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The New Face of Terrorism

By on 5.4.12 @ 6:09AM

Who are those five young men who wanted to blow up a bridge in Cleveland?

There is something very disconcerting about the faces of the five young men arrested in Cleveland last week for planning to blow up a bridge on a federal highway. Ordinarily we’re accustomed to seeing the faces of bearded Middle Easterners with some kind of turban on their heads and malevolence in their eyes. Instead, these were home-grown Americans. Granted one had a weird hairdo and they all looked pretty scruffy, but it wasn’t anything you wouldn’t encounter in your average grunge band.

If this is the new face of terrorism, we’re in big trouble. And it seems very likely. You see lots of the same type among the crowd at Occupy Wall Street crowd or in those fanatical environmental groups that chain themselves to a grove of trees or burn down a luxury condominium. (In fact, these five were first tailed by police after talking anarchist violence at Occupy Cleveland.) There’s a kind of helpless fanaticism to all these young men, as if the world is stacked against them and only the wildest act of desperation can have any impact.

America seems to be producing a lot more of these types today. My guess is that most of them have grown up without fathers and seem to have no connection with any adult male. The world of Father Knows Best is unknown to them. They’re angry at not having role models but they’ve also incorporated their divorced mothers’ jaundiced view of the world of men. In terms of personal and social roles, they have nowhere to go.

Ordinarily you would hope such wayward youth would eventually find themselves, settle down, get married and raise a family. But we no longer live in that kind of world. We’ve already had one Fight Club generation, “raised by women” as the Brad Pitt character put it, and it looks like we’re headed for another by default. These young men are not very good marriage material. Television watching and video games are their major vocation. They haven’t done well in school — but then most boys never did. In the old days, however, there was always a factory job or outdoor work that offered the possibility of making a living. These jobs no longer exist. Unless they have a father or an uncle who’s in some father-and-son labor union, they’re out of luck. They’re the kind of whom their girlfriends will say, when they finally gets pregnant and decide they don’t want to get married, “it would be like having another child.”

Meanwhile, those girlfriends are already doing better in school and are marching into the job market, for whatever that’s worth. This pattern cuts across racial and ethnic lines. As the young Cambodian girl tells Clint Eastwood in Grand Torino, “in this neighborhood, the girls go to college and the boys go to jail.” There are already more women than men in college and the gap keeps widening. Just last week the Gallup poll found for the first time that young women have more career ambitions than young men. It’s not surprising to find that when they reach the point of family formation, many of these women will decide they have better options — either the welfare system or their own resources.

All this illustrates what Charles Murray says is happening throughout blue-collar America. Cultural norms are breaking down and nothing is taking their place — except perhaps the system where everybody becomes a ward of the state. There’s the usual nattering about men staying home to raise children while their wives go out to be breadwinners but that’s limited to a slice of the population barely big enough to give some CNN reporter the idea that she’s got a story. In the vast reach of an increasingly undereducated America, young men raised in homes dominated by women find no appeal in putting themselves in the hands of another woman. Better to hang out with the boys and get high. And so the cycle continues.

So far there’s very little pushback against this gathering calamity. The dogma of women’s liberation says that anything women do to gain their “independence” is heroic, even if it means becoming a single mother with five illegitimate children and going on welfare. When black sports stars revert to the old African custom of collecting as many wives as possible, the press can only gape in admiration. (Reported BBC-CNN last week: “As he celebrates his 28th birthday today New York Jets cornerback, Antonio Cromartie, has another reason to raise a glass — he now fathers 10 children… from a total of eight women across the country.”) When Hollywood decides to investigate Mormons, it doesn’t concentrate on the highly moral and successful majority that plays a central role in the Boy Scouts, but concentrates on the few remaining polygamous cults and gives us Big Love.

No wonder that, when confronted with a breadwinning family man married to the same women for forty years with a healthy brood of children and grandchildren, the Obama Administration immediately responds by branding Mitt Romney as “weird.”

THERE IS, HOWEVER, a glimmer of hope. Deep in the bowels of academia, a handful of scholars are beginning to acknowledge that there may be something worth salvaging in Western culture.

In a paper published by the Royal Society last January entitled “The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage,” three scholars — Joseph Henrich, of the University of British Columbia, Robert Boyd of UCLA and Peter Richerson of UC Davis — have done the unthinkable: offered an anthropological/sociological/psychological defense of the Western monogamous tradition.

Why monogamy, sexual fidelity and fatherhood ever emerged in human culture, they admit, is a bit of a mystery. Physiologically, we are probably better suited to polygamy. In fact 85 percent of all human societies have allowed men to have multiple wives. The only exceptions have been: 1) hunter-gatherers, who deal with their challenging environment by practicing a fierce egalitarianism, and 2) “some of history’s largest and most successful… societies,” i.e., the West plus China, Japan and India, which have now adopted its mores.

What is the particularly salubrious about monogamy is that it “shrinks the size of the pool of low-status, risk-oriented, unmarried men, ” Otherwise, “[f]aced with… little chance of obtaining even one long-term mate, unmarried, low-status men will heavily discount the future and more readily engage in risky status-elevating and sex-seeking behavior. This will result in higher rates of murder, theft, rape, [and] social disruption.” Only by giving undereducated men a meaningful role in life will their energies be harnessed to the greater social good.

The five footloose, forlorn young men who decided that blowing up a bridge in Cleveland would trigger anarchistic rebellion across the country are probably only the vanguard of a cohort that has been marginalized by the economics of welfare, the feminization of education, and the cultural bend for celebrating everything women do over anything that men do short of winning the Super Bowl. Western society owes its success to assuring that even the lowest status male is given the opportunity to participate in fostering institutions and fathering the next generation. As these norms break down, the peace and prosperity they have produced is likely to erode as well.

About the Author

William Tucker is news editor for RealClearEnergy.org.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (199) |

drudge ette obama| 5.4.12 @ 6:16AM

This is the real story of the century. Obama is part of the problem with his condensed soup girlfriends, sleeping around on the first date, sarong wearing selfish introspection.

I would have run like hell from Obama in college just as I would have never considered any of the 5 males as a mate, much less let them in my house to spray insect killer.

Jack in Wi.| 5.4.12 @ 6:37AM

Another phoney entrapment by the security services in this country to keep the country on edge. They love to scare the boobs on the right with Mooslim terrorists. They also love to terriffy the dimwits on the left with so called militias coming to blow them up and shoot them. Meanwhile the Constitution is schredded for the whole country.

Doctor Right| 5.4.12 @ 8:09AM

The only "boob" kept on edge by the "security services" is you, and your puerile, raging paranoia.

Why so bitter, Jack? I mean, aside from being angry at the Jews because they ruined you life..?

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 8:34AM

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Crassus| 5.4.12 @ 9:54AM

Yada, yada, yada.

TLP| 5.4.12 @ 10:31AM

I disagree. These five are, indeed, Men. They are The Fruit of Obamaism. They are THE BEST the Left has to offer, and if Nancy Pelosi were here, right now? She would say: "God Bless them".

I look at them and I see the Next Generation of the Left's Assault on everything that's Good and Descent. I see The Muslim's friends from the Weather Underground. I see Abbie Hoffman and his Chicago 7 buddies. I see the Inserrection, that this Son of a Communist Whore has been trying to Gin Up, since Day 1.

I see Alinsky, and I see Cloward and Piven. I see Michael Lerner and Andy Stern. I see William Ayers and Bobby Rush. I see Louis Farrakhan, and I see Jeremiah Wright.

I see Newark, and Watts, and Detroit, and anywhere else that was BURNING in 68.

I see a CRISIS, in need of Exploitation. And I see a Means to an End, in a War against this Country, being waged EVERY DAY, by one Political Party, by the very people who are IN CHARGE.

And I see NERO, sitting in his Throne Room, fiddling, while Amerika Burns.

And, he's smiling.

If you don't own a Weapon?

GET ONE!

We are quickly, running out of time.

Seek| 5.4.12 @ 3:22PM

I agree: This rogues' gallery on the Left should be despised. Where I differ with the mainstream Right is that I view religious extremists of all beliefs -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Other -- as every bit as detestable.

