Dixie Daily News gone liberal?

I'm sorry, but I couldn't make it halfway thru this list before deciding that this guy is the poster boy for the "Dumbest things uttered" by anyone. He's a classic DimLib which qualifies him on those merits alone! But dang, just once I'd like to see a breath of originality out of these hateful, bigoted, morons!

I could get thru some of this screed if it weren't pure drivel!

It's absolutely no wonder that the Dim Party is in shambles with "icons" such as this guy trying to help them pull their pants back up.

Corraling protestors into "free-speech" zones at public appearances (gassing them in Oregon last year); stepped-up harassment at airports (not of the ones fitting the 'terrorist' profile, but innocent Americans on vacation); Rep. Henry Hyde saying Constitution is 'obsolete', 'overtaken by events'. PATRIOT Act. The standard police-state encroachments. Hillary couldn't have done a better job (ouch, I realize this site is pro-Bush, all the time).

Had the organizations involved not had a history of violence, the "protestors" would not have had to be restrained. Had they behaved, they would not have been "gassed". If we could ditch the leftist concept of political correctness, we could limit our airport searches to the most likely suspects. Henry Hyde is dead wrong (if that is an accurate quote). The ACLU has not been able to produce one innocent American deprived of rights under the Patriot Act.

Immigrants from the old Soviet Union laugh up a storm when they hear the U.S. called a "police state".

And pro-Bush? Yeah, when the alternatives are so dangerous. When he is wrong (not sealing the borders, not vetoing pork filled spending bills, permitting Clintonite bureaucrats to keep powerful positions, not speaking out about the enemy within, respecting Islam, etc.) many of us take issue with him. I suggested a write-in protest vote in the primary elections to get the administration's attention.

But I'll stick with him until a better and viable alternative is suggested.

"Dixie Daily News gone Liebral?"

I wouldn't doubt it. Southerns have been beaten down so much that they've been made to feel ashamed to be southern. This is what happens when all the media is based in one city (NYC). Think about this: the South on its own would be the third largest economy in the world, and comparable in terms of population to the country of Germany. But yet the South has no real regional media of its own (Cable networks, Cable news networks, etc.)

The inevitable result of Yankees controlling all the media (and you're a fool if you don't think they don't) is that Southerns are degraded so much that they eventually become ashamed to be Southern. What the South needs is a cable news network devoted to showing the southern point of view and expressing southern values.

P.S. I saw somewhere on this site that someone referred to President Bush as a "Southern" president. No way. I would remind you that large parts of Texas have been invaded to the point that they are no longer even part of this country. There are many southerners who are furious at bush for his immigration policy (I'm one of them). I would also remind you that Bush's family are basically all carpetbagging Yankees.

"Immigrants from the old Soviet Union laugh up a storm when they hear the U.S. called a 'police state'."

Ahhh, the truth at last. Many of us do not hail from an east European culture where the norm is just two classes -- peasant serfs and a despotic ruling class kept in power by state-run terror. I suspect that is why so many pro-Bush, pro-war conservatives are so blase about what is happening to this country.

Some of the Oregon protestors with a "history of violence" included families with children.

"Henry Hyde is dead wrong (if that is an accurate quote)."

From a Oct. 3, 2003, speech by Henry Hyde while HJR 114 (to send troops into Iraq) was being debated:

"There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events and by time[!]. Declaration of war is one of them[!]. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don't have to?[!] We are saying to the President, use your judgment...So, to demand that we declare war is to strengthen something to death. You have got a hammerlock on this situation; and it is not called for, inappropriate, anachronistic[!]. It isn't done anymore."

The administration has just announced there is a troop shortage in the eternal "war on terrorism" and a reinstitution of the draft may be necessary. A provision of the Bush-sponsored No Child Left Behind Act gives military recruiters access to the names, addresses and phone numbers of every high school graduate unless the student or his parents sign a waiver. All such waivers will doubtless go into a government database of Americans who refuse to be "team players".

How convenient.

I voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and will likely vote for him in 2004; however, I have never had any illusions about him and the Republican Party which he represents.

The Empire subjected the Republic under the first Caesar, Lincoln, who was a Republican. Them Empire under McKinnley and the Hearst Press sent us into a war with Spain, the results of which expanded the Empire into the Pacific. The Empire liberated none of the peoples it claimed it was going to help in that war; it continued violent wars against them; and in the Philippines, the Empire placed itself in the sphere of interest of another empire, the Empire of Japan.

The Republican created Empire then fell to the Democrats under Wilson who in the name of Democracy thrust the Empire into the conflict in Europe and changed the course of the conflict which would with that change provide the context for the rise of Stalin and Hitler.

The Empire still in the hands of the Democrats would engineer the New Deal at home, enlarging the power of the national government and play such failed politics as to get us engaged WWII. The end result of that war was the beginning of the long, costly and dangerous Cold War.

With the end of the Cold War, the Empire has engaged us in Panama, in the Balkins, and in the Middle East.

We Southerner, black and white, were the first victims of the Empire. Yet, after becoming its victims, we have been its most loyal soldiers, with white Southerners making up a large percentage of combat MOS's and Black Southerners making up a disproportionate amount in other MOS's. In empires of the past, many of the first conquered have become the best soldiers of the empire in question. This is true with this Empire as well.

The last time Americans directly fought to protect their borders, to protect their homes and to protect their wives and children from an enemy determined to penentrate those borders, to destroy those homes and to violate those wives was when Southern Confederate men, between 1861-1865, fought the beast whom we how serve. All other wars in which the Empire has participated have been fought at the expense of other countries, to whose aid the "benevolent" Empire always came under the guise of "making the world safe for democray," "creating a new order for peace," "bringing justice," and now "bringing freedom."

Bush is no Southerner. He is a New Englander who has grafted himself into Texas.

As I said, I will probably vote for him because the rot seems to come more slowly under the current Republicans than under the Democrats; but also as I have said, I am under no illusions.

P.S. If the quotes attributed to Bush are accurate, I too think that the words are vapid but paracoxically dangerous. I'm not a liberal, a libertarian or a neo-con. I am a Confederate in the sense of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, J.C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis.

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Aw, Shucks!