On Being a Lone Wolf

Promptly upon the failed Times Square bombing attempt, our elite "leaders", such as New York's Mayor Bloomberg, instantly identify the perp as someone who didn't like the health care bill.  Other "leaders" followed suit in the vicious vein of Bill Clinton's smearing of conservatives as responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing.  Major media, CNN, AP, Washington Post e.g., wrote empathetically of Shahzad's difficulies in making his mortgage payments.

The facts, though, are simple and observable, even from some distance.  Shahzan is of the same stripe as other terrorist types: militant Islamists who dislike the United States, say so and then act accordingly.  They are of a type: young, male and Islamic.  Just as the allegedly reverend Jesse Jackson once opined that being followed by young, black males would scare him, so too should we be concerned about Isamic males who express dislike of America.  Being Islamic, however, provides them with an immunity from our "leaders" who are petrifed of accusations of racism or worse from any source.  Even when such Islamists act, their brothers are excused when "leaders", such as Bloomberg, ignorantly mischaracterize them by political whitewashing and where the media apologists follow suit en masse.

Now, when people such as Attorney General Holder, flatly state that evidence shows Shahzad as part of the Pakistani Taliban, our "leaders" neither apologize and nor stop making similarly uninformed statements.

One wonders what happens to formerly sensible people upon election to public office.