Wade Smith| 5.5.12 @ 7:23PM

Then you actually agree with the right; we find detestable all organizations that support the the limitations of freedom. If you want to kill us or force us to follow your ideas then we detest you.

Seek| 5.7.12 @ 4:51PM

What exactly is noble about bullying people around in the name of God, as opposed to bullying people around in the name of economic equality? You're the one with the problem, mate.

Todd Powers| 5.8.12 @ 12:59AM

Very good, Sir. Taking on a mistaken assumption of the left and reeling in someone at the same time. Brilliant!! It won't sink in, but give it time.

SUBVET| 5.4.12 @ 6:45PM

And the hits keep comming......."like the smell of naplam in the morning"

TLP....Sir you are an insperation a "tell it like it is" kind of guy. T...I enjoy your rants I wish I had your talent with words.

You are the Paul Harvey of TAS....God bless you brother........."Good Day".

TLP| 5.5.12 @ 6:48AM

Thanks, buddy.

Dai Alanye | 5.4.12 @ 8:48PM

When I first saw the mug shots of The Cleveland Five, the word to immediately enter my thoughts was, "losers." Can't help having the feeling Wisc Jack probably resembles them. And Clint too, of course.

beebop2| 5.5.12 @ 6:23AM

I wrinkled my nose at the thought of what they must smell like ....

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 9:14AM

The odds of Jack being correct about this being a false-flag operation are pretty good. Ever notice how the FBI always has a Johnny-on-the-spot inside informant? Are we really expected to believe they're on top of every one of these plots?

This kind of crap serves the ruling elite well by (1) ramping up fear (now with "domestic" bad actors) and (2) demonstrating how effective our Gestapo is and why we need to increase their budget and kill more of the Constitution for our own good.

I don't, for one minute, believe this operation is what it appears. The new narrative is "domestic terrorism." Now, we're all legitimate suspects. Better get used to a checkpoint lifestyle.

Crassus| 5.4.12 @ 9:57AM

Junior, there's always someone on the inside of a criminal operation who's willing to sell out his comrades in crime (or terrorism as the case may be) for an extra dollar. You just prefer to believe the conspiracy rantings of whack jobs like Jackmeoff.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 10:52AM

First, what is the likelihood of a informant spontaneously emerging from a highly ideologically-driven group of terrorists? Funny how that happens every single time, isn't it?

And, second, follow the benefit trail. Who benefits most from these just-in-time arrests? Whose budgets are increased? Whose agenda is moved forward? As I said, get ready for a checkpoint lifestyle.

And, finally, my name isn't "Junior." Like all good liberals, name calling is your best response.

Sam Vaughn| 5.4.12 @ 11:30AM

Gary B - it is the habit of leftists to denigrate legitimate concerns as those of a whack job, rather than deal rationally with subject at hand they attack the messenger. I believe we it is possible that there are those in power now who would "stimulate" the susceptible among us to these acts. Acts they would probably only think about and nothing else if not encouraged by some outside force.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 12:15PM

Sam, the susceptible among us, as you so aptly describe, offers fertile ground for the evil bastards currently in charge.

Wade Smith| 5.5.12 @ 7:26PM

We also new about Osama's multiple plans to attack the US it was ignored by the Clinton administration. There were multiple informants telling the CIA and the FBI about the 9/11 plans but according to the rules under the Clinton administration, these two organization COULD NOT talk to one another.

Todd Powers| 5.8.12 @ 1:03AM

"...there's always someone on the inside of a criminal operation who's willing to sell out his comrades in crime (or terrorism as the case may be) for an extra dollar."

Or to get out of a separate crime he committed. One guy gets arrested for drugs or burglary of some kind and rats his 'friends' out for a lenient sentence.

KyMouse| 5.4.12 @ 9:32AM

"Phony entrapment," Jack? I think you'd be singing a different tune if you commuted across that Cleveland bridge.

Occam's Tool| 5.4.12 @ 4:20PM

I get to see this every day. Read Charles Murray's new book on this and you will see. Men's sexual drives need to be harnessed in a monogamous marriage so that they will be propely directed to devote energy into a career, being an adequate father, and being pro-social in their aggressive tendencies rather than antisocial---in short, a sheepdog rather than a wolf.

As Thomas More said in "A Man for All Seasons," when you rip the laws down and eliminate the thickets of tradition that keep society ordered and in place for some indefinable "freedom" and "good"---when you do that, you invite anarchy and violence.

People do their best work, society is more orderly and fruitful, men and women are happiest, when the structures and expectations of society sublimate men's aggressive drives into support of society and his family, and provide maximum support for women who want to raise children within a 2 parent framework.

Harry the Horrible| 5.4.12 @ 10:01AM

So, if some jackass showed up and offered to help you use violence to help you advance your political causes, you would take him up on it?

If so, you're not going to be missed while you're in prison.

If someone made that offer to me, I'd have him under citizen's arrest and the cops on the way.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 11:02AM

Harry,

With all due respect, everyone isn't like you. This country would be a lot better off is they were.

We're talking about guys who have zero to lose, who may be attracted to something big and, therefore, are quite easily influenced by the best "influencers" money can buy.

And, by the way, I, for one, appreciate your civility in this forum. Too many others resort to name calling, which is tempting, given the highly-emotional subjects addressed, but not helpful.

Alan Brooks| 5.4.12 @ 12:15PM

Jack, I hope the GOP convention is ruined in Florida; hope protesters trash it but good.
And if the Democratic convention is likewise attacked, so be it.. Democrats can take it; Repuglicans cannot.

Jack in Wi.| 5.4.12 @ 6:51PM

Alan Right On. Lets take to the streets at both conventions. The ruling elites need to be shown. Hell No! We Are Not Going To Take It Anymore.

But you are wrong about the Democrats. They are as even bigger crooks then the Republicans, But not by much.

Alan Brooks| 5.4.12 @ 11:55PM

One reason I like Obama so much is he sent John McPain back to Phoenix WHERE THE OLD GOAT BELONGS!

Bill H| 5.5.12 @ 4:30PM

John McPain?!?!

Do you mean John McCain? A CURRENT senator from Arizona?!
Last I heard he was still in DC, NOT Phoenix.

Can't see how much more worse off we'd be if he was President!

Alan Brooks| 5.5.12 @ 10:38PM

"Can't see how much more worse off we'd be if he was President!"

That's what you guys said about Clinton- you lied.

beebop2| 5.4.12 @ 7:00PM

You are an ass.

Democrats are the thinnest skinned people on the face of the earth. When they cannot argue with facts, they swear, or they throw flaming spam bombs on twitter and shut down opposing opinion. I hate to repeat this, but democrats only like laws they write, judges who uphold them and voters who mimic the wording of the law. Anything else? They bitch to high heavens.

Having dispatched of my opinion of Alan ....

Find these five idiots the best made parachutes on the face of this earth. Strap them in. Drop them over Pakistan and let them have a real anarchy experience.

It is a majestic, beautiful bridge that co-exists beautifully with the National Park it spans. There are many who are on that bridge every single day and these thoughtless, gutless, indifferent to suffering excuses for humans gave not one thought to the consequences of pushing that plunger. They need to go to hell via Pakistan asap!

Jack in Wi.| 5.4.12 @ 10:02PM

I used to be in the bridge building business stupid. Do you know how much explosives and how much engineering knowledge it takes to bring down a bridge? I also used to have blasting done on construction projects. Some of my people used to have blasting licenses. Do you know how hard it is to get blasting materials in this country, especially after the bombing in Oklahoma city? This was a setup. These kids had no way to get the knowledge and materials to do the job.

Anna Keppa| 5.4.12 @ 11:38PM

"These kids had no way to get the knowledge and materials to do the job."

Maybe so, but that statement applies to many a would-be criminal. Stupidity plus malice go a long, long way to explaining how and why crimes are attempted and botched.

Alan Brooks| 5.5.12 @ 12:00AM

I wish some young bucks would blow up Selective Service offices so you chicken hawks can't send guys such as them to your bungled war theatres.

Get it straight: Afghanistan is a total loss.

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 4:01AM

Hah, hah, hah!

Exactly how many draftees have gone to Afghanistan? And please, give me the address of even one "Selective Service office". Post offices don't count.

