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Thursday, 23 July 2009

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

  • The action in Honduras, and why Americans should support the new government

    ...and Obama wont.


    On June 28th, 2009 the Honduran army on orders from the Legislative and Judicial branches of the country of Honduras, raided the compound of then president Manuel Zelaya, arrested him and summarily exiled him from the country. The cause? The expressly constitutionally forbidden act of attempting to lengthen the presidential term.
    According to the constitution of Honduras, there is to be no debate about the length or number of terms a president can have. By law, the president of Honduras is elected for a single four year term, ever in their career.  Any attempt to lengthen the term of office, or change the number of terms that a candidate is viable for is expressly forbidden. The result of such an attempt by a sitting president as mandated by the constitution of Honduras, is immediate removal from office.

    Which, is exactly what happened on June 28th of this year. The only thing I see that they did wrong was in not shooting Mr. Zelaya in the back of the head, and hanging his worthless corpse from the capital building flag pole as a warning to tyrants and despots.

    Zelaya has, since his exile, been whining like a baby and demanding that the world move in and create for him a dictatorship err well he's been saying he wants to be restored as the democratically elected president, but what he really means is have the world create for him a dictatorship, which is what he was trying to do in the first place.

    This folks does not happen often, it is a rare thing indeed more so in South America where tyrannical military revolutions seem to be a weekly event. Its refreshing to see an actually liberty oriented military for once.

    That is what happened, why should we care? 

    As good freedom loving people, all Americans should be interested in this case, what we have here, is the correct method, albeit a very lenient correct method of dealing with tyrants. Fortunately for the people of Honduras, the military was not co-opted in the planned destruction of their constitution and law, and actually came to their defense and removed Zelaya from power.
    In the USA, we have our own constitution (duh right), it places checks and balances upon the government, we the people are expected to act as the final check against a government body, any government body attempting to co-opt the constitution and instill their own version of rulership over us.  We should support the new Honduran government, because they stood up to a would be dictator and held to their rule of law, even more so, we should support them because the rest of the world does not. It is almost plainly apparent that whatever the "global community" supports, is evil and tyrannical, and whatever it opposes, is in the best interests of individual freedom and liberty. The very idea of what happened in Honduras is the most terrifying thing to any one of a hundred moderately tyrannical world leaders out there right now, and so, rather than hearing about the heroic efforts of the Honduran people against dictatorship and totalitarianism, we hear of a "coup" and how what happened was wrong.

    Americans should take note, should ever the darkest of days fall upon us, and we be forced, with or without the support of the military to remove a tyrant from office forcefully, we would be foolish to expect anything less from the press, or the rest of the world. We should care about this because there is no guarantee that someday, we may be in the exact same place as Honduras, looking down the barrel of the world, scared out of its mind that its people may someday feel the call of freedom, and it could be their carcass hanging from a flag pole in the capital.

    Tyrants and wanna be tyrants protect each other, at least from their people; for them, a revolution is only a good thing when bringing tyrants to power. Freedom is like a cold, it can spread quickly, and like a cold, when the right things are done to the greater body, it can pass quickly too.

    Why does the Obama administration support the ousted tyrant? I leave that for you to judge, for I cannot see his mind on this, I just find it interesting that for the first time in memory, we are siding with the tyrants and despots of the world, against liberty.




     

Saturday, 11 July 2009

  • Remembering...

    You may notice, that in the course of my blogging, a lot of what I write about, is prompting you, the three
    poor souls that read my blog to remember. And not to remember very nice things I might add, but to
    remember things like D-Day, The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, Valley Forge, and 9/11, moments
    and people in history that were horrific to be in, and sobering to recall.

    And I thought that you might be wondering why it was, that I would ask you, on so many occasions, to
    pause and think about young men charging into hell, for you and me, and to remember those for whom that
    was their final act.

    To be honest, it was hard for me to contemplate explaining in words, for me it just seems the natural thing to do.
    To remember and do my best to honor the memory of those who gave up their lives so that we could live in a free nation.

    But the simplest explanation I can give you is this,
    I want every man woman and child who are citizens of this nation, to sense the same value woven into
    the very fabric of our country that I do. So that when you remember a battle that cost many thousands of men
    their lives, and you understand that they died so you wouldn't have to live under a tyrant's heel, so
    hopefully your love of country grows and your determination that she will not go quietly into the night
    swells, so that when you sing the last words of the national anthem "Oh say does that star spangled
    banner yet wave, ore' the land of the free and the home of the brave?" your actually interested in the
    answer to the question! I would love for every child growing up, learn of the men who died on D-Day,
    and read the letters our soldiers wrote home in the Civil War, and then read of the battles in which those
    men died. I want every single one of us to understand what it is we have, why we have it, and why it
    matters that we keep it, not simply for the sake of the memory of those who rest in Arlington, but so
    that we don't overflow those sacred grounds with heroes! When you understand what something cost,
    and how difficult it is to replace, that is the true value of it, I believe that you will be less prone to squander
    that which was bought for us at such great a price.

    Remembering 9/11 has its own virtue, it is imperative that we remember that with something of such great
    value and fragility, comes the responsibility to protect it, and that there are those who actively seek to destroy it.

    So I once again ask you to remember our heroes, those who fell then and those who came home.

    Today I remind you of Darrell "Shifty" Powers, Staff Sergeant, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry
    Regiment (United States), 101st Airborne Division The Screaming Eagles.

    Veteran of Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, The Battle of the Bulge specifically,
    the siege at Bastogne, and the taking of the Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden

    A Rifle For Shifty

    Last month, unnoticed by the media at all, Shifty Powers went to be with the rest of his brothers in arms.
    And America, lost another hero.

    Darrell "Shifty" Powers
    March 13, 1923 - June 17, 2009
    American Hero

    http://elmtreeforge.blogspot.com/2009/07/im-sorry-to-say-i-didnt-hear-of-death.html


    http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/07/no-24-hour-tv-coverage-no-obituaries-in.html


    Remember Today, Shifty Powers and his brothers in arms, and mark well, the price of freedom.


Monday, 06 July 2009

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