RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

And to say nothing of Iran/Hizbollah.

And still this fiction: “…al Qaeda’s outlier interpretation of Islamic law.”

It ain’t outlier, boys and girls.  It is the center of their so-called religion.

Update: Peter Ingemi, here, rounds up sources on this matter, with a related round up here.  Ingemi’s explorations in those essays reminds me of the weakness of calls by some to “wake up,” the usual assumption of which is that if the citizenry is sufficiently (by sheer numbers) awake (aware) to what is happening — the spread of tyranny over them — they would put a stop to it.  I have long thought that sufficient numbers are awake to this challenge.  But they are not really.  They are aware of the what but not the why and certainly not the who.

Ingemi raises the possibility — reality, in my view — that the why is not from mistaken idealism (i.e., ignorance) but from cynical manipulation (i.e., evil).  Since their front man first swung into view it has been clear to me that this gang occupying the White House is of the latter orientation.  They know they are evil and they know they have to manipulate appearances in order to appear not evil.

It is said there are three kinds of personality:

ones who do good knowing they are doing good

ones who do evil thinking they are doing good

ones who do evil knowing they are doing evil

Until only very recently, most thoughtful observers have taken that gang as intending and thinking they are doing good while actually they are doing evil.  In other words, they do not know what they are doing.  They are incompetent.

If that were the accurate read on the gang’s posture and disposition, we would be in more trouble than we are.  Dealing with a personality caught in unrecognized internal contradictions is the most difficult of life’s problems because such a personality is by far the world’s most dangerous.

Far less dangerous — though no less a threat to life — is a personality who is evil, does evil and knows they are and do.  Of such is the gang occupying the White House.  Schizophrenic paranoiacs.  And of such are the perverts of whom Ingemi treats in the two links above to his fine blog.

Update 1: Confessions Of A Public Defender

Update 2: Race Relations And Law Enforcement

Update 3: Waller R. Newell: Understanding Tyranny And Terror: From The French Revolution To Modern Islamism.

AMDG – VICTORY