Posted by
Sam Heath on Friday, December 29, 2006 1:09:27 PM
Few would disagree that our elected leadership needs a strong dose of reality; but from the polls and statistics there isn’t any lack of reality on the part of ordinary American citizens who vote for things like secure borders and live from one paycheck to another. But will the source of such a reality check for politicians be a terrorist nuclear bomb going off at LAX?
While working as a machinist for North American Aviation at LAX during the Saberjet project I confronted some jerk for being a jerk. Afterward, he went around the shop exclaiming to everyone “I don’t care what Sam says!” Well, while everyone agreed this guy was a jerk what confounded us was why he would go around telling everyone he didn’t care what I said then go on at such length proving he did in fact care a great deal about what I had said? But, I suppose, some of you folks have experienced the same kind of thing; something along the line of “methinks the lady protesteth too much.”
But had it not been for the Californian the story about the elderly couple whose van and wheelchair were stolen would not have had such a happy ending. This is where our local paper did a bang up job of civic responsibility and we the citizens of Kern County are grateful. But the blight on our county of those who would stoop so low as to steal that van and wheelchair remains, and our police need all the help and encouragement they can get while attempting to serve and protect law abiding citizens. Laws are only as good as their enforcement, and despite the happy ending to the story we hope the thieves will yet be caught and punished as a full and happy end to the story.
The Bible has it “Fools make a mock at sin,” and when laws are mocked as they are by the despicable thieves stealing that van and wheelchair we want them caught and punished. But when laws are mocked as they are by our elected leaders the result is they betray themselves for fools, but fools that are threatening America’s very existence as a nation, as in our leadership’s refusal to secure our borders while allowing our immigration laws to be flaunted with impunity. And then the media will encourage this flaunting of our laws by turning illegal aliens into “immigrants” while demonizing those like Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan for pointing out the obvious, even glorifying those that throw around the term “racist” with impunity at anyone sticking up for secure borders knowing the media will encourage this tarring with the racist brush as well. Mexico for Mexicans is permissible, but America for Americans is racist?
Armchair revisionists that did not live the events of WWII, did not make the sacrifices and experience what this did to Americans right down to the very marrow of our being because of Pearl Harbor conveniently have it we who did live those events were evil people because of those internment camps and the dropping of those atomic bombs. Well, perhaps if there had been no need of demonizing our enemies in order to pull Americans together in common cause against the Axis foes there would not have been the camps and bombs. But reality doesn’t work that way.
The reality is that the only reason the Axis Powers did not prevail was the very act of successfully demonizing our enemies, putting a face to them, recognizing them and treating them as our mortal enemies! That is how wars are won; and from the very beginning of Caesar Bush’s wars I knew such a thing would be impossible because of a politically correct media that would not permit any demonizing of the enemies of America. Further, it quickly became painfully obvious We the People had been lied to in order for our leadership to have its wars; including a Congress that claims it was so easily taken in by a Bunko artist with a gift for flimflam. That is a stretch for even the most gullible that must realize by now there was never any plan for prosecuting a war to win even had it been justified. And a Congress whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans, the only thing We the People can be assured of is politics as usual, lying to get elected and lying to stay elected.
Well, December 7, 1941 was a different America, my America, reviled by some as a “Norman Rockwell America.” But it was an America that saved the world at the time. None can point to America today and have any confidence this America can save itself, let alone the world. And if that terrorist nuclear bomb goes off at LAX none of us want to think of the kind of America arising from that. But like December 7, 1941 it will be in today’s parlance a “reality check,” one that will leave no room for “Press one for English.”