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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Michele has Cliff Notes for Ted Rall on O'Reilly. Her conclusion: "Well, all in all, that was very LAME. "
Update: Seconded.
I'm wondering if I should add A Small Victory to my links. Supposedly, she gave up political blogging...
Update: Seconded.
I'm wondering if I should add A Small Victory to my links. Supposedly, she gave up political blogging...
Ted Rall, Psychopath
Yesterday I wrote this:
Today I wrote this:
There's a reason for the use of the word psychopath. You may want to read the Slate article I linked to in yesterday's post first.
Back? Good. I want to, in particular, bring your attention to this:
Think about that in comparison to Ted Rall. Compare it to this satire by Jeff Goldstein. Finally, read Rall's defense of his column.
My first thoughts is that he can't possibly believe that shit. I mean f-ck all, "death cult," "suicide bombers!" As it was said on South Park, "What the hell is wrong with you!?!"
This entire paragraph is a lie:
So I think, if he doesn't believe it, he must be lying. (Duh!) So why the heck does he lie? Goldstein knows:
Yes, the egotism sounds like Harris. Of course, I doubt that Jeff realizes this, but the post is based on his interpretation of Rall's personality based on his works and statements.
So messianic-complex, check. Deceitfulness, check. Lack of remorse and empathy? He called Pat Tillman a sap, an idiot, and implied he is a racist. The man is dead! He died trying to protect Rall's undeserving ass from another terrorist attack in his hometown of New York City! Again, "What the hell is wrong with you!?!"
Then you look at his cartoons/libels of New York City firefighters, widows of September 11th, Daniel Pearl's widow, and using the death of a friend to write about his past promiscuity. The man has no shame, because he has no empathy or remorse. He doesn't give a shit about another person on this planet. The reason he has got as far as he has is that his psychopathy is sliming any one who has any misfortune, decency, or honor, because he doesn't get sympathy and he sure as heck doesn't get honor and decency, which is the least we can say from the Pat Tillman cartoon.
So, yeah, I think he doesn't have a single bit of empathy or remorse.
The reason he's been able to go along without anyone finding out he is a psychopath is that he's smart, and he knows how to control himself. Most of the time.
But along comes Rene Gonzalez soaking up all the scorn doing his shtick, followed by Micah Wright being revealed as a liar trying to figuratively bash people over the head with his fictional military service, and Rall can't take the chumps getting all the notoriety. People are supposed to hate him. So he draws a dishonest column that insults a brave and decent man's death. Because Ted Rall thinks people are "idiots" and "saps," or "evil," unless they like him, and everything to Rall is about Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall.
A festering sore on the face of mankind, indeed.
Trackback to OTB Traffic Jam.
Yesterday I wrote this:
The thing that really bothers me about [Eric] Harris is that he had no morality or compassion for others, wanted to glorify himself through murdering people, and no one saw through his deception.
Today I wrote this:
Ted Rall is a deluded, sick, hateful, talentless, amoral psychopath.
There's a reason for the use of the word psychopath. You may want to read the Slate article I linked to in yesterday's post first.
Back? Good. I want to, in particular, bring your attention to this:
It rages on for page after page and is repeated in his journal and in the videos he and Klebold made. But Fuselier recognized a far more revealing emotion bursting through, both fueling and overshadowing the hate. What the boy was really expressing was contempt.
He is disgusted with the morons around him. These are not the rantings of an angry young man, picked on by jocks until he's not going to take it anymore. These are the rantings of someone with a messianic-grade superiority complex, out to punish the entire human race for its appalling inferiority. It may look like hate, but "It's more about demeaning other people," says Hare.
A second confirmation of the diagnosis was Harris' perpetual deceitfulness. "I lie a lot," Eric wrote to his journal. "Almost constantly, and to everybody, just to keep my own ass out of the water. Let's see, what are some of the big lies I told? Yeah I stopped smoking. For doing it, not for getting caught. No I haven't been making more bombs. No I wouldn't do that. And countless other ones."
