+1. Take out the trash and ban this guy.

TexasDan on September 28, 2007 at 10:07 AM

+2 If he hasn’t been banned already, he should be warned.

Reminds me of the difference btwn Oriana Fallaci interviewing the Ayatollah Khomeini and ripping off her burkha, and our sniveling Christine Amanpours, Nancy Pelosis et.al with those scarves rags over their heads.

JiangxiDad on September 28, 2007 at 1:00 PM

Fixed it for you. :)

Texas Nick 77 on September 28, 2007 at 8:41 AM
Did you ask me if I had read “Lone Survivor”?

csdeven on September 28, 2007 at 12:00 PM

Maybe, in another post…. or was that a different life? I haven’t read that book yet, but I will as soon as I can get back to the states and buy a copy. I’ve heard nothing but great reviews of it.

- The Cat

All of our freedoms hinge on the Second Amendment which provides the citizens the means to keep their liberties secure.

Loosely quoting, Jefferson once said… Where the people fear the government there is tyranny and where the government fears the people there is liberty. Never give up your guns.

Maxx on September 28, 2007 at 11:35 AM

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Yes! Never. Give. Them. Up.

And I’m sick of the world whining when the USA actually wins any olympic event like we should be magnanamous and let the weaker players win.

It’s totally goofy because every country wants to win. Every country cheers their own team like crazy. The US isn’t exceptional that way, it’s just that we’re often exceptional in our performance. If the world wants to whine about the US while they cheer on their own teams, let ‘em. It’s when Americans actually start listening to that crap that I get perturbed.

Burma has another murderous dictator for the Dhems to love.

And I agree with every point made by techno_barbarian about
winning and losing.

I salute the bravery of Kenji Nagai and the Burmese people he was covering.

Amen.

May God Rest his Soul and comfort his family.

I don’t agree with boycotting the Olympics or going in and kicking everyone’s butt.
MayBee on September 28, 2007 at 1:59 PM

Timothy can certainly speak for himself, but when he was referring to kicking butt, I took it to mean an athletic sports butt kicking, not a literal invasion or anything like that.

And I’m sick of the world whining when the USA actually wins any olympic event like we should be magnanamous and let the weaker players win. The entire idea is to compete to win. I see way too much belief in the ‘there are no winners and losers’ claptrap.

There most certainly are winners AND losers. That’s the way the world works. To pretend otherwise, and instruct your children to believe so is foolish. Life’s hard. Deal with it.

(None of the rant above is aimed at you MayBee. I’m just venting a pet peeve.)

That tactic won’t work unless we get everyone else to join in. Russia won’t, most of Europe won’t, South/Central America and Mexico won’t. If the USA is the only one, there won’t be much impact and it will probably play into the ChiCom’s hands. The economic impact will only be felt by a boycott by a large percentage of the participants.

I’m not belittling your main point – I support democracy wherever it decides to take root. But boycotting the Olympics won’t mean much to the Chinese. They have bigger plans afoot and a little economic pain isn’t going to stop them.

Better to go to China and kick everyone’s butt. Then they won’t be able to use the Olympics for their propaganda – cHiNa RuLeZ! uS sUX! – Heh…

I wish I knew what the chinese reaction to a US attack on Iran would be. I worry that Armandgojihad is just a pawn in a bigger player’s (Russia? China?) game.

Some of you folks ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Bryan on September 28, 2007 at 10:38 AM

Thank you.

I am baffled by the “serves him right” attitude. It’s amazing how some of us here spew rhetoric in the same vein as a lefty site. The conversation ends up off topic because the tone had to be shifted to douse the inflamatory speech.

Nagai was a truly brave journalist, not the faux brave kind (asking Bush a tough question). Will others dare follow him? How will China be treated when there are reporters at the Olympics?

MayBee on September 28, 2007 at 12:49 PM

Reminds me of the difference btwn Oriana Fallaci interviewing the Ayatollah Khomeini and ripping off her burkha, and our sniveling Christine Amanpours, Nancy Pelosis et.al with those scarves over their heads.

As for the Olympics, we should use this leverage with the Chinese. Support democracy in Burma, support sanctions on Iran, etc. Otherwise, we boycott the Olympics.

I used to walk past protests at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo, with groups supporting Aung San Suu Kyi and petitioning the Chinese government to put pressure on the Myanmar junta. It seems an issue that has been off the US radar, but I wish more people would pay more attention, especially in light of all those ridiculous polls where people say they trust China more than the US.

Nagai was a truly brave journalist, not the faux brave kind (asking Bush a tough question). Will others dare follow him? How will China be treated when there are reporters at the Olympics?

The military junta in Burma claims to be devoutly Buddhist, even though they have had no problems with killing monks in their various crackdowns on the population. The main problem is the junta is more corrupt than devout, and once power had been seized (and the country’s coffers raided), the ruling members have been stuck in the ugly spiral that affects many leaders (power leads to desire for more money, money leads to desire for more power, ad infinitum). And that lust for power and money supersedes any other reasoning.

Remember the wedding for General Than Shwe’s daughter? It probably cost more than the GDP of the entire country. How did a military man get such wealth? No wonder the population is outraged at the current government.

Not to mention the election of 1990 where the NLD won, but the results were invalidated by the junta (note to moonbats – this is what a ’stolen’ election looks like).

So, I agree with many of your points, but I don’t agree that islam is a factor here. I will allow that wherever islam exists, there are conflicts with other religions. But the main irritant in this conflict is the rift between the rich junta and the poor population.

God bless the people of Burma and hopefully they can find a quick and bloodless resolution to their problem.

Texas Nick 77 on September 28, 2007 at 8:41 AM

Did you ask me if I had read “Lone Survivor”?

But in the end…so what? What will happen? What ever happens?

Blaise on September 28, 2007 at 10:53 AM

What happens is that the distinction between the freedom and democracy we have here and the oppression in much of the world is hammered home. And we are reminded that freedom is necessary and worth fighting for. I wish this video was shown in every classroom in the US!

(I did show the first few scenes to my young daughters before they left for school this morning.)

God Bless America.