When peaceniks attack: “Right now, I could kill George Bush” Update: Audio added Update: Up next…Rigoberta Menchu!
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams wants to “kill George Bush”
Flashback: Anti-US-bashing from Nobel Laureats at PeaceJam
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My column this week highlighted the July 4th shooting of senior airman Jonathan Schrieken and the trial of accused al Qaeda sympathizer/plotter Michael Reynolds who wanted to bomb pipelines to cause an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Here’s how I concluded the piece:
Funny how the Root Causes crowd becomes so incurious about the root causes of crime when the suspects are anti-military nutballs and anti-war protesters. To the extent leftists pay any attention at all to this attempted murder, you can expect it to be downplayed as an isolated incident. Never mind the pro-fragging comments made by troop-bashing academic fraudsters like Ward Churchill; the iconic banners that proclaim “We support our troops when they shoot their own officers” and “Don’t impeach Bush . . . execute him”; the countless acts of vandalism against military recruitment offices nationwide since 9/11; and the burning of soldiers in effigy by hate-filled peaceniks.
Oh, and this week, the trial of Michael Curtis Reynolds began. He’s a Pennsylvania man and al Qaeda sympathizer accused of plotting to blow up U.S. energy installations in order to drive up gas prices and precipitate a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. In e-mail exchanges with Internet sleuth Shannen Rossmiller, who unmasked the bombing plot, Reynolds called the United States an “accursed country” and said “it isn’t the land of the free, but the home of the new dictators.”
Harmless rantings? No. Ideas, like the bullet in Jon Schrieken’s chest, have consequences.
As if to underscore my point, along comes Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams stating that she’d like to “kill George Bush:”
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.
In a keynote speech at the International Women’s Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.
“Right now, I could kill George Bush,” she said at the Adam’s Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. “No, I don’t mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.”
About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush’s removal from power.
“No, I don’t mean that.”
Sure you didn’t. But there are plenty of your ilk who do, Ms. Williams. Words matter. Words have consequences. Remember: Assassination chic isn’t just a fad on the Left. It’s a cancer.
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Apparently, Betty Williams has made similar remarks before:
“On July 24, 2006, while delivering a speech at the Earth Dialogue forums, Williams told school children at the Brisbane City Hall, “I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent.” She went on to say, “Right now, I would love to kill George Bush”, blaming him for the deaths of children, particularly in the Middle East. “I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It’s our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.”
Update: Radio talker Mike Gallagher interviewed Williams about her remarks. Here’s a snippet (mp3). Non-denial denial, moral equivalence, it’s all there. More at Mike’s site.
Update: Here’s more on the “peace conference” that hosted Williams. Scheduled to speak next: the multicultural fraud Rigoberta Menchu…
David Horowitz chronicles Menchu’s lies here. A taste:
THE STORY OF RIGOBERTA MENCHU, a Quiche Mayan from Guatemala, whose autobiography catapulted her to international fame, won her the Nobel Peace Prize, and made her an international emblem of the dispossessed indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere and their attempt to rebel against the oppression of European conquerors, has now been exposed as a political fabrication, a tissue of lies, and one of the greatest intellectual and academic hoaxes of the Twentieth Century.
During the last decade, Rigoberta Menchu had become a leading icon of the university culture. In one of the more celebrated “breakthroughs” of the multicultural left, a demonstration of left-wing faculty and students at Stanford University, led by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, had chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western cultures got to go!” The target of the chant was Stanfords required curriculum in Western civilization. University officials quickly caved before the demonstrators, and the course title was changed simply to “CIV.” Works by “Third World” (mainly Marxist) authors previously “excluded” were now introduced into the canon of great books as required reading. Chief among these was an autobiography by an indigenous Guatemalan and sometime revolutionary, I, Rigoberta Menchu, which now took its place beside Aristotle, Dante, and Shakespeare as the Stanford students introduction to the world.
