Freedom (This is a MUST READ!)

Eject Eject Eject ^ | December 22, 2002 | Bill Whittle

[Captainpaintball]

Whew! Long read...but worth every minute!!! This may be the best article I have read on FR. I am jealous of his writing ability, but proud of his accomplishment, and damned glad he wrote it.

But...When he asks Who's nuts enough to invade America? he seems oblivious to our immigration policy. Invasions come in many shapes and sizes...

[antaresequity]

WOW...unreal...awsome...thank you so much for posting this...

[antaresequity]

Priceless read...I sent this to my talk show host buddy Brian Wilson...

[muggs]

Bump so I can find this later today.

[Super Mak90kid]

Hmmm, great read. In the America of the 50s this was probably all true. Unfortunatly this is the new America just entering 2003. As a young twenty-something I know almost no one of the caliber he is speaking of. It's very scary. As is our future.

[tom h]

"I have come to believe George Bush lives in a denial similar to this. He refuses, for instance, to look at Islam as murderous even though it is killing off thousands in the middle of the night in many areas of the world."

RLK, I respectfully submit that you are wrong. George Bush might be disappointing you but he is first and foremost a man who intends to be an effective politician. This requires that he pick his battles and especially select his hills to die on.

Calling a spade a spade about Muslims, especially when there are 5 million in the USA and another 30 million liberal sympathizers, is the equivalent of committing political suicide. The media would finally have something to hang Bush for and in the process of acting "correctly" (in your view) he would become as ineffective a President as Jimmy Carter.

The man is clearly conservative. Every time you are frustrated with a decision of his give him the benefit of the doubt, place yourself in his shoes, and try and surmise his motive. When tough issues arise, I would wager that he calculates very carefully whether to follow the lead of his heart (conservative) or to weight the costs and benefits and let the numbers prescribe his course.

His success in Texas is illustrative. He won his first term by a slim margin, but during the campaign for his second term his popularity and effectiveness was incredibly clear -- so clear that the Democratic Speaker of the Texas House and other Democratic colleagues endorsed Bush the Republican. He was impossible for the Democrats in Texas to fathom. An example of how he works and is able to neutralize opposition may help you. Remember recently when there was an incident with the Inglewood CA police department roughing up a black man? Bush's response was to have Ashcroft deplore police brutality and make appearances of favoring blacks. He really did nothing other than have Ashcroft issue a statement but it took away the press' ability to paint Ashcroft as an extremist and Bush as an uncaring President. I expect some of us Republicans were wondering what in the heck Bush was up to but it is clear that his move was pre-emptive only.

So, have hope, my friend. Even with all branches of legislative Government in Republican hands, we will not get everything we wish. [If it was that easy, Clinton would've gotten everything he wanted from 1993-95 with both the House and Senate in Democratic hands. And he didn't get much of anything that he wanted except for a tax increase, by a margin of one vote.]

George Bush will be the most effective and widely-admired President in the past 50 years when his second term is over. And, with his power base firmly cemented in Washington, I have no doubt that he will lead our nation to recover some of its former greatness in many aspects of our social and political life. And he will be led by his conservative instincts and his Christian faith.

[Brian Allen]

<< We are a nation of unruly immigrants, self-selecting people who placed bold action above endless suffering, sold what little they had and bought passage to take a chance on a place they had never seen except in their quiet hopes, a land our 40th President, Ronald Reagan, described as ?a beacon, a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home." Intellectuals have called Ronald Reagan a moron, but that is to be expected from people incapable of being moved by anything other than the sound of their own bitter and small voices in a world too full of hope for them to grasp.

I am deeply proud to be a member of such a magnificent group of people. I hope to God I can give back as much as I owe. >>

Amen. Me too.

Brian Allen -- American!

[RLK]

Speaker of the Texas House and other Democratic colleagues endorsed Bush the Republican.

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Doesn't something about that make you wonder if you have been diddled?

[.30Carbine]

COME AND GET IT.

[Fzob]

bttt

[glock rocks]

thanks, 30. this is a keeper.

[RLK]

What I believe is that George Bush could throw his followers into a pit of crocodiles and they would conjure up fairy stories like the one you just wrote for me to convince themselves there was some kind of eventual brillian strategy in it.

[OXENinFLA]

Bump for later

[varon]

Kick down 100 doors of self-proclaimed French pacifists, grab the women and kids, and haul them away. Then try again in Texas, with 100 NRA members. Collate, or rather, have a surviving relative collate the results. Extrapolate the abductors' rates of casualties to determine the total number of murdering swine needed. See what percentage of jackbooted thugs have a suicide wish and then determine the number of men you will need to disarm, kidnap and murder 50 million armed people.

You will need a lot of men. More than you can raise.

Bull ticky. We have been indoctrinated not to get involved even in cases where women are brutaly raped in public with gawkers standing around and doing absolutely nothing to stop the rapist.

Any thought that when a door is battered down and occupants hauled off that a neighborhood posse or militia or NRA members will rush to the rescue is bull, pure and simple. Everyone aware of the situation will cower in their own homes hoping they're not next.

Bravado before the fact is one thing but human nature's ingrained instinct of survival will triumph every time. History has proved this time and again.

What this person writes about only happens in the movies or as wishful thinking fantasy of an imaginative mind.

[coder2]

I think the heros of flight 93 might just disagree with your scenario, if they were still alive.

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks for the ping.
These are wise words from someone who was called "an intellectually gifted peasant" just a few days ago because he admitted that he didn't own a gun.
Sometimes the keyboard is a greater weapon.

[spitz]

A Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year to you and your family. I wish you good luck for the new year.

SPITZ

[Shooter 2.5]

Sometimes even knowledgable people who have studied Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R. or Pol Pot in Cambodia make tactical errors.

Our enemies of Freedom are the ones who send the Jack Booted Thugs. Those are the ones who should be made to understand that trying to disarm the American People, putting it mildly, "is not in their best interests".

[PGalt]

Great find. Thanks for posting it.

[TomSmedley]

And yet while Canadians frequently point out that they are free of our vices, I perceive that they are free of our greatness as well. You can't have it both ways.

Wow!