Harris claimed to lie to protect himself, but that appears to be something of a lie as well. He lied for pleasure, Fuselier says. "Duping delight"?psychologist Paul Ekman's term?represents a key characteristic of the psychopathic profile.
Harris married his deceitfulness with a total lack of remorse or empathy?another distinctive quality of the psychopath[...]
Think about that in comparison to Ted Rall. Compare it to this satire by Jeff Goldstein. Finally, read Rall's defense of his column.
My first thoughts is that he can't possibly believe that shit. I mean f-ck all, "death cult," "suicide bombers!" As it was said on South Park, "What the hell is wrong with you!?!"
This entire paragraph is a lie:
Second, Mr. Tillman served an evil president and an evil cause. Anyone with an open mind after 9/11 could easily have learned the truth, that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq occured instead of a war on terror, not as part of one. A person who planned to risk his life in combat should reasonably be expected to dig a little deeper rather than to fall for Bush's transparent lies. We all judge each other, and while Tillman's decision to sacrifice millions of dollars for his beliefs is admirable, his belief that killing the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan had something to do with defending America was not. At best, Tillman was foolish and misguided.
So I think, if he doesn't believe it, he must be lying. (Duh!) So why the heck does he lie? Goldstein knows:
Notice me. That's it, not much to ask, a week of Rene what's his name, the little Puerto Rican fuck with the thick lips and that awful awful hair....notice me, notice me. Micah Wright? Christ a tenth of my talent he has, the Photoshop hack, yet all the delicious vitriol spilled on him, wasted on him, spent spent spent on him, but -- notice. Me. Notice me. I rail and I roil and I boil and assail...notice me. Notice me. Notice me. You want controversy? I'll give you controversy, not like some UMass microbe dicksucker low on the food chain -- no. I'll do it with pictures, my peculiar blend of humor, love it or hate it but never ignore it because it's fucking brilliant, I'm fucking brilliant, my art -- my art is fucking brilliant.
Yes, the egotism sounds like Harris. Of course, I doubt that Jeff realizes this, but the post is based on his interpretation of Rall's personality based on his works and statements.
So messianic-complex, check. Deceitfulness, check. Lack of remorse and empathy? He called Pat Tillman a sap, an idiot, and implied he is a racist. The man is dead! He died trying to protect Rall's undeserving ass from another terrorist attack in his hometown of New York City! Again, "What the hell is wrong with you!?!"
Then you look at his cartoons/libels of New York City firefighters, widows of September 11th, Daniel Pearl's widow, and using the death of a friend to write about his past promiscuity. The man has no shame, because he has no empathy or remorse. He doesn't give a shit about another person on this planet. The reason he has got as far as he has is that his psychopathy is sliming any one who has any misfortune, decency, or honor, because he doesn't get sympathy and he sure as heck doesn't get honor and decency, which is the least we can say from the Pat Tillman cartoon.
So, yeah, I think he doesn't have a single bit of empathy or remorse.
The reason he's been able to go along without anyone finding out he is a psychopath is that he's smart, and he knows how to control himself. Most of the time.
But along comes Rene Gonzalez soaking up all the scorn doing his shtick, followed by Micah Wright being revealed as a liar trying to figuratively bash people over the head with his fictional military service, and Rall can't take the chumps getting all the notoriety. People are supposed to hate him. So he draws a dishonest column that insults a brave and decent man's death. Because Ted Rall thinks people are "idiots" and "saps," or "evil," unless they like him, and everything to Rall is about Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall, Rall.
A festering sore on the face of mankind, indeed.
Trackback to OTB Traffic Jam.
A Festering Sore on the Face of Humanity
Micah Wright is a liar.
Ted Rall is a deluded, sick, hateful, talentless, amoral psychopath.
Why, oh why, does the left get all the f---ing assholes?
