Liberalism Makes Us Weak
Both Osama and a 5-year-old girl know that when they terrorize us, we'll bend over backwards so as not to disturb our pacifist, contented liberalism
 

July 19 2005
Counterbias.com
by Ted Baiamonte
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When Osama Bin Laden read his morning paper on March 15th and saw that St. Petersburg police officers had handcuffed and detained an unruly five-year-old girl after she acted up in her kindergarten class, he must have been very happy to see a new recruit in the making.

What happened in Florida is that a little girl realized that she could be as violent as she wanted to be and the liberal teachers would not do anything to stop her. She yelled, cried, hit, threw things, and walked on desks kicking papers everywhere. The liberal teachers, fully supported by their liberal unions (which, by the way, have made our schools some of the worst in the industrialized world), had anticipated this eventuality.

So when this five-year-old girl attacked that morning, they were fully prepared to liberally respond: they did nothing. Doing something would have meant physically restraining (some would say violently restraining) this poor little child, and that is just not the liberal thing to do.

But, being liberal that day did present an obvious problem. How could liberal teachers teach the kids, something they still acknowledge as their responsibility, if the kids were busy commandeering the school? The answer came to them in a flash: when liberalism fails, call the conservative police to do your job. That way you can maintain your utterly meretricious liberalism.

Florida is surely a place in William Blake's world where you can see the world in a grain of sand. When I went to school, I recall that there came a day in seventh grade when John Johnson decided to test the waters ever so slightly. He bravely, or perhaps unconsciously, elected to continue talking to a friend when the bell rang to signify that eighth period math class had promptly begun. What he didn't elect to do was notice where Mr. Leden was with his 3-inch wide, 1/4-inch thick, yard stick. It turned out that he was perfectly positioned, having anticipated an impending rebellion, to administer a fierce blow across John Johnson's backside. The stinging sound ricocheted perfectly down the metal, locker lined walls of the third floor for everyone to hear.

By the end of school that day every student within 100 miles had learned what they already knew was true, namely, such an audacious act of depraved rebellion would illicit an immediate, fearsome, and humiliating response. I still hear, feel , and see it to this day. In fact I can still see the painfully contorted expression on John Johnson's face as he held his ass and struggled back to his desk.

But today we don't do that. We call the Republican police, but only after we have taught our kids to run wild on the streets and in the schools. The result is plain to see: we have over 2 million kids in jail, and gangs control large sections of American cities. On an absolute and per capita basis we lead the world by far in freedom and prisons, despite being the richest nation on earth. Does anyone doubt that virtually all prisoners would be model citizens had they been subject to Mr. Leden's yard stick for 8 hours a day over 15 years, instead of the scourge of liberalism that has so infected and destroyed so many lives since the liberals took over in the 1960's?

Osama Bin Laden has said that we are soft and weak and liberal. He knows that he, and a five-year-old, can terrorize us, and that we will bend over backwards so as not to disturb our pacifist, contented liberalism. He believes he can outlast us on the battlefield.

Before the bombings in London, the Mayor, appeasingly, had tea with a violent Muslim Cleric. After the bombings, Tony Blair said he was proud of Britain's Muslims. Yesterday, a Gitmo commander was reprimanded when it turned out that a terrorist who had been arrested in Orlando airport, at roughly the same time Mohammed Atta (a 9/11 terrorist) came through that airport, was forced to wear women's underwear and dance with another man at Gitmo.

Osama knows we are liberal, just as that five-year-old knew it. He knows we will not spank that little girl or bomb his sacred mosques in Mecca and Medina as we randomly bombed Dresden and Tokyo in WW2. He knows that decades of peace and wealth have softened our brains, pacified our spirits, and tricked us into believing that our peaceful little lives will never be disturbed. He knows that liberal Democrats are now in charge, at least until he has killed too many of us. For him the trick is to kill just enough of us to properly terrorize us but not enough of us to make us call the police.
 

Ted Baiamonte is author of "Understanding the Difference Between Democrats and Republicans". His blog is The Dumb Democrat, and he can be reached at bje1000@aol.com.