The Great American Wuss.

How long will it take, after a nuclear attack on one of our great American cities, before we capitulate to the enemy?

A loaded question you say. Well, of course it is. I intended it that way.

I follow a number of blogs, on the Internet, and a common thread I see running thru the fabric of many of the blogs is the “liberal lack of courage”. Their blatant siding with the enemies of the United States, plus, their desire to surrender to the enemy rather than lose a single life to an enemy attack, or, in a war to stop the enemy from taking over this country and turning it into Muslim Theocracy, is perplexing, to say the least.

Why do they hate America so? (No, not the Muslims, the liberals!) What has America done to them, save allow them to grow up in security, and freedom, and get an education, and a relatively good job, raise a family of their own in safety, and send them to college, so they can earn a good living at a good job… and the cycle goes on and on.

Where, in all of this, lie the “seeds of hate” for the country which allows them all this? I cannot for the life of me find it. (Well, we all know that the college education with their “leftist professors” has a lot to do with it, but we’ve know this since the 30’s and the beginnings of the communist movement on our college campuses in America. Send your kid to college today and he, or she, is going to be indoctrinated in Socialism. That is a given. But, I’m getting away from the point of this post.)

I think we can all count on being hit, again, by terrorists…. in the US. Next time I expect a nuclear device, of some sort. Most likely in another large city, but not New York. The thing that worries me is the expected panic, and the expected rush to capitulate to the terrorist demands… prompted by the liberal whining, and constant complaining, that the current President Bush brought this all upon us.

Since John Kerry is already running for President, in 2008, maybe he will be sent to offer the surrender to the terrorists. (This should give you a hint as to how truly intelligent this man is. Everybody knows, if would seem, save for Mr. Kerry, that Hillary Clinton will be the Democrat candidate for president in ’08. Says a lot about Mr. Kerry, doesn’t it?)

I really hate to think that the US is becoming the biggest “wuss” on the planet, but if the trend continues, we will have become just that, and, we will not exist, as the US, a decade from that date.

We reared one generation of spineless brats…you know… the ones marching, and demonstrating, in the streets in support of the communists in Viet Nam. Now that generation has reared another generation of kids, even farther to the left that they are, and the next generation, is, well, pathetic. They can neither read nor write, yet they have diplomas from prestigious universities. They are hopelessly narcissistic, with hugely inflated egos, and empty heads. When trouble comes, and it will, they fold like a tent in a windstorm.

Yes, when I look around and survey the mess we have made of the greatest county on the planet, you bet I worry!

Frankly, I don’t know if we can turn it around. I do not see the drive, the determination, to live free that preceding generations of Americans exuded. It simply isn’t there anymore. It has been bred out of American children. I’m afraid we would rather bow our heads, drop to our knees, and live as slaves rather than stand up like the Americans of old and fight back.

Sorry about the pessimism in this post, but I think it is good to hold a mirror up to the face of Americans every once in a while so we can see what we really look like.

It ain’t pretty!

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”

Ready for a Nationa I.D. Card? Ready or not, Its Coming!

Ready for the National I.D. Card? It’s coming!

Congress is at the point of passing a bill, which will give the US a National ID card… a National Driver’s license.

Oh, the license will have the name of your state on it… and it will, purportedly, be issued by your state, but make no mistake about it, it WILL be a National Driver’s license, which will double as a National ID card.

The nationalization of your driver’s license will include such information, (mandated by the Federal Government) as: proof of citizenship. A digital photo of the licensee/applicant, and proof of his, or her, address, as well as proof that you, indeed, have a Social Security Number. If you are not a citizen, you must provide proof that you are in the country legally. A national registry, of some sort, will be set up, by the federal government, to list all non-citizens in the country and the “non-citizen applicant” will be checked against that registry. The legal non-citizen’s driver’s license will expire when, his, or her, visa expires. Oh, one other thing, there will be some sort of code, or indelible marking, on the license, itself, to prevent counterfeiting.

At first glance it doesn’t seem too bad, but look closer. The documents you present, to verify your citizenship, SS number, and address, as well as a digital photograph, will be copied and filed, or stored in a government data bank!

That, dear reader is the way the federal government will force us to carry a national ID card! And, all the time, you thought they couldn’t do it! Never underestimate the power of a government when it’s citizens are afraid.

I detest the very idea of a National ID card. It goes against everything for which America stands! It immediately brings to mind the line from so many “B” movies of the 1940’s and ‘50’s: “Your papers, please.” The Nazi Gestapo more often than not, delivered that line. If you did not offer those papers up fast enough, the second line was: “You have, perhaps, relatives in Berlin?” Do you get my drift?

