The other 9/11 and the Cordoba Mosque
So let’s talk about the other 9/11 in history and the relationship between that day and the proposed Mosque at “Ground Zero”. The choice of the day when the Moslem terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon goes way beyond the fact that 911 is the phone number many of us call for emergency help. I believe it is actually connected to the second siege of Vienna that ended on September 11, 1683.
Having attacked Vienna and having failed in 1529 the Moslems decided to venture another campaign on Christendom. The Grand Vizier, Pasha Kara Mustafa called together an army of Turks and Tartar and Malaysian allies and began his march in from the east towards Vienna, Austria. King Leopold and most of the population of Vienna and the surrounding area fled to the west leaving 11,000 soldiers and 5,000 volunteers. The garrison at the city of Vienna burned all the surrounding area and withdrew all foodstuffs and anything useful into Vienna leaving no shelter or cover or supplies for the enemy.
Having 140,000 troops Mustafa was well enough equipped for the battle. He elected to put Vienna under siege. The Ottomans began the battery of the walls but the guns they brought were not able to breech the walls of Vienna. They began to tunnel and to place charges of gunpowder under the walls. The defenders were able to rally and repair every breech that was made by the Ottoman mining. But eventually Vienna would fall if it was not reinforced.
Poland and Austria were joined in a mutual defense treaty and the King of Poland, Jan Sobieski was ready to respond to Pope Innocent’s requests for relief of Vienna. However the law of Poland required that a commision had to approve of the action. The king of France was bribing the commision to keep Poland out of the action for his own interests. The Pope was able to overcome this and the King of Poland rode out. So on the evening of September 11, 1683 King Sobieski along with some Germans and Austrians arrived with an army of 40,000 and took up positions on a hill outside of Vienna. In the early morning of Sept 12, 1683 they attacked the Moslems. King Jan Sobieski at the head of his famous Winged Hussars, yes they actually wore wings on their backs, struck against the Ottomans and pulled their forces away from the walls of the city which allowed the Viennese to sally forth and attack on the flanks of the Ottomans. In 3 hours the Turks fled leaving everything including slaves behind.
The forces of Christendom drove the Ottomans east and south out of Europe and back to Turkey.
I believe that the choice of September 11 for the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is more connected to this resounding defeat of the forces of Islam which led to their expulsion from Europe than a play on the nationwide emergency phone number. Being the type of people Americans are they immediately assumed that the choice of date had something to do with the emergency phone no.. Unlike the Moslem who does so many things that have significant symbolism in his religious life.
Their last attack on Christendom ended in a rout on 9/12, 1683. So I believe that they intended to announce another crusade of Islam and began it on 9/11, 2001 on the same date that the last one ended. Fortunately we have seen nothing of another full scale crusade. But the crusade in other forms is on again.
Now with the destruction of the World Trade Center there is an effort to erect a Mosque there at “Ground Zero”. I believe that there is also a great deal of symbolism behind placing a mosque at that location and in calling it Cordoba House.
The plan is backed by an organization called The Cordoba Initiative. An organization founded by a group including Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, the man in the forefront of the effort to build the mosque.
So am I seeing a connection between this and some obscure ancient history? Yes I am. And the history should not be so obscure for anyone calling themselves Christian.
The Crusade to Islamize Christendom began somewhere around 695 A.D. when the Islamic Moors moved west and east to attack the Middle East, Byzantium and North Africa. Many Americans need to have their historical mind jarred back to life so here we go. The Middle East and North Africa were at one time Christian, Jew and Pagan. There were kingdoms claiming faith in one of those beliefs spread across the area. If you will remember the name of St Augustine the famous bishop of Hippo. Well Hippo was in North Africa. The great city of Istanbul in Turkey was Constantinople and the great mosque there was St Sophia’s Cathedral. At the time of the Islamic crusade all of the major Christian sites in the Middle East such as the Church at the Holy Sepulcher and the Church at the Mount of Olives were all in Christian hands. Then came Islam. By 711 A.D. the Moors were at the pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar).
The Moors swept into the Iberian peninsula and took over the Catholic Kingdoms of what is now Spain. One section of that peninsula was called Andalusia and there was the town of Cordoba. In 600 A.D. the Visigoths had built a Cathedral in Cordoba and during the Islamic occupation the property was sold to the Moslems for 100,000 dinars. Late in 785 A.D. Abd Al Rahman I the Emir of the new Umayyad Caliphate began to rebuild the building into a Mosque. In 1236 after a long bloody struggle the Christian Kings finally reached far enough south to free the town of Cordoba the Headquarters of the Islamic occupation of Iberia. The Cathedral was restored to Christian service and by the time of the reign of King Ferdinand and Isabella the country of Spain had been formed and the Moors had been vanquished.
Once again I would like to point out the similarities between the Cordoba house that is being proposed to be built on Ground Zero and the Cordoba Mosque that was bought in Spain. While the building of a Mosque is being proposed the Port Authority has cut off communications with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese about rebuilding St Nicholas’ Greek Orthodox church which actually was there before 9/11 and was destroyed in the attack. The money for the Mosque and the murderers of 9/11/01 both come from Saudi Arabia. To the secular mind the idea of drawing a correlation between the rout of the Ottomans on 9/11/ 1683 and the attack on 9/11/2001 may seem strange. Doing the same with the takeover of the Cathedral of Cordoba the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate in Spain and the building of the Cordoba House on Ground Zero may seem odd too. But to the mind of a devout Moslem the whole thing is akin to a miracle proving the support of Allah for the Jihad begun on 9/11/01. I believe that allowing the Cordoba House to continue to completion while denying the rebuilding of the Greek Orthodox Church is a form of surrender. It is seen as a great weakness to be exploited by our enemies.
The building of this Mosque so close to the site of the 9/11/01 attack may be a fate accompli but while our weak leaders capitulate to the demands of this radical Imam and his Cordoba Initiative supporters let us raise our voices in opposition. In this way those who would see our leaders allowing the building of this mosque as a victory for Islamofascism will also understand that we the people stand strong and it is only our leaders that are weak.
Call or write your representatives. Maybe send this to them. Do something easy now before we have to do something hard.
Herbert B. Seel
Aug. 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Welcome Home 2/130 FA
My old friend Sam Lecuyer is the supply MSgt. for 2/130 FA. He and I did a bunch of Cavalry Scouting together. We were utilized in teams of four vehicles with two sergeants and two corporals and four pvt. to spc4 crewmen. to drive and as gunners. Sammy and I were together on one of those teams as the sergeants for a couple of years. So isn't it something that after being apart and him being God knows where for 20+ years. All of a sudden out of nowhere I get the email to go send off MSgt. Lecuyer to Egypt and when I get to his house sure enough, it's Sammy. Boy is he surprised to see me? Then a year later I'm there to welcome him home and I'm the first one to shake his hand when he comes down the sidewalk. You never can tell, can you?
Non Serviat Insurgo,
Herb
Non Serviat Insurgo,
Herb
Monday, July 12, 2010
Here we go!
Of course I’ve been expecting this. Like I always say no matter what you do to business there will be some kind of effect on the economy and the people. This drilling ban was enacted by the Obama regime in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident and was declared unlawful by the court but we all know that the law doesn’t matter to this regime. They are already queing up for another ban. The people who own the rigs know it. They are not going to let a drilling rig set without making any money they will move it to where it can make money. When government makes it impossible for a company to make money within their borders the company will go elsewhere.
There are up to 1400 jobs going to Egypt with this rig. Even the pro Obama Huffington post predicts that around 75,000 jobs are at risk. I’ll bet that figure is way low. Who cares about jobs right? Just so long as the radical left is happy.
Non serviat insurgo,
Herb Seel
First rig sails away over drilling ban
Lawmakers and experts fear loss is only the start of offshore exodus
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY
WASHINGTON BUREAU
July 9, 2010, 8:28PM
WASHINGTON — Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling.
And the Ocean Endeavor's exodus probably won't be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.
Devon Energy Corp. had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP's leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.
But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Co., which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.
Devon is one of three companies that has cited the deep-water drilling ban in trying to ease out of contracts to lease Diamond rigs. Diamond, a drilling company, said it expects to make about $100 million from the deal, including a $31 million early termination fee it recovered from Devon.
Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company's rigs could be relocated, too…
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7101738.html
Of course I’ve been expecting this. Like I always say no matter what you do to business there will be some kind of effect on the economy and the people. This drilling ban was enacted by the Obama regime in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident and was declared unlawful by the court but we all know that the law doesn’t matter to this regime. They are already queing up for another ban. The people who own the rigs know it. They are not going to let a drilling rig set without making any money they will move it to where it can make money. When government makes it impossible for a company to make money within their borders the company will go elsewhere.
There are up to 1400 jobs going to Egypt with this rig. Even the pro Obama Huffington post predicts that around 75,000 jobs are at risk. I’ll bet that figure is way low. Who cares about jobs right? Just so long as the radical left is happy.
Non serviat insurgo,
Herb Seel
First rig sails away over drilling ban
Lawmakers and experts fear loss is only the start of offshore exodus
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY
WASHINGTON BUREAU
July 9, 2010, 8:28PM
WASHINGTON — Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling.
And the Ocean Endeavor's exodus probably won't be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.
Devon Energy Corp. had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP's leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.
But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Co., which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.
Devon is one of three companies that has cited the deep-water drilling ban in trying to ease out of contracts to lease Diamond rigs. Diamond, a drilling company, said it expects to make about $100 million from the deal, including a $31 million early termination fee it recovered from Devon.
Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company's rigs could be relocated, too…
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7101738.html
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Terrorists at our back door
SEE I TOLD YA’ SO!
So once again I have to say it, see I told ya’ so! A couple of years back I was busy for a couple of months emailing our senators and reps and anybody else that I could get to read my ravings about the fact that I was sure that one of these days some Mexican illegal’s that we thought were just Juan and Maria Gonzales from Chihuahua looking for a job would turn out to be Mullah Mustafa Monkeypucker Skyhook from Iran carrying a dirty bomb across the border.
I even went so far as to make the assertion that they just might be Juan and Maria Gonzalez but not Catholic as they would be assumed to be. They could be carrying a prayer rug instead of a Rosary. I cited the cases of the day involving the drug busts in south America and drug and gun smuggling profits from there going to Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. There have even been increasing conversions to Islam by the South American natives. Those of you who were polite enough to read my emails will remember me being stuck on the subject for at least a month.
I tried to put the subject in perspective by asking, what if Mustafa took a van and drove it out to the west side of the Kansas City loop and pushed the button and sent a nice pile of radioactive materiel across Kansas City on a day when the west wind was up?
Well I got nothing but a nice, “Thank you for expressing your concern about our Immigration policy…”
Not much else. I was left shaking my head thinking, what the he**? I really could not believe that no one could see the urgency that I saw in the subject.
You see I am blessed/cursed with the ability to play “then what”. It’s one of my favorite games. I say to myself, “okay that happens and then what and then what and then what.” The whole problem is that I do this stuff years before any one that I know of does it and I wind up with a raging Cassandra complex. That was the member of the royal family of Troy that warned of the coming Greek rampage that would eventually destroy their city. She stood pat while they rolled the horse into the city walls and got stinking drunk to celebrate the Greek departure. They wouldn’t listen and now Troy is gone.
Well now I feel fully vindicated. For the last few years after 911 the news has progressively forgotten about the dangers of an open back door in an unfriendly world. But some have continued to increase their call for border security citing the fact that terrorists would begin coming through the southern open door. Recently Ch. 2 Atlanta broadcast a report on the southern border being used as an entry point for people from countries like Sudan and Iran and Iraq, to name a few. They cite a Congressional Report on the subject. Finally it is out full force people across the country need to look at this subject and realize that when we say Illegal Immigrant we also include “Other Than Mexican”. Wahabist Islamics come in every color from Jet Black to Lilly White with blue eyes. I hope that the Arizona law kick starts some serious border security. I think it’s entirely possible that Wahabists could sneak a few people with a highly virulent viral strain into our back door, people named Gonzalez or Hernandez or something like that a name you wouldn’t fear. Then What???
Go to Youtube and check it out under “terrorists crossing Mexican Border” you’ll see for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livQ6jP-iIM
So once again I have to say it, see I told ya’ so! A couple of years back I was busy for a couple of months emailing our senators and reps and anybody else that I could get to read my ravings about the fact that I was sure that one of these days some Mexican illegal’s that we thought were just Juan and Maria Gonzales from Chihuahua looking for a job would turn out to be Mullah Mustafa Monkeypucker Skyhook from Iran carrying a dirty bomb across the border.
I even went so far as to make the assertion that they just might be Juan and Maria Gonzalez but not Catholic as they would be assumed to be. They could be carrying a prayer rug instead of a Rosary. I cited the cases of the day involving the drug busts in south America and drug and gun smuggling profits from there going to Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. There have even been increasing conversions to Islam by the South American natives. Those of you who were polite enough to read my emails will remember me being stuck on the subject for at least a month.
I tried to put the subject in perspective by asking, what if Mustafa took a van and drove it out to the west side of the Kansas City loop and pushed the button and sent a nice pile of radioactive materiel across Kansas City on a day when the west wind was up?
Well I got nothing but a nice, “Thank you for expressing your concern about our Immigration policy…”
Not much else. I was left shaking my head thinking, what the he**? I really could not believe that no one could see the urgency that I saw in the subject.
