Deepak Chopra on the Mumbai Terrorists

“It is not enough for us to worry about Westerners being killed and Americans being killed…every life is precious…”

This is, to a certain extent, a straw man argument. I agree with John Donne, that every man’s death diminishes me. But, from a standpoint of public policy, if it appeared that there were a large number of Jews, or Americans, or French, or Australians targeted that it could be considered an act of war, and thus is newsworthy to report. It seems that Chopra assumes the worst, perhaps that which fits his own narrow presuppositions, and then treats it as gospel.
“…it’s a global problem. We need a global solution…” Hence the term GWOT: Global war on terror. Where has this guy been for the last seven years?
Then the compassionate Deepak Chopra equates what our soldiers do to root out terror, by targeting terrorists, with the craven, spineless cowards who attack unarmed civilians:

“…our soldiers don’t see what’s happening and innocent people are being killed…
terrorism is a term you apply to the other.”

Thank you for that despicable confession that you are unable to tell the difference between a terrorist and a soldier, even though one wears a uniform and follows a code of conduct and the other hides, sans uniform, amidst a civilian populace and wantonly and intentionally strikes out at unarmed and innocent targets of opportunity. If it wasn’t for false equivalence, he’d have none at all!
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, (and keeping this blog PG-13) I will NOT tell you what I think of Deepak Chopra.
Hat tip Gateway Pundit
Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://Array Neiman

    Dino: Why? I offered story links to you before about homosexuals and church burnings and you ignored them. Nonetheless, for others here:

    Book of Mormon found burning outside Littleton church
    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/13/book-of-mormon-found-burning-outside-littleton/

    Violence urged against marriage supporters
    http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=313074

  • 2Hotel9

    Who is this clown? And why is his open support for terrorism being tolerated?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/some_hints/ AKAJOEL

    He’s a new-age fruitcake who’s gotten rich off this “we are the world” bullshit.

  • syn

    Deepak is one of those swarmy yoga dudes, so trapped in his own divine he doesn’t know how to groove.

    Eeewwww.

  • Dino

    Look how easy it is for the comfy Americans to judge the violent actions of others. While they go about their lives of cluelessness, their military is destroying generations of Iraq families on the other side of the world. But Americans are the good people so it’s ok!

    “Honey, let’s take the kids to Chuckie Cheese while our military sends really expensive jets to drop bombs on those other peoples’ kids half way around the world. Have you seen my blue Dockers?”

    So the people we cavalierly attack lie in wait for the unsuspecting rich Americans staying at $500 a night hotels and shoot them. Want to know why? Because they have no expensive fighter jets to fly over us and destroy our children. Can you really blame them for their actions? I don’t. Am I glad it happened? No more glad than seeing us destroy Iraqi lives. Which means no.

    If you support the things America does with it’s military might then by extension you support what happened in Mumbai.

  • pparets

    Dino…

    “Oddly” being the operative word here…. :)

  • http://www.myspace.com/thekingscourt4u Gman

    I wonder if he is even an US citizen and what his immigration status is?? Maybe we can get ICE to get him outta here.

  • http://www.lulu.com/uspace USpace

    .
    Let’s hope India leads a more successful investigation than the USA’s pathetic investigation of 9/11. They should of arrested 50+ people I imagine. I bet India will pin it on at least some terrorist sympathizers, as long as they aren’t Muslims. We all know that it is the Hindus who want to kill all the Jews. In NY these scum-terrorist monkeys would have been blown away by the NYPD long before they killed 10 people probably.
    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe says
    call yourself a policeman

    if you are afraid of thugs
    and refuse to put them down
    .
    No matter how many terrorist attacks there are, and no matter what groups carry them out, we must never fear, resist or mock the precious and ever peaceful Islam. Who are we to say that raping 6 year-olds is immoral? Who are we to say that stoning gays and rape victims to death is evil?

    Who are we to say that killing hundreds of people every month in the name of Allah is the height of evil? That is just their culture and ideology and it MUST be respected. Morality is all relative, we must remember that.

    Amazing Anti-Jihad Music here:
    Weapon of Musical Defense
    .
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe wants
    all planets Islamic

    Earth is one of many
    in process of conversion

    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe wants
    many Taliban planets

    stonings and be-headings
    billions served daily

    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe says
    allow Islamic conquest

    enjoy the dhimmi life
    of second class citizens

    .
    absurd thought –
    God of the Universe says
    convert the infidels

    or make them pay a tax
    if they don’t want to die

    .
    All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. If there is no freedom of speech there can be no real freedom.
    .
    Philosophy of Liberty Cartoon
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    Help Halt Terrorism Today!
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    USpace
    :)
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  • Dino

    That pastor should be ashamed of himself for the things his country is doing in his name.

