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Title: The terrorists have won
Source: Townhall.com
URL Source: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ ... 0/2006&page=full&comments=true
Published: Aug 30, 2006
Author: Ben Shapiro
Post Date: 2006-08-30 16:15:35 by It Is A Republic
Keywords: None
Views: 209
Comments: 21

In the current war on Islamofascism, no platitude is nearly as ridiculous as the constant harangue that "if we do X, then the terrorists have won." X can be virtually anything. If you're a conservative, the terrorists have won if we don't fine CBS for showing Janet Jackson's boob during the Super Bowl. If you're a liberal, the terrorists have won if we don't enshrine partial-birth abortion and homosexual marriage in the pantheon of vital American liberties. If you're a libertarian, the terrorists have won if we continue to prosecute pot smokers or pass a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. If you're Ralph Nader, the terrorists have won if we continue to not vote for you.

It is breathtaking to learn just how wide-ranging the Islamofascist agenda is:

The terrorists have won if the Transportation Security Administration begins searching luggage for toothpaste, said William F. Buckley.

If we ethnically profile travelers, the terrorists will have won, warned former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta.

The ratification of the Patriot Act means that the terrorists have already won, explained Howard Dean.

If the October 2001 Academy Awards did not go forward as planned, the terrorists would have won, averred Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences then-President Frank Pierson.

If Congress tightens the border between the United States and Canada, the terrorists will have won, stated Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

If Samuel Alito is appointed to the Supreme Court, the terrorists will win, implied Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT).

If we stop going to the ballgame or hanging out or going downtown for dinner, the terrorists win, said Juan Williams of NPR.

If Margaret Cho can't be as horrible and offensive as humanly possible, the terrorists will have won, stated Margaret Cho.

Apparently, Islamofascist terrorists have been praying ardently for the day Americans could no longer pack their Crest Tartar Protection; terrorists pop the cork each time a potential Muslim terrorist is profiled at the airport; terrorists wear little party hats and do the Macarena when their phone calls are monitored; terrorists shout "Allahu Akhbar" when Hollywood celebrities cannot fete each other; terrorists applaud thunderously when Canadians can no longer drive across the American border without their passports; terrorists squeal with glee when a Ruth Bader Ginsburg clone joins the federal bench; and terrorists are hockey and Margaret Cho fans.

This is all very, very stupid.

Terrorists are quite clear about what they consider victory: conversion of all non-believers to Islam and the subjection of the entire world to sharia law. When Palestinian Arab Islamofascists kidnapped Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, they did not ask them to cancel the Oscars, stump for the Supreme Court appointment of Richard Paez or get them tickets to the Laugh Factory. They forced them to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

This is what Islamofascists do. They aren't shy about their goals. Whatever stops them from achieving those goals is what prevents terrorists from winning. Ethnic profiling helps stop terrorists. Monitoring terrorist phone calls helps stop terrorists. Terrorists aren't all that concerned about gay marriage; they don't win if we pass a Constitutional amendment preventing it.

What about the oft-made argument that if terrorists affect our freedoms, then they have won? Pure sophistry. If our enemies affect our freedoms, they affect our freedoms. We may not like our freedoms being affected. Nonetheless, that has no impact on whether the "terrorists have won." Our enemies do not care whether we allow Robert Mapplethorpe to peddle his tripe on the public dime. They hate us either way.

Only if affecting our freedoms allows our enemies to achieve their actual goals have our enemies won. During WWII, they affected our consumption patterns and civil liberties. We won. During the Vietnam War, they made our counterculture into our mainstream culture. We lost.

If the terrorists achieve global sharia, then they will have won. If they erect a mosque on the ruins of the World Trade Center, then they will have won. They will not stop until they achieve their goals. We must not stop until we have shattered their dreams forever.

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#1. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

Author: Ben Shapiro

America's problem has always been listening to nutjob Jews telling us who our friends and and enemies are. It's done America no good and has harmed us immeasurably.

"We can make a natural alliance through the ownership of the great industries of the world and through the sharing of their profits." -Lord Charles Beresford, in a 1903 speech to the (Anglo-American-Jewish) Pilgrims Society.

bluegrass  posted on  2006-08-30   16:17:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

Take your bot propoganda and shove it u y a

angle  posted on  2006-08-30   16:20:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

Ben Shapiro, Harvard Chickenhawk: A girlyman on the playground, a Titan amongst fellow neocons.

