July 29, 2006
Seattle Shooting
A Pakistani man goes into a Jewish center in Seattle, shoots six women, kills one, and says "I'm a Muslim-American. I'm angry at Israel." To the MSM, he is a lone wacko, his ethnicity is not important.
Can I be the social conservative today? The public's right to know includes secret government plans to monitor terrorist finances overseas, but we can't handle knowing that the War on Terror has had a skirmish in Seattle, Washington?
Gerard at American Digest reports: it was, like Sept 11, a normal day:
I SIT BEHIND a shaded window in a small bungalow on top of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. It's a smooth summer day. It began chill but warmed. In front of my porch, the lawn sprinkler makes slow sweeps. Across the street, the school playground plays host to a pick-up game of half-court basketball and a passel of kids on bikes and skateboards, all protected by the helmets and pads modern American parents feel compelled to encumber their children with; that no fall should result in a bruise or a scrape or a moment's discomfort to otherwise mar their standard "perfect" childhood in our standard broken home. It is as if we knew that, not being able to protect our children from our own selfish self-absorption, we have compensated by protecting them from falls.
Hat-tip Roger L. Simon, who reminds us of a Trotsky quote. "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
War on Terror Posted by jk at July 29, 2006 1:14 PM
Isn't it curious just how much more important it is to the MSM when women and children die accidentally after failing to flee from a war zone, versus women and children deliberately attacked and killed in a community center in the "peace and security" of a U.S. city. In fairness though, I'm sure the Times would have fully devoted the front page had the gunman been a white male screaming, "I hate gay black illegal-alien medicaid recipients who reflexively vote Democrat!"
In seriousness, this post prompted the one above called "BB'see' No Evil." A chilling tale.
Posted by: johngalt at July 30, 2006 5:05 PMHmmm,..not a high enough body count to warrant much press. Imagine a militant Zionist like Kahane walking into a mosque and doing the same thing. The MSMSNBC crowd would be all over that!
Posted by: TrekMedic251 at July 30, 2006 8:26 PMSadly, we're all thinking the same thing. Alter the ethnicities of the killer and victim and the "body count" doesn't matter. The murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. didn't lack for coverage. They supported the MSM narrative; this one does not.
Posted by: jk at July 31, 2006 12:38 PM | What do you think? [3]