You see I am blessed/cursed with the ability to play “then what”. It’s one of my favorite games. I say to myself, “okay that happens and then what and then what and then what.” The whole problem is that I do this stuff years before any one that I know of does it and I wind up with a raging Cassandra complex. That was the member of the royal family of Troy that warned of the coming Greek rampage that would eventually destroy their city. She stood pat while they rolled the horse into the city walls and got stinking drunk to celebrate the Greek departure. They wouldn’t listen and now Troy is gone.
Well now I feel fully vindicated. For the last few years after 911 the news has progressively forgotten about the dangers of an open back door in an unfriendly world. But some have continued to increase their call for border security citing the fact that terrorists would begin coming through the southern open door. Recently Ch. 2 Atlanta broadcast a report on the southern border being used as an entry point for people from countries like Sudan and Iran and Iraq, to name a few. They cite a Congressional Report on the subject. Finally it is out full force people across the country need to look at this subject and realize that when we say Illegal Immigrant we also include “Other Than Mexican”. Wahabist Islamics come in every color from Jet Black to Lilly White with blue eyes. I hope that the Arizona law kick starts some serious border security. I think it’s entirely possible that Wahabists could sneak a few people with a highly virulent viral strain into our back door, people named Gonzalez or Hernandez or something like that a name you wouldn’t fear. Then What???
Go to Youtube and check it out under “terrorists crossing Mexican Border” you’ll see for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livQ6jP-iIM
Friday, May 7, 2010
All opinions are not worthy.
A friend of mine sent me an email with a bunch of pithy bumper stickers on it. I liked them all. There was however one that spoke to an issue very near and dear to my heart. The bumper sticker said “Try being informed instead of just being opinionated.” Good thought.
In the last couple of generations we as a people have been pushing the idea that everyone should have self respect and should learn to love themselves. It somehow sounds very good until you realize that having self-love and self-respect without being taught first to love others and respect others is the low road to self centeredness. Along with this concept we taught that without actually respecting others we are supposed to respect everyone’s opinion.
So somehow the very idea that you were so special as to come up with an opinion makes that opinion worth respecting. The persons thoughts should not be judged on their merit because of their content of truth. They should be accepted into the free marketplace of ideas simply on the basis of their existence. Of course acceptance of a concept without proof of its veracity is the lazy man’s way of gaining acceptance for himself. No worry about deep or precise thought, no struggles with truth just form any inane thought, snatched from the realm of mental indolence and every one smiles and nods and pretends to pause to consider your latest drivel. Don’t we feel better. Suzie and Johnny can’t think and continually talk out of turn on subjects they know nothing about. They will never further man’s state of existence, but they feel good about themselves.
The current popular culture involves a great deal of language without precise meaning. Look at the words that I tend to use. I have felt constrained to use simple wording for years now. I have played into the pattern laid by the prevailing culture of slovenliness. In using the words and concepts I used before a few people were put out with me because they thought that I had an unusually high opinion of myself. I never stopped to think how odd that sounds. But listen to youngsters and you will find that some are maligned for being “brainiacs”. The really knowledgeable youngster among them will be the one who can “text” using the mutated language that those who “text” use. “I’ll text you”? “Don’t text while driving”? When did the word that is used to refer to symbols used to construct words become a verb?
The language itself and the use of it has gone rogue. No one really knows what is being said or how to exactly say what they want. That is why they constantly ask, “you know what I’m saying?”. The assumption is that you don’t.
The assumption is that you also don’t know what you are talking about. Most of those listening to you don’t know what either of you are talking about. One of my favorite talk show hosts has a “Man on the street Thursday”, where he sends his assistants out of the studio to go to the street and ask people, who is the vice president and speaker of the house, etc. He quotes Marxist doctrine to them and then asks them if they agree and when they do he reveals the author of the idea to them and usually they are shocked to know that they are agreeing with Marx and Engals. It is a shame how so many on the street have opinions of how the economy should be run but can’t even tell you who John Maynard Keynes is. They have no knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and yet they feel qualified to put people into office to defend that constitution and govern within the confines of that very same constitution. Too many people have opinions about “the separation of church and state” without knowing that the words “separate” and “church” and “state” never appear in the first amendment. The common man doesn’t know why phylogenic recapitulation is wrong or what it is, they don’t have any idea what the tablets of Rome are they can’t tell you who wrote the rules for a republic or where he came from. There is little hope of getting an explanation of the difference between a republic and a democracy, let alone finding out which we live in, from the common man on the street.
All to often we train up our children with all sorts of knowledge of computers and other gadgets without teaching them true wisdom and how to think. Thinking is hard work. Learning how to think is not something one does without instruction and first knowing some goodly amount of solid truth. Precision of language goes with precision of thought. When a person thinks of how to perform some physical task they see it done in their mind’s eye then they perform it. But when thought is given to conceptual matters the thought occurs in words. That is why precise language is required to foster precise thought. Respect for the truth comes from the ability to understand that we are not omniscient. Thus we gain the ability to learn and when we learn to think accurately and discern truth then we become something more than a learned barbarian.
It is said that the words of a fool are many, and iron sharpens iron. So we should seek out the wise and avoid the fool. Challenge opinions and find out their origin. Look for the truth. Be prepared to offer a ready explanation for your belief. Then you deserve to enter the free marketplace of ideas where opinions will be judged on their content of the truth.
Ipsa Conteret,
Herbs
In the last couple of generations we as a people have been pushing the idea that everyone should have self respect and should learn to love themselves. It somehow sounds very good until you realize that having self-love and self-respect without being taught first to love others and respect others is the low road to self centeredness. Along with this concept we taught that without actually respecting others we are supposed to respect everyone’s opinion.
So somehow the very idea that you were so special as to come up with an opinion makes that opinion worth respecting. The persons thoughts should not be judged on their merit because of their content of truth. They should be accepted into the free marketplace of ideas simply on the basis of their existence. Of course acceptance of a concept without proof of its veracity is the lazy man’s way of gaining acceptance for himself. No worry about deep or precise thought, no struggles with truth just form any inane thought, snatched from the realm of mental indolence and every one smiles and nods and pretends to pause to consider your latest drivel. Don’t we feel better. Suzie and Johnny can’t think and continually talk out of turn on subjects they know nothing about. They will never further man’s state of existence, but they feel good about themselves.
The current popular culture involves a great deal of language without precise meaning. Look at the words that I tend to use. I have felt constrained to use simple wording for years now. I have played into the pattern laid by the prevailing culture of slovenliness. In using the words and concepts I used before a few people were put out with me because they thought that I had an unusually high opinion of myself. I never stopped to think how odd that sounds. But listen to youngsters and you will find that some are maligned for being “brainiacs”. The really knowledgeable youngster among them will be the one who can “text” using the mutated language that those who “text” use. “I’ll text you”? “Don’t text while driving”? When did the word that is used to refer to symbols used to construct words become a verb?
The language itself and the use of it has gone rogue. No one really knows what is being said or how to exactly say what they want. That is why they constantly ask, “you know what I’m saying?”. The assumption is that you don’t.
The assumption is that you also don’t know what you are talking about. Most of those listening to you don’t know what either of you are talking about. One of my favorite talk show hosts has a “Man on the street Thursday”, where he sends his assistants out of the studio to go to the street and ask people, who is the vice president and speaker of the house, etc. He quotes Marxist doctrine to them and then asks them if they agree and when they do he reveals the author of the idea to them and usually they are shocked to know that they are agreeing with Marx and Engals. It is a shame how so many on the street have opinions of how the economy should be run but can’t even tell you who John Maynard Keynes is. They have no knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and yet they feel qualified to put people into office to defend that constitution and govern within the confines of that very same constitution. Too many people have opinions about “the separation of church and state” without knowing that the words “separate” and “church” and “state” never appear in the first amendment. The common man doesn’t know why phylogenic recapitulation is wrong or what it is, they don’t have any idea what the tablets of Rome are they can’t tell you who wrote the rules for a republic or where he came from. There is little hope of getting an explanation of the difference between a republic and a democracy, let alone finding out which we live in, from the common man on the street.
All to often we train up our children with all sorts of knowledge of computers and other gadgets without teaching them true wisdom and how to think. Thinking is hard work. Learning how to think is not something one does without instruction and first knowing some goodly amount of solid truth. Precision of language goes with precision of thought. When a person thinks of how to perform some physical task they see it done in their mind’s eye then they perform it. But when thought is given to conceptual matters the thought occurs in words. That is why precise language is required to foster precise thought. Respect for the truth comes from the ability to understand that we are not omniscient. Thus we gain the ability to learn and when we learn to think accurately and discern truth then we become something more than a learned barbarian.
It is said that the words of a fool are many, and iron sharpens iron. So we should seek out the wise and avoid the fool. Challenge opinions and find out their origin. Look for the truth. Be prepared to offer a ready explanation for your belief. Then you deserve to enter the free marketplace of ideas where opinions will be judged on their content of the truth.
Ipsa Conteret,
Herbs
A friend of mine sent me an email with a bunch of pithy bumper stickers on it. I liked them all. There was however one that spoke to an issue very near and dear to my heart. The bumper sticker said “Try being informed instead of just being opinionated.” Good thought.
In the last couple of generations we as a people have been pushing the idea that everyone should have self respect and should learn to love themselves. It somehow sounds very good until you realize that having self-love and self-respect without being taught first to love others and respect others is the low road to self centeredness. Along with this concept we taught that without actually respecting others we are supposed to respect everyone’s opinion.
So somehow the very idea that you were so special as to come up with an opinion makes that opinion worth respecting. The persons thoughts should not be judged on their merit because of their content of truth. They should be accepted into the free marketplace of ideas simply on the basis of their existence. Of course acceptance of a concept without proof of its veracity is the lazy man’s way of gaining acceptance for himself. No worry about deep or precise thought, no struggles with truth just form any inane thought, snatched from the realm of mental indolence and every one smiles and nods and pretends to pause to consider your latest drivel. Don’t we feel better. Suzie and Johnny can’t think and continually talk out of turn on subjects they know nothing about. They will never further man’s state of existence, but they feel good about themselves.
The current popular culture involves a great deal of language without precise meaning. Look at the words that I tend to use. I have felt constrained to use simple wording for years now. I have played into the pattern laid by the prevailing culture of slovenliness. In using the words and concepts I used before a few people were put out with me because they thought that I had an unusually high opinion of myself. I never stopped to think how odd that sounds. But listen to youngsters and you will find that some are maligned for being “brainiacs”. The really knowledgeable youngster among them will be the one who can “text” using the mutated language that those who “text” use. “I’ll text you”? “Don’t text while driving”? When did the word that is used to refer to symbols used to construct words become a verb?
The language itself and the use of it has gone rogue. No one really knows what is being said or how to exactly say what they want. That is why they constantly ask, “you know what I’m saying?”. The assumption is that you don’t.
The assumption is that you also don’t know what you are talking about. Most of those listening to you don’t know what either of you are talking about. One of my favorite talk show hosts has a “Man on the street Thursday”, where he sends his assistants out of the studio to go to the street and ask people, who is the vice president and speaker of the house, etc. He quotes Marxist doctrine to them and then asks them if they agree and when they do he reveals the author of the idea to them and usually they are shocked to know that they are agreeing with Marx and Engals. It is a shame how so many on the street have opinions of how the economy should be run but can’t even tell you who John Maynard Keynes is. They have no knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and yet they feel qualified to put people into office to defend that constitution and govern within the confines of that very same constitution. Too many people have opinions about “the separation of church and state” without knowing that the words “separate” and “church” and “state” never appear in the first amendment. The common man doesn’t know why phylogenic recapitulation is wrong or what it is, they don’t have any idea what the tablets of Rome are they can’t tell you who wrote the rules for a republic or where he came from. There is little hope of getting an explanation of the difference between a republic and a democracy, let alone finding out which we live in, from the common man on the street.
All to often we train up our children with all sorts of knowledge of computers and other gadgets without teaching them true wisdom and how to think. Thinking is hard work. Learning how to think is not something one does without instruction and first knowing some goodly amount of solid truth. Precision of language goes with precision of thought. When a person thinks of how to perform some physical task they see it done in their mind’s eye then they perform it. But when thought is given to conceptual matters the thought occurs in words. That is why precise language is required to foster precise thought. Respect for the truth comes from the ability to understand that we are not omniscient. Thus we gain the ability to learn and when we learn to think accurately and discern truth then we become something more than a learned barbarian.
It is said that the words of a fool are many, and iron sharpens iron. So we should seek out the wise and avoid the fool. Challenge opinions and find out their origin. Look for the truth. Be prepared to offer a ready explanation for your belief. Then you deserve to enter the free marketplace of ideas where opinions will be judged on their content of the truth.
Ipsa Conteret,
Herbs
In the last couple of generations we as a people have been pushing the idea that everyone should have self respect and should learn to love themselves. It somehow sounds very good until you realize that having self-love and self-respect without being taught first to love others and respect others is the low road to self centeredness. Along with this concept we taught that without actually respecting others we are supposed to respect everyone’s opinion.
