Denouncing the recent, shocking trend among certain “libertarian” types in the Republican Party to consider the endless violations of our civil liberties by the Bush and Obama administrations to be, you know, wrong, Christie struggled manfully to wrap himself in the bloody flag of 9/11, achieving the following non sequiturs, among others:
“As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that’s going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought.”
“You can name any one of them that’s engaged in this [libertarian types like Rand Paul and others] I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. … I’m very nervous about the direction this is moving in.”
“I think what we as a country have to decide is: Do we have amnesia? Because I don’t. And I remember what we felt like on Sept. 12, 2001.”
“These esoteric, intellectual debates — I want them [the libertarian sissy-britches again] to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won’t, because that’s a much tougher conversation to have. The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and … [trails off, possibly realizing that everything he’s saying is complete crap]”
In other words, I was there and I remember the bodies, except, well, I wasn’t, but, you know, 9/10, 9/12, it’s almost like 9/11, and anyone who disagrees with me is a goddamn traitor who wants to let thousands of Americans die in order to win some goddamn esoteric debate over some goddamn esoteric bullshit that doesn’t mean anything to anyone who’s got a pair.
Chris, you think it’s Snooki who makes New Jersey look bad? Look again. You’re making Snooki look like fuckin’ Tom Jefferson.
Afterwords
9/11 could have been prevented by the presence of locking steel doors on the cockpits of the planes the terrorists used to commit the attacks. Prior to 9/11 the doors had to be flimsy and without locks, to prevent the airplane’s crew from attempting to deny control of the plane to hijackers, the idea being that as long as the hijackers felt they were controlling the plane they weren’t going to hurt anyone. Obviously, that policy has changed. There are many reasons why any attack resembling the magnitude of 9/11 is extremely unlikely today, and many reasons why the obsessive, institutionalized violations of our civil liberties, which has spread through every corner of government, are irrelevant to ensuring that such attacks are unlikely. But the fever still courses though our veins. One can only hope that frenzied windbags like Christie who strive to keep the fever alive won’t be winning the big elections in 2014 and 2016.
