Sudden end of GWOT

After a decade of nonstop fear-mongering and systematic dismantling of our civil protections in the name of the Great War on Terror (GWOT), what happens when a new terrorist act actually occurs, and it’s a white guy angry at the IRS? The teabagger crowd immediately goes into ‘understanding’ and sympathy mode.

The eerie silence accompanying the apology for domestic terrorism from the newly minted Republican senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, is yet another reason why the Democrats deserve to get shellacked this fall. And will.

The vastness of the hypocrisy around wacko Joe Stack’s suicide bombing of an IRS building is stupefying even for one prepared to believe the worst of his fellow bipeds. These are the people who jump up and down screeching about ‘respect for the law’ when discussing the Mexican immigrants who wash their cars. But suddenly they forget all about the holy Law when someone like themselves tries to slaughter federal employees who happen to collect taxes?

Brown, the latest member of the dysfunctional Senate, told Fox News that he ‘hopes’ [wink, wink] that there is no connection between Stack and the ‘frustration’ people feel about Washington. Brown then went on a bizarre ramble about how elected officials should be ‘accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting [voters’] daily lives’. Meaning what? That Joe Stack should have watched more C-SPAN?

The talking heads will naturally refuse to use the term ‘terrorism’ when applied to this particular incident of flying airplanes into inhabited buildings, prompting one neighbor of same to totally lose his composure.

But a special punishment room should be prepared for the Democrats elected to be our ‘leaders’—including the annoying Mr Cool at the top—who refuse to jump all over this scumbag and pillory the Republicans for empowering people who think terrorism is perfectly fine when directed against the targets they love to hate. As the teabagger crowd inches ever closer to a fascist movement, who has the spirit, instinct or desire to defend our wobbly democracy and the steadily sinking rule of law?