So somehow the very idea that you were so special as to come up with an opinion makes that opinion worth respecting. The persons thoughts should not be judged on their merit because of their content of truth. They should be accepted into the free marketplace of ideas simply on the basis of their existence. Of course acceptance of a concept without proof of its veracity is the lazy man’s way of gaining acceptance for himself. No worry about deep or precise thought, no struggles with truth just form any inane thought, snatched from the realm of mental indolence and every one smiles and nods and pretends to pause to consider your latest drivel. Don’t we feel better. Suzie and Johnny can’t think and continually talk out of turn on subjects they know nothing about. They will never further man’s state of existence, but they feel good about themselves.
The current popular culture involves a great deal of language without precise meaning. Look at the words that I tend to use. I have felt constrained to use simple wording for years now. I have played into the pattern laid by the prevailing culture of slovenliness. In using the words and concepts I used before a few people were put out with me because they thought that I had an unusually high opinion of myself. I never stopped to think how odd that sounds. But listen to youngsters and you will find that some are maligned for being “brainiacs”. The really knowledgeable youngster among them will be the one who can “text” using the mutated language that those who “text” use. “I’ll text you”? “Don’t text while driving”? When did the word that is used to refer to symbols used to construct words become a verb?
The language itself and the use of it has gone rogue. No one really knows what is being said or how to exactly say what they want. That is why they constantly ask, “you know what I’m saying?”. The assumption is that you don’t.
The assumption is that you also don’t know what you are talking about. Most of those listening to you don’t know what either of you are talking about. One of my favorite talk show hosts has a “Man on the street Thursday”, where he sends his assistants out of the studio to go to the street and ask people, who is the vice president and speaker of the house, etc. He quotes Marxist doctrine to them and then asks them if they agree and when they do he reveals the author of the idea to them and usually they are shocked to know that they are agreeing with Marx and Engals. It is a shame how so many on the street have opinions of how the economy should be run but can’t even tell you who John Maynard Keynes is. They have no knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and yet they feel qualified to put people into office to defend that constitution and govern within the confines of that very same constitution. Too many people have opinions about “the separation of church and state” without knowing that the words “separate” and “church” and “state” never appear in the first amendment. The common man doesn’t know why phylogenic recapitulation is wrong or what it is, they don’t have any idea what the tablets of Rome are they can’t tell you who wrote the rules for a republic or where he came from. There is little hope of getting an explanation of the difference between a republic and a democracy, let alone finding out which we live in, from the common man on the street.
All to often we train up our children with all sorts of knowledge of computers and other gadgets without teaching them true wisdom and how to think. Thinking is hard work. Learning how to think is not something one does without instruction and first knowing some goodly amount of solid truth. Precision of language goes with precision of thought. When a person thinks of how to perform some physical task they see it done in their mind’s eye then they perform it. But when thought is given to conceptual matters the thought occurs in words. That is why precise language is required to foster precise thought. Respect for the truth comes from the ability to understand that we are not omniscient. Thus we gain the ability to learn and when we learn to think accurately and discern truth then we become something more than a learned barbarian.
It is said that the words of a fool are many, and iron sharpens iron. So we should seek out the wise and avoid the fool. Challenge opinions and find out their origin. Look for the truth. Be prepared to offer a ready explanation for your belief. Then you deserve to enter the free marketplace of ideas where opinions will be judged on their content of the truth.
Ipsa Conteret,
Herbs
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Arizona has to move on illegal's!
Okay so you knew that I could not last that long before popping off about the situation in Arizona. Those that know me know that I require time to ruminate on a subject before I shoot off my mouth and embarrass myself. Not that I will escape embarrassing myself but I need time to see that I will do it right.
I hate that I have to do what I do next, but there are those who may be outside of the half dozen or so that hit this blog regularly and you may or may not need this qualification.
First I am White. But being White is not a crime. I am also Traditionalist Catholic. As a Catholic I claim any race or sex that kneels before the Eucharist and can recite the Credo truthfully, as my family. I don’t hate Mexicans, Okay! So all you pseudo-intellectuals can put your ripping knives away. I have friends that are Pottawatomi only four I think. Around here it’s hard to tell. I have a friend who is Cherokee. I have a cell phone and email that is full of names like Garcia and Navarro and a couple of Gomez’s a Martinez and a couple others. I’ve even met Prince Bertrand of Brazil. Yep they do have a recognized Prince. I go to “Our Lady of Guadalupe “ for confession and even gave them a first class relic of St. Martin de Poores. So now that I’ve presented the liberal required qualifications to speak, here goes.
I have in the past made the statement that most Mexican nationals that come across the U.S. border illegally are just your regular ol’ Juan and Maria Gonzales coming from some little God forsaken town where work for them does not exist. People I have no trouble with and only wish good things for.
We have all seen what sort of a mess Mexico is in with corrupt officials and their friends the Mexican drug cartels in control. Mexico City is the no.1 city in the world for abductions and a small town Colonia Verdad just 3 feet from the Mexico U.S. border is the most violent town in the world. Who would not want to flee such a place and come to el Norte and get a job making any kind of wage and send for the rest of the family. I saw for a long time a mostly friendly God fearing, yes Catholic, hard working bunch just wanting to live. When I was living in Concordia some of The Sisters of St. Joseph had a Salvadoran refuge going in that town. Let me tell you if you wanted a nice suit expertly made and tailored to you, all you had to do is go and see the Salvadorans. They never caused any problem, went to Mass regularly and worked hard and tried hard to assimilate and wanted to have U.S. citizenship. I never saw any problem with the people just with how they got here.
Things have changed drastically. I had my eyes opened by a Hispanic custodian at one of our middle schools here. He was nearly irate with the behavior of some of the students there who happened to also be Hispanic. He explained to me that they had a bad discipline problem in that school that was specifically with the children of illegal Mexican aliens. His contention was that these children came from a home where the parents, unlike his who came here from a couple hundred miles south of Juarez, didn’t care if they worked or not. They, according to him, sold drugs and were gang bangers and milked the system for every benefit they could get. As a result their children were behaving like gangsters. He was obviously disgusted with people who shared his blood and were such a disgrace to that blood. His parents came in legally and went to work to build a life working for the Santa Fe Railroad.
We have a community of such families here in Oakland just N.E. of Topeka. A neighborhood of predominantly Catholic Chicano railroad workers. It’s a very clean orderly and friendly neighborhood. That’s where “Our Lady of Guadalupe” church and parochial school is. Those faces that I always see smiling at me when I go to confession are the people that gave me the my former view of Mexicans in general. The one that I intend to correct somewhat.
Am I going to slander all illegal aliens? No. There is another mostly Hispanic neighborhood that used to be mostly Black. It lies to the south and east of Oakland. It went from being a dangerous dirty little place to being a much cleaner and friendlier place. The new Hispanic arrivals did that. They have cleaned up the area slapped on a new coat of paint, picked up trash and started businesses. There are problems, in a couple of tortillarias you have to be able to habla some espanol or you won’t be able to order. Also the first time we have here a “Le EME” gang. Specifically Sur 13. We’ve been having gun fights over on the east side. MS 13 has also been active here. A clique moved in and robbed a friends gun shop, this is the Cherokee fellow. He’s received threats to his life, too bad, nice guy. While many of the late arrivals have come here specifically to work there are also many who came to deal drugs and steal bikes etc. to sell in Mexico. There is a lot of money being sent to Mexico both legally and illegally from our illegal community. The obvious problems with having a community of illegal’s that come from a neighboring country with a different official language and a different culture is that they do not assimilate. Many don’t want to be Americans. In general they have limited English skills and are not familiar with the local customs and culture. The good people are terrorized by the gangsters and not only do you see the storefront signs written in Spanish but they require us to print all documents twice once in English and once in Spanish. Now there are gang tags painted in Spanish popping up. They even fly a Mexican flag just a mile east of the Federal building where they fly the U.S. flag.
But this is Topeka, Kansas, two states north of the border. Things are much worse down on the border. On the north side of the border of Texas is the town of Laredo on the south side is Nuevo Laredo it is one of the best known sites where cross border tunnels have been built, some have been found. Tunnels used for drug smuggling, and people smuggling. The Mexican drug cartels have been so successful at smuggling cocaine across the border that an estimated 85 to 90% of cocaine coming into this country comes across the Mexico U.S. border. The majority of Meth that comes into this country comes across the Mexico U.S. border. The border Patrol caught 705,000 people coming across the border in 2008. According to Senator McCain of Arizona over 400,000 were caught in Arizona last year. It has been dangerous for the drug carriers (mules) and the workers coming in across the border. Out of the 2000 a day that come in at least 500 are known to have died along the border. How many there are that are not found is unknown.
There is an average of 3 border patrol and customs agents assaulted on the border every day.
It’s not only the Border Enforcement officials that bear the brunt of the illegal alien violence. The following story appeared on WorldNet Daily in Nov 2006.
“WASHINGTON – Charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl, Juan Leonardo
Qunitero had been deported back to Mexico in 1999 as an illegal alien.
Nevertheless, last week, he was back in the U.S., living comfortably
in a city that prohibited police from asking anyone about their
immigration status.
Rodney Johnson was a 12-year veteran on the Houston police force.
Married with five children, he was big, kind-hearted and unafraid
of working the toughest gang beats or late-night shifts.
On Thursday, Sept. 21, around 5:30 p.m., he pulled over a white
Ford pickup driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in what should have
been a routine traffic stop. The driver, Quintero, had neither
a driver's license nor any other identification so, after a pat down,
Johnson handcuffed him and placed him in the back of his patrol car.
But Johnson missed the gun in Quintero's waistband. The prisoner
pulled it out and fired four times at Johnson at close range.”
Unfortunately this is only one story out of dozens that have been gleaned from news and police reports across the nation in the last few years. No private or government agency keeps track of violence perpetrated by illegal aliens. But by the same methods used to gain the stories of assaults on Law Enforcement, WorldNet Daily has found that 12 Americans are murdered every day by illegal’s. That translates out to 4,380 Americans murdered by illegal’s every year and 21,900 killed from 2001 to 2006. Think about it, more Americans killed by illegal’s than by the warfare in the middle east. No one has called for a large protest against illegal’s. There is a literal warfare going on down at the Mexican border with the border patrol and other Americans being fired upon by drug smugglers. There have even been several hundred incursions into the U.S. by the Mexican military in support of the drug cartels. U.S. ranchers are terrorized by drug gangs using their land as a pathway into the U.S., several ranchers have been killed, many assaulted and several women brutalized by these kindly illegal’s. Things have gotten so bad that around Nuevo Laredo there have been Mexican families that have pulled up stakes and moved their whole lives further into the interior at the insistence of the drug gangs. And on the north side of the border in Phoenix Arizona there is one major trauma center left because of the numbers of illegal’s getting into trouble with the elements and drug and people smugglers. The illegal’s usually don’t pay. The financial stress is too much to bear for most hospitals. Over sixty California hospitals have shut down because of taking care of non paying Mexican nationals. But the most shocking statistic is that of the kidnappings in Phoenix. Phoenix Arizona is second in the world for kidnappings, right behind Mexico City. Recounting the violence and troubles caused by allowing open borders can go on ad infinitum, ad nauseum there is enough violence, drug smuggling and disease coming across our southern border to allow one to belabor the point to exhaustion. But there are a couple more situations that are just as disturbing as what I have already given examples of.
Some sources say there are about 20 million illegal’s in the U.S., others say more. Since the 20 million figure usually comes from those who want to play down the effects that this army of illegal aliens has on the culture and economy, I tend to believe the larger estimates. However for the purposes of my particular illustration let’s take the 20 million figure as gospel for now. The Department of Homeland Security says that 97% of the illegal’s crossing our borders come across at the Mexican border and about 90% of them are Mexican nationals. Really? Think to yourself what does a Mexican look like? The fact is that a Mexican national can appear as anything from a Negro to a Native American to a light skinned Spaniard with blue eyes. So my point is that if confronted near the Mexican border by a male about 5’11” who has brown skin and eyes and black hair who speaks Spanish and has Mexican ID calling him Juan Gonzales, you’d think you have a Mexican. Right? How do you know? If you can’t thoroughly examine his ID then how do you know what you have? Is his name Juan or Mustafa? If you and I can learn Mexican Spanish then so can Mustafa. Just yesterday I was at a gathering and we were having lunch and discussing this subject. Around the table were two ladies who were partly and fully Mexican American, a couple of Celts, a German and a friend who was half Germanic and Half Sicilian. I remarked that with his appearance, as dark as he is, if he could just speak Spanish and was dressed right he would appear Mexican. He looked more Mexican than the two ladies. So would a Palestinian or a Persian (Iranian). If there truly are only 20 million illegal’s in the U.S. and 1% of them are Islamic terrorists that came across the Mexican border posing as Mexicans then there are 200,000 Islamic terrorists here. You do the math, if you break that down to half a percent that’s only 100,000, does that sound better? Not to me. If you think I’m just dreaming up arguments then consider this story that appeared on BBC and Fox News.
“Police in Ecuador say they have broken up an international drugs ring which was raising money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah. The authorities have declined to give details of the gang’s alleged links with the group, but say it was sending Hezbollah up to 70% of its profits…” BBC June 22, 2005.
A company in Quito, Ecuador was supplying money to Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a proxy group for Iran. I know, so I only cited one instance and for the purposes of my argument I’ll let it rest at that one, but any one who wishes can go do a search on Islamic Terror activities in South America and Mexico will find a lot more. All it takes is for one terrorist to sneak across the border with a dirty bomb in a back pack and it can ruin your whole year. How many terrorists did it take to bring down the World Trade Towers? And no, George Bush didn’t do it.
