Thursday, November 5, 2009
Americans Cannot Let Down Their Guard For A Minute
I went to work today, just like I do everyday Monday through Friday, only to discover upon my return that, once again, America's freedoms had been compromised by idealistic legislation, criminal acts, and weak leadership in Washington. We hard working Americans can't simply come home, put our feet up, and relax anymore because there are a whole bunch of national issues that slap us in the face the minute we turn on the news, read the paper, or listen to the radio. There is no escaping the onslaught of injustices being inflicted upon American freedoms. For example, take today, November 5, 2009: at approximately 3:30 pm, I turned on the radio to hear that an army officer named Malik Nadal Hasan at Fort Hood shot and killed 12 people and wounded 31 others raising many questions in my mind; next I learned that a Senate committee just passed a climate bill foreshadowing huge tax increases, job losses, etc. for Americans; futhermore, Senator Dodd proposed a bill that would create a new agency to regulate and supervise all banks and bank holding companies (this agency would be overseen by a special White House appointee) taking away this function from the Federal Reserve and FDIC; continuing with the news, the Senate struck down a measure that would allow census takers to ask people in the census if they were US citizens; as if this wasn't enough "news" to overload any decent, freedom loving American brain, Obama couldn't stop bragging about the endorsement of AARP and the AMA of his healthcare bill and, while we are on healthcare, Pelosi wants a vote this weekend on healthcare which, along with climate legislation, presents the greatest threat to American freedoms ever enacted; and wrapping up the news, Obama was slow to recognize the massacre that had happened at Fort Hood while speaking to a crowd of Native Americans as he stuck to his TelePrompTer speech waiting a good two and one half minutes before he said anything about this tragedy (it is terrifying that Obama can jet out to New Jersey 5 times to campaign for a losing candidate and yet he doesn't take the time to finalize a plan of action in Afghanistan). Now, I am headed back to work at 6:00 pm to resume parent/teacher conferences until 8:00 pm. I wonder what news will be awaiting me when I arrive home.
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this continual onslaught on our freedom defies everything written in our Constitution. God bless the 20,000 plus people who went to washington dc today to stand up for liberty! God bless mark levin, michelle bauchman, ben stein, jon voight, and all the other working men and women (children, too) who took a day from work, to protest this travesty... May God bless this great country!
Thank goodness for those of us who still get up everyday and strive to be the best we can be and to work our hardest to do what's right knowing that; the leadership in Washington would like us all to roll over and submit to their destructive of idealism where government controls all aspects of our lives. Remember, when things get tough, the tough get going; in this case, we need to get going to get America back on the right track.
I think, a big part of getting America back on track will require a thorough scrutinizing of our over-assimilation with cultural relativism and brainless impartiality.
Reading the recent reports from the Ft. Hood shooting, I was astonished at the preventability of this attack- that is - if people were allowed to act on their moral, rational, and logical convictions without being sued and having their careers destroyed (sometimes worse).
Here's an idea: A Muslim, with close (Palestinian) family living in the West Bank, who demonstrates an explicit conflict with the war in the Middle East - Might Not Be the Best Candidate for Counseling Post-Traumatic-Stress Soldiers (!!??!!). He also might not be the best candidate for continued US military service. My guess is that this logical idea was held by many, but not acted upon for fear of discrimination charges.
We've got an Exodus 23:2,3 problem going on in this country, where justice is perverted in the name of "impartiality" and "anti-discrimination." We are collectively coaxed into siding with wrong, deviance (and often evil) so as not to offend it (which in itself is an acceptance of it). And in doing so, we collectively punish and condemn the innocent (whose voices are muted out by their labeled "privilege").
I support and want to live in a country where people of all religions, certainly races, and cultural backgrounds can live without the fear of persecution. However, this very principal requires that we subscribe to a common moral standard, so that justice (right and wrong) does not dissolve into a sick game of legal rhetoric and bullying. We need to protect the ability to discriminate against "wrong" and "evil." In doing so, we protect the ability to uphold "right" "truth" and "freedom."
I distinguish between "wrong" and "evil," because I think it is "wrong" for an anti-war Muslim to serve as psychiatric support in the US military during a largely Muslim-based conflict. (We use more screening for bias in choosing juries for small claims issues!) I don't think it is "evil." In this case however, the allowance of "wrong" led to a vulnerability to "evil," both for the shooter, as well as his victims.
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