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The following is  from Sara at Orcinus:

Hate crime is a low-level form of terrorism designed to disenfranchise, stifle, and ultimately remove certain people from the public sphere by forcing them to erect imaginary boundaries of fear in their own heads. It causes people to change their behavior, shrink their horizons, and stop participating fully in their own lives. Suddenly, there are places — the synagogue, the clinic, downtown after dark, professional conferences, the comments threads that form the living rooms of their own online homes — that they can no longer approach with a feeling of acceptance, belonging, and safety.

This is from Michele Malkin’s site:

Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,

You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.

I am John Doe.

I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.

I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.

I am John Doe.

I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.

I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.

I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.

I will act when homeland security officials ask me to “report suspicious activity.”

I will embrace my local police department’s admonition: “If you see something, say something.”

I am John Doe.

I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing “scholars.”

I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders.

I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.

I will challenge your attempts to indoctrinate my children in our schools.

I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.

I am John Doe.

I will support law enforcement initiatives to spy on your operatives, cut off your funding, and disrupt your murderous conspiracies.

I will oppose all attempts to undermine our borders and immigration laws.

I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.

I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.

I will not be cowed by your Beltway lobbying groups in moderate clothing. I will not cringe when you shriek about “profiling” or “Islamophobia.”

I will put my family’s safety above sensitivity. I will put my country above multiculturalism.

I will not submit to your will. I will not be intimidated.

I am John Doe.

Pass it on.

Thus goes the battle cry of the Paranoid Pandemic. Google shows a measly 1,730,000 iterations of this meme-of-madness. The first several pages illustrated the depths of the Wingnut Echo Chamber. Truly astounding how many otherwise healthy Americans are willing to sell their liberty for the freedom to cower in fear behind the shield of racism. Or, and the General says:

Dear traitorous Brownislamunistofascist, Homoislamunistofascist, Femislamunistofascist, Poorislamunistofascist, JehovahWitnessislamunististfascist, Hebrislamunistofascist, and/or Libislamunistofascist,You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.I am Michelle’s hood.

You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.

I am Michelle’s hood.

In the spirit of good blogmanship and in fear of the holy wrath of the General’s Glorious Conservative Christian Cultural Revolutionaries, I cannot post the attendant picture of the Divine Miss M in a very fashionable white silk, pointed KKK hoodie.

I’m sure everyone will be wearing one soon. Make them red-white and blue, though, and sell them at Wal-Mart.

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