Posted on 04/16/2003 5:46:09 PM PDT by FreeTheHostages
I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
I served eight years in the armed forces, voted for Reagan, celebrated the winning of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then, I took a nap. ...
Amen, I think we all got complacent in '92 and let Juanita Broddericks accused rapist ooze into the White House. Unfortunately we're all paying for that now. Hopefully we've collectively learned from our mistake.
A Chill Wind is Blowing-from the Political left by Robert Pappas
The First Article of Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, "Congress shall make no law. abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." So, where do political liberals get the idea that their freedom of expression is being abridged? The "usual suspects" are whining loudly, indeed wringing their hands, even "lighting their hair on fire" because the American public is choosing to turn its back to them, in short, they are free to speak, and the rest of us are free to ignore them.
In an Associated Press article, Wednesday, April 16, 2003; 6:52 AM
"WASHINGTON - One casualty of the war with Iraq is the First Amendment right to oppose it, actor Tim Robbins says.
Robbins and longtime companion actress Susan Sarandon are war opponents whose scheduled appearance at baseball's Hall of Fame was canceled last week by former Reagan administration aide Dale Petroskey, now the hall's president.
"A chill wind is blowing in this nation," Robbins told a National Press Club luncheon Tuesday. "Every day the airwaves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent."
If anyone believes Robbins, Michael "Arafat" Moore and the others of their persuasion, First Amendment rights have become a casualty of the war because they opposed it. But typical of political liberals, their leftist, liberal political "spin" doesn't stand up to even the mildest scrutiny. No law prohibited them from speaking their anti-war blather. No law proscribed their right to reveal the utter ignorance and anti-Americanism they chose to express. No law dictates that they retract their words. No law stands between them and the microphone or interposes itself between their fingers and the keyboard. On this score the Constitution remains intact and it is th ey who are wrong for being vicious, hate-filled sewers of invective.
The American mainstream has at long last begun to recognize and know them for what and who they are, self-aggrandizing, pseudo-intellectual hypocrites whose ignorance is exceeded only by their wealth. They whine, "foul," when others choose to exercise their Constitutional right to ignore them. Those pathetic, half-witted, would-be policy opinion makers are so arrogant that they evidently believe that others should be forced to be in their presence and that they are entitled to be heard when most do not care to listen.
Given their expressed views, those people are not "anti-war," they are anti-America. They should do us all a favor and seek political asylum in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan or some other garden spot, like Kenya, China, Russia, or better yet, North Korea. With the slump in air travel there are bargains to be had, and one can hope that they will avail themselves of "choice" one-way fares.
Semper Fidelis
I thought Gollum was the only dude hoo does that...MUD
"You wanted to be divisive and you caused trouble in my country," FReepers quoted Mudboy as saying [to Robbins], "If you ever talk about my country again, I will [expletive deleted] find you and [expletive deleted] hurt you."
Robbins is a gutless PU$$Y, imho...MUD
LOL...MUD
lil 88
How the HECK was Robbins' kid "vilified by the press"?! Whatta MarOOOOOON...MUD
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Es Perfecto, El Capitan...MUD
Thank you. Every once in awhile having a bad day ends up helping me uphold the cause of freedom. :-)
From "AT LEAST SADDAM WASN'T AT TAILHOOK!" By Ann Coulter
In 1985, Muslim terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and threatened to kill the passengers and crew unless 50 imprisoned Palestinians were released by Israel. The terrorists doused American and British women with gasoline and taunted them with matches. They forced passengers to hold live grenades. When their demands were not met, the terrorists shot a wheelchair-bound American, Leon Klinghoffer, and forced other passengers at gunpoint to throw him overboard in his wheelchair......President Reagan was briefed on the daring plan [for F-14s to intercept an Egyptair 737 carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers] -- along with copious warnings from timorous State Department officials that the Europeans might have their feelings bruised, America would look like a cowboy, and it would only strengthen the hard-liners in Egypt. Asked if the operation should proceed, Reagan said: "Good God! They've murdered an American here. Let's get on with it."
Please note that Mr. Abul Abbas and his lackeys did not harm any Americans or damage any property "in the United States" which Greybird has cited as the only reason for U.S. military action. Of course, Hitler never killed anybody on our soil or damaged any of our stuff here...maybe we should have asked him nicely to rescind his declaration of war against us in December of '41!
Greybird said no such thing. Greybird said that the proper business of the U.S. military is the defense of residents and their property within the United States. (I might extend that to international waters.)
Push this to mobilizing the military about hijackings or other heinous mayhem in other nations, or their territorial waters, and you have no logical stopping point. I don't believe that the Achille Lauro was in international waters when it was hijacked. If not, the owners, crew, and passengers were properly construed as taking their own risks, however great, and should have provided for them on their own.
By the way, a thoroughly Constitutional tool for dealing with such assholes does exist -- letters of marque and reprisal. (Essentially, "licenses" to kill or plunder in finding wrongdoers, with immunity from U.S. prosecution for doing so.)
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