JohnGalt  posted on  2006-08-30   16:23:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

What utter pap.

I'm more "terrified" of this gov than I am of any goat-herder in the ME.

Lod  posted on  2006-08-30   16:32:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

Islamofascist terrorists

Lets see if I can recall even more Neoconish phrases, aka meanless soundbytes:

Won't cut and run

Support the troops

You're a great American

Mission Accomplished

Doing the jobs Americans don't won't do

Liberal

Leftist

America-haters

Axis of Evil

Evildoers

New World Order

Comprehensive Immigration Bill

Protect the citizens of the United States

(sigh) Politics has been reduced to 3 second sound bytes, without further description or clarification, that simply get repeated over and over and over again.

Gives ya a warm, fuzzy feeling the Feds and bots really know what they are doin', doesn't it?

/sarc

"America" is nothing more than a collection of ever-growing federal employees with selectively enforced National Laws, their own Treasury, who possess residents-not citizens, a soon-to-be-obsloete currency, a displaced (foreign placed) National Military, a multi-lingual environment, an indeterminent culture, no real borders, a symbolic flag and a few sports teams.

add925  posted on  2006-08-30   16:34:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: add925 (#5)

Two more:

Chatter

Chemical Ali

"We can make a natural alliance through the ownership of the great industries of the world and through the sharing of their profits." -Lord Charles Beresford, in a 1903 speech to the (Anglo-American-Jewish) Pilgrims Society.

bluegrass  posted on  2006-08-30   16:41:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: It Is A Republic (#0) (Edited)

"If the terrorists achieve global sharia, then they will have won. If they erect a mosque on the ruins of the World Trade Center, then they will have won. They will not stop until they achieve their goals. We must not stop until we have shattered their dreams forever."

Osama and company are scapegoats. The person who was part of the criminal enterprise that destroyed the World Trade Center pranced around bullhorn in hand pretending he had nothing to do with the death and destruction.

9-11 was an inside job. His father George Herbert Walker Bush helped murder John F. Kennedy, his grandfather Prescott was a Nazi groupie and profited from his association with those he admired and emulated.

We have lost the battle with Smirk having run of the scene of one of his crimes, but in the end, we will win the war.

The truth moment is not only never going away, we will see the Bushes and Cheneys of the world get the place in the history book they deserve, as criminals, racketeers and murderers.

+ + =

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-08-30   16:42:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: add925, lodwick, noone222, HOUNDDAWG, robin (#5)

Lets see if I can recall even more Neoconish phrases, aka meanless soundbytes:

Won't cut and run

Support the troops

You're a great American

Mission Accomplished

Doing the jobs Americans don't won't do

Liberal

Leftist

America-haters

Axis of Evil

Evildoers

New World Order

Comprehensive Immigration Bill

Protect the citizens of the United States

(sigh) Politics has been reduced to 3 second sound bytes

Okay, here's my soundbytes.

Necktie Party

2nd Amendment

America First

Tree of Liberty watered with blood of tyrants

Necktie Party

Bring home troops NOW

Oh yeah, did I mention Necktie Party..

Lady X  posted on  2006-08-30   16:45:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Lady X (#8)

America First

Tree of Liberty watered with blood of tyrants

Necktie Party

Bring home troops NOW

Oh yeah, did I mention Necktie Party..

Hey, I LIKE America First! Take it off your list.

You ain't no Globalist, OBL, CFR, WTO, NWO type, are you?

;^)

"America" is nothing more than a collection of ever-growing federal employees with selectively enforced National Laws, their own Treasury, who possess residents-not citizens, a soon-to-be-obsloete currency, a displaced (foreign placed) National Military, a multi-lingual environment, an indeterminent culture, no real borders, a symbolic flag and a few sports teams.

add925  posted on  2006-08-30   16:48:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: add925 (#9)

The dictatorship has their list and I have mine..

Lady X  posted on  2006-08-30   16:53:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: It Is A Republic (#0) (Edited)

Only if affecting our freedoms allows our enemies to achieve their actual goals have our enemies won.

That's funny...all of my removed Freedoms have been whisked away by none other than TheStateInc of CorporoFascist AmEriKa, not some diaper wearing guy in a cave. That means our real enemy, the corporofascist political WHORES in DC, has won indeed.


