As a liberal, you probably think that the greatest threat facing America today and for the foreseeable future is the blowback from the wars Bush started (and new ones he may yet start) in the Middle East, or global warming, or the erosion of our constitutional liberties, or perhaps some combination of the above.

However, the good folks over at Blogs for Brownback, good conservative “faith based” Republicans dedicated to the election of Senator Sam Brownback as the next President of these United States, know better than you or I the nature of the next great menace to our way of life. You see, through careful study and investigation, they have determined that the next great threat to our nation comes from the shores of Japan, and it is a movement so sinister, so diabolical, that even now the souls of our youth are being poisoned by its murderous influence.

What is this horror you ask? What demonic plague has infected our body public by those godless, Satanic death worshippers of Nippon? It has a name, my friends and that name is —


ANIME!

Many of you are probably aware of Japanese anime (Japanese animation or Japanimation) because of popular kids shows like Pokemon, Speed Racer or Star Blazers. Prior to release in the west, these shows have been cleaned up from their original violent and sexually explicit hentai (perverted) form which most Japanese cartoons seem to take. Fortunately these shows are edited and redubbed without all the violent and sexual content when they are released in the United States.

Make no mistake about it though: unlike in America, in Japan cartoons aren’t just for children. Probably due to the high cost of big budget live-action productions, a number of programs are produced for Japanese adults in the animation format. Often these are shown late at night to keep them away from children, but even the cartoons shown to children are violent, sexual in nature and make numerous references to magic and demons with no mention of G-d or Jesus. That’s because most Asians do not believe in G-d, but rather in primitive religions such as Buddhism or Shintoism (paganism).

That’s right. The Japanese don’t believe in G-d! They follow primitive religions like Buddhism with its litany of evil, perverted beliefs. No wonder these Japanese cultural samurai warriors have secretly released these dastardly ANIME cartoons on our unsuspecting boys and girls. And, oh, the horrors they have unleashed! Why, did you know ANIME is the wicked, malicious force behind a wave of murders sweeping the world? I didn’t either, until now:

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Recently a couple of gruesome events took place in Japan which require the attention of parents in Japan and the world, including the United States. In usually peaceful Japan, violent acts mimicking an anime have rightly shocked the Japanese public and caused a number of television stations to suspend broadcast of the anime series.

Tokai Television Broadcasting Co. (Tokai TV) has decided to cancel screenings of the anime “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai” because of violent scenes it contains, it has been learned.

The broadcaster made the decision following an incident in which a Kyoto Prefectural Police officer was murdered in an ax attack by his 16-year-old daughter. The anime contains a scene in which a girl is pictured swinging an ax, and after Tokai TV received information about the anime from viewers, it decided to cancel the program.

Higurashi MangaI had read elsewhere that the girl was an aspiring mangaka (manga, Japanese comic book, artist). So it is pretty simple to conclude that she was heavily into anime and manga. […]

Here’s how they report the second incident, inspired by this horrible anime series containing gratuitous violence committed by children:Here’s how they report the second incident, inspired by this horrible anime series containing gratuitous violence committed by children:

Officials in the Nagano Prefecture city of Tatsuno received an emergency phone call at around 2:05 a.m. Monday morning from a woman who said, “My child wounded my husband.” They found the 44-year-old husband bleeding from his head at the family’s residence. About twenty minutes later, the second oldest son, a 15-year-old third-year junior high student, voluntarily appeared at a nearby police station and reportedly said, “I struck my father with an axe.” Police arrested him for attempted murder. […]

Update: The third anime-inspired crime occurred today!

a 15 year old student at a private high school in Kagawa Prefecture attacked a classmate with a 16.5 cm wide-bladed knife

Update 2: Another anime/manga related murder. But since it happened in Belgium nobody will notice, and if they do, they won’t really care much about it.

La Dernière Heure…reports that two identical messages linked to the Death Note manga were left near severed body parts that were discovered Friday afternoon in the forest of Belgium’s Duden Park. According to the newspaper, the two paper sheets both say “Watashi wa Kira dess,” an apparent misspelling of the Japanese phrase “Watashi wa Kira desu,” or “I am Kira (Killer).” This is a catchphrase from writer Tsugumi Ooba and artist Takeshi Obata’s Death Note suspense manga series, in which a high school boy discovers a notebook which allows him to kill people by writing their names in it.

I know you’re as shocked to learn of this cultural and spiritual crisis about to envelop our country as I am. With its bizarre and violent brainwashing techniques, this ANIME invasion will soon create an army of children and teens who will re-enact these murderous scenarios against clearly helpless and unprepared adults, unaware of the looming danger they face from the effect these pernicious, deadly Japanese cartoons will have on their naive, impressionable offspring!

Lucky for us we have the good Christians of Blogs for Brownback (also avid supporters of that good Christian warrior, Ann Coulter) to warn us of this imminent threat to truth, justice and the American Way. Maybe, with Sam Brownback’s help, they can turn America’s youth on to a better way in which to devote their talents, time and energy: planning for the Great Tribulation by playing that most holy and Christ centered video game — Left Behind: Eternal Forces

Talk about warfare. A Christmas season turf war is underway over whether a new computer game, laced with violent virtual battles and spiritual messages stressing the urgent need for salvation, is authentically Christian.

An alliance of Christian progressive groups fired first, calling for Wal-Mart to stop selling Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a $39.99 real-time military strategy game based on the best-selling Left Behind Apocalyptic novels. Players battling the Anti-christ, the ultimate in evil, can pray to increase their strength, recruit converts to the Christian cause, even conduct exorcisms. […]

“It’s faith-based killing that teaches God wants people dead if they don’t see Christ as you do,” says the Rev. Tim Simpson, head of Christian Alliance for Progress, who has played the game. “Jesus would turn the other cheek.”

Shooting back in self-defense, conservative Christians and the game’s producers say the computer game battles are all between good and evil, with no explosive blood or gore. They say it takes spiritual weaponry, not firepower, to win. […]

Simpson says it’s true that “once you do a kill, it causes your ‘spiritual points’ in the game to go down, but all you need to do is pray and you’re good to go again, as if nothing else happened,” says Simpson.

He adds that the bad guys are non-Christians and that a stand-in for the United Nations is portrayed as the army of the Anti-christ, the embodiment of evil.

Because sometimes you gotta fight fire (evil ANIME violence) with fire (G-dly Christian violence), right? As the writers at Blogs for Brownback might say to all those ANIME obsessed fans out there (and I really don’t feel I’m putting words in their mouths in this particular instance) “Bring ’em on!”