Micah Wright is a liar.
Ted Rall is a deluded, sick, hateful, talentless, amoral psychopath.
Why, oh why, does the left get all the f---ing assholes?
Monday, May 03, 2004
Everything you know about the Columbine shooting is wrong
From Slate:
In 1998, my dad attended two weeks of lectures about psychopathy by Dr. Hare. He says the man knows his stuff.
The thing that really bothers me about Harris is that he had no morality or compassion for others, wanted to glorify himself through murdering people, and no one saw through his deception. It makes me think about some people I knew in high school, and I wonder whether they might have been like Harris if they had more motivation and intelligence.
From Slate:
Harris and Klebold would have been dismayed that Columbine was dubbed the "worst school shooting in American history." They set their sights on eclipsing the world's greatest mass murderers, but the media never saw past the choice of venue. The school setting drove analysis in precisely the wrong direction.
Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand "the killers," quit asking what drove them. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions. Klebold is easier to comprehend, a more familiar type. He was hotheaded, but depressive and suicidal. He blamed himself for his problems.
Harris is the challenge. He was sweet-faced and well-spoken. Adults, and even some other kids, described him as "nice." But Harris was cold, calculating, and homicidal. "Klebold was hurting inside while Harris wanted to hurt people," Fuselier says. Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath.
In popular usage, almost any crazy killer is a "psychopath." But in psychiatry, it's a very specific mental condition that rarely involves killing, or even psychosis. "Psychopaths are not disoriented or out of touch with reality, nor do they experience the delusions, hallucinations, or intense subjective distress that characterize most other mental disorders," writes Dr. Robert Hare, in Without Conscience, the seminal book on the condition. (Hare is also one of the psychologists consulted by the FBI about Columbine and by Slate for this story.) "Unlike psychotic individuals, psychopaths are rational and aware of what they are doing and why. Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised." Diagnosing Harris as a psychopath represents neither a legal defense, nor a moral excuse. But it illuminates a great deal about the thought process that drove him to mass murder.
[...]
Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.
It begins to explain Harris' unbelievably callous behavior: his ability to shoot his classmates, then stop to taunt them while they writhed in pain, then finish them off. Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable. But they're actually much easier to predict than the rest of us once you understand them. Psychopaths follow much stricter behavior patterns than the rest of us because they are unfettered by conscience, living solely for their own aggrandizement. (The difference is so striking that Fuselier trains hostage negotiators to identify psychopaths during a standoff, and immediately reverse tactics if they think they're facing one. It's like flipping a switch between two alternate brain-mechanisms.)
None of his victims means anything to the psychopath. He recognizes other people only as means to obtain what he desires. Not only does he feel no guilt for destroying their lives, he doesn't grasp what they feel. The truly hard-core psychopath doesn't quite comprehend emotions like love or hate or fear, because he has never experienced them directly.
In 1998, my dad attended two weeks of lectures about psychopathy by Dr. Hare. He says the man knows his stuff.
The thing that really bothers me about Harris is that he had no morality or compassion for others, wanted to glorify himself through murdering people, and no one saw through his deception. It makes me think about some people I knew in high school, and I wonder whether they might have been like Harris if they had more motivation and intelligence.
Friday, April 30, 2004
If a tree falls in a forest and the press doesn't see it, did it actually fall?
An exercise by the New York Times in solipism and delusions of grandeur:
Forget bias, this arrogance and obliviousness is the real reason people don't like mainstream media.
Article first seen at Amish Tech Support.
An exercise by the New York Times in solipism and delusions of grandeur:
If an important meeting takes place in the Oval Office and there are no television cameras to record it, did the meeting matter? [This line makes me want to slap the "journalist."]
ABC, NBC and CBS all led their evening news programs with the Sept. 11 commission's meeting with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday. Yet no television news program had images of the encounter. A paranoid conspiracy theorist could conclude that the much-anticipated White House interview never took place.