Then there’s the theory of Aztlan. Many white people haven’t heard of that before so for their benefit I will try to briefly explain what I know. According to certain Mexican organizations their ancestors came from an area they call Aztlan. This area stretches from Washington state to Idaho down through California and over through Texas, including many western and all the southwestern states. It is their contention that the illegal aliens that come from Mexico to the U.S. just rightly belong here since it is their “Homeland”. Much like Germany claimed that most of central and eastern Europe was the “Fatherland” of the Aryan people. The Mexicans who claim Aztlan say that they didn’t cross our border, but that our border crossed them. It is their aim to “Mexicanize” Aztlan and thus return it to their control. It is necessary for them to regain control of this large tract of land in order for them to survive as a people, or so they say. This is not a fringe movement. If you will watch the “Cinco De Mayo” parades and the anti immigration law demonstrations you will see this attitude displayed on their banners and their clothing. Another thing you will see that should warn of some of the underlying political theory that is definitely there is that many banners and shirts display the likeness of the Communist icon Che Guevara.
If you are a Catholic or any other kind of Christian even if you are Hispanic, do not be deceived by the images of Our Lady Of Guadalupe that these people display. Those who are the true proponents of the Aztlan Reconquista are not pro Christian. They use the Symbols and seek to unite the Hispanic population by using their strong ties to The Church. But if you consider that this Aztlan Reconquista is supported by certain government officials in Mexico then the image becomes clearer. I have a friend who lives now in St. Mary’s Kansas whose parents were “Cristero’s”, a group that grew out of the government persecution of Christianity in Mexico from 1926 to 1929. There was a lot of fighting and many atrocities perpetrated by the Mexican government on Christians of all sorts. When former Mexican President Fox welcomed Pope John Paul II to Mexico he was constrained by Mexican law to welcome him only as a religious leader and not as a head of state. The Vatican is a separate state. Yet the Mexican president must welcome President Chavez of Venezuela an admitted Marxist or President Lula of Brazil another Marxist or even Fidel Castro of Cuba with a higher welcome than the Pope. And 90% of Mexicans are at least cultural Catholics. It is exactly this kind of disregard for Christianity that is underlying the true leaders of the Aztlan movement. If you are Christian the Aztlan people don’t like you and if you are European (white) they hate you.
These things may seem far away to the federal legislators in Washington D.C. or to the people in the liberal enclaves of Minneapolis or Seattle. But they are only a few meters away to the people living along the U.S. Mexico border. The last thing that Barrack Hussein Obama or Nancy Pelosi fears when they go to sleep at night is the sudden terror of being awakened by drug smugglers outside their bedroom window. To the citizens of Arizona and the other border states that is a fact of life. They commonly awake to find trash like water bottles and empty milk jugs across their yards. Many families along the border are missing their loved ones due to the violence wrought by smugglers and by the gangs who specialize in kidnapping girls to be sold as slaves.
It is the very first responsibility of the Government of our nation our states and our counties and municipalities to provide for the safety of their citizens. If the federal government does not provide that level of protection that it should then it is only reasonable to expect the state to try to provide it. If in turn the states do not provide reasonable protection for the people then it falls to the people themselves.
In the case of Arizona, if you check what has been happening to the people of Arizona in the last few years and the discussions held in the city councils of Tucson, Phoenix and other cities of that state you will see that there is a growing danger of the protection of the citizen of Arizona falling to the citizen himself. Non Mexicans have been exposed to increasing threat of violence even to the point that some neighborhoods have at times thrown up hasty barricades against the threatened violence of the illegal’s. The threat of escalating violence continued to increase to the level where Governor Brewer has called upon the Federal government to enforce federal law along the Arizona border. These requests have been ignored. With the threat faced by Arizona citizens of every extraction the only reasonable thing for the state of Arizona to do is to take action itself to protect its citizens. If the drug cartels and the Aztlan Reconquista movement and the radicals who support an open border with Mexico have their way and the rights of the citizens of Arizona are ignored in favor of the rights of the drug cartels and the anti American groups. The citizens of Arizona and the poor souls who blindly supported the open border could possibly be launched into localized warfare.
In the best case scenario, the federal government will be shaken out of their dreams of an unlimited Hispanic vote and cheap labor fueled by Hispanic wage slaves to actually enforce the law and go in to fix the damage that their indolence caused. Such an action if required will cost lives and money. In the worst scenario such troubles will spread and there will be clashes in states where there are large numbers of illegal’s. The Hispanics who will allow themselves to be used will be driven forward by the lashing whip of perceived racism and the American citizen will respond in defense. If, as I suspect, there are powers in the government that intend to use such a thing to seize more power and wealth, they are playing with fire. It is a gambit that is ill advised. Such things tend to go out of control and into anarchy all players then have the chance to grab at the reins of control. The loss will be astounding in any case. Such a thing may be years away, but then they could be at the back door. Which do you want for children? Do you want the insanity that is brewing or protection for the U.S. Citizen that Arizona is trying to provide?
NOTE:
1. Cinco De Mayo
The 5th of May. In 1861 Benito Juarez stopped paying Mexico’s debt to France. Seeking resolution of Mexican national debt France invaded Mexico.
General Seguin led his Mexican army against a vastly superior French force at Puebla on the fifth of May. The formerly victorious French suffered a resounding defeat. The French went on to occupy Mexico and depose Juarez and install Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Juarez continued to resist the French. America Put pressure on the French in several areas including the threat of military aid. In 1866 the French began their withdrawal and they were out by 1867. To the Aztlan Reconquista people it symbolizes victory over Europeans and regaining what they see as theirs. Even though the French would probably have stayed a long time if it had not have been for the U.S. and our Monroe Doctrine.
2. Arms in the hands of American Citizens.
Legal firearms ownership in America is to the point where there are more than 250,000,000 firearms owned by American Citizens. This is only a low guess. My wife herself owns 3 handguns. Together we own 8 handguns 4 rifles and a couple of shotguns. I have friends who own more. No we didn’t set out to own that many. I may sell some. The point is that if any kind of demonstrations grow into riots in the wrong place the armed resistance will be incredible. This makes the avoidance of those circumstances essential. Getting the government to enforce the law is essential. This is not an opportunity for new votes.
I hate that I have to do what I do next, but there are those who may be outside of the half dozen or so that hit this blog regularly and you may or may not need this qualification.
First I am White. But being White is not a crime. I am also Traditionalist Catholic. As a Catholic I claim any race or sex that kneels before the Eucharist and can recite the Credo truthfully, as my family. I don’t hate Mexicans, Okay! So all you pseudo-intellectuals can put your ripping knives away. I have friends that are Pottawatomi only four I think. Around here it’s hard to tell. I have a friend who is Cherokee. I have a cell phone and email that is full of names like Garcia and Navarro and a couple of Gomez’s a Martinez and a couple others. I’ve even met Prince Bertrand of Brazil. Yep they do have a recognized Prince. I go to “Our Lady of Guadalupe “ for confession and even gave them a first class relic of St. Martin de Poores. So now that I’ve presented the liberal required qualifications to speak, here goes.
I have in the past made the statement that most Mexican nationals that come across the U.S. border illegally are just your regular ol’ Juan and Maria Gonzales coming from some little God forsaken town where work for them does not exist. People I have no trouble with and only wish good things for.
We have all seen what sort of a mess Mexico is in with corrupt officials and their friends the Mexican drug cartels in control. Mexico City is the no.1 city in the world for abductions and a small town Colonia Verdad just 3 feet from the Mexico U.S. border is the most violent town in the world. Who would not want to flee such a place and come to el Norte and get a job making any kind of wage and send for the rest of the family. I saw for a long time a mostly friendly God fearing, yes Catholic, hard working bunch just wanting to live. When I was living in Concordia some of The Sisters of St. Joseph had a Salvadoran refuge going in that town. Let me tell you if you wanted a nice suit expertly made and tailored to you, all you had to do is go and see the Salvadorans. They never caused any problem, went to Mass regularly and worked hard and tried hard to assimilate and wanted to have U.S. citizenship. I never saw any problem with the people just with how they got here.
Things have changed drastically. I had my eyes opened by a Hispanic custodian at one of our middle schools here. He was nearly irate with the behavior of some of the students there who happened to also be Hispanic. He explained to me that they had a bad discipline problem in that school that was specifically with the children of illegal Mexican aliens. His contention was that these children came from a home where the parents, unlike his who came here from a couple hundred miles south of Juarez, didn’t care if they worked or not. They, according to him, sold drugs and were gang bangers and milked the system for every benefit they could get. As a result their children were behaving like gangsters. He was obviously disgusted with people who shared his blood and were such a disgrace to that blood. His parents came in legally and went to work to build a life working for the Santa Fe Railroad.
We have a community of such families here in Oakland just N.E. of Topeka. A neighborhood of predominantly Catholic Chicano railroad workers. It’s a very clean orderly and friendly neighborhood. That’s where “Our Lady of Guadalupe” church and parochial school is. Those faces that I always see smiling at me when I go to confession are the people that gave me the my former view of Mexicans in general. The one that I intend to correct somewhat.
Am I going to slander all illegal aliens? No. There is another mostly Hispanic neighborhood that used to be mostly Black. It lies to the south and east of Oakland. It went from being a dangerous dirty little place to being a much cleaner and friendlier place. The new Hispanic arrivals did that. They have cleaned up the area slapped on a new coat of paint, picked up trash and started businesses. There are problems, in a couple of tortillarias you have to be able to habla some espanol or you won’t be able to order. Also the first time we have here a “Le EME” gang. Specifically Sur 13. We’ve been having gun fights over on the east side. MS 13 has also been active here. A clique moved in and robbed a friends gun shop, this is the Cherokee fellow. He’s received threats to his life, too bad, nice guy. While many of the late arrivals have come here specifically to work there are also many who came to deal drugs and steal bikes etc. to sell in Mexico. There is a lot of money being sent to Mexico both legally and illegally from our illegal community. The obvious problems with having a community of illegal’s that come from a neighboring country with a different official language and a different culture is that they do not assimilate. Many don’t want to be Americans. In general they have limited English skills and are not familiar with the local customs and culture. The good people are terrorized by the gangsters and not only do you see the storefront signs written in Spanish but they require us to print all documents twice once in English and once in Spanish. Now there are gang tags painted in Spanish popping up. They even fly a Mexican flag just a mile east of the Federal building where they fly the U.S. flag.
But this is Topeka, Kansas, two states north of the border. Things are much worse down on the border. On the north side of the border of Texas is the town of Laredo on the south side is Nuevo Laredo it is one of the best known sites where cross border tunnels have been built, some have been found. Tunnels used for drug smuggling, and people smuggling. The Mexican drug cartels have been so successful at smuggling cocaine across the border that an estimated 85 to 90% of cocaine coming into this country comes across the Mexico U.S. border. The majority of Meth that comes into this country comes across the Mexico U.S. border. The border Patrol caught 705,000 people coming across the border in 2008. According to Senator McCain of Arizona over 400,000 were caught in Arizona last year. It has been dangerous for the drug carriers (mules) and the workers coming in across the border. Out of the 2000 a day that come in at least 500 are known to have died along the border. How many there are that are not found is unknown.
There is an average of 3 border patrol and customs agents assaulted on the border every day.
It’s not only the Border Enforcement officials that bear the brunt of the illegal alien violence. The following story appeared on WorldNet Daily in Nov 2006.
“WASHINGTON – Charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl, Juan Leonardo
Qunitero had been deported back to Mexico in 1999 as an illegal alien.
Nevertheless, last week, he was back in the U.S., living comfortably
in a city that prohibited police from asking anyone about their
immigration status.
Rodney Johnson was a 12-year veteran on the Houston police force.
Married with five children, he was big, kind-hearted and unafraid
of working the toughest gang beats or late-night shifts.
On Thursday, Sept. 21, around 5:30 p.m., he pulled over a white
Ford pickup driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in what should have
been a routine traffic stop. The driver, Quintero, had neither
a driver's license nor any other identification so, after a pat down,
Johnson handcuffed him and placed him in the back of his patrol car.
But Johnson missed the gun in Quintero's waistband. The prisoner
pulled it out and fired four times at Johnson at close range.”
Unfortunately this is only one story out of dozens that have been gleaned from news and police reports across the nation in the last few years. No private or government agency keeps track of violence perpetrated by illegal aliens. But by the same methods used to gain the stories of assaults on Law Enforcement, WorldNet Daily has found that 12 Americans are murdered every day by illegal’s. That translates out to 4,380 Americans murdered by illegal’s every year and 21,900 killed from 2001 to 2006. Think about it, more Americans killed by illegal’s than by the warfare in the middle east. No one has called for a large protest against illegal’s. There is a literal warfare going on down at the Mexican border with the border patrol and other Americans being fired upon by drug smugglers. There have even been several hundred incursions into the U.S. by the Mexican military in support of the drug cartels. U.S. ranchers are terrorized by drug gangs using their land as a pathway into the U.S., several ranchers have been killed, many assaulted and several women brutalized by these kindly illegal’s. Things have gotten so bad that around Nuevo Laredo there have been Mexican families that have pulled up stakes and moved their whole lives further into the interior at the insistence of the drug gangs. And on the north side of the border in Phoenix Arizona there is one major trauma center left because of the numbers of illegal’s getting into trouble with the elements and drug and people smugglers. The illegal’s usually don’t pay. The financial stress is too much to bear for most hospitals. Over sixty California hospitals have shut down because of taking care of non paying Mexican nationals. But the most shocking statistic is that of the kidnappings in Phoenix. Phoenix Arizona is second in the world for kidnappings, right behind Mexico City. Recounting the violence and troubles caused by allowing open borders can go on ad infinitum, ad nauseum there is enough violence, drug smuggling and disease coming across our southern border to allow one to belabor the point to exhaustion. But there are a couple more situations that are just as disturbing as what I have already given examples of.
Some sources say there are about 20 million illegal’s in the U.S., others say more. Since the 20 million figure usually comes from those who want to play down the effects that this army of illegal aliens has on the culture and economy, I tend to believe the larger estimates. However for the purposes of my particular illustration let’s take the 20 million figure as gospel for now. The Department of Homeland Security says that 97% of the illegal’s crossing our borders come across at the Mexican border and about 90% of them are Mexican nationals. Really? Think to yourself what does a Mexican look like? The fact is that a Mexican national can appear as anything from a Negro to a Native American to a light skinned Spaniard with blue eyes. So my point is that if confronted near the Mexican border by a male about 5’11” who has brown skin and eyes and black hair who speaks Spanish and has Mexican ID calling him Juan Gonzales, you’d think you have a Mexican. Right? How do you know? If you can’t thoroughly examine his ID then how do you know what you have? Is his name Juan or Mustafa? If you and I can learn Mexican Spanish then so can Mustafa. Just yesterday I was at a gathering and we were having lunch and discussing this subject. Around the table were two ladies who were partly and fully Mexican American, a couple of Celts, a German and a friend who was half Germanic and Half Sicilian. I remarked that with his appearance, as dark as he is, if he could just speak Spanish and was dressed right he would appear Mexican. He looked more Mexican than the two ladies. So would a Palestinian or a Persian (Iranian). If there truly are only 20 million illegal’s in the U.S. and 1% of them are Islamic terrorists that came across the Mexican border posing as Mexicans then there are 200,000 Islamic terrorists here. You do the math, if you break that down to half a percent that’s only 100,000, does that sound better? Not to me. If you think I’m just dreaming up arguments then consider this story that appeared on BBC and Fox News.
“Police in Ecuador say they have broken up an international drugs ring which was raising money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah. The authorities have declined to give details of the gang’s alleged links with the group, but say it was sending Hezbollah up to 70% of its profits…” BBC June 22, 2005.
A company in Quito, Ecuador was supplying money to Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a proxy group for Iran. I know, so I only cited one instance and for the purposes of my argument I’ll let it rest at that one, but any one who wishes can go do a search on Islamic Terror activities in South America and Mexico will find a lot more. All it takes is for one terrorist to sneak across the border with a dirty bomb in a back pack and it can ruin your whole year. How many terrorists did it take to bring down the World Trade Towers? And no, George Bush didn’t do it.
Then there’s the theory of Aztlan. Many white people haven’t heard of that before so for their benefit I will try to briefly explain what I know. According to certain Mexican organizations their ancestors came from an area they call Aztlan. This area stretches from Washington state to Idaho down through California and over through Texas, including many western and all the southwestern states. It is their contention that the illegal aliens that come from Mexico to the U.S. just rightly belong here since it is their “Homeland”. Much like Germany claimed that most of central and eastern Europe was the “Fatherland” of the Aryan people. The Mexicans who claim Aztlan say that they didn’t cross our border, but that our border crossed them. It is their aim to “Mexicanize” Aztlan and thus return it to their control. It is necessary for them to regain control of this large tract of land in order for them to survive as a people, or so they say. This is not a fringe movement. If you will watch the “Cinco De Mayo” parades and the anti immigration law demonstrations you will see this attitude displayed on their banners and their clothing. Another thing you will see that should warn of some of the underlying political theory that is definitely there is that many banners and shirts display the likeness of the Communist icon Che Guevara.
If you are a Catholic or any other kind of Christian even if you are Hispanic, do not be deceived by the images of Our Lady Of Guadalupe that these people display. Those who are the true proponents of the Aztlan Reconquista are not pro Christian. They use the Symbols and seek to unite the Hispanic population by using their strong ties to The Church. But if you consider that this Aztlan Reconquista is supported by certain government officials in Mexico then the image becomes clearer. I have a friend who lives now in St. Mary’s Kansas whose parents were “Cristero’s”, a group that grew out of the government persecution of Christianity in Mexico from 1926 to 1929. There was a lot of fighting and many atrocities perpetrated by the Mexican government on Christians of all sorts. When former Mexican President Fox welcomed Pope John Paul II to Mexico he was constrained by Mexican law to welcome him only as a religious leader and not as a head of state. The Vatican is a separate state. Yet the Mexican president must welcome President Chavez of Venezuela an admitted Marxist or President Lula of Brazil another Marxist or even Fidel Castro of Cuba with a higher welcome than the Pope. And 90% of Mexicans are at least cultural Catholics. It is exactly this kind of disregard for Christianity that is underlying the true leaders of the Aztlan movement. If you are Christian the Aztlan people don’t like you and if you are European (white) they hate you.
These things may seem far away to the federal legislators in Washington D.C. or to the people in the liberal enclaves of Minneapolis or Seattle. But they are only a few meters away to the people living along the U.S. Mexico border. The last thing that Barrack Hussein Obama or Nancy Pelosi fears when they go to sleep at night is the sudden terror of being awakened by drug smugglers outside their bedroom window. To the citizens of Arizona and the other border states that is a fact of life. They commonly awake to find trash like water bottles and empty milk jugs across their yards. Many families along the border are missing their loved ones due to the violence wrought by smugglers and by the gangs who specialize in kidnapping girls to be sold as slaves.
It is the very first responsibility of the Government of our nation our states and our counties and municipalities to provide for the safety of their citizens. If the federal government does not provide that level of protection that it should then it is only reasonable to expect the state to try to provide it. If in turn the states do not provide reasonable protection for the people then it falls to the people themselves.
In the case of Arizona, if you check what has been happening to the people of Arizona in the last few years and the discussions held in the city councils of Tucson, Phoenix and other cities of that state you will see that there is a growing danger of the protection of the citizen of Arizona falling to the citizen himself. Non Mexicans have been exposed to increasing threat of violence even to the point that some neighborhoods have at times thrown up hasty barricades against the threatened violence of the illegal’s. The threat of escalating violence continued to increase to the level where Governor Brewer has called upon the Federal government to enforce federal law along the Arizona border. These requests have been ignored. With the threat faced by Arizona citizens of every extraction the only reasonable thing for the state of Arizona to do is to take action itself to protect its citizens. If the drug cartels and the Aztlan Reconquista movement and the radicals who support an open border with Mexico have their way and the rights of the citizens of Arizona are ignored in favor of the rights of the drug cartels and the anti American groups. The citizens of Arizona and the poor souls who blindly supported the open border could possibly be launched into localized warfare.
In the best case scenario, the federal government will be shaken out of their dreams of an unlimited Hispanic vote and cheap labor fueled by Hispanic wage slaves to actually enforce the law and go in to fix the damage that their indolence caused. Such an action if required will cost lives and money. In the worst scenario such troubles will spread and there will be clashes in states where there are large numbers of illegal’s. The Hispanics who will allow themselves to be used will be driven forward by the lashing whip of perceived racism and the American citizen will respond in defense. If, as I suspect, there are powers in the government that intend to use such a thing to seize more power and wealth, they are playing with fire. It is a gambit that is ill advised. Such things tend to go out of control and into anarchy all players then have the chance to grab at the reins of control. The loss will be astounding in any case. Such a thing may be years away, but then they could be at the back door. Which do you want for children? Do you want the insanity that is brewing or protection for the U.S. Citizen that Arizona is trying to provide?
NOTE:
1. Cinco De Mayo
The 5th of May. In 1861 Benito Juarez stopped paying Mexico’s debt to France. Seeking resolution of Mexican national debt France invaded Mexico.
General Seguin led his Mexican army against a vastly superior French force at Puebla on the fifth of May. The formerly victorious French suffered a resounding defeat. The French went on to occupy Mexico and depose Juarez and install Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Juarez continued to resist the French. America Put pressure on the French in several areas including the threat of military aid. In 1866 the French began their withdrawal and they were out by 1867. To the Aztlan Reconquista people it symbolizes victory over Europeans and regaining what they see as theirs. Even though the French would probably have stayed a long time if it had not have been for the U.S. and our Monroe Doctrine.
2. Arms in the hands of American Citizens.
Legal firearms ownership in America is to the point where there are more than 250,000,000 firearms owned by American Citizens. This is only a low guess. My wife herself owns 3 handguns. Together we own 8 handguns 4 rifles and a couple of shotguns. I have friends who own more. No we didn’t set out to own that many. I may sell some. The point is that if any kind of demonstrations grow into riots in the wrong place the armed resistance will be incredible. This makes the avoidance of those circumstances essential. Getting the government to enforce the law is essential. This is not an opportunity for new votes.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
More Government Please Masa!
Hey Ya'll
You'll never believe it. I have been screwing around with the V.A. for 20 years. I've got major depressive disorder and PTSD. I'm half lame in one leg and I've got a screwed up and very painful shoulder. My hearing in one ear is messed up and not so good in the other ear and due to neurological damage I'm left with moderate to severe tinnitus and benign paroxymal positional vertigo. All service connected. I've been in the hospital several times on suicide watch. And have generally been through a somewhat tough time lately.
For 20 years I've been screwing with these morons and as of a few months ago I've got just 50% disability. I can't find a job that I can do and when I do go to try for a job my problems get in the way. Seems like no one wants to hire a vet who can't even get through an interview without clutching a lorazepam bottle. I tried for so long to get therapy from the V.A. for the depression and PTSD that I just gave them a single finger salute and walked away. I thought that if I tried for just a little bit longer then somehow the common sense fairy would come down and bless the V.A. and viola the gates would magically open and I would get the treatment I needed to keep from eating a bullet or rigging up a large ANFO device and blowing myself up. And I would be able to guide the younger guys through the system and show how to appeal to the benevolence of the V.A. system. I found out though that hanging on was costing me my sanity and could cost me my life. The V.A. is not there to provide they are there to deny. I have gotten denial after denial. The more messed up you are the less you receiveve of the help you need. You can't function enough to work your way through the hoops and face yet one more denial without collapsing and grabbing the .357 and squeezing the trigger.
I got away from them and went to Optimum health family practice for my medical needs. The medication I get from them hasn't caused me any harm. The stuff the V.A. gave me for my diabetes left me with blood sugars down as far as 30. I have literally been down on my living room floor with the EMT's trying to get my blood sugar up to a survivable level and get me into the hospital. But I haven't suffered that for a year or so. And my A1C is at acceptable levels. I also went to Christian psychological services. I have been with a therapist for that long and am now on Pristiq. I'm not all better but I'm working on it. I at least have a chance.
So I've heard from the V.A. again. They still haven't found a suitable therapist for me. No wonder these younger guys are killing themselves. If I want to go over to the V.A. and let them dope me up till I drool then fine they'll do that. But if I want reatreatmentnt I have to go outside the V.A. and get civilian medical service. And that's my advice to the younger vets.
That's not the end of the story. I can't seem to make a living any more. But I'm only 50% disabled and I can't for the life of me get the idiots to recognize that Dorothy and I are married and have been for 14 years. I'm still getting paid at a single rate with no dependents. More hoops to jump through every time I turn around. Most entities would accept that we are married and get on with it but the V.A. system is designed for denial not provision.
So do you really want government health care? This is serious. I was left without psychological services I needed and almost committed suicide four times. I was given Glyburide for my diabetes and kept on it until I refused to take it because it nearly killed me several times. I was on a blood pressure med that was no longer used by civilian doctors because it causes congestive heart failure. At the same time they had me on a very large dose of Niacin 1000Mg. Which eventually made me very sick and caused my legs to fold up out from under me. In the mean time they couldn't find an antidepressant for me even though Pristiq had been out for a long time and was shown to work well on people with my sensitivities to other meds. What goes on with the V.A. is just a very good example of what everyone will receive if the government is in charge.
If we do not get this government out of our medical care this is what you will get. A system that is illogical, incompetent and in the end fatal.
Your choice, be hard headed and stick with the wrong way that will never work right just because it fits your ideology or else strike back and demand repeal of the laws that allow the government to muck about anywhere they are not supposed to be. All powers not specifically given to the congress by the constitution nor forbidden by it are reserved to the states and to the people.Yeah that's really in the constitution. Real simple, if one understands English. In "Redneck", If Washington ain't told they can do it in the constitution they can't. Everythin else gits done at home. Like everything else our fore bearers did there is a reason for that. It is said that Government is at best a treacherous servant and at worst an unbearable tyrant. When government has too much power and the public treasury is open to it to do as it wishes not as it should it becomes self perpetuating and very self concerned. While promising to aid those it should aid it instead makes slaves of those whose support it requires keeping them at its mercy while it strips away the wealth of those it is supposed to protect and serve. It becomes self preserving and other destructive. It is at that point now. This latest Obama bill will do no good for anyone. Not even for those you would presume to be its benefactors it is set to destroy them and keep them in submission and dependent, while transfering more power to government to strengthen the beast that is set to devour us.
