Stealing from the Best

Posted on 04/11/2009 at 12:08 pm by Bob Cesca

In addition to apparently stealing from professional wrestlers, Beck might also be stealing from militia manuals.

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  • nitesurfer

    I thought Beck stole Howard Beale’s shtick. Meanwhile, I wouldn’t mind a few armed militia — or even a few WWE guys — out in the Gulf of Aden, where four guys in a dingy are holding US Naval forces at bay. The president should act decisively. This is going to play into Beck, et al’s, meme that liberals are “weak on defense” — so weak we can’t even nab a few ragtag thugs who grabbed an American ship, and are holding a US citizen hostage.Giving the country a whiff of 1979 is not a good thing.

  • GItheJOE

    Nitesurfer,Are you fucking nuts? There are TWO DESTROYERS, at least one NAVY SEAL TEAM, FBI negotators, Helicopters, and satellites all pointed at the “few ragtag thugs’. I believe that is showing STRENGTH not weakness. Do you want the NAVY to NUKE them? I can’t imagine how “W.” would have handles this. But my spider sense tells me that the family of the Captian my prefer a negoitation process before the “thugs” and the Captian are removed the planet.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    nitesurfer and the wrong wing don’t grok hostage negotiation. They just want to see everyone dead except for themselves.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    I should have mentioned that tey see this a an excuse to criticize the president. The fact that the criticism is a crock is beside the point. Any little nitpick will do, false or not.Sore losers aren’t they?

  • mattpddm03

    in a freaky coincidence in randomness… I’ve got the ipod thingee on shuffle and Son Volt’s Jet Pilot was playing when I was reading the ‘militia movement will be televised link”. It contains a line ‘The revolution will be televised”.

  • TomCA

    The last I heard Hillary Clinton referred to the priates as “criminals”, not as terriorists, once she stopped laughing that is. To treat them as criminals, already means we are affording them a set of responses less than if we saw them as terriorists. Criminals have a certain set of rights here in the US, and apparently so do the Somali Pirates, according to Clinton. That is weakness from the start in how we deal with them.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    TomCA that is some very idiotic rationale there. Pirates are criminals, not terrorists.The definition of terrorism is to use fear and violence to achieve political goals.Im pretty sure the pirates are just trying to score some cash, they dont give a shit about politics.

  • Tusz

    The thing is, they’re not terrorists. Terrorism implies acting for some kind of social/political change. These guys are just doing this for money. That makes them criminals of the worst sort, but still just criminals.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Why should they be viewed as terrorists?They are robbing goods and holding cargoes for ransom. They are practicing pure unbridled, unregulated capitalism. They are criminals.The days of declaring everyone you disagree with a terrorist are over. We actually follow our laws now. Get used to it.

  • Tusz

    Oh, and for reference, here are what many consider the 4 criteria for considering someone a terrorist:-Non-government actors-Behaving violently-Against non-combatants-For political or social ends.

  • thruwithbuzz

    @nitesurfer, what would you like to see happen? How should this situation be handled? Let me guess, you don’t know.

  • nitesurfer

    I would like the president to at least make a statement condemning the taking of an unarmed ship loaded with relief supplies for Africa, and the holding hostage of its American captain at gunpoint. When asked about the situation, President Obama said, “Guys, we’re talking about housing right now.”It’s an off-key remark that the Left gets stuck defending, while the Right uses to pounce.