Warning: Rantage ahead.

[agilebrit]

Probably a short rant. But this has been eating at me for awhile.

Yeah, I'm looking at ginmar. Not only does she seem to have no concept of the LJ-cut, but she seems to be a very angry and bitter person. I friended her when she was in Iraq and I wanted the POV of someone who was on the ground over there. I lurked, didn't comment much, and she probably doesn't know me from a hole in the wall. But I see what happens to people who dare to disagree with her, and so I bite my tongue and don't say anything.

However, her latest entry is the last straw. I know the rhetoric from the left is nearly so automatic that they don't even notice or think about what they're saying, but when someone says

We are committing worse acts than the people we oppose.

I call bullshit. We are not planting car bombs and blowing up innocent people. We are not blowing up mosques. We are not "torturing" prisoners in the classical sense of what torture used to mean. We're certainly not cutting off the heads of people with dull knives while yelling "God is great!" We are not rioting and killing over a discredited news story that a holy book was defaced while ignoring the fact that the "religious" prisoners themselves have defaced that same holy book. Qualitatively and quantitatively, the statement "We are committing worse acts than the people we oppose" is complete and utter Barbra Streisand.

I admire her writing tremendously and wish her well. But I won't miss her LJ entries.

ETA (Apr. 17, 2007): The post on Gin's LJ linked above has since been flocked, but it wasn't when I made this entry. Otherwise, yeah, I couldn't have seen it, and this entire wank might never have happened.

SON OF ETA (Sept. 4, 2007): Look, if you people can't play nice on here, I'm going to lock down comments on this post and start using the banhammer. Dropping f-bombs on my LJ? Not cool. Picking a fight with a third party on my LJ? Also not cool. The discussion is two years old. Drop it. If you want to pick a fight with ginmar, do it on your own space, not mine. Capice?

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[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Thanks. She's stayed away since her initial invasion, and I'm probably not important enough for her to be lurking. But I've got my finger on the "ban" button, if necessary.