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February 16, 2007

Top 10 threats to our republic

10 reasons to keep and carry in condition 1

I wish I had a dollar for every time I think to myself how shocked my Great Grandparents would be, if they were alive today, by what our country has become. As a society, we’re pathetic and weak. We’ve grown fat and lazy and we’ve had it so good and so easy for so long that our society actually teaches its children to expect everything. The majority of American citizens have absolutely no idea how bad things could get, and they’re gleefully unaware of how bad things have gotten for American citizens in the past. Unlike today, citizens in the past were perfectly willing to lay their lives on the line to keep their shining city on a hill. Today I really doubt that would be the case.

Recently, I watched a documentary on the war in the Pacific during WWII called “Hell in the Pacific”. I believe it is still running on the History Channel and if you get a chance to see it, do so. I’ve watched it twice now. It is made up of actual film clips of the Pacific campaign along with interviews from survivors (both US and Japanese) and I believe there were some historians thrown in as well. It is a no holds barred ordeal with footage of US Soldiers and Marines in Okinawa littering piles of dead and wounded Japanese with bullets before their commanding officers arrived because, as they described it (I’m paraphrasing here), “we couldn’t carry anyone back”. There were clips of surviving Japanese civilians claiming that, if the US had invaded the island of Japan, that they were perfectly willing to fight to the end and die. There was footage of civilians throwing themselves off cliffs for fear that US troops would rape and ravage them. There was footage of an Air Force pilot (I’m sorry to say I can’t remember the gentleman’s name) who was on board the Enola Gay and said that he didn’t feel sorry for what he did. He said he was glad because the Japanese were the enemy and they had brought it upon themselves. There were Soldiers and Marines that said that they hated the Japanese because they were the ENEMY. They wanted them all dead because they were sick of the damn war and they wanted to finish the job. It described the war in the Pacific for what it was, “Hell”. I was struck by how lucky we were to have people willing to do what needed to be done. I doubt that we, as a society, would have the necessary resolve today.

I believe that there are a number of things that have been slowly eroding away our society’s resolve and our will to be good citizens willing to die for our country. There are a handful of issues that have turned a once fierce tiger into a fat, tame, soft house cat ripe for the taking.

10. Public Education
Our schools have become bastions of idealism. Gone are the days of teaching little Johnny and Judith the life skills necessary to make them a productive member of society. Today, the teacher’s union assures an environment of political indoctrination without the benefit of accountability. Our kids graduate without knowing how to read or do math but they know that it’s okay to have two mommies, they know how to put on a condom, and they know that evolution is science while creation is myth.

9. Failures of our Legal System
Number 9 on my list could have easily fallen a lot closer to number 1 but they all seem important and I couldn’t really decide. Judges and lawyers are rapidly becoming the silent ruling class. If issues can’t be shoved down our throats through legislation, they’re run through the courts. There’s also that little problem about doing the crime but having enough money to hire a legal team to assure that you won't do the time. Yeah, I’m pretty sure the founding fathers didn’t see that being a problem.

8. Taxation
How many times does socialism need to fail before it becomes blatantly obvious to everyone that it just doesn’t work. A minority of producers who break their backsides to help foot the bill for those who don’t want to produce will only tolerate so much. There’s this little thing called “human nature” that determines that, once you remove the reward, the monkeys just aren’t willing to do tricks. In this day and age, if the monkeys decide to stop doing tricks, the shelves at Best Buy go bare. So my advice to the IRS, stop taking away the monkey chow so we can all watch the Super Bowl in high definition. Besides, it sure would be nice to comply with my yearly raping before April 15 and go to bed secure in the knowledge that I’ve done everything correctly.

7. Drugs and alcohol
I know I may get some heat for including this one on the list. The fact remains, our society drinks. A lot. In my opinion, it contributes to our complacency and it makes us soft, clueless, and pliable for a government all too anxious to “get some” from a populace too sloppy drunk to say no.

6. Illegal Immigration
This issue is really a product of number 1 but I thought it deserved its own place on the list. We cannot have a country without citizens and granting all of the benefits of being a citizen to illegals makes citizenship irrelevant. Send them home. No social security, no credit cards, no medical care, no lawsuits. You enter through the front door only please. You knock, you wipe your feet off on the mat, and you treat our property with the respect it has earned and deserves. Otherwise, you’re somebody else’s problem, not ours. Our jails, public schools, and places of employment are for Americans only.

5. Political Correctness
This disease has found itself climbing all the way up to number 5 on our list. Political correctness is the silent killer in our society. It is the favorite of news anchors, soccer moms, lawyers, and politicians. It is the tool that allows people to stand on their head and tell the rest of the world that they are upside down. Political correctness invades our schools, our prisons, and most disturbingly our wars. The friends of my enemy are my enemy also. Political correctness is a means to say that it is okay to be in bed with the enemy. Political correctness is being forced to lie for fear that the truth will upset someone. Political correctness is slow suicide.

