More CIA Revelations - Political Correctness Kills

I am not so sure the commissars of Political Correctness that so dominate our media, our government bureaucracies and other institutions, are willing to unshackle the will of the American people – and allow us to destroy the terrorists and the nations that back them.

President Bush has done a remarkable job – especially in light of the hand he inherited from the previous administration. It is also important to remember that a hidden problem for the Bush administration is that the U.S. government, including our Pentagon, CIA and other agencies, is still largely run by appointees of Clinton-Gore or the career military and bureaucrats Clinton-Gore promoted through the ranks.

The same people that left us vulnerable to the acts of Sept. 11 are now claiming they will solve our future problems.

I believe long term good will only come out of this catastrophe if we learn from the events of Sept. 11, hold accountable the people in our government who failed us, and make necessary reforms.

If we don’t do this, it is doubtful we will exist as a great nation ten years hence.

We should also heed the Roman statesman Cicero, who remarked that great nations are not destroyed from the barbarians outside. It is the civilized people who will destroy the nation from within.

The logic of this is simple: there will always be barbarians outside the gates. It is up to us to have the character and strength and the will to defend against them.

Before Sept. 11, P.C. thinking taught us that nothing we do matters; character didn’t count. It was the Age of Clinton. After Sept. 11, the overriding lesson is that everything we do counts - character does matter.

Even the liberal Boston Globe recognized this. Breaking from the P.C. crowd, it reported that Clinton’s sexcapades and scandals detracted from his ability to focus on hunting down Osama bin Laden. That story got almost zero national press coverage.

And the Globe and many media still haven’t talked much about what happened at the CIA.

Our loyal readers will remember that NewsMax broke the story, within hours of the attacks, about how P.C. thinking by Clinton and Senator Toricelli had prevented the CIA and its many patriotic members from doing their job. The CIA was effectively banned from recruiting unsavory characters to penetrate terrorist cells.

But that was just a small part of how P.C. thinking has undermined America and the CIA.

During the past decade, the CIA has been twisted from an intelligence gathering organization with a mission to protect America and her citizens - and turned into a model of political correctness.

Under Clinton, the CIA was told to stop focusing on spying and start focusing on P.C. agenda items like global warming.

One analyst retired in disgust after the agency had appointed a person to become a lead analyst for a particular country.

This person was qualified because she was black, a female, and had graduated from an Ivy League college with a high GPA. The CIA was not concerned that the young lady did not speak the language of the country she was to analyze, nor had she ever visited the country.

As anyone who worked at the CIA can tell you, "diversity” was the buzzword that animated the agency during the Clinton years. Diversity was the mission and the goal.

A CIA operative close to the Mid-East told me that the agency was even placing women in countries like Islamic ones where the culture does not view women progressively.

While this policy demonstrated the agency’s commitment to diversity - it effectively cut its female operative out of any serious interaction with the host country’s political and military establishment.

P.C. thinking dominated all the activities of the agency. CIA employees were regularly hit with a barrage of Orwellian P.C. workshops and literature explaining how they needed to be, well, sensitive and open to diversity.

One analyst, still a CIA employee, told me about one CIA sensitivity training seminar he had to sit through. The presenter, an expert in diversity, gave a Powerpoint presentation on the benefits of diversity.

One slide showed an American Indian sitting on the ground making beads. The presenter explained: "American Indians have a long tradition working with beads. They are good with beads, and they have, in modern times become good working with wires.”

Another slide showed an African-American professional sitting at an office cubicle on the phone. The presenter explained: "African-Americans are particularly sensitive to being interrupted while on the phone. You should avoid doing this.”

As the analyst explained, "They were creating new stereotypes as the were complaining about old ones.” The CIA had become the Central Intelligence Agency for Diversity.

No wonder with an annual budget of $60 billion there was no warning, no informant in a the Sept. 11 network that several experts say must have numbered 300 people working in several countries.

I could swallow the government’s failures of Sept. 11 if we heeded the wake-up call, exposed the problems of P.C. thinking at the CIA and elsewhere, and made reforms.

But the commissars of political correctness that control the major media will have none of it. Consider how there has been practically no criticism by the major networks of President Clinton’s stewardship of our national security agencies.

The same commissars that were, in the middle of this horrific crisis, attacking Pres. Bush, will not utter any criticism of Bill Clinton.

In fact, Clinton was actually being praised! NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Alan Greenspan’s wife, was on air spewing her venom for Bush, complaining that he was not, like Bill Clinton, a "Comforter in Chief.” You see, according to P.C. thinking, Bush’s desire to stay up in Air Force One to insure the continuity of government was less important than going to New York to cry, hold hands, and show how we "feel.”

Criticism of Clinton is taboo precisely because the major media know that criticism of him is criticism of them. They supported him and the bizarre P.C. thinking that has possessed them and brought us to the point of Sept. 11.

So instead, of heeding the "wake up call” – the PC commissars in the media are continuing to play old tricks.

Within hours of the attacks, I heard P.C. anchors and commentators spinning that these events proved America does not need missile defense. Don’t they care that the very same countries behind the terrorists are feverishly building and developing long-range missiles capable of hitting many American cities at once?

