[trebb]

Maybe MSNBC should move out of country and take Jill along for the ride...It would be interesting to see how she screamed for her Constitutional rights if she was really threatened...

[an amused spectator]

Here's Freeper dead's take on Jill "Swill" Nelson back during the impeachment wars:

"Jill Nelson is a moron, journalist, and the author of "Volunteer Slavery for Morons" and "Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-up Black Woman Yet Remained a Total Moron. She is a moron and a regular contributor to MSNBC for Morons on the Internet."

Jill is the proud author of "Little King Rudy" (9/29/99), a hitpiece on the beloved Rudy "Frickin" Guiliani. Some of her greatest kneepad pieces in support of the former First Rapist and Perjurer: "1999: Here Come The Sex Police" (12/30/1998), "The Real Obscenity - Stop Invading My Privacy With Sleaze" (10/09/1998).

[William Terrell]

The whole article.

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I Fear My Own Government More Than The Terrorists

Paul Walfield

Those are the words and thoughts of Jill Nelson, “journalist, teacher and author. She is a regular contributor to MSNBC.com.” After reading her May 2, 2003, editorial, it’s no wonder she fears America more than al-Qaida or the Taliban, she hates the country as much as the terrorists, and as they say, “the enemy of my enemy…” Here we have all that is wrong with America. An American teacher, journalist and author who can speak her mind on a website visited by millions, explaining her dread at having a government that is willing to fight for her right to speak her mind.

Jill speaks of the “mean spirited” nature of America. That America stood up to despots and tyrants and fought terrorists and evil-doers with weapons. She discounts the monsters that flew jetliners into buildings slaughtering thousands of her fellow countrymen (persons) and speaks of the casualties in the war against Iraq as indicative of America’s callousness and the loss of “priceless antiquities,” as merely a casualty of America’s search for world domination and Iraq’s oil. “Now, the armed forces in Iraq have turned to shooting Iraqi demonstrators, the very people they supposedly came to ‘liberate’ with democracy.” Jill refuses to believe the American warriors on the ground who said they were acting in self defense. That Iraqis with AK-47’s were in the crowd of demonstrators firing on the Americans, Jill prefers the enemies of America’s accounts of the fight, and Jill doesn’t mention the 7 Americans severely wounded by the peaceful “Iraqi demonstrators.”

Jill and her despicable notions about America, and her absurd notions of moral equivalency of the Taliban as being a better alternative to the America that millions have given the ultimate sacrifice for, is indicative of an America that has forgotten how to teach our citizens. An American education system that demands Americans see their country as no better a place to live than a totalitarian island off the coast of Florida.

People who are born and raised in this country have, as a matter of natural sentiment, a kinship with fellow Americans and an affinity for allegiance to their country of birth. It is basically one of the few things we all have in common when we start out as American citizens by birth. Some, as of late, have been bucking the tide and find it desirable and even fashionable to damn America in some circles. Often those circles are far removed from mainstream America and the presenter of enmity is not subject to the multitude voices left in outrage.

There are some exceptions. The Dixie Chicks, Susan Sarandon have felt some ramifications for their “dissent.” Of course, the Left also reported that any supposed backlash was short-lived and in any event, ineffective.

In the case of Jill Nelson, she knows that the American government is in no way on a par with terrorists. She knows that if the terrorists were in charge and she wrote a piece about them the way she did America, she would be toast. So why the nonsense? It could be to make a point, it could be to endear herself to the Europeans and the Left-wingers right here and it could be that she really hates America. So why does she stay here? Because like all so-called dissenters and people who hate-America first, she knows nowhere else on the planet could she do what she is doing and still make a living.

What is most disturbing though is MSNBC publishing the article. This was no ordinary voice against the war in Iraq. This was an attack on America itself, couched in an anti-Bush cloak. MSNBC even supplied and published a distorted photograph of President Bush depicted as a grotesque monster on top of the article. The network co-owned by both Microsoft and NBC was thought of as mainstream; that is no longer the case.

Jill explains, “I live in an America that makes my stomach hurt and fills me with terror. A nation run by greedy, frightened, violent bullies.” Let’s take her beliefs one at a time. Her stomach hurts living in America. The response to that one is too easy. She is filled with “terror” because America fought back against terrorists and dictators. That one too is way too easy and telling her that her that she might understand what terror really was if she did live under the Taliban or Saddam seems excessively obvious for her to have missed.

She views the American government as “greedy.” Probably because she wants her readers to believe that America went to war in Afghanistan for an oil pipeline and in Iraq for the oil. First, it is obviously not true, at least to people who want to believe reality is actual events, and if it were true, is it possible that America and the world would be a better place in the future if America had that access, rather than despots and murderers? If you love America, if you are an American the benefit of the doubt goes to America.

