[captnorb]

While reading this, goose bumps and a lump in my throat brought back memories of time on a DE and the pride of the crew...Freepers, can anyone get this distributed to media types that actually care and would discuss and possibly promote this article...Hopefully interview Mr. Shul. Also you VFW, MIA-POW, etc., groups need to distribute this...

[Cold Heat]

BTTT! Great speech!!!!!!!!

[GOPJ]

The man speaks truth:

Well, the enemy is at our front door, and isn't it interesting those who cry loudest and most often for their rights, are usually those least willing to defend it. I heard a student on TV the other day say that this war just wasn't in his plans and he would simply head to Canada if a draft occurred. Just wasn't in his plans.

I wonder what plans the young men at the beaches of Normandy had that they never got to live. I wonder if it was in the plans of 19-year-old boys in Viet Nam to lie dying in a jungle far from home. I guess the men and women at Pearl Harbor one morning had their plans slightly rearranged too. Gee, I hope we haven't inconvenienced this student.

[Valin]

What a great read!!!

But we are a country awakened now. We have been attacked in our homeland.
What these scumbags didn't realise was liberal democracies produce quite simply the BEST most effective killers in the world.

[philman_36]

I spent an entire military career fighting Communism, and was very proud to do so. We won that war, we beat one of the worst scourges to humankind the world has known.
Hey Brian, guess what! That "war against communism" is still going on. It's just gone underground. You know, like in submarine warfare's "run silent, run deep". You're wrong in saying that, "We won that war." You might try looking up the Socialists who are in our very own Congress.
But don't just take my word for it...socialists in congress.

[Beep]

Thanks captnorb, and thanks to all who pinged me! I will send this to the folks I know, and hope that someone nibbles. I can't imagine that they wouldn't be interested. Is there a publication that should be mentioned? Red tape and all, you know! Proper credits must be given before publication would even be considered. How can they contact the author -- do you know?

What publishing house is he associated with? They may have an exclusive contract. Very important questions, I promise, or I wouldn't be asking! If anyone knows, please post?! It's a wonderful speech, and should be shared. Obviously!

Thanks again, and God bless!

[Fiddlstix]

captnorb: Great Post!
editor-surveyor: Thanks for the Ping

[GretchenEE]

Do you have access to a source link or other source info, and at what event he spoke, and to whom? This is such a wonderful speech that I would like to pass it around, but there are so many Internet legends these days that I always like to quote the source when I Email things (and by doing so I have trained my friends to expect it, so if I don't include a source, they write back and ask for it).

[GretchenEE]

I pity the person who thinks they are going to remove this flag from my lapel. This flag of ours is the symbol of all that is good about this country. America is an idea. It is an idea lived, and fought for, by a people. We are America, and this is our symbol. We are imperfect in many ways, but we continue to strive toward the ideal our forefathers laid down for us over 225 years ago.

I watched Freedom Now [Civil War Later] about the road to independence for India and Africa between 1947 and about 1975. It struck me how different those nations' struggles and successes were and are, after gaining independence, compared to the United States. The main reason, in my opinion, is that our country had a rather more common than not belief in Christ as Redeemer among so many colonists who fought and who helped strike out for freedom and form the new government. Also, the American Founders had studied government and worked at length to establish a sensible, non-royal self-government. India and Africa were largely unprepared to wield the power that comes at the top of a self-governing nation, and what we would call "the bad guys" rushed in to fill the vacuum.

I love our flag beyond words, and most of all, I love the red stripes, for to me they symbolize the blood of every human being who was injured or died fighting to make this country what it is, a bastion of freedom and a hope for the whole world.

[Landru]

Brian?
That's one hell of a brother you have there.
One hell of a patriot, & man, at that.

....you didn't need me to tell ya that much, either; but, I have anyway.

[Valin]

Morning bump

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If I were the regents or alumni of certain large universities in this country, I would be embarrassed to be producing students of such ignorance and naive notions. Like mindless sheep, they march with painted faces and trite sayings on signs, blissfully ignorant of the world they live in, and the system that protects them, hoping maybe to make the evening news. Perhaps if they had spent more time in class they would have learned that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. They might have learned that all it takes for evil to succeed in the world, is for good people to stand by and do nothing. If they had simply gone back in history as recently as the Viet Nam War, they would have learned that an enemy that knows it can never defeat us militarily, will persist as long as there is dissension and disruption in our land. Their ignorance can be understood, as their young empty minds have been filled with the rewritten history tripe that tenured leftist professors can spew out with no fear of removal. But the unwitting aid they provide the enemy, in disrupting the national resolve, is unforgivable.

Jane Fonda did not matter. The broadcasting of the images of Jane Fonda providing comfort to the enemy is what mattered. You will say that I advocate censorship of the news. I say that, if you don't have a broadcast license, everything that you want to broadcast is censored already. Nothing could be more obvious, than that any fear of censorship of broadcasting is a chimera--broadcasting is heavily regulated and the government is responsible for what is broadcast.

You may say, "but surely broadcasting the news is important to our democracy"--but I reply that our republic is specifically designed not to require it.

You may say, "but broadcast journalism tells us pretty much the same things that print journalism does, only faster. What's wrong with that?" I reply, that begging the question by journalists does not make journalism identically equal and coextensive with "the press" as the First Amendment uses the term. Freedom of the press unambiguously applies to book publishing, and most print journalists do not have broadcast licenses and are therefore censored out of that medium. "Freedom of the press" exists; "Freedom of the wireless transmitter" does not.

You may say, "but broadcasting as we know it would not exist if there were no government-mandated broadcast bands." And I say, "Exactly!" What does it mean, when the people prefer to learn current events not by reading between the lines of in-principle-distrusted printers but by purchasing government-standardized tuners and receiving government-sanctioned "truth" (including misleading information about the results of elections still actually in process)?

Can we seriously think that that is not a governmental evasion of the "Congress shall make no law" limitation on government control of communication? After all, "freedom of the press" does not mean "free attention from the public;" government-sanctioned oligopoly broadcasters have powerful publicity advantages over the unlicensed "great unwashed". That is a situation which the First Amendment aimed to, and did, preclude--until the advent of the FCC.

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate.

[headsonpikes]

Rebump.

[Valin]

BUMP!

[Stand Watch Listen]

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