STUPIDEST. CONGRESSCRITTER. EVER.
Yes, even worse than Cynthia McKinney, scorn be upon her. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Taliban...I mean Toledo) says that al Qaeda's terrorists are similar to America's founding fathers. How do these people walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone run for (and win!) elective office in the United States of America? It boggles the mind.Anyway, to the idiocy. In an interview (yes, an interview, where one is supposed to think before speaking), Kaptur said that we Americans should consider our own religious roots before condemning Osama bin Laden & Co. Comparing them to the Green Mountain Boys, a volunteer patriot militia that kicked some redcoat butt, she said
"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown."
Where to start? Atypical revolutionaries? Non-nation state fighters? The Green Mountain Boys were fighting to establish a friggin' nation state, and they fought against the army of a more powerful nation state. No intentional civilian-killing, no calls for jamboree jihad--just a little guerilla grunting against King George's well-dressed boys. Apples and oranges, here. And this bit about "casting off" the British crown. She refers to casting off the crown a couple of times in the story, oblivious of the obvious fact that al Qaeda isn't "casting off" anything--they just like to kill people. It's how they get their jollies. The American revolutionaries were indeed casting off a monarchy--the terrorists we fight today just cast off malodorous fumes. Hopefully the people of Ohio will see fit to cast off Rep. Kaptur, but I digress.
She's not done here, folks. Not content to smear the men who fought for George Washington and established this great nation, she then sets off to smear religious folk. Which is a little disconcerting, considering that she seems to be a Catholic. It seems to go with the territory though lately. Here she goes:
"I think that one thing that people of faith understand about the world of Islam is that the kind of insurgency we see occurring in many of these countries is an act of hope that life will be better using Islam as the only reed that they have to lean on.
"I think that people of faith understand that for many of the terrorists, their actions are acts of sacred piety to the point of losing their lives. And I think that people of faith understand that there is a heavy religious overtone to the opposition."
An act of hope? Well-financed mass murder is an act of hope? That's a new one. Ho. Ly. Crap. That's exactly what she's spouting--holy crap. People of any true faith don't do what the Islamists are doing. Christian, Jew, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Rastafarian--if you practice a real faith with any redeeming value at all, that faith doesn't prompt you to crash airplanes full of people into buildings full of people. There's nothing sacred about that--it's just mass murder dressed up as politics. If Kaptur can't see that, well, see the headline to this post.
What a pile of grade-A pup poop. To coin a phrase, go read the whole thing. Then shower.