Beware the charm of the truly evil sociopaths

Lately the mainstream media is all a flutter over the charm and wit of the dastardly duo, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez. president Ahmadinejad is very witty and enjoys going one on one with reporters, said Margaret Warner on her trip to Iran a few weeks ago, just before she was ordered to leave the country in 24 hours. I myself watched Hugo Chavez' speech to the UN delegates and chuckled all the way through. As the prison and security specialist, Gavin de Becker says, if someone is charming, you have to ask yourself why they are trying to charm you. Charming men, as your Grandmother told you, are very dangerous. These are the men that fool all your relatives and when they get you where they want you, they beat you and when you complain to your family, they explain it away and charm your family into thinking you deserved it.

While Hugo Chavez accuses Bush of killing Iraqi children, he remains a devotee of a political ideology that has killed millions in its name. Bill Clinton was very charming and yet thought nothing of hurting a young and vulnerable woman and his wife and daughter. Hitler himself was very charismatic.

George Bush, truth be told, has no charisma. Bush is neither witty, nor charming. Bush speaks the truth and does not couch his words. People do not care to hear to the truth, it makes them uncomfortable. They are not used to hearing the truth from public officials and would prefer to stay in their comfort zone. No one really likes to think that the Islamists want to destroy us all. This makes us feel very nervous. But we have all heard the mantra that the US is evil, over and over again since the 60's. People are comfortable with this, it is nothing new and it really doesn't threaten us as much as the thought of really dangerous people like terrorists. We can think that the government is invading our privacy without too much real nervousness, but plane travel is now nerve racking. We would all prefer to believe that Noam Chomsky and the ACLU are right and that the biggest threat is George Bush listening in on our phone conversations.

The American left may say that they are afraid of the Bush administration, but they don't mean it. In fact they have always gotten a lot of enjoyment from false feelings of presecution. They like to feel in solidarity with third world peoples. What better way to do so than to pretend that you are also a victim of repression, no matter how thin your claim. They march with the Palestinian protesters, "We are with you man, we feel your pain. We don't care if you wrap your women and girls in rags and force them to marry their cousins and set them on fire for even talking to a boy, we love you man." They also have convinced themselves that since they are tolerant and love third world peoples so much, the terrorists can not possibly mean them, when they talk of destroying the US and taking over Europe.

Of course the Islamists mean exactly the liberal left when they talk about destroying the great Satan. Osama bin Laden mentioned Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, as proof of the decadence of American society, in his manifesto. The left closes its eyes and believes the Islamists as they would any abuser. So beware of people that would charm you into believing they are not dangerous. They mean you great harm and will lull you into a false since of security. Hugo Chavez says he is a friend to the people of the US. He is nothing of the kind.