Something was brough to my attention

May father, a die-hard Conservative, sent me this email:

>I thought this was a great idea.
>>
>> THE PROGRAM:
>> On Friday, September 11th,
>> 2009, an American flag
>> should be displayed outside every home, apartment,
>> office, and store in the
>> United States . Every individual should make it their
>> duty to display an
>> American flag on this
>> eighth anniversary of one of
>> our country's worst
>> tragedies. We do this to honor those who lost
>> their lives on 9/11,
>> their families, friends and loved ones who continue to
>> endure the pain, and
>> those who today are fighting at>
>> home and abroad to preserve
>> our cherished
>> freedoms.
>> In the days, weeks and months
>> following 9/11, our
>> country was bathed in American flags as citizens
>> mourned the incredible
>> losses and stood shoulder-to-shoulder against
>> terrorism. Sadly, those flags
>> have all but disappeared. Our patriotism pulled us
>> through some tough times
>> and it shouldn't take another attack to galvanize
>> us in solidarity. Our
>> American flag is the fabric of our country and together
>> we can prevail over
>> terrorism of all kinds
>>
>> Action Plan:
>>
>> So, here's what we need
>> you to do .
>>
>> (1) Forward this email to
>> everyone you know (at
>> least 11 people). Please don't be the one to break
>> this chain. Take a moment
>> to think back to how you felt on 9/11 and let those
>> sentiments guide
>> you.
>>
>> (2) Fly an American flag of
>> any size on 9/11.
>> Honestly, Americans should fly the flag year-round, but
>> if you don't, then
>> at least make it a priority on this day.
>>
>> Thank you for your
>> participation. God Bless You and
>> God Bless America !

I got to thinking about it and made a few revelations:

(Buckle up, it gets fun from here!)

I like this concept, but think it should also be done on December 7, for remembrance of Pearl Harbor.
Maybe the citizens will remember that event and how we retaliated in such a fashion that Japan NEVER even THOUGHT about something like that again and start to wonder why Afghanistan is not equally super-spanked!

The dropping of "The Bomb" in Japan was an example of massive retaliation. At that point in our history, we were not concerned with all of the psycho-babble crap that keeps us (as a nation) from making a point and making it painfully clear. Now, we (again, as a nation) want to send aid in the form of food and medical supplies to our enemy so that we can look at ourselves in the mirror and say we are good people. That is bullshit. It is that coddling that has brought us to the point we find ourselves today. If the enemy is our enemy, they need to be pushed to the point of surrender - using whatever means necessary. We should have, on September 12, 2001, dropped so many bombs on Afghanistan that it was reduced to nothing more than glass slag that reflected the starlight in the cool night air of the middle east.

Look at the movies we like, where the bad guy is clearly defined and we want nothing more than to destroy him. Inglorious Basterds is coming out. It is a film by Quentin Tarintino about a group of soldiers that kill Nazis. That is their job. I'm looking forward to seeing it, if only to remind me of a time (before my time) when we held people responsible for their actions and exacted not revenge, but justice. The Nazis were evil. The skin-heads that follow that Aryan path are equally evil. The followers of bin Laden are also evil, but our nation wants to rehabilitate them - not ever realizing that there is NO rehabilitation for religious zealots. We feel bad for them.

"Poor misguided souls thinking that this is their way to heaven. We should teach them that love, not hate, and OUR God are the only way to heaven. It's not their fault. They were taught hate from a young age. We should HELP them, not fight with them. Awwww..."
Fuckhead thinking.

They will say/do whatever they have to to put themselves in a position of killing us. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese forced us to pull our head out of the sand and take action in the events of the world - drawing us into the war. In today's society, we need not have our heads pulled from the sand, but rather pulled from our asses. We need to wake up and see what is happening in the world and in our own country and make changes to become strong again.

In short, we need to revert to a former time of glory in our nation's history. A time when we defended ourselves and sought out those that were aggressive towards us - and SUCCEEDED in bringing them to justice. Our innocence was lost a long time ago, but our naivete seems to be making a comeback. We want to be everybody's friend and have no enemies. A wonderful dream, but impossible. For whatever reason - valid or not - people will hate us. Fucking deal with it! Uncle Sam needs to man-up and start kicking ass like we used to in "the good ol' days".

My father blamed the issue on the current administration and warned of imminent doom and destruction at the hand of Obama. I still think that it is the state of society for allowing the bleeding hearts (of ALL political parties) to corrupt our nation and turn the majority that has the vote to become so mush-minded that flashy smiles, empty rhetoric and promises of positive change sway them (the voters) to put ALL of the current political "Civil Servants" in the positions they have.

When it became inappropriate - even criminal - to employ spankings as discipline to our children, when it became offensive - even criminal - to compliment a person of the opposite sex on how they look, when it became too much for our social conscience to expect people to actually have to work for a living and - instead of continuing to make them do so - create social programs to keep them fed and clothed and housed with medical benefits, when it became all of this, THAT is when we, as a nation, began to throw it all away.

Utopia doesn't exist. We will never create it in this world. All of the people that feel that a hug is what is needed should try going to Iraq and give one of the MANY people there trying to kill us a hug. They will be stopped by one of two things: a bullet or a bomb. Either way, they will not have the voice to put any more soft-headed, greedy, only-out-for-themselves politician in a position to create policy to which the WORKERS of America have to adjust. The problem is not the politicians. The problem is the majority of SHEEP that put them in power.