Alan Brooks| 5.5.12 @ 10:42PM

"Exactly how many draftees have gone to Afghanistan"

None; LBJ screwed up Vietnam so bad, you couldn't conscript if you wanted to. But in a national emergency you might try--
and fail.

beebop2| 5.5.12 @ 6:27AM

Did you mean Secret Service offices?

Your "not capable" argument is false. Does the first attempt on the World Trade Center not mean anything at all to you? And understand that I am not drawing parallels to the WTC structures and the Rte 82 bridge, I am merely pointly out that your use of logic is rather disengenuous.

Wade Smith| 5.5.12 @ 7:30PM

It is NOW that Obama has re-written the ROE to insure our soldiers die.

Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:30PM

You don't have to blow it up---you simply need to weaken it to the point that it is potentially unusable, or is seen that way.

Lost| 5.8.12 @ 1:06PM

I think you are confused on doing demolition on a bridge as opposed to taking one out. One requires skill to do it right the other not so much. It is surprising what the US Army will teach you if you are willing to learn.

Alan Brooks| 5.7.12 @ 12:22AM

"Last I heard he was still in DC, NOT Phoenix."

Not reassuring he is in DC.

Jim | 5.4.12 @ 1:05PM

Phony, unless you were born when telephones were a new thing. Schredded? Why do I feel like you are ecstatic with the "schredding" that tilts your way? Reply when you've risen enough in intelligence and writing ability to obtain "boob" status.

Robert| 5.4.12 @ 7:21AM

Sadly, you are in the minority. Just look at the overwhelming percentages of women who voted for this narcissistic perp in '08. Women elected him! Women voted with their uterui -- not their brains!

This is the ugly consequence of the feminization of America. The chickens have come home to roost!

Herb| 5.4.12 @ 7:54AM

"Women voted with their uterui -- not their brains!"

Just like former Cong. Patsy Schroeder who once shouted "I have a brain and a uterus, and I know how to use both!"

Results about the same.

Robert| 5.4.12 @ 8:20AM

It's knowing when to use one and when to use the other. Unfortunately for the US, 56% of women used the uterus to make their decision. And since 53% of women voted, the outcome was assured.

Since the act of pulling the lever for obama can only be the result of an absence of adult, cognitive thought, there remains only the primal uterus as the driving force. Sorry for my misspelling of the plural form of 'uteri.'

Pat Schroeder...in her type of femininity, I think you have found the explanation for the emasculation of men.

Teaghan| 5.4.12 @ 10:26AM

"Pat Schroeder...in her type of femininity, I think you have found the explanation for the emasculation of men."
This is it in a nutshell.

Seek| 5.4.12 @ 3:24PM

Try visiting certain websites such as demale.com. Their anti-masculinity makes Patsy Schroeder look like a Girl Scout.

Herb| 5.4.12 @ 6:17PM

A man cannot be emasculated against his will, even if it's by a feminist attempting a spikeheeled kick to his groin. He can always carry rebellion & manly values locked up inside his skull, no matter what the circumstances.

Jim | 5.4.12 @ 1:07PM

I think Patsy (what a glorious double-entendre!) was unable to use either, the first because she actually didn't have one, and the second because...well look at a pic of her!

Alan Brooks| 5.4.12 @ 12:21PM

Eight years you wasted with the little rodent Karl Rove and Cheney The Toad, and you blame your opponents? Did they vote for the Shrub administration?
Were they the ones who voted for 'Father Time' McCain?

Vern Crisler| 5.4.12 @ 11:05AM

I don't think we know enough about these guys to say what their motivation was. The media reports that they were anarchists who were also Occupoopers (to use John & Ken's term).

Most likely, they are nihilists, somewhat similar to the old Russian nihilists, who believed in the "propaganda of the deed." Nihilism, like its cousin anarchism, are primarily youth movements motivated by "the desire to annihilate the social order."

It doesn't seem to me these bozos were men who were jobless, down and out, or forced to live at home with parents, or guys who couldn't get a date. Rather, these guys were more than likely influenced by extreme leftist, nihilist ideology, which is the only thing outside of (say) Moslem fanaticism or neo-Nazi, neo-confederate revanchism, that could turn them against their fellow citizens.

Ignats75| 5.4.12 @ 11:29AM

One of the five was in the same high school class as my daughter. He was in quite a few of her classes. Her comment to me was that he was an angry nutjob even in high school with huge authority issues.

Back when I was a kid, idiots like this were handled the following way: "So, Billy-boy, you are an anarchist and don't want any laws? Try this then...."

TLP| 5.5.12 @ 6:55AM

I wonder how many people REMEMBER who Ignats is?

dipesto| 5.6.12 @ 5:31PM

Are you referring to Ignatz the mouse who was always tossing bricks at Krazy Kat and getting chased by Offica Pup?

jppc| 5.4.12 @ 6:20AM

Why this is getting so much attention is because the five are native-born, white Americans. It helps the Obama regime with it's big message that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam and in fact, native-born, white Americans are the real terrorists.

LiveFreeOrDie| 5.4.12 @ 12:57PM

If the march to the left continues, the "terrorists" soon enough will be native-born Americans. They are setting the narrative in advance.

Todd S| 5.4.12 @ 2:44PM

One problem with that theory. These guys were part of the Obama supported Occupy movement and this is a real problem for them.

LiveFreeOrDie| 5.4.12 @ 5:08PM

Against the death penalty but pro-abortion.

Accepting of any viewpoint, except conservative ones.

Don't believe in God but more than likely believe in ghosts or other supernatural, non-existent entities.

Defenders of the poor, campaigns financed by Goldman Sachs.

Support our troops! (in public) but don't count their votes.

Islam is a religion of peace, followers of Christ are racist, ignorant, violent, right-wing extremists.

Against racism, yet organize, classify and judge entire groups of people by their skin color alone.

There's no problem for the masters of hypocrisy. They play the game well. Their whole existence is indefensible without distortion and spin.

Alan Brooks| 5.5.12 @ 12:03AM

"These guys were part of the Obama supported Occupy movement and this is a real problem for them."

If only they could have blown up Selective Service when no one was around.`

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 4:05AM

Could you give them the address of a selective service office to blow up? Or maybe like BO's friends Ayers and Dornan they could have tried blowing up young Army officers and their wives and girlfriends at an officer's club. You would probably have applauded that.

crossworked| 5.4.12 @ 7:41PM

Check their voter registration and whether they applied as required for the selective service. I am sure the story is there.

Alan Brooks| 5.5.12 @ 12:04AM

Now you are getting the picture, rubes; they are not going to die for you.

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 4:09AM

ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Are you trapped in the '60s? The only ones talking about a draft are Dems. Are you afraid Obama is going to institute a draft? Don't you know that the Army must cut 100,000 VOLUNTEERS from its rolls over the next year? No way in **** these losers who probably couldn't do ten push ups would even be accepted into our ALL VOLUNTEER force. Please, wake up and join the 21st century.

beebop2| 5.5.12 @ 6:32AM

What kind of individual are you? "They are not going to die for you?" and these are the cretins who wanted to blow up faceless people on a bridge? Thank God you are a democrat.

Mike Hawk| 5.4.12 @ 6:23AM

I would not dignify those post adolescent anarchist brats as young men. They aren't men. They may be males, but they aren't men, men don't behave that way. Our young men are serving in the military and pursuing other productive endeavors as best they can (under the Oborg economy anyway). Our nation's young men are not trying to blow things up, crap in the streets and look for freebee gummint handouts.

oldfart| 5.4.12 @ 7:50AM

Bravo!

TLP| 5.4.12 @ 8:02AM

I disagree. These five are, indeed, Men. They are The Fruit of Obamaism. They are THE BEST the Left has to offer, and if Nancy Pelosi were here, right now? She would say: "God Bless them".

I look at them and I see the Next Generation of the Left's Assault on everything that's Good and Descent. I see The Muslim's friends from the Weather Underground. I see Abbie Hoffman and his Chicago 7 buddies. I see the Inserrection, that this Son of a Communist Whore has been trying to Gin Up, since Day 1.

