This is my idea of Patriot Qualification:
You left off the "Barf Bag" alert.
Tell me again, how many children did Jefferson blow up? Were there English civilians murdered and burned upside down? Did the colonialists set off bombs to kill everyone just in order to agitate?
This guy is an idiot.
And what weird clowns went to your birthday parties? Are you really Keith Olbermoann?
Who is this punk?
Did you see the source on this? Here:
Ludwig von Mises Institute Home
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economics..
When I read this, my very first thought was "This guy is a liberal idiot who has probably spent a good deal of time in an ivory tower pontificating to himself because he enjoys the sound of himself speaking..."
Then, I thought, I should check the source first before I say that. Funny how you can just pick them out after a few words in the first paragraph.
If I hear one more LIBERAL MORON compare the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan to our Founding Fathers, I am going to send out a team to revoke their right to have stupid speech issuing from their piehole, because they have just exceeded the limits of tolerance.
In case you did not know it, and this pathetic excuse for a handwringing Euroweenie clearly doesn't know it, the Founding Fathers DID NOT DELIBERATELY BLOW UP INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
The man who sent our military forces to attack the islamic terrorists of his day (the Barbary Pirates), would have been unlikely to submit to the Saddamites and Jihadis in modern-day Iraq.
Hogwash. They'd have been in there fighting against the tyranny of Saddam and the terrorists who are now attempting to take over his oppression of the Iraqi people.
December 8.
A couple of curious war-monuments here at Wanganui. One is in honor of white men "who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism and barbarism." Fanaticism. We Americans are English in blood, English in speech, English in religion, English in the essentials of our governmental system, English in the essentials of our civilization; and so, let us hope, for the honor of the blend, for the honor of the blood, for the honor of the race, that that word got there through lack of heedfulness, and will not be suffered to remain. If you carve it at Thermopylae, or where Winkelried died, or upon Bunker Hill monument, and read it again "who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism" you will perceive what the word means, and how mischosen it is. Patriotism is Patriotism. Calling it Fanaticism cannot degrade it; nothing can degrade it. Even though it be a political mistake, and a thousand times a political mistake, that does not affect it; it is honorable always honorable, always noble--and privileged to hold its head up and look the nations in the face. It is right to praise these brave white men who fell in the Maori war--they deserve it; but the presence of that word detracts from the dignity of their cause and their deeds, and makes them appear to have spilt their blood in a conflict with ignoble men, men not worthy of that costly sacrifice. But the men were worthy. It was no shame to fight them. They fought for their homes, they fought for their country; they bravely fought and bravely fell; and it would take nothing from the honor of the brave Englishmen who lie under the monument, but add to it, to say that they died in defense of English laws and English homes against men worthy of the sacrifice--the Maori patriots.
The other monument cannot be rectified. Except with dynamite. It is a mistake all through, and a strangely thoughtless one. It is a monument erected by white men to Maoris who fell fighting with the whites and against their own people, in the Maori war. "Sacred to the memory of the brave men who fell on the 14th of May, 1864," etc. On one side are the names of about twenty Maoris. It is not a fancy of mine; the monument exists. I saw it. It is an object-lesson to the rising generation. It invites to treachery, disloyalty, unpatriotism. Its lesson, in frank terms is, "Desert your flag, slay your people, burn their homes, shame your nationality--we honor such."
Mark Twain
Uh, no... The author is confused and is no lover of liberty. He is making the same silly mistake that would be made by someone coming across a scene where a big man is pummeling a smaller man, and without understanding the reason for the pummelling, comes to the aid of the smaller man, not realizing that the smaller man has just raped the bigger man's children and murdered the bigger man's wife. The big guy is not always wrong, and the small guy is not always right...
Yes the British rule had similar problems back home internally and with the French. But nothing like America where the press is simply the propaganda arm of the DNC.
World wide the press is just one anti-American leftist institution and our war fighting is hamstringed because of it.
This is my idea of Patriot Qualification:
Freely elected government in Iraq = complete breakdown of the analogy.
The "insurgents" this a$$hat is cheering on are nothing more than out of power thugs that want it back or want to get it the first place, without the boredom of going through a process whereby you PERSUADE most of the voters to pick you.
What an R-Tard.
This guy is so full of shiite his eyes are brown! Jefferson sent U.S. forces to North Africa to confront the Barbary Pirates who were attacking our merchant ships. For this moron to infer that Jefferson didn't use the military outside the U.S. is a flat out lie.
The comparison is a really stupid one to make at just about any time.