since Choudary, the Online Sun reports, receives more than twice that per month in government handouts. All of which makes Pax Britannica seem quite cheap at the price.
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Diana West is a contributing columnist for Townhall.com and author of the new book, The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Jul 7, 2006 - 2:39 PM EST
Right is wrong - Wrong is right
Personally, I'm glad I will probably die soon. I don't know how much more of this I can take. I'm VERY VERY glad my Father is not around to see the state of North American society. The one he fought for. The generation that fought WW2, (thank goodness, we didn't have to fight it with today's gobbly-gook PC philosophy!), had a code of right and wrong. They would be very confused to be told they were all wrong!

If Osama Bin Laden was captured tomorrow and stood up and made one of his speeches admitting to masterminding 9/11, and freely admitting to planning more 9/11s and 7/7s, I am sure, there would be very loud voices from the left wanting him treated well.

I found it very enlightening on the anniversery of D-Day, when I watched a CNN special on the invasion of Normandy. CNN was of the opinion that these men were HEROES! One and all.

The next segment on CNN was a disgusting piece, condeming our current military men calling them every name CNN could think of that was bad.

In their way, the current military is fighting a harder war then our fathers. Our fathers, at least, for the most part, had the enemy standing in front of them. It was simpler. Kill or be killed. And, for the most part had the support of their government and the people at home.

Today's kids have no idea where death might come from. The 12-year-old kid? The mother pushing the baby carriage? And what do they see on T.V.? What do they come home to? Scorn and ridicule. And being called criminals.

Gee, talk about right and wrong being upside down!
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Reply # 2
Date: Jul 7, 2006 - 1:36 PM EST
Dan
That's why we must first defeat the enemy within, if we're to stand a chance of defeating Islam.

Count me in the fight.
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