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| Thoughts on the Nashville Shooting from a retired DIA analyst, historian, author, and old friend | |
| 2023-03-29 | |
I wish to offer the following observation to your Letters to the Edito on the 27 March ’23 article:, "Poll Shows Shift in What Americans Value": The decline of American values ("Poll Shows Shift in What Americans Value" (WSJ 27 Mar ’03) is best seen in the appalling occurrence of mass shootings, but we address only its symptoms and not origins. I offer the following perspective of my 75 years and of a historian and former analyst of the Soviet Union to explain what has brought us to his state. When I was growing up we were a well-armed country, but these slaughters just did not happen. What has happened between then and now? Every society develops means to keep at bay the demons that lurk malevolently in human nature. Those means are the conscience and moral values instilled by religion, strong families and communities, wholesome national traditions, and customs. Religion is the key. The Founding Fathers believed that only a moral people informed by religion could sustain a democracy. That fraying of our society and democracy is evidence of the decline of those means to control the demons. The latest example is the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee. What then has loosened the demons? We need only look at the policies of the left to assault religion, to unravel the family and community, to lower cultural norms of decency, to encourage drug use, and to denigrate our unifying history and its traditions. The left has embraced the assault on the natural organization of the human race by erasing the difference between men and women. Worst of all it has embraced the profound evil of the mutilation of children in the cause of this erasure, no different than the cruelties of Dr. Mengele. Even the Bolsheviks at their blood-thirsty worst never descended to this level of madness. Scripture inveighs against those who destroy the innocence of children stating it would be better is such people had never been born. We cannot control these demons unless we understand what has unleashed them. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Like I was pondering the other campfire, its like the went through The Bible and everything which is a cautionary tale they make policy. The really depressed side of me thinks that Brandon's Ice Cream Parlor monologue was that everyone in the back was laughing it up, then he went out to the podium, and lost track of the mood he was supposed to project and just kept trying to yuck it up like it was back stage. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-03-29 15:58 |
| #8 Communism was supposed to take over but it did take over the liberal mind and they are continuing to push for it, and to push for things that will help them enforce it. Most modern problems make sense when seen in that context. Break up the family and religion and patriotism as these unite and are the things that keep the USA inoculated from communism. Then disarm the population because a large segment were never fall for the bull and will have to be dealt with. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2023-03-29 14:12 |
| #7 Not sure why she wore a red hat and published a manifesto. Either do the false flag or don’t do it. I guess that is a small thing amongst the despicable evil. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-29 12:44 |
| #6 bracing for the Manifesto of the shooter ^'rewrite of' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-03-29 11:23 |
| #5 When our command element took over a headquarters building at the former Mather Air Force Base, we got the USMC complex that had housed their Navigator Training Unit. The center Urinal in the bathroom had Fonda's picture perfectly positioned for comment! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-03-29 10:56 |
| #4 bracing for the Manifesto of the shooter also wondering about the shooter's social media accounts - they haven't been found, maybe were erased before the shooting |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-03-29 10:55 |
| #3 Fonda, the communist gift that keeps on giving. She should have been tried for treason and shared he fate of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 60 years ago. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-03-29 07:31 |
| #2 Where is MSM villainization of Jane Fonda? Given, Jane Fonda called for the murder of Christians about 2 weeks prior to this, then this happens at a Christian School. If it were a Conservative, they'd be digging into the sewers looking into even the amount of used Toilet Paper her generated. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-03-29 07:22 |
| #1 We cannot control these demons unless we understand what has unleashed them. Drag queen straddles girl at North Carolina public school, video shows Two North Carolina men charged after discovery of nearly 1,000 explicit photographs of children |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-03-29 07:14 |