After Elizabeth Edward’s “no riots if we win” (audio, mirror), it’s now time for self-confessed pacifist hippie Dave Winer to step up to the plate:
…We’re so divided because of Bush that people are actually talking openly about civil war after the election. This is no good. I find myself ready to say to our friends in Europe and Asia, it’s time for you guys to plan your invasion of the US. We need a lot of help here.
(Boldface mine). With peace-loving pacifist citizens like these, the United States doesn’t really need outsiders to wish it harm.
Update: more Liberal Rage here.
Update 9 Nov 2004: Post-election, Dave seems to have got put away the partisan rage and gotten back to normal again, which is great. Now maybe the (necessary, given that it was an election year) partisan shrillness on both sides can be put aside in favour of more important issues, like making life difficult for people who make snuff videos out of beheadings.
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I called him a pacifist hippie because he himself used those words. I never cease to be surprised at the amount of pent-up violence in some of these self-declared pacifists. People who gas people by the truckload are not a problem. Women living out lives under a burqa are not a problem. Middle Eastern men having no future (except the “romance” of jihadi life) are not a problem. Mullas preaching hate are not a problem. France putting down rebellions with brutal force in Ivory Coast is not a problem. But anything America does is, by default, a problem. Contemptible hyprocrisy.