The Political Fish

During the daily State Department briefing yesterday,  Assistant Secretary of State Phillip J. Crowley took political correctness (aka weakness when you are in a war) to a new level altogether. From Human events:

During the daily State Department briefing, the Assistant Secretary of State unveiled the new terminology (Video here at 24:10 minutes):

REPORTER QUESTION:  Talk to us a little bit about response and talks and any commitments that you may have gotten from our European and other friends in the international community about taking in   Guantanamo detainees as the camp in Guantanamo   is expected to close at some point in the near future.  Have you gotten any commitments from our European friends and anybody else?
 
ASSISTANT SECRETARY PHILIP J. CROWLEY:  Ambassador Dan Fried continues his efforts to resettle, you know, Guantanamo refugees to various places around the world.

 

Resettling refugees?? Seriously? Last I had heard, a refugee was something of a victim. One with no where to go in the midst of war, chaos, famine or other devastating disaster.

Refugee camp??

The 9/10 mindset of this administration marches forward. They cannot even admit that we are still engaged (maybe because the President himself refuses to be engaged personally) in a war on terrorism, and now we refer to terrorists themselves as victims? This all happening of course while the administration cannot figure out how to handle their thoughtless, hasty decision on closing Guantanamo Bay. They keep throwing the idea around of throwing these helpless refugees into civilian courts with a brand new set of rules, highlighting the pre-9/11 mindset of terrorism being a law enforcement issue, and not a military issue. It is frighteningly inept and naive to think that way.

It is sad to see the highest levels of our government completely take cover and hide from even using words that may offend. When it comes to the safety of America, wouldn’t one consider America first in these type of situations. Why would we throw out words that would garner sympathy around the world for the prisoners and terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba? They are the worst of the worst (umm, hello Khalid Sheik Mohammed) and do not deserve the sympathies of decent people anywhere. They aim to kill. They aim to kill Americans. Sadly the American government is to weak-minded to say just that.

Los Angeles California Representative Diane Watson (D) at a townhall meeting heaped praise on the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and the allegedly wonderful Cuban healthcare system (wondering why they try to float to Florida on cars). Oh yeah, and in the process towed the Democratic party line of race-baiting anyone who disagrees with the President.

Apparently Los Angeles talk radio station KABC AM-790 was the only news outlet to cover this astonishingly irresponsible comments…take a listen.

Makes you wonder why Cubans do whatever they can to get to South Florida doesn’t it? I mean, in this womans shockingly naive worldview, Cubans got it made!!

This statement is chocked full of stuff to pick through. All the birthers out there can have her statement about “electing a President from Kenya and Kansas”. I thought it was Hawaii?

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for typing out the transcripts to this poor womans idiotic statement. Maybe it will sink in better if you can read it.

WATSON: You might have heard their philosophical leader. I think his name is Rush Limbaugh. And he said early on, “I hope that he fails.”

Do you know what that means? If the president, your commander-in-chief, fails, America fails.

Now, when a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States?

And remember: They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.

Now just understand what’s at the bottom line.

And you know we just got, 48 hours ago, we just go back, we were in Beijing, China, Hong Kong, China, we were in Taiwan, we were in Guam, we were all over the Far East.

I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.

And they’re saying, “We thought you would never do that.”

So we don’t want to have this young man, and he just turned 48 — we want him to succeed, because when he succeeds, we regain our status. We regain our status.

It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”

And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]

And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…

One final question, who the heck were these people clapping for this woman? Is there really an element of society this dumb?

Recently the ‘Fish posted an article about the unrest in Honduras, which received a lot of feedback.

All Honduras needs is to become another so called democracy with an elected lifetime dictator.

I am glad to see that the military of Honduras upheld the law and the consitution of Honduras. Apparently, our military, courts and congress do not have the balls to take their oaths seriously.

Another reader states:

I can not belive how the American news media can be so biased and only interview the people on the side of our former currupt president. Congrtess, The Supreme Court, The Attorney General, The Army, The Church both Catholic and Evangelical, where opposed to his undemocratic pretentions and practices. What happened in Honduras is a protection our our democracy, supported by the majority of the nation. If would had left Zelaya to do what he wanted he would stay in power for the next ten years, privitize major industry and taken this already poor country into ruin.

And another…

I am Honduran and I am appalled to see misinformed the international press is. There are about 100 people infront of congress. Theese people belong to a communist party. THE REST OF THE COUNTRY SUPPORTS THE SO CALLED “COUP”. The military responded to Congress and The Supreme Court’s order to arrest and detain the now expresident Manuel Zelaya, after Nicaraguan and Venezuelan soldiers started coming into the country. No Honduran wants to be a part of Hugo Chavez’s regimen. Please try to be accurate. Honduras is literally under threat of attack by the Venezuelan army. Chavez wants to run Central America. We are small countries AND WE NEED THE WORLD TO BE AWARE OF WHAT REALLY IS HAPPENING.

I found it interesting that all the responses received echoes the same sentiments about Manuel Zelaya. So I decided that I must look deeper into this. And as it turns out, the readers (as usual) are correct in their assessments. Zelaya had allied himself with some of Central America’s most leftist leaders, most notable Hugo Chavez, who was among the first to condemn the removal of President Zelaya. What I find disturbing is the fact that Hillary Clinton came out mere hours after this took place and echoed loudly the sentiments of Mr. Chavez.

What really happened is that Manuel Zelaya had willfully snubbed his nose at the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Attorney General of Honduras, in what appeared to have been an attempt at re-election. He was in fact elected to a non-renewable 4 year term, which is set to expire in 2010.

From an American perspective, it should disturb us all that President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the administration have come out in favor of restoring Mr. Zelaya to the presidency, in spite of the fact that he sought to subvert the Constitution, and ignored the rule of law. The military “coup” as was described by the international media was merely protecting the Constitution, and following the orders of the Honduran power structure. It is appalling from an American perspective to have the Department of State, and the President echoing the voices of the like of Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro. The Bolivian and Ecuadorean presidents also concurred, while the rest of the world so far has refused to recognize newly sworn in President Roberto Micheletti.

Hugo Chavez and his deeply leftist socialist regime has vowed to intervene militarily, so we will see what the American president has to say about any of that type of action in the near future.

For now, we should stand for liberty, just as we do in Iran. If that includes removing a president who does not believe in freedom, as Mr. Zelaya was making quite clear…then thats what needs to be done.