By Mr. Curmudgeon
The extraordinary times in the early days of America’s war of terror called for extraordinary measures, which included building holding cells for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and waterboarding Al Qaeda terrorists for intelligence to help disrupt plots following 9/11 that may have inflicted further harm on the people of the United States. Today, in the age of Obama, extraordinary measures protect unworkable and dangerous political correctness. President Obama’s Justice Department released a report detailing efforts to charge Bush administration lawyers for advising the president on the legality of using intensified interrogation methods (some say torture) on captured jihadist detainees. The executive branch sought legal advice, as CIA lawyer John Rizzo said, to seek “maximum legal protection for its officers.” Though the report absolves Bush lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo of criminal wrongdoing, it labels their legal opinion as “professional misconduct.”
The Office of Professional Conduct, which issued the report, criticized councilor Yoo for veering away from political correctness in a time of war, declaring “situations of great stress, danger and fear do not relieve department attorneys of their duty to provide thorough, objective, and candid legal advice, even if that advice is not what the clients want to hear.” Translation: “You acted in good faith. You did nothing illegal. But your views differ from ours and the ACLU.”
One government official with the correct ACLU worldview is John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism chief. He is so infected by political correctness, he even refuses to call Islamic killers jihadists. “They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children,” Brennan said. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Al-Aqsa Brigade, Hezbollah, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and many, many others must not have gotten Brennan’s memo.
Of the 9/11 hijackers, Osama bin Laden said:
“These young men refused to stay behind and engage in unimportant things. They set out on jihad and hastened to uphold the cause of God and the call of monotheism: ‘There is no god except God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God,” They engaged in jihad against the infidels…
“Each and every matter has its own reality. The reality of this hero, Saeed al-Ghamidi and his brothers is that they showed the truthfulness of their faith by offering themselves and their souls for the sake of God. Thus, they gained a status that greatly angered the infidels, and will continue to anger them for a long time, God willing.”
John Brennan is one of many infidels in the Obama administration incapable of righteous anger for jihadists – political correctness prevents them from believing they even exist. And you can’t waterboard what you don’t see. That presents them with a problem. What do you do with the bearded Koran-readers cooling their heels at Gitmo? Easy, redefine them as American criminals and try them in our courts…problem solved.
If Obama can’t criminalize opposition to his twisted worldview, he will use the Justice Department’s investigative powers to harass you into submission. There is no god except political correctness, and Obama is its messenger.