I see Alinsky, and I see Cloward and Piven. I see Michael Lerner and Andy Stern. I see William Ayers and Bobby Rush. I see Louis Farrakhan, and I see Jeremiah Wright.

I see Newark, and Watts, and Detroit, and anywhere else that was BURNING in 68.

I see a CRISIS, in need of Exploitation. And I see a Means to an End, in a War against this Country, being waged EVERY DAY, by one Political Party, by the very people who are IN CHARGE.

And I see NERO, sitting in his Throne Room, fiddling, while Amerika Burns.

And, he's smiling.

If you don't own a Weapon?

GET ONE!

We are quickly, running out of time.

Miss Sally| 5.4.12 @ 8:11AM

...And we see you, too, Timmy!!!

TLP| 5.4.12 @ 9:06AM

Shouldn't you be in an alley, somewhere, kneeling down by the side of a Dumpster, earning $20?

Or, are you still "Employed" at the local Sperm Bank, in case the stack of Dirty Books, just ain't doing it for some of the guys?

Jim | 5.4.12 @ 1:10PM

Wow, what witty repartee (look it up). Perhaps the sperm bank your mother visited mixed mucus in with her batch.

TLP| 5.4.12 @ 2:59PM

Hey, Jim. I'm glad you got in touch.

You're Mother just left here, with my specimen.

Occam's Tool| 5.4.12 @ 4:25PM

Tim's a good guy, and accurate.

Tim, as an aside....I think "Miss Sally" was doing the Romper Room schtik.

And that reminds me. Back in Medical School, during the mid 80s, we had "simulated patients," staff who would present a history to us based on our questions, and then grade us on the completeness of our review. My first one was the wife of one of my anatomy profs, and was the hostess on Romper Room in Chicago (her hubby was a prof at Rush Medical school then, and keep in mnd that I was 21 when I started medical school) when I was about 4 or 5. Weird shit, my man. Keep up the good work.

TLP| 5.5.12 @ 7:04AM

Hey, I'm up on my Romper Room as well as the next guy, but what are you saying? That she's the Bouquet of Flowers in the Spring Can?

Cause I'm thinking that she's more like the Snakes, and she's in that alley, as we speak, raising money for her Messiah, the best way she knows how.

Or my name isn't Sonny Fox.

Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:32PM

Hey, I defer to you---but the "We see you too, Timmy" bit may have been a joke, I dunno....

But you have to deal with Liberal vermin more than I do, so you know the SMELL better too. I defer to you, Tim.

TLP| 5.6.12 @ 7:01AM

Trust me.

Their SNIDENESS gives them away, every time.

Happy Sunday.

Dick Nome| 5.4.12 @ 8:22AM

They are not men. Men would kick their asses and give them lessons in civility and responsibility and kick their asses again until they learned something.

kyMouse| 5.4.12 @ 9:33AM

They ARE men, which means that they can and should be held accountable for their behavior.

It's just that they're BAD men.

Teaghan| 5.4.12 @ 2:27PM

What?!!! They have to be held responsible for their behavior? No! Say it isn't so! It's just bad luck that they want to blow up bridges.

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 4:13AM

Society is to blame. They gew up without Obamacare.

Seek| 5.4.12 @ 3:26PM

Sadism is a good teacher? No thanks. The best way to punish these men, aside from arrest, is Life 101. Eventually, they will grow up. Don't enable them.

Tom Poole| 5.6.12 @ 12:16PM

Well said!

gearjammer| 5.4.12 @ 6:27AM

You confront them in the street and bust their heads open, same with the panthers. The time has come.

Kenny| 5.4.12 @ 7:24AM

It's coming to that, and boy, won't they be surprised when that starts to happen.

The media will howl but nobody will care.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 11:03AM

"...won't they be surprised when that starts to happen."

Kenny, you are certainly right about that!

Appleby| 5.4.12 @ 6:37AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRB3xDg5pnU

This is what those "young men" need!

Seriously, it just figures in this day and age that a petulant man would blame idiot terrorism by these heroes of Modern Tweethead America on GIRLS. If only we had remained barefoot and pregnant and Knew Our Place, wars would never happen! Oh, wait, it isn't Girls who started World Wars I and II. Unless petulant male scientists who can't get a date can rejigger history ...

Guys, take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself, "How can I convince Shirley next door that life with me would be better than life without me? What do I have to offer? " Regular sex isn't going to get the cream of the crop; that she can have anywhere, thanks to you and your scabby friends. I had a young man friend from Mensa back in the 1980s who ranted to me regularly that life was better when women HAD to marry a man to have a decent life. "Nowadays," he moaned, "you have to SELL yourself to her -- show her that you have something to OFFER her! "

And I had a distinguished elderly Black employer whose take on that blame-the-tramp Jody Foster movie that "If a woman jumps naked on a bar and yells Come One Come All, a DECENT man will still walk away." Would that today's males still held that attitude -- or that the ones who do weren't stuffed into their lockers by the likes of Van Jones and Raum Emanuel...and Obama...

Pah. We became the men we might have wanted to marry, because those men were snapped up early on by women who had a good eye for value, and those women carry guns...and we no longer have to settle for a shambling hairy brute who never met a job he liked.

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 7:29AM

Uh Oh !

" Pah. We became the men we might have wanted to marry, because those men were snapped up early on by women who had a good eye for value, and those women carry guns...and we no longer have to settle for a shambling hairy brute who never met a job he liked."

The New Appleby Woooooo-man.

http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/data/media/2/2_2.jpg

Doctor Right| 5.4.12 @ 8:13AM

What men did you want to marry, Clint?

Mickey| 5.4.12 @ 8:26AM

Appleby is the first real woman Klint has talked to. Klint is tired of the blow up doll and the poster of Bibi.

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 8:37AM

Bibi Called.

He Said To Tell Little Micky To Leave His Goat, Billy Alone

Bibi| 5.4.12 @ 4:03PM

What do you want to say to me Clint?

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 10:26PM

I Say What Dr. Ron Paul Says To All You Middle East Parasite Leeches, Bibi.

“Our military’s purpose is to defend our country, not to police the
Middle East.

“As the President prepares to send even more support to Egypt, we should
be reminded that it was our foreign aid that helped Mubarak retain power
to repress his people in the first place. Now we have to deal with the
consequences of those decisions, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes.

“I am not the only one who can see the absurdities of our foreign
policy. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her enemies.
Most Americans know that makes no sense.

“We need to come to our senses, trade with our friends in the Middle
East (both Arab and Israeli), clean up our own economic mess so we set a
good example, and allow them to work out their own conflicts.”

Anna Keppa| 5.4.12 @ 11:45PM

Isn't your real name Klimt --- as in that Rodney Dangerfield movie where someone tells him his estranged and art-collecting rich wife was "showing some guy her Klimt"?

Rodney: "Why not? She shows it to everyone".

Show us your Klimt, Clint!

Dick Nome| 5.4.12 @ 10:14AM

That's a Ron Paul blow up doll.

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 10:27PM

You Blow More Than Bibi's Blow Up Doll, Israel Firster Smear Bund Bibi Towel Boy, Little Dick.

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 8:31AM

That's A Queer Question Dr.Reich.

Ask Your ManCrush, Mittens.

Dr.Reich Is The Elitist Wannabe,Who Said He'll Vote For The Ruling Elites' Fop Frontman, Mittens Romney.

We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.

These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.

Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....

Doctor Right| 5.4.12 @ 8:56AM

I think I'll ask Jamaica, instead.

Don't forget to walk the dogs and empty the cat's litter box, Clintie...

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 9:35AM

Dr.Reich Doin' The Wounded Dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFnG2Zgl5ag

Doctor Right| 5.4.12 @ 6:16PM

That's a terrible thing to say about your wife, Clint!

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 10:29PM

Dr.Reich's Mama Fetches Bibi's Bone, Regularly.

Dick Nome| 5.4.12 @ 10:16AM

Help for Clint.

http://funnyjunk.com/movies/22.....Anonymous/

Dick Nome| 5.4.12 @ 10:33AM

http://funnyjunk.com/movies/22.....Anonymous/

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 11:47PM

What's Bibi Towel Boy, Little Dick Building In There ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMqxNPsfN50

Crassus| 5.4.12 @ 9:59AM

Yada, yada, yada.

