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See No Evil

hypocritexposer

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January 14, 2011
See No Evil

By Robin of Berkeley

One of the first books that made me thirst for God was, ironically, about His polar opposite. The book is Andrew Delbanco's The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil,

The author describes the disastrous results of Americans rejecting the concept of evil. When Satan was alive and well, citizens practiced the Ten Commandments, atoned for their sins, and worried about eternal damnation. But today, inhabitants eschew the devil as an anachronism of days gone by.

And what has been the result of the Death of Satan? More bloodshed than ever before in the history of humankind. In the 20th century alone, hundreds of millions of people were murdered by genocidal regimes.

And yet, why would banishing Satan result in a less civilized society? Because without an understanding about how good and evil work, people are stripped of Divine intelligence.

The number one rule in warfare is this: Know thy enemy, whether it's Radical Islam or evil. Yet, most Americans, with heads firmly buried in the sand, have no idea how to cope when darkness rears its ugly head.

Their default is to find scapegoats, projecting all badness outwards. Liberals routinely scapegoat conservatives. Yet, by smearing an entire group of people, liberals become part of the evil themselves. Scapegoating is the quintessential feature of evil, says M. Scott Peck, in his seminal book, People of the Lie.

The most recent example of scapegoating is the smearing of conservatives, particularly Rush and Palin, for Jared Loughner's carnage in Tucson. Of course, part of this Blame Game is Leftist politics as usual. As Rahm Emanuel declared, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Or as Saul Alinsky put it: find a target, isolate it, and ridicule and smear it. (Interestingly, Alinsky dedicated his Rules for Radicals to the old Devil itself, Lucifier.)

In Germany, it was the Jews; and in Cambodia, the scapegoats were intellectuals wearing glasses. When citizens are stripped of the knowledge of good versus evil, they revert to primitive, knee-jerk behavior.

So the Left demonizes others, which is a fascinating term in and of itself. Instead of taking a good and hard look at themselves and how the Left has unleashed and enabled the brutality, progressives tar conservatives as the demons.

The progressives do this by devilish actions: first, turning conservatives into subhumans, as the other. Then the Leftist media and politicos finger conservatives as the culprits when horror strikes, as in Tucson. In this way they incite hate, if not actual violence, via collective guilt, that is, guilt by association.

Collective guilt is not just a noxious premise, but it's an evil one. It presumes guilt without a shred of evidence.

In this case, conservatives are incriminated for Loughner's bloodshed (even though Loughner is apparently a Karl Marx-admiring atheist.) The delusion of collective guilt shields people from taking a long hard look in the mirror, thereby witnessing their own bad behavior.

Jared Loughner didn't shoot people because he was a conservative or a liberal. His madness had nothing to do with whether he listened to Rush or voted for Obama. He committed these crimes because something is wrong with his brain -- mental illness, brain damage, and/or substance abuse.

Somewhere down the line, Loughner may have made decisions that poisoned his soul, perhaps through devil worship. And, this same process can happen, is happening, to people who allow evil to infiltrate their lives.

Just last week, we learned of a gang rape of a girl, which others watched, filmed, and uploaded onto the Internet. Not long ago, a home-grown terrorist, Major Hasan, slaughtered our soldiers, including a pregnant woman. If these horrors aren't evidence of evil, then what's the explanation? George W. Bush? The Tea Parties?

But the progressives live in a fantasy world, with Good Guys (Liberals) and Bad Guys (Conservatives). They reject the ancient teachings, which teach how to live in an evil-saturated world.

The Left denies that evil forces exist because they deny God. Evil cannot exist without its polar opposite, the Creator. And if there is a God, He is charge, not human beings; and God will punish as well as bless. The Left may, in fact, demand collective responsibility because they know, deep inside, that their character alone may not get them through the Pearly Gates.

And so Leftists do what they always do: blame conservatives. They disown any responsibility for the dark times that are upon us. They exploit the Tucson tragedy, thereby creating more damage. And through it all, Leftists cling to the notion that they a are the Good Guys.

How can progressives possibly see the truth, that evil exists and so does God? They've rejected the only Force who will protect them in the pitch-black of night. Having slammed the door on Him, they must close their eyes to reality as well. See No Evil, Hear No Evil. . .

A frequent American Thinker contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley. Robin's articles are intended to inform and entertain, not to provide psychotherapeutic advice. You can comment on this article at this link.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/see_no_evil.html



anuary 14, 2011 12:00 A.M.
Blame Righty: A Condensed History

The Left has a long record of blaming the Right for crimes of nonpartisan lunatics.


I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been “far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than” they do. Recognition is the first step toward reconciliation. It’s time to recognize the poisonous pervasiveness of the Blame Righty meme.

