Brave Richard Cohen Wants To Be Wrapped in A Security Blanket.
You know, the Villagers are so uniformly self-centered and oblivious to larger reality that it's too much like shooting fish in a barrel to go after them -- too easy and not quite sporting.
But the bed-wetting Richard Cohen takes it to higher levels than almost anyone else:
There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer.
Because it's all about you, isn't it, Richard?
Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded, reciting terrorists their rights, or the legally meandering and confusing rule that some terrorists will be tried in military tribunals and some in civilian courts, what is missing is a firm recognition that what comes first is not the message sent to America's critics but the message sent to Americans themselves. When, oh when, will this administration wake up?
What, you mean the concept that we all have equal rights under the law? Yes, I can see where that idea might cause some problems.
[...] No doubt George Bush soiled America's image abroad with what looked liked vigilante justice and Dick Cheney's hearty endorsement of ugly interrogation measures. But more is at stake here than America's image abroad -- namely the security and peace of mind of Americans in America. Bush stands condemned by the facts for Sept. 11 -- his watch, his responsibility -- and in all likelihood he bent over backward to ensure that nothing like those attacks would happen again.
The Obama administration, on the other hand, seems to have bent over backward to prove to the world it is not the Bush administration and will, almost no matter what, ensure that everyone gets the benefit of American civil liberties.
As one of those who have been watching as Obama rubberstamps numerous Bush terrorism policies, I can only shake my head. Can it be that Cohen simply doesn't know how to read?
But the paramount civil liberty is a sense of security and this, sad to say, has eroded under Barack Obama. Repeatedly, the administration has shown poor judgment. Abdulmutallab's silence is a scream that something is wrong.
Really? Really, "the paramount civil liberty is a sense of security"? Your sense of security? I'm sitting here looking at the Bill of Rights and yeah, they do talk about security, all right - but not the way you mean:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
Maybe you should go back and read the rest, you pathetic excuse for an American. Or remember the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
taking my chances with terrorists or standing by while the government uses terrorism as a pretense for destroying my Human and Constitutional rights,I'll take my chances with the terrorists. It's OK if this clown feels unsafe, because the terrorist threat is almost entirely imaginary to start with. If destroying the Constitution is what makes him feel secure, I hope he's living in abject fear.
BTW, it should have been obvious when Obama flushed his credentials of being a constitutional scholar down the toilet with his FISA vote where he really stands on constitutional issues.
Terrorism exists. It is real, but not the threat that the right wing would have us believe, that if we don't fight them over there, we will be fighting them in our streets as if million man armies of terrorists will invade and destroy this country. That is the pure bullshit. Yes, terrorist can attack us in small numbers and even perpetrate horrors such as destruction of the World Trade Center and killing 3,000 of us. But that was an extremely effective act of terrorism and the death of so many was at the outside edge of what they can do. The real function of terrorism is disrupt our society and frighten us in to surrendering our liberties to try to prevent these terrorist attacks. The fundamentals that make us the United States of America are our Constitution, Bill of Rights and laws of this nation. When we dismantle those fundamentals we are handing over the victory to the terrorists and their bosom buddy despot allies, Bush, Cheney and Barack Obama. They are so close in their agenda, sometimes you wonder if bin Laden is on their payroll or if Bush, Cheney and Obama are on bin Laden's payroll. This is the real threat to destroy our beloved nation and the exact cherished dream of bin Laden.
Great words. Now, if only America could hear your voice, although your words definitely threaten those in power; these are are the same people who would commit terrorist acts to maintain their power and prove you wrong. I truly fear for this, although even if it happens, the rational few must not give in to craven cries to attack.
What is it with these right wingers? Diapers, security blankets.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
...about how courageous these fucking morons are is look at their record of avoiding war. Cheney the draft dodger, Bush the National Guard dodge, etc.
There was never a more appropo handle than that of "Chickenhawk" given to these bed wetters.
Richard Cohen is a liberal.
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
now refer to themselves as progressives and deny being liberals. His column about upstate NY and Gillibrand and Ford was kind of funny and right on the mark.
Richard Cohen hasn't written a "liberal" word in years except to bash liberals. To think I used to read him all the time...
He's "liberal" the same way Harold Ford, Jr. is a "Democrat."
Either the day of or the day before Obama's SOTU message, John Kyl was on NPR explaining what the president *had* to do. He *had* to address jobs, debt and TERROR! Several times during the "interview", he reiterated that the president had, essentially, to do his best to scare the crap out of the American people. Otherwise, he wouldn't be presidential and the Republicans wouldn't be able to support him any more.
I almost crashed the car listening to that manure.
I don't usually use language like this, but honestly, I've never seen a bigger bunch of pu$$ies in my life.
After WWII, we put THE NAZIS... the freaking NAZIS... on trial. We gave them lawyers, and allowed them to take the stand and "spout their Nazi propaganda" before Film crews and live radio.
Flash forward 60+ plus years, and suddenly, showing the rest of the world that we're better than our enemies has them shaking in their boots.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Does anyone smell chicken leavings?
out as a journalist? Boy. There are a lot of men named Dick Cohen.
