Posted on 09/12/2001 6:30:58 PM PDT by robnoel
"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it." --Elmer Davis
Fanatical suicidal scumbags with home-made knives herded unarmed passengers and crew members into the back of three planes, killed several of them, including flight attendants and pilots, and then flew the planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, murdering tens of thousands of people.
But then you already knew that. You watched the whole thing on TV, trying to remind yourself that it wasn't just some Hollywood movie with really really good special effects. A fourth hijacked plane crashed before it could be flown into another target. Everyone on board perished.
You knew that, too.
Operative word in the above: Herded.
Let that word sink in, Americans.
HERDED. Like cattle, sheep, prisoners in concentration camps. Herded.
Remember that word.
Herded.
Try it on for size and see if it fits you.
Today, the day after the unspeakable act of war committed upon America, you need to be asking yourself some hard questions.
Start with this one: Are you a herd animal or a human being?
Are you a docile and unquestioning cow or sheep? Or are you the creation of the "Creator" cited in the Declaration of Independence - endowed with certain inalienable rights – one of those being the right to life, and therefore to self-defense, the right to liberty, and therefore the right to defend your loved ones, and, if necessary, your country against all enemies, foreign or domestic?
Your Bill of Rights ensures you those rights. It ensures you the right to defend innocent people, like the thousands who died yesterday in the crashed planes and New York City and Washington, D.C. Our Founders didn't cite "A well-regulated militia" at the beginning of the Second Amendment by accident; they clearly meant a well-trained, well-armed citizenry, whose right to keep and bear arms was not to be infringed so they could defend themselves and their nation. We've all seen various quotes regarding the militia and arms from the Founders, but here are three of my favorites:
"The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..." (James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 [June 8, 1789] "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights, Walter Bennett, ed., Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican, at 21,22,124 (Univ. of Alabama Press,1975)
"Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense..." -- John Adams - Opening statement as defense counsel for British soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre in 1770; from the "Legal Papers of John Adams", Butterfield and Zobel; 1965.
The Founders even recognized the rights of their enemies at the time – British soldiers – to have a right to arm themselves – "for their defense, not for offense."
Now: Ask yourself what you'd have done if you had been herded and unarmed and on any one of those four planes.
Because the unpleasant fact is this: herded and unarmed is what you'll be the next time you get on a plane - whenever planes start flying again. You'll still be depending solely on your well-meaning public servants and their minions to protect you, no matter how poorly they've done so in the past, culminating in yesterday's disastrous failure - which could have likely been prevented, and tens of thousands of lives probably saved, by having, at the very least, armed and trained pilots and flight attendants on the doomed planes.
And no doubt you'll soon be hearing again how and why your public servants can "protect" you way better than you can. Diane Feinstein, Joe Lieberman, John McCain,Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Brady, Rosie O'Donnell - all of them smug and protected bytheir personal armed guards, many of these guards paid for by your tax dollars -will still be trying to pass laws to disarm you and to strip you of your right to self-defense, to make you more dependent on the kind of "security" that permitted the kamikaze scum who declared war on us yesterday to do what they did.
While you're pondering all this, take a few moments to say a special prayer for the brave few passengers - who were not sheep or cattle - who literally cut themselves from the herd... passengers on the fourth plane which crashed into the ground instead of almost certainly into another monument or crowded public building or area.
These passengers are thought to have overpowered the hijackers, but then couldn't control the plane, which plummeted to the ground in an open area instead of into another national monument.
MSNBC reports at http://msnbc.com/news/627214.asp?0si=- . "A senior U.S. intelligence official told MSNBC.com that mobile phone communications from Flight 93 indicate that three passengers overpowered the hijackers but were unable to maintain control of the plane. The official said that U.S. counterintelligence experts are speculating that the hijackers intended to turn the plane around and crash it into another target but were thwarted by the passengers.
"On that plane, a pilot secretly turned on the microphone, allowing passengers to hear everything that was being said by the terrorists – a warning that may have prompted some passengers to attempt an act of heroism that presumably saved another national landmark."
Who knows how many lives these doomed brave souls saved? These brave souls who refused to be herded.
Bless them, and pray for their families and friends. They are heroes. If only one someone on any one of those planes - one person even! - had had a gun, with or without frangible ammunition
Thanks for posting it, robnoel.
Says the f'ing anonymous "hero" 10,000 miles from the nearest threat to his safety.
Robnoel you have it exactly right. A majority of our fellow countrymen are SHEEP! Sadly, they don't even know it!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.