There were no pictures of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney sitting side by side in front of the Oval Office fireplace. There was no tape of the president or Mr. Cheney greeting or talking to commission members at the White House entrance.
[...]
On a day when viewers could watch American marines battling rebels in Falluja and see Jayson Williams squirm in his courtroom seat while awaiting a verdict on manslaughter charges, the blackout at the White House was striking.
[...]
CNN and other cable networks had to resort to showing, over and over, an archival tape from a 2003 interview that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney gave while seated in armchairs in front of the Oval Office fireplace. The closest most viewers got to the Oval Office yesterday was watching "The Wayne Brady Show," whose guest was Dule Hill, the actor who plays a White House aide on "The West Wing."
[...]
The White House's insistence on a private, no-tech meeting made political sense — the president's aides have no interest in allowing pictures that might make him look vulnerable under questioning or overly reliant on his older vice president. But the nonvisual event was so anathema to television that at one point, the CNN anchor Daryn Kagan said it seemed as if "the event took place in the 18th century."[All emphasis mine]
Forget bias, this arrogance and obliviousness is the real reason people don't like mainstream media.
Article first seen at Amish Tech Support.
Web games
Via Michele.
After a few sorry years, "New Math" (which was already over a hundred years old) was dropped from the syllabus.
The Millenium Problems, by Keith Devlin.
Also from Michele:
When I wake up early in the morning
lift my head, I'm still yawning.
When I'm in the middle of a dream
stay in bed, float upstream--
float upstream.
Please don't wake me
no don't shake me
leave me where I am.
I'm only sleeping.
This song is so funky.
Hint: The band that made this album only made five after it.
Yes, I'm evil.
Via Michele.
GRAB THAT BOOK
Via half the Internet, it’s the latest crazy random words game:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
After a few sorry years, "New Math" (which was already over a hundred years old) was dropped from the syllabus.
The Millenium Problems, by Keith Devlin.
Also from Michele:
1. Grab the nearest CD.
2. Put it in your CD-Player (or start your mp3-player, I-tunes, etc.).
3. Skip to Song 3 (or load the 3rd song in your 3rd playlist)
4. Post the first verse in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t name the band, nor the album-title.
When I wake up early in the morning
lift my head, I'm still yawning.
When I'm in the middle of a dream
stay in bed, float upstream--
float upstream.
Please don't wake me
no don't shake me
leave me where I am.
I'm only sleeping.
This song is so funky.
Hint: The band that made this album only made five after it.
Yes, I'm evil.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Yes, I've realized that I haven't posted in over a week
So, a roundup:
Rantisi has been executed (Warning: graphic images in link). I think the same sentiments that I had for the death of Yassin apply. He was on my ATS Dead Pool roster, so I move up to 6th place in the Dead Pool. You know what, I might actually win something in this.
"Officials Seize Giant Snails From Schools"
Need I say more? (Yes.) [Godammit!]
"Burning Down the House," by the Talking Heads is just plain awesome, for many reasons, mostly the friday before last. Good times...
No visible means of support
and you have not seen nothing yet.
Everything' stuck together.
I don't know what you expect,
from staring into the tv set.
Fighting fire with fire!
So, a roundup:
Rantisi has been executed (Warning: graphic images in link). I think the same sentiments that I had for the death of Yassin apply. He was on my ATS Dead Pool roster, so I move up to 6th place in the Dead Pool. You know what, I might actually win something in this.
"Officials Seize Giant Snails From Schools"
Need I say more? (Yes.) [Godammit!]
"Burning Down the House," by the Talking Heads is just plain awesome, for many reasons, mostly the friday before last. Good times...
No visible means of support
and you have not seen nothing yet.
Everything' stuck together.
I don't know what you expect,
from staring into the tv set.
Fighting fire with fire!
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Random weblog report
Laurence: "It's Thursday, so that means it's Queri Threatens To Quit Day..."
