Washington Rebel

The Deadly Curse of PC

Obams's Garbage Can Memos II (GCM I)

My friend Ex-Seattle Lefty called me this morning.  Had I seen this Larry King Video on the Fort Hood Massacre?

Former POW Shoshana Johnson Destroys Tom Kenniff for 'Dangerous' Assumptions on Ft. Hood Shootings

How the Left Was Won.  Dr. Phil and former POW Shoshana Johnson both say JAG officer Tom Kenniff's questions about whether Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was motivated by ideology is "a terrible innuendo" and "irresponsible" (Dr. Phil) and "dangerous" (Shoshana).  Note how Kenniff, the lawyer, is attempting to engage in genuine argument; Shoshona goes Warm Fuzzy Liberal by shouting down questions; and Dr. Phil is a snob who doesn't accept unacceptable questions.  In sum, as my friend DAS points out, more evidence that the West has gone AWOL intellectually.  We are not able to freely discuss things.  It is, in fact, "dangerous" to suggest Hasan was perhaps a Jihadist, as I found out yesterday: one of my prosecutor friends at their regular office meeting was asked to not put this incident in those terms.  He was silenced.

By the Deadly Curse.

Secondhand PTSD Contagion Kills American Journalism

Had I read "Wretchard's brilliant posts" on political correctness, das asked? To wit, Fort Hood:

Can there be such a thing as treason in a multicultural society or is that so yesterday? If so, Lincoln was wrong: a house divided against itself can stand. In a heap about an inch high perhaps, but maybe that’s cool. And cool in the end may best describe a house with no walls. Maybe Cole Porter got it right after all. Anything goes.

And Physician, Heal Thyself:

The US News report says “Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials six months ago because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades. Investigators had not determined for certain whether Hasan was the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press.” The Army refused to rule out the possibility that Hasan was not acting alone.

"A Natural Leader."   As das points out, the recent slaying of Seattle PD Officer Timothy Brenton was in fact motivated by a form of toxic political correctness -- the kind you pick up from college professors:

The Western Front

Beheadings and Amputations: Mexico's Legal System Infects the U.S.

Bernie Madoff Associate Jeffry Picower Found Dead in Pool.  $7 Billion won't bring him back either, I reckon.  Wonder who held him down?

Life with the Black Panthers:

Part political theatre, part revolutionaries, the Black Panthers were the most iconic civil rights group of the 60s. In a remarkable new book, photographer Howard Bingham recalls the six months he spent on Panther patrol in 1968

Don't piss off the government: Students Participants in the Innocence Project are Finding Their Class Records Subpoenaed!  Best to not go swimming for awhile.

Think we can get Obama's records?

Beloit Girls Reformatorium a Place of Horrors, and Concealed Pleasures.