{"id":555,"date":"2009-12-07T01:22:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-12-07T01:22:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:22:43","slug":"in-a-season-of-love-undercurrents-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-a-season-of-love-undercurrents-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"IN A SEASON OF LOVE, UNDERCURRENTS OF HATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a time of year where even secular Americans traditionally get into the spirit of brotherly love, there seems to be more than enough murderous hatred to go around.<\/p>\n

Ironically, love of family got misplaced in the Pacific Northwest when relatives of a cop-killer aided and abetted him after the murders of four cops. They had ignored his statements around Thanksgiving that he wanted to kill police\u2026and wanted to mass murder children at a school,<\/a> or perhaps open fire at people at random at a crowded intersection.<\/p>\n

Perhaps even more ironically, in a season steeped in religion, the killer has been linked to both Nation of Islam and a weird sect that calls itself Black Foot Soldiers<\/a>, who consider police terrorists who must be assassinated, and are celebrating the cop-killings<\/a>.\u00a0 Follow such links at your peril: they will lead you to a cesspool of racial hatred and filthy, twisted thinking that flows in both directions. Nor is all such madness racial: late in the comments that follow the immediate previous blog entry below, you\u2019ll find the link to another recent cop-killing, this one in the South, where the man on film committing this mindless murder is painted in the news as a young Ward Cleaver gone wrong. He, too, has at least one relative of whom we must ask ourselves, \u201cWhat was he thinking?!?\u201d<\/p>\n

Evil, murder, and madness have always been with us. It just seems in the last five or six weeks that more of it has occupied our national attention. Sloughing away responsibility continues too, as we see in Howard Nemerov\u2019s link <\/a>to the updated report on the Virginia Tech massacre.<\/p>\n

Sorry this corner of the Backwoods Home Blogs is so far out of the stream of Christmas Spirit. Murderous SOBs in the news keep getting in the way.\u00a0 Prepare for the worst so you can enjoy the best. Today (Sunday) I shot a pistol match with friends. It sharpened defensive skills, and it was time well spent with good people who have a solid grasp on core human values such as, oh, the protection of the innocent from evil.<\/p>\n

Forgive me, but that\u2019s about as close to segueing back into Christmas Season as I\u2019m likely to get this week. Right now, I can\u2019t offer anything much more cheerful than a picture of a dead cop-killer, forwarded by a brother in the northwest. (Cops have cell phone cameras, too.)<\/p>\n

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