[Nahhh...he's too much of a stooge to quit. And if he does he won't be there to get taken out when the revolution comes. Come on, top five!]
This is just frightening. (It involves AllahPundit and Star Wars.)
Also, the prime suspect for the adware incident is Revenue.net. Owned by Oversee.net. Owned by the mysterious and shadowy "Henry Chan." Hmmm...
"Help us Obi Don Rumsfobi!"
Laurence: "It's Thursday, so that means it's Queri Threatens To Quit Day..."
[Nahhh...he's too much of a stooge to quit. And if he does he won't be there to get taken out when the revolution comes. Come on, top five!]
This is just frightening. (It involves AllahPundit and Star Wars.)
Also, the prime suspect for the adware incident is Revenue.net. Owned by Oversee.net. Owned by the mysterious and shadowy "Henry Chan." Hmmm...
"Help us Obi Don Rumsfobi!"
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Friday, April 09, 2004
Laurence Simon Opens His Heart to The Readers of ATS
For those curious, the reason for the lack of a follow-up to the mosque bombing is either a) the media is hoping that this isn't exposed as a lie that got halfway around the world before the truth got its boots on, b) no one has written an original story about it yet, c) My computer aquired a nasty adware virus that installed several dozen adware programs on it and hijacked my browser (damn you ActiveX!), or d) b and c.
Also, here are two hatchet-jobs/articles from Slate on the Condi Rice testimony, and I think that these engage in so much tunnel vision, snarkiness, and prejudgment that it would be a waste of my time to do anything but say that Fred Kaplan has sunk extremely low for someone who had been a cogent and informative columnist. I saw the major pieces of the Condi testimony excluding the Kerrey part and the very opening, and from these writings it seems like they saw a completely different hearing.
Continuing about the adware, I also got this, and the MSView version of this. And even this, which was practically created yesterday. A few germs. (Actually that first one is pretty blatant spyware, being absolutely useless to the user if they don't subscribe.) The random "respectable" web utilitities. This, and yet another actual internet company producing spyware/adware. And last but not least, a whole lot more crapola from a company that calls itself "aBetterInternet." (Actually its just a front for this, or this if you don't get that.) The usual name for this adware/spyware is Transponder.
Ashcroft, forget about pr0n. Go after these ass----s.
(Goodnight.)
For those curious, the reason for the lack of a follow-up to the mosque bombing is either a) the media is hoping that this isn't exposed as a lie that got halfway around the world before the truth got its boots on, b) no one has written an original story about it yet, c) My computer aquired a nasty adware virus that installed several dozen adware programs on it and hijacked my browser (damn you ActiveX!), or d) b and c.
Also, here are two hatchet-jobs/articles from Slate on the Condi Rice testimony, and I think that these engage in so much tunnel vision, snarkiness, and prejudgment that it would be a waste of my time to do anything but say that Fred Kaplan has sunk extremely low for someone who had been a cogent and informative columnist. I saw the major pieces of the Condi testimony excluding the Kerrey part and the very opening, and from these writings it seems like they saw a completely different hearing.
Continuing about the adware, I also got this, and the MSView version of this. And even this, which was practically created yesterday. A few germs. (Actually that first one is pretty blatant spyware, being absolutely useless to the user if they don't subscribe.) The random "respectable" web utilitities. This, and yet another actual internet company producing spyware/adware. And last but not least, a whole lot more crapola from a company that calls itself "aBetterInternet." (Actually its just a front for this, or this if you don't get that.) The usual name for this adware/spyware is Transponder.
Ashcroft, forget about pr0n. Go after these ass----s.
(Goodnight.)
