Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The Ecstasy of Terror

I said early yesterday morning: "I don't even have to go read to know that this must have the RW bloggers aflame." This being the backpack incident at the Luxor in Las Vegas.

Oh boy was I right. Just a few:

Malkin, Right Voices, Sistertoldjah, another, another, and another. And a bunch more.

It's nothing new to notice how this particular type of observer seems to be waiting with bated breath to see a bunch of Americans killed in some kind of attack, hoping, it can only seem, to fuel and to justify their fantasies of further violence on our part. But it's worth noticing again.

Oh but forget that - the kids got sick of their shiny red ball and found a new toy to play with.

They'll get sick of that one soon enough, and find another. And another...

4 comments:

genslub3 said...

Luckily we live in a diverse society where you can find another and another and another.....


Feel the cultural enrichment of diversity.

Boom,

LT said...

And from what infested soup did your genes jump, slub?

Anonymous said...

Right, it takes such a Herculean jump in reason to associate exploding backpacks with some form to terror attack. As if exploding backs were normal occurrences in Las Vegas parking garages.
Certainly not a reason for everyone to panic, but surely terror must come to mind when the favorite tool of train station bombers in the UK and Spain is used in the US, especially lacking other evidence early in the reporting of a story.

LT said...

"Coming to mind" and rushing to judgement are different things. Why is letting a few facts come out first so abhorrent to you?