I wrote on the December 10th about John Walker Lindh and I touched upon how his story has turned into a criticism of ‘liberal parenting’ by conservatives and other small minded people. Religious and social conservatives have blamed his parents and his wealthy hometown for his lack of ‘traditional moral values’. Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune writes more adeptly than I did about this subject in a piece, Is John Walker a failure of liberalism? He makes a few points I failed to make like how in the cases of Timothy McVeigh and Theodore Kaczynski no one criticized their conservative, middle-class upbringing for what they later became and did. Chapman also makes this scathing observation levelled at these tutting armchair moralists:
- Plenty of bad people have grown up in wealthy, permissive, liberal towns–and plenty have grown up in middle-class, authoritarian, conservative ones. Human nature is the same in both places, and neither environment guarantees good citizenship. If old-fashioned moral attitudes are more likely to provide a reliable check on our baser impulses, why is it that murder rates are higher in Bible-Belt states like Mississippi and Alabama than in more liberal locales? Why do mass school shootings typically take place in Norman Rockwell country instead of Cambridge or Berkeley?
The UN is planning on fingerprinting everyone on earth to prevent illegal immigration. Of course, illegal immigration makes it harder for the global elite to control economic situations.
It’s starting to look like our own government is responsible for the biological anthrax attacks. The anthrax spores mailed to US Senators match a strain developed at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md.: “That means the original source [of the terrorist material] had to have been USAMRIID,” said one of the scientists.” Of course, since the CIA and who knows what other part of the government have also been developing anthrax the danger is hardly over. It’s funny that the US criticizes ‘rogue states’ such as Iraq and North Korea for their chemical weapons projects but we do the same thing on a much larger scale. Essentially, this makes us a rogues state and our leaders are criminals and terrorists. The US has more weapons of mass destruction than anyone else and we rarely follow international law when we attack other countries unilaterally. It’s a sick joke.