[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[Phlip]

----- Original Message

> At 08:43 AM 6/19/02, you wrote:
> Think it was Franklin who said it and he was right.
> Seems to me that a couple of thousand  Alcaida b'stards have stampeded us
> into a panic
> and caused us to give up more freedom than whole nations of nasty commies
> managed to do over whole generations.
> It is the freedom  that makes this nation great...we are fools to cave in
> so badly.

I've gotta agree, guys. I'm no, "My Country Right or Wrong" jingoist-
I feel when my country is wrong, it's part of my responsibility to point
that out- and offer a solution, and help implement that solution, if I can.
But I'm damn well a patriot.

If my friend is full of shit, I'll tell him he's full of shit, and why. And
then try to offer a solution. I'm still his friend.

Watching people panic over all this terrorist stuff. Jeeze, look what the
Isaelis are dealing with- and the Arabs, too, as far as that goes. Neither
one of them's lily pure. But at least, they're trying to deal with it,
however wrongly.

Here we sit, with the bunny huggers chattering in their burrows. They're
unarmed victims so they want all of us to be disarmed.

Ain't gonna happen, guys. I may not have a physical weapon- usually don't,
weapons get in the way of a good fight. But I know how to use one, the one
between my ears. And, I understand, that I have the right, the unconquerable
right, to decide to give in (for the moment) or to stand up and die, or,
most importantly, to die trying.

My opinion isn't very politically correct- never has been, never will be.
I'm not fooled by promises of "security" and other imaginary wonderfulness.
I feel that instead of disarming passengers, they ought to arm every last
one, if they know how to use a gun. Any passenger gets obnoxious, blow the
bastard away. I'm going to Miami, or I'm going to Hell, but by Damn, I AIN'T
going to Havana.... or into an inhabited building, or off to hurt other
folks that did me no wrong.

I think the thing I learned most, from the September 11th thing, was from
the passengers who went down near Pittsburgh. I salute them. They went to
Hell in their own handbasket!

And that's what being an American should mean.

Look what the polite little sheep accomplished.... they stayed in their
seats, let the Big Bad Knives scare them into submission, and by inaction,
were responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. Not all that
different from what the German citizens accomplished, while the Jews, among
others, went to the ovens and gas chambers- after all, it wasn't THEM, the
Good Citizens of Germany, who were in the spotlight.....

A couple of times, I've been assaulted with rape in the bastards' minds.
Didn't happen. Both of them were bigger than I am, stronger, all that. Both
of them wound up with bruises. So did I, but I wasn't raped.....And I've sat
there, with a loaded gun pointed right between my eyes, and told the SOB
precisely where to stick that gun. Every time, I knew I might get hurt, or
dead. But, I didn't back down. And, I lived. With no victim trauma either.

Violence is not a good thing guys, and it is the last option you should use.
But, if you're up against a violent person, you have no choice but to do
what you have to do, even if you get dead doing it.

I really think it's time we broke out of sheep mode, and quit relying on the
government, or whatever, to protect us. We need to take responsibility for
our own actions, including acquiesence to evil.

I salute the folks in the Pittsburgh flight.

They were Americans.

Phlip