Our leaders feel guilty for allowing 9/11 to happen. Our leaders feel unworthy of the roles they hold in our government. Our leaders confused by these feelings of guilt and unworthiness, are grasping to make it better.
But they are doing so without reference or consultation with our forefathers, who knew the world is a dangerous place. And it takes a brave and courageous people to choose to live free in it. Freedom carries risk. Freedom or security. You know what the safest place in the United States is? Solitary confinement in a maximum security prison. Not even terrorists have designs on such a place.
"Give me liberty or, give me death". It takes a brave people to live by those words. Where have all our brave citizens gone in these days of confusion and guilt and remorse? Do we honor our soldiers because we can find nothing left in ourselves to honor? They risk their lives in the hopes of returning to a free America, a brave America, and proud America that will not serve up its freedoms and liberties and Constitution for an illusion of security.
Are we going to let them down behind their backs, yielding up freedoms and individual liberties to those who would take them? Or, will we safeguard individual freedom and liberty for their return, against those inside our government and outside our borders, who would steal them from us in the name of fear and concentrated political power?
Which is it going to be America?
1) "Take my freedoms, just give me security".
2) "Give me liberty, or give me death."
When our troops return, which choice will they find America made behind their backs in these trying times?
d.a.n said at :
11:28 AM, 09 25 2006 | Permalink
The hypocrisy ! ? ! ? ! ?
The hypocrisy is staggering. Corruption within government is growing, and so is the size of government. There are now more jobs in government than all manufacturing jobs within the U.S. Government is growing increasingly oppressive. There are now 6 cases per day of eminent domain abuse (upheld by the Supreme Court). The laws have been perverted to do the very thing they were supposed to prevent. Politicians are above the law. Even if ever indicted and convicted, they can get pardons. We are on the wrong path, and the U.S. is not invincible. Empires, republics, and nations have lasted centuries longer than the U.S. The further we go down the wrong path, the harder it will be to return to the right path (if ever). The path we're on is not making us safer. George Bush, himself (his very own words) called the "war on terror" a "crusade", and claims that Iraq is the "front on the war on terror". Bush says that we found WMD in Iraq, but we did NOT. He is either lying or delusional. There have been no WMD of any significance found in Iraq, and no forensic traces that it was moved elsewhere. Trying to limit the civil war in Iraq is not making the U.S. safer, and it is an irresponsible misuse of American troops. Attacking Iraq did not make the U.S. safer. Bush's "crusade" is ripping the nation apart, and paving the way for government to grab more power and grow increasingly oppressive.
Slumbering voters had better wake up now and do the one-simple, common-sense, non-partisan, responsible thing that voters were supposed to do be doing all along. Stop re-electing irresponsible incumbent politicians. The lives of our U.S. troops lives depend on it, literally. The future and security of the nation does not hinge on Iraq. The danger is from within. The real problem is our own corrupt, irresponsible, FOR-SALE, bought-and-paid-for, arrogant incumbent politicians, and slumbering voters that empower them. Would voters do this if they really understood the long-term consequences? Or, must they always learn the hard way (again)?
d.a.n | September 25, 2006 11:28 AM
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Kenny DeWit said at :
1:23 PM, 01 09 2007 | Permalink
I want you to LISTEN!!! I am a Vet Nam Vet! I am sick to death of the BULLSHIT I see going on by the ONE who is supposed to PROTECT us! What the hell is going on with the ones who are to put a MAD MAN in CHECK???? GET IT TOGATHER AMERICA!!! Before it is TO LATE!!!!! I love my Country, and I fought for it in 1969. I served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, an ELITE Unit that fought it's ass off over there, just to come back to a President who wants to support Illeagals who deserve jail time, but wants to give them OUR Social Security. What is UP with THAT?????Pray tell!!!!
Kenny DeWit | January 9, 2007 1:23 PM
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