Why pay attention to a racist, fear mongering bed wetter on the payroll of corporate propagandists.
"You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill."
Col. W. Kurtz
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Sorry, it wasn't Kyl, it was Lamar Alexander on NPR.
Enquiring minds want to know.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
The class this maroon missed in grammar school. I'll bet this guy worries about goblins in his closet at night. He doesn't need a democratic government; he needs his mommie.
Candideinnc
Stop subjecting us to Richard Cohen's daily pants wetting episodes?
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
You know, I sleep just fine at night. I have no feeling of being threatened, or any fear that some terrorist will blow me up. Know why? Because I'm far more likely to get hit by a car or fall off a cliff than run into a fucking terrorist.
What is it with these people? How can anyone function being such an unmitigated COWARD? Trembling in their boots over something with odds so astronomically high that being struck by lightning is a commonplace next to it.
And yo, I have no problem with terrorists in America jails. Jails are full of robbers and murderers and pedophiles and fucking SERIAL KILLERS. If they're kept nicely locked up, why the hell should I be scared of having a terrorist in there? Terrorists plant bombs. Guys like Dahmer EAT HUMAN FLESH. Who's more dangerous? Yet Dahmer hasn't seen the outside of a jail cell in what, twenty years now?
Cohen and his ilk are so mealy mousy weak-kneed they can't even say boo to a goose. And these guys put themselves forward as the voice of the people? Fat fucking chance.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
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has pretty much not been seeing much of anything since Nov. 28, 1994.
That's certainly possible. If so, bully for him! Piece of shit should have been fried to begin with.
Point still stands, though. There are others of his ilk behind bars. Doesn't scare me any.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
beaten Dahmer to death at the prison where he was serving his sentence.
A lead pipe or some kind of stick IIRC.
A wooden broom handle.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
He beat Dahmer and some other unfortunate that apparently "God" told him to kill. He beat them both when the three of them were left alone to clean a bathroom in a gym.
I saw a show on Dahmer on t.v., and they said it was a broom handle. I remember thinking, how did he do that with a broom handle? They even had the guy who killed him on the show.
They didnt say anything about a 3rd guy in anything I have seen. He killed him, because of the young blacks Dahmer had killed.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
...correct about that.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I remember Khrushchev yelling he will bury us. I remember the photos of the Russian missiles paraded in Moskow, missiles with a ton capacity while our puny missiles only could manage a few hundred pounds. I remember Khrushchev pounding on the table with his shoe. We were trained for a nuclear attack, what kind of first aid to give, how to survive a nuclear attack, etc. During the training, they showed us a film of a nuclear explosion, which looked like hell boiling up out of the ground. Terrorized my dreams for years and I still have those nightmares today.
I remember the Cuban missile crisis. We sat in Latin class counting down the seconds until our warships intercepted the Russian freighter carrying Soviet nuclear missiles to Cuba. Even the teacher was counting down with us. At the very last second, the Soviet freighter turned back just as we were expecting the nuclear missiles to rain down upon us.
That is real terrorism. But did Kennedy cave to such intense fear? Did we cave? NO!
Better Dead than Red.
Today our leaders would wet their pants and scream, "Moma, Moma" if they had to face an enemy like Khrushchev. On 9/11, Bush both shitted and wet his pants. I'm surprised Obama hasn't already given bin Laden the keys to the Oval Office. There are probably no more than a few hundred Al Qaeta in the world and as of yet, they don't have the nuclear bombs and missiles to deliver them on to this nation. If Bush and Obama did their jobs as they are supposed to, Al Qaeta will never have the bombs or missiles. Instead, Bush and Obama are forcing mothers to prove that they have milk the baby bottles and demanding to check our shoes for bombs. Give me a break! Bush and Obama are bin Laden's allies, doing his job for him, surrendering our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Laws, begging bin Laden not to hurt them. We are not the ones who are surrendering, rather it is Bush, Obama and cowardly assos like Richard Cohen who are surrendering our nation to the terrorists wanting to gold plate our Civil Rights before handing them over to bin Laden.
This guy and others are going to have egg on their face when they hear the news I just heard on msnbc. Seems the christmas bomber is talking like crazy to the FBI and giving them fresh intelligence that is possibly actionable. The thought is that he is cooperating so he might be able to plea for life rather than get the death penalty.
So all the bed wetters who bitched and moaned about him getting rights and all that jazz, will now find out that our justice system does work when it's allowed to.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What is this guy's background? I am not familiar with him and his photo doesn't ring a bell either.
Whatever happened to "the land of the free and the home of the brave"? Did we delete that part?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...modified slightly to: "the land of the not free and the home of the chickenhawks".
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them. Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fourteenth [sic (actually the fifteenth)] century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc. Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment! Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head..."
The Crisis No. 1- Tom Paine
Dear Richard Cohen,
go buy yourself a crate of adult diapers and hide your cowardly self under the covers.
What a pantload.
