An Open Letter to Gen. Petraeus

“Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult.”

General, I ask you this: what in hell is your “mission” if We The People jeopardize it by exercising our First Amendment rights in our own homeland? Is your “mission” to defend our rights against foreign enemies, or to defend foreign enemies against our rights?

You made your choice, and you justified it by claiming that you and those under your command have been taken hostage by our 7th Century terrorist enemy, and that the ransom demand you deliver to us is that we submit to your captor’s restrictions on our natural and constitutional rights – or they’ll kill you.

And I remind you that you are the most revered general in the present day, commanding in the most powerful military in all of history, during the most justifiable war in the last seventy years. So please either remember your priorities and slaughter your captors, or resign in disgrace so that we may replace you with a warrior. And if you resign, you should do so right along with President Obama, Gen. Caldwell, Pentagon Spokesman Lapan, Sec. of State Clinton, Atty. Gen. Holder, NATO Sec. Rasmussen and all others in all branches of government and in all alliances who echoed your request, whether they did so mindlessly or with surrender aforethought.

To have our own military leaders beg us to refrain from exercising our Constitutional rights on our own soil is completely un-American. And to have you make that request of us in the name of cowardice is a shocking and unthinkable perversion I still don’t have the words for.

But I do have the plan for it. We The People will force the issue right here and now. We don’t want harm to come to our military, but if peacefully exercising our rightful freedom on our own property here in our own homeland endangers you, then we will endanger you!

We will burn the Koran for freedom and post the videos for all the world to see. We can be overt or covert, named or anonymous, sparse or numerous – but ultimately we will be unstoppable, and eventually we will be effective.

We will do this because you have no f*****g right to sell our freedom down the river for the sake of our enemy’s sensitivity. We will do it because you more than have the power to defend yourselves against that enemy if only you would use it. We will do it because facing danger to defend our rightful freedom is why we pay you, train you, equip you, promote you, appoint you, deploy you, and – formerly! – revere you.

You work for us, General, not for our enemy. Therefore we will regain control over you and over this war from the command center of our own backyards. We will force you to end any of your appeasement and nation-building which would restrict our Constitutional rights. We will force you to defend yourselves and us, and to do the job you were appointed to do: destroy the enemy in defense of our freedom.

Our military has the power. We hired you to use it. Now we’ll make sure you do.

When Americans can burn our own copies of the Koran on our own soil without credible threats from jihadists or appeasement of those threats from our President and our Generals, then we will gladly stop burning them.

We are a free people, and although we clearly live in occupied territory psychologically, we do not yet live in occupied territory legally or physically. We will do as we please, and we will continue to expect all branches of our government to secure our right to do it.

I remind you that securing our rights is the only legitimate reason that governments are instituted among men in the first place, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

And not everybody among the governed consents to surrendering our rights to terrorists.

Petraeus talked about suspending constitutional rights, it doesn't matter if he was talking about one instance or a 1000. As for burning the Koran I see a need for it, especially since our leaders have run like rabbits from the muslims on the subject. If everyone had left well enough alone, let the guy do his bragging and shouting and not made a big deal out of it, it would have gone away, no one would have trashed our rights and no Korans would have burned. As it turned out the MSM and the government both made a big deal out of it, at the same time affirming the 1st amendment rights of muslim terrorists to build on GZ.

Burning Korans in itself doesn't matter, telling us we can't, or shouldn't, and cowering in their holes does matter.

Save your breath(or fingers) on an answer. You won't convince me I am wrong and you won't convince me that our leaders, both military and govermental, didn't act out of cowardice.

@reasonisfaith: (No, it’s the opposite.) You have no argument. Your merely have an assertion about what a true patriot would do - as if you had any insight. A patriot is determined by his values. So what would a true AMERICAN patriot value? Non-offense, or freedom? Appeasement of an enemy during a time of war, or defeating him quickly by all means necessary? Obeying his enemy’s command to not burn enemy texts, or burning them in defiance?

You believe that freedom is free - oh yes you do! The cost of burning books is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. The cost of defying our enemy is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. The cost of our military risking harm for our freedom is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. The cost of man cleaning up “the mess we put ourselves into” is too high for you, so you ‘argue’ against it. You don’t believe in the concept of paying even when someone else offers to. For that, you feel superior.

Now ask yourself the cost of your cost-saving. (For a full invoice, see any Muslim nation.) American citizens in FL were pressured by a unaminous world to forsake their rights, and they did; the precedent set is that our enemy’s sensitivity trumps our natural and constitutional rights. What’s the price on that? We’ll know when he figures out that he now controls the entirety of the world - military, government, media and citizens. We’ll know when we add up his next set of demands and hit “Equals”.

Our most revered modern general cited harm to our military as the reason We the People should forsake our rights; the precedents are that cowardice is to be our military’s foremost strategy, that their “mission” is something other than overcoming danger on behalf of their homeland’s freedom, and that their role now is to play hostage to any gang of terrorists who wants to issue a ransom demand. What’s the price? Read the ransom note. And get a price-check from your neighbors if our “brave” military ever decides it’s safer to attack US in oppression of our rights, than to face the enemy in defense of them.

Several talking-heads and many online posters claim that people like Terry Jones should be JAILED for offending our noble and peaceful enemy and thereby putting our precious little troopies in big bad icky old peril. But YOU aren’t LIKE Terry Jones, so why should you pay a price? You’ll find out when the jailers have finished coming for the Catholics.

EVERY member of the armed services should be more willing to die - and to kill! - for freedom than for appeasement. Ask yourself which they are dying for now.

EVERY true Western patriot should be more willing to burn the Koran in defiance of the enemy and cowardice, than for whatever reason YOU choose to ascribe to them so that you can avoid seeing the real one. Ask yourself whether you will choose to keep missing it.

Chuck
www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com

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