Look to Hamas as a warning

I am reluctantly posting about something that has been troubling me for weeks now. I have spent a lot of time in leftist territory reading their posts, listening to their radio, adding my own posts to attempt to reason with them. While some on the right can be quite an embarrassment sometimes, nearly the entire far left blogosphere seems to me to be a pack of jackals having no rhyme or reason to their hatred and venom. Normal ideas such as innocent until proven guilty are long ago abandoned if it is a Republican and breathes.

While we conservatives chafe at the frequent liberal stances of Bush and the Congress with the exception of the war and taxes, according to the left Bush is destroying America. Somehow they can look at my gold star of presidential corruption link and still claim Bush is the most corrupt thing to come down the pike. The fact is every administration has people and actions that go over the edge of ethics. A realistic view is how wide-spread it is and how do they handle it when PROVEN.

Aside from these items, the bottom line as I see it is that the left wants their way and they do not seem to interested in boundaries stopping them from what they want (legal, ethical, truthful or otherwise). Hamas, was formed in a similar situation where no matter what they did, they could not achieve their goal of a Palestinian state without turning violent. Now I am not claiming they are equivalent to Hamas. I am stating that their current mindset, their historic support (or at least apology) for groups like Hamas and the fact that the country is moving away from them not toward them is enough to make me worry what is on the horizon.

We may find that a foreign terrorist threat is the least of our worries. We may find that some of our citizens will choose to drop restraint. Some like ELF already have used destructive tactics, but it has been on a smaller scale. Some of the trouble need not be violent to cause large scale chaos. The left has always had the courts as a final "gotcha" in the end. They could disrespect the executive and legislative branches, but the judiciary has held a special place in their hearts. If they lose that in a definitive way, I expect mass rebellion even in levels of local and perhaps state government. We have seen this already with cities deciding to start performing marriages that the law does not currently support.

Many may see this post as a branding of the left. The main purpose is to get them to think. If they rip the fabric of the rule of law too far, or decide that violence is the only way on a large scale America will never be the same. Whatever flaws she has, the USA is the best country that has ever existed and that will likely ever exist where it comes to freedom and opportunity. Look to the Russian revolutionaries of the Bolchevik revolution and its aftermath. On a massive scale the revolutionaries did not get what they wanted and many were slaughtered. The same happened in China and other revolutions. The little guys are used to get a small group to the top then they are disposed of. Think about it.