In the event some of you haven't seen this yet, i thought it worthy of sharing it with you. These are some sobering thoughts from a man who's opinions i truly respect. IMO, unlike this author, i believe the American people are too far gone to wake-up and come to their senses, especially when you look at the results of the last election. Whether it pertains to some extremely dangerous world conditions, or our own huge problems here at home, IMO, the American people seem to be a rudder-less ship, going only in the direction they're being pushed in. For the sake of my grandchildren, i hope i'm wrong...
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODNlMmY1MzdmYjkzNmZmMDY3Y2EyNWI0NzQ1ZGI3YmQ=
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"...enough to get us to surrender"
ONLY the pinheads in D.C. will surrender. A great many unarmed, followers, will follow whoever says they are in charge.
I cannot imagine, with that "whoever" being some effing radical rag head sitting in Tehran, or KGB Putin sitting in Moscow, that all the rednecks, cowboys, hunters and any other red blooded gun owner will roll over and give up.
Quisling's actions gave rise to a tough Norwegian Underground. The same for the underground in France. There was even a German Underground. The difference is that the "OK to defend yourself, go underground, shoot the bad guys" attitude occurs in the majority in the U.S.
Listen, there are enough hard core 1% bikers in most states to form a sizable armed force. That excludes hunters, survivalists, farmers, trap shooters and pistol nuts. Most of whom have a CB radio stashed in the garage or attic.
Neither Putin or the Ayatollah Assahollah can defeat MILLIONS of well armed and supplied, mobile, communications capable, fighters.
All of that completely avoids talk of our military letting BOHICA surrender for them. There are too many who would view that as an illegal, and therefore deniable, order. The foreigners who want to can indeed hurt us. I know that. But I'm certain they cannot walk in and take over. Not with any present technology.
Let's do those porterhouses at your place of preference in the late spring / early summer!
You're on Billy.
Steve, maybe you've just explained the growing push to rid us of our guns in one way or another. As i told Annie one day last year, we may become the real-life version of that movie Red Dawn.
Fact: There were more than 1.5 million background checks done for gun buyers just in the month of January '09. (CNN, Lou Dobbs)
"Yet what hope remains is no less precious nor any less worthy of being preserved."
A big amen to that!
"Although, in some sense, the United States of America is still the strongest nation on earth militarily, that means absolutely nothing if our enemies are willing to die and we are not."
Hm. Not according to George Patton.
"The trajectory of our course leads to a fate that would fully justify despair. The only saving grace is that even the trajectory of a bullet can be changed by the wind."
Or... our ability to dodge the liberal bullet. It's going to be close. Very, very close.
Great column. Thanks for posting the link, Spidey.
That didn't take long.
When conservatives feel marginalized they immediately turn to fascism. Not that it was a radical departure from their norms.
You conservatives act like we were living in Utopia before Jan 20th. Here's a clue. We weren't.
Uh, HLT,
you dumb ass, how is it that the conservative fear of a LOSS OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, is fascism? That loss would fall on you too. How is it that our concerns of a foreign power or radical religious attack on our country is fascism? How is it that NO MATTER what topic comes up here, you call us fascists?
You REALLY need to get a dictionary. But I'll help out, from Mssrs. Merriam and Webter,
Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation:
\ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date:1921
1. often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
It is YOUR BELOVED Democrats who seek to regulate or control every aspect of the country. It is YOUR BELOVED Democrats who complained about Bush's bail out, who now want to control the banks. You yourself complained about the Republicans NOT regulating or enforcing the rules and causing our economic mess. And it sure as hell isn't the Republicans who have PCized the country and oppressed anyone's speech or religious opinions.
You can't have it both ways. Either the Republicans and conservatives are either laissez faire or facist, about control and power, but they can't be BOTH.
Dickhead.
Good article, Spidey.
Did anyone see the pep talk last night? I didn't but I did read the paper this morning. "I reject the view that says government has no role in laying the foundation for our common prosperity." BHO And I say faith in government defies both history and logic.
