Here and There, Jan. 23

The Religion of Peace murders again.

Lesson in Idiocy: Ruth Rosen, the San Francisco Chronicle's in-house Womyn's Hystery professor, dedicated today's column to the weekend's "anti-war" (appeasement now!) protests, titled "Lesson in Democracy":

MY FRIEND JANE brought her two granddaughters to the anti-war march in San Francisco last Saturday because she wanted them to learn about the right to dissent in a democracy.

But would it not have made even more sense to teach them the distinction between thoughtful constructive dissent and arbitrary foolish dissent, as Rosen goes on to describe

Everywhere I looked, people seemed to be on their best behavior.

Apparently she didn't look very hard because she somehow missed the vandalism and disregard for the environment.

She then goes on to applaud the "Masked undocumented workers" (= immigration criminals) in the crowd, to whom I say: "you don't like our foreign policy? then don't inflitrate our borders"

The signs, as always, said it all. "This is my Patriot Act" and "Stop Clear Cutting Our Civil Rights" reflected widespread concern about government secrecy and violations of civil rights at home. "Corporate terrorists have hijacked our government,"

Um, yeah, like the terrorists from the Hearst Corporation who pay Rosen's salary at the Chronicle.

For one split second, it seemed as if the Bay Area existed in a parallel universe

Actually, I get that feeling every time I read the Chronicle's editorial page.

And this looks like child abuse.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 23, 2003 02:21 PM