Published in 1982, I, Rigoberta Menchu was actually written by a French leftist, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, wife of the Marxist, Regis Debray, who provided the “foco strategy” for Che Guevara’s failed effort to foment a guerilla war in Bolivia in the 1960s. The idea of the foco was that urban intellectuals could insert a military front inside a system of social oppression, and provide the catalyst for revolutionary change. Debrays misguided theory got Guevara and an undetermined number of Bolivian peasants killed, and as we shall see, is at the root of the tragedies that overwhelmed Rigoberta Menchu and her family, and that are (falsely) chronicled in I, Rigoberta Menchu…
FYI: Menchu is running for president in Guatemala. According to a recent AP wire report, she’s in fifth place with 1.5 percent support.
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If this woman is not arrested and interrogated by the Secret Service, then why do we have one?
Isn’t a crime to threaten the President of the United States?
Let’s move down the road and imagine what will lie in store for anyone who threatens to kill a possible President Hillary? Waco, TX. Anyone? I can’t imagine that person and his family continuing to breathe (freely) for very long.
non-violent way of killing. atypical of the liberal mind set, it is a disorder. yet, if there were any conservative voices speaking to the same towards hillary, obama, edwards, kennedy, etc. it would be on the MSM until the fair doctrine was enacted again!
i am for free speech, but this is hate speech. no if ands or buts about it, hate speech. but then, this was a lib talking not a conservative…
These communists are lucky to be alive.
Actually, they can’t even grasp that they are lucky.
They live in an idealistic world made of fantasies and surrealism. They are unable to face reality.
And the reality is:
There are people in this world (called “Muslims”), sometimes living in their neighborhood, who want to behead them for no reason at all except to please a bloodthirsty deity.
It never ceases to amaze me how “liberal” we are supposed to be when it comes to “free speech” from liberals professing a desire to kill our president, yet how something as innocuous as saying, “I’m against illegal immigration,” becomes hate speech.
This is what happens when you believe you are important and talk to yourself all day. I guess we could call it The Sheehan Syndrome.
Pull the mask off most “liberals” and you’ll find a hateful,jealous and mostly unhappy person. Oh yeah, the “progressives” creed: if you don’t agree with me, you must die. If I don’t agree with you, then you must be a criminal and you need go to jail! If you don’t agree with me, you are a bigot! You hate old people, children, brown skinned people..the environment, homeless, etc..etc..etc…
Of course we heard nothing from the main stream media?!?! If Ann Coulter said this about ANY liberal, she’d be lambasted and misquoted.
If only the left hated the enemy like they hate President Bush, we would be finished with the war. Troglodyte is the liberal’s new name.
Yeah, say, “KILL BILL” and watch what happens.
Guess everyone but the true conservatives can make death threats, intimidate, harass, break all laws,etc.
That’s the grand scheme of our new AMERICA folks.
Soon, the Satanic symbol will become the emblem on the flag. Vampire bats will be the national bird and we’ll all have to wear black togas.
She needs a oneway ticket to “Club Gitmo”. She sounds like an enemy combatant to me.
This is nothing new from Williams. Last year, last summer she said exactly the same thing, and she told it to school children!!!
“On July 24, 2006, while delivering a speech at the Earth Dialogue forums, Williams told school children at the Brisbane City Hall, “I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent.” She went on to say, “Right now, I would love to kill George Bush”, blaming him for the deaths of children, particularly in the Middle East. “I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It’s our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.”
Nutjobs.
Why do we allow foreigners to come into our country and bash us? She is here as a guest. She should be shown the door and be banned from every coming back. When will our politicians ever grow a set?
Regardless of how she meant it, what a ridiculously irresponsible thing to say. How in the he77 can this woman get the Noble peace prize and twice mention that she could kill the President of the United States?
Sure, maybe it was said in jest, but is this the type of dialogue that we expect a Nobel peace prize winner to use when talking to a crowd of Americans?
She should go back to Ireland and fix the rift between the Catholics and the Protestants before she starts coming to America to lecture us on how to fix our problems.
Does the International Women’s Peace Conference include members of the feminist organization that, with Ground Zero still smouldering, called our military overthrow of the Taliban “the cycle of violence?”
Ed, that is how she came to prominence.
“Betty Williams was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 (the prize for 1976) for as a co-founder of Community of Peace People, an organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. “
And, according to Ms. Sanders, President Bush is to blame for all of the problems in the muslim world:
And she’s qualifed to speak for the muslim world because…?
In response to #’s 10 and 12, the Nobel Peace Prize, especially in recent years, has been awarded to the bearer of the left-wing political fad du jour. Unlike the science prizes, there are no objective standards here.
