Posted by
Sam Heath on Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:36:01 AM
“Maybe he’s only a little crazy; you know… like some of those men in Washington?”
Most of us enjoy the films celebrating Christmas, but I wonder how many catch that really precious line in Miracle on 34th Street delivered to Maureen O’Hara by her boss in defense of Kris Kringle? And remember folks, the film is from 1947.
Here we were just two years following the end of WWII, just six years away from that Day of Infamy today’s date calls to mind birthing our slogan REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR, and Hollywood is saying "some of those men in Washington" are “a little crazy.” Perhaps this had something to do with the film placing number 9 on Hollywood’s list of best films; high praise for the film, and in my opinion well deserved.
REMEMBER 9/11! should have been our slogan, just as was REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! But neither Hollywood nor Washington would have it so.
While I have written much in defense of the Bible, of its ennobling influence on Western Civilization and America in particular it would be Hollywood that eventually became the arbiter of American mores. And in many cases to give it its due Hollywood performed admirably in producing films that not only entertained, but exposed corruption and encouraged the Biblical virtues of America.
Well, Hollywood has little left to commend this American institution promoting virtue by whatever definition and we are long past believing “those men in Washington” are only “a little crazy,” they appear to be downright lunatics! But it is a lunacy driven by greed and avarice without the redeeming quality of madness found in those truly lunatic. They were recognized as a little crazy in 1947, the most charitable construction to be placed on their actions then, but while not mad in the clinical sense the whole world today sees America as a nation of lunatics led of lunatics, Hollywood and TV reinforcing this assessment, the madness of our present Federal Triune Dictatorship with our present Caesar insulated from reality clearly evident to all.
No one is likely to excuse Caesar Bush on the basis of the accusation against the Apostle Paul that “much learning” had driven him to madness. On the contrary, Bush has proven his inability to learn at all. But perhaps he does after all fit Einstein’s observation concerning insanity, doing the same failed things repeatedly expecting a different outcome; and if truly insane folks, to take a deliciously understated line from Brendan Fraser in The Mummy “We are in serious trouble!”
However, I realized we were in really big trouble when Bush did not respond immediately and appropriately by sending those cruise missiles on Kabul and Baghdad the very evening of 9/11, and I wrote Bush at the time to voice my opinion of this failure on his part. I was so angry I even posted a copy of my letter to him on my web site, informing him I was doing so. But I had the benefit of knowing how our leadership with the full support, approval and applause of We the People would have responded to December 7, 1941 had we at the time the weapons available to Bush. And if any nation had complained we would have replied: “You want some of this too?”
My mother was injured and nearly killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. I know how she would have liked to respond to the attack. All we simple folks in Little Oklahoma in Southeast Bakersfield at the time knew how we wanted to respond to the attack. But the refusal of Bush to respond immediately and appropriately to the Attack on America the very evening of 9/11 was the warning We the People were going to face another Korea and Vietnam, a war not fought to win, but a war for politicians. The ugly facts now bear this out.
Three years ago I began to run a headline on my web site: IMPEACH BUSH AND BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW TO SECURE OUR BORDERS! This alienated conservatives and people at FOXNEWS. Not to be outdone by those calling themselves “conservatives” those like the ACLU having bastardized the term “liberal” to their own evil ends vilified me for my insistence our troops were needed on our borders. Even now with America suffering so much under what I was then calling an administration that would be recorded as the worst in American history there are those that would burn me at the stake if that was still in vogue for heretics. Fortunately for me, burning at the stake has been replaced by simply calling me names. Well, at least for now.
But REMEMBER 9/11! should have been our slogan, just as was REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!