Deja Vu

When you live long enough, you get to see history repeat itself. In my childhood, the fear was Communism and if the Russians would use the Bomb. A national paranoia was stirred up by Joseph McCarthy and his hearings that tried to weed out Communist in every faze of life, even though is was legal to belong to the Communist Party. In the south with an emerging civil rights movement, the white southerner in order to discredit civil rights leaders, tagged them communist. It must be a communist conspiracy and instigators who came south to stir up their Negroes. This could then be presented to the nation as acceptable rhetoric as why it was justified to vilify civil rights and shroud their racist attitudes. The strength of the civil rights movement did push the white southerner to show his real intentions.

Fifty years later, terrorism has replaced communism. There are no McCarthy hearings now, but bloggers and the McCain's presidential campaign are stirring up the paranoia. The intellectual rhetoric of the bloggers is falling apart on the ground, where the McCain's campaign is creating suspicion, mistrust and inciting violent outburst. A terrorist is the Democratic nominee.

McCains dangerous game backfires as nutjobs scream "Kill Him"

DN! "KILL HIM!!![OBAMA]." PALIN SAYS NOTHING IN RESPONSE.

So easy to lead the silent bigots into revealing themselves, just as the segregationist move from "communist instigator" to "uppity nigger," saying "he's an Arab" probably implies the same.

Islam is not a Virus

I read yet another article today about Racheal Ray's Dunkin' Donuts commercial. This article stated Michelle Malkin's protest was partly responsible for Dunkin' Donuts removing the commercial from the airways.

“The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad," Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin wrote in her syndicated column.

"Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons," Malkin wrote.

Dunkin’ Donuts denied the similarity, but decided to pull the ad.

“Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial," the company said in a statement.

Malkin said she was pleased with the company’s response.

Dunkin' Donuts Yanks Rachael Ray Ad

The first thing I thought, how did she get so much power and secondly I thought why is there so much fear. Are things that look like Arab or Muslim to be feared, such that we adsorb in our brain the tenets of the Qur'an. Are we to be afraid of every Mediterranean looking person, black, Puerto Rican, or even Southeast Asian, which resemble Malkin, because we perceive them to be Muslim? Perhaps we should start to use Roman numbers again. Aren't the America people secure in their own beliefs that exposure to Islam should affect them? Hearing, seeing or touching anything Muslim only becomes an act of terror when the individual self induces it. It may be that Americans are not fearful, only the pundits that have begun to believe their own fear mongering rhetoric, which they chose in order to maintain their 15 minutes of fame. The disturbing problem is the influence these pundits have on the market and government.

There is no relgious test for president.

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

Unites States Constitution: Article II

That is the only requirement stated in the Constitution. So why this? Confirmed:Barack Obama Practiced Islam Who is behind these emails, articles and blogs that say Obama is Muslim not Christian and speaks of his mother's beliefs. They also imply that Barack Obama is a sleeper agent for Al Queda? More fear mongering!