Has anyone called the Secret Service yet??? That would really ruin her day.
“How could you nonviolently kill somebody?” Anti-gun rhetoric, CHECK!
I find it interesting that when the left has nothing more to say, it reverts to the most base and emotional attacks against their perceived enemies. Case in point, Air America and Randi Rhodes gunshot sounds in reference to Bush. It’s one thing to disagree with Bush, but it’s another when the disagreement becomes so irrational that we BDS takes over. I was never a fan of Bill Clinton, but I never wished the guy death or another personal to happen to him. I despised his lying and disagreed with many of his lefty political decisions. The Ward Churchills of the world, and now Betty Williams too, use deflecatory langauge to say one thing in front of their choirs and something slightly different when called on their outrageous behavior. It’s the “who me?” syndrome.
Unfortunately, I see as much hatred of the president coming from the right these days. Especially in the rhetoric over shamnesty. Ever look at TOPIX discussions?
Well, we agree on something.
Why doesn’t she start by protesting her own life? (I think you know where my sick mind is going with this)
David Horowitz’ “I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar” is also a chapter in his book The Politics of Bad Faith. If you ever want to gain a troubling glimpse into the mindset of today’s Left - from one who once counted himself among them - this book is an excellent primer.
That Menchu is still running around speaking as any kind of factual or moral authority on anything is amazing. Yet she’s but one of many examples of how the left prefers to live in a fantasy world where its icons, even when utterly discredited, still find unquestioning acceptance as long as they stick to their story (cf Joe Wilson, Michael Moore, John Kerry, Angela Davis, Bill & Hillary Clinton, et al.).
As for Betty Williams, she’s further damning evidence that at its most fundamental level, liberalism really is a mental disorder.
It starts with surrender to what Napoleon Hill called “The Seven Major Negative Emotions”: Anger, Hatred, Fear, Jealousy, Greed, Superstition and Revenge. When you listen to or read what liberals and leftists say and write, it’s an interesting exercise to see how many of these emotional states underlie whatever it is that they’re expressing.
In Williams’ case, the Anger, Hatred, Superstition and lust for Revenge are all plainly evident.
Confronting all that inner ugliness would not only require hard an honest self-appraisal, but also the taking of personal responsibility for their own emotional states. This most liberals simply cannot bring themselves to attempt, not to mention accomplish. So on top of the base layer of negative emotions come the psycholgical avoidance mechanims: displacement, projection, paranoia and dishonest rationalization.
Take another look at Williams’ statements, and you’ll see a cocktail of these mechanisms at play right below the surface.
The third level of liberalism as a mental disorder reveals itself in various superficial behaviors that manifest the warped sense of reality that inevitably results from trying to cover up and compensate for ungoverned negative emotions. In Williams’ case, two of these behaviors are Malignant Narcissism and Arrogant Ethnocentrism: the latter taking the form of denying that an islamist death-cult could possibly be capable of forming and acting on its own agenda, but instead can only react to what George Bush does.
Long ago, I stopped paying attention to leftist argumentation per se, because it is too often so replete with logical fallacies as to make attempts to deal with it on a rational level pointless. Instead, the endeavor to discover what kind of mind is capable of thinking that way is a much more fascinating exercise of discovery.
For more, check out Dr. Sanity
She admits to wondering why she was accepted for the Nobel Peace Prize. If you do not think you deserve it….get off the platform. Moonbat fever. Also, the article states that she is from Ireland. Is she an American citizen? If not, she should keep her trap shut. Talk about the IRA or something.
I was taken aback more by this comment from Betty Williams:
“The Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief,” she said.
It was in my post whose link I emailed her.
The Nobel Price has been rendered a useless foptrick of the global left. This recent “loser” sounds like a therapy junkie who has a need to “own” her “anger” by talking about it. She passes it off as being in touch with her “true” feelings. In fact, she is merely reciting memorized emotion (her real anger that she uses to bottlecap her emotional dysfunction) and associating it with dead children in the Middle East (most of whom have been killed by jihadi scum to begin with and photoshopped for Al Reuters as killed by Israelites).
