A woman deliberately drove into a crowd of people on the sidewalk in Vegas last night. Then she did the same thing two more times. One dead, several dozen in various hospitals with varying degrees of injury. She's been charged with murder.

Stop me if you've heard this before: The police don't quite know what her motive was -- but they're absolutely certain it wasn't terrorism.

Now maybe it wasn't terrorism. Maybe they're right about that. But if they aren't sure what the motive actually was, how in hell can they exclude terrorism? They always say this. "Nope, nope, nope, no terrorism here. Go about your business!" The goal always, always is to prevent all the knuckledragging bitterclingers from considering any kind of backlash against Muslims.

Because that's the most important thing. Keeping ordinary non-Muslim Americans safe is down the list a long way.

Now never mind that there has never been any kind of backlash. No wholesale torching of mosques. No Muslims being beaten in the street. No Halal butcher shops getting bricks thrown through their window. But our betters are absolutely certain that the population of bitterclingers is a powderkeg with a fuse primed (and closets full of AR-15's), waiting for one spark to go off.

They fear their own people more than they fear enemies who are hostile to us and our way of life.

Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say that they think that the "enemies who are hostile to us and our way of life" are indeed those same bitterclingers.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 04:41 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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