DiManno: Here is Your War
Charles Johnson
Sun Jun 4, 2006 at 1:11 pm PDT • Views: 273
Rosie DiManno, one of the Toronto Star’s few sane columnists, wants Canada to Take a good, hard look at what’s going on here. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
If the accusations prove true, this isn’t just slumming with jihad. For the benighted who claim that the war on terrorism is terrorism: Here is your war.
Could be, of course, all a wild misunderstanding, colossal police blundering, systemic racism, nothing more sinister than a barbeque in the country.
Could be the thing it appears, though — evidence of an enemy within.
And not just those accused who allegedly plotted to blow things up in southern Ontario — maybe the CN Tower, perchance the baseball stadium; most likely venues of large gathering, because the objective of terrorism, which this may or may not be, isn’t merely to slaughter but to bludgeon the living with fear, to silhouette in gore one’s utter vulnerability.
These accused wanted, if intelligence experts are correct (and they’ve been wrong before), to kill you.
Your children, your parents, your lovers, your neighbours.
Wouldn’t matter, the colour of your skin, your mother tongue, the God that you pray to or if you pray at all. Wouldn’t matter even if you happen to equate George W. Bush with Osama bin Laden.
The Jihad Generation — nothing alleged about it — makes no distinctions.
Come such a day, Toronto will look like London … Madrid … Bali … New York City.
Blood streaming, mangled metal, severed limbs, inchoate rage and immeasurable grief.
Frank says: