Off The Cuff - A Bone-Chilling Video
A Bone-Chilling Video - © Kent Fletcher
August 11, 2007
A couple of days back an old friend from Mississippi sent me a video from USA Wake Up dot org, http://www.usawakeup.org/. While the video is a bone-chilling video, there are many, many more videos for consumption on the web as depictive as this one, some even more so. The problem is, out of all the people who do watch these videos, how many are going to "take action", confront their elected officials, demand said officials to pay attention to what is going on, and quit the hyperventilating about being reelected next term?
I would dare say very few folks are bold enough, are proud enough to confront the very politicians whom they have elected to office. Why? Because these elected officials seem to accept the fact that they were, in fact, elected to their respective offices and are therefore above their constituency. Wrong answer.
Today, I received yet another email from yet another old friend in Mississippi, this time with the question, "Can a good Muslim be a good American?". The answers run through various aspects of the Muslim world vs the notions we US citizens proclaim, such as theologically, religiously, socially, politically, and several others, each answered in the negative. The final statement is thus,
"Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both "good" Muslims and good Americans."
In part I can agree with all the statements written in that email; however, it does present some disturbing angles to me going back to other immigrants of this great country, all the way back to the Vikings.
One should remember we are all of some kind of faith, even the atheists and hard-core agnostics. A Muslim is no different, he/she simply worships a different aspect of religion. It is the fanatics who use the religion as a way, as a means to an end, the end being the destruction, annihilation, total obliteration of the West, the United States in particular. The fanatics, the brainwashed, the ones who live in a state of poverty and no where else to go, nothing else to believe in but the mullahs who preach the hate, who ascribe to the literal meanings as supposedly spoken by the prophet Mohammed, who are our enemies, not Muslims across the board. I've met a few, and I wasn't intimidated by them.
I would dare say the Catholics were treated much the same way in the fledgling US way back when, as were the Lutherans, even the Methodists. I don't claim to be a theological expert, I'm just going by what I've read and heard over the years. Any one religion or sect can overrule another if it is large enough, strong enough, carries enough weight, has enough fanatical followers.
Life does bother me, concern me, however, when the true Muslims will not confront the fanatics, will not speak up for their own concerns and denounce the actions and the means of the fanatics, the fascists who proclaim Mohammed has spoken from death, to tell them this suicide mission is their only choice to get into heaven, to have their virgins. What a great idea by the fanatics, by Mohammed, in which to control the little people.
And in the face of declaration upon declaration of the hate these Islamofascists have toward anything and everything Western, how can the politicians who have been duly elected to office deny these same declarations. Have they no conscience, have they no free will to demand of the other politicians the security and dreams of this nation?
It tires me greatly to see the same old emails cross my page, with an occasional petition thrown in for good measure, always extolling the horror coming our way if the Islamofascists have their way with us, and I'm not saying they can't, but when will it happen? Sooner rather than later, I'm afraid, if the politicians don't get off their dead asses and get their heads out of the sand, take a look around, quit worrying about the "next election cycle", and start worrying about tomorrow, next week, next year.
First, and most important to me is our security. Border security, transportation security, freedom of the press security, wage security, any number of securities, for without these securities, what is the US? Nothing, absolutely nothing but an island ripe for conquering forces to do as they please.
Concerning border security, it is my understanding that the US Border Patrol is in charge of halting illegal immigration, illegal smuggling, illegal drug trafficking, etc., to the ability they are given the authority to do. In the cases of the two US Border Patrol officers who were doing their job, and who halted a Mexican attempting to smuggle drugs into this country, and who shot the man in the buttocks as he was escaping, through some quirk in the processes, these two men are now incarcerated in federal prisons. Why? Not because they were doing their jobs, what they were hired for, but for shooting an illegal Mexican in the buttocks as he was running away. What the hell, over?
I'm more upset with the President at the moment than incarcerating two men for doing their jobs in the first place. The President of the United States is sworn in and bound by the Constitution of the United States to preserve and protect the United States from all people who wish harm. However, the President has pardoned or commuted the sentence of one "Scooter" Libby, a sentence of but a couple of years, and has turned his back on two Border Patrol agents who were doing their jobs, as prescribed by their superiors. These two men are now in prison for 10 and 11 years, and are at the mercy of the prison population already incarcerated. And guess who is going to be attacked more violently than any other prisoner? Yep, former law enforcement officials. What the hell, over?
When the President's request for open immigration failed in Congress, only then has he begun to take the border security seriously. Or at least he's saving face at the moment by having the Department of Homeland Security address the issues surrounding border security. What the hell, over?
The time has come, for me anyway, to stop sitting on the sidelines, shaking my head in wonder at the actions those men and women I voted for are partaking in. The time has come for me to take an active stance, to send emails, to write letters, to call if need be, to demand my representatives DO THEIR JOBS! Period. There is no other reasonable thing to do. And if they refuse to do their jobs, if they refuse to protect the American way of life, well, hit the door, Jack.
I am but a simple man, a military retiree, but this is the country I dedicated 20+ years of my life to. When I've had enough of something, I come out fighting. How about you? Are you going to continue to sit on the sidelines, watching the daily parade run by, watching all the sacred ideals this country has protected for the past 200+ years to fall by the wayside, being politically correct instead of calling a spade a spade, and holding the government's feet to the fire?
