The Conservative Son

I posted this response to an idiotic post I saw on Face Book. The post in question follows my reply.

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I’ve actually “liked” several pages like this. My fear is, that the old Confederates who warned us about the abuses of an overbearing central government might turn out to be right. Still, calling John Brown, a man who believed that Christ was the Son of God, “THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN TALIBAN,” is so far beyond asinine, I falter at words to describe it! Brown hated the abomination of slavery so much, that he fought and died in an albeit vain hope of securing millions of Americans held in slavery the chance to fight for their own freedom,

I have always said, there is enough honor to go around. Men, like many of my ancestors, fought bravely on both sides of that war and we should respect their devotion to their particular causes.

None of us should need a history lesson explaining that the average Confederate soldier neither owned nor wanted slaves, but most fought because they found Yankees in their back yards. (More than enough reason to fight for your average redneck.) When I listen to the liberals in Washington accuse me of “clinging to guns and religion,” I think, “Amen!” When someone calls Brown and his compatriots “anti-slavery terrorists,” I think, “If fighting for the freedom of millions would qualify me as a “terrorist,” thank you, I’ll just take that as a compliment.” I suppose that line of thinking would make every soldier who killed and died for the freedom of our nation “terrorists.” Sheesh!

I only hope that when this government finally enslaves me and mine, (which seems more and more to be their goal,) there’ll be some crazy, fanatical, wild-eyed “John Brown” out there for us willing to take up arms to aid me in fighting to protect my family‘s freedom! And yours!

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"Defending the Heritage"

Labels: John Brown, patriotism, slavery, terrorists

I saw the video at the link below and my head nearly exploded! I've had it in for Little Jimmy Duncan for years because of his lack of respect for our military, but this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond the pale! So, I sent this email to him, post haste.

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Con. Duncan:



Do they know you want to cut their retirement, Jimmy?



I am furious! I am disgusted! I just watched a clip of you on You Tube.

So, now you want to “balance” the budget on the backs of veterans? You think allowing men to retire after twenty years in the military makes no sense?

I served three years proudly in Uncle Sam’s Army. I am not a retiree, but I was honored to wear the uniform and my heart goes out to those who have the courage to at least potentially, if not literally, face enemy bullets, dismemberment or death to protect this great nation.

Hey, Jimmy! If you want to find a way to “balance” the budget, why don’t you refuse that big, fat pension you’re going to get when you retire. Yeah, like that’ll ever happen.

“…very unnecessary foreign wars…” I wrote you years ago and said I’ll never vote for you again over remarks like this. Can’t you just support the troops and quit saying what they are doing is “unnecessary”? (I’m sure Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid agree with you.)

“…healthy, able bodied people…” Oh, sure, all we ask is that they leave their homes for months and months on end, go to strange countries, dodge enemy bullets and bombs and maybe die a little bit one day. Oh, yeah, they also have to listen to their Congressman saying that they don’t deserve a proper retirement after twenty years of that.

What will your retirement be after way too long in D.C.? Oh, yeah, that’s right. You believe your worth a six figure salary and pension with full health benefits and a retired Army colonel isn’t? Sheesh! You’re a veteran! What happened? When did you become a professional politician?

“…working as a waiter or waitress is more physically demanding…” Well, I’ve been a waiter and I’ve been a soldier. I was fortunate enough to never experience combat, but have friends who have. No waiter/waitress with any humility thinks their job is “more physically demanding” than that of a cop or a soldier.

I have been a life-long Republican and my family has been Republican since Lincoln. Shamefully, Republicans, such as yourself, can spend with the best of the Democrats as long as it’s your own pet project. (Yes, I read the DPA and see you passing out checks all the time.) This is the sort of thing that makes me ashamed, almost, to be a Republican.

I’m convinced you’ve been in D.C. too long and maybe feel you deserve your office and that you’re unbeatable. (Perhaps you think you can bequeath your office to someone?) This is another of the reasons, though I’ll never vote Democrat, I said I’ll never vote for you again and will discourage everyone I can from doing so. (I’ve met with some success on the latter.) When I hear you talk like that, all I can think is “Term Limits”!

This is also one of the reasons why I was proud to finally, after a decade, vote for a Congressional candidate again. I voted for Joe Leinweber, thank you.

I was always proud to vote for your daddy. For years, I felt the same way about you. Something changed about a year or two after 9-11. I don’t know what the polls told you, but pretty much everybody I talk to wants to give the troops a raise!

It breaks my heart to hear the words like you said in that video come out of a good old boy from East Tennessee that I once admired and respected so much. It really just makes me so sad.

I’m thankful for our military and their hard work and sacrifice! God bless them! Lay off! Don’t cut their pay! Don’t cut their retirement! Cut the pay of U.S. Congressmen and Senators! Talk about a cushy job!

Sincerely,

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Con. Duncan calls for cuts in military retirement, but not his own.

Labels: Congressman John Duncan, Democrat, government, Harry Reid, Jr., military, Nancy Pelosi, patriotism, R.I.N.O., Term Limits

Our local newspaper, the Daily Post Athenian, was kind enough, or crazy enough to print another one of my letters to the editor. It even appeared in the weekend edition. Sheesh!

It seems to have had the intended affect. Most everyone I work with is upset with me. Oh, the fun never stops!

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To the Editor:

All right, it's time for someone to say it and it might as well be me. We have entirely too many people voting!

I once firmly believed that as long as American citizens vote, the good old U.S. of A. would ultimately be just fine. Yet, as I approach a half-century of age, I've watched American citizens over and over again choose leaders who have anything but the best interests of our nation at heart. What most do have is a great desire to be elected and then re-elected and then retire with full pension and benefits. Most will tell any story, make any promise and then do just enough to keep themselves employed. Is that all their fault? Not really. Just look who put them in office.

Today, we have people balloting for someone to be inaugurated into the most powerful position in the world who have never so much as read the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution. They can't name their congressmen or senators. They couldn't pick the vice president, or perhaps even the president, out of a lineup. They haven't the slightest understanding of the Electoral College or, worse, don't even know it exists. They have no inkling of how a bill becomes a law or even a cursory knowledge of how our trinitarian federal government functions. They know nothing of our system of "checks and balances." They even think we're a democracy. (No, we're actually a republic.) Yet, these same voters can name all the contestants on "American Idol."

They've taken their children to Disney World four times, the ocean six times, but haven't yet found the time to take them to Arlington. They take their munchkins to every new movie that comes out, but have never watched an hour of the History Channel with them. They turn them over to the government and say, "Here, bring my child back educated." And, oh, what an education they get! They are taught all about birth control (at least the state's version). They're taught we're no better than apes, that there is no God and that the government is our "friend."

I recently asked several people if they visited any veterans' graves on Memorial Day. One 25-year-old replied, "Why would I wanna do that? They're dead." I responded, "What a typical 25-year-old answer." He only chuckled unknowingly. Oh, the apathy!

Do any thinking Americans really believe our country can survive forever with a citizenry that couldn't care less about the price that was paid to preserve our liberty? So many have no idea the blood, sweat, toil and tears required to bequeath us the daily blessings most take for granted. No, freedom did not come cheaply or easily and keeping it will require more of the same sacrifice.

There was a time in our nation when to vote you had to be a white, propertied male at least 21 years of age. Sometimes you had to pass a test and/or pay a fee, even at that. You were generally required to be literate and have some knowledge of your responsibility as a citizen. (On second thought, maybe it's not so much that "too many" people are voting as much as it is the "too many" know too little.)

I'm certainly not suggesting that we return to anything of that nature. Yet, if we believe that the uneducated, illiterate, woefully and willingly ignorant masses of today's electorate would have produced the republic we place our hand over our hearts and pledge our allegiance to today (well, most of us anyway), we are beyond deluded.

Naturalized citizens must pass a test to obtain the privilege of voting. Why not native citizens? What is it about being born on a certain piece of dirt (something over which we have no control) that qualifies us to make decisions that will affect us now and our posterity for generations?

Sadly, our nation is in a politically-correct stupor. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by telling them, "You don't qualify." Even if they actually don't qualify. We do our darnedest to recruit every potential voter, but never consider if that voter has any idea about, or interest in, the operation of our republic. We fear hurting someone's feelings more than the damage that clueless wonder may do to our country's waning integrity. Sheesh!

When I hear the opinions of the inane and enslaved proletariat, I say a silent prayer that they don't vote. When some confess they don't vote, I'm downright gleeful. Thank God for small miracles!

This is not elitism. Every law-abiding American adult, regardless of creed, religion, color or financial status, should be entitled to vote as protected in the Constitution. Yet, bear in mind, there is no guaranteed "right to vote" in our Constitution. (You don't believe me? Just try to find it.) There is only protection against our government restricting us, for the wrong reasons, from exercising that privilege. Yes, voting is a privilege.

Look, I seriously am not aiming to offend anyone. Frankly though, I am offended at the millions who when given, yes "given," the Godsend of choosing our national, state and local leaders shun the time and effort required to become informed citizens. I am offended at those who are "given" the prerogative to vote and yet, unappreciatively, don't love this great nation. It's heartrending that the American electorate is inexorably trapped in this downward spiral of lethargy and oblivion.

Sadly and lastly, if you cared enough to read this regrettably inadequate argument for excluding the heedless from involvement in our elections, you are likely one who, in my never to be humble opinion, qualifies. The rest? Well, they never got past the funny papers.

Labels: Arlington National Cemetery, Declaration of Independence, Disney World, election, Electoral College, ignorance, patriotism, politics, U.S. Constitution, voting

I've been laughing for days about the people who have wished me a "Happy Memorial Day!"

Funny how no one seems to see the irony.

Labels: Memorial Day, patriotism