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hitchens weird
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, December 29 2010, 6:31:14 (UTC)
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...a rare and unsettling moment in his debate with Galloway...and another one I just witnessed with Bill Maher added to the mix...in both cases the audience was not as loving and awed as Hitchens expects when he slams religion...a lot of people in the audiences were not buying what he was selling...in the one case he looked out over the audience and warned them that they were all being recorded by cameras...I found that distrubing...in the second case he again warned those making their voices of dissent heard that they would "regret this in the morning"...if he meant it as in "youīll sober up and be sorry you went on a drunken rampage, fine...but thatīs not the way it came across...he seems to have gotten his notions about America from a brochure and is uncomfortable with the actual blood and bone of America...for a guy who yaps about the wonders of our Constitution and free speech it seems strange that he takes such umbrage when people politely,but firmly, voiced their oppostion or disbelief...

Not only that but he interrupted Bill Maher who was being critical of Bush, as who isnīt, by saying "I donīt like it when you tear down your own country"...excuse me? Maher corrected him immediately by saying he wasnīt tearing anything down but was trying to improve America by pointing out its flaws, as he perceives them...but this upset Hitchens...you could see how uncomfortable he was....this is very odd behavior from a guy who tears God and all who believe in him a new asshole and DELIGHTS when audiences cheer him on for that....I must say that in a free and open debate Galloway walks away with it...not by the power of his memory, as with Hitchens many useless bits of information meant to merely delight or obscure, but because he manages to keep his eyes, and ours, on the prize...on the real and actual issues....what Hitchens is saying is that there are bad guys in the MidEast and we can NEVER make peace there so long as there are...Galloway says he never wants to "deal with terrorists" but rather focus on those who are NOT...not yet, for fear that our policies will drive many of them over the line, as almost everyone know admits we have....Hitchens doesnīt want to hear that and he doesnīt want anyone else to...instead he presents a cardboard version of reality: they are bad, we are good, so lets kill them all till there are none left.

The United States created Bin Laden, literally...and what this has given them is a core of Muslims dedicated and pissed enough to fight back....they are hardly the majority or anywhere close to it...but by focusing on them and them alone, we are making certain to increase their ranks...which was the plan all along....so we can use them to justify the horrors of "collateral damage", meaning kill even more innocents and of course, rob them all blind.



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