Now that John McCain is saving the world from his suspended campaign's offices, using an ingenious device recently introduced by that young scamp Alexander Graham Bell, we can turn our eyes to other, admittedly less important and compelling, stories.
Stories such as the one coming out of Dayton, Ohio, where a person or persons "sprayed an irritant" into the mosque of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton while approximately 300 people were worshiping. The "irritant" - GOOD GOD PEOPLE, IT'S A FUCKING TERRORIST WEAPON WHATEVER IT IS - was sprayed into the nursery.
You know, the place where people put their babies and toddlers while they go into Big Church.
Chris Rodda has a diary at DailyKos about this. Rodda received permission to publish an email received from a person who spent the day after the terrorist attack with one of the targeted families. This email describes the horror and fear of parents for their children, their babies, a fear that now is their constant companion here in America: land of the free and beacon of hope to oppressed peoples around the world.
Rodda links this attack to the recent distribution of the repugnant propaganda film Obsession, thousands of copies of which were distributed in Dayton. This is exactly right. Once again Melissa McEwan's words are apt: this shit doesn't happen in a vacuum. Obsession is explicitly designed to incite and inflame, to induce extreme fear in American citizens. I firmly believe that the people who created this film not only anticipated the violence that would occur as a result of it, but intended it to be a catalyst for such violence. To preempt some comments, let me ask this: when will liberals stop assuming the best about a movement which has already spawned clinic bombings, doctor assassinations, which glorifies war and makes a fetish of soldiers, for which no criminal sentence is enough, which fills op-ed pages with outrage about the idea that prisoners shouldn't have to live in constant fear of rape and other abuse, whose members have and continue to call for the nuclear obliteration of nations and peoples who have not been proven ever to have done anything to us?
If Obama is elected this November, right wing violence will increase, just as it always does when these lunatics don't think they have one of their own in the White House. We need to get ready for it now, and start figuring out what we are going to do to combat it now, not after the terrorist attack in Dayton over the weekend is replicated all over the country.
