You may have heard, but everything changed™ after September 11th. Even the dictionary! This used to confuse the crap out of me because the new definitions are carefully guarded by a select group of Washington insiders and doled out as-needed when stupid people use the old meanings, but I’m starting to get the hang of it.
You can image the chagrin that Human Rights Watch must feel today. They’ve been operating for the past 5 years under the assumption that state sponsored kidnappings and murders by the thousands still constitute a “violation of human rights.” Ha ha! Not even close!
As the Washington Post ed board (read: über-insider Jackson Diehl) was forced to clarify today, Colombia’s “so-called human rights ‘crisis’” doesn’t exist, because President Uribe is a “defender of liberal democracy.” In our post 9/11 world, it’s actually countries like Venezuela who are the real human rights violators, on account of their unorthodox economic policies and a president who “portrays the U.S. president as ‘the devil.’”
See? It’s easy. If you still don’t get it, here’s another example. Some America hating “journalist” published another a story on South America’s best ever democracy today. We’ve summarized it below, and included Post 9/11 language for you to study. If you want to read the original story, you can find it here.
More than two hundredfarmersevildoers were discovered in a Colombianmass gravedetention center today. They had beenbrutally murderedtried and convicted byright-wing death squads with links to Uribe’s regimeliberal democrats who thenstolereclaimed their land toproduce cocainecreate peace and rainbows. The End.
Now it’s your turn. All you need is a red pen and the Sunday paper! Be sure to report any scofflaws to agonzales@doj.us.gov!
