Posted on 06/29/2005 4:13:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The disappearance of an 18-year-old girl from Alabama in Aruba is not only terrifying, but a harbinger of just how much danger Americans expose themselves to when they step outside the boundaries of the U.S.A.
In the first place, the rights we are guaranteed under our constitution do not exist outside our borders. If you have the misfortune of being incarcerated in a foreign country you can forget about the mandatory phone call and anything else you’ve been guaranteed under our form of government.
Take it from one who knows. Back in my wild old days I was once put in jail in Juarez, Mexico. It’s a lowdown, lonesome, helpless feeling, being a gringo in the hands of the Mexican police. Thank God some people came over from El Paso and got me out.
But another and very salient point is that I don’t think a lot of foreign countries appreciate our patronage and our Yankee dollars.
Take France for instance. Do you really think they respect us when we go over there? No, they just put up with us, just tolerate us. They want to sell us their wine but that just about sums up their sincere feelings toward us.
In my opinion Mexico and the other Latin American countries have become dangerous for Americans to travel in. The reason being that they are so inundated with the drug trade and the thugs who run it who have neither decency nor conscience. Kidnap and murder are all in a day’s work for them.
And of course we know about the Middle Eastern and Southwest Asian countries.
Of course good old Australia is always happy to have us and have been one of our best friends for a long time and a great place to visit. Ditto new Zealand and the British Isles.
If you would believe the media in Canada you would think that we were not welcome there. But I don’t happen to ascribe to their theories. I believe that the vast majority of the Canadian people still welcome us with open arms. And it’s certainly not a dangerous place.
The point is there are a lot of places in the world that just don’t like Americans and maybe we’d be better off if we just stayed at home for a few years, if we devoted our foreign aid dollars to repairing our infrastructures and policing our inner city streets.
Has anybody noticed a marked difference in Russia after we gave them billions of dollars to bolster their fledging democracy? The Russian mafia has just grown stronger and the people the money was intended to help are still suffering.
Our politicians continue to pour American dollars down the bottomless abyss while the world at large just doesn’t seem to like us. And do you know something? That doesn’t bother me a whole lot.
Maybe it’s time we just stayed at home.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
June 27, 2005
Let's start supporting our own country. Turn our backs on these silly enemies.
My sister went to Vietnam, Thailand,etc. and loved every minute of it. I've only been to England,France and Italy. I wish I could travel more.
Let's start supporting our own country. Turn our backs on these silly enemies.
I haven't traveled as much as I would have liked to...but the fact of the matter is, we now live in a very small world. And the better Americans understand it, the better off we'll be.
I understand Charlie Daniels' sentiments but I do think a lot of Americans need to get out more. I met a lot of ignorant people in college and I do think it has to do with not getting out and getting to know the world.
The MSM would have you believe that the world stops at the left and right coasts of the US.....unless they have a juicy murder story from Aruba. Whatever. Join the military, see the world. Or sit at home and watch from the comfort of your own chair....and then preach that leaving the front yard is dangerous. My god...we've become a nation of nimrods......
I had a good friend and business associate who went to Columbia looking for natural gas. All he wanted to do was BUY it from them. He was kidnapped and murdered by thugs down there. He was in his 30's with a wife and kids.
Well… I've never been to Boston… but I've been to Oklahoma
Yes, absolutely!
(p.s. what's a nimrod?)
I don't think she was targeted because she was American but but because she was female. Same thing could happen anywhere. The only alternative is to stay looked up in your house forever.
I'm sorry. That being said, Nuevo Laredo has had the last 7 police chiefs killed, since January. Aruba isn't Mexico, Aruba isn't D.C., so why is the MSM pushing, day in and day out, a single American murder in Aruba? Where's the coverage of American border towns...kidnapping of American business men, the breakdown of border security.....? I'll tell you where, the attention span of the average American is 30 seconds......
Any areas outside the immediate vicinity of the Capitol in DC is akin to a third world country.
Just recently the police chief's car was stolen and pro baseball players cars were broken into in a supposedly secure parking garage at RFK stadium.
This ain't no rag, it's a flag and we don't wear it on our heads. Do it Charlie!
Mexico absolutely sucks. Even in a safe gringo area, you are harrassed constantly.
That is absolutely not true for the rest of Central America, where tourists and businessmen are welcomed and the people are respectful but friendly.
How do you define coverage? You do understand that in an era of 24 hour cable news the news has to be reported even if there is no news. So it turns into a soap opera. The coverage of Natalie could be pre-empted by the action of the bond market today (which affects many more people) but it wouldn't keep Fox News ahead of CNN. (Or, maybe it would?)
I guess this is just to "local" for CNNABCCBSNBCFOX to broadcast. Aruba is a much more interesting story..../s
You are correct FRiend. I'm on my high horse....and I often forget that I'm posting to those that actually READ the news on FR. My apologies......
I traveled in Colombia several decades ago -- in tourist areas, while it was still safe. I never felt SO FAR from Washington, DC and the legal protection of this country. No other country has the laws, the order, the protection of the citizen. And we have English Law -- innocent til proven guilty. It is naive to assume that you have the same protection or the same law enforcement ANYWHERE else in the world. Including Aruba. It looks like Paradise but it is NOT.
I'm not chastizing. Lord knows I could be chastized. I'm really agreeing with you. You know what the problem really is? It's not that Fox, or anybody else over-covers these kinds of stories, it's that we WATCH IT. Why? I only watch Fox to hear a new take on something I have already read and had analyzed on Free Republic during the day. There really is no other reason for me to watch it. You know what? I think I watch TV because I have since I was 5 years old. That is the only reason. Wow. I've had a vision.
Actually, I think our foreign aid ought to be tied to who likes us and who doesn't. If you're anti-American, you get zero, zip, nada.
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