I have seen the benefits of their system and if we do not stop them NOW those benefits will be suffered by all.
Ipsa conteret,
Herb
You'll never believe it. I have been screwing around with the V.A. for 20 years. I've got major depressive disorder and PTSD. I'm half lame in one leg and I've got a screwed up and very painful shoulder. My hearing in one ear is messed up and not so good in the other ear and due to neurological damage I'm left with moderate to severe tinnitus and benign paroxymal positional vertigo. All service connected. I've been in the hospital several times on suicide watch. And have generally been through a somewhat tough time lately.
For 20 years I've been screwing with these morons and as of a few months ago I've got just 50% disability. I can't find a job that I can do and when I do go to try for a job my problems get in the way. Seems like no one wants to hire a vet who can't even get through an interview without clutching a lorazepam bottle. I tried for so long to get therapy from the V.A. for the depression and PTSD that I just gave them a single finger salute and walked away. I thought that if I tried for just a little bit longer then somehow the common sense fairy would come down and bless the V.A. and viola the gates would magically open and I would get the treatment I needed to keep from eating a bullet or rigging up a large ANFO device and blowing myself up. And I would be able to guide the younger guys through the system and show how to appeal to the benevolence of the V.A. system. I found out though that hanging on was costing me my sanity and could cost me my life. The V.A. is not there to provide they are there to deny. I have gotten denial after denial. The more messed up you are the less you receiveve of the help you need. You can't function enough to work your way through the hoops and face yet one more denial without collapsing and grabbing the .357 and squeezing the trigger.
I got away from them and went to Optimum health family practice for my medical needs. The medication I get from them hasn't caused me any harm. The stuff the V.A. gave me for my diabetes left me with blood sugars down as far as 30. I have literally been down on my living room floor with the EMT's trying to get my blood sugar up to a survivable level and get me into the hospital. But I haven't suffered that for a year or so. And my A1C is at acceptable levels. I also went to Christian psychological services. I have been with a therapist for that long and am now on Pristiq. I'm not all better but I'm working on it. I at least have a chance.
So I've heard from the V.A. again. They still haven't found a suitable therapist for me. No wonder these younger guys are killing themselves. If I want to go over to the V.A. and let them dope me up till I drool then fine they'll do that. But if I want reatreatmentnt I have to go outside the V.A. and get civilian medical service. And that's my advice to the younger vets.
That's not the end of the story. I can't seem to make a living any more. But I'm only 50% disabled and I can't for the life of me get the idiots to recognize that Dorothy and I are married and have been for 14 years. I'm still getting paid at a single rate with no dependents. More hoops to jump through every time I turn around. Most entities would accept that we are married and get on with it but the V.A. system is designed for denial not provision.
So do you really want government health care? This is serious. I was left without psychological services I needed and almost committed suicide four times. I was given Glyburide for my diabetes and kept on it until I refused to take it because it nearly killed me several times. I was on a blood pressure med that was no longer used by civilian doctors because it causes congestive heart failure. At the same time they had me on a very large dose of Niacin 1000Mg. Which eventually made me very sick and caused my legs to fold up out from under me. In the mean time they couldn't find an antidepressant for me even though Pristiq had been out for a long time and was shown to work well on people with my sensitivities to other meds. What goes on with the V.A. is just a very good example of what everyone will receive if the government is in charge.
If we do not get this government out of our medical care this is what you will get. A system that is illogical, incompetent and in the end fatal.
Your choice, be hard headed and stick with the wrong way that will never work right just because it fits your ideology or else strike back and demand repeal of the laws that allow the government to muck about anywhere they are not supposed to be. All powers not specifically given to the congress by the constitution nor forbidden by it are reserved to the states and to the people.Yeah that's really in the constitution. Real simple, if one understands English. In "Redneck", If Washington ain't told they can do it in the constitution they can't. Everythin else gits done at home. Like everything else our fore bearers did there is a reason for that. It is said that Government is at best a treacherous servant and at worst an unbearable tyrant. When government has too much power and the public treasury is open to it to do as it wishes not as it should it becomes self perpetuating and very self concerned. While promising to aid those it should aid it instead makes slaves of those whose support it requires keeping them at its mercy while it strips away the wealth of those it is supposed to protect and serve. It becomes self preserving and other destructive. It is at that point now. This latest Obama bill will do no good for anyone. Not even for those you would presume to be its benefactors it is set to destroy them and keep them in submission and dependent, while transfering more power to government to strengthen the beast that is set to devour us.
I have seen the benefits of their system and if we do not stop them NOW those benefits will be suffered by all.
Ipsa conteret,
Herb
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Hey Ya'll
Thought I'd check in with ya and ask what’s going on your way and let ya know what's going on here.
Well let's see Topeka has become a real interesting place recently. Funeral missions have been up. A couple of weeks ago one of our guys Blaine lost his wife to cancer. So we had to go and stand at his wife's funeral. Poor guy. It's sad to lose your true love. And she was his. Then One of our former Supreme court Justices and an Air Force Veteran went down. The Ugly people were there with their ugly songs and ugly signs and their ugly little attitudes. Good thing we were there, and we were there in a good number. Way more than I expected on a weekday. I was proud. But right after that we had to pack up the flags and beat it up to the north end of town. Remember Blaine? Well his brother died. So we had to bury his brother. What a shame! So we had a day to take a break and then bam we had a memorial for some young fellow named Galloway. A PFC in the Army. He left a wife. That tugs at your heart to see a real young wife crying like that. At our age they look like high school kids, did you ever notice?
Then there's the biker scene, which we are on the edge of. Late last fall some of our guys took advantage of the decent weather to ride down to the S.E. corner of Kansas. From here that's quite a ride. They stopped in a town named Liberal on the way back. There were Sons of Silence everywhere. Well the guys thought they would see what was up. It turns out that some motorcycle club in Liberal patched over to S.O.S. that day. A couple of beers and a couple of death threats from the Sons and our guys were on the road and out of there at a high rate of speed. We're no pansies but we do not fight when there are a hundred of them and only a couple of us. Well we adjusted our patches to get rid of the TOPEKA banner at the bottom and hopefully that will not happen again. Meanwhile the Sons of Silence are threatening the American veterans motorcycle club and generally making a nuisance of themselves. See there have been Sons here for quite a while but no patches. Now we're seeing full patch wearing Sons around. Then Wednesday after the funerals I parked the bike and went out in the truck to do some grocery shopping. While I'm at the store I run into some Iron Horsemen nomads. Well I'm curious and I talked to them and they tell me that they are opening a clubhouse in Topeka and are having an open house. I got invited. Well I'm thinking this is weird. Now we have full patch wearing Sons of Silence and Iron Horsemen. But that's not all dear friends, not by a long shot. Today my friend and club brother called me up after the memorial service while I was visiting with Jerry at the gun shop. He says "Herb you'll never believe what I just saw ridding into the south side of town." So I says "what did you see Robert?" He says "I just saw a dozen or so Bandidos ride in." Well heck we've got a clique of Bloods and a clique of Crips and some Sur 13s and a couple of other little street gangs. Now we've got Sons of Silence and Iron Horsemen and Bandidos in town. Oh yeah and my friend in the Legacy Vets mc is looking around for body armor because of the Sons. Most of us are carrying a pistol and or a big knife when we're out. And we aren't 1%ers we just go to funerals and do charity work and have fun. Most of us are combat vets and some of us are or have been law enforcement. Allot of us have PTSD. Now this is a great situation. There's talk of American veterans mc and Legacy Veterans mc and the ALR doing more things together with our numbers we far outnumber the Sons. They leave ya alone when they are out numbered.
By the way have you heard that Topeka is trying to be the safest capitol city in the USA? This all is going on in Topeka n Shawnee County in little ole Kansas. Our county, on a good day, has about 170,000 residents.
Our illustrious legislature can't learn how to spend what they have and no more, anyway they can't do the math necessary to balance the budget right, and they can't figure out that it's the business in this state that brings in the tax dollars for them to spend so they do stupid stuff like running off business. They think that if they just raise the tax rates then there the money will be, magically, right in front of them for them to spend. The dumb asses can't figure out that when so much of the business that is done is done with other businesses in this state and the dollars that change hands are the very same dollars that have been changing hand in this state for some time we are in trouble. Sure we export our crops but we need to export more stuff. Even if it's just value added. However if some idiot that thinks that someone might so much as change the smell of the air in one room they all get enviro conscious and shut everything down. So now we don't have the money to spend on their little pet projects that are totally unnecessary and what do they do they want to shorten up on dollars for the law enforcement and judiciary.
I think the idiots should come to Topeka and work for exactly 30 days. And I mean 30 x 8 hours. We should build a dorm for them out at Forbes industrial park where they bunk up with an appropriate room mate. Something like a college dorm, no more. They should have a kitchen that prepares simple Army type mess. And they get paid $15.00/hr plus travel pay from their home to Topeka and back one time at a rate of 1.5 times the cost of a gallon of gas. And no more voting themselves a pay raise. The bill for a pay raise goes to the people to pass. No more than $2.00/hr increase per year or the increase in cost of living for this state whichever is higher. And they have to pass a test in economics at a college Bachelors level. No more of these people who wouldn't know Laissaez-faire from Keynesian economics to save their lives.
I Know that things aren't good in the whole USA, but if things are going sour in the rest of the states and business is looking for a place to relocate, create low tax, low restriction, business friendly atmosphere here. Give the beleaguered businesses a place to go other than Mexico or China. This is the ideal place in the USA to make and distribute things for the USA. But our legislature is more worried about banning smoking a cigarette in a damn bar than getting a business in here so we can afford the cigarettes and the bar. It seems to me that most all of the representatives in our state house are “Richie Riches” and they have the cash reserves and property to weather a recession without a problem. But if you go to the Tennessee town area or Central Park area of Topeka those people tend to live hand to mouth. Each and every meager pay check means a great deal to those folks. They do not have the resources to care about the piddling little things that seem to disturb our “oh so sensitive” legislators who just care so much for everything under the sun except getting jobs into this state.
Case in point. We had a chance recently to get a modern low sulfur coal fired power plant here. The environmentally concerned legislature turned them away. This was the kind of place that would produce so little pollution that you could hang your white washing down wind and when it dries it would still be white. Oh yeah they were worried about that plant. But what about the pesticides and herbicides and chemical fertilizers that their friends spray all over the place? But then that isn’t the point. The point is preserving their vision of what Kansas should be, even if that vision is so romanticized and unrealistic that it overlooks most Kansans. So they run off the energy plant that would have required so many people to build and run it and provided quite a few jobs to unemployed Kansans and would have exported electric power along the national grid. So it goes with other business. They see our brilliant legislature and they see the restrictions and the taxes and they run screaming to China or Mexico.
We are facing at least a 100% increase in gang activity and the idiot legislature is twiddling their thumbs. The gangs are here because we don't have the resources to run them off, we don't have the resources to run them off because we don't have the business we need to generate the tax revenue and we don't have the businesses because the legislature ran them off. It will eventually come about that the manufacture of meth and the redistribution of pot and cocaine will take place in Kansas. Can you think of a better place?
The elitist legislature wants to preserve Kansas as it is for their children. Of course our children will have to go begging for food because they have no jobs but as long as their children have roundabouts to drive around and don't have to smell cigarette smoke that’s the point isn't it?
Ipsa Conteret
Herb
Thought I'd check in with ya and ask what’s going on your way and let ya know what's going on here.
Well let's see Topeka has become a real interesting place recently. Funeral missions have been up. A couple of weeks ago one of our guys Blaine lost his wife to cancer. So we had to go and stand at his wife's funeral. Poor guy. It's sad to lose your true love. And she was his. Then One of our former Supreme court Justices and an Air Force Veteran went down. The Ugly people were there with their ugly songs and ugly signs and their ugly little attitudes. Good thing we were there, and we were there in a good number. Way more than I expected on a weekday. I was proud. But right after that we had to pack up the flags and beat it up to the north end of town. Remember Blaine? Well his brother died. So we had to bury his brother. What a shame! So we had a day to take a break and then bam we had a memorial for some young fellow named Galloway. A PFC in the Army. He left a wife. That tugs at your heart to see a real young wife crying like that. At our age they look like high school kids, did you ever notice?
