Sunday, August 21, 2005

Pacifist Terrorism?

What a....fascinating possibility:

[Powerline] correspondent Gene Allen reports that [early this afternoon], an unidentified man telephoned the Yellow Rose Gift Shop in Crawford, Texas and said, "Your shop is going up in smoke, you better get out now." Law enforcement is on the scene.

Gene describes the Yellow Rose as "a pro-Bush gift shop with a Ten Commandments monument out front. It is located across the street from the Coffee Station, down the street from the Crawford Peace House."...

"Last night there was a tiff between the anti-war protestors and Bush supporters in Crawford. The owner of the Yellow Rose stepped in to break it up. Law enforcement arrested one anti-war protestor and he reportedly remains in jail. Police are investigating whether today's threat is connected to last night's incident."

We'll see if there's any connection between the two incidents. But if Occam's Razor is any guide, it would seem that the crowd that insists America isn't worth dying for may actually believe the opposite - so long as they, and the(ir fellow?) jihadis, are the ones doing the killing.

UPDATE: Mark Steyn weighs in again with the bigger picture. Money line:

Sorry..., but, if Mrs. Sheehan can insist her son's corpse be the determining factor in American policy on Iraq, I don't see why her marriage can't be a metaphor for the state of the Democratic Party.

Take that, John Cole.