State Department Issues Warning for US Travelers

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The State Department has issued a Travel Alert for American citizens to be very cautious if you’re traveling in Islamic countries, because the Bigot Brigade has succeeded in stirring up a huge amount of anti-American sentiment overseas:

The Department of State is issuing this Travel Alert to caution U.S. citizens of the potential for anti-U.S. demonstrations in many countries in response to stated plans by a church in Florida to burn Qur’ans on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Demonstrations, some violent, have already taken place in several countries, including Afghanistan and Indonesia, in response to media reports of the church’s plans. The potential for further protests and demonstrations, some of which may turn violent, remains high. �We urge you to pay attention to local reaction to the situation, and to avoid areas where demonstrations may take place. �This Travel Alert expires on September 30, 2010.

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26 comments
1 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:28:55am

The price we pay for Freedom of Speech…

2 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:33:43am

re: #1 ralphieboy

The price we pay for Freedom of Speech…

Bush said “they hate us for our freedom”……… i beg to differ, this incident changes that to:

“They hate us for the absolutely vile and idiotic offensive things we use our freedoms to perpetrate”

3 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:35:06am

re: #2 wozzablog

Bush said “they hate us for our freedom”… i beg to differ, this incident changes that to:

“They hate us for the absolutely vile and idiotic offensive things we use our freedoms to perpetrate”

How about “They hate us because we ‘re stupid”?

4 I Am Kreniigh!  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:37:43am

Can this whole incident finally please wake up more of the reasonable people on the right? Has this crazy finally gone far enough down the road for them to see which way they’re driving?

5 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:39:12am

I wish we could make the point that this is one man and his fifty followers, out of 300 million.

6 Ojoe  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:41:40am

It is just a few ounces of paper, folks.

7 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:41:40am

re: #5 EmmmieG

I wish we could make the point that this is one man and his fifty followers, out of 300 million.

But somehow he has hit a real nerve. And I suspect there are more than fifty more Americans out there who would be happy to join him.

8 Ojoe  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:42:53am

re: #3 ralphieboy

If this does not go forward it is a blow to freedom & it looks like to me that we are caught between a rock and a hard place.

9 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:45:06am

Yes, we must be Free To Be Stupid, it is a God-given right, and they can take this box of glazed donuts away from me when they pry it from my fat, greasy hands as I lie on the sofa…

10 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:45:12am

re: #8 Ojoe

If this does not go forward it is a blow to freedom & it looks like to me that we are caught between a rock and a hard place.


Not if it doesn’t go forward because the common sense fairy came and visited the man in his sleep.

11 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:45:30am

re: #3 ralphieboy

How about “They hate us because we ‘re stupid”?

Too generic.

12 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:45:41am

re: #7 ralphieboy

But somehow he has hit a real nerve. And I suspect there are more than fifty more Americans out there who would be happy to join him.

The question is: How many Americans are appalled by this for every one that would join him?

That’s the real question.

13 Ojoe  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:46:00am

re: #10 EmmmieG

Not if it doesn’t go forward because the common sense fairy came and visited the man in his sleep.

Worth praying for.

14 Lidane  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:46:01am

re: #4 Kreniigh

Can this whole incident finally please wake up more of the reasonable people on the right? Has this crazy finally gone far enough down the road for them to see which way they’re driving?

It would be nice. Sadly, I think it will just embolden the crazies and keep them going full steam ahead into the ditch.

At this point, I think the only thing that will stop these nutbars is the GOP getting curbstomped in 2012 and Obama winning a second term. That might force the adults to finally step in and get things under control.

15 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:47:42am

re: #14 Lidane

It would be nice. Sadly, I think it will just embolden the crazies and keep them going full steam ahead into the ditch.

At this point, I think the only thing that will stop these nutbars is the GOP getting curbstomped in 2012 and Obama winning a second term. That might force the adults to finally step in and get things under control.

The “hey, lets step onto the center ground and let the adults talk for a while” chat hasn’t happened yet - the TP’ers and assorted other nuts of the wing variety need sent to the naughty step.

16 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:48:59am

re: #12 EmmmieG

The question is: How many Americans are appalled by this for every one that would join him?

That’s the real question.

Just like the mute question “How many Muslims are appalled by Islamist terrorism for every one that would join them?”

17 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 11:53:22am

re: #16 ralphieboy

Is that moot or mute?

It could go either way.

18 Fozzie Bear  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 12:20:10pm

re: #6 Ojoe

It is just a few ounces of paper, folks.

When the Klan burns a cross on a black man’s lawn, it’s just a couple pieces of wood, right?

19 Dad O' Blondes  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 12:26:41pm

re: #16 ralphieboy

Just like the mute question “How many Muslims are appalled by Islamist terrorism for every one that would join them?”

There it is.

The obvious corollary.

The proverbial elephant in the room.

And more topically for those more interested in recency — the gorilla that is invisible.

An act of protected free speech (we believe) now leads to a State Department warning. Acts of protected religious freedom leads to protest…

Previously noted: competing rights with valid claims become the crucible for leadership and statesmanship.

Or not.

And so far, the “nots” are pitching a no-hitter.

.

20 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 12:27:29pm

re: #18 Fozzie Bear

When the Klan burns a cross on a black man’s lawn, it’s just a couple pieces of wood, right?

If they burn it on their own lawn, then the law sees it as being just two pieces of wood. It is the burning it on the person’s lawn part that makes it into threatening behavior.

Ditto goes for the Koran burnings.

21 wrenchwench  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 12:30:12pm

re: #19 Dad O’ Blondes

At least you left out the piss this time.

22 Lidane  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 12:30:35pm

re: #19 Dad O’ Blondes

I didn’t know that burning a holy book was a religious act. I’ll keep that in mind when the same folks rationalizing the Qur’an burning start to whine if Bibles are burned in retaliation.

23 Dad O' Blondes  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 12:55:03pm

re: #22 Lidane

I didn’t know that burning a holy book was a religious act. I’ll keep that in mind when the same folks rationalizing the Qur’an burning start to whine if Bibles are burned in retaliation.

The point I made re: “protected religious freedom” was referencing the Cordoba mosque. “Protected speech” referred to the burning of Korans.

The two situations, though 1000 miles apart, are bound inextricably as the Koran burning is perceived as a response to the mosque’s planned construction.

Each of the situations involves — directly — “rights” which are valid — and which are competing.

.

24 Ming  Thu, Sep 9, 2010 1:23:20pm

I do believe that more violence is what the Bigot Brigade wants. I get the impression that many of them feel that the one thing America can do well, and should do, is engage in violence. No dialog, no tolerance, no nation-building: just send in the Marines.

25 Gail Wynand Wannabe  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 4:08:49pm

I fail to see the equivalence. 19 killed 3,000. 50+ threaten to burn… a book. A mosque is going up near where the Twin Towers stood. A church is going up in the muslim world… where? If we’re supposed to be playing by the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury, why aren’t the other guys reciprocating? Is that too much to ask?

These are rhetorical questions.

26 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sat, Sep 11, 2010 9:17:52am

re: #25 Gail Wynand Wannabe

If we’re supposed to be playing by the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury,

We’re not. We’re supposed to be the good and decent ones.


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