    Giving the kids toys and clothes is the least we could do for destroying their country. But I’m not sure the tens of thousands of dead civilians have much use for gifts. But hey, tell your friend thanks!

    Reading your post brings to mind Osama bin Laden’s people sending toys to the kids of those killed on 9/11. Same thing.

    Oh, and save the constant outrage at what I post. There’s MILLIONS who feel this way and I would guess your Pres does too.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    replacing them with wholesale destruction still isn’t right

    wholesale destruction? Where do you get your inane talking points from Dim-o? Baghdad Bob???

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  • LoadTheMule

    Deepak Chopra, is that a name or what?

    Deepak sounds like an airtight container for deli meat. “I’ll take a deepak of smoked turkey, hon.”

    And I just know that chopra is a dental term. “My orthodontist says I have a chopra below the gumline on the right side. Sounds expensive, huh?”

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    RebTex,

    No… It’s

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic
    obnoxious troll

    the whiny bitch and “…pathetic old homosexual.”

    Kenny,

    Getting angry at the whiny bitch does no good whatsoever. It cannot, however, handle dismissive derision.

    Note that

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic
    obnoxious troll

    the whiny bitch and “…pathetic old homosexual” does indeed know the fate it would suffer under Shari’a:

    they’d stone you just as quick for some other reason. But it’s good to see you aspire to emulate people you consider enemies.

    So when was the last time a homosexual was stoned to death in the United States as a consequence of a verdict of a court? Personally, I don’t believe there has ever been such a case. Yet

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic
    obnoxious troll

    the whiny bitch and “…pathetic old homosexual” will insist on making the comparison which it knows is false on it’s face.

    AKAJOEL,

    Timely (though extremely distasteful) reminders of the nature of those

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic
    obnoxious troll

    the whiny bitch and “…pathetic old homosexual” compares to his fellow Americans.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Wow, the human filth gets worse:

    Berg, was a bad thing but that happens in war time, just like the blowing up of women and children you seem to ignore. I believe you people call it collateral damage as you shrug your shoulders and congatulate yourselves on your “victory” in Iraq.

    We’re supposed to stay awake at night because taking out Saddam meant some innocent people accidently died because of bombing. But no one is supposed to care that the savages ruthlessly murdered an innocent with a HISTORY OF SUPPORTING THEM to make their case?

    That’s it. I’m done with Dino. I’d deal with less shit if I worked in a sewer.

  • syn

    “The attitude of fundamentalist muslims towards homos”

    Quite frankly the fascist homos burning Mormon books in order to take out their rage against Obama’s voters is in line with fundamentalist Muslims burning cartoons in order to take out the rage against sexual impotence.

    Dino, I take it elector shocks are not working and you are having a terrible time climaxing?

    I feel so sorry for you, really I do.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Look how easy it is for the comfy Americans to judge the violent actions of others. While they go about their lives of cluelessness, their military is destroying generations of Iraq families on the other side of the world

    Is destroying? Present tense? Generations???? You really are a clueless, horse’s ass, aren’t you Dim-o?
    It doesn’t matter whether or not Americans are “comfy”, (thanks for the snark!) but it matters whether the “violent” actions are moral. Indiscriminate violence against civilians is not.
    Your moral compass having apparently been broken long ago, perhaps you should wake up to the fact that you are truly the clueless one around here!

  • http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene

    I agree with EVERY comment from above. Chopra is a major idiot.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Oh my!

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic the
    obnoxious troll,

    lets loose with a whopper:

    The attitude of fundamentalist muslims towards homos is not much different from yours or that of other conservative Americans.

    Why don’t you put that into practice? Why don’t you go live in a nation which practices Shari’a Law for six months as an open and practising homosexual?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    keeping this blog PG-13

    My words, not Rob’s. I’m just a guest here…Rob can and does “Say Anything”.

  • 2Hotel9

    All that blahblah so it could get its spam into a thread where it will be ridiculed. What an idiot.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    And did I mention you’re a whiny bitch?