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
West Bank Press Syndrome
One of the biggest problems with international reporting in third-world countries, especially in areas of combat, is that very often the reporters are nowhere near the event that has happened and say whatever they hear from others with no assesment of the credibility of the source, or simply report events without telling how they found out about it. Sometimes they even pull out their reporters and make no mention that all their info is secondhand from government or organzational sources. The results, respectively, are repeating official propaganda and disinformation from "witnesses" as happens every day in the West Bank and Gaza, or Rwanda, where the international media left during a lull in the fighting and the world never heard local media reports that mass killings were occuring because the international press wasn't even reporting the official line because the government leaders were dead.
What's happening in Iraq is West Bank Press Syndrome, not Rwanda Press Syndrome. (Iran at its "elections" and possibly Syria a few weeks ago was Rwanda Press Syndrome. Or pro-dictatorship bias. I'm inclined to believe in ineptitude over evil.)
Take for instance these four reports. Take a look at them now, because I'll compare them to each other and to a later report tomorrow. All I'll say now is that half the world has headlines saying that the US killed 40 people in amosque based on just some "witnesses." (And an AP reporter, Abdul-Qader Saadi, (who goes anonymous in far too many stories, when the objectivity and reputation of the reporter is the only basis for the credibility of these media reports) who claims to have seen "at least three cars leaving, each with a number of dead and wounded" or "cars ferrying the bodies[,]" and said "the minaret was standing, but damaged" or "the mosque building itself was not damaged.")
"'40 dead' as US rockets hit Fallujah mosque" (Independent, UK)
"Iraq rocked by fiercest fighting since war?s end" (MSNBC.com)
"U.S. Hits Mosque Compound; 40 Said Killed" (Fredericksburg.com, AP wire report co-written by Abdul-Qader Saadi)
"U.S. forces carry out raids in Fallujah, hit mosque compound" (Boston.com, Boston, AP wire report)
One of the biggest problems with international reporting in third-world countries, especially in areas of combat, is that very often the reporters are nowhere near the event that has happened and say whatever they hear from others with no assesment of the credibility of the source, or simply report events without telling how they found out about it. Sometimes they even pull out their reporters and make no mention that all their info is secondhand from government or organzational sources. The results, respectively, are repeating official propaganda and disinformation from "witnesses" as happens every day in the West Bank and Gaza, or Rwanda, where the international media left during a lull in the fighting and the world never heard local media reports that mass killings were occuring because the international press wasn't even reporting the official line because the government leaders were dead.
What's happening in Iraq is West Bank Press Syndrome, not Rwanda Press Syndrome. (Iran at its "elections" and possibly Syria a few weeks ago was Rwanda Press Syndrome. Or pro-dictatorship bias. I'm inclined to believe in ineptitude over evil.)
Take for instance these four reports. Take a look at them now, because I'll compare them to each other and to a later report tomorrow. All I'll say now is that half the world has headlines saying that the US killed 40 people in amosque based on just some "witnesses." (And an AP reporter, Abdul-Qader Saadi, (who goes anonymous in far too many stories, when the objectivity and reputation of the reporter is the only basis for the credibility of these media reports) who claims to have seen "at least three cars leaving, each with a number of dead and wounded" or "cars ferrying the bodies[,]" and said "the minaret was standing, but damaged" or "the mosque building itself was not damaged.")
"'40 dead' as US rockets hit Fallujah mosque" (Independent, UK)
"Iraq rocked by fiercest fighting since war?s end" (MSNBC.com)
"U.S. Hits Mosque Compound; 40 Said Killed" (Fredericksburg.com, AP wire report co-written by Abdul-Qader Saadi)
"U.S. forces carry out raids in Fallujah, hit mosque compound" (Boston.com, Boston, AP wire report)
Monday, April 05, 2004
Hard to Believe I Missed This
I picked "Abu Ala" because he appears to me to be a clueless stooge who will be the first to be taken out by some one climbing the ropes to Palestinian political authority when Arafat dies. Looks like he's more likely to be taken out by poor health first.
I picked "Abu Ala" because he appears to me to be a clueless stooge who will be the first to be taken out by some one climbing the ropes to Palestinian political authority when Arafat dies. Looks like he's more likely to be taken out by poor health first.