Clint| 5.4.12 @ 12:52PM

Little Dick Gets Ready For His Date With Bibi.

http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/.....ap-man.jpg

Bob K.| 5.4.12 @ 11:21AM

True Appleby.

And few of these young men are willing to join our military to get this discipline and have several tours in the near and middle east, protecting America's interests, away from their families and careers.

It may be time to begin serious discussions about reinstating the draft and see how that works out.

Seek| 5.4.12 @ 3:29PM

That Jodie Foster movie of which you speak, "The Accused" (1988), was based on a real-life rape case. It wasn't "glorifying" loose women, let alone rapists. Tell your distinguished black employer that he's about as much of a film critic as you are a champion speller.

Appleby| 5.5.12 @ 6:21AM

My boss at the education board was making the point that HER ACCUSERS were in the wrong -- because even if what they said HAD been true, A DECENT MAN WOULD TURN HIS BACK AND WALK AWAY. He was putting the blame squarely where it belonged: on the men and boys who say "she made me do it." No matter what temptations are around him, a man has the duty to resist. These losers no doubt will be defended by lawyers who will insist they are vulnerable toddlers who were led astray by "the banksters" and their mothers. I work for lawyers. I know how this stuff works.

Occam's Tool| 5.4.12 @ 4:29PM

The problem with that, Appleby, is that the unwed men were never tamed, and never taught, to become decent men. The fault with that lies with their mothers who never managed to have decent fathers in their children's lives to lick the young male cubs into shape and show the young girls what a properly sublimated and civilized male looked like.

You were not meant to be a man because you are certainly a fine woman. Ultimately, however, ultimately it is always about our children.

Renaissance Nerd | 5.4.12 @ 7:24PM

In blaming feminism one is not blaming women. Feminism is male chauvinism in drag. It's central organizing principle is that everything masculine is better than everything feminine. And simultaneously that women are morally superior to men, no matter the contradiction. Feminism is the fault of men and women both, a poison that harms both, one of the more vile and evil religions to arise from that most prolific of evil religion generators: romanticism. Everything from Communism to Jacobinism to Nazism came out of romanticism. The effect of feminism is not designed to benefit women or men in general. It makes lots of fresh young meat available to the rich old men who run things. When you wonder 'qui bono?' it's the Dos-Equis man. There have always been young women glad to trade their dignity to an old man for money, but now it's far more common and if you look at all the main goals of the Democrats, they line up. Abortion? Don't want to be responsible just in case (if the fresh meat is female). Feminism? Men are all jerks, therefore might as well trade my soul for money. Big Labor and Welfare? Rewards for cast-offs. Homosexuality? Fresh meat for those so inclined. Etc ad nauseum. So despite the fact that we don't have an officially polygamous society, in effect we do, and young men look at marriage as a trap where the woman has all the power, while rich old farts can get away with murder, almost literally, because they treat women like kleenex. It's the same problem that will face China any minute now, only for different reasons. Too many men have no real hope of marriage, to the point that they are quick to disparage it. To admit to wanting something they'll never have is unmanly, after all. Better to embrace a comforting illusion. The fact that women too are in the same boat is no comfort, as the ideology gives women cover for any bad behavior. What needs to happen is both men and women behaving as adults, and the laws must change to reflect that reality. How can men help but despise women who claim to be strong and powerful, yet instantly retreat behind biased courts in any confrontation (non-violent, that is)? So long as we're all supposedly exactly the same mentally and emotionally, and the only difference is plumbing, and the law treats women as infants and men as adults, this problem will only get worse.

Appleby| 5.5.12 @ 6:47AM

Um, no that is not strictly true. There are as many whiny loser girls as boys these days, of course, brought up to believe that They Owe Me, for one reason or another -- but "feminism" isn't the cause of that. The real cause of it is parents WHO WON'T GROW UP. How is a child supposed to figure out how to be a man or a woman if the people who are bringing that child up are still pretending they are Boys and Girls? My Mama is still getting Christmas cards 40 years later from friends of ours signing them "Your other daughter" or "your only son" -- kids who were grateful for a place to come where they knew that when Mama said Frog, you jump. And she was no Barbara Billingsly, nor did my Daddy call any of us girls "Kitten" -- they expected us to do our duty and told us what that duty was, and our friends appreciated the terse instructions in manners, grammar, responsibilities and behaviour generally that were handed out impartially to those that needed them. Our house was a good place to hang around because there was a line between parents and children...and the interest on that kind of situation compounds over time. And don't think that a woman rearing children alone can't draw these lines. I had a friend in Atlanta who had thirteen brothers and sisters, and his Mama made sure every one of them graduated from high school and kept on the straight and narrow. She Took Charge and provided the one thing Losers lack: STRUCTURE. Like a good Gunnery Sergeant, she knew her job was to lick this unpromising material into shape and send it out into the world to do a job, and she was absolutely clear, as my Mama was, about what that job was: ADULTHOOD. There are still families with backbones in the world. I have a nephew whose three-child family (all under 6) is being brought up exactly the way we were brought up -- despite the fact that his father had three successive wives and his mother had two official husbands and his wife's family wasn't much less ramshackle. If you can't get structure from your parents, you can get it somewhere.

John786| 5.4.12 @ 6:59AM

Entrapment, honey trap: they create the crime. A perfect script. Find gullible actors usually of the muslim variety. And hey presto another outrage exposed. The war on terror continues. The script writers fill their boots with lots of lolly.

Todd S| 5.4.12 @ 8:21AM

You are an idiot, go back to your beloved Middle East and marry your cousin. Probably a product of in breeding yourself like much of the Arab world.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 11:15AM

Good analysis, Todd. You get the name-calling trophy today.

Todd S| 5.4.12 @ 2:49PM

Since you are apparently new here Gary, John786 is a Islamo-fascist apologist who wants Israel wiped off the map.

Occam's Tool| 5.4.12 @ 4:31PM

Todd: nice job of keeping your temper in the face of intolerable provocation. Gary: check John786's posts, and then apologize to Todd. John786 supports the murder of babies.

John786| 5.5.12 @ 3:10PM

Mr occam,
Even by your very low standards you seem to be deteriating. Maybe time to change medicine and accept that a just solution Palestinian- Israeli conflict is in all our intrests.

Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:34PM

John786: you are low life scum who supports those who cut the heads off of babies. I would die rather than apologize to you on this issue, you maggot.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 5:58PM

So what. He's right about this particular issue. Shall we ban everyone with whom we disagree?

It may not be apparent, but I'm not new. Just can't be here every day.

Todd S| 5.4.12 @ 9:59PM

You are a troll then. Yeah, all those peaceable Muslims are just being set up and 9/11 was an inside job. Idiot

Gary B| 5.5.12 @ 3:03PM

Todd,

Why are all these near misses complicated bombing attacks against high-profile targets? You know, the kind that require lots of planning and the accumulation of hard-to-get material? Why don't we see simple acts of sabotage? Can't a dumbass Muslim wipe a bunch of people in a crowd somewhere? Is so, why don't we see that? Ponder that over the weekend then get back to me.

Todd S| 5.5.12 @ 9:06PM

Nidal Hassan you dumbass

Gary B| 5.6.12 @ 9:33AM

You've called me a troll, an idiot and a dumbass. Perhaps that makes you feel better. Now, how 'bout responding to the issue at hand? Isn't that the purpose of this forum?

Gary B| 5.6.12 @ 9:36AM

Right. Why don't we see more of that? How many home-grown murders are really out there?

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 11:13AM

John786,

You're not an idiot, of course. You're probably a lot more right than wrong. How many innocent people has the FBI framed in order to protect their precious informants? Or, perhaps I should ask, how many that we know of.

This bridge caper is well within the everyday capability of the FBI. We can expect more of them, spaced out just right. They will be consistent with the new theme of "domestic perps."

Crassus| 5.4.12 @ 2:54PM

Junior, you're probably one of those individuals who believe that J. Edgar Hoover shot JFK from the Grassy Knoll in Dealy Plaza while wearing a blonde wig and a dress. Go on, admit it.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 6:04PM

Thanks for the insult, Crassus. Always helpful in a debate.

