Posted on 07/22/2003 11:30:03 AM PDT by Andonius_99
Clarification
There are about a half dozen people out there who correspond with my Soaptalk mail box regularly who literally hate what I write.
I don’t know why they continue to read the column when it is obviously so detrimental to their collective blood pressure.
I have been called a disgrace to America, and that’s one of the kinder terms they use. They have even said that I was a hillbilly, a result of inbreeding, a redneck, a war mongering s.o.b., a has been, and the list goes on.
Well let me pour a little high octane on your condescending flame.
In so far as the “has been,” I will play over 100 concerts this year all over the country performing for somewhere in the neighborhood of 750,000 people. Our new single entered the charts this week and I have a book coming out this month.
As far as being a hillbilly, I’ll wear the title proudly. I love country music and even chew tobacco once in a while, but in-so-far as my lineage is concerned I’ve seen my parents’ marriage certificate and know both sides of my family really well, and no kin whatsoever existed between my mother and father.
Now let’s address the redneck moniker. I love the National Football League, I am an avid NASCAR fan, I drive an SUV and own more guns than most people, which I take great delight in shooting.
I believe that a man has a right to protect his family and property and that when somebody walks into a place of business with a gun in his hand he is fair game and if he gets killed in the process it’s his own fault.
I don’t know of one Muslim or Hindu who came over on The Mayflower or fought in The Revolutionary War and I don’t believe that we should have to change the customs of our country to accommodate their ways.
I believe that pedophiles should be hung and that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
I believe that the official language of America is English and that the people who come here should be required to learn how to speak and write it and not the other way around.
I believe that America is a sovereign nation and that we should not allow our troops to be under the United Nation’s command, no matter what the rest of the world does.
I believe in God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life, not a way, a truth and a life. I believe that no man can come to The Father except through The Son.
Why do I believe that? Because that’s what the Bible says, which by the way, I believe every word of.
I believe in school vouchers and that true marriage exists only between a man and a woman.
Oh and by the way, I do have a bass rig.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
He and I used to be real good friends.
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