Today

Before I get off on a rant this year, I do want to take a moment of peace. Today marks six years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. If you lost someone in the events of 9/11/2001, you have my sympathy.

And now...I rant.

Michelle Malkin has her little "remember and resist" post up today. In it she talks about the emotion she felt on 9/11 and the worry she had for her children growing up in a world of terror. She doesn't say anything you don't expect in her post. It's your typical "Go America! Fuck Islam!" post. I'm not against that really. I like America plenty. After all, I keep my stuff here. I also don't like any religion. So if you want to say "Fuck Islam," I'm cool with that. I just wish you'd follow up with "Fuck any ideology that involves a magic facist in the sky who's more concerned with who I'm having sex with than making sure enough wheat grows to feed a third world country."

That's just me though.

For most of Malkin's post, I'm not really that angry. But then I get to this:

" Not every American wears a military uniform. But every American has a
role to play in protecting our homeland–not just from Muslim terrorists, but
from their financiers, their public relations machine, their sharia-pimping
activists, the anti-war goons, the civil liberties absolutists, and the academic
apologists for our enemies"

Remember kids, not only are the terrorists your enemies, but anyone who questions your government's policies, thinks that your government should stay out of your life, or encourages you to understand the mind of your enemy, needs to be defended against as well. These people may as well fly another plane into the Sears Tower. They're no better than the Islamofundafacists who want to eat your baby and rape your grandmother. Never forget.

Fuck you Michelle.

Here's another theory, and recognize that this is from a Libertarian who can't stand the sheepish mentality that public demonstrates daily as they allow the government to further encroach on our civil liberties. Every American not only has a role to play in protecting their homeland from terrorists, but they have a role to play in protecting their homeland from the overreaching arms of a government that feels "if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about." Further, they have a duty to protect their homeland from dipshit mouthpieces of the Republican party who parrot that ideology blindly out of fear.

You know, people like Michelle Malkin. "Civil Liberties Absolutists" are the people who make sure that you can still say what you want, own a gun, and protect your life and property from government intrusion. If it were up to sheep like Malkin, the government would be able to do whatever it wants in the name of protecting you against terrorists. And any denial of that fact is wiped away by her comment above.

Her sentiments are shared across the right hemisphere of the blogosphere.