Hatred, Violence, and Terrorism Redefined?

Just hours after the Virginia Tech massacre, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama made a startling claim: words are violence, too.

In his response to the shooting, he contended:

"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways.

“There's the ‘verbal violence’ of Imus.

“There's the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country.”

That’s right. The outsourcing of jobs has suddenly been redefined as a form of violence as well. And according to dictionary.com, it may as well be a form of terrorism:

Terrorism

ter·ror·ism [ter-uh-riz-uhm]
–noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

And if Don Imus is a terrorist for his poor choice of words, then a middle school student might as well be charged with a hate-crime for his choice of food: ham.

The “Ham Crime” was committed at Lewiston Middle School in Lewiston, Maine, when a white male student put a ham steak in a lunch bag on a table where Somali students were seated. Pork is considered offensive towards Muslims.

The student had already faced a suspension for this. But since he’s a non-Muslim white male, why not throw him in jail?

Identity politics is an ongoing tradition that was first popularized by Benito Mussolini in Fascist Italy. Political correctness was a popular policy that heavily censored public opinion within the walls of the former Soviet Union. Combine the two, and you have hate-crime legislation.

But even a practical joke is a form of violence, so claims Barack Obama.

The school has chosen to work with a group that pushes this lunacy as their raison d'être. This group is the so-called Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence.

They'd like to send a message out to every white kid: If you’ve ever played a practical joke that was even the least bit insensitive, you can now consider yourself hateful and violent. Let this be a fair warning.