She says our administration was frightened. Who in America was not frightened by the terrorists after 9-11? Perhaps the folks who were not frightened are the ones we should all be frightened of. As far as being a “bully” is concerned, calling defensive actions, bullying, is the last refuge of an enemy.

If you are not an American, if you just live here, America’s interests are secondary to others. America’s status, well being and sovereignty is subordinated to others. The so-called dissenters and “patriots” are no better than the French and in some cases, hearkens visions of Nikita Khrushchev at the United Nations, banging the table with his shoe saying, “We will bury you.”

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[asformeandformyhouse]

Probably because she wants her readers to believe that America went to war in Afghanistan for an oil pipeline and in Iraq for the oil. First, it is obviously not true

Yes it is! The space aliens told her it was true.

[oyez]

We give up 46% of our earnings to the government, so we must fear something, BFL.

[joesnuffy]

I am not crazy about govt. regulations and a lot of what this one is doing in terms of not sealing the borders and going after retired war heros in airport security checks...

However...my life style has not been all that altered by the govt crackdown on terror...

I am still able to hunt and fish (albeit with a lot more stupid regulations than when I was young)
earn a living ,play with grandchildren and work in my garden etc etc...

It could be better but it sure could be worse...and living in one of those countries that sponsors terror would be so much worse...America is still the best place on earth to live..imo
and one who is born here has been given a great gift of God...

If you are unhappy in America...and dont belive in America...you should go somewhere else..
or learn to be thankfull for what you have...

Daily Gratitude Will Change Your Attitude- As Long As You Thank The One Responsible
(hint the One to be gratefull to?...His face aint in your mirror-however the one to blame is)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ms Nelson's article on fear should have included some personal research as a burka-wearing woman under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

[i_dont_chat]

I shudder to think of the treatment this woman would have received if she'd published such an article against the Iraqi dictator Saddam.

She would have discovered a whole new meaning of the word fear.

[TC Rider]

Jill Nelson is another bitter, racist, black woman who has written a book.

I got into a discussion with her and her sycophants on the 2nd amendment a few years ago. I regret wasting my time.

[Landru]

Undoubably hand picked -- no, make that *skimmed* -- from the top 1% of the pool of available Liberal-Socialists; &, by none other than Eric Sorensen himself, at MSNBC.
Right along with the rabid boor, Kieth Obermann.

The Liberal-Socialists mediot morons haven't gone away *mad* following the disasterous past 6-12 months drubbing by the right and/or the free marketplace.

Hardly.
They never went away, a'tall.

...just a momentary pause to regroup as they reinvent themselves, is all.

[mtbopfuyn]

Unfortunately, the original article Nelson wrote has expired at MSNBC so couldn't verify what she'd actually written. Just going on the editorial above, the question to her should be, "Who's greedy, now?" She is the greedy one. Nelson knows full well she would not be able to pursue her career or write whatever she wishes about the government in Iraq, Afghanistan, or a dozen other countries, hence her decision to remain within America's borders. Simply pitiful. Jilly, grow up and quit your belly aching.

[Grampa Dave]

To Jill, that is good.

You and any other left winger who might have bought by the $oddomites's blood money should be really scared.

Jill, we are more scared of the enablers and apologists of the terrorists, left wing scum like you than the terrorists. You and your left wing scum try to weaken our American 24/7/365. It took al Qaeda years to bring about 9/11. Left wing mediots like you, harm us everyday.

[justshutupandtakeit]

There are plenty of people here who agree with her on that.

[bert]

Jill has been working too long in the Big House. She needs a few hours picking cotten to learn something of the truth..... the Rat plantation enslaves the black population.

[F16Fighter]

BIOGRAPHY of a Leftist Loon:

Jill Nelson

Jill Nelson has been a working journalist for over twenty years. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Essence, The Nation, Ms., The Chicago Tribune and the Village Voice. Nelson was a staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine during its first years of existence, and was named Washington D.C. Journalist of the Year for her work there. She freelances and lectures widely, and is a Contributing Editor to USA Weekend. In addition, Ms. Nelson is an on-line columnist for MSNBC.COM, a monthly contributor to the Op Ed page of USA Today, and a Professor of Journalism at the City College of New York. Ms. Nelson wrote the best-selling memoir, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, (Noble Press, hardcover, 1993 and Penguin, paperback, 1994), which won an American Book Award. Most recently she is the author of Straight, No Chaser: How I Became A Grown-Up Black Woman, (Putnam, Fall 1997, Penguin, Winter 1999). Ms. Nelson edited Police Brutality: An Anthology, for W W Norton, published in May 2000.

Jill Nelson is a graduate of the City College of New York and the Columbia School of Journalism. She was born and raised in Harlem and resides there still.

The Criminal Justice Institute | Harvard Law School

[F.J. Mitchell]

Jill Nelson-Spending her freedom of speech on flaunting her stupidity.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Man....I wish I could make my living blathering like a twit.