There are not words sufficient…
Kasia October 28th, 2008
TBS called me last night to tell me about this (mercifully foiled) plan a couple of neo-Nazis hatched. Apparently they were planning to murder 102 innocent people (some at a school?! That was news to me when I saw that article) and then do a kamikaze-style assassination attempt against Sen. Obama.
Like TBS and I said last night: wow. One doesn’t like to think that there are still people out there who think that way. On some level one knows there are, but when one doesn’t know any oneself, it’s easier to push to the back of your mind and not think about it. TBS said, “What is this - 1963?!” And yeah. That’s about it.
I don’t care how much you disagree with a candidate. Murder is not how you express your dissent. (Duh.) And to even conceive of murdering over a hundred innocent people, simply because you can’t handle the thought of a President who has a little more melanin in his skin than you do?! Let alone do enough planning that the Feds can bring charges?
Like I said: there are not words sufficient.
It is despicable. What makes this story even worse (if possible) is that included in this plot to kill these 102 innocent people, they had specifically targeted/planned to decapitate 12-14 “non-whites” after they had shot down the rest.
This part of their evil plan they thought they would get away with, but they indicated that they thought they would “die trying” in their attempt on Sen. Obama’s life.
In my opinion, this evil is no different than the types of terrorism and jihad going on in the world today. This is EVIL.
Kasia, you are right, there are not sufficient words…
You’re right, of course, Jill - “evil” it truly is - but am I wrong to think that somehow that word doesn’t seem to capture the magnitude of the evilness?
You are so right. It’s true, sometimes words are not enough, and in this case they certainly do not even begin to scratch the surface.
It is sick beyond words. What is really twisted, too, is the hardcore leftists coming on tv today, making the requisite “shocked” comments, and then celebrating the fact that these LOSERS have unwittingly played right into their hands and could garner some sympathy votes for Obama - much like that idiot girl with the self-inflicted “B” on her face last week. Always an angle for these people, even in the worst circumstances.
I’m so glad I haven’t seen any tv news today — taking a break for my own sanity!
But doesn’t it make anyone else think that we’ve somehow “gone through the looking glass” and come out on the other side where everything has turned on its ear? It’s as if the whole world has gone crazy.
People matter! Life is precious! And this means the lives of everyone, not just those who believe the same things you do!
As Jesus said in Matthew Chapter 5:44-46 “But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?
More often than not these days in reaction to the current news, I find myself asking, “is this really happening?”
Fr. Corapi wrote an excellent article for Catholic Online a couple of months ago which articulated what I couldn’t and it struck a chord.
I apologize ahead of time for “pigging” Kasia’s blog space but what Fr. said is too good not to share.
In part he said, it’s “reminiscent of the horrid witches in Act 1 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” chanting shrilly to a morally sick public all too eager to be confirmed in their sins, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Good is evil, and evil is good. The truth is a lie and lies are the truth, hover through the fog of moral relativism and the filthy air of a world gone mad with the madness of sin. The words of the prophet thunder through the ages, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isaiah 5:20).
We have inverted the poles of the moral power grid. We have begun to call the negative pole the positive, and the positive the negative. This inversion of reality begets disaster: The power fails, the lights go out, darkness falls-and indeed, if your light is darkness, how deep, how very deep will the darkness be! (cf. Mt 6:23). “
Jill, it is my pleasure to read your comments - have no fear about taking up combox space. That’s what it’s here for!
I read the story at Bob Parks’ website and realized that these two guys are morons. I don’t know what drug they were on, what video game is their favorite, or what combination of the two… but they are stupid.
They planned to kill Mr. Obama by driving their car as fast as they could while shooting out the windows… while wearing white tuxedos and tophats.
It reminds me of something one of my relatives said (I believe about mafia): “Evil isn’t smart. It can’t be because it appeals to the most stupid of us.”
I think you’re right that they’re stupid. But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have gotten a lot of damage done before they got to that part of the plan.
It is reminiscent of a video game, though. I think that the next administration should encourage research to re-evaluate the link between video games and violence…