Posted on 01/28/2006 9:37:18 AM PST by .cnI redruM
No eternal vigilance is the price we pay for freedom. Vigilance against people like joel stein.
Amen. And God bless our troops.
...and he says if American soldiers would simply refuse to go fight or would quit and come home, the war would be over.
There's another way to end the war. Congress could cut off the funding for it. Why do the libs never mention this? Maybe because they don't have the guts to try it?
Stein is a parasite.
I suppose the Joel Stein's are the price we have to pay to live in the freest country in the world, but we don't have to embrace his beliefs. Just as he is free to voice his opinion, I am free to call him an idiot for saying it.
There are always weevils in the cotton and RATs in the corn crib. A certain level is normal but when the vermin get out of hand you've got to deal with them.
BEN STEIN is my a good guy.
Joel Stein evidently lacks a conscience to tell him the difference between right and wrong. Or, more likely, he has managed to put his conscience to sleep by ignoring it or violating it for many years. Everyone has a conscience, but it's possible to sink yourself so deeply into evil habits that you can no longer hear it.
It's hard to make someone like that understand the perversity and wickedness of his ways. But perhaps we can make the LA Times understand it. The LA Times is a business operation. It needs subscribers and advertisers. It's not doing very well lately.
You got it.
Joel Stein should brush up on his law. Specifically, Title 18 of the United States Code:
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > § 2381 Prev | Next
§ 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002381----000-.html
It's about time the Attorney General empaneled a Federal Grand Jury in order to submit information on alleged tratiors like Mr. Stein, and certain others whose names are well known. If the Grand Jury returns a no bill, game over. But if they indict, then he should prosecute.
IMHO Mr. Stein's comments don't warrant the maximum penalty under the statute; the minimum should suffice.
What a wonderful, unique way to view our men and women in uniform!
That's precisely true. If no one buys the LA Times, no one reads Joel Stein. At least no one that Joel Stein can reach outside of his trolladytic echo chamber.
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He's only saying what them left truly feels.
I suppose the reason they don't try and force Congress to cut the funding is that too many of the Senators in their captive party are supportive of the war ie: Mrs Bill Clinton. To force the issue would fracture their already splintered party perhaps for good, guaranteeing the Repubs keep power for at least the forseeable future without too much of a fight. One knock against libnut pols is that they bend with the wind to whichever side of the political issue is most popular at the time. If their force caused Mrs Clinton to change her support for the war(we know it's BS anyway) that would make too many independant thinking american voters say, "looky there, another flip flopper for the dems". No, they are dumb, but not THAT dumb.
John Stuart Hill
"Saints in Armor" - a very fine definition of our precious military. Thank you, Ben Stein!
What an awesome article! I just sent the link to it from the American Spectator to my brother whose son flies Apache Longbows in Afghanistan and some friends whose daughter is an Army Intelligence office with a Stryker brigade in Iraq.
And has felt for decades. The revolting sense of personal entitlement is what makes me want to puke. The left habitually attracts, breeds and champions parasites.
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