John786| 5.4.12 @ 4:26PM

Garry B,
No doubt many innocent people are being dragged into the penal system. The entire basis of the justice system is being corroded by these tactics. America has sleep walked into a police state. Yes people, its muslims, occupy wall street protestors today, but they'll come for you tomorrow. The war on terror mutating before our eyes into a war against the founding principles of the USA.

Gary B| 5.4.12 @ 6:03PM

John,

No doubt about it. There is an excellent article about all of this at LewRockwell.com. Here's the link:

http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/valentine11.1.html

I'm sure I'll catch hell for revealing I also read that site, but there it is.

Kenny| 5.4.12 @ 7:23AM

It is the left establishment -- colleges, Hollywood, B. Hussein Obama, the radical unions, etc . -- which create punks like these, but the punks are not the victims that Tucker is indirectly making them out to be.

Seek| 5.4.12 @ 3:31PM

Exactly which movie made these five punks into terrorists? "The 40-Year-Old Virgin?"

afd| 5.5.12 @ 5:32AM

If Hollywood and our colleges had that kind of power, the world would love us more. Alas movies only have that kind of effect "in the movies" and colleges only have that kind of effect on the exam.

W| 5.4.12 @ 7:51AM

These forlorn, footloose young men will grow up to teach in our colleges and then sponsor and support political candidates like Obama, just like Billy Ayers.

chuck| 5.4.12 @ 8:06AM

And people wonder why employers hire Mexicans to do the jobs. There are too damned many young thugs, I won't call them men, out there who will use their energy and creativity to steal. If they used half the effort to make an honest living, they would be quite successful in life.

zeke spelkinzeckler the third | 5.4.12 @ 8:12AM

The new face of terrorism needs Clearasil...

numbatdog| 5.4.12 @ 8:13AM

I don't know why it's so surprising that 5 low achievers have turned to terrorism. In their eyes the system has failed them so they now want to destroy it. It's more self interest than political.

What did you think the "occupy" movement would lead to? A bake sale to raise money for the poor?
It will lead to urban terrorism as some protesters realise street protest is gaining them exactly nothing. They remain poor and unemployed. The government has helpfully identified the enemy for them - the rich, corporations and oil companies.
I expect much, much more of this in the near future. There is a high price to pay for cozying up to anarchist movements.

Teaghan| 5.4.12 @ 10:46AM

Add the not-so-AlSharpton and the usual racebaiters to the mix and there will full out race wars with looser white boys like these 5 helping out.

Bobloblaw| 5.4.12 @ 8:15AM

""America seems to be producing a lot more of these types today. My guess is that most of them have grown up without fathers and seem to have no connection with any adult male. The world of Father Knows Best is unknown to them""

From the look of his picture, William Tucker is old enough to know better and old enough to remeber the time period 1968-75, when the Weathermen, SLA and Black Panthers tried and carried out similar type of terrorism in the USA.

This is just the left being the left. Utopia has failed, so they turn to violence. They are on the "outside", so they attack the establishment with violence. If they ever did take over the country, they would engage not in bridge or ROTC bombings, but in full blown genocide.

Bobloblaw| 5.4.12 @ 8:19AM

Sorry, should have mentioned, most 60s and early 70s radicals and the new left grew up in Father Knows Best families in suburban Long Island or Chicago with intact loving families.

Teaghan| 5.4.12 @ 10:44AM

I believe obama's buddy Billy Ayers talked about the possibility of using genocide to achieve their communist means.

R Martin| 5.4.12 @ 8:21AM

I forced myself to read this article twice and still have no idea what Mr. Tucker is trying to say. For example, he quotes this rubbish:

"What is the particularly salubrious about monogamy is that it "shrinks the size of the pool of low-status, risk-oriented, unmarried men, " Otherwise, "[f]aced with… little chance of obtaining even one long-term mate, unmarried, low-status men will heavily discount the future and more readily engage in risky status-elevating and sex-seeking behavior. This will result in higher rates of murder, theft, rape, [and] social disruption." Only by giving undereducated men a meaningful role in life will their energies be harnessed to the greater social good."

Salubrious? Low status, undereducated males can't find a mate because of monogamy? In a world of five plus billion people there are going to be some losers out there whose shortcomings are largely related to their own laziness but who choose to blame society in general for their self inflicted woes.

Is Mr. Tucker suggesting we need to change "society" to deal with these miscreants? Gearjammer has the right idea--crack some heads and watch the crocodile tears become real.

Le Cracquere| 5.4.12 @ 10:48AM

If you'll forgive me for misquoting Chief Gunderson: "I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your reading and vocabulary comprehension, there, R."

R Martin| 5.4.12 @ 11:53AM

I used to enjoy a Formula One Grand Prix commentator named Murray Walker who often preceded a race comment with, “Unless I’m very much mistaken…” only to follow it in short order with an admission that, yes, he had been very much mistaken.

Now, I have been mistaken a time or two myself, and in those cases I’m always willing to accept constructive criticism. However, your reference to a former FBI official who makes Ron Paul look positively ordinary (Gunderson believed the Oklahoma City bombing was a government job) makes me wonder where I’m off base.

Le Cracquere| 5.4.12 @ 1:22PM

Ahem. "Unless I'm very much mistaken..." ... I think Tucker was saying than monogamy is salubrious--i.e., healthy--because it offers marital prospects to more of the men in a society. This observation is precisely the OPPOSITE of "Low status, undereducated males can't find a mate because of monogamy."

And though I can't defend OKC conspiracies, my ideological sympathies stretch far enough to observe, "And here ya are ... and it's a beautiful day."

R Martin| 5.4.12 @ 2:27PM

I got the "salubrious" part; it was the "otherwise" which confused me. Not thinking that otherwise from monogamy must be polygamy wherein a few guys soak-up all the women (a kind of one percenter fairness arguement) leaving the poor 99 percenters with little to do but blow up bridges, I got a little out of whack. Thanks for the clarification. After a night of too much wonderful Chateau Tanunda 2008 Grand Barossa Shiraz, I need simpler phrasing.

Le Cracquere| 5.4.12 @ 3:09PM

Magnifique! And a reminder that next to some things in life, phrasal filters are overrated.

Occam's Tool| 5.4.12 @ 4:32PM

It makes men of the working class conform to a certain degree of civility which makes them reasonable husbands, Mr. Martin.

Kenn Paul| 5.4.12 @ 8:38AM

We've seen these types before. Bill Ayres comes to mind. Your basic anarchist, now too old to blow things up, so he teaches these types of young men to do that. They allll need Daddy to give 'em a whack on the back of the head, and a starter job, say, cleaning toilets or somesuch - learning to start at the bottom.

Von Mises Jr| 5.4.12 @ 8:45AM

While I do not disagree with Mr. Tucker and Mr. Murray in the deterioration of the family, morals and traditions; but I think we get fooled by the MSM if we accept this conclusion.
NYC on May Day had reports of 40 OWS protesters at Bryant Park. In a city of 8M, that is .000005% or one in 200,000. Because the Communist News Network (CNN) makes this headline news does not mean that the other .999995% are low-life POS like these 5 anarchist. We are no longer watching news. It is pure propaganda.

DRed| 5.4.12 @ 12:08PM

Where do you get your news from, Von?

Von Mises Jr| 5.4.12 @ 1:38PM

Everywhere but the MSM.

DRed| 5.4.12 @ 1:42PM

You know there's more than one place in NYC, right?

Von Mises Jr| 5.4.12 @ 3:51PM

So is your .000005% more like .00005% Pythagoras.

TLP| 5.5.12 @ 7:14AM

I think if you had said: "Monty" Pythagoras? He would have, at least, THOUGHT that he knew what you were calling him.

As it is, he just thinks that you don't know how to use the Spell Check ap.

Thats's because he's Hung like Einstein, and Smart as a Horse.

Von Mises Jr| 5.5.12 @ 9:40AM

DRed is named for the red Canadian Mountie coat he wears to work. He is a confused Canadian Mountie since he got off his whistle and (bleeped) his horse.