  • Dino

    You’re insane but I’m oddly drawn to you. :)

  • RebTex

    Dick in Nether Orifice,
    That’s just what the DINO Stands for

    I thought it was :
    Dude
    In
    Name
    Only

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    I agree with EVERY comment from above. Chopra is a major idiot.

    That’s putting it nicely.

    The moral equivalence argument has nothing to do with equivalence. It’s saying we’re the bad guys and they’re just misunderstood. It’s all about denigrating good and elevating evil.

    Chopra is human filth.

  • http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

    You can take your straw man argument, and your rationalization of terrorist acts, and fuck yourself with them, Deepak Chopra. Innocent lives lost, at the hands of “the other guy”?

    Sure…

    It’s a PG-13 blog Rob. You had one f-bomb to drop, and I took care of it for you.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Oh my!

    Now it seems that our very own

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic
    obnoxious troll

    is a troofer as well as a whiny bitch of “…a pathetic old homosexual.”

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Pssst!

    Hey Dino!

    Gays Deserve Torture, Death Penalty, Iranian Minister Says

    Mr Yahyavi, a member of his parliament’s energy committee, was unflinching. He “explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted,” the record states. “He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce.”

    Allllll aboard!

    You can leave this evil country and enjoy paradise.

    Or just go hang out.

  • 2Hotel9

    Gang, dinothefakehomo is no more “gay” than a rock. It is toddling about the blogsphere stirring up animosity against homosexuals. Look at all it has posted here, and think about how it is working to undermine the gay rights movement. Look at how it is trying to divide people, spewing hatred and divisive rhetoric, not just here. Connect the dots, people.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/some_hints/ AKAJOEL
  • robert108

    Moral relativism; the core disease of the leftie.

  • http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

    Dino. Educate yourself. Start by reading Flyboys. Then move on to The Bridge at Andau. Terrorists target innocent civilians for the effect of terrorizing an entire civilian population.

    They are too cowardly to confront or fight another country’s standing army. In this case, they were muslims, just like those who flew four airplanes into civilian targets and one military one. We returned the favor, except we targeted the terrorists, muslims, and AQ who were responsible for their behavior.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Your outrage at my position is totally negated by your acceptance of what we’ve done to others.

    No, it’s really not.

    Because there’s no “acceptance of what we’ve done to others”.

    You’re just a piece of human filth who uses agitprop to defend terrorists while demonizing the US.

    You want perspective of what we’ve done to children? Here’s what was being done to children BEFORE WE ARRIVED in Iraq:

    http://www.indict.org.uk/witnessdetails.php?target=Qusay

    The prisoners were screaming. I remember one of them was only about twelve years old. I remember QUSAY shouting something like “Put this bastard in – he’s a member of the [X] family’…The little boy was screaming. He was already bleeding from previous beatings. QUSAY killed him along with all the others…The little boy screamed out “I am sorry, I don’t want to die, I want my father.” QUSAY said, “Your father is in the cell next door”, which was true. QUSAY then proceeded to spray him with gas and he died after about ten minutes of agony.

    Not that you care. You don’t give a damn about the Iraqis, or the Indians, or anyone else. You’re a jackass.

    Oh, and save the constant outrage at what I post. There’s MILLIONS who feel this way and I would guess your Pres does too.

    OK. So you’re all scumbags and so is the dude you voted for.
    Next?

    PS. The attitude of fundamentalist muslims towards homos is not much different from yours or that of other conservative Americans.

    Yes, believing they “should be prayed for, and that they are still our brothers” is the same attitude as “they should be killed in the most public and gruesome manner possible.”

    You’re garbage. And I wash my hands of you, you disgusting little troll.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    And now our own

    Debauched
    insipid
    nihilistic
    obnoxious troll

    the winy bitch and “…pathetic old homosexual”, Whose very first post here on SAB told us way more about his private life than we ever wanted to know, complains that we point what he shared with us.

    Binary Choice: In the Closet or Out. It’s a private matter between you and your livestock of choice until you make your sexuality an issue. Once you have done so, it remains an issue.

    Actions have consequences.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    I was about to use Dino for an example then decided not to, til he posted the following:

    If you support the things America does with it’s military might then by extension you support what happened in Mumbai.

    So our resident idiot seeks to excuse the slaughter of innocent civilians because we have high tech stuff and fight declared wars against declared enemies.

    Denigrates good. Elevates evil.

    Go play in traffic. Preferably during rush hour.