Disgusting.
August 11, 2007
A couple of days back an old friend from Mississippi sent me a video from USA Wake Up dot org, http://www.usawakeup.org/. While the video is a bone-chilling video, there are many, many more videos for consumption on the web as depictive as this one, some even more so. The problem is, out of all the people who do watch these videos, how many are going to "take action", confront their elected officials, demand said officials to pay attention to what is going on, and quit the hyperventilating about being reelected next term?
I would dare say very few folks are bold enough, are proud enough to confront the very politicians whom they have elected to office. Why? Because these elected officials seem to accept the fact that they were, in fact, elected to their respective offices and are therefore above their constituency. Wrong answer.
Today, I received yet another email from yet another old friend in Mississippi, this time with the question, "Can a good Muslim be a good American?". The answers run through various aspects of the Muslim world vs the notions we US citizens proclaim, such as theologically, religiously, socially, politically, and several others, each answered in the negative. The final statement is thus,
"Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both "good" Muslims and good Americans."
In part I can agree with all the statements written in that email; however, it does present some disturbing angles to me going back to other immigrants of this great country, all the way back to the Vikings.
One should remember we are all of some kind of faith, even the atheists and hard-core agnostics. A Muslim is no different, he/she simply worships a different aspect of religion. It is the fanatics who use the religion as a way, as a means to an end, the end being the destruction, annihilation, total obliteration of the West, the United States in particular. The fanatics, the brainwashed, the ones who live in a state of poverty and no where else to go, nothing else to believe in but the mullahs who preach the hate, who ascribe to the literal meanings as supposedly spoken by the prophet Mohammed, who are our enemies, not Muslims across the board. I've met a few, and I wasn't intimidated by them.
I would dare say the Catholics were treated much the same way in the fledgling US way back when, as were the Lutherans, even the Methodists. I don't claim to be a theological expert, I'm just going by what I've read and heard over the years. Any one religion or sect can overrule another if it is large enough, strong enough, carries enough weight, has enough fanatical followers.
Life does bother me, concern me, however, when the true Muslims will not confront the fanatics, will not speak up for their own concerns and denounce the actions and the means of the fanatics, the fascists who proclaim Mohammed has spoken from death, to tell them this suicide mission is their only choice to get into heaven, to have their virgins. What a great idea by the fanatics, by Mohammed, in which to control the little people.
And in the face of declaration upon declaration of the hate these Islamofascists have toward anything and everything Western, how can the politicians who have been duly elected to office deny these same declarations. Have they no conscience, have they no free will to demand of the other politicians the security and dreams of this nation?
It tires me greatly to see the same old emails cross my page, with an occasional petition thrown in for good measure, always extolling the horror coming our way if the Islamofascists have their way with us, and I'm not saying they can't, but when will it happen? Sooner rather than later, I'm afraid, if the politicians don't get off their dead asses and get their heads out of the sand, take a look around, quit worrying about the "next election cycle", and start worrying about tomorrow, next week, next year.
First, and most important to me is our security. Border security, transportation security, freedom of the press security, wage security, any number of securities, for without these securities, what is the US? Nothing, absolutely nothing but an island ripe for conquering forces to do as they please.
Concerning border security, it is my understanding that the US Border Patrol is in charge of halting illegal immigration, illegal smuggling, illegal drug trafficking, etc., to the ability they are given the authority to do. In the cases of the two US Border Patrol officers who were doing their job, and who halted a Mexican attempting to smuggle drugs into this country, and who shot the man in the buttocks as he was escaping, through some quirk in the processes, these two men are now incarcerated in federal prisons. Why? Not because they were doing their jobs, what they were hired for, but for shooting an illegal Mexican in the buttocks as he was running away. What the hell, over?
I'm more upset with the President at the moment than incarcerating two men for doing their jobs in the first place. The President of the United States is sworn in and bound by the Constitution of the United States to preserve and protect the United States from all people who wish harm. However, the President has pardoned or commuted the sentence of one "Scooter" Libby, a sentence of but a couple of years, and has turned his back on two Border Patrol agents who were doing their jobs, as prescribed by their superiors. These two men are now in prison for 10 and 11 years, and are at the mercy of the prison population already incarcerated. And guess who is going to be attacked more violently than any other prisoner? Yep, former law enforcement officials. What the hell, over?
When the President's request for open immigration failed in Congress, only then has he begun to take the border security seriously. Or at least he's saving face at the moment by having the Department of Homeland Security address the issues surrounding border security. What the hell, over?
The time has come, for me anyway, to stop sitting on the sidelines, shaking my head in wonder at the actions those men and women I voted for are partaking in. The time has come for me to take an active stance, to send emails, to write letters, to call if need be, to demand my representatives DO THEIR JOBS! Period. There is no other reasonable thing to do. And if they refuse to do their jobs, if they refuse to protect the American way of life, well, hit the door, Jack.
I am but a simple man, a military retiree, but this is the country I dedicated 20+ years of my life to. When I've had enough of something, I come out fighting. How about you? Are you going to continue to sit on the sidelines, watching the daily parade run by, watching all the sacred ideals this country has protected for the past 200+ years to fall by the wayside, being politically correct instead of calling a spade a spade, and holding the government's feet to the fire?
Disgusting.
Labels: Border Patrol, GWOT, Islam, Muslim
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