Rattlesnake Logic

I got this the other day as an e-mail and found it interesting. It's been around before – I've read it before. But with things going the way they are these days I found it more pertinent than ever. I wish I'd written it but I can't take credit for it.


As long as we insist on maintaining the "moral high ground" we will never win the war on terrorism. we're in a conflict in which we insist on playing by the rules against a maniacal group who have no rules.

It's time for some rattlesnake logic....

After the Boston bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did. They want to know what America did(!) to make these brothers so angry with us. They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible. The media is in a tizzy about this new era of homegrown radicals and about why and how they can live among us and still hate us.

A friend of mine here in Texas explained it all to me: “Here in West Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. Most of the time they warn me they are around.

“I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it will bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a "meaningful dialogue" with it…I just kill it. I don’t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them. I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won’t tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.

“I don’t look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake...I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion, I accidentally kill a rat snake because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush. In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes.

“Do I fear them? Not really. Do I respect what they can do to me and my family? Yes!! And because of that respect, I give them the fair justice they deserve....I kill them...As a country, we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists' are warning the world their goal is to kill Americans and destroy our way of life. They have just posted two graphic videos on the internet showing them beheading Americans. They are serious. They are exactly like rattlesnakes. It is high time for us to start acting accordingly!”

I love this country. It's the government I'm afraid of! Look who's new in the White House!

Arif Alikhan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S.Department of Homeland Security, Mohammed Elibiary, Homeland Security Adviser, Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference(OIC), Salam al-Marayati, Obama Adviser and founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and is its current executive director, Imam Mohamed Magid, Obama's Sharia Czar from the Islamic Society of North America, Eboo Patel, Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

I couldn't have said it better myself. America needs to wake up and understand what Islam is about - before it's too late. Political correctness will be the death of the United States. If you think Islam can't be a problem here in America take a good look at Great Britain. They didn't believe it either. Now they have this: