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I Respond to Avi Green About Islam and Extremism

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Brett

So Avi Green at Astute Bloggers in his post about the latest issue of Marvel’s X-Factor had this to say about me directly:

Brett Schenker, the blogmaster of Graphic Policy, is another disgrace and shame of an apologist for this propaganda that trivializes the seriousness of the subject. I wonder if he also sees nothing wrong with Muhammed’s marriage to an underaged girl or the violation of Lara Logan? Update 2: speaking of which, Israel Matzav has word of another case in Libya similar to that of Logan’s (via The Jawa Report).

First Avi, thanks for the link, appreciate the traffic. And now my response. I absolutely don’t trivialize the seriousness of the subject. The threat from extremists is real and I take it very seriously. But those extremists come from all kinds of religions and backgrounds, they aren’t limited to one. What I don’t take serious is close minded hate mongers who would rather focus their rage against an entire religion, instead of the extremists amongst them. How about taking that rage and focus it on politicians who fought against giving the brave men and women, those first responders, the medical care they deserve? I see 0 posts on that subject when searching your site.

But again lets take his other points, dissect them, and point out Green’s blind hypocrisy.

I wonder if he also sees nothing wrong with Muhammed’s marriage to an underaged girl or the violation of Lara Logan?

Marrying underage women is absolutely wrong and so is assault of any type. That’s why I’ve also condemned Catholicism for it’s rape and molestation of young boys and girls, and it’s subsequent cover up. Also, we can pretty much set aside all of Christianity if we’re looking at assaults. The rise of Evangelical Christianity in Africa has caused an increase in attacks on homosexuals including arrests, torture and murder. Websites with supposed homosexuals allows extremists to easily track them down and dispense “justice.”

I don’t condemn an entire religion due to the actions of a few, as shown above, we’d have to write off a lot more than just Islam. This great site has a list of the various atrocities Christian extremists committed over the years:

As soon as Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial edict (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan priests were killed.

Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.

Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues.
According to Christian chroniclers he “followed meticulously all Christian teachings…”

In 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights.

Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded.

After the war ended (1229) the Inquisition was founded 1232 to search and destroy surviving/hiding heretics. Last Cathars burned at the stake 1324.

Estimated one million victims (Cathar heresy alone),

Other heresies: Waldensians, Paulikians, Runcarians, Josephites, and many others. Most of these sects exterminated, (I believe some Waldensians live today, yet they had to endure 600 years of persecution) I estimate at least hundred thousand victims (including the Spanish inquisition but excluding victims in the New World).

Spanish Inquisitor Torquemada, a former Dominican friar, allegedly was responsible for 10,220 burnings.

The “island’s population of about eight million people at the time of Columbus’s arrival in 1492 already had declined by a third to a half before the year 1496 was out.” Eventually all the island’s natives were exterminated, so the Spaniards were “forced” to import slaves from other caribbean islands, who soon suffered the same fate. Thus “the Caribbean’s millions of native people [were] thereby effectively liquidated in barely a quarter of a century”. “In less than the normal lifetime of a single human being, an entire culture of millions of people, thousands of years resident in their homeland, had been exterminated.”

A total of maybe more than 150 million Indians (of both Americas) were destroyed in the period of 1500 to 1900, as an average two thirds by smallpox and other epidemics, that leaves some 50 million killed directly by violence, bad treatment and slavery.

In many countries, such as Brazil, and Guatemala, this continues even today.

Not to mention hate crimes, rapes and murders today that are committed by followers of “Christianity.” Every religion, country, peoples have committed atrocities, many continue to do so. If Green doesn’t want to be a hypocrite, how about he joins my call and condemn it all?

Update: As pointed out by a few that this post might come off as anti-Christian, in reality that was the easiest of information I could dig up online and think. Here’s 8 more crimes committed in the name of religion. People of all religions have done horrible things, and you can’t condemn an entire belief system due to the actions of a few.

Idris Elba Talks Thor and Racists

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Brett

Actor Idris Elba made news when he was cast in the role of Heimdall in the upcoming Marvel Comics movie Thor, but that news wasn’t positive. Some white supremacists got up in arms over a black man being cast as a Norse god. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter the actor blasted the critics and racists who had an issue with the casting. The actor had this to say:

We have a man [Thor] who has a flying hammer and wears horns on his head. And yet me being an actor of African descent playing a Norse god is unbelievable? I mean, Cleopatra was played by Elizabeth Taylor, and Gandhi was played by Ben Kingsley.

Bleeding Cool gave some other examples of minority roles including Noah Ringer playing Aang in The Last Airbender. Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh were in Memoirs of a Geisha and Reece Shearsmith as Papa Lazarou. I’ll also throw in C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man and since it’s on tv while I write this, Eddie Murphy in Coming to America.

The majority of the article is focused on roles for black actors and came on the heals of the NAACP Image Awards.

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Updated: Writer David Hine Responds To Batman Outrage

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Brett

I feel like today is Islam controversy day here at Graphic Policy. Our friend Andrew Belonsky over at Death and Taxes has an article looking at writer David Hine‘s insight into the character surrounding the controversy of making an Algerian Muslim immigrant the French Batman franchisee. He also gives some thoughts on the right-wing’s attacks as Hine’s comments put things in a better perspective.

In responding to leaked concept art, Hine felt going with the existing character, The Musketeer, for the latest Batman Inc. franchisee would be too cliche and bland. Instead he, and his team wanted to create a character who tapped into France’s zeitgeist and current events. Over at Emma Houxbois, Hine had this to say:

Rather than use the obvious choice of The Musketeer as the new French Batman, I wanted to come up with the kind of hero I would want to see in a comic book if I were French. The process of developing a story is complex and there are all kinds of things I looked at. The urban unrest and problems of the ethnic minorities under Sarkozy’s government dominate the news from France and it became inevitable that the hero should come from a French Algerian background. The Parkour element was maybe a little obvious, but it fitted very well with the concept of a hero from the streets. Clichy-Sous-Bois, as you point out, is the flashpoint for rioting in Paris, so again was the obvious location for Bilal.

The location chosen for the French Nightrunner to be based wasn’t a coincidence. The Clichy-Sous-Bois, a neighborhood known for it’s riots, was an “obvious location.”

While Alvin Green at The Astute Blogger argued that a Muslim can’t be a hero Belonsky feels different.

Had these critics bothered to read Hine’s story, told in ‘Detective Comics Annual #12′ and ‘Batman Annual #28′ they would see that Nightrunner’s fits quite nicely into the archetypal “hero” format.

He goes on to dissect Nightrunner’s origin and his “hero cred.” Belonsky further points out that:

Right-wing anger over Nightrunner’s introduction isn’t based solely in anti-Islam attitudes, nor is it only about how DC eschewed a native—read: white Frenchmen—Frenchman. It’s based in an increasingly firm belief that only natives know what’s best for their country. Outsiders, real or imagined, can’t uphold a nation’s particular ideals.

This idea that one must be “native” to defend one’s country is absurd. But it’s manifested in the real world by the right’s opposition to the DREAM Act which would provide a path to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants by either enlisting in the military or enrolling in college.

As we’ve pointed out, this outrage is ludicrous. Applying this same reasoning, the right should be getting the pitch forks out over Superman. An illegal immigrant who defends his adopted nation and world. The lack of outrage there shows this for what it really is, hatred towards the Islamic religion.

More Right Wingers Take Up the Anti-Batman Battle

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Brett

Watch the pile on continue as the right wing rages on with their march against Islam by using Batman as a rallying cry. We said more would be coming and are still waiting for the “big two” to chime in.

Bosch Fawstin over at NewsRealBlog goes on a rant against the latest Batman storyline that sees an Algerian Muslim immigrant become the Batman franchisee in France. He’s been on a tear lately claiming DC Comics has become “IslamiComics.” He even has two earlier parts pointing the finger at Superman and Wonder Woman as part of the conspiracy.

Fawstin rants for a few paragraphs against Islam but really doesn’t make much of a case in his arguments. Such grand inflammatory statements such as:

At this rate, Superman converting to Islam is inevitable.

There’s not much meat here, just screed and pure hate of Islam. Instead, Fawstin uses it to pitch and hock his anti-Islam comics book The Infidel which stars an “ex-Muslim superhero who is the jihadist’s worst nightmare.”

The NewsRealBlog is part of David Horowitz’s online network in “defense of of free societies.” Horowitz’s Freedom Center is set up to fight the “left’s takeover of education.”

We just took a step or two back from the brink. Americans, exercising the common sense that has always been at the heart of our national character, took action in the voting booth on November 2 to repudiate Barack Obama’s efforts over the past two years to radically transform our financial and social institutions. The message they delivered was loud and can be summarized in one unequivocal word : NO! They won us some breathing room while we figure out how to finish the job in 2012.

The Freedom Center is proud to have played a role in this effort to lift the socialist fog that has descended over our national life. For the last year and half, as Obama showed soon after taking office that he had no intention of governing as the moderate he had painted himself during the campaign, we have been warning Americans about what this administration really was and what it wanted to do to our country. To show the true nature of the Radical-in-Chief, we published David Horowitz’s pamphlet, “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: the Alinsky Model.” This critically important work shows how our thet President is fulfilling the blueprint for social revolution produced by Saul Alinsky, godfather of the 1960s New Left, and like Obama a “community organizer” from Chicago. With over 800,000 copies distributed in the last few months, this pamphlet has created a national dialogue on the true intentions of this administration. Just recently we published a sequel, “ Breaking the System: Obama’s Strategy for Change,” which shows how the White House uses “manufactured crisis” (as if those it already caused weren’t bad enough!) as a cover to advance its radical social agenda.

The Freedom Center’s other major initiatives involve our universities– bringing traditional values and intellectual standards back to our universities by taking indoctrination by tenured radicals out of the curriculum and promoting academic freedom for students, especially conservative students, who are a stigmatized minority on campus these days. No other organization over the last decade has so frankly identified the enemy our students must deal with: professors who use their classroom as a pulpit for leftist ideology; an unholy alliance between student radical groups and pro jihad organizations that has declared war on America, Israel and the West. No other organization has done more to bring objectivity and true intellectual diversity back to our universities.

This fall, coinciding with the publication of David Horowitz’s Reforming our Universities, we launched another in our series of campaigns to reform the university. Called “Adopt a Dissenting Book,” it showed students how to resist classrooms that functioned as indoctrination chambers by pressuring their teachers, their school’s administrators and boards of trustees to make sure that there is at least one book that presents an alternative point of view on course reading lists which are now mono-chromatically leftist.

So your contribution to the Freedom Center supports the fight against the Left’s takeover of American education and Barack Obama’s takeover of the American future. But it also supports other important programs as well—FrontPage Magazine, the Center’s unique online journal that traces the war against this country’s enemies, at home and abroad; NewsReal Blog, an exciting, innovative team blog challenging the Left throughout the media; DiscoverTheNetworks, the largest database defining the chief groups and individuals of the Left and their organizational interlocks; JihadWatch, which tracks the attempts of radical Islam to subvert Western culture; TerrorismAwareness.org, which helps educate students to the threat posed against America and the West by international terrorism and its apologists in higher education.

Why does this matter? Come back in an hour to find out.

Angry White Dude which is written “In defense of the most ridiculed and unappreciated being on the planet… THE WHITE MALE,” has this to say on the subject:

Nightrunner? I thought it was written in the Koran that every Muslim’s name has to be Muhammad…including women. Or is that just the savage terrorists? Or is that redundant? Nightrunner the Muslim sidekick will have strange new powers to bury women to their waists and bash their heads in with large rocks. Batman has been needing that skill for a while ever since Catwoman went out to check the mail without wearing her cat burqa. Well, I guess AWD will have to go another 49 years without reading Batman comic books to protest!

The writer even goes on to say “Kill the Batman.” Um, am I missing something? You’re calling Muslims savages and murderers, but you incite that Batman should be killed? I believe that’s called hypocrisy. In his Saturday musings, this great thinker also throws in homophobic comments about “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and anti-immigrant comments about the DREAM Act. A real Renaissance man, this one is.

Why Do Conservatives Hate Superman?

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Brett

On Saturday I dove in for the second time and commented on the conservative outcry over an Algerian Muslim being recruited for the Batman franchise in France. But this feigned anger from the right got me thinking about all the other immigrant super heroes defending their adopted country. It made me ask, why do conservatives hate Superman?

You see, Superman is an immigrant. On top of that, he’s an illegal immigrant from the planet Krypton. He’s raised the “American way” by a simple family and defends his adoptive country (and world). Superman might have been raised Methodist, but really he’s Kryptonian and was born into that religion. Do conservatives hate Superman? If not, isn’t that hypocrisy or does it show their bigotry towards Muslims?

On top of Superman what other immigrant characters defend their adopted nation?

Superman – see above as to why he’s the poster boy for immigration and defending your adoptive country.
Wolverine – James Howlett was born a Canadian. That didn’t stop the man called Logan and Wolverine to work for the C.I.A. or fight side by side with Captain America. On numerous times he’s defended and saved the United States, his adopted country.
Martian Manhunter – Another illegal alien (an actual alien, the guy is from Mars) who laid low and hid in his adoptive world. On numerous occasions he’s saved the United States and the world.
Dust – Sooraya Qadir was born in Afghanistan and legally immigrated to the United States. As part of the X-Men, she’s saved the world and United States on so many occasions. Oh yeah, she’s Muslim. Just taking up a slot meant for a good read blooded American I guess.
Blue Agave – He’s an immigrant from Mexico and lives in the US, no idea his religion.
Colossus – He’s Russian, he currently lives in the United States, has for a while. He was a commie, and foreign, guess he’s not qualified to protect us.
Banshee – An Irish mutant was living in Tennessee when he was recruited to be a part of the international team of X-Men.
Blade – Did you know Blade was British? Yeah, I didn’t either, Wesley Snipes didn’t do the accent well at all. He’s the only thing protecting us from being overrun by Vampires. Guess he can only do that for the UK according to conservatives.
Deadpool – Another Canadian (they look just like us!) was recruited to be part of a joint US/Canadian program. What no Americans good enough!?
Doc Voodoo – He’s from Haiti. He lives in the United States. He was the Sorcerer Supreme. He’s saved the world. No go back to Haiti!
Thor – Recently in the news for a whole other protest, in his newest comic series volume we see the Odinson and the rest of the Asgardians set up Asgard in Broxton, Oklahoma. Not only is he an original Avenger and saved the world and United States numerous times but he’s a god, not exactly an American. But, more importantly, where’s the outrage for the land grab by a foreign nation? Would conservatives be so quiet if Doctor Doom did the same?

There’s so many more examples of characters who are immigrants (some are even Muslims!) defending nations of which they were not born. Where’s the outrage been?

Conservative Warner Todd Huston at It Again. This Time Attacking Batman and Muslims.

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Brett

Conservative/Right-wing blogger Warner Todd Huston is at it again. You might remember Huston as one of the right wingers who lead the over blown charge that Captain America was anti-Tea Party. Huston has taken up the right wing’s latest anti-comic book cause, attacking Batman‘s recruitment of a Muslim to don the cape and tights as part of the franchising of Batman.

Writing for Canada Free Press (was there no Canadian to do this dirty work?) Huston argues this is the latest “PC indoctrination” to hit comic books. While Huston is correct in the current tensions between Europeans and Muslim immigrants it’s what he equates this plot line to that’s the telling point. But we’ll get to that later.

Along with this recruitment by Batman, Huston also cites the before mentioned issue with Captain America and also:

It’s PCism run amuck, for sure. But it isn’t surprising for DC, a comic book company that has a character whose creator based it on “corporate greed.” Nor is it surprising in an industry where tea party members are made the enemy of super heroes. For the character based on “corporate greed” look up DC’s Larfleeze character and see the Marvel comic Captain America issue 602 where The Captain makes Tea Partiers into an enemy to America (Marvel later apologized). For that matter, check out the words of the director of the new 2011 Captain America movie who said that his Captain America won’t be a big “flag waver.” Imagine that. Captain America not being that into America.

These few examples aren’t the only ones, either. Among many other instances, last April the venerable Archie Comics announced they were adding a gay character and back in 2007 movie makers announced that they intended to remove all mentions of the U.S. military from G.I. Joe (they later relented to a degree).

It all adds up to a PCing of the American comic book industry that has been going on for far too long.

Yes, you see that bold. Huston equates Batman recruiting a Muslim character to join his crusade along the likes of having ONE gay character in your comic book. These are both injustices in Huston’s world and to conservatives as a whole. Gays, Islam, especially in a positive light, are taboo. Both should not be mentioned, in hopes they’ll go away.

What Huston isn’t saying is, he dislikes anything that doesn’t espouse his conservative views. God forbid a character is Muslim. Let alone an Algerian Muslim in France. Huston also seems to forget France has a tradition of riots. I’m pretty sure all of them weren’t by Muslims. The comic book is written by a British writer. Who I’m going to guess has a better perspective on European affairs than an American conservative blogger.

But that’s the issue with the right, they feel their view shouldn’t just be the view of America but also the world.

The right as a whole has an issue with Muslims in comic books. This is just another salvo to them and another example of comics reflecting the very real multi-cultural and connected world.

Batman turns to a man that he helped police arrest earlier in part one. When first encountered the young man was dressed in a skin-tight, black costume and sported a facemask. Batman arrested him when this man tried to involve himself in some rioting. Batman didn’t know the young masked man was actually trying to stop the riot but later learns of his good intentions

So the comic mentions riots? Did I just read Huston’s own commentary right? So Huston is angry that it shows a Muslim in a positive light? Is that the issue? But lets look at the most idiotic of statements.

You see, DC Comics has decided that the “French savior,” the French Batman is to be a Muslim immigrant.

What’s the issue here? Can’t a person protect their adoptive country? Why must every “national hero” be native born and bred? Is it the issue he’s a Muslim? He’s an immigrant? He’s a Muslim immigrant? If it’s the religion, that’s pure bigotry. If it’s the fact he’s an immigrant, then I sure hope every American super hero is Native American.

As blog Death and Taxes points out.

Nightrunner illustrates the natural inclusion of a very real group: Muslims make up about 6% of the population, and an estimated 1.5 million of those people hail from Algeria, a country France occupied for over a century.

So really the story is about a young man who’s people were occupied by a nation rising up to defend that nation. This is a bad thing?

What’s comical is Huston’s other targets. He clearly dislikes gays, why then even mention Archie? If comics are a reflection of the real world as Huston wants by acknowledging French/Muslim tensions, then surely one gay must exist in the world of Archie? But no, one is too many for Huston.

He also cites Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern.

But it isn’t surprising for DC, a comic book company that has a character whose creator based it on “corporate greed.”

I can’t say I agree with that interpretation. He represents GREED, period. Drop that word “corporate” from there. I’m pretty sure the Bible mentions it as a sin. So, is that now PC too? The concept of the various Lantern Corps.’s powers is based on emotions. In Larfleeze’s case the Orange Lantern is powered by avarice.

insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

And as expected he picks and chooses quotes to attack comic books and ignores facts (and even cites the G.I. Joe movie. I’ll repeat movie. A movie that was a animated television show and toy before it was a comic book).

For that matter, check out the words of the director of the new 2011 Captain America movie who said that his Captain America won’t be a big “flag waver.”

If you actually hear the director speak on the topic the issue is international distribution. A movie needs to sell overseas to be profitable. Especially a big budget one. By having the movie a very pro-American, jingoistic movie, the likely reception will be cool and it won’t sell well outside of the United States. That decision is about profits and the dollar. I thought conservatives were pro-corporations?

Huston seems to focus on these riots and the cause of them. Sure, there’s riots caused by disaffected youths. A simple Google search of “French riots” shows these stories. But the bigger point is, that’s not this story. Maybe that will be mentioned later, but that’s not the focus of what David Hine wants to tell during this issue (I haven’t read it).

Forget the riots though, that’s just a smoke screen. Boil down Huston’s rant and it’s this. Some Muslim youths riot. Some of those Muslim youths are immigrants. Those Muslim youth are bad. Thus, all Muslims are bad. A Muslim immigrant is really bad. A Muslim can’t be a hero. That is his twist if A then B logic. If it’s not, then why can’t he support one character rising above the “bad influences” around him and doing good? I’m sure he or she can, as long as they’re not Muslim.

More CoCC and Thor aka They’re Racists

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Brett

When I visited the Council of Concerned Citizens website to read their blog post calling for a boycott of the upcoming Thor movie I somehow got into their chat system.

While you can’t label the “thoughts” of a website for everyone in a chat (ahem, trolls) there is something to say about the company you keep (and also the fact that everyone attacks the one person trying to use reason). Keep in mind there was no damning of the blatantly racist comments.

I stuck around for about an hour. I’ve posted the full transcript of the chatroom discussions without editing (other than formatting and bolding highlights). You can make a decision for yourself as to whether or not these folks are racists.

The full discussion is below the fold. We’ve not edited this one bit other than clean it up to make it easier to read and we’ve also bolded some of the more interesting statements.

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Muslim Hating Right Now Targets Batman

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Brett

Right-wing website The Astute Bloggers has rallied the hate of the right, this time focused on Batman. In a recent issue Batman heads to France to recruit his latest franchisee in Batman, Inc. The latest recruit just happens to be a Muslim Algerian.

From the website Alvin Greene writes:

I knew it was only going to get worse at DC Comics: in his continuing efforts to form Batman Inc, Bruce Wayne recruits an Algerian Muslim living in France, in Clichy-Sous-Bois, where the Muslim riots grew out of in 2005, over the death of 2 delinquents who electrocuted themselves by stupidly entering a power station, and the blame was laid upon at least 2 policemen who weren’t even at fault and didn’t even know they were there. How about that, Bruce Wayne goes to France where he hires not a genuine French boy or girl with a real sense of justice, but rather, an “oppressed” minority who adheres to the Religion of Peace.

The blogger claims this is a sign of DC’ Comics’ false conservative credentials and that the comic book publisher is going down hill.

The blog says it promotes “Universal Human Rights.” I guess those rights doesn’t include anyone being able to grow up and be Batman.

This comes on the heals of general hate from the right when it comes to Muslims in comic books. The previous target was the comic book series The 99.

White Supremacists vs. Thor

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Brett

It looks like the upcoming Thor movie from Marvel comics is getting some attention by the Council of Conservative Citizens (aka white supremacists).

The ranting and raving is over actor Idris Elba, who you might know from The Wire, who portrays one of the Asgardians. I guess talented African American actors can’t play fictitious mythical comic book characters.

Check out the call to hate below:

Kyle Rogers sent a message to the members of Council of Conservative Citizens.

Kyle Rogers December 15, 2010 at 10:45am
Subject: Boycott Thor by Marvel Studios
Marvel Comics has a long history of promoting the extreme left-wing that goes all the way back to the 60’s. Just last year, the comic book company declare war on the TEA Party movement.

Now Marvel has taken their anti-white, radical campaign even further. They cast a black man as a Norse Deity in their new movie Thor, coming out May 6th, 2011. Even though Marvel co-produces an explicitly pro-black (and anti-white) cartoon for BET, they don’t think white people should have anything that is uniquely their own. Not even their own mythology and folk tales!

CofCC webmaster Kyle Rogers has launched a new website called http://www.boycott-thor.com and a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Thor2011-by-Marvel-Studios/180374758655178

Visit these sites and click the “like” button on the facebook page.

Thanks,

Um, yeah…. feel free to report the group to Facebook for inciting hate and racism.

(h/t to Larry Handlin for the heads up)

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Choice Quotes

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Brett

Blue Agave and Worm

Bud – A Mexican superhero? What, did you leave your sombrero at the cockfight?

Blue Agave – Oh-ho-ho! How unusual, a condescending American making fun of a culture they don’t understand.

Bud – Yeah, all I just head was “blah, blah, blah” with an accent that made me want a aco.

Blue Agave – What the hell’s your problem, Bud?

Bud – My problem is people like you coming to this country and taking fame and glory that should go to an American superhero.

Deadpool Pulp #2

Deadpool – Most of these guys are ex-soldiers. They came back from the war and found themselves lost. We taught them to kill. But we didn’t teach them what to do afterwards. They didn’t fit in this new America anymore.

Liberty Annual 2010

Hughie – Well, on the one hand, it’s got no redeemin’ features whatsoever… but on the other, who am I to deny it’s creators their right to self-expression? I mean fuck censorship, am I right?

Secret Six #26

Spy Smasher – We have the obligation above all others to make sure our government survives.

and

Deadshot – Not a member of PETA, I take it?

and

Alice – It colonization. Imperialism. We learned about it in school. When a superior force subjugates an entire civilization. There’s always murder. And theft. And rape. And the destruction of culture. The strong always pick on the weak.

Unknown Soldier #24

Narrator – War is a bridge with many tolls, and you can only hope there’s peace on the other side…

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