Your lengthy reply deserves a follow up.
“There actually are conservatives there - for example, I have a son and dear friend there—they stay BECAUSE OF JOBS. If you can make a good living there, you put up with the liberal crap. Frankly for my son, it is the only area in the US where his work is located, so “getting the hell out” is not an option, and why would he want to if he can make $200,000+/year?”
So, because your son wants to make big bucks in California and doesn’t want to be bothered to relocate, some soldier or sailor that probably came from the patriotic hinterlands should give his life fighting yet another misbegotten war in a turd world hell hole defending your son’s stupidity. No thanks, Sport!
“We don’t know for certain that San Fran would be the target...so it is not a matter of defending a certain population. We defend our borders. If our borders (yes, including California) are threatened, we defend them.”
Fine, then. Let’s get our troops out of every foreign country that could and should defend themselves and get our own troops back here to defend our borders. Particularly the borders of California.
“...If San Fransisco were to be nuked,
1. Hope you have no money in Stock market. It will tank.
2. Hope you have no use of Technology...Internet search, Ebay, PayPal, Cisco-YouTube, list is endless.
3. Hope you don’t mind some disruptions on Free Republic as JR is in Fresno, 3ish hours away, and I have often read of John Robinson going to San Jose to fix FR...maybe you can give them a heads up.
4. Oh, hope you don’t mind if some of our Air Force, Coast Guard, Army and Navy personnel are killed too...There are lots of military there or nearby...”
This country already knows what it’s like to lose a major metropolitan area. We lost New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We discovered that the economy took the hit, the market didn’t crash, and we survived. The same would happen if SF or LA was taken out. And, with a whole lot of liberal scumbags gone, we’d be better off as a country overall. I believe that implicitly.
“To stereotype that all in San Fransisco are liberal and therefore not worthy of life really seems to go against the whole Free Republic Credo:
Welcome to Free Republic!
Conservatives for God, Family, Country!
Est. 1996
Your comment is not conservative or for God, Family and Country.”
This comment is just smarmy pseudo-patriotic drivel and crass waving of the bloody shirt. As Samuel Johnson said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” And I write this as a Viet Nam vet of the US Navy. So there.
We discovered that the economy took the hit, the market didn’t crash, and we survived. The same would happen if SF or LA was taken out. And, with a whole lot of liberal scumbags gone, we’d be better off as a country overall. I believe that implicitly.
It is always fascinating to find out what others are thinking... You and others with the same view of the expendable nature of people and places you don’t agree with is frightening. Value life much? Your comments are reminiscent of the progressives of the 1920s who supported eugenics...people like George Bernard Shaw or Margaret Sanger who felt THEY were to decide who should live and who should not.
To follow your rationale, folks in certain areas of the country are not deserving? of defense based on the political majority of the area?! Sorry, that is not the way it is supposed to work under our Constitution...you know, the inalienable rights? And thank God we have them to protect against ideas like yours.
“Sport,” I don’t think anyone except you said anything about troops going abroad to defend San Fran. And again, if troops go abroad to fight, it is not to defend California. It should be to defend the United States. And since there are articles on Drudge and FR today about Iran, Russia, and Norks working on ICBMs, perhaps they will have to do just that. That is one of the main things people in the military do...fight wars.
As you seem to have issues with troops going abroad to defend San Fran, let me just say there are people who live in San Fran who are CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES; and how dare you or anyone else decide that they are expendable because they live in a Blue state, or that certain cities are expendable...They may nuke Alaska...Is Alaska expendable because only a few live there? Well, they are likely conservative, so perhaps we should save them? Do you really want to go down that road?
Not that it is relevant; but my son should not have to be “bothered” with relocating in order to enjoy his rights as a citizen. My son and other CONSERVATIVES in the area may not be able to find jobs for which they are qualified in other locations...As I stated, he would have to move to South Korea to find a similar position. Know what, even if he could find a job in any one of the other 49 states or even if he were a flaming liberal, as a US citizen, he is still entitled to rights of citizenship covered under Constitution including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and national defense. Oh and excuse me for quoting the Constitution...I don’t care if that makes me a scoundrel with my patriotic drivel, etc...
Again, interesting to see your comment that if San Fran was Nuked, markets would go down but then we would recover...So it is OK? And comparing it with New Orleans? Sorry, but New Orleans is not a commerce center on par with San Fran/San Jose, and a Nuke hit is not a hurricane. To say there would not be a huge impact if San Fran is nuked is just foolish (I said nothing about LA???, you did.). How many high net worth companies are located in New Orleans as compared to The Bay Area?
Interesting though that some people felt that New Orleans was expendable and that we should not go in and rebuild it. There were many low income folks displaced, etc. Probably Dems...Were you one of those folks, too?
“And I write this as a Viet Nam vet of the US Navy. So there.” Talk about smarmy...Well fine, but seems you find the Navy and other service personnel in the Bay Area expendable as you had nothing to say about those folks’ fate in a Nuke missile attack...
So you did not like my comment about FR being about God, Family and Country...Accuse me of being a scoundrel LOL. Sure whatever. I’d rather be accused of being a scoundrel than a eugenicist... which is the road you are going down and it is chilling....
To that end if you really want to go down the road about deciding who deserves to live/the rights citizenship such as defense, I will throw out that perhaps the criteria should be something else...lineage...My son descends from the Mayflower, so if you want to discuss who deserves what, then perhaps he deserves citizenship more than most (even you?) as he has had many ancestors and relatives who fought to defend this country...in many wars including Viet Nam.
So there.