Posted on 06/06/2004 3:55:13 PM PDT by Alouette
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A truth that was instantly understood by prisoners of the Soviet gulag but that to this day is not understood by most of our primped and pampered media.
Interesting article. Andrea Mitchell felt compelled today to mention that Reagan sometimes confused his facts. This author is spot-on about the difference between being correct with every single fact or name you state and being correct about right and wrong.
Prairie
Perhaps we could throw the media in a 8 x 10 foot prison cell under hostile dictatorships for several months and see if their understanding improves. Somehow I think it might.....
Prairie
Little did Sharansky know that the america hating, communist loving media right here in the United States criticized President Reagan for daring to call the Soviet's what they were.......EVIL.
Maybe, but although such treatment is said to focus the mind, their minds may be too underdeveloped to notice.
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Albert Gore Jr. - Knows facts and figures.
G.W.Bush - Knows right and wrong, freedom and tyranny.
LOL, this is a eulogy that President Reagan would have loved.
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Thanks for the ping. The very first vote I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan in my state's Republican presidential primary in 1976. Though I must confess that in the same primary four years later I voted for Phil Crane! I voted for him (Reagan) in both generals, though!
Great article.
I remember a gentleman named Anatoly Sharansky, and think that Natan is his nickname?
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A dramatic example of Soviet persecution of Jews was Anatoly Sharansky. In 1977, Sharansky was abducted by the KGB outside his apartment on Gorky Street and charged with espionage and treason crimes punishable by death. He spent nine years in Lefortovo Prison, where he symbolized Reagans description of the religious dissident trapped in that cold, cruel existence. Sharansky later said of his interrogators: They wanted to use me to destroy Jews who hoped to leave for Israel.
In prison, Sharansky befriended Volodia Poresh, a Christian. The two secretly started each day with a Bible study, reading both the Old and New Testaments. They called these sessions Reaganite readings. Reagan had declared a Year of the Bible, a designation dismissed as childish by the Kremlin and some Western elites. Sharansky and Poresh Jewish and Christian brothers quite disagreed: they gained strength from that Bible in coping with the evil (Sharanskys word) they faced.
Eventually, Sharansky was freed. In January 1989 he met President Reagan, who awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal. Sharansky told Reagan that if he ever had any sad moments once he left the presidency, he should think about Sharanskys happy family and the thousands praying in Soviet camps. He thanked Reagan for Soviet citizens who were free today not because of some good will of Soviet leaders but because of their struggle and your struggle.
Today, Sharansky, who goes by the first name Natan, is a prominent player in Israeli politics and a leader among Russian Jews seeking their biblical homeland.
Ronald Reagans respect for Jews was ingrained in his upbringing and his faith. He drew upon Christian motivations in interceding to help Jews whenever he could. Anyone who thinks that a Christian who rejoices over Easter cannot reach out to Jews ought to contemplate Reagans example. Jesus Christ said that He came for all people Jew and Gentile alike; it was a message Ronald Reagan took to heart.
And take it you idiots praising the cockroaches Sinkmaster, Lifeguard and Peanut Farmer for their insincere, cliche filled, boilerplate eulogies scribled by their taxpayer paid polscience graduate flunkies!
"You can know a man by his friends but you'll know him better by his enemies"
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Thanks Natan. What an extraordinary tribute to an extraordinary man who cared til every one behind the Iron Curtain was free. And its thanks to his effort there is no longer an evil empire to threaten the freedom and peace of the Free World. Rest in peace, Mr. President. Its your reward for a job well done and a wonderful life well lived.
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