4. Government Dependency
It’s been a slow, spiraling, downhill trek. I’d say that many among us never saw it coming but self accountability is an outdated term. No longer are you expected to take care of your own needs. In some cases, it is hard to tell where the needs and the wants differ and it matters little because you’re not responsible for the wants either. Pitting classes and races against one another has become a staple of the politician (again see number 1). Nobody wants the burden of self accountability and very few enjoy the benefits of self respect. Everything is a right. We have the right to this and the right to that. What happened to The Bill of Rights? Isn’t that supposed to be all we need? How about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? Heck no, all we need to do is hold our hand out. The government will reach into its endless coffers and give it to us if we lack the brains, brawn, or fortitude to earn it for ourselves. Disgusting…

3. Racial Issues
In this day and age, this issue is largely created by the politicians (once again see number 1). We see racial issues in everything in our society because the perceived problem allows someone to come in and create a program or a policy to help fight it. Notice I didn’t say help fix it because programs and policies never fix anything. Fixing the problem would mean an end to a program or policy and I don’t know that that has ever occurred. We need exceptions, special considerations, and exclusive holidays, contests, scholarships, and programs for those who qualify under a special racial group. We used to be Americans, now we’re African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Hell, we’re even creating racial divides where race isn’t a part of the equation, i.e. Gay Americans. Pretending to remove racial differences would be pretending to remove culture. People will always adhere to culture. You cannot remove racial differences and we don’t need hero politicians to force people to pretend to accept other people that are different. You either like, accept, socialize with, hire, etc. people that are different than you or you don’t. You can’t legislate race acceptance without being racist.

2. Media
Well, the media has made it all the way up to the number 2 reason why we should all be carrying cocked and locked. There is the obvious liberal biased of the mainstream news media. That is, of course damaging to our free society and political arena of ideas. However, I think the overall concept of media, as in television, internet, radio etc. needs to be examined and blamed for a great deal of our societal ills, not just political ills. Our media places attention on so many things that are not, or should not be noteworthy. We’ve spent over a week now breathlessly examining all of the legal angles, paternity issues, sexual preferences, and questionable lifestyle practices of a whore (that would be Anna Nicole Smith) who somehow found herself a media sweetheart. This constant demand for news stories has created a media culture perfectly willing to go to any lengths to make something newsworthy. We place such an importance on people that are on television. Our athletes are criminals, our movie stars are ranting narcissists, and our musicians are looked to for political advice. The local weather man is a celebrity while the local soldier killed in combat is mentioned and then largely forgotten. We should be ASHAMED of what our society considers important. Our media has created a world that spoon feeds a daily dose of complete nonsense to a populace completely incapable of independent analysis.

1. No Leadership
At number 1, we have the leadership issue. That would be the lack of leadership from ANY of our elected officials. Elected officials have ceased being public servants. The welfare of the public is secondary to the career of the politician. The goal is to get elected, dote on the groups that helped get you elected, create as many groups (and their associated “problems”) as possible to help get you elected in the future, and somewhere down the line comes the public that actually voted you into office. The gap between the average citizen and the elected politician has become a gaping chasm. We allow our Congressman and Senators to vote in their own pay raises, and then get in bed with as many special interest groups as possible to keep them firmly entrenched in public life. They are held to a completely different set of standards when it comes to criminal behavior, drug and alcohol abuse, deviant sexual behavior, and personal financial dealings. They are far above the common man, as they live a lifestyle that is unknown to anyone outside their enclave of political bureaucracy.

Our society is made up of the enemies within, the fat and ignorant sheep that are fast asleep on America’s pile of wealth, and the rest of us painfully aware and ready for the whole freaking house to go up in flames at any moment. There are so many that are gleefully unaware of an enemy out there that is perfectly willing, like the Japanese during WWII, to fight to the very last man if necessary to eliminate our way of life. We’re taught in school that we cannot hate, we’re afraid to say anything because we might get sued, we’re too busy working to pay our taxes, we’re too drunk or stoned to notice, we’re too busy paying for health insurance for illegals, we think that hating the enemy wouldn’t be politically correct, we depend on the government to solve the problem for us, we think that hating the enemy would be racist, the media tells us we have no enemy, and our bloody politicians are too busy with their "careers" to do their jobs.

My great grandparents were true patriots, proud patriotic Americans. Actually, they lost their oldest son to the Japanese in WWII. They would be shocked at what we’ve become. Shocked and ashamed.

Keep the gun slits free of obstructions, stay healthy of body and mind, keep the family and loved ones close within the circle, and keep the firearms handy - condition 1 - cocked and locked baby. When it happens, I’m keeping this hill, and I’m not carrying anyone back.

Posted by RobF at February 16, 2007 05:50 PM Posted to Commentary

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