Then there's the biker scene, which we are on the edge of. Late last fall some of our guys took advantage of the decent weather to ride down to the S.E. corner of Kansas. From here that's quite a ride. They stopped in a town named Liberal on the way back. There were Sons of Silence everywhere. Well the guys thought they would see what was up. It turns out that some motorcycle club in Liberal patched over to S.O.S. that day. A couple of beers and a couple of death threats from the Sons and our guys were on the road and out of there at a high rate of speed. We're no pansies but we do not fight when there are a hundred of them and only a couple of us. Well we adjusted our patches to get rid of the TOPEKA banner at the bottom and hopefully that will not happen again. Meanwhile the Sons of Silence are threatening the American veterans motorcycle club and generally making a nuisance of themselves. See there have been Sons here for quite a while but no patches. Now we're seeing full patch wearing Sons around. Then Wednesday after the funerals I parked the bike and went out in the truck to do some grocery shopping. While I'm at the store I run into some Iron Horsemen nomads. Well I'm curious and I talked to them and they tell me that they are opening a clubhouse in Topeka and are having an open house. I got invited. Well I'm thinking this is weird. Now we have full patch wearing Sons of Silence and Iron Horsemen. But that's not all dear friends, not by a long shot. Today my friend and club brother called me up after the memorial service while I was visiting with Jerry at the gun shop. He says "Herb you'll never believe what I just saw ridding into the south side of town." So I says "what did you see Robert?" He says "I just saw a dozen or so Bandidos ride in." Well heck we've got a clique of Bloods and a clique of Crips and some Sur 13s and a couple of other little street gangs. Now we've got Sons of Silence and Iron Horsemen and Bandidos in town. Oh yeah and my friend in the Legacy Vets mc is looking around for body armor because of the Sons. Most of us are carrying a pistol and or a big knife when we're out. And we aren't 1%ers we just go to funerals and do charity work and have fun. Most of us are combat vets and some of us are or have been law enforcement. Allot of us have PTSD. Now this is a great situation. There's talk of American veterans mc and Legacy Veterans mc and the ALR doing more things together with our numbers we far outnumber the Sons. They leave ya alone when they are out numbered.
By the way have you heard that Topeka is trying to be the safest capitol city in the USA? This all is going on in Topeka n Shawnee County in little ole Kansas. Our county, on a good day, has about 170,000 residents.
Our illustrious legislature can't learn how to spend what they have and no more, anyway they can't do the math necessary to balance the budget right, and they can't figure out that it's the business in this state that brings in the tax dollars for them to spend so they do stupid stuff like running off business. They think that if they just raise the tax rates then there the money will be, magically, right in front of them for them to spend. The dumb asses can't figure out that when so much of the business that is done is done with other businesses in this state and the dollars that change hands are the very same dollars that have been changing hand in this state for some time we are in trouble. Sure we export our crops but we need to export more stuff. Even if it's just value added. However if some idiot that thinks that someone might so much as change the smell of the air in one room they all get enviro conscious and shut everything down. So now we don't have the money to spend on their little pet projects that are totally unnecessary and what do they do they want to shorten up on dollars for the law enforcement and judiciary.
I think the idiots should come to Topeka and work for exactly 30 days. And I mean 30 x 8 hours. We should build a dorm for them out at Forbes industrial park where they bunk up with an appropriate room mate. Something like a college dorm, no more. They should have a kitchen that prepares simple Army type mess. And they get paid $15.00/hr plus travel pay from their home to Topeka and back one time at a rate of 1.5 times the cost of a gallon of gas. And no more voting themselves a pay raise. The bill for a pay raise goes to the people to pass. No more than $2.00/hr increase per year or the increase in cost of living for this state whichever is higher. And they have to pass a test in economics at a college Bachelors level. No more of these people who wouldn't know Laissaez-faire from Keynesian economics to save their lives.
I Know that things aren't good in the whole USA, but if things are going sour in the rest of the states and business is looking for a place to relocate, create low tax, low restriction, business friendly atmosphere here. Give the beleaguered businesses a place to go other than Mexico or China. This is the ideal place in the USA to make and distribute things for the USA. But our legislature is more worried about banning smoking a cigarette in a damn bar than getting a business in here so we can afford the cigarettes and the bar. It seems to me that most all of the representatives in our state house are “Richie Riches” and they have the cash reserves and property to weather a recession without a problem. But if you go to the Tennessee town area or Central Park area of Topeka those people tend to live hand to mouth. Each and every meager pay check means a great deal to those folks. They do not have the resources to care about the piddling little things that seem to disturb our “oh so sensitive” legislators who just care so much for everything under the sun except getting jobs into this state.
Case in point. We had a chance recently to get a modern low sulfur coal fired power plant here. The environmentally concerned legislature turned them away. This was the kind of place that would produce so little pollution that you could hang your white washing down wind and when it dries it would still be white. Oh yeah they were worried about that plant. But what about the pesticides and herbicides and chemical fertilizers that their friends spray all over the place? But then that isn’t the point. The point is preserving their vision of what Kansas should be, even if that vision is so romanticized and unrealistic that it overlooks most Kansans. So they run off the energy plant that would have required so many people to build and run it and provided quite a few jobs to unemployed Kansans and would have exported electric power along the national grid. So it goes with other business. They see our brilliant legislature and they see the restrictions and the taxes and they run screaming to China or Mexico.
We are facing at least a 100% increase in gang activity and the idiot legislature is twiddling their thumbs. The gangs are here because we don't have the resources to run them off, we don't have the resources to run them off because we don't have the business we need to generate the tax revenue and we don't have the businesses because the legislature ran them off. It will eventually come about that the manufacture of meth and the redistribution of pot and cocaine will take place in Kansas. Can you think of a better place?
The elitist legislature wants to preserve Kansas as it is for their children. Of course our children will have to go begging for food because they have no jobs but as long as their children have roundabouts to drive around and don't have to smell cigarette smoke that’s the point isn't it?
Ipsa Conteret
Herb
Monday, March 22, 2010
Time to stand.
That day has come. The vote is in. The tally was 219 to 212 and the mighty government has spit in the eye of the American people. We called them and emailed them and told them in no uncertain terms that the majority of the American people do not want to go against what is the American concept of government. We the reasonable Americans do not want the government telling us that we must buy insurance from the government approved provider. We do not want the government telling us what treatment we can have and when. But that knowledge is no impediment to those who wish to take control. We the people no longer posses the power to resist.
How did we get to this point? Simple we the American people have become stupid. Those of us who are “progressive” have no ears to hear the truth that “progressivism” is just the same old "communism sour wine" in a brand new bottle. And the majority of us who are middle-right to right politically have let our stupid petty egos get into the way and stood, time and again, not against the idiocy of the liberal Republican but against the whole of the Republican party. I will not guard my tongue, I will not parse words.The time for such civility is past. I have time and again stood with those who would oppose the liberal country club, blue blood influence in my party. But I will have nothing to do with those who would split up the conservative movement into little mini-parties with a hundred little candidates to draw votes off here and there and provide the kind of environment that let this happen. No Conservative renegade, don’t blame the Democrats and socialists for this, blame yourselves. It was you and your fragmenting splinter movements that put this Moslem, Indonesian trained Marxist into government. You so-called conservative factionalists are so fond of recalling the saying that “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”. That is a truism, which means that it is not absolute. There are other things good men can do to let evil triumph and one is to do the wrong thing. Doing the wrong thing in some instances is even worse than doing nothing. It is time for you splinter groups to realize that if you stand alone, no matter what kind of a self-righteous ego rush it gives you, you will cause more damage to the conservative cause than all the commies in the world can. In fact take a look around you at the faces of your comrades and look carefully because it may be that one of the shakers and movers of your little splinter movements is working for the other side. It’s not uncommon for an organization threatened by a popular movement to provide splinter movements and even organize them and set them against the other groups and thereby cripple the opposition.
For God’s sake come out of your little hidey holes and join together. We have a perfectly good party. The Republican party and we are well capable of taking it over. We have more than enough to seize victory if any kind of order can be seized upon.
The time is critical. Stop playing about with your silly militia type thinking. We’re not playing. The time to get politically serious is now! Do not delay one second more. How close do we need to approach to communism before we recoil. This is no political game the cause is serious. Have we gotten close enough yet, do you not smell the stench of the sulfurous gases of hell or do you require that the flames warm your toes a bit more?
How did we get to this point? Simple we the American people have become stupid. Those of us who are “progressive” have no ears to hear the truth that “progressivism” is just the same old "communism sour wine" in a brand new bottle. And the majority of us who are middle-right to right politically have let our stupid petty egos get into the way and stood, time and again, not against the idiocy of the liberal Republican but against the whole of the Republican party. I will not guard my tongue, I will not parse words.The time for such civility is past. I have time and again stood with those who would oppose the liberal country club, blue blood influence in my party. But I will have nothing to do with those who would split up the conservative movement into little mini-parties with a hundred little candidates to draw votes off here and there and provide the kind of environment that let this happen. No Conservative renegade, don’t blame the Democrats and socialists for this, blame yourselves. It was you and your fragmenting splinter movements that put this Moslem, Indonesian trained Marxist into government. You so-called conservative factionalists are so fond of recalling the saying that “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”. That is a truism, which means that it is not absolute. There are other things good men can do to let evil triumph and one is to do the wrong thing. Doing the wrong thing in some instances is even worse than doing nothing. It is time for you splinter groups to realize that if you stand alone, no matter what kind of a self-righteous ego rush it gives you, you will cause more damage to the conservative cause than all the commies in the world can. In fact take a look around you at the faces of your comrades and look carefully because it may be that one of the shakers and movers of your little splinter movements is working for the other side. It’s not uncommon for an organization threatened by a popular movement to provide splinter movements and even organize them and set them against the other groups and thereby cripple the opposition.
For God’s sake come out of your little hidey holes and join together. We have a perfectly good party. The Republican party and we are well capable of taking it over. We have more than enough to seize victory if any kind of order can be seized upon.
The time is critical. Stop playing about with your silly militia type thinking. We’re not playing. The time to get politically serious is now! Do not delay one second more. How close do we need to approach to communism before we recoil. This is no political game the cause is serious. Have we gotten close enough yet, do you not smell the stench of the sulfurous gases of hell or do you require that the flames warm your toes a bit more?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
My Fight!
Recently I joined the U.S. Census workforce as a recruiter assistant. After three days training I was confronted by two of the female supervisors and told that I was suspected of being anti-Hispanic. I couldn’t believe that I was being interrogated for “suspicion of being anti-Hispanic”. Does that sound as ridiculous to you as it does to me? What was my first response? I looked them straight in the eye and asked “would you be doing this if I weren’t a white man?”. The two went out of the room and came back and said that someone had heard me say that I wouldn’t deal with “those People”. Of course who made the accusation remained a mystery and the circumstances of the supposed incident also remained in the shadows.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a Catholic. Being a traditional Catholic just plain makes it impossible to be anti-Hispanic. Ninety percent of Hispanics are Catholic. I also have a habit of going to Our Lady of Guadalupe church for confession and I have been known to show up for Spanish Mass when I miss the Latin Mass at St. Joseph’s. Then too there’s the fact that my family and the Tetuan family are cousins. The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.
What’s the most ridiculous part is the fact that a white man’s job and good name can be placed in jeopardy by being accused of being anti-whatever. The whole idea of finding yourself having to prove that you are not racist is itself absolutely insane. I informed them of these things and that I was the source of the only first class relic of St. Martin de Poores that Our Lady of Guadalupe church owns.
Realizing that they had marched straight into a minefield these two goofy gals decided to change tack and then accused me of being anti-woman. I of course had already realized that they were just pulling things out of their hand and throwing them down hoping to get something to stick. I looked at them as though I was watching a naked mime show and stated flatly, ”you’re crazy, I like women fine”. Well then they tried to say that I interrupted the instructor too much and that I used my phone too much. Well I have a Blackberry and I tend to use it. I don’t write down phone no.s and appointments I enter them into the Berry. So while the instructor was giving out instructions and phone no.s I was noting them down in my Blackberry. The gal sitting next to me was doing the same with her Blackberry. When I told my classmate she could hardly believe it. She especially couldn’t believe me being scolded for taking a call from my wife when the nursing home was trying to get hold of us. My mother-in-law is in hospice care and we were expecting to get “the call”.
The guy next to me had his phone ringer on and was interrupting the class constantly. All I did was to make myself available for a true emergency.
I talked to a friend about the incident and told him that I thought that I had been discriminated against because I take a couple of medications that make me act a little different, but he was sure that the reason I was being picked on is because I am a little over six foot tall and weigh over 300 lbs. and have a shaved head and ride a bike. Well I had posed the question as a less serious challenge. Then I realized what I was surely already suspecting when I asked if a white guy would be treated that way.
Let’s look at it seriously. Think about these words, bigot, racist, sexist. When we think on words we see pictures in our mind. It’s how we think. What do you think of when you think on those words? Is it a white middle aged to senior aged white man? Be honest. If you didn’t see an older white man with short hair in your minds eye then congratulations to you and your enlightened mind. Now think of a big ol’ biker guy with a shaved head and what do you see? Why do you think this way? Because you were told to. It’s that simple. Whenever the media wants to stress that something is unfair to anyone they often use the phrase “unfair to women and minorities”. Now what does that leave you with? It doesn’t matter what you think consciously. In the back of your mind you’re sorting it out and realizing that this is a left handed way of demonizing “white men”. That statement does it’s magic even if those who hear it don’t realize it. “Unfair to women…” well that leaves men so this thing is only fair to men. But what kind of men? “Unfair…and minorities”. So that excludes minorities so the only thing left is white men. Go sit down and watch the news and when you hear mention of organizations for certain groups. There’s a program called the Black Star Project out of Chicago, its reason to exist is to further the cause of black children. There’s the NAACP founded to advance the cause of Coloured People. Let’s not forget the National Organization for Women who do you think they are looking to advance. There is no organization for the advancement of white men. When the schools mention studying diversity do you really think they are going to study white guys? No! They only mention of groups for white guys is the Ku Klux Klan. They would just as soon strangle me with my Rosary beads as lynch some poor black person.
