Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
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-c'est Charlie
Je suis Ahmed, aussi.
HP
We also have our paranoid and righteous fanatics from David Koresh to mass murderer Timothy McVay.
Europe is getting more and more hostile towards the Muslims and there are more and more getting radicalized as a result.Israel is not bending on Palestine. We keep propping up both reactionary Muslims in places like Saudi Arabia(whipping a blogger for the next few months starting today, a thousand lashes total in batches of fifty, I believe)and at the same time fighting armed groups like the Taliban who are supported by these same countries.
Terror is the eyes of the victim. Afghans find invisible and silent drones killing militants and frequently innocent civilians to be terrifying.
Euro-Muslims find the increasing electoral gains of the anti-immigrant parties terrifying.
Let's not forget the Boko Haram and their equally brutal foes in the western African armies and civilian population.
Gun enthusiasts find just about everyone terrifying and some of us find the gun lovers terrifying.
I was just reading Robespierre and his articulate defense of terror as a political tool.Didn't work out well for him.
Stu
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