For the past two years, Democratic officials, liberal activists, and journalists have jumped to libelous conclusions about individual shooting sprees committed by mentally unstable loners with incoherent delusions all over the ideological map. The White House now pledges to swear off “pointing fingers or assigning blame.” Alas, the Obama administration’s political and media foot soldiers have proved themselves incapable of such restraint.

In April 2009, a disgruntled, unemployed loser shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers in a horrifying bloodbath. The gunman, Richard Poplawski, was a dropout from the Marines who threw a food tray at a drill sergeant and had beaten his girlfriend. Was this deranged man who pulled the trigger to blame? Nope. Despite evidence that Poplawski’s homicidal, racist tendencies manifested themselves years before Obama took office, lefty publications asserted that the real culprit of the spree was the “heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces” (according to mainstream liberal Atlantic Monthly pundit Andrew Sullivan), along with Fox News and Glenn Beck (according to mainstream liberal journalist Steve Benen of The Washington Monthly online).

That same month, a sick, evil man named Jiverly Voong ambushed an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. Recently fired from his job, Voong murdered 13 people, critically wounded four others, and then committed suicide. The instant psychologists of the Left knew nothing about the disgruntled man of Vietnamese descent and undetermined political affiliation. But within hours of the shooting, commenters at liberal mega-website Huffington Post had overwhelmingly convicted GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the National Rifle Association, Fox News, Lou Dobbs, and yours truly. Liberal radio host Alan Colmes pointed his finger at the “huge anti-immigrant backlash in this country” — never mind that tens of millions of legal immigrants and naturalized citizens have coped with hardship, overcome racism, and embraced assimilation without going bloody bonkers.

In June 2009
, a depraved, elderly anti-Semite named James von Brunn gunned down a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent and lefty Center for American Progress think-tank fellow Matthew Yglesias immediately invoked the Obama administration’s report on right-wing extremism, leading to a wider chorus of condemnations against the Tea Party, talk radio, and the entire GOP. The truth? Von Brunn was an unstable, equal-opportunity hater and 9/11 Truther conspiracy loon who bashed Jews and Christians, George W. Bush and Fox News, and had also threatened the conservative Weekly Standard magazine.

In late August 2009
, as lawmakers faced citizen revolts at health-care town halls nationwide, the Colorado Democratic party decried a window-smashing vandalism attack at its Denver headquarters. State Democratic-party chairman Pat Waak singled out tea-party activists and blamed “people opposed to health care” for the attack. The perpetrator, Maurice Schwenkler, turned out to be a far-left transgender activist/single-payer anarchist who had worked for a labor-union-tied political committee and canvassed for a Democratic candidate.

In September 2009, Bill Sparkman, a federal U.S. Census worker, was found dead in a secluded rural Kentucky cemetery with the word “Fed” scrawled on his chest and a rope around his neck. The Atlantic Monthly’s Andrew Sullivan rushed to indict “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts” in an online post titled “No Suicide,” which decried the “Kentucky lynching.” Liberal author Richard Benjamin blamed “anti-government” bile. New York magazine fingered conservative talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh, “conservative media personalities, websites and even members of Congress.” So, who killed Bill Sparkman? Bill Sparkman. He killed himself and deliberately manufactured a hate-crime hoax as part of an insurance scam to benefit his surviving son.

In February 2010
, ticking-time-bomb professor Amy Bishop gunned down three of her colleagues at University of Alabama–Huntsville, and suicide pilot Joseph Andrew Stack flew a stolen small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. Mainstream journalists from Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart to Time magazine reporter Hilary Hylton leaped forward to tie the crimes to tea-party rhetoric. Never mind that Bishop was an Obama-worshiping academic with a lifelong history of violence or that Stack was outraged about everything from George W. Bush to the American medical system to the evils of capitalism to the city of Austin, the Catholic Church, and the airlines.

In May 2010, liberal New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to preemptively pin the Times Square bombing attempt on “someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health-care bill or something.” The culprit was unrepentant Muslim jihadist Faisal Shahzad.

In August 2010
, Democratic supporters of Missouri Rep. Russ Carnahan blamed a “firebombing” at the congressman’s St. Louis office on tea-party suspects. The real perpetrator? Disgruntled progressive activist Chris Powers, who was enraged over a paycheck dispute.

President Obama wisely counseled the nation this week at the Tucson-massacre memorial that “bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.” But as the progressive Left’s smear-stained recent history shows, criminalizing conservatism is a hard habit to break.

— Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is [email protected] © 2011 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
 

Steve

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was a dropout from the Marines who threw a food tray at a drill sergeant

I had heard "former marine so many times I never questioned it.. but if you can't make it thru boot camp, your not a marine...

we have truth in advertising laws.. maybe they should start applying to Journalism..
 
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