The Execrable and Historically Ignorant Christine Flowers Strikes Again
I haven’t even had an opportunity to finish what is probably going to be more dreck if the second graf of Christine Flowers’ latest movement is any indication:
Ask a survivor of the Bataan Death March if water-boarding is torture, and he’ll probably have a different answer than an acolyte of Amnesty International.
Really? You think American POWs who were subjected to waterboarding by the japanese would have a different definition from a group that defines waterboarding as torture?
fter World War II, we convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war. At the trial of his captors, then-Lt. Chase J. Nielsen, one of the 1942 Army Air Forces officers who flew in the Doolittle Raid and was captured by the Japanese, testified: “I was given several types of torture. . . . I was given what they call the water cure.” He was asked what he felt when the Japanese soldiers poured the water. “Well, I felt more or less like I was drowning,” he replied, “just gasping between life and death.”
ad_iconNielsen’s experience was not unique. Nor was the prosecution of his captors. After Japan surrendered, the United States organized and participated in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, generally called the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. Leading members of Japan’s military and government elite were charged, among their many other crimes, with torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. The principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding.
A fine argument for degrees of torture. Those broken on the rack or drawn and quartered during the Spanish Inquisition might argue that perhaps a long walk in the sun isn’t so bad either.
What follows, now that I have finished it, is a shamefully bloodthirsty and racially charged diatribe that begins with calls for vigilante justice before a blanket condemnation of black people, before begging, “Let’s stop giving a platform to the race-baiters who would use the tomb of a fallen officer to make irrelevant points about social injustice.”
Race-baiters who write, for instance,
It’s the same false claim that’s made about profiling, that only young black men will be targeted. The ‘hood will be under siege, so to speak.
Well, my friends, it already is. And crying about racial disparities when good men are dying every day seems a little bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
or
Let’s stop making excuses for killers, and the people who enable them.A white policeman is dead. all of us should be wearing black.
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Who make excuses for the “alleged” killer. Who weep for his grandmother and his mother and his sisters (where the hell are the men?)
There is so much to unpack here: the assumption that black men are uninvolved with their kids, and upon that assumption no compassion at all for “his grandmother and his mother” who undoubtedly raised him alone. There is no winning with this crazy woman: the men are at fault for not being there and the women are at fault for making do without them, and not only is the criminal at fault, but everyone around him is also guilty by association. What a fine lawyer Ms. Flowers must be.
She’s like Philadelphia’s own Michele Malkin.
3 Responses to “The Execrable and Historically Ignorant Christine Flowers Strikes Again”
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November 18th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
It’s cool to see someone like yourself living in this area expressing the kind of views you express. I have been appalled by the likes of Christine Flowers for several years now. I don’t know that much about her, other than her usual tagline of being “an attorney residing in Philadelphia” or some such nonsense. As if the fact that she’s an attorney automatically makes any of the tripe she espouses credible.
If you are familiar with Flowers, then you are probably also familiar with one of her local kindred spirits, C. Scott Shields, “mayor of Rutledge” (again, as if that title lends any credibility to the stupidity he utters). I do think that Shields and Flowers ought to date. Then they can marry and use the “rhythm method” to avoid having offspring (since, of course, using condoms is “immoral.”) And with two such as this, offspring should certainly be avoided at almost any cost. Both of them are “good” religious people (or I’m sure they would describe themselves as such). Both of them would very likely be quite happy and comfortable living under a Christian theocratic United States. Only problem is, they want for you and me to live under such a system as well.
Yeah, Scotty “Let’s Arm The Teachers” Shields. I’m sure he can show that the safest places on earth are those where the entire populace is packing heat.
No offense to attorneys - my wife is one. But the fact that one is an attorney means squat when it comes to being intelligent, or reasonable, or informed. Flowers and Shields are a couple of prime examples.
I understand your frustration in writing about the political scene. We’re living on the Planet of the Apes. Wait - I take part of that back. The apes in that movie displayed more reasoning ability and - in at least a couple of cases - more humanity than the likes of Flowers and Shields.
PS: I hope my actual posting shows up more readable than the preview, which shows white text on a bright yellow background - unreadable.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I think that the prerequisite for anyone who thinks or says that waterboarding isn’t torture (or an illegal terrorist kidnapping tactic) should first be subjected to it. Then they can write or profess all they want. Something tells me it won’t be an endorsement.
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:02 pm
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Michelle Malkin is from Philadelphia.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin