Posted on 06/19/2005 8:20:00 PM PDT by dufekin
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Hey, #61 is great, but the whole thread is awesome. Thanks for the PING
Yes there are and some are being done by people like the Minutemen at the price of being ridiculed and derided by lesser politicians and labeled as vigilantes by the Commander on Chief.
The need is as great now as it was then but the commitment of our leaders is diluted by profit motives. The unshaken solidarity of our people is diluted by a growing number of illegals with allegiance to foreign powers.
Back then we were "One nation..........." but today we are becoming "Many nationals............"
Back then we were a family and if anyone messed with one, they would have to answer to all. Today we are like a family with twelve children, all by a different father, none of which is living at home and when someone messes with one, everyone stands around talking about what their missing father might do if he ever shows up.
In the case of our nation, the missing fathers are our elected leaders who come around only when they want to get laid (elected) after which they disappear.
Excellent!
It's unfair to compare the results of a full censorship/multimillion dollar propaganda regime like the US in WWII with either Vietnam or Iraq.
Why Johnson, Nixon, and President Bush all decided not to use the war power of the United States to sustain their policies, as Roosevelt, Wilson, and Lincoln had done before them, is a mystery to me.
The war power of the United States is virtually without limit. If it were exercised today, cable channels would be broadcasting good news from the war zone 24/7, Michael Moore and Kos would be in detention facilities, AND you could have your posters.
You do not understand the war power granted to Congress in Article I, section 8, if you can say that.
If our war power were properly and legally applied, sedition would be punished, not with online quips but with detention in a camp in Utah.
Do you seriously think Roosevelt and Marshall would have left pro-Nazi advocates at liberty to spread their poison? Or that newspapers which repeatedly printed censored true information, or lies, about the war would have stayed in business?
War is war. The Congress has virtually unlimited power to wage it.
Why not do it?
Great post! I would love to see some of these posters on huge billboards all across the country. Awesome!
I understand the war power. I also understand that it would never be applied today. Ted Kennedy would have been the first occupant of that camp in Utah if it were.
(How about a massive FR campaign to send these "You talked" posters to Durbin's office?? (or Kennedy's, or Leahy's, or..........)
BTTT
Just too bad Dr Seuss didn't see the Soviets as that much of a threat after WWII.
I like the way he used a WWII poster to make a modern message.....just take the helmet and change it to a kevlar helmet with a three-color desert cammie cover, put the soldier in a proper flak vest, modern desert BDU's, and change the canteen cup to OD or tan plastic, and that design would work excellently! Some things just hold up after 60+ years.
Art ping.
Let Sam Cree or I know if you want on or off the list.
That's an odd propaganda poster. (I think it's "odd" in a good way, but I'm not sure.) Do you know anything more about it?
Is there any way that this thread/subject could be placed at the top of the thread page so that Freepers would be encouraged to create/use posters?
What a great poster. Thank you for sharing it.
As appealing as that sounds, I'm happier this way...
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