Lying To Make Friends

Here is some actual, live fear-mongering for your viewing displeasure:

I would like to address, briefly, the political correctness argument.  This argument was no doubt quick on Shaggy John’s tongue because misguided folks (read: Fox News) have been saying that political correctness is to blame for the Ft. Hood shooting.  As in, if we weren’t so politically correct we would just lock up devout Muslims preemptively?  Or like if we weren’t so politically correct we would just call Muslims who kill people terrorists?  WELL THEN.  So now that we’re clear that a world without this so-called political correctness would involve preventative detention and discrimination on the basis of religion, what would Shaggy John like to add to the mix?  Ah, yes, Shaggy John would also like us to stop, just stop, with all the politeness, and in the interest of being real, keep on detaining criminal suspects on an island and denying them judicial review in U.S. courts.  Well, call me impossibly mannered, but I happen to think due process is more than a euphemism.

Quick, judicial clerks, grab your children and extended relatives!

-AS