Breeding Grounds for Terrorism

(Published in the Mendocino Beacon on November 12, 2009)

The tragedy at Fort Hood got me to thinking. Liberal tenets hold that terrorists incubate in poverty, lack of opportunity, poor education, and disenfranchisement before springing forth to wreak violence on society.  Terrorist is too strong a word, sayest the empathetic liberal, because an act of violence is not a choice but an understandable (though deplorable!) consequence of forces beyond the control of any individual living in these circumstances. 

Then let me raise the warning for all liberals to hear. Years of enacting liberal policies by Democrats and Republicans, now reaching culmination under Obama, will soon create in our own country the very conditions that liberals believe lead to acts of violence and terrorism:

• Poverty resulting from a ruined economy and the destruction of personal savings, check.
• Lack of opportunity that results from widespread unemployment and taxation, check.
• Failure of the educational system to provide a proper education, especially when no one can afford private or Catholic schools, check.
• The sense of disenfranchisement that comes from watching the enactment of health care changes that a large majority of Americans don’t want.

Listen up liberals! Please. Don’t be responsible for creating conditions here at home that you say fosters violence and terrorism in other countries.

John Redding

Mendocino CA