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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.
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