  • Dino

    Gman, my personal life serves as no basis to taking away my arguments. You’ll have to engage your intellect to do that. If you can. And the people of Iraq have little choice than to be allies. Well, the ones we didn’t kill.

    Rodney, they’d stone you just as quick for some other reason. But it’s good to see you aspire to emulate people you consider enemies.

  • RebTex

    Do you believe that still makes us cower

    I didn’t realize that that nic was a conglomerate.

  • Dino

    Hey Robbie, good to see you followed my link to the reason why you’re a brainstem!

    Hey Kenny, put “injured Iraqi child” in your browser and seach for images. See what the American military has done to innocent children there.

    I have less sympathy for a rich capitalist in a luxury Indian hotel than I do for those kids. You should too.

    Your outrage at my position is totally negated by your acceptance of what we’ve done to others.

  • Dino

    yep, anonymous book burns and it must be an organized homo attack.

    I’d be more convinced if the whole Temple had burned.

  • http://www.myspace.com/thekingscourt4u Gman

    Dick in Nether Orifice,

    That’s just what the DINO Stands for. It gives a starting place for taking away all your arguments.

    It sets the stage for your idiocy because you can’t see past your perverted view of life and our country.

    That pastor should be ashamed of himself for the things his country is doing in his name.

    My friend is immensely proud of what our country has done and is doing in Iraq.

    We have rid it of a dictator who killed thousands of people, many his own countrymen, and attacked two countries, Iran and Kuwait, without provocation. He also was the #1 financial supporter of the Islamic fascists around the world.

    The people in Iraq know what we have done to help them, and will be an ally of the U.S. for a long time to come.

    PS. The attitude of fundamentalist muslims towards homos is not much different from yours or that of other conservative Americans.

    Well, you’ve got that partially right.

    Except for the fact that I don’t kill homosexuals, I pity them.

    You are a sick and twisted individual and not worthy of further conversation.

  • Dino

    PS. The attitude of fundamentalist muslims towards homos is not much different from yours or that of other conservative Americans.

    I notice it’s you who always brings up my sexuality. What’s with that? Do you believe that still makes us cower? LOL, please!

  • http://www.myspace.com/thekingscourt4u Gman

    See what the American military has done to innocent children there.

    Dick in Nether Orifice,

    My best friend is a Marine pastor in Iraq. He coordinates the efforts where the soldiers gather things from packages that they receive and use them to help Iraqi children.

    They give them books, clothes, candy, food of all kinds, hats, gloves, socks, etc…

    The kids all love them.

    Some of the parents were ambivalent at first, but they have come to trust and love the soldiers.

    My friend has been there about 4 months and has 8 to go. He asks us to send things in kids sizes so that they have more of a selection.

    You have made yourself an idiot on this blog in so many ways, but this is the worst.

    You wouldn’t know someone doing good for others if they came up and bit you in your dick poked ass.

    You have no idea what it is to be an appreciative American.

    Appreciative for the people who have given their lives and limbs for your freedom to expel your brand of crap on this site.

    You don’t realize that if you were living in a Muslim country you would be first to lose your head for being a homo.

    Just like I’manutjob said when he was welcomed to New York by your ilk.

    “We do not have a Homosexual problem in Iran.”

    Do you know why that is, you idiot??????

    Because they kill them all.

    You are so stupid, you can’t even get that through your thick skull.

    Good for you that we took out Saddam and his evil spawn.

    They would have loved to have had you and your boyfriend for a pets while they tortured and killed you.

    If you really knew anything you would be dangerous.

  • robert108

    Hey Robbie, good to see you followed my link to the reason why you’re a brainstem!

    I had spotted you as a “reptile brain” from your first comment. I don’t need “links” to know what I have known for decades. Unlike you, I have higher cortical function.

  • Kansasgirl

    Why is this man relevant?

  • robert108

    If you support the things America does with it’s military might then by extension you support what happened in Mumbai.

    Pure insanity. Confusion of cause and effect, the mark of someone with no higher cortical function. This is the limbic system talking. The limbic system is also know as the “reptile brain”; pure emotional reactivity, no rational component.

  • Dino

    Kenny, just admit you can’t keep up because your intellect is like that of a weak sister.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/some_hints/ AKAJOEL

    Short and selective memories.

    Daniel Pearl & Nick Berg

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  • Dino

    Good retorts guys. You sound like some lighweight, weak-sister debaters now.

  • 2Hotel9

    Oh, and fargophantom/jim? Who is using Muslim children and women as shields? Who is raping, torturing, and murdering Muslim women and children on a daily basis?

