PunkAssBlog.com

Warren Bell writes his contender for the 2006 Unintentionally Ironic Post:

I am going to save you some time. You no longer need to email me every time I take some position in favor of the War on Terror , the invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan, or in fact any pro-military stance. I now am completely and thoroughly informed that I am a chickenhawk, that it is “easy” to support a war when I don’t have to put on a uniform and fight, and that I am a coward who would only sacrifice other people’s loved ones. And to save you further time, I am going to expose myself even more. I am a hypocrite and chickenhawk in the War on Crime, as I continue to avoid donning a badge and a gun and busting down doors to catch bad guys, even though I support sending in real police to do the job. I am a complete coward in the War on Fire, because I have never put on a yellow slicker and an oxygen mask to go stand on the front line in the battle against a burning building. And that’s while completely admitting that I would be great at squirting the big hose. Additionally, and this is a little painful, I am a loser, hypocrite, chickenhawk, and barely half a man in the War on Weeds. I tried digging them out of my yard, but found I didn’t have what it takes, so now I sit in my comfy chair and watch while other people’s loved ones put themselves at risk. I’m sorry.

Now Teh Kung Fu Monkey tears this idea apart, and it’s a good post, better than this one, so go read,

But Kung Fu Money misses the crucial Irony of this paragraph, namely that when it comes to the “Wars” on crime and fire, these morons are still chickenhawks.

You see the crux of Kung Fu Monkeys post relies on the fact that conservatives gleefully send troops into a dangerous and utterly pointless mission, while also refusing to actually Do Anything to support them, like not voting into office and supporting and ignoring people who don’t care that they’re sending troops into a meatgrinder without proper equipment, supplies and actual, you know, Support.

In much the same way you can’t really be “supporting” the firefighters and police if you’re also against paying the taxes that pay those people’s wages. If you in fact are actively against the sort of infrastructure that enables firefighters and the police’s to do their jobs.

It’s about the hypocrisy, stupid, in other words.

And no, once again, illegal wire tapping is not neccesary for the police’s job, try to remember these very simple ideas: Breaking the law does not actually help maintain the law, refusing to pay firefighters does not help put out fires, sending troops into pointless meatgrinders without equipment IS NOT SUPPORTING THE TROOPS.