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01/26/2005: "Michelle 'Gomer Pyle' Malkin: 'Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!'"

Anyone who is surprised when government agencies screw up really needs to pay more attention. It's not exactly a rare thing.

Michelle Malkin, the Asian-American "lady" whose primary claim to fame is her serving as an apologist for the wholesale internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II in order to clear the decks for similar future measures she apparently favors, is just shocked -- SHOCKED, I say -- that the US government would be so incompetent and insensitive as to send a notice recently announcing green card (immigrant residency permit) approval for a victim of the 9/11 disaster.

Eugueni Kniazev has been dead for almost three and a half years, but his poor family got a notice recently in the mail announcing that his green card application has been approved.

Malkin rightly points out that this is an example of gross incompetence. She further decries the re-opening of emotional wounds for his family who received it. Rightly so.

But she's surprised! Michelle, I hate to have to be the one to impinge on your naivety (well, okay, maybe I don't), but displaying gross incompetence and inducing emotional trauma is what governments DO -- when they're not busy killing people and blowing things up, that is.

Michelle, what makes you think a group with no qualms about making a special delivery of cluster bombs to women and children is going to be terribly concerned about a post card? Get help, Michelle, get help.