Not Special Ops Bill| 5.4.12 @ 9:04AM

Other aspects of social life in the West are that (1) cultural focus is now on women, (2) womens' values predominate over mens' values, and (3) society values female achievement over male achievement. In short, we have chosen to make the Western world into Girly World, not a good decision for the reasons stated in the article.

LaneyB| 5.4.12 @ 9:11AM

There have been a spate of columns lately that have discussed this topic, but Mr. Tucker's may just be the best at describing not only the case, but the inevitable effect.

olainfree| 5.4.12 @ 9:48AM

There has indeed become a feminization in America, one that unfortunately disdains male attributes and strengths.

Too many young men do not have male role models and positive influence in their lives. Testosterone-fueled aggression is not channeled into positive competition for excellence. Instead of choosing outlets such as sports for this energy, the confused join gangs and fight for the position of top "dawg."

I don't think that we can ignore the mind-altering influence of drug and alcohole use that seems to start at younger and younger ages.

Not Special Ops Bill| 5.4.12 @ 10:46AM

Last night on TV, I saw a blurb on the local CBS affiliate that showed two men discussing the red tights that one of the men was wearing.

I thought "well, TV has now completed its project to make its characters act like women."

I find it repugnant to have TV show tampon commercials, and panty liner commercials, and so on and so on...

Bob Grant| 5.4.12 @ 10:56AM

This brand of anarchism is made even more dangerous by the internet and other accessible forms of cheap, violent, self indulgent entertainment that validate whatever warped view of the World they hold.

These bored, unambitious punks raised not by single mothers but by endless supplies of DVD's, video games, and cynical television shows (see Family Guy). The mother only exists as a source of funding.

At some point in their relatively young lives, the writing on the wall about the future that awaits them becomes crystal clear and they have a decision to make: They either man up, take whatever society has left for them and be satisfied with that; or continue on their fruitless endeavor.

Made worse is "whatever society has to offer" is dwindling because of the economic crisis, the feminization of society, and obama's suppressive economic policies which creates this self-fulfilling prophesy.

And the downward spiral continues.

Even more insidious is the relative ease at which these individuals can create their own reality (script, movie, mark on the World, whatever you want to call it) by blowing up a bridge in Cleveland, film it, upload it on the internet, and go home to watch it on YouTube. And get feedback by reading the comments section.

Very scary.

These folks desperately need copies of Charles Murray's new book Coming Apart.

randyinrocklin| 5.4.12 @ 11:17AM

One thing that stands out in this whole mess. There aren't many blacks in the OWS crowd, mostly white trash punks.

Bob Grant| 5.4.12 @ 11:34AM

Say what you will about these "punks" - I'm not a fan by any stretch - they are protesting not only on behalf of themselves, but trash of all types, including yourself.

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 4:25AM

Well I appreciate that since I am too busy WORKING AND RAISING A FAMILY to protest advocating the overthrough of the system that has provided more people with more material satisfaction than any other system in the history of the world. The fact that these less than intelligent individuals can survive while protesting the system that gives them the wherewithal to protest without producing anything and still survive pretty much undermines their whole point. 100 years ago they wouyld have been starving within days. But now they can protest and not even lose theire cell phone internet connectivity.

BTW, I'm part of the 1%. The 1% of the US population who puts on the uniform of the US military and swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies DOMESTIC and foreign.

Isaiah 48:17| 5.4.12 @ 1:48PM

You've hit on an important point here--but the seeds of a further destruction are implicit in your conceptualization.

The true genius at the core of Western Civilization stands in oppostion to the reductionistic materialism which is so insidious today that few even of those with the best of intentions escape it.

No earthly creature 'gives' men a role, as you write. God has created men for a definite role, and society--men, women, children--must humbly accept and respect that role; must conscientiously refrain from interference with or practical diminution of that God-given role.

To state or imply that other human beings have the power to somehow 'give' men a role, is to proclaim unequivocally that men neither have nor can have any true and definite role.

As Alan Keyes once said in relation to the topic of abortion, "Your inalienable rights come from God, not your mother."

The role of men will forever remain, as it has been from the advent of creation, true in the form God intended--even if not a single concrete example of its fulfillment is found anywhere on the Earth. Men will be judged based on failure to fulfill their God-given role, and women will likewise be judged on failure to fulfill their God-given role--whether that failure stems from an outright and arrogant rejection, or a lack of conscientious adherence...

Anna Keppa| 5.4.12 @ 11:55PM

Please distinguish your position about what God wants for men with Islam's position about what God wants for women.

wolflen| 5.4.12 @ 2:04PM

well..they didn't blow up a bridge..but some bad boys of color went into a nice jewlery story in a nice los angeles mall..with a hammer..and broke the display cases and walked off..make that ran off with..100k+ worth of product..

ahhh...clockwork orange meets mad max...

may you live in intresting times...

kwan| 5.4.12 @ 2:44PM

The real big-time destruction will occur on November 7th when the ghettos across America will explode with rage because Obama was voted out of office by a racist-electorate before he could "fundamentally transform" the United States into Zimbabwe.

Skippy| 5.4.12 @ 4:58PM

Glad I live in the country.
It makes for longer shots at the scumbags, but you can see 'em coming.

Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:36PM

Skippy: yup.

Buck Ofama| 5.4.12 @ 5:13PM

Stop bitching and go read a PLAUSIBLE site about how men are superior to women:

http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/

Die Fledermaus| 5.4.12 @ 5:48PM

Simple answer to the headline question: Democrats.

Will| 5.4.12 @ 6:01PM

Blowing things up is a federal offense. They could have checked with some of their 60's-70's heroes in advance. Unless they come from wealthy families like Bill Ayers and those like him, they are headed for the big house. That leaves three options, faggotry duty for the majority population, suicide, or the Brotherhood. Check in with our heroes in five years or so for an update. Those that survive will be built like cage-fighters, heavily tattoed, and ready for a completely different cause than that of Barry's Marauders.

zamoracarl| 5.4.12 @ 7:43PM

what Kathy replied I cannot believe that some one can earn $8648 in 4 weeks on the internet. have you seen this site M a k e c a s h 16 . c о m

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 4:31AM

I make $3500 a week at home stuffing envelopes....full of heroin.

POST American| 5.4.12 @ 10:39PM

-----OVER a century of seditious intrigues,
world wars, conflicts, coup d'etats. 'revolutions'
genocide, EUGENICS, economic sabotage
and TREASON from the ROT-child USURY
cabals here, in Europe and across the world.

And now, FINALLY, in this, the very 11th hour of the
CFR-----RED China handover, takedown,
USURPATION, OCCUPATION and DESOLATION OP.
---we're laying hold of the REAL terrorists!

-----The punks of podunk--ville, if even, indeed,
they are such as they're being presented in our
Rockefeller-rotten 'press'.

YES! --even O.J. agrees!
---THESE are -some- of the REAL terrorists.

------YES indeedy!

----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012---------------

Fred| 5.4.12 @ 11:03PM

Dude, I don't know whether you're a lunatic or a comedian. Either way, you're hilarious. Keep up the good work.

TLP| 5.5.12 @ 7:25AM

Finally. Someone on this site, besides me, who makes sense, and DOESN'T respond to Jackass in Wi, and DOESN'T Respond to Clint, and DOESN'T respond to Purp, and DOESN'T respond to our resident Ass Boy - Allen Brooks, or Seek, or Unaware, or ANY of the Shut Ins who's only contact with the outside world, is their Computer, some Lotion, and an Anatomically Correct Blowup Doll of The Magic Negro.

I wish we had 100 more like P.A.

Mike Hawk| 5.5.12 @ 9:02AM

Pa comes out when the moon is full like this weekend. Enjoy him before he goes back to his room.

Clint| 5.5.12 @ 4:07PM

Pennel's One Of RINO-CINO Mittens' Kittens, Now.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.

These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.

Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....

crossworked| 5.5.12 @ 2:54AM

Was my last comment deemed to extreme? where I said do not bring a bong to a gun fight? these menial ingrates are taking the legitimate arguments of governance out of working mans ability. we work everyday.