We've spent decades teaching everyone that there is no right, no wrong...no truth, no justice...

No, no, no... our libbie-kids are moral absolutists to the core, believe me. They just don't go for any of the organized monotheistic religions' absolutes. They have various mushy, vague notions of "god" and create their own little salad bar religions that take a little o' this, a little o' that, mix in some personal sentiment, and they have a set of absolutes. Of course, each is a bit different from the others, but here at my university, they definitely sat around on September 12th, in a daze, saying "what happened yesterday was pure evil!" But they don't go for "Islam is evil" (or, of course, for the Muslim "Christianity is evil") business. No, no, they think THEY know what absolute good and evil is.

Well, no, they can't describe it exactly... but they're sure they know it when they see it.

I can't speak to Patricia's personal reasons for not wanting guns in the cockpit, but she's quite correct in principle.

When there are multiple terrorists, historically, they often operate with a 'caboose;' the guy in reserve if a sky-marshal turns up. Now, that will be true, more than ever. Even with a gun in the cockpit, five terrorists can run you out of ammo in a hurry, then the pilots get to beg for mercy before they die.

If the terrorists managed Kevlar - or similar vests - an over-the-shoulder head-shot would be required. Any mis-fired shots from a struggle would damage cockpit controls and beg for an electrical fire, loss of control, pressurization, etc. It's asking the impossible for the second pilot to NOT join any struggle, that would knock off the autopilot when a knee or foot hit the control column.

At cruise, an aircraft is operated near the "coffin corner," thus any significant upset would risk a catastrophic stall with any control disturbance or a power-reduction / power loss with the autopilot attempting to maintain altitude ("autopilot stall"). A steep bank would have the same effect.

Therefore, cockpit isolation is the major safety margin. As far as I'm concerned, it's the only viable one. The remaining changes are add-on luxuries.

While other procedures and means are available, it's best to not discuss the details. They won't be secret for long, but the longer-the-better, anyway.

Quote of the Day on "Too Good Reports":

“Why have they [FBI and CIA] been spending their resources chasing after a few people who were no harm to society, such as one loner on a mountaintop at Ruby Ridge and a pathetic religious group in Waco, while the plotting foreign terrorists crossed our borders and lived in our country illegally, got their flight training in Florida, and freely boarded our planes under their own names?” —
Phyllis Schlafly

WOW - Excellent! Worth repeating and sending on . . . .

Well, I suppose we can be thankful that they think they know something and that they are able to call SOMETHING evil - without a weak-kneed disclaimer, that is.

No, really, I think we'd be better off if they were relativists like me, cause I don't believe in good and evil, but I DO believe those SOBs in the Middle East are trying to kill us and we should kill them first, all of them, and quick.

These children have the vague notion that "war is evil" and "capitalism is evil" (you see how useful THEY'RE going to be in the upcoming battle.)

I'll go to the mattresses for America simply because I'm American and it's US or THEM. So really, I think they've been effectively neutralized by the socialist professors who are secretly hoping the US is brought to its knees because they resent not being rich and feel guilty about not being poor.

Take McVeigh out of the equation and you instantly have a Bin Laden mission. The documentation is all there and covered up to the maximum extent possible. OKC was part of Bin Laden's "Project Bojinka." That's why Terry Nichol's appeal was rejected - it would all come out, along with the truth in TWA-800.

See -

Airline Safety ‘Net

- look to the TWA-800” and “Attack on America” links.

Why did McVeigh take the heat? Ask Sirhan. The autopsy clearly showed that he didn't hit Bobby Kennedy with a single round.

You're going to need Scully & Mulder to come up with the answer.

Not every single hijacking over the past 30 years was carried out by Arabs but I agree with you the majority of them were. And it is a fact that the murders of innocent civilians on 11 September was 100% the work of Arab hijackers.

We shouldn't be surprised that the rest of the world thinks we've grown soft and lazy or that they may question our resolve to see this War on Terrorism through. Think about it, quilting bees, diverisity hiring and sensitivity seminars at the CIA !

"We should also heed the Roman statesman Cicero, who remarked that great nations are not destroyed from the barbarians outside. It is the civilized people who will destroy the nation from within."

"The logic of this is simple: there will always be barbarians outside the gates. It is up to us to have the character and strength and the will to defend against them."

Character and Strength DO Count, bloody bill and you DEMONRATS!!!!!!!!

All of the above NEEDS to be our battle cry (maybe more succiently worded but with full message meaning, though) against the evil ones within so that the sheeple will wake up and understand and we can fight the communist/liberal bloody bill and hill lovers that seek to destroy our great NATION from within.

In George Washington's vision, the United States of America was strong enough to fight off the rest of the world and win. We can win against these terrorists and the evil that spawned them. It won't be easy but it won't be that hard either. Don't listen to those who try to demoralize us with their doom and gloom statements. It might take awhile but we will win!!!!!!!! Then America and the world will be a better place for all and peace will reign again for a good long while if not for 1,000 years.

