The Wide Awakes » A World Turned Upside Down

7/31/2007

It’s just becoming mentally exhausting. I missed my posting slot yesterday morning, even with trying to piece together the puzzle around me, near and far. Sort of like a 10 billion piece puzzle, all done in white, dumped on the table (a really big one) in front of you, then considering whether to try to put one piece together with another, the one foot ahead of the other analogy, or to sit back and consider the massive work this is, before making a move.

Anyhow, to try to drop out a few pieces on the table for consideration:

- The Left/our enemy comes forth, proclaiming something has happened and presenting little/no evidence. The right presents evidence and says “And that’s why we say it is this way.” The Left/our enemy proceeds to tell us, not in a conversational voice, but by the use of massive demonstrations, in which they sometimes kill each other to prove how bad we are, and say we are lying.
Strangely, the MSM picks up on the side of the side with no evidence, or worse yet, contrived documents (ala Rathergate) and then proceeds to pick up the chant against the Right.

- Christians can be told they are not welcome to set up booths, movie showings, or distribute reading material on publicly funded campuses, yet foot baths are being installed and prayer rooms are being set aside for use by Islamic students in universities around the country. References to God are removed, cause plays at the holiday seasons to be shut down, yet Saudi funded programs to “educate” our children are welcomed and go so far as to violate not only the fabricated, patented and trademarked “SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!,” but also gender discrimination laws. These programs are hailed as models to teach “tolerance.”

- Islamic groups can somehow get law enforcement to override the very basic laws of this nation, specifically the 1st Amendment, by seeking out and using any little annoyance to themselves as a “hate crime.” In addition, the larger picture around the world is that the Islamic culture having migrated into, and regularly interacting with the rest of civilization, seems to have decided there will be no assimilation of them into those cultures of the rest of the world, but, we will all bow to them and not assimilate, but be subjugated by their archaic set of combined laws/religion/politics, with no voice to discuss compromise.

- On the battlefield, almost too much to say. The use of completely out of balance moral equivalence comparisons has become completely ludicrous, particularly since the Abu Gharib story. Since then, we have seen Marines and sailors held, without charges, in military brigs, based on statements from the enemy themselves. Toss in that Border Patrol agents, even of Hispanic descent, are hunted down and convicted by US Attorneys, using statements of a drug dealer, who was allowed, by neglect, to use passes for legal purposes, to transport even more drugs into the country, and he remains a free man today, while two others are in jail for 11 and 12years (because the “guidelines” didn’t give the judge any choice) respectively. Since when is the word of the enemy used to factor into the justice system of the American citizens?

- Congress, using polls when they are seemingly in their favor, has forgotten how to read. There is a large difference in “people are against the war” and “people disapprove with how the war is being run.” With the lowest opinions, I believe, of Congressional behavior, that important deliberative body continues to blame the President for all things they don’t agree with being wrong, then get on planes and conduct top level diplomacy talks. I actually suspect they do it to get foreign donations, following the Clinton-Gore legitimized by lack of legal action to prevent more of it model, but then I might be being a bit too cynical.

- The Left cries out that we shouldn’t use anything related to God as a standard. My big question: So what standard would be used in the place of a foundation from the 10 Commandments? Ah, then we can use the ever shifting whims of mankind. That, of course, would fit the model of the pro-abortion crowd: “Thou shalt not kill, unless, of course, it is the result of hormones in overdrive and a total lack of self control, in which case, go for it!” Michael Moore wants the President impeached for “making things up.” I guess that means he supports the “thou shalt not bear false witness” part of the commandments, or would that link him too closely to the Christians? I suspect he’s against that one being applied to him, after all, he makes a living “making up things.” Might cramp his income flow. This one paragraph is fodder for a lengthy discussion in and of itself. It’s interesting that it has become in style to wish death upon people you don’t like, or make movies about them being assassinated, if they are someone on the Right, and a pass is given when someone from the Left/our enemy actually kills one of “us.” No worries, mate, it’s our fault, merely pay back for the eons of oppression, dating to centuries before the US was even a nation. That veneer on the argument is not often spoken to as the ruse that it is, yet…it prevails in the war of words.

- The very irony that a left wing “plant” in the US Army wrote about sick and twisted things that he claims soldiers did, all the while we find out he is engaged/married to a staff member of the magazine that published his report, that is now being vigorously investigated, and no credible evidence can be found to support his claims as he characterized them. His own writings show he has had, before this event, a rather active imagination. Never fear on this issue either. Be certain the soldiers (and sailors and airman and Marines) will get a stern talking to about doing right what they have been doing right all along, taking needless hours to sit troops who run combat missions daily and making them suffer through lectures as a result of this idiot, let alone the extra scrutiny they will come under, as commanders are pressured to shift focus from running combat operations and training to making sure no one writes fantasy and portray it to the MSM as truth. It was the “lefty” who was harboring thoughts of committing wartime atrocities, worse than done at the Iraqi prison, done all with the idea of making those who prosecute the war to look like war criminals.

- Democrat politicians say the loss over over 3000 US troops is too much and we should abandon the field, even if the consequence is far more death, specifically of those not trained to fight and die for a country. They bemoan the fact that so many innocent lives have been lost to a military that seems to indiscriminately bomb and fire into houses and buildings, yet, so long as it looks good for their side at the ballot box come next election, the human cost is somehow palatable all of a sudden. I wonder: Why are the Iraqis sufficient lambs for the slaughter, while the Democrats carp about the “genocide” in Darfur?

- In the initial period of this Congress, the cries went up to “talk to Iran.” Today, the Appointed by the President, approved by the Senate Secretary of State is in Egypt, and asked for help from Iran and other Arab nations to help stabilize Iraq’s situation. The countries said “no.” Why not? It’s the same as the video of Baghdad Bob saying the Americans aren’t in the capitol, while the M-1 Abrams tanks speed across the camera’s field of view behind the myopic spokesman. Picture this: The foreground is filled with Secretary Rice’s face, her lips moving, offering conciliatory comments, and requesting (yep, that’s a good tactic), while in the background, the Democrats are on a projection screen, howling for withdrawal, after demanding “we” speak to them, and all the all the audience can do is be distracted by the more important message: “Wait them out. Form now ’til January 2009 is but the blink of an eye in the journey to subjugate the rest of the planet.” Thanks, Democrats. You now have defacto control of the foreign policy, and the unintended consequences aren’t looking too good. So, just why should anyone listen to and consider seriously any words coming from our leadership, duly appointed to interact with other countries? Yes, you’re right, on the Left, they shouldn’t, because you’re in where it’s none of your charter, but yes, it’s your business. It’s beyond the water’s edge you have gone, much to the detriment of all of us, but more importantly, also in the case of many other human beings.

- Internally, the “hate crimes” laws have become a bludgeon to be used by Muslims (regardless of citizenship) against US citizens when a collection of printed letters on pages ends up in the toilet. Sorry, I object. Many symbols held dear by US citizens of all backgrounds, at one time or another have been subject ot being used by the opposing point of view holders to express themselves. Many of those expression have been uniformly looked upon as objectionable, yet when the absolute standard of The Constitution is applied, we comprehend we must allow it to happen. Back to the foundations: The direction from above, in the first major rule set (the one “we” want to dispose of) said not to worship idols. When a group of those in the US determine some inanimate object is dishonored and therefore worthy of charging someone with felony charges, all it does is once more illuminate the lack of a desire to assimilate into the culture, but to demand we accept any subtle slur or annoyance that comes your way. This goes for several other groups, who can’t manage to figure out how to mentally process a string of bad words spoken in their direction. Time to come to grips with reality and life in general.

And, then top it off with John Edwards declaring (actually, via his wife), that he is more of a woman than Hillary Clinton (who suddenly dumps the Mao jacket for a dress that shows off some of her womanhood). Talk about the theater of the bizarre…and to think, it’s ours, because we voted it that way.

Anyhow, the world is in turmoil, with 1.5 billion people, through direct action, including cutting off heads and shooting teachers and nurses, or lack of action, thereby endorsing the acts of those associated with them, forcing an ancient way of life upon the rest of the 4.5 billion people. Somehow, they have been able to use democratic, evolved, Western ideals when it suits their need, and will use brutality and autocracy, all in the same campaign to take over. How have we come to loathe ourselves, and the progress we have made, that we would bow to a theocratic world view and point fingers at ourselves? Strange times, indeed.

Anyhow, once more into the breech we go, as does my stream of consciousness for the day.

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