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Thursday, March 25, 2004
If this is a moderate, who are the extremists?
[All emphasized passages in the following quotes are my own emphasis.]
[All emphasized passages in the following quotes are my own emphasis.]
"Some Palestinians had considered Yassin a relative moderate inside Hamas[...]"
-Reuters, 3/23/2004
"We condemn this violation of international law as an act of state terrorism by Ariel Sharon's out-of-control government. Israel's extra-judicial killing of an Islamic religious leader can only serve to perpetuate the cycle of violence throughout the region. The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence. "
-CAIR, 3/22/2004 press release
"Arafat condemned the assassination, saying Israel had 'crossed all red lines,' and declared a three-day mourning period. Flags at his headquarters in Ramallah were lowered to half-staff. "
-Guardian, 3/22/2004
"The Secretary-General strongly condemns Israel?s assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, which resulted in the deaths of eight others. He is concerned that such an action would lead to further bloodshed and death and acts of revenge and retaliation. He reiterates that extrajudicial killings are against international law and calls on the Government of Israel to immediately end this practice. The only way to halt an escalation in the violence is for the parties to work towards a viable negotiating process aimed at a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement."
-Statement of Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, 3/22/2004
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a hundred people carrying Palestinian flags and protest signs marched outside the Israeli consulate in New York on Tuesday to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush after the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin.
'I'm here to demonstrate as an American that I'm so tired of Israel and their crimes and I'm disgusted in our government,' said Rajee Mustafa, a 51-year-old electrical engineer from Jersey City, New Jersey.
[...]
'We stand alone in the globe in not condemning this act,' said Palestinian-American Mustafa. 'This is a terrorist act and I'm ashamed of the double standard. This double standard is bringing us hate from all the Arab world, the Muslim world.'
A memorial rally was scheduled later in the evening in the New York borough of Brooklyn to protest the killing of Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas.
At the evening rush-hour protest across from the consulate, demonstrators carried signs such as Sharon and Bush - War Criminals,' and raised chants including, 'Sheikh Yassin, rest in peace, Israel will never sleep.'
[...]
Samia Halaby, 67, an abstract painter and former college art professor, said she was sickened by the attack on Yassin.
'It was a murder, an assassination. It was illegal, it's immoral and typical of a fascist government. U.S. approval of such an action is disgusting.'"
-Reuters, 3/23/2004
"Sheikh Yassin's Mass-Murder Record
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Moslem Hamas terrorist organization who was killed yesterday in a daring Israeli missile attack, oversaw a total of 425 attacks - including the Park Hotel Seder massacre - that killed 377 Israelis and wounded 2,076.
Among the worst Hamas attacks in the past 3.5 years of the Palestinian Authority-initiated Oslo War were the following ten, which ended the lives of a total of 186 people:
June 1, 2001 - Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, 21 killed - mostly new-immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet Union
Aug. 9, 2001 - Sbarro's Pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed, including the parents and three children of the Schijveschuurder family
Dec. 2, 2001 - Haifa bus, 15 killed
March 27, 2002 - Park Hotel in the midst of the Passover Seder, 30 killed, including six husband-and-wife couples
March 31, 2002 - Matza Restaurant in Haifa, 15 killed, including two sets of a father and two children
May 7, 2002 - Rishon Letzion hall, 16 killed
June 18, 2002 - #32 bus from Gilo, Jerusalem, 19 killed
March 5, 2003 - #37 bus in Haifa, 15 killed
June 11, 2003 - #14 bus, Jerusalem, 17 killed
Aug. 19, 2003 - #2 bus from Western Wall, 23 killed, including a mother and baby; father and son; and four other children"
-Israel National News, 3/23/2004
"I remember my first interview with him. It was winter 1988, during the initial intifadeh. With the help of an Arab journalist, I had tracked down his secret home in one of the countless alleys and warrens of Gaza. It was a cold, wet day, and the quadriplegic sheik, surrounded by a handful of his faithful, was huddled in his metal bed, all but buried beneath an enormous pile of blankets and comforters. Only his head stuck out.
