From Dr Rusty’s two-year anniversary post:
Two years ago today I started blogging by warning in my very first post, If you think this is offensive, just wait til I really get going! What a way to celebrate my blogoversary!!!
The long awaited moment has arrived that I can reveal some of the details of The Jawa Report’s involvement in the capture of a would-be terrorist. Some of you already know some of the details as I have talked about them from time to time in a cryptic manner. I don’t want to overemphasize our role in the wannabe terrorists capture, nor do I wish to claim that the man now in custody would have been able to accomplish his stated goal of building and detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States—clearly he did not have that capacity—but this website did play a role in his capture.
It is not the first time we have done some damage to a terror supporter. Longtime Jawa reader Filthy Allah helped get a terror supporter fired from an immigration law firm in Great Britain because of one of our posts. That ought to make the people of the U.K. feel slightly safer knowing that at least one less jihad supporter is in a position to help facilitate the immigration of terrorists to their country.
As satisfying as it is to help a terror supporter file for unemployment, it pales in contrast to the feeling of elation that I have knowing that I helped put a would be terrorist in jail. Even if my role was tiny, it is far more than I ever hoped for when I started this website. I simply wanted to make terrorists and their supporters mad, not help put them in jail.
Read the rest—which speaks, I submit, to the power of an involved citizenry dedicated to safeguarding a democracy.
Or at least, so goes the claim.
Still, a quick observation if I may: now, I don’t want to be the one who minimizes a “blogger’s” role in the “capturing” of a “terrorist.” Honestly I don’t. But c’mon, man! —how can we expect anyone of significance (I’m thinking Tim Robbins or John Cusack, but the list goes on and on) to take seriously a site named “Jawa Report,” particularly when said site is published under a fake name? Isn’t such skullduggery and prole presumptuousness DESTROYING THE VERY SOUL OF THE BLOGGING MEDIUM?
I mean, sure, capturing terrorists is nice and all. But woudn’t it be even nicer were the feat to be accomplished by credentialed, known journalists like, say, Harry Shearer or Al Franken—people with syndicated columns who use their given names and have the potential, at least, to land a book deal—rather than by insignificant nobodies who presume to do the work of their betters, all because they’ve proven so dopey and unsophisticated as to buy into the useful capitalist fantasy that “hard work” and “perserverence” can help one overcome pedigree, and that the “American ideal” is more than simply a punchline to a Teresa Heinz-Kerry cocktail party joke?
Sure it would. And that’s just how the British would have wanted it, too.
Who will stop the madness? The world needs ORDER, people. And we can’t have ORDER and FREEDOM until the right people are running this shit properly.
I’ll do my part. Make mine a bacon cheeseburger with swiss, no ketchup, just mustard, onions (grilled) and pickles. Extra pickles. Oh, I’ll have fries with that too.
Can you deliver?
who am I to deliver? I’m a NOBODY.
You want delivery, dial up Anderson Cooper, for fuck’s sake.
OTHERWISE ROGER SIMON WILL HAVE WON!
Is this space about to get a name change?
Can you make it a contest?
Great post, Jeff.
Congrats to the “nobody’s” who are ever more important than the “somebody’s” when it actually comes time to, you know, get things done.
We seeing dancin ‘dillos tonight?
Waitin’, hopin’, prayin’….
tw: well, to a degree, anyway.
Why shouldn’t a blog about Eastern European motorcycles get involved in the War on Terror?
So you were the one to put my name in the DHS hat?
– Isn’t that sort of the nexus of the lefts problem in general. Namely that they want to “run shit”, but fortunately no one is buying…
– One needs to keep in mind the twin towers of journalistic gravitas; insufferable sanctimonious arrogance, and a nihilistic absolute belief in ones intellectual superiority. That, and hoping your reader base, and hit counter, supports your bullshit infected bylines, and inflated view of your own imminence, and self-importance. Oh, and the advertisers checks, the importance of which, in lending respectability to your posts, can’t be over-emphasised.
– THE SCURRILOUS NATTERING OF THE MENTALLY LESSOR RUBES SHALL BE CRUSHED BENEATH THE BOOT OF THE INDOMITABLE EXACTITUDE OF CLAIMED TENURE!!!……. Or something like that.
– In the means time, wheres the ‘dillo? or is this going to be another “rotating nipple” fake-out…..
you are just jealous because you don’t have a cool literary/classic-cinema pseudonym.
tant pis
Happy blogiversary to Rusty, and what a great present!
If that means “Banger-of-horses” would be sort of retro-manic-cum-neoexprssionism phobic, I guess I’d have to second that eeeeee-motion.
Nothing like the “wrong people” getting to speak. If the “right people” don’t like it well that’s just too damn bad.
The one silly bit of Drumwaster’s Rant that stuck with me since yesterday was:
Are people who read blogs not part of the “real world”? Would I be more “real” if I were watching the news on TV?
Well done, bloggers everywhere…
I was amused by actus chiming in with “but they could have gotten a warrant!!!”
Talk about missing the point…
BTW—the guy they nabbed was from my neck of the woods. How much has been in the local press?
NOTHING.
I don’t think I’m even qualified to be reading this stuff. I’m even less than a nobody-blogger.
If you ask me, we should all just stay out of it, and go watch Nascar.