This is far too much power in the hands of the federal government!

Now, I’m just a Carolina Country boy, but the opportunity for abuse, by the federal government, with this cache of information on its citizens, is staggering. Then there is always the possibility it could fall into the hands of nefarious characters outside of the government. I don’t even want to think about that!

It worries and confounds me that we Americans are giving away the freedoms our ancestors fought, bled, and died to secure for us. Too many of us are ready to give up our freedom in exchange for security! This is the surest way to establish a totalitarian government yet devised by man.

The American citizen now has to fight on two fronts to insure his safety and security. We must fight the terrorist and those in our own government who would take away our freedom just as surely as would the terrorists.

Big government, in America, is just as much a threat to our freedom as anything the terrorists can throw at us!

Alexis De Tocqueville summed it up when he said:

“It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are selfdom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence. It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies people ‘til each nation is reduced be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which, the government is the shepherd.”

Well, there it is. That is where we Americans are headed, as a nation. Slowly, but surely, we continue to yield up our freedom to the government. Soon there will be none to give up. Soon there will be none…………

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”

North Korea nipping at the ankles of US and Japan.

North Korea nipping at the ankles of US and Japan.

The ink was hardly dry on my post, a few days ago, concerning cleaning out that rat’s nest in North Korea, when, lo and behold, North Korea plops a test missile into the ocean waters off Japan!

Is anybody surprised? I mean… there is a mad man in charge of that country!

It didn’t take long for Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, to fire a salvo at North Korea. She pointedly reminded the DPRK of the fact that the US has a strong presence in that part of the world. In doing so... she laid upon the table the option of using those military assets to stop the DPRK , if it comes to that, in it’s tracks.

Japan is becoming more and more restless. I expect if missiles were landing in the waters off our shores we would be upset, too. That is a given. There is a "not so pleasant" history betweem Japan and both the Koreas.

Well, maybe we ought to hasten our plans to stop “The Nut” in North Korea.

Just a few days ago, Navy Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, (he’s the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency) in speaking to a US Senate Committee explained how, and why, he believes North Korea has the capability to attach a nuclear warhead onto an existing missile, currently in their inventory, and strike the US with it… NOW! Other intelligence agencies believe the DPRK not only has nuclear capabilities, but has had that capability for a number of years now, dating back to the last decade. A number of them believe North Korea has been adding to their nuclear arsenal ever since.

You know, you’d think the world would have come to understand that this “cowboy from Texas” we call “President”, does not bluff. Even Syria understood that once he told them to get the heck out of Lebanon that was it. Either they leave... or... US forces would kick them out. Syria left!

However, in Korea, we are trying to deal with a mad man. There will be no reasoning with him.

Not many people understand that a state of war exists between North Korea and the US, even today, and extends back to the early 1950’s. That war is not over. We have only a “cease-fire” agreement with North Korea. An agreement they have broken many times. The US is closer to trashing that agreement, right now, than at any time in the past. The DPRK should know and understand that. The current US Armed Forces are not the forces of the 1950’s.

A reckoning is coming. It draws nearer every day.

The "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is playing with fire. They are about to be seriously burned.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”

The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans

Are you as sick of the Democrats claiming the Republicans are looking out for their rich friends… at the cost of the poor folk in this country? Every time one turns around it is on the TV, in the Newspapers, and on the radio. Of course, the Democrat party controls the mainstream media outlets. (That’s why FOX News Channel is such a threat to them, and, why it is burning the ratings up. People have become sick and tired of hearing the old leftist spin, on the news, and are rushing to Fox, in droves, to hear the “real” news and, as they say, get it “fair and balanced”.

Here’s the thing. It really is propaganda. Plain and simple. It is political pabulum fed to the media, by the DNC, and the MSM laps it up and regurgitates it onto their respective networks or print media. They have been the willing accomplices of the Democrat party since, well, since the beginning. Nothing has changed.

My own regional newspaper, owned by the New York Times, is no different. Readers get the same old rotgut, left wing, propaganda. However, they have been doing this so long they have begun to believe their own propaganda. They actually believe they are unbiased! Talk about denial! Just a brief scan of their editorial page and a fair-minded person will understand immediately their approach to reporting. It carries over onto the pages of the news, too. The sources are well known left-leaning news associations.

