In this blog, I have long complained about sexual shame.
Michael Moore has reminded me that there now exists a growing, very different kind of shame, of the sort which normally is against all common sense, against national interest, and possibly even less logical than sexual shame.
Moore and those who think like him want me to be ashamed to be an American. Now, if I am not going to be shamed by people who judge others not by the content of their character but by where they place their penises, why on earth would I allow someone to tell me I should be ashamed of my country?
Where do these people get off?
UPDATE: Here’s where some of them get off; by assaulting people who dare to disagree with them, even slightly. (Via Glenn Reynolds.) I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets worse.
A MORE VIOLENT FORM OF SHAME: Another American hostage captured and threatened with beheading:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Arab television broadcast videotape Sunday of two men of Pakistani origin taken hostage by militants: a driver for an American company and a blindfolded man in military fatigues described as U.S. Marine lured from his base. Insurgents threatened to behead them both.
Also, militants hit a coalition transport plane with small arms fire after takeoff from Baghdad’s airport, killing an American passenger and forcing the aircraft to return. Turkey rejected demands by militants threatening to behead three Turkish hostages unless Turkish companies cease business with U.S. forces in Iraq.
The U.S. military could not immediately confirm that a Marine had been abducted, but the video shown on the Al-Jazeera network showed a card identifying the man by a Pakistani name and as an “active duty” Marine. The man had a trimmed mustache and his eyes were covered with a white blindfold.
Al-Jazeera said the militants demanded the release of all Iraqis “in occupation jails” or the man would be killed. The group claimed it infiltrated a Marine outpost, lured the man outside and abducted him.
Do you suppose anyone will ask Michael Moore which side he’s on?
UPDATE: Silly me! That question has already been answered, by (any wonder?) Michael Moore!
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not “insurgents” or “terrorists” or “The Enemy.” They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow ? and they will win.
Something to think about while standing in line….
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8 responses to “More shame mongers”
June 26, 2003:
Thank you, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner, for standing up for your freedom and thus for mine.
And: Thank you, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice John Paul Stevens, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice David Souter, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, for honoring freedom and justice.
I am proud to be an American and a man of the High Culture of the West, the Vast Western Imperialist Zionist Homosexualist Conspiracy.
Where has anyone ever said that? You are making wild assumptions because you are a wild neo-con idealogical bastard. http://www.thegoodflame.com has fucked you in your right-wing ass yet again!
Tobias, go buy an ad. Last chance!
Inspired by your suggestion, I bought an ad here ordering everybody to vote for President Nixon and the Watergate imbroglio, but I don’t see it yet.
Shame is entirely a subjective thing and I don’t suggest others should feel as I do on this point. But when my political representatives do things that make Americans look bad, it bothers me a great deal. And that’s true of left, right, middle, legislative, executive and judiciary members, at times.
Abu Ghraib – and our more hidden torture policies – are an insult to American values and an injury to our reputation that besmirch thousands of troops who perform amazing works. They deserve better, and so do I.
Michael Moore certainly does not want you to be ashamed to be an American. If shame comes upon you, so be it from your side. And if shame is what’s needed to awaken the enormous number of disinterested, disenfranchised citizens of America who will watch war on their televisions?after a trip to the mall?until they get bored and decide they’ve had enough and say, “Let’s bring the boys home now”, (may God save them, please), then shame is in order.
Michael Moore is a potent force for thought, and a timely and vital ingredient in a nation which has slipped badly not only from democracy, but also from classical values.
Michael Moore stated that Americans “are possibly the dumbest people on the planet … in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks….” That’s just name calling, and I find it unpersuasive in the extreme.
Certainly not a potent force for thought — unless you believe calling people stupid is thoughtful.
Michael Moore lives with his head permantly stuck in a place the sun never shines.