We must remember that we are Americans NOT sheep! We have a destiny to fulfill!

Thanks for cogent post.

But we must realize that some sacrifices have to be made for the sake of the Great Cause P.C.; i.e. for the sake of affirmative action ,diversity and multiculturalism we must forego expectations of performance and any accountability for failure to perform (sarcasm).

Reminds me of the female ambassador to Iraq who told Saddam that the US was not concerned about Kuwait. Rather than respect another culture that prefers not to deal with women, the US rubbed their nose in it. Ironically, her female assistant, Bodine, was made ambassador of Yemen. Saw the shell-shocked lady on TV after the USS Cole hit. Apparently, she had told the navy to "be nice" and not show their weapons.

Not criticizing females or minorities here. Used to work for the Civil Service Commission (now defunct) whose sole purpose was to hire, fire and promote based solely on best qualified regardless of gender, race and that other stuff. Then, along came Jimmy Carter. After the first sensitivity class and his policy of giving preference based on other than qualifications, I had better things to do and departed.

If only the CIA and FBI had had more sensitivity training and made more "diversity" quilts those terrorists would not have become so upset (sarcasm).

Seriously, after eight years of Clinton, Allbright, Reno and P.C. (not to mention treason) can we really be surprised at the consequences?

Sow dragon's teeth and reap dragons.

Thanks for the suggestions on how to avoid the Preview hang with a large post, dennisw. I kind of rely on the Preview, because I tend to mess with the HTML in my posts, so I probably won't post blind. But I should try Mozilla (the Open reincarnation of Netscape) for such a post - that might help. I was using Opera at the time of the post, and presumed that the problem was on the FreeRepublic.com web server side, because I find Opera usually pretty robust. But you good post served to remind me that it was likely the browser end that mattered. Thanks. By the way, I am on Linux, not Windows.

"President Bush has done a remarkable job – especially in light of the hand he inherited from the previous administration. It is also important to remember that a hidden problem for the Bush administration is that the U.S. government, including our Pentagon, CIA and other agencies, is still largely run by appointees of Clinton-Gore or the career military and bureaucrats Clinton-Gore promoted through the ranks."

Hmm. I want to know exactly why Bush and his team didn't move faster against some of these. Ashcroft should have been getting rid of the clinton people in the DOJ at least!

Don't tell me he didn't have time! bloody bill fired all the U.S. Attorneys almost as soon as he took office! ALL of them!! He totally made the U.S. Prosecutors his own animal by doing that in one fell swoop. Bush at the least could have done that. All of them do it to a certain degree but not as fast nor thoroughly as bloody bill and hill.

Just even beginning to get rid of those bloody, communist, criminal trolls would have been better than doing nothing to get rid of any of the bloody clinton's trolls that subverted our Justice system.

I don't understand, I truly don't, why Bush and his people didn't even start to clean out the traitors that eventually helped make 9/11 so devastating.

With power comes responsibility and it's not good nor fulfilling your duty nor living up to the responsibilities of your position to keep those in place that you know are out to destroy the country and the people that you are now President and leader of.

You could also make your HTML on NetScape Composer. Then cut and paste it to the post box.......

I just confirmed that on Netscape 4.5 there is zero problem with it previewing large posts. (99% of the time I post with Explorer 5.0). If you ever post auctions to eBay using Netscape also makes sense.

Plenty of different Netscape versions (Linux too) can be downloaded at www.download.com. Just enter the word *Netscape* or for a more refined search enter *Netscape Communicator* or *Netscape Navigator*

Seriously, after eight years of Clinton, Allbright, Reno and P.C. (not to mention treason) can we really be surprised at the consequences?

Much as I enjoy our national past time of blaming Clinton, don't lose track of a key observation in Post 66, above:

I saw some of this crap...and it was definitely before the Clinton Administration.

Clinton was a traitor, liar, murderer, felon, thief and hell knows what else, but the Politically Correct ideology predates him, and in some ways enabled his rise to high oriface. The poison of The Liberal Mind (by Kenneth Minogue) is more deeply embedded in our nation than any one traitor.

Aha - there is an essay of Kenneth Minogue here on the FreeRepublic. I referenced his book The Liberal Mind in the previous post above. You can get a good flavor of his book in an essay of his, to be found in the FreeRepublic posting How Civilizations Fall.

Mr. Minogue's essay states, near the end:

My argument is, then, that European civilization has been attacked and conquered from within, without anyone quite realizing what has happened. We may laugh at political correctness-some people even deny that it exists-but it is a manacle around our hands. It binds us quite tightly, though some freedom must be left, because without the contribution of subjugated males, things would very rapidly decline.

Mr. Minogue is not optimistic. As he writes in the forward to his re-published book:

To revisit The Liberal Mind turns out to be something that provokes me to pessimism. In those optimistic days of yore, I had confidence in the broad commonsense of my world. I wrote that the ideas of the liberal mind could never really dominate the thinking of any society because ?such institutions as armed services, universities, churches and cultural academies have nonetheless a powerful impulse to generate non-liberal ways of thought.

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