These photos were taken during a demonstration in England and sent to Sgt John by a friend. Waiting to see them on the TV here in the US.
A VIEW THAT MAY NOT CONFORM TO THE POLITICALLY CORRECT
CONCEPTION BUT ONE THAT MUST BE CONSIDERED IF IT IS
HISTORICALLY CORRECT.
By Phil Lucas
Executive Editor
If straight
talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and
gender diversity
but not diversity of thought or if you think there is an
acceptable gray
area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages,
and take the
children, too.
This piece is not for you.
We published pictures
Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from
an Iraqi bridge behind a mob
of grinning Muslims.
Some readers didn't like it.
Mothers said it
frightened their children. A woman who works with Muslim
physicians thought
it might offend or endanger them.
Well, we sure don't want to frighten,
offend or endanger anybody, do we?
That's just too much diversity to handle.
I mean, somebody might get hurt.
We could fill the newspaper every
morning with mobs of fanatical Muslims.
They can't get along with their
neighbors on much of the planet: France,
Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain,
Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc.
etc. etc. Can anybody name three
ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims
are not involved? Today, where
there is war, there are fanatical Muslims. We
might quibble about who
started what conflicts, but look at the sheer number
of them.
One
thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they
slaughtered more than 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York
City.
Madeline Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless
appeaser who
helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still
resented the
Crusades. Well, Madame Albright, if Westerners were not such a
forgiving
people, we might resent them too.
Let's recap the Crusades.
Muslims invaded Europe and when they reached
sufficient numbers they imposed
their intolerant religion upon Westerners by
force. Christian monarchs drove
them back and took the battle to their
homeland. The fight lasted a couple
of centuries, and we bottled them up for
1,000 years.
Now, a
millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again. Ask France. Ask
England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid
siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president announced it would be
a very long war, then took the battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound
familiar?
Let's consider the concept of a "long war." Last time it
was 200 years, give
or take.
Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You
know, the good part, the part that
wasn't fiction, the part that drew us to
the books and movies because it was
the truest part: the titanic struggle
between good and evil, between freedom
and enslavement, between the
individual and the state, between the
celebration of life and the
worshipping of death.
That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It
just has peaks and
valleys.
There may be a silent majority of
peaceful Muslims - some live here - but
that did not save 3,000 people in
the World Trade Centers, the millions
gassed and butchered in the Middle
East, the tens of thousands slain in
Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds
blown to bits in the West Bank and
Spain, or the four Americans shot, burned
and hung like sausage over the
Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims
did the joyful dance of death.
Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent
on "diversity," we are so
nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our
six-packs and ballgames that our
brains have drained to our bulbous behinds.
Maybe we're so addled on Ritalin
we wouldn't know which end of a gun to
hold. Maybe we need a new drug
advertised on TV every three minutes, one
that would help us grow a
backbone.
It doesn't take a Darwin to
figure out that in this world the smartest, the
fastest, the strongest, and
the most committed always win. No exceptions.
Look at your spouse and
children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look
at the pictures from the
paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those
are the people out to
kill you.
Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take
your ball and go
home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history.
Start with last
week, last month, last year, and every other year back for
half a century.
Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this
fight.
Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the way it
is.
But many Americans don't get it.
That's why we published those
pictures.
If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they
scared your
children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless
editors,
then I say, it's a
start.
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HISTORY-One of the Best Chronologies I've Seen
The General Public tends to have very
short memories about these kind of events.
----- Original Message -----
Subject: One of the best chronologies I've seen
U.S. Navy Capt. Ouimette is the XO of NAS, Pensacola. Here is a copy of
the speech he gave last month. It is a wonderful and accurate account of why we
are in trouble today.
AMERICA WAKE UP!
That's what we think we
heard on the 11th of September 2001 and maybe it was but I think it should have
been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since
1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more
minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November
1979 in a country going through a
religious and political upheaval when a
group of Iranian students
attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran.
This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held
the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency.
The
attack on this sovereign US embassy set the stage for the events
to follow
for the next 23 years.
America was still reeling from the aftermath of
the Viet Nam experience
and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when
then, President
Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a
clandestine raid in
the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but
stood as a symbol
of America's inability to deal with terrorism.
America's military had been decimated and downsized / right sized since
the end of the Viet Nam war. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly
organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed
from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to
be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do
little to protect
her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against
US soil
continued. In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high
explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes,
it kills 63 people.
The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze
Button once more.
Then just six short months later a large truck heavily
laden down with
over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the
US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut. 241 US servicemen are killed. America
mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in
December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US
Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
The following
year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the
gates of the US
Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spreads to
Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers
in Madrid.
Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven
into the
main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and
the Snooze Alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US soil is
continually
attacked.
Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the
Achille Lauro is hijacked and
we watched as an American in a wheelchair is
singled out of the
passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then
shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners
when they bomb TWA Flight
840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the
most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight
103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.
America wants to
treat these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are
still trying to bring
these people to trial. These are acts of war. The
Wake Up alarm is louder and
louder.
The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January
1993,
two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters
in
Langley, Virginia.
The following month, February 1993, a group of
terrorists are arrested
after a rented van packed with explosives is driven
into the underground
parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York
City. Six people
are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime
and not an
act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.
Then in
November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh Saudi
Arabia killing seven service men and women.
A few months later in June
of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound
in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It
destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force
barracks, killing 19 and
injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver
and smarter as
they see that America does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision.
They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes
back
to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for
refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and
exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war,
but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And
of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this
was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America
has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm
and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we have seen lots
of finger pointing from every high
official in government over what they
knew and what they didn't know.
But if you've read the papers and paid a
little attention I think you
can see exactly what they knew. You don't have
to be in the FBI or CIA
or on the National Security Council to see the
pattern that has been
developing since 1979.
The President is right
on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think
we have been in a war for
the past 23 years and it will continue until
we as a people decide enough is
enough.
America has to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America
has
changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make
the
sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to
hit
the Snooze Button again and roll over and go back to sleep. We have
to
make the terrorists know that in the words of Admiral Yamamoto after the
attack on Pearl Harbor "that all they have done is to awaken a sleeping giant."
Thank you very much.
Dan Ouimette
Pensacola Civitan
19
Feb 2003
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