Maybe that's why his speech was so particularly fiery that day and the message so chilling.
I remember asking him what Hamas' conditions were for peace and whether Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza would be the first step toward a settlement.
At first, I heard what was almost a giggle. Then his squeaky voice grew sharper and louder: 'Make no mistake, there will be no peace as long as there is a Zionist-Jewish state. Our holy goal is to liberate all of Palestine, and if the Jews do not go, they will die. All of Palestine is Islamic land - every inch.'
There it was - Yassin's spiritual philosophy in a nutshell.
It was the same the next time we met: No peace with Israel. That position never changed. It is still the core of Hamas policy, as well as of other terror groups like Islamic Jihad. They will never rest until Israel is destroyed."
-Column in New York Daily News and IsraelInsider.com, by Richard Chesnoff, two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club Award and a recipient of the National Press Club Award, former executive editor of Newsweek International and senior correspondent at US News & World Report.
Article Twelve: Hamas in Palestine, Its Views on Homeland and Nationalism
Hamas regards Nationalism (Wataniyya) as part and parcel of the religious faith. Nothing is loftier or deeper in Nationalism than waging Jihad against the enemy and confronting him when he sets foot on the land of the Muslims. And this becomes an individual duty binding on every Muslim man and woman; a woman must go out and fight the enemy even without her husband’s authorization, and a slave without his masters’ permission. This [principle] does not exist under any other regime, and it is a truth not to be questioned[...]
Article Thirteen: Peaceful Solutions, [Peace] Initiatives and International Conferences
[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad[...] There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. The initiatives, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility[...]
-Hamas Charter, written in 1988, via Palestine Center, a pro-Palestinian organization.
Monday, March 22, 2004
Two Words
"Yippie-ki-yay motherfucker."
Sheik Ahmed Yassin finally does some good, as his death takes me to 12th place on the Amish Tech Support Dead Pool. An example of how sick the PLO is: they are calling for three days of mourning for this psychopath's death. The IDF should take out another prominent Palestinian terrorist to give them reason for three months of mourning followed by one day of the Palestinian leaders killing each other en masse.
And last but not least: "[Arafat] feels his turn is next and he is sad and worried."
"Yippie-ki-yay motherfucker."
Sheik Ahmed Yassin finally does some good, as his death takes me to 12th place on the Amish Tech Support Dead Pool. An example of how sick the PLO is: they are calling for three days of mourning for this psychopath's death. The IDF should take out another prominent Palestinian terrorist to give them reason for three months of mourning followed by one day of the Palestinian leaders killing each other en masse.
And last but not least: "[Arafat] feels his turn is next and he is sad and worried."
Friday, March 19, 2004
More on the hooligan takeover:
As Glenn Reynolds would say, heh.
Passover's coming up. Maybe their can be a flash mob of Jewish bloggers to some blog. Maybe I could get invited...
Well, by now everyone knows that a party of favorites took over Bill’s blog yesterday in a clandestine attack.
I received this email from Wind Rider shortly before the attack:
ROE readback correct, positive h-hour confirmation. Weapons tight until h-hour.
The container will be weapons-free at 1500. Targeting and release at individual discretion. Fire for maximum effect.
When you see something like that come across your email, you know you’re going to have some fun. I thought at best we might get one post in before Bill pulled the plug, but it was not to be. At first he couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then he couldn’t figure out how to stop it. Then he decided it was better than writing something himself. The posts at the beginning are good. Eventually, people started posting any file they could find on their hard drive.
As Glenn Reynolds would say, heh.
Passover's coming up. Maybe their can be a flash mob of Jewish bloggers to some blog. Maybe I could get invited...