FReepers: we need you now more than ever. Don't go!

FReepers, I know exactly how you feel right now. The shock of this election still weighs heavily on your minds, yet, not as much as it did on Tuesday and Wednesday. It felt like someone reached into your chest and ripped out your heart -- as if someone had just stabbed you in the gut. You didn’t feel like eating, talking, listening, sleeping, or watching TV – especially TV, for the utter and complete failure of the media to be fair, to be balanced, to refrain from acting like the Three Monkeys and shut off all their senses to what was going on around them.

You and I are experiencing the first stage in the grieving process: a model for helping us to understand and deal with trauma and with the loss of a loved one. It's not just for death and dying, for this process applies to our love of country, our respect for our Constitution, our desire to keep America a strong, but righteous nation, and to feel really proud throughout our entire lives, from the first time to the last time.

I was in high school when JFK was assassinated. I can say that, at no time in my past have I been as shaken to the core as that fateful day in Dallas. For on that day, we witnessed the death of much more than a man, much more than a President, much more than a world leader, much more than a visionary, and much more than someone who we welcomed into our homes as a trusted friend. Our country felt a tremendous loss, just as we here do today, with respect to our country, our families, our neighbors, and ourselves. Yet, somehow, we managed through that collective pain to pull together as a nation, and to put away hatred for resolve. We began to heal our wounds. We still had a major war to fight – a war that none of us wanted to have. A war not at all like the wars of today, and one where our country was forced to accept defeat.

For us, wherever tyranny rears its ugly head, we heed the call. Whenever our cherished liberties are threatened, we bind together. And, whatever trials and tribulations our great nation must undergo, “Defeat is not an option.” When we laid JFK to rest, we thought that the worst was behind us. We were, once again, united in purpose, but not by viewing the world with rose-colored glasses.

When the year 1968 arrived, we had already renewed our vows to our country, our commitments to all our servicemen and servicewomen still guarding the outposts to Freedom. We reaffirmed our commitment to protecting those freedoms at all costs, and we understood that no amount of sacrifice would ever be too great to bear. We made a promise to our fellow Americans, to our friends and neighbors, to our families, and most of all, to ourselves. That we will never allow Evil to triumph over Good. We were guided by these commitments and our faith in a glorious Union that had survived so many tests of its limits, of its fortitude, and of its resolve to remain intact.

We were ready, willing, and able, to move past our failures, and take on the challenges and opportunities before us. Just as we had welcomes the coming of the new year, less than four months after it began, we were once again eviscerated by the bullets of a man who hated the very idea of peace in our time.

Two months later, Robert F. Kennedy, would also succumb to the hatred of a lone gunman – or so they say. There was pure evil that resided in the mind of Oswald, but he was not alone, for that same evil permeated the soulless hosts of James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, and the other sixteen people who sought to snuff out the lives of other Presidents and Presidents-elect. In 1968 and ’69, Evil ruled the day as it sought out the very worst that America had to offer in the personages of William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Tom Hayden, and the shadowy groups of radical leftists who espoused terrorism, racial hatred of whites, and Marxist revolution.

In the early 50’s, Americans had become paranoid of communists, thanks in great measure to McCarthy, and their obsessed with the notion that their great country was overrun with Socalist sympathizers. Who among them would have guessed that their fears in the 50’s would play out in the late 60’s with the birth of radical, anti-war activists listed above.

Here we are, four decades removed from the despicable and dastardly deeds of the Weather Underground, feeling complacent that these domestic terrorists were put somewhere far away so that they would not hurt anyone, anymore – as university professors.

We are heartbroken to hear how far our great country has fallen, how far to the left of Reason it has gone, and how far removed from the principles and ideals that kept her strong, determined, and united as one. It took a major tragedy to jolt us to our senses, to realize that the days of feeling safe at home are no more.

But, they never were – not like we imagined them. For as long as evil people are given a voice, there will be people to hear it. For as long as evil people are chosen to lead, there will be people who will follow. And, for as long as evil people are asked to think for us, because we no longer feel capable of thinking for ourselves, there will be people who will hand over their very souls in exchange for an imaginary paradise.

Someone once said that, for the first time in her adult life, that she felt really proud of her country. Yet, we gather here, to bear testimony, that, for the first time, in our adult lives, we feel ashamed of our country, for bending to the will of the Left. We feel empty inside, but I ask that you fill that void with the Spirit of America that will never die. I ask you to lift your heads high, and be proud of all those who stood with you, virtually toe-to-toe, if not actually so.

Freedoms cannot be bought. Patriotism cannot we borrowed. Righteousness cannot be traded. We ask no glory for ourselves, but for the greater glory that has kept our nation strong, protected, and shielded from the evil that lurks within.

We hear their voices for change, but what makes our country great is that so many like it just the way it is. I ask you all, to stay together, to keep this bond going, throughout the storms to come, and there will be many.

America was withstood challenge after challenge, whether from without, or within. Even when the minds of so many have been turned against us. Even when the minds of many conspire to bring our nation to its knees. I say to them, “YOU DON’T KNOW AMERICA!”

I turn to those who say, “God D**n America,” “and answer, “Here’s the door. Don’t let it hit you on your way out.”

They think that America is through, but they don’t know, they were through before they even began.

Now, more than ever, your country is waiting for you to take it back, bit by bit, piece by piece, to quote those who seek to usurp it.

Nobody kicks A- like Americans. You cannot lie to us. You cannot make promises that you won’t keep. You cannot have what we died for.

Eternal vigilance is the price for Freedom. Let us all be vigilant in the days ahead.

Some pretty good writings there bucko. I don’t think things are quite that extreme on a few minor points, but overall, well done.

Obama is too incompetent to do anywhere near what he has said he would. He only now, is lining up some of his radical friends to help him disassemble the greatest nation in the history of the World, but has no clue about how to go about it. Neither do his incompetent misguided pals who also have no clue how go about turning everything proven to work so incredibly well, completely upside down and inside out and left laying in a chaotic pile without an instruction manual for reassembly.

They must think they will get lucky, sort of like BJ Clintoon did. But Clintoon stepped on a carpet that was skillfully woven by Ronnie Reagan and rode it so smoothly, he decided to take all the credit for it.

In this case, Obama will not be so lucky. He will have the media, Chris Matthews and others to do everything they can to make his Presidency a success, but even they can only lie for just so long. It’s like sweeping dirt under a rug. You get away with it for a while, but before long, a lump appears and eventually becomes a mound of filth to have to deal with later.

It will be a bumpy ride, but smart Conservatives will make the right moves to come through it in good shape. I know I certainly will.

Got a copy printed out. From the comments directed at me they know both Jr and Bobby Titcomb. I find it interesting that they responded to a post which I made in August about comments brought over here from topix.com about Bobby Titcomb. I didn’t make the original comments, but a few Freepers including myself commented on them! Did I strike a little too close to home?

I agree altho it is good to note that some of the rules he used are universal—I actually went to a saul alinsky seminar about 15 years ago. The first question was “define power” and someone defined it as “the ability to motivate people to do something.” The organizer responded to the woman that she could leave the session because she knew what he was going to teach. Basically, it was methods like framing the argument, canvassing, etc. tho there were some shenanigans-type stuff like was done for Mondale campaign.

Do you really think think John McCain could end a fraternity of like minded, obstinant conservatives?

Whatever people think about John McCain. the big thing to remember is that he would never

Pall around with terrorists like Ayers, Doehrn, Odinga, Khalidi Build a million man "civilian Gestapo" Use hide his birth certificate, medical records, school records, foreign passports, alias, etc., and put a gag order on all his friends. Talk to terrorist and terrorist nations w/o conditions Abandon Israel Give welfare checks to 101 million Americans. Spend $870 million of taxpayer money to "End World Hunger." Destroy the Health Care system Have governmental officials violate your personal privacy like he did with Joe the Plumber. Put small businesses out of business. Punish the oil companies Redistribute the wealth and punish successful people and businesses.

and on and on....

There's no comparison between the two. As bad as people think John Cain is, we'd still have a place called, "America'" after 4 years.

I agree altho it is good to note that some of the rules he used are universal—I actually went to a saul alinsky seminar about 15 years ago.

Around the same time that you attended the Alinsky seminar, my wife and I were heading up a neighborhood block club in an effort to turn our failing neighborhood around. I published a neighborhood newsletter and delivered it to a thousand or so houses in the neighborhood. While delivering the newsletter to my church rectory up the street, I was introduced to a guy who had just been hired by the Diocese to do community organizing work.

Back then, I didn't know who Saul Alinsky was, but the community organizer did and he was trying to organize the churches in the area to promote positive change. We worked on a few initiatives together and he wanted to send me to training. Guess where... Chicago! I'm not sure if the training was through Alinsky's Industrial Area Foundation or with the Gamaliel Foundation.

My wife and I decided to move out of that neighborhood, out to the suburbs to get our kids away from the crime and violence. I backed out of the training as well.

BTW, my old city neighborhood has gotten worse in the past 15 years. That community organizing didn't do squat to change things for the better in the neighborhood, just like Obama's work with Developing Communities Project in Chicago's south-side didn't do squat for that neighborhood.

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