"There are places in hell for those when in moral crisis, choose to remain neutral"
It's old news, huh! Well my fine friend, while your sittin at your ole fishing hole, pondering your good fortune, there are old fools like me that are nursing old wounds, deep and dreadful wounds, from wars that kept your Bradenton (Manatee County) Florida homestead free.
I'm not complaining mind you, I would just like to make a point, without name-calling. If this news, old or new, about a man, not just any man, one that held the highest office in the entire world, one that decides matters of the highest import to this nation, your nation and mine, collaborated with known enemies of our country, placing all of us in jeopardy, why aren't you as outraged as I am?
I reminded you of my service, not knowing whether or not you did the same. I mention it only to remind you that there are young men and women that take orders from the office that President Carter held. Those orders that our Commander in Chief pass down to his faithful troops, determine our fate, all of our futures, even the future of you, your wife, your beautiful daughters, and wonderful young son. Our President speaks, and military folks accept his word, believing that our lives are at great risk, but knowing that those young lives, as many of us know from personal experience, may be forever changed, or ..lost, for a cause greater than ourselves.. A FREE AMERICA
Now I, and millions of others before me, perhaps even yourself, have to know that what we risk is worth something. Something more than an election, or an extramarital affair, or just to stay in power. We little people seldom find out when the highest levels of our government are truly corrupt, that when we do, as with Nixon in Watergate, and President Clinton with the bombings, timed to cover his sins, or selling our military secrets, and now Carter to stay in power, or to undermine our elections, as a traitor, we are outraged and expect everyone else will feel the same. If not, why not! Should we expect that?
Why then do you mock, we who are? You do have that right, many of us bleed and DIED so you could have that right, and many other luxuries.
Of course no answer is necessary, perhaps that is answer enough.
Two questions, boy. 1) Do you admire Jimmy Carter; 2) Are you a left-winger?
ZOT!