By Alan Caruba
As this is being written it is early Friday morning as the news media saturates us with what I call the “Five Known Facts Syndrome”, repeating the details of the Colorado movie theatre murders reported to have taken the lives of twelve victims with some fifty who have been injured.
We have a selective response to such news, a mixture of grief and anger that such events occur and focused on the fact it has happened here in the United States. That is only natural, but it also ignores the murders occurring throughout the world, whether it is the killing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria earlier this week or the ongoing slaughter of an estimated 17,000 Syrians by yet another Middle East dictator.
Meanwhile Iran moves relentlessly toward the development of nuclear weapons that, if allowed to be built, will murder millions—first targeting Israel and then most certainly America. All the supposed “diplomacy” and “sanctions” in the world will not deter this predictable outcome.
Whether a movie theatre in Colorado or the attack on an entire nation, it speaks to the madness that exists worldwide, emanating in the Middle East, but which we have seen in Madrid, London, Bali, U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and culminating in New York and Washington, D.C. on 9/11.
The President is scheduled to speak to the nation before Noon today and is not likely to make mention of the Fort Hood murders on November 5, 2009, but is very likely to call for more stringent gun control legislation at the same time the United Nations has fashioned an international treaty to disarm the world’s citizens and leave them even more vulnerable to tyranny.
The history of “civilization” is the history of warfare and terror. It is the history of individual assassinations that trigger wars or grandiose dreams of continental and worldwide domination.
The most dangerous creatures on Earth are humans and murder occurs daily whether it is an Islamic “honor killing” or the murder of a store clerk during a robbery for a few dollars. In Chicago these days the rate of murders rivals the deaths in Afghanistan. In hard times, the murder rate increases with the levels of desperation. The drug wars are a contributing factor in our nation’s cities.
We live in a nation that has jettisoned much of the moral guidelines that distinguished our society, our culture, abandoning the simple act of a morning prayer in the nation’s schools, the definition of marriage, and culminating in a federal government that sanctioned the “walking” of guns to provision the Mexican drug cartels as a ruse to blame the sale of guns to Americans whose right is established by the Second Amendment.
The result thus far of “Operation Fast and Furious” has been an Attorney General held in contempt of Congress and afforded the protection of “executive privilege” by order of the President of the United States.
Meanwhile, ordinary citizens must submit to humiliating “pat downs” in order to board an airplane while the same government fails to identify an illegal alien running a flight school that trained other illegals to do the same thing that culminated in the 9/11 attack.
The deaths of innocent movie-goers is tragic and dramatic, but the murder of a nation’s economy and the dreams of its citizens to get a college degree without going into debt, hold a job, own a home, run a business, or have a secure retirement, pails in comparison.
The perpetrators of this national murder hold high office, are entrusted to act in our best interest, but instead will exploit this latest tragedy, will slander a political opponent as a “felon”, and will continue their relentless destruction of America.
The international institution, the United Nations, will continue to turn a blind eye to the murder of Western civilization.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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Comment by Kate Bowe on July 20, 2012 at 9:26pm John Henry Botkin,
Here is another wnd article similar to yours. Was Obama married before Michelle?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/was-barack-obama-married-in-college/
Comment by Ray Harrison on July 20, 2012 at 2:43pm I heard the "Tea Party" member ABC found in Aurora, was really in his mid fifties, but that makes no difference to MSM. I wonder how far and long they will run with that?
Comment by Phil McConathy on July 20, 2012 at 2:11pm Another great article by Alan Caruba. Glad you are on our side. Keep up the great work.
Comment by John Henry Botkin on July 20, 2012 at 1:36pm Impostor indeed. Here is another doctored image from the White House web site:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/another-doctored-image-deepens-obama-mys...
Comment by Shirley A. Smith-Rhodes on July 20, 2012 at 12:38pm What if Obama is an Imposter? What if he attended Occidental College as a foreign student, Barry Soetero, an Indonesian Citizen, Dropped out before finishing went to Pakistan with a "Boyfriend" a few years later returned to New York possibly as a "drug mule" Bought a Diploma from Columbia! (None of his classmates remember him!) somehow got into Harvard under false pretenses.. Never legally changed his name to Barrack Hussein Obama! Never held an actual job except in the Organizing/Political scenario and we have all been hoodwinked in concert with the evil Democrat party... It is very obvious he is pursuing the dreams of his fathers which is to destroy our Nation and way of life???? Big question! Between Obama's Forged Hawaiian Birth Certificate, Obama's Executive Privelege for Holder (which would make Obama complicit in the charges), Obama's Executive Orders (which override existing laws enacted by Congress),Obama's Illegal Czar
Appointments (ignoring confirmation by Congress), Obama's wreckless spending with no budget, Obama's Illegal awards to cronies, etc. Congress must get serious. They must have enough ammunition to address either Treason charges (I believe there is an evil plan) Or failing that, minimum Impeachment Action! Congress must take back our nation before it is too late! If Obama can create a crisis/riots/war with Iran or Syria, he will have what he needs to declare martial law and his dangerous Executive Orders will come into place... We cannot afford this!
Comment by Alan Caruba on July 20, 2012 at 12:36pm @ Richard Lillien: One need only go over to my blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com to access the original post and share it with whomever you wish.
Thank you to all of you for your comments.
Comment by J. Andrew Reid on July 20, 2012 at 12:08pm The reason the Denver murders occurred is not because of the tea party or the NRA or any other conservative organization, it is the fault of the gun grabbers - the Left and those who want us defenseless. In a just world where honest law abiding citizens can carry guns to protect themselves that nut case would have been met with a hail of bullets and far fewer innocent people would have died.
Case in point; last week two black young men, one carrying a hand gun and the other with a baseball bat, burst into a sandwich shop in Florida and began threatening the customers and demanding money an valuables. A 71 year old man with a carry permit pulled out his gun and began shooting. When it was over, both thugs were wounded and no innocent lives were lost. The thugs fled but were arrested later when they turned up at the emergency room to get their wounds treated.
I've had it with these people who try to blame anyone but the real culprits - the gun grabbing left led by Fast and Furious Eric Holder and Barack H. Unknown.
Comment by Juls on July 20, 2012 at 12:08pm Knew this was going to happen. Information that the shooter was a member of the tea party is nothing more than the rather sick attempt by ABC news to connect this tragedy to "right wingers" and thereby the gun control issue. There is a member of the tea party with the same name (I won't mention the poor man's name here) but he is NOT the shooter. No connection.
Comment by Jack Bacsenko on July 20, 2012 at 12:01pm Perhaps the Liberals are thankful that the individual was a "shooter" rather than a terrorist with a backpack bomb. They wouldn't have the opportunity to rant on "gun control".
Comment by JMC on July 20, 2012 at 11:44am One of the tea party members here in Aurora said that he heard on ABC news that the killer in the theater is a member of the tea party. Unbelievable!!!
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