Posted on 02/22/2006 11:48:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
Greeting, fellow Americans. I have some serious news for you about the war against the terrorists, the war we are fighting to protect our liberties and our Constitution against Islamic totalitarianism. We're losing, big time. I don't mean we're losing in Iraq, where our brave men and women are fighting well in difficult conditions and with the home grown doubters at their heels. Nor in Afghanistan, where our men and women in uniform are also fighting brilliantly.
No, we are losing our freedom here at home, and in a particularly nasty way. It has to do with those cartoons mocking Mohammed that were published in a Danish publication and have excited riots and burnings across the Moslem world and fear and terror in Europe.
The problem here is that some students at the University of Illinois' student newspaper thought -- with some reason -- that the cartoons are newsworthy. They published six of them along with a written statement of why the cartoons were offensive. A few Moslem students complained, which surely is their right. The university officials stepped in and the student editors were essentially fired. Yes, because a student publication might cause offense. Imagine that.
That's on top of the fact that despite these cartoons being huge news, not one major paper has reprinted them. Not the fearless Washington Post, not the thorough Wall Street Journal, not any major newspaper of record that I know of. Nor have any of the major networks shown them, as far as I know.
So here's where we are: we have a first amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech and separation of church and state. That means so-called artists can make art of a crucifix soaking in urine and of holy Christian images made of animal dung and no one can stop them. That means bookstores of brick and on-line can sell Mein Kampf and the vilest writings of Hitler's lackeys. These horrible excrescences are protected and the media screams bloody murder if anyone tries to protect the sacred in Christianity and Judaism from the most putrid attacks.
But the media censors itself about the cartoons mocking the prophet of a religion many of whose adherents want to destroy our country and our way of life. We will fight to the death to protect the artists who create Piss Christ, but we'll also fight to the death to protect the feelings of the people who hate us and kill our children. We have surrendered our free expression to people who are at war with us. They kill us in the name of a religion and we bow and scrape to that religion while letting people dump on Christianity and Judaism.
There's a word for this, beyond the words Stockholm Syndrome and the words Political Correctness. The word is cowardice. Or maybe an even shorter word: defeat. Wake up, America. This is serious.
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LOL! Nice sarcasm.
He is always right on target. And it takes fewer words than with most.
We will fight to the death to protect the artists who create Piss Christ, but we'll also fight to the death to protect the feelings of the people who hate us and kill our children. We have surrendered our free expression to people who are at war with us. They kill us in the name of a religion and we bow and scrape to that religion while letting people dump on Christianity and Judaism.
Yes, Ben has become the master of terse plain-spokenness.
"Wake up, America. This is serious."
Worth repeating...
This Christian will never scumb to Devil worshiping barbarians, not as long as I have a .45 ACP!
I like Ben's writing. Thanks
When we said "Free Speech/Press" we didn't mean for you!
- the American Left
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Ben Stein spoke at Pepperdine University last week, where I'm going to Graduate School.
He's brilliant. A truly great American in every sense of the word.
Mind control is what this is about. And we are meekly obeying.
We should be flying the Danish Flag - and printing the cartoons. (Have you seen the cartoons? They are well done.)
By bowing and scraping to these lunatics, we are OBEYING them - get it? We are saying that we will never ever again do anything that will "offend" them.
These imams are used to total control of each and every person under them - even to detailed instructions of how to go to the bathroom. (NO JOKE) - And they intend on training the rest of us to obey as well.
WAKE UP. This is, as the article says, serious. It has nothing to do with cartoons.
I have made a Danish flag with red and white poster board and nailed to a tree out front. NOT just in solidarity with the Danes - but with the free, sane world.
It is ourselves we must protect by not kowtowing.
We stand together - or we fall apart.
Fly the Danish Flag - it will give the terrorists a silent/loud message. We do not obey imams.
I think Ben would make a great President. He is a lot better man than most of the Republican hacks (McCain, so forth)in the soon coming race. My opinion only.
The idea is not to wait and give them the upper hand to a point where we will be fighting in our back yards/ The idea is to fight NOW - in this will of minds. This is pure intimidation aimed at teaching us to obey the imams. We are quiet to our peril.
We stand together - or we fall apart.
I have to say that this is the most afraid I have been in my life - and I am a grandmother 15 times! ARe we going to bow down and meekly surrender? (Gals, order your burkas.) This is mind-control. It has NOTHING to do with the cartoons that were printed 6 months ago. They are the excuse - to start training us to obey - never to "offend." Fly the Danish Flag - not just for them - for for all of us.
Can y ou doubt that the Mosque bombing isn't a result of the message of cowardice we have given these past two weeks by refusing to stick up for our rights - for the rights of free speech and self rule?
Their rioting was a test. We failed. Our cowardice, our acquiescence emboldened them - gave them the red light to push further.
If we do not stand up now - we will pay dearly soon. And our brave troops will be the first to pay.
Get a spine. Get the Danish flag flying everywhere...write letters to the editor - or find a hole to crawl into....you're going to need it.
This is right on the mark.
Don't worry, Ben, FR published em! What are they gonna do, come to my house and unplug my computer? The plug is over there, behind my ammo box.
They have been trying to lead us around by the nose for 60 years, telling us what to believe, when to jump and how high and now that there are alternatives to their canned musings we can clearly see what cowardly dogs they are if there's even a remote chance that their oh-so-important lives might be on the line.
Freedom of the press is fine unless some illiterate smalltime imam in East Ashcanistan might declare a fatwa against tubby little fags like Pinch Sulzsomething-or-other and his disgusting ilk.
The propaganda press is also censoring the pictures of 9-11.
This Christian will never scumb to Devil worshiping barbarians, not as long as I have a .45 ACP!
8 posted on 02/22/2006 11:57:54 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA
That is what it is going to come down to, an individual decision by each individual.
When? I don't know the exact time but I believe it will within the next 20 years at the latest.
The people that own the mass media networks hate four things:
1. President Bush 2. Christians 3. Jews 4. Legitimte gun owners.
They see in the muslims a way to get rid if of the four things on their list. The fourth they will influence idiots, crooks, and tyramts to enact laws abolishing private legitimate gun ownership.
President Bush is on his way out but their hatered for him is so intense that they will not rest until he is in his grave.
Their hatered of Christians and Jews has blinded them to the real nature and goal of the followers of the pervert. In them they think that they have an ally but they fail to see that to the followers of the pervert they are only another infidel. Whose head is to be chopped off or enslaved until they are of no more use and then their head chopped off.
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