Posted on 11/29/2002 5:51:08 AM PST by TLBSHOW
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Stand Up and Take It Like an American In a free society, sometimes you pay a price for your beliefs.
1. The continuance of the new patriotism which is marked not by a tinny boastfulness but by an intellectually and emotionally experienced fidelity to and respect for the founding ideas, documents and assumptions which have guided us since we declared our independence from the mother country 226 years ago.
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And the bar scene still reminds me of Congress in session.
They eat for free and when asked to pay their tab they kick the sh_t out of the owner and laugh.
Well Anna, and Tom, I have never written of this or even spoken of it, but let me tell you something.My political philosophy is conservative. I am pro-life. I live in New York City, surrounded by modern people. They are mostly left-wing, they are all pro-choice, many of them passionately and even furiously so. I have written books saying Ronald Reagan is a great man and Hillary Clinton is a bad woman. I know something about being a target, and I know something about hate mail. I have received not hundreds but thousands of the most personal and obscene denunciations; I have received death threats; I have been threatened with blackmail; I have been informed that I do not deserve to live; I have received a three page typed double spaced letter with perfect grammar and syntax the first sentence of which was "Dr. Ms Noonan, Let me explain to you why you are a . . ." and here I cannot suggest the word used. But damned if he didn't make a good case. I used to hear regularly from a woman who'd tell me she hopes I have a brain hemorrhage.
I have never talked about this because I would consider speaking of it both self-pitying and self-aggrandizing. But there's another reason. I'm a grownup. I know you pay a price for the stands you take.
It's a disputatious world. Rocks get thrown. I could make myself safer by changing my views, but why would I abandon what I think is true so that people I think are wrong will like me? That doesn't make sense. So I stand where I stand and pay. And you know what? Too bad. Tough. That's life. Nothing is free. If you hold a controversial position you will draw controversy and its cousins: denunciation, dislike, etc. It's the price you pay. And unlike Tom Daschle, I pay it without a taxpayer-funded security team to keep me safe.
While there appears to be a preponderance of libs in big cities, I would submit that the same could be achieved in rural areas if one could shred the family and create government dependence. In fact, I think we're beginning to see some of that in suburban areas. The latter seems to be tipping liberal in many places as we see increased familial breakdown, coupled with urban liberals moving into the suburbs to 'get away from it all'.....
You're thoughts?
Got a link?
Let's pick on adults. Let's pick on Tom Daschle
There's a straight line there....
This is the reason I have hope in our fight to roll back Roe v. Wade. The pro-abortion group is not willing to die for their beliefs. The pro life group is. It was the same with slavery in the Civil war, although they were willing to die for their beliefs. Pro life will win in the end.
By the way, God is both pro-life and pro-choice: "I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose life, that it may be well with you and you children after you." Dueteronomy 29, I think. I'm quoting from memory.
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