All of this she does in front of cameras and press corps. She represents the petty royalty of the day: arrogant yet lethal pawns of the secular thrones that rule from behind MoveOn.org and other Lefty front groups.
I am not worried about these people: the next attack will bury them in their own sinusoidal discharge as they scurry for “safe space”, while blaming it all on GWB.
This is Bear1909 from Berkeley CA. Out.
If they can give Yassar Arafat the peace prize, it make sense that they’d give it to someone who promotes the killing of Bush. It only proves that the peace prize doesn’t mean anything. Hell, even Jimmy Carter has one. AND they nominated “reformed” Crip Tookie Williams for it. So it has no credibility in my mind.
I’ve determined that to be a liberal you have to be blind to/deny any hypocrisy perpetrated by yourself and anyone like you.
How much longer do you think it will take before OBL gets his nomination?
Thing is; Hillary Clinton is the only one of them with the cajones to kill anyone; and she had to do it rather sneakily - leaving the body on a scenic overpass off of GW parkway, (Vince Foster.)This kind of talk gets tiresome from the left ~ I’m frankly really sick of their empty threats. You want your revolution? Bring it and let’s just get this over with. Please remember my side has guns and we know how to shoot.
Could we please move beyond the phrase “Bush Derangement Syndrome”? It rings as hollow as Hillary Clinton’s “vast right wing conspiracy”.
Some people hate the president and his policies. But not every one of those people does so out of irrational or blind hatred. It is possible to disagree with the president (eg the immagration bill) and not suffer from BDS.
I believe she is a citizen of Ireland, and as such she may not be subject to investigation by the Secret Service.
But I believe it would be perfectly reasonable to bar her from entering the United States.
If she’s in the U.S., making threats against the President, no matter her citizenship, the Secret Service has jurisdiction, just as they would if it were some Middle Eastern terrorist plot…
I had to take an “Ethnic Women Writers” course at ASU a couple of years ago and my very feminist professor actually allowed us to debate whether or not “I, Rigoberta Menchu” was true or not. She had us read the book as well as the counter reports to the book so we could intellectually debate it. The consensus?
Most of us in the class did not believe Ms. Menchu.
Anyways, I am surprised that Ms. Malkin is alarmed about what Betty Williams said. I would think Ms. Malkin is in agreement with her from her own Pres. Bush rantings and ravings here as of late.
It gets old…….
I do not want to kill Jorge Arbusto, but I sure wish that he would move to Mexico. Maybe he could start a plantation there.
Damn, maybe the dems are right. We need to bring home the troops ’cause an ENEMY is right here….gathering up awards and threatening America from within. This cancer is dangerous, is it as dangerous as al qaueda ? Islam? UBL? ,
It might be.
(for those who aren’t sure, i was KIDDING about bringing the troops home now)
al qaueda ? ok so there are now 15 ways to spell it…hehe
al qaueda ? ال كاويدا
Artbyruth -
You’re going to equate my policy criticisms of Bush with this irresponsible woman’s left-wing death wish?
Give me a break.
If you want mindless Bush cheerleading, there are many other places on the Internet for you.
No idea what you’re going on about there. But most folks know there is a difference between criticizing policy and issuing death threats. You should realize that’s an extremely bizarre application of moral equivalence you’ve offered up there.
Someone beat me by a minute in pointing out the absurd!
Michelle Malkin said: “If you want mindless Bush cheerleading, there are many other places on the Internet for you.”
May I recommend the following wonderful web sites:
http://www.LoveThatGeorge.com
http://www.WorshipBushOrYouStink.com
http://www.IslamIsROP.com
http://www.LearnSpanishOrLeaveUSA.com
http://www.IfYouDontLikeCIRYouAreBigot.com
http://www.IllSeeYouAtTheSigning.com
http://www.IllegalsAreMomsAndDadsToo.com
http://www.ChertoffIsCool.com
Artist Ruth,
Maybe you didn’t understand the point of your lesbian communist professor’s assignment of “I, Rigoberta”. You all bought the book.
Any idea how much money the communists get when every college in the country requires that they read their junk?
What, DPR? Don’t the royalties go to “The People”???
heh.
This woman is barbaric, and her deplorable threat is yet another step in the inexorable decline in the value and worth of the Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s time for the new media to declare a moratorium on reporting the recipients of that self-important and farcical “prize” year after year.
