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2007-05-11 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Glaviger Creater9283 2007-05-11 10:50|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Wow. If I could write like that...

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-11 12:02|| 2007-05-11 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Today Medill would return to his office and write an editorial accusing Lincoln of hate speech, war mongering, and raising the "chill wind" of "supression of dissent".

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-11 13:34|| 2007-05-11 13:34|| Front Page Top

#3 TW, don't wish it - do it.

I've seen your writing and it's eloquent when you want it to be.

That's the problem with to many people - they see the problem, but don't think they're smart enough, eloquent enough, or guilty enough to do what they know they need to do.

Write your congresscritters. They may not listen, but they'll damn well know somebody spoke up.

Write your newspapers. They will listen and if they get enough letters to the editor they virtually have to print some of them on our side (they will print opposing viewpoints, but that's only to be expected and it's also the right thing for them to do).

Write the pollsters - tell them they don't speak for you when they poll 50% more Democrats in a poll than they do Republicans and they do it intentionally. Public pressure will work on them too.

Write your blogs and bloggers. Stand up to the Kos kiddies and the MoveOn.org morons. Support groups like Move America Forward. Let people know where you stand.

Write the news agencies - ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Fox and others need to know what the American heartland thinks more than anything else. Fox practically begs for watchers to write them. Do it. If they face enough public pressure, they must concede to it.

Finally, become a force to be reckoned with in your own communities. Write, distribute free newsletters, find a way to get your voice heard, print flyers, do anything you can - there's enough trash on telephone poles and bulletin boards that any voice of rationality, loyalty, patriotism, and more might just draw attention.

Organize. Without organization we stand idly by as the enemy takes us over and robs us of our freedoms.

Remember, those who will concede liberty for security deserve neither (Thomas Jefferson).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-11 17:34|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-11 17:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Also remember - a single voice can be lost in the din of the mob, but a thousand voices can drown out the mob and get their message heard.

Be one of those thousand voices.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-11 17:35|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-11 17:35|| Front Page Top

#5 FOTSGreg:TW, don't wish it - do it.

Without my suggesting anything, but filling his head with my ~~rants~~opinions, my fifteen-year-old son is doing just that at school. He makes a point to speak up and argue when teachers start spewing their PC indoctrination, whether global warming, "racism" or the WoT. He gets the teachers so flustered all they can do is appeal to their authority or accuse him of changing the subject or going off on tangents, when they raised the issue int the first place. He recently did a speech (assignment: be persuasive, but include documented facts). He chose to highlight progress in the war, using centcom.mil as his primary source. We don't know what grade he got yet, but he got plenty of eye rolling and condescending sneers for his efforts - especially when he quoted Bush. He seems to take pride in that kind of reaction, though.

I'm so proud!

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-11 18:12|| 2007-05-11 18:12|| Front Page Top

#6 the fact that LaHood, et al - notified Tim Russert (D-NBC) of their tongue-lashing of Bush shows that it was nothing more than a cowardly public act of ass-covering - they deserve to be replaced by suitable REPUBLICANS in the next election. F&CKERS

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-11 18:57|| 2007-05-11 18:57|| Front Page Top

#7 An aside about Secretary Stanton. Other than being a superb Secretary of War, Stanton made a decision that is influential even today.

Ironically, for the wrong reason.

He directed that every War Department record, and every record that passed through the War Department, be kept on file in perpetuity. In addition, he ordered that every single Confederate record captured by the Union army be carefully preserved in the archive.

He assumed that at the end of the Civil War, there was going to be litigation the likes of which was unimaginable. Lawsuits about the war running the length and breadth of the nation for 50 years.

Fortunately, as we know today, that did not happen. But such was the high esteem that Stanton was held that those records still exist today, and in amazing detail.

Listed are most of the names of the men who fought in the war, a treasure trove for genealogists matched only today with the Internet. Other historical data also abounds concerning commerce, technology, general history, war history, and statistics.

It was the first great snapshot of an entire nation, at the birth of the modern age. All due to a fear that the destruction of the war would be redoubled by lawyers.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-11 20:37|| 2007-05-11 20:37|| Front Page Top

#8 FOTSGreg, I do write sometimes, and call sometimes. But my style works in this forum because so many here reason primarily on facts, not wishes. My best value outside this forum is talking to my children and their friends... and carefully with people in my circle. Both trailing daughters are persuaded that the Democrats are the party of stupid reactionaries and willfully blind pseudointellectuals, whereas the Republicans are where the truly intelligent and innovative put their vote. Both have spoken up in their circle and at school about the War on Terror, etc. And both, when they have time or hear me giggle, come look over my shoulder to read the latest at Rantburg (TD #1 saved Rantburg: The Movie to her favourites on her laptop). They've even been known to get homework help here on occasion. ;-)

You, my dear, and so many others here, are suited to make waves in the world. I'm more a pebble, hoping that my ripples spread wide across my little pond.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-11 21:39|| 2007-05-11 21:39|| Front Page Top

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