When is Enough?

clipped from www.blog.thesietch.org I’m a liberal - I make no bones about it.   I believe women are my equals and that people of all shades and sexual proclivities have the same rights that I do.  I believe that governments should exist to serve their people and not merely to maximize opportunities for Capitalists. In short, on most questions, if there’s a liberal and conservative axis, you’ll find me on the liberal end of things. But, I have some exceptions - places where liberals might shun me. If an individual’s committed violent crimes repeatedly and is obviously incorrigible, I see no point in the state locking them up and feeding them for the rest of their never-to-be-paroled life.   Terminate them - and let’s move on.   When you’ve got a cancer, you cut it off. Guns?   I’m not at all sure that we all need military assault rifles.   But, I do like what the U.S. Second Amendment says … and why it says it.   When governments lose their way, citizens need a way to have their say.

The author starts out with a liberal manifesto but the real point of this blog post is how Pakistan is creating a “Mortal Danger” to the world by buckling under to pressure from the Taliban.

Sec of State Clinton stated the Pakistani government, in deep denial, is losing ground against the Islamic insurgents and it badly needs to decide which side it is on and get focused.

There is also a very disturbing video every Westerner should see concerning how committed Islamic terrorists are towards the destruction of the US.

While we consider various half measures on how to deal with terrorists and those who want to destroy America and make the world over into a prison of intolerant fundamentalism, wherein women are property and human rights are irrelevant and where we all have to worship as they tell us or die, they are moving inexorably forward towards the possession of nuclear and biological weapons.

They want to take us back to the 7th century - and I, for one, don’t want to go