INCREDIBLY DENSE - AT 1:47 P.M. ET:  We used to laugh when Communist dictatorships called themselves "the People's Republic of..."  Seems that the Obama administration is similarly twisting the English language for its purposes.  From Ron Kessler at NewsMax:

The new term for terrorism being used by President Obama’s secretary of Homeland Security would be comical if it were not so scary.

Instead of referring to threats from terrorists, Janet Napolitano is referring in her speeches to “man-caused disasters.” In an interview, a reporter for Germany’s Spiegel Online asked Napolitano whether her avoidance of the term terrorism means that “Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose[es] a threat to your country?”

“Of course it does,” Napolitano replied. “I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word ‘terrorism,’ I referred to ‘man-caused’ disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”

By this logic, the FBI should refer to serial killers and serial rapists as “man-caused afflictions.” After all, we do not want to create fear about serial killers.

COMMENT:  I suspect the real reason is to avoid "offending" the Muslim nations Obama is so eager to embrace.  Why let a little thing like mass murder stand in the way?

March 23, 2009