BTW, if I might dare to ask . . .
who’s side are you on?
I swore an oath by God to protect and defend the Constitution of the U.S.A. against all enemies foreign and domestic. That is my allegiance, that is my ideal, and that is my goal; Constitutional governance by the will of the governed that recognizes the natural rights of man endowed upon us by our Creator.
I am also on the side of Scientific discovery and I know that nothing in Science, which is a study of Creation, can or will deny the Creator; although it is certainly good at shredding false dogma like heliocentricity. I am on the side of finding cures and treatments for diseases that plague mankind, and make lives better for people.
I am on the side of History. History that needs to be accurately portrayed and misattributed quotes and fraudulent documents need to be exposed and excoriated. I am on the side that believes that Winston Churchill was a good man whose eyewitness testimony to history was not propaganda for mass consumption, but the dreams hopes and actions of a brilliant man who fought to preserve Democracy in the face of Fascist Tyranny and left a lasting record for posterity. I am not on the side that thinks Communism, National Socialism, and Representative Republics all colluded to allow the U.S.A. and Britain's view of Representative Republics prevail.
Robert R. Wilson was called upon to defend government expenditure on a Superconducting Super colider. He was asked to justify this expenditure in terms of our own national security interests, i.e. ‘bullets and bombs’. Perhaps R.R. Wilson was a bit sensitive to the Science = bullets and bombs formulation, having worked at Los Alamos (that is the A-bomb for those of you in Rio Linda); but he struck upon a profound truth. Science, like Art or Architecture or Music; is a worth goal in and of itself; and being good at it is one of the things that can make us proud to be Americans.
Senator Pastore: “Is there anything connected with the hopes of this accelerator that in any way involves the security of the country?”
Robert Wilson: “No sir, I don’t believe so.”
Pastore: “Nothing at all?”
Wilson: “Nothing at all.
Pastore: “It has no value in that respect?
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Wilson: “It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with are we good painters, good sculptures, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.”
WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON?