Useful Idiots for Terror and Other Important Things

Heather McDonald, The Weekly Standard via RCP on the NY Times' latest betrayal of our country:

The truth the Times evades is that while every power, public or private, can be misused, the mere possibility of abuse does not mean that a necessary power should be discarded. Instead, the rational response is to create checks that minimize the risk of abuse. Under the Times's otherworldly logic, the United States might be better off with no government at all, because governmental power can be abused. It should not have newspapers, because the power of the press can be abused to harm the national interest (as the Times so amply demonstrates). Police forces should be disbanded, because police officers can overstep their authority. National security wiretaps? Heavens! Expose all of them.

Fresh from their triumph of dismissing the real threat of terror on Friday, the Times on Sunday writes yet another fatuous profile of a Kennedy, "Another Kennedy Living Dangerously", I suppose as a prelude for Bob running for something. In the Times odd, shrunken world, true heroism is displayed by engaging in risky sports, or randomly jumping off cliffs, and filing lawsuits as "waterkeepers" to protect us from what the Times considers the Greatest Peril Posed to The Planet:

Mr. Kennedy presided last week at the annual conference of the Waterkeeper Alliance, an assembly of 153 "keepers" from around the world charged with protecting the planet's most vulnerable watersheds, largely through litigation or threat thereof. On Wednesday the riverkeepers, baykeepers, coastkeepers, deltakeepers, channelkeepers and inletkeepers packed into three zero-emission hybrid-electric buses bound for Treasure Island on San Francisco Bay. There they ate dinner on biodegradable plates and took turns giving brief speeches. They spoke with earnest commitment, contempt for industrial polluters and awe for Bobby Kennedy.

"Thank you for fighting for our waterways, Bobby," said Leo O'Brien, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper. "And thank you for fighting for democracy."

Bobby Kennedy, head of a powerful multinational force, appropriately based in San Francisco.

In the spirit of The Times, I think maybe a moat around the pending New York Times building would be so lovely, a new contribution to the wetlands of THE PLANET, and then they can ask these guys to defend them against the rest of us, not to mention the terrorists. As Bob says:".....I plan to go down fighting".

Useful idiots.