Reflections

What’s Wrong With This Picture? Rated PG13

Persecute your heroes and defend your enemies. It’s in the Bible isn’t it? No it’s not, but for some reason it seems to be policy in Washington. I mean regarding terrorists and other enemies of this country who vow to destroy us. Yeah, we should give them all the same constitutional rights that the citizens of this country, whom they hate so much do enjoy. I mean it’s only logical, right? Doesn’t that make perfect sense to you? I gotta, tell ya’,. Nothing that comes from Washington lately makes a lick of sense to me. Is it just me? I hope not.

You, no doubt, have heard about the debate that’s been going on about where to try the 9/11 terrorists. I’m for Guantanamo. There are many in Washington who feel we should try them in a court of law in New York, despite the fact that doing that will cost from 10s of millions to 100s of millions of tax dollars depending upon how long the defense lawyers can drag it out. They would have to cordon off city blocks for security reasons, possibly bankrupting every business within the perimeter. Makes total sense to me. Not! To spend millions of dollars we don’t have to protect the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks just boggles my mind.

I ended my last article with an appeal to people of common sense to speak out against overblown political correctness. It’s time for the silent majority to find its voice. What about the rights of victims?

The Bible says, in the last days wrong will be right and right will be wrong. Are we there?

In case you haven’t heard the latest miscarriage of justice. Do you remember the story of the Blackwater Guards, who were ex-military guys who were hired to protect people in Iraq? One day a group of them were ambushed in Fallujah. One of the boys who was killed, Jerry Zovko, was then dragged down the streets of the city. Then they burned his body and hung it from the upper trusses of a bridge where they gathered round to celebrate their manliness and have their pictures taken with their trophy kill.

We sent some Navy SEALs in to capture these guys. We knew who they were, cause their pictures were all over Al-Jasera TV like heroes who should be celebrated for their bravery. Now somewhere along the timeline of his capture, one of these pukes suffered a fat lip. Oh the horror! Such abuse cannot and should not be tolerated! What?!

Do you know that these SEALs are on trial for war crimes? What?! These boys were sent on a very dangerous mission. Had it gone wrong, they probably would’ve been dragged through the streets, burned, hung, etc.) Mission accomplished and now they are facing discharge even imprisonment. Thanks, boys. This is the new justice in America. What ever happened to an eye for an eye? Oh that’s Biblical, archaic even. We are enlightened now. Seems pretty cloudy to me. We bend over so far backwards to protect the rights of our enemies, that we persecute our heroes. This is madness. It’s just wrong. The new right?

“It’s been very stressful” said Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe, 24, just moments after his arraignment in military court on charges that he allegedly mistreated an Iraqi detainee. Alleged by the way by the Iraqi detainee, whom we are at war with. Yeah, war. Jihad means war. They’ve declared it on us. You and me. Every man woman and child in this country has been condemned to death by the Jihadists. What could be so stressful for young Matthew? He is A SEAL. Combatready for anything. How ‘bout he has to defend himself for doing the job we sent him out to do? He’s probably trying to make sense of it, but it just don’t make no sense. I don’t care how you look at it, It just don’t.

The mother of Jerry Zovko, you know the trophy, drove from Ohio to give each of the accused SEALs a blessed Rosary and to lend them her support. She said, “these young SEALs are in this situation because they caught the mastermind behind the death of my son. Not only my son and his co-workers but also the Marines who went into Fallujah after their death. I am very proud of these young men, they didn’t do anything wrong.” So am I--proud of ‘em, I mean. What did they do? Backhand a guy in the chops that murdered their brothers and then desecrated their bodies? A punch in the mouth? If indeed it happened, so what? The Blue Island Police did more than that to me, on more than one occasion, but you know what? I had it coming. I was a smart-ass punk kid, and when i cried to my daddy about police brutality, he said Good for Them. But, i digress. We should be ashamed of ourselves as a nation treating our warriors like criminals. What a slap in the face to our brave military everywhere in the world.

I think these kids showed complete professional restraint. Did they burn him or hang him or drag him through the street? That would’ve been justifi - able, but no, they are accused of giving the little puke a fat lip. Prove it! I’d say he ran into a wall trying to get away.

I had to put this down and walk away for a minute. I get emotional sometimes. If you can make some sense of this. If you can explain it to me logically and make me understand please do. Write a letter to the editor and show me why we send our best, to defend the rest, and then betray them. Why do we continue to persecute our heroes while we defend our enemies?” What creates a culture that allows people to vilify and isolate their most noble and deify their most corrupt? Our nation is sick. It’s infected with corruption and it has gone untreated far too long. Americans are a tolerant bunch. We’ve patiently waited for the ingrates among us to grow up and develop a sense of pride and awe in the greatness of America. It’s not happening.” I’ll add to that our own Commander In Chief goes around the globe apologizing for America’s arrogance. This last quote was taken from an e-mail sent to me by a woman who accompanied Donna Zavko from Ohio to Virginia. I totally agree with her.

First they persecuted C.I.A. agents and other Intel officers for their methods of obtaining info that saved us from certain terrorist attacks. They called it torture. I call it effective. They made their captives uncomfortable. They didn’t torture them. If you think they did you should Google “torture” from China or Russia or Egypt. Study torture. Then look at water boarding. Now it’s the military who are the bad guys. Let me ask you something--who’s gonna be left to watch our backs? Eric Holder? You? Me? I don’t see people lining up to volunteer to defend us if there is a chance we might be pressing charges against ‘em, if they do. Wake up, America and strengthen the things that remain.

May God give us grace, give us wisdom, give us the courage to do what’s right even if it’s not p.c. Help us to return to the principles this country was founded on before we fall like the mighty Roman Empire. Amen

Love ‘Ya, Love America
brother goerge

Editor’s Note:

Since George wrote this, it was decided that New York was not the proper venue. Charges on this incident relate to the capture of Hashim Abed, the alleged planner of the March 2004 ambush, killing and mutilation of four civilian contractors working in Iraq. Now, three Navy SEALS are facing court-martial because charges state that one of them punched Abed in the stomach while he was in detention. Local/national news has reported this incident in great detail. One of the Navy SEALS was from Blue Island, enlisted in 1999, served in special warfare units until 2002 and was on the tail-end of his deployment when this happened. He was aquitted of all charges. Nonetheless, another trial will take place (there were three soldiers indicted). We will keep you posted.