Dmitry Aleksandrovich| 5.5.12 @ 2:58AM

I have a strong feeling that if we wake up one day and like the Soviet Union before it the United States suddenly finds a "Former" added before its name that we are in for a Balkan like blood bath in this country. It might even be worse because in the former Yugoslavia people were tied together by ethnic and religious ties. Serbian Orthodox, Croatian Catholics, Bosniak Muslims. Here what is there to unite anyone Britney Spears? Lady Gaga? Kim Kardashian?

When the American pipedream that holds all of us "individuals" together in pursuit of prosperity is shown to have been largely a mirage all along then the "individuals" will most likely seek to preserve themselves and will steal and kill and whatever else they have to do to make sure they (and if they are mildly good people) and their dependents are taken care of. Of course this country will be divided amongst racial lines and maybe even old sectarian (and some new sectarian) lines, old ethnic rivalries will also be played out. Believe me if these so called anarchists truly knew what anarchy in the Former United States of America would look like they would be trying to salvage what is left of our Constitutional Republic instead of trying to dismantle it along with the corrupt, rotten system that has grown inside of it like a cancer.

crossworked| 5.5.12 @ 3:26AM

Dmitry true thought lives, not obscured . we who think will by our knowledge lead and not RULE. Our leaders will be gone after the election. Truth cannot be changed....it may be blurred by media. But the individual knows what is right and wrong.

crossworked| 5.5.12 @ 3:08AM

I pray all of us stay away from Chicago. Let the powers do their will . I am sick of the pass the media gives the extremists . I pray for the honest (police,firemen,) citizens of Chicago who will be in defense of their children during this pensive time. I thought we would be beyond this now

markenoff| 5.5.12 @ 3:54AM

Wah. Wah. Wah.

These are over stimulated punks who think the world owes them a living. If they had spent more time studying and less time playing video games they wouldn't be facing serious time. ANd make no mistake about it. Prison will be hell for these punks.

afd| 5.5.12 @ 5:28AM

You lost me at "My guess is..." If I wanted to read that kind of lazy, stereotypical thinking, I would stick to Yahoo "news" clips.

POST American| 5.5.12 @ 6:10AM

----------------------FINAL WORD----------------------

JUST IN-----

--It was, IN FACT, an FBI agenda advancing
punk op. ---SEE InfoWars coverage.

ALAS

---NOW, back to the media black out on the
news that Breitbart's coroner has now been
found DEAD ---by poisoning.

TLP| 5.5.12 @ 7:26AM

Finally. Someone on this site, besides me, who makes sense, and DOESN'T respond to Jackass in Wi, and DOESN'T Respond to Clint, and DOESN'T respond to Purp, and DOESN'T respond to our resident Ass Boy - Allen Brooks, or Seek, or Unaware, or ANY of the Shut Ins who's only contact with the outside world, is their Computer, some Lotion, and an Anatomically Correct Blowup Doll of The Magic Negro.

I wish we had 100 more like P.A.

Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:38PM

TLP: You notice I am trying to follow your lead on response in the last few days.

I'm going to confirm data on Breitbart's coroner.

Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:43PM

5/5/12: confirm data on coroner tech death by arsenic poisoning:

"Just two months after conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart died of a sudden heart attack, a Los Angeles coroner has died of suspicious circumstances.

Sources told the Los Angeles Times that Michael Cormier, 61, appears to have died of arsenic poisoning on April 20, the day the Los Angeles coroner's office released their preliminary autopsy report on Mr Breitbart.

Conspiracy theorists and some of Mr Breitbart's fans say that the timing, as well as the manner in which Mr Cormier died, makes compelling evidence of a sinister connection between the two men's deaths.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....z1u3NrqQkD"

RCV| 5.5.12 @ 11:10PM

Occam's: if you were your own patient, I know what diagnosis you'd come to with posts like that. I hope you really don't believe that crap.

Donald Young's Revenge| 5.5.12 @ 5:05PM

William Tucker you and the rest of the Conservative media outlets need to be focused on the biggest national security risk in the country right now. That person sits in the Oval Office. He and his enablers (DNC/Democrat Party/Congress) usurped the office of the POTUS. Not only did Barack Hussein Obama usurp the office he has been flaunting the forged documents that enabled it all to be possible. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his amazing team of career professional investigators exposed this criminal activity and they continue to expose it by going from a "probable cause" investigation to a "criminal" investigation. It looks as though the lid is about to be blown off this scandal thanks to 4 years of hard work by many true patriots who have been working at their own expense to bring this usurper to justice.

How about doing America a huge favor William Tucker and have a phone conversation with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and lead investigator Mike Zullo and report back to all of us.

RCV| 5.5.12 @ 11:11PM

What a joke!!!

sirbourbon| 5.6.12 @ 11:21AM

"The old face" of "terrorism" are the folks that voted for the unAmerican "Patriot Act." They voted for it because it sounded patriotic yet this act of congress violates the Constitution's first 10 amendments to the law of the land- the US Constitution!.

The FBI tricked the "Bridge People" into doing this out of some sort of act based on a screy version of "patriotism."

Which group, congress or the Bridge People anarchists, thought their actions more in line with patriotism? One group, congress, attacked the core of the Bill of Rights; the other group was coached by the FBI, albeit an undercover agent or operatives, to blow up a bridge to make some sort of political point. http://www.thenewamerican.com/.....error-plot

dipesto| 5.6.12 @ 5:44PM

The young anarchists seems to have had the Dolon syndrome. Dolon was the ugly Trojan big talker(who grew up with five sisters) who told Hector he could sneak into the Greek camp in the dark, but ran into Diomedes and Ulysses in the dark and was still begging for his life when they removed his head.

Brian M| 5.6.12 @ 11:39PM

"When Hollywood decides to investigate Mormons, it ... concentrates on the few remaining polygamous cults and gives us Big Love. No wonder that, when confronted with a breadwinning family man married to the same women for forty years with a healthy brood of children and grandchildren ..."

Typo or Freudian slip? You decide. ;-)

David M| 5.7.12 @ 1:07AM

They deserve the max, 20 years each..send a message now to all the occupy losers, when the mob takes over we are all doomed...and if any future anarachist/anti-capitalist terrorists kill people through their actions, tell their story breifly on TV followed swiftly by their televised lawful executions

Jacob D | 5.7.12 @ 10:57AM

it's crazy how people er different in their beliefs and attitutes. I just don't get it!

KJW| 5.7.12 @ 9:37PM

I've been very concerned that we are going to have people being fooled into starting a genuine rebel (read: terrorists against whatever, particularly causes they deem "right-wing") movement in America.

If Obama loses I wouldn't be surprised to see it flourish. That's why we need to pray to God, continually.

POST American| 5.8.12 @ 12:42AM

---AND JUST IN!

--------AS we write! ---RUSSIAN TROOPS
training jointly with American in Colorado,
to 'take on American Terrorists'.

And, remembering of course, this itself
is just below that 'first of many' RED China
'sovereignty zones' south of Boise. For those
who have'nt heard, some 50 square miles
of US territory has been ----handed over
to RED China in Idaho, In these zones,
American law does NOT apply. This --IS--
RED Chinese sovereign territory. AGain,
the first of many!

---------the 4 decades under---way,
CFR---RED China handover, takedown,
USURPATION, OCCUPATION and
Bill Gates 'empowered' ---FINAL---
EUGENICS OP --------is REAL!

--The Globalist handover of China
to MAO
------The Globalist betrayal of Korea
to SEAL the 'X--spare--iment'
----------The Rockefeller-Harriman CFR
handover of the entire American economy
into the hands of the most awesomely
DEMOCIDAL, awesomely unrepentant
regime in history
--------------the systematic takedown and
demoralization of American, indeed, western
culture through close to a century of
bottomlessly funded and promoted
subversions from the TAX FREE
'benevolent' foundations
--------------the unfold of full spectrum,
indeed, pornographic, police state surveilance
and, soon -----abductions --relocations
---'disappearances' and injection 'assisted'
're-education'

"When the Globalists are FINALLY brought
to JUSTICE ---history will look back on this
period as the GREATEST program of covert
genocide mankind has EVER seen.
It's US --or THEM.
---------------WE CAN"T AFFORD TO LOSE."
-ALEX JONES

"What is JUSTICE, but another
form of the REALITY that we LOVE.
TRUTH itself in ACTION."
-Thomas Carlysle

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