LEAP

"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William K Clifford

IndieTX  posted on  2006-08-30   17:53:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

The battle has moved to inside America. I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and choking life. - Osama bin Laden (BBC taped interview after 9-11)

Give Me Liberty  posted on  2006-08-30   18:42:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Give Me Liberty (#12)

ziiiiiiiiing....

"Freedom4um" -- The Forum for Real Americans and where America and Americans are always First!

christine  posted on  2006-08-30   18:59:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: christine. all (#13)

I miss the Minister of Information.

Lod  posted on  2006-08-30   19:11:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: JohnGalt (#3)

Ben Shapiro, Harvard Chickenhawk: A girlyman on the playground, a Titan amongst fellow neocons.

Shapiro is a violin-playing virgin and a coward.

Here's my take on the balless wonder:

Benjie

"Benjamin Franklin was shown the new American constitution, and he said, 'I don't like it, but I will vote for it because we need something right now. But this constitution in time will fail, as all such efforts do. And it will fail because of the corruption of the people, in a general sense.' And that is what it has come to now, exactly as Franklin predicted." -- Gore Vidal

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-08-30   19:19:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

Obviously "the terrorists" have won. What could be plainer? Every time the Wee Emperor starts chittering about "freedom," I lose another piece of mine. I don't have that many pieces left, either -- and George the Slow chitters early and often. If Osama really does hate our freedoms (but I'm pretty sure he really doesn't give a rat's ass, one way or the other, about our mostly-imaginary "freedoms"), then he's winning every day ... thanks to his most important allies: Bush the Stupid, and the American sheeple who support or tolerate the squinting, smirking, truculent pinhead.

I'm serious here, folks: I'm a Christian, and I think hatred's a bad idea. As intensely and passionately as I find myself hating Bush and all his crew, it's clear that Bush is very, very bad for the state of my "inner man." Bush is rotting my soul. Bush gots to go.

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken

Enderby  posted on  2006-08-30   19:47:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Ferret Mike (#7)

Mr. Ferret Mike, I wish I had adequate words to tell you just how completely cool that rebus signature image of yours is. You da man.

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken

Enderby  posted on  2006-08-30   19:50:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: It Is A Republic (#0)

Imperial Hubris talks about Bin Laden's goals. Seems there are two primary goals, get the US out of Saudi Arabia and bring down the American Republic.

Bush gave Bin Laden his first victory shortly before Bush put on his bunny suit and danced around on the deck of the carrier. Bush quietly ducked his tail between his legs and pulled the troops out of Saudi Arabia per Bin Laden's demand.

As long as Bin Laden can keep Bush and the Neo-cons in power his goal of the destruction of the American Republic proceeds on schedule. Note how Bin Laden shows up with a tape prior to every election to give Bush a little boost in the polls. When Bush has finished isolating the US in the world and taking our last Constitutional freedoms, Bin Laden will be victorious. He will probably then cease aiding Bush. I am sure that aiding Bush makes Bin Laden feel dirty.

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...  posted on  2006-08-30   20:02:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: ... (#18)

honestly, this is upsetting, don't click on it if you've any feelings whatsoever.

bush bunny bung borer

The faster the Aryan Nation mob at Freedom4um are caged and chained, the better off we'll be. I’ll cheering when they are forced to behave. - Aaron

Dakmar  posted on  2006-08-30   20:09:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: YertleTurtle (#15)

know that's a hard task, what with the genetically determined wimpification and all, but Benjie does give it the old kindergarten try. Recently he's tried to get the glands to chug out the manly hormones by attacking Pat Buchanan in an execrable column he wrote at the even more execrable WorldNetDaily, a site that used to be pretty good, until publisher Joseph Farah looked down one day and noticed his pair had shriveled up on him, too.

I don't agree with everything Pat Buchanan writes, but I do know he is an honorable man. Shapiro is neither honorable, nor a man. What he is, then? He's...wait a minute...what's that sound I hear? Oh, yeah, there it is: "Buk, buk, buk." That's the squawk of the Chickenhawk, that species that will not fight under any circumstances but instead stands on the sidelines yelling, "Throw the ball there. Okay, now throw it over here."

laughing...this is one of your most amusing commentaries, YT.

"Freedom4um" -- The Forum for Real Americans and where America and Americans are always First!

christine  posted on  2006-08-30   20:09:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Ferret Mike (#7)

we will see the Bushes and Cheneys of the world get the place in the history book they deserve, as criminals, racketeers and murderers.

and traitors.

angle  posted on  2006-08-30   20:38:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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