Praise murderers, debase the victims
Perhaps we should all reflect upon the fact that segments of our own society and certain erstwhile European "allies" took pains to glorify an American murderer and laud the release of the murderer of Americans ...
Confused? You soon won't be. You all recently heard about Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the scum who viciously butchered innocents in California, received the death penalty for his heinous crimes, and who after several years of appeals while awaiting his fate miraculously became a "good, decent person." You could have guessed; This cold-blooded murderer of four people became the darling of the European Left, Hollywood, and America's academic elites because he wrote a few books.
Pleas for a butcher
Yes, radical leftists of every stripe metaphorically crushed "Tookie" to their collective bosom, lauded him as -- I kid you not -- a Nobel Peace Prize candidate and all because he became a children's book author.
There was outrage in Europe and Hollywood when Governor Schwarzenegger did not commute his sentence and ordered "Tookie's" execution to occur. Insane Austrians demanded that the governor's name be removed from the soccer stadium in his home town. There were protest rallies on America's college campuses. Which brings us to the other half of this story.
Evil among us
Does the name Robert Stethem ring a bell? I didn't think so. Robert Stethem, a United States Navy diver, was returning from an assignment in the Middle East when Hezbollah terrorists hijacked his airline flight in June of 1985. After taking control of the aircraft, the Islamic terrorists bound Stethem and began pistol-whipping and beating him for hours -- simply because he was an American, and simply because he was serving in the military. When they were through, there wasn't much left of Robert Stethem but that wasn't good enough. The Islamo-facists then shot Stethem in the head and dumped his mutilated body on the Beirut airport tarmac. Robert Stethem was 23.
Time passed, and then in 1987, German authorities caught one of the hijackers of Stethem's flight. They arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi at the Frankfurt airport carrying liquid explosives in his luggage. This was very good news to the United States, and our government immediately requested to extradite Hamadi for prosecution. However, our wonderful "allies," the Germans, refused. Then in 1989, a German court sentenced Hamadi to life in prison for Stethem's murder. Good news again. However, in Germany life sentences usually mean a stretch in prison of between 20 and 25 years with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
By now I am sure that you have figured out what our wonderful German "allies" did. Their government ignored repeated American requests for extradition and a personal plea from U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales not to release him early. Release him early is exactly what the Germans did. The Hezbollah butcher boarded a flight to the Beirut airport where soon after, he disappeared.
A world gone mad
The release of the murderer Mohammed Ali Hamadi was hailed throughout Europe as an act of compassion. In reality, it was merely another example of European appeasement so that Islamic terrorists don't murder any more Europeans than they already have.
So I have to repeat one question and ask another: How do you justify the righteous morality that protests the death of an American murderer yet applauds freedom for a murderer of an American? When will The Left understand that what they say and do aids and abets the enemies of their own country, and facilitates the murder of their fellow citizens?