  • http://www.myspace.com/thekingscourt4u Gman

    Chopra is as big a part of the problem as the terrorists themselves, because by equating soldiers to terrorists, he diminishes the good vs evil component of the whole issue.

    Most people know that the terrorists are manipulators and cowards, in the vane of bully’s.

    Just like bully’s, when you stand up and punch them in the nose, they will let you alone.

    Just look at Mohamar Qaddafi.

    We went in, took out his family, and hit him head on. What have you heard from him lately???

    They are cowards in that they are using 2nd class citizens, in their eyes, to carry out their dirty work. Hence the rise in recruitment of women and developmentally disabled people to carry their suicide bombs. (Why don’t we hear about that in the media?? I don’t see the headlines, “Terrorists use retarded citizens to carry suicide bombs, and explode them with cell phones.” in very many newspapers.)

    I guess they can’t find enough terrorists who want 72 virgins to carry the suicide bombs anymore. Either that or we have killed so many of them in Iraq and Afghanistan, that there aren’t enough to go around.

    Choppra is like the tip of a Politically Correct, passivest iceberg which dumbs down the conversation by not allowing us to use the descriptive words and phrases that best describe a situation, and by using words that are too strong for a given situation thereby lessening the effect of those words.

    ie, when everything is awesome, nothing is.

    His ilk are to be looked at with disdain, and taken for what they are, a sideshow.

    He will sell a lot of books though, and I wonder where the money from the books goes?? Who does he donate to??

  • Dino

    Good one rebtex! Did you think of that yourself?

    You get a gold star!

  • robert108

    I personally don’t believe the Berg thing was real. I believe it to be an illusion manfactured by the US military.

    Pure insanity.

  • Dino

    Were those accounts of torture like the ones created by Hill & Knowlton dealing with supposed “bayoneting of babies in incubators” in Kuwait? the ones designed to sell the first Iraq war to stupid Americans?

    I have no doubt there were atrocities ocurring but replacing them with wholesale destruction still isn’t right. And really, let’s be honest here. There are atrocities happening all over the world. Neither those nor the ones you say were happening in Iraq caused you any concern until you needed to justify our invasion once the WMD thing fell through. (But we still have high hopes for finding them in underground tunnel between Iraq and Syria, eight fellas? LOL)

    But I am very deeply moved by your sudden compassion for your fellow man despite your protestations about helping people in your own country, namely poor women and children, afford food and shelter. You know, all that talk about hating “welfare” and how 99% of the tax you pay goes to lazy liberals who won’t work. Detect any sarcasm there?

    I personally don’t believe the Berg thing was real. I believe it to be an illusion manfactured by the US military. Berg, was a bad thing but that happens in war time, just like the blowing up of women and children you seem to ignore. I believe you people call it collateral damage as you shrug your shoulders and congatulate yourselves on your “victory” in Iraq. Speaking of, didn’t a bomb go off in the green zone today? Sounds like you might want to postpone moving to Iraq to escape the Obamanation for a while.

    So do you all advocate genocide? Just kill the millions of people in the Middle East who resent the many military bases we’re building all over their region? Would that make you feel safe? I doubt it. Conservatives never feel safe.

    Oh, and Rodney? Dude, you MUST get a hobby so you can stop obsessing over my sexuality. I’m sure it’s starting to creep out the other fellas too.

  • Dino

    Show me a link to homos burning “Mormon” books.

  • http://fargophantom.com/ jim

    I agree with Deepak Chopra. I for 1 am glad to hear that even the middle easternerxs are finally getting the point. Its a fricken problem.

  • AndyinPhoenix

    Big thumb up for Gman.

    Chopra has a gift for playing to the weak minded and morally timid, and he statements show he is no friend of America. I’d love to see this con artist confronted with his contradiction that he makes millions selling peace and love and harmony, and he also gives an affirmative nod to assassins killing innocent / non-military targets and a means of making a political statement.

    What more needs or can to be said about CNN for giving this pest a platform for spewing this hate? I don’t believe in reincarnation, but if I did, Chopra’s karma just kicked him down to coming back as a botulism cell – that way the world will see him for what he really is.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/some_hints/ AKAJOEL

    LoadTheMule
    Good one[lmao]…and..if he married Ms. Winfrey, her name would be Oprah Chopra; which sounds like a sorcerer’s incantation.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Oprah Chopra!

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