No Lady-Bug, i didn't watch the Yobama show, but while having my coffee this morning, i did listen to the MSM's discription of what went on. As i expected, all they had was hysterical praise for how HE made the country feel. Of course, not one of them mentioned the fact that, after being scolded by Bubba Clinton last week for being to "gloom & doom", Yobama's string-holders made him sound more positive. In other words, they simply changed the script.
The media maggotts then did what they always do and showed "the polls". Their polls are used to convince people that the MSM actually knows what the American people are thinking. The CNN/Newsweek poll gave Yobama a 69% approval rating for his speech. I think the question should've been, "what do you think of Bubba's advice?" Personally, i would love to see someone ask the MSM to prove the authenticity of their polls. Now that would be fun!
WORD OF THE DAY
OBAMATIZED, v.
A state of leg tingling bliss which ensues in Obamatons, after Messiah Barry deadens their synapses, with a teleprompted load of rhetorical crap that they want to hear, even if none of it is true, or real..
And HLT, what part of "I AM NOT
A CONSERVATIVE " do you not freakin understand?
Spider,
I don't care about their polls. It's when they want me to bend over to "accommodate" them that I get queasy!
Cowpill,
we're wasting our combined breaths.
As much as I hate to admit it, I have to agree with HLF on at least one point. We were not living in a utopia before President Obama took office. The Bush administration, along with the Supreme Court has trampled our constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure, states rights, self incrimination, the right to a speedy, public trial and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment by virtue of the USA PATRIOT Act. The cowardly members of Congress who voted this piece of crap into existence without reading it are complicit in the crime.
nerd,
you are right about utopia.
But HLT's insistence that we were kow towing to, agreed with or were ass kissing GWB is wrong. We were screaming to high hell here before that bail out crap passed last fall. He thinks because we voted for, or may have voted for, GWB that we agreed 100% with his policies.
That's BS!!
He said Bush was an idiot for doing it then, but BOHICA is a savior for doing more of the same now. No surprise there, dual standard thinking.
nerd,
you are right about utopia. None of us claimed that, or that Bush was the be all, end all.
HLT's insistence that we were kow towing to, agreed with or were ass kissing GWB is wrong. We were screaming to high hell here before that bail out crap passed last fall. He thinks because we voted for, or may have voted for, GWB that we agreed 100% with his policies.
That's BS!!
He said Bush was an idiot for doing it then, but BOHICA is a savior for doing more of the same now. No surprise there, dual standard thinking.
No, I understant that, Steve. The boy does not understand the difference in the ideology of conservatism as espoused by many thinking individuals here and elsewhere and the performance of George W. Bush as president. I grow weary of pointing out to the lad that President Bush was clearly and demonstrably no conservative, as well as enumerating the reasons why, only to recieve in return more invective with nothing to back it up but his own egomania. Unfortunately, it appears that the individual in question never left behind the concrete opertational stage of cognitive development. In order to discern the difference between ideology and performance one would need to be capable of some degree of critical thinking and possess some concept of the abstract.
To say that we agreed with every action undertaken by President Bush simply because we profess to be conservative is analagous to saying that to believe any part of American history, we must swallow whole the story about Washington throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac. (Actually, it was the Rappahannock River.)
Hey - HLF - are you smarter than Thomas Sowell or are you just racist?
nerd,
well said Sir, well said.
Jimbo,
he can't be a racist, he loves President BOHICA. That alleviates all posibility of problems!!
Thanks, Steve,
Racism is the gutter argument that minorities use as a catch-all to rationalize their failure to measure up to our society's standards. If I'm happy about one thing regarding President Obama's election it is that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, David Duke and our other national race baiters will not have this hook on which to hang their hats any longer. Unfortunately, I suppose we have to assign Attorney general Eric Holder to the camp of race baiters as well for his comment that we are a nation of cowards for failing to confront the problem or racism.
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