So, with the Democrats controlling the Mainstream Media, why is there a hue and cry when a conservative voice pops up on TV, the radio, or the print media. Because, we conservatives are a very real threat to the left. Our ideas work. They are not difficult for folks to understand. We don’t have all the nuance intertwined in our remarks. We speak plainly and to the point. Oftimes, we are not politically correct, but then most folks aren’t.

Republicans are a mixed lot, the same as Democrats. But, for the most part we are a people who base our political belief in the rock solid fundamentals which built this country. We believe the founders were honorable men. Flawed, but honorable. We believe they meant what they said when they wrote the constitution and they said what they meant. We see no reason to change it one-way or the other. We are morally grounded in the scriptures and we believe that is the root of all things good. But, even more important than all these, we believe there are absolutes, moral and otherwise. There are boundaries. We, for the most part do not believe in relativity. It is either right, or it is wrong.

You can see why we lock horns with the Democratic Party, especially the new Democratic/Socialist party, for that is what it has become… a socialist/secular/ humanist party. The sad thing is… they have yet to realize the American people will have none of it. They are now bent on self destruction.

In by-gone days, the Democrat party was a party in which Zell Miller could feel at home. It was a political party the Southern folk could align with, especially since the Lincoln administration was a Republican administration. But, no more. The pendulum has swung and now the Republican Party is the party the Democrat Party used to be. Thus the switching of parties by Southerners and the reason the South is now solid Republican. Presidential elections cannot be won without the South. It will be a cold day, in warmer climes, when the South switches back to the Democrat party. It may well be time for a new party a moderate party, somewhere between the Republicans and Democrats. It would have a terrible time establishing itself as a threat, however, because most folks have chosen sides, already.

Just some thoughts today on why politics are, as they are, in the USA. Subject to change, of course!

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”

It's Time to Take Out North Korea.

The DPRK. What to do about this rogue state?

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Even the name sounds phony, like something for a “B” movie of the 1950’s.

Anyway, the “nut” they have running that country is liable to do anything… at anytime. He is about as unpredictable as they come. Sane people have a difficult time making any plans to counter his because he is so erratic.

The thing the US must concentrate on now is the PDRK’s ability to hit the western coast of the US with nuke-loaded missiles. If he doesn’t have them at this precise moment, he will shortly, and he will hit the US at the first possible moment. He’s that smart!

Don’t you just love it when they call President Bush a “cowboy”? So do I. It is hilarious! They have no idea that to call an American a “Cowboy” is the highest praise!

So, what do we do about the PDRK? Blockade them ASAP. The ships should be nearby and the US aircraft should be close enough to fly sorties along North Korea’s borders. Our trip-wire troops in South Korea should be put on highest alert, because chances are “The Nut” will strike out as soon as he realizes we have called his bluff. The US military must be ready.

There are expectations that sometime this month PDRK will test fire a nuclear bomb, or a nuclear warhead. The US is keeping a close eye on their preparations to do just that. In the meantime, I have no doubt US ships and aircraft are already enroute to set up the blockade. Now, the President will probably go before the UN and formerly ask them to join us in our blockade, which I firmly expect them to refuse, putting another nail in the coffin lid of that now dead organization. Then, we’ll go ahead and set up the blockade… just as we intended in the first place.

Every ship leaving any North Korean port must be stopped, boarded and searched, and either turned back, or sunk. If it has no nuclear material on board it may be allowed to continue to its destination. Every aircraft leaving North Korea must be turned back. If it is a military aircraft, and it refuses to comply with orders to turn back… it must be shot down.

I am aware this will, in all likelihood, begin a shooting war with North Korea. Better now than later… when they actually have “the bomb”.

That little pip-squeak of a state (I won’t dignify it by calling it a nation) has been a thorn in the flesh of the remainder of the world for much too long. Now it must be cleaned out, much as one would clean out a rat’s nest.

Now, don’t expect a push over as in Iraq. When US troops invade North Korea. The Koreans will fight. They have a history of standing, and fighting, to the last man. So, we will take a fair amount of casualties. But, in the end, the result will be a victory for US troops.

You may have noted I refer to no troops of other nations fighting alongside the US. We must get used to the idea that we are in this alone. The US has become the lone policeman of the world… by default. Like the town marshal in the old movie ‘High Noon”, the US will have to meet the world’s enemies all by itself. Because we are an honorable people, we will do what we have to do.

Look, when another nation, threatens to take out the west coast of the US, they had better know, we will take them out at the very earliest opportunity. The opportunity to remove North Korea, as a threat, to anyone, is fast approaching.

We will not miss this chance. North Korea is toast!

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”