Its the classic villager tactic of moving the goalposts for Democrats. Obama can not possibly make the villagers happy and secure. Only republicans/bankers can make the pigs in zen secure enough to continue rolling around in their own irrelevance.
you are wrong.
The paramount civil liberty is not a "sense" of security, in that a "sense" of anything may or may not identify an actuality of fact but is an internalized, mystical "feeling" that cannot be measured by action and results.
The paramount civil liberty is actual civil liberty.
Yes, we can debate what that means and how the Constitution reads to support civil liberty, but each case of civil liberty will stand on its merits only so far as it concretely PROVIDES the liberty it seeks to protect.
Anything else is mere illusion.
Aren't you missing your top hat and magic wand?
this guy should move to a police state... (China, Israel, or the U.K.)
Although IMHO The U.S. is pretty bad too.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
yes sir, that is what you're doing. so therefore, the terrorists win. by your shrill and fear-addled beliefs stated in your column, sir, you are in essence waving the white flag to the terrorists. ooh, perish the thought that our justice system can or can't handle a few widdle tewowists. cant have them allegedly grandstand and demean us in our own country. no cant have that. lets have the military do it in a secret fashion and whatever happens, well were oblivious and sheeple so we can feel safe (because we dont know what happened and they didnt get a platform). whee, thanks military tribunals. Dick Cohen, what a stupid little pansy. (and thats a slur only toward him).
Being terrorized by the terrorists is their greatest victory. Dick, you are a loser.
Candideinnc
Hell, being terrorized is the POINT to terrorism. We've rolled over and done everything they've wanted from the start. It's appalling how little this country understands about standing up to bullies. When did we forget how to act like grown-ups?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I told my wingnut brother-in-law about a year ago, that I am 1,000,000 times more afraid of Bushs' fascist government destroying my life and career, than I was of the tiny improbablility of a Turrrrist' blowing me up.
He literally stopped spewing this Cohen type bullshit, staired into space for a moment, blinked his eyes rapidly - as if trying to compute logic, and then said nothing.
Considering he has been downsized twice and is on the precipe of complete ruin since his heroes G. Dub and the GOP took over, he didn't really have a comeback.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Bedwetter
self centered villager
pathetic excuse for an American
willing to trade security for freedom
constitutionally illiterate
about covers it...(my feelings exactly)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
I come back with what made you such a coward.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
how easy it would be for be for Hiatt to find someone even stupider than Cohen.
Sadly, I'm old enough to remember when his column was a must-read. He was once a very good, progressive columnist.
Now, he's just some old dreck given prime space to drool about his fears.
"Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded.."
It amazes me how these clots approach the subject of water boarding.
You know,as if it weren't barbaric torture banned under international law etc. The attitude is like,"you Liberals:guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be QUESTIONED,I mean you're just so naive."
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
How would Mr. Cohen feel about,oh let's say Iranians water boarding Israeli Jews?How would that grab you Richard?Would that be okay?
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Does he wear Pampers beneath them?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Some of us remember being driven around in cars that didn't have seat belts, much less air bags. Some of us rode our bikes every day without helmets. Some of us lived in houses where _none_ of the electrical outlets were grounded. Houses with no smoke detectors or CO2 detectors. And a kid could buy firecrackers big enough to blow a finger off. And you could smoke at your desk in the office.
Not that any of that was good but it does make me want to slap around one of these bed wetters. For God sake, man, buck up. Control what you can in your environment and realize that you can't control everything. And speaking of playing the odds, wise up. You are _much_ more likely to die penniless and in agony from cancer in America without universal health care than you are to die from a terrorist attack. So can we see fewer Americans acting like innumerate fools please?
in so publicly outing himself as a coward. Such people will trade away every civil right if someone convinces them it will make them safer. They usually don't take much convincing do they?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I'm sure of it. The truth is that he is a paid propagandist. He is paid to write the crap that he writes with one purpose. That purpose is to distract us from the FACTS that our jobs are disappearing, that out taxes are too high while he and his rich pals pay too little, that our schools suck and our food is poisoned for the profit of the top 1%. But we have to spend billions on joint strike fighters, B-2 bombers and nuclear weapons to fight ragtag teams of indigenous people living just above cave dweller status who are going to cross thousands of miles of ocean to kill us in our beds.
It's a distraction.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
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But Richard Cohen's political motivations seem to be inspired directly by Tel Aviv. I think Cohen is pissed that Obama hasn't started bombing Teheran yet.
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Richard Cohen is beneath contempt. The terrorists have what they want in him: Someone so afraid of them that he's willing to give up our cherished freedoms for some phantasm called "safety." The Post should be ashamed to have his name or his insipid mug in their rag.
I'll take a wild guess and assume he has been assailed with Zionist propaganda his whole life. Hence his concern that the US hasn't done enough to brutalize Muslims individually and collectively.
Cohen thinks that the world revolves around Israel. Everything that comes from him is from an Israeli perspective. I wonder what war he served in?
but Richard Cohen's hair-don't is making me feel unsafe.
"Culture is not your friend."
Pussy AND terrorist all in one body.
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