The annual Nobel Prize show belongs in the exact same category as non-stories about Paris Hilton. The Nobel Prize has become nothing but a measure of what’s considered “cool” in leftist fashion trends.
What do you call it when a Pacifist wants to Kill? Not Irony, there must be a literary name for it. I am sure there is medication for it.
I’m almost surprised they haven’t yet. All in due time, I suppose.
That’ll leave a mark!
Fact:Most unhinged moonbats need, prozac, Physiotherapy and shock treaments. Just ask Rosie O. Raging Repulican is right, some should call the secret service.
Unhinged Moonbat first aid kit: Prozac, psychotherapy audiotapes, and a stun gun for self-administered shock treatments. Just ask Rosie O. Raging is right someone should call secret service.
So the loving liberals are now openly advocating assassinating a President. How lovely. I sure want these people in control of our government. Sure makes me want to get out and vote for their candidate.
With all the loathing of President Clinton from the right, I never remember seeing or hearing any conservative advocating assassinating Clinton. Pretty much tells you which side has the morals and values, doesn’t it?
Ms. Malkin,
No, not “mindless Bush cheerleading”, just good criticisms like those of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Dean Bartlett, Sean Hannity, or Bill O’Reilly. These fellows know how to criticize the President without over doing it.
But your accusations of Bush purposefully making that 13 yr. old girl cry???…that was Bush Derangement Syndrome all the way.
Leave the Ad Hominems at home…..
Oops! I meant Dean Barnett…sorry.
I am for free speech. If the Left is for opposing Bush, free speech should not be stifled; even racist speech on blacks should not be silenced. But as a Christian, I would not use death to get my point across.
DPR-
“Lesbian Communist Professor”??? I’m sorry, but were you in the class? I didn’t think so.
First of all, she was not a lesbian. And second of all she was not a communist. Sheesh! Not all of us college professors are….some of us are Conservatives. Although I am just an art instructor…not yet a professor with a doctorate.
And third of all, we had to buy the books for the class. I bought them used online, but that’s another story.
Unfortunately, I needed the class to graduate. That’s how these liberal institutions get us!
It was a good course, though. I enjoyed many of the books I had to read.
artbyruth, you can’t possibly read what Michelle has to say and then accuse her of having Bush Derangement Syndrome. If you had, then you would see that Michelle backs up everything she says with rational thought and/or facts. Those with Bush Derangement Syndrome hate for the sake of hating with no rationale at all.
Methinks you have a mild case of Michelle Malkin derangement syndrome.
Arthbyruth, Mrs. Malkin is right. Sometimes I don’t like to take my medicine either. I can’t tell her she’s wrong because she backs everything up with hard facts. President Bush did make the little girl cry. Mrs. Malkin never said “purposefully” She did mention his flippant attitude. It’s a bad habit he picked up in Texas. There was nothing in that story that was irresponsible or unhinged. President Bush has angered a lot of his own party. I would hope he could fix it before he leaves office.
I learned a long time ago that beneath the tie-dye, hemp cloth, patchouli, hippie jewelry, and peace pins lies a whole lot of resentment and hatred in the leftist soul. It has little to do with anything President Bush has done or his policies; it’s what he represents in the minds of these lunatics.
What gets me is the double-standard when it comes to this sort of thing. Ann Coulter is misquoted and the MSM squawks like chickens and poops in their collective pants with outrage. A “Nobel Peace Prize Winner” (not that it means much anymore) flat out calls for Bush’s death and you hear crickets chirping.
What I noticed is Hayden’s puzzlement that in spite of the fact that we set up a “balanced” government, it hasn’t solved all Iraq’s problems.
Race and religion is not the answer to EVERY PROBLEM! (I’m sure Iraqis know that by now too since we set up a template for sectarian violence by installing sectarian representations.)
Paging Mrs Edwards, Ms Coulter is politely waiting on line one for your apology.
The Middle East was always a beacon of peace and hope, where children were free to play in the streets which were paved with gold. Unemployment was nonexistent, crime rate was nil and the number of deaths for “unnatural” causes was negligible.
The evil satanic Bu$h changed all that when he started his war over oil and money.
Some people are just so ignorant of history …
Hypocrisy.