Since I actually took stock of it I am part of the last actual minority. I’m a White, Heterosexual, Traditional, Catholic, Male. When the real prejudiced people look at those like me they see a racist, sexist, homophobe, and that being assumed we find ourselves in the absurd position of having to prove ourselves innocent of thought crimes in order to even hold a job.
Just to hammer home a point and hopefully not to belabour it. Consider the following statement,
"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for black children".
That statement probably doesn’t bother you a bit. You’ve been trained that way. The fact is that except for the word black the white nationalist or neo-Nazi will recognize that as the 14 words coined by David Lane of “The Order” inspired by Mein Kampf a book written by Adolph Hitler.
It actually reads “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”.
So, who’s the Nazi?
Not too long ago people were accused by their fellows and denounced and interrogated by the Gestapo for thought crimes. Our fathers stood against that. What now?
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a Catholic. Being a traditional Catholic just plain makes it impossible to be anti-Hispanic. Ninety percent of Hispanics are Catholic. I also have a habit of going to Our Lady of Guadalupe church for confession and I have been known to show up for Spanish Mass when I miss the Latin Mass at St. Joseph’s. Then too there’s the fact that my family and the Tetuan family are cousins. The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.
What’s the most ridiculous part is the fact that a white man’s job and good name can be placed in jeopardy by being accused of being anti-whatever. The whole idea of finding yourself having to prove that you are not racist is itself absolutely insane. I informed them of these things and that I was the source of the only first class relic of St. Martin de Poores that Our Lady of Guadalupe church owns.
Realizing that they had marched straight into a minefield these two goofy gals decided to change tack and then accused me of being anti-woman. I of course had already realized that they were just pulling things out of their hand and throwing them down hoping to get something to stick. I looked at them as though I was watching a naked mime show and stated flatly, ”you’re crazy, I like women fine”. Well then they tried to say that I interrupted the instructor too much and that I used my phone too much. Well I have a Blackberry and I tend to use it. I don’t write down phone no.s and appointments I enter them into the Berry. So while the instructor was giving out instructions and phone no.s I was noting them down in my Blackberry. The gal sitting next to me was doing the same with her Blackberry. When I told my classmate she could hardly believe it. She especially couldn’t believe me being scolded for taking a call from my wife when the nursing home was trying to get hold of us. My mother-in-law is in hospice care and we were expecting to get “the call”.
The guy next to me had his phone ringer on and was interrupting the class constantly. All I did was to make myself available for a true emergency.
I talked to a friend about the incident and told him that I thought that I had been discriminated against because I take a couple of medications that make me act a little different, but he was sure that the reason I was being picked on is because I am a little over six foot tall and weigh over 300 lbs. and have a shaved head and ride a bike. Well I had posed the question as a less serious challenge. Then I realized what I was surely already suspecting when I asked if a white guy would be treated that way.
Let’s look at it seriously. Think about these words, bigot, racist, sexist. When we think on words we see pictures in our mind. It’s how we think. What do you think of when you think on those words? Is it a white middle aged to senior aged white man? Be honest. If you didn’t see an older white man with short hair in your minds eye then congratulations to you and your enlightened mind. Now think of a big ol’ biker guy with a shaved head and what do you see? Why do you think this way? Because you were told to. It’s that simple. Whenever the media wants to stress that something is unfair to anyone they often use the phrase “unfair to women and minorities”. Now what does that leave you with? It doesn’t matter what you think consciously. In the back of your mind you’re sorting it out and realizing that this is a left handed way of demonizing “white men”. That statement does it’s magic even if those who hear it don’t realize it. “Unfair to women…” well that leaves men so this thing is only fair to men. But what kind of men? “Unfair…and minorities”. So that excludes minorities so the only thing left is white men. Go sit down and watch the news and when you hear mention of organizations for certain groups. There’s a program called the Black Star Project out of Chicago, its reason to exist is to further the cause of black children. There’s the NAACP founded to advance the cause of Coloured People. Let’s not forget the National Organization for Women who do you think they are looking to advance. There is no organization for the advancement of white men. When the schools mention studying diversity do you really think they are going to study white guys? No! They only mention of groups for white guys is the Ku Klux Klan. They would just as soon strangle me with my Rosary beads as lynch some poor black person.
Since I actually took stock of it I am part of the last actual minority. I’m a White, Heterosexual, Traditional, Catholic, Male. When the real prejudiced people look at those like me they see a racist, sexist, homophobe, and that being assumed we find ourselves in the absurd position of having to prove ourselves innocent of thought crimes in order to even hold a job.
Just to hammer home a point and hopefully not to belabour it. Consider the following statement,
"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for black children".
That statement probably doesn’t bother you a bit. You’ve been trained that way. The fact is that except for the word black the white nationalist or neo-Nazi will recognize that as the 14 words coined by David Lane of “The Order” inspired by Mein Kampf a book written by Adolph Hitler.
It actually reads “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”.
So, who’s the Nazi?
Not too long ago people were accused by their fellows and denounced and interrogated by the Gestapo for thought crimes. Our fathers stood against that. What now?
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wasting Time in Court.
State V. Kristen Lane
Let me tell you a story first then I will tell you why you care about this story.
A little while before 01:00 A.M. on February 15 2009 the Topeka Police Dept. arrested Miss Lane while she was on her way to the Quick Shop in North Topeka to buy cigarettes. She was operating an automobile without a license and with a Blood Alcohol of over .10. Miss lane was in the vehicle with two men and a minor girl. According to the testimony of Miss Lane and the two men she had been in the passenger seat and when the driver Mr. Buschbom realized that he had attracted the attention of the police he suddenly climbed over Miss Lanes lap forcing her to assume control of the vehicle in order to avoid a collision. Mr. Buschbom had a suspended license and was on probation so to preserve his ability to regain his license and to avoid a probation violation Miss Lane was used as the patsy. Nice bunch.
Miss Lane was charged with DUI No. 2 and driving with a revoked license. The case came to trial just this last week.
The case was tried by a legal intern with the assistance of an assistant D.A. before a retired judge was and a six person jury. Tying up an assistant D.A. and a judge and six jury members, a court reporter and a courtroom for a day and a half. Not to mention the time spent by the D.A.‘s office preparing for this case and time spent by the legal clerk and clerical time et al. Just to send a misdemeanor DUI to jail for a week and garner some kind of fines for the DUI and the “driving without a license” charge. No effort made to offer a deal to drop the “driving without a license” charge in exchange for a guilty plea was made though it reportedly would have been accepted.
All of this takes money. Money that the State of Kansas does not have. This has been happening just about every week at the rate of 4 to 6 a week. Even to the point of calling in retired judges to sit on these misdemeanor trials.
The D.A.’s office receives the case report then investigates and decides what charges to file in the case. This D.A. office due to sloppy investigation winds up filing lists of charges in a single case and many times charges that have to be changed at the last minute. Like in State V. Lane the original charge was DUI No. 1 until at the last minute the D.A. found out that Miss Lane had been on a diversion at one time for her 1st DUI. Had this been DUI No 3 a Felony would have been warranted and not charged.
The worst example is in Domestic. You know how it goes Joe gets off work and has his pay on Friday evening. He’s worked hard all week so he goes by the Bar and Grill with the Lads and chugs down a few cold ones. He goes home and his wife wants to know where he’s been and why he didn’t come home for supper and one thing leads to another and before long the wife has a black eye and the police want to know why. Joe goes to jail. The report get’s filed the D.A. investigates and the wife visits Joe. The unhappy couple makes up and the wife no longer wants to see her beloved Joey in the slammer. She begins to hemhaw around and any normal D.A. knows that when this thing goes to court she’s not going to sound like she did when she was angry. She’s “in love” with her darling Joe and the babies miss their Daddy and they need the paycheck. If you push these things you will lose. No matter how much we know about how Sweet Little Joey is probably going to show up again a few weeks later drunk and in trouble, it just doesn’t matter. If the victim is unwilling to proceed with the prosecution, you stop. Do not waste your time and Court resources. It’s a hard fact but true all the same. If you proceed you will lose. Along the way you spent time preparing the case and you’ve wasted a day or two of time for a judge and a six man jury and a court reporter and a D.A assistant and a court room and more. So why would the D.A. proceed with a case like this if he has no chance of winning and waste so much of the State’s resources just to lose?
Well the D.A. is looking for numbers. When time comes to decide whether or not to change D.A.’s the numbers will look good when he points to how many DUI and Domestic cases his office has prosecuted and he looks real good to people who only care whether he prosecuted the cases. At a time when we don’t have the money to throw away on cases that have no merit or can be plead to save court resources, this prosecutor is more concerned with his political future than with the economic welfare of Kansas.
Let me tell you a story first then I will tell you why you care about this story.
A little while before 01:00 A.M. on February 15 2009 the Topeka Police Dept. arrested Miss Lane while she was on her way to the Quick Shop in North Topeka to buy cigarettes. She was operating an automobile without a license and with a Blood Alcohol of over .10. Miss lane was in the vehicle with two men and a minor girl. According to the testimony of Miss Lane and the two men she had been in the passenger seat and when the driver Mr. Buschbom realized that he had attracted the attention of the police he suddenly climbed over Miss Lanes lap forcing her to assume control of the vehicle in order to avoid a collision. Mr. Buschbom had a suspended license and was on probation so to preserve his ability to regain his license and to avoid a probation violation Miss Lane was used as the patsy. Nice bunch.
Miss Lane was charged with DUI No. 2 and driving with a revoked license. The case came to trial just this last week.
The case was tried by a legal intern with the assistance of an assistant D.A. before a retired judge was and a six person jury. Tying up an assistant D.A. and a judge and six jury members, a court reporter and a courtroom for a day and a half. Not to mention the time spent by the D.A.‘s office preparing for this case and time spent by the legal clerk and clerical time et al. Just to send a misdemeanor DUI to jail for a week and garner some kind of fines for the DUI and the “driving without a license” charge. No effort made to offer a deal to drop the “driving without a license” charge in exchange for a guilty plea was made though it reportedly would have been accepted.
All of this takes money. Money that the State of Kansas does not have. This has been happening just about every week at the rate of 4 to 6 a week. Even to the point of calling in retired judges to sit on these misdemeanor trials.
The D.A.’s office receives the case report then investigates and decides what charges to file in the case. This D.A. office due to sloppy investigation winds up filing lists of charges in a single case and many times charges that have to be changed at the last minute. Like in State V. Lane the original charge was DUI No. 1 until at the last minute the D.A. found out that Miss Lane had been on a diversion at one time for her 1st DUI. Had this been DUI No 3 a Felony would have been warranted and not charged.
The worst example is in Domestic. You know how it goes Joe gets off work and has his pay on Friday evening. He’s worked hard all week so he goes by the Bar and Grill with the Lads and chugs down a few cold ones. He goes home and his wife wants to know where he’s been and why he didn’t come home for supper and one thing leads to another and before long the wife has a black eye and the police want to know why. Joe goes to jail. The report get’s filed the D.A. investigates and the wife visits Joe. The unhappy couple makes up and the wife no longer wants to see her beloved Joey in the slammer. She begins to hemhaw around and any normal D.A. knows that when this thing goes to court she’s not going to sound like she did when she was angry. She’s “in love” with her darling Joe and the babies miss their Daddy and they need the paycheck. If you push these things you will lose. No matter how much we know about how Sweet Little Joey is probably going to show up again a few weeks later drunk and in trouble, it just doesn’t matter. If the victim is unwilling to proceed with the prosecution, you stop. Do not waste your time and Court resources. It’s a hard fact but true all the same. If you proceed you will lose. Along the way you spent time preparing the case and you’ve wasted a day or two of time for a judge and a six man jury and a court reporter and a D.A assistant and a court room and more. So why would the D.A. proceed with a case like this if he has no chance of winning and waste so much of the State’s resources just to lose?
Well the D.A. is looking for numbers. When time comes to decide whether or not to change D.A.’s the numbers will look good when he points to how many DUI and Domestic cases his office has prosecuted and he looks real good to people who only care whether he prosecuted the cases. At a time when we don’t have the money to throw away on cases that have no merit or can be plead to save court resources, this prosecutor is more concerned with his political future than with the economic welfare of Kansas.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Open letter to Senators Roberts and Brownback.
Dear Senator,
Thank you for your faithful service. I would like to encourage you to maintain the best of Conservative ideals.
I listened to the President give his speech about how the “Panty Bomber” got through the security net. First point I’d like to make is that no mater what we do someone is going to get through. We have been focusing so hard on restricting ourselves that we forgot to focus on Islamic Wahabist Terrorists.
The only way we can insure total safety while flying is to surrender all our possessions to the security personnel including the clothing we are wearing, submit to a cavity search and x-ray examination then submit to being strapped into a chair and having to ask to be released to use the restroom, while being observed. Then and only then can we be totally safe from a terrorist being able to hijack or blowup a plane. I wont do that. Will you?
The only way you can provide any level of security is by identifying and focusing on those most likely to be Islamic Wahabist Terrorists. You know young Islamic males of African and middle eastern extraction who display certain behaviors. Did you notice that none of this stuff ever happens on El Al flights? They have a system of screening these people. Think of how many of their passengers are Middle Eastern. Yet they successfully identify the terrorists. Do You think we can call up the guy in charge of their security and ask him how?
The President mentioned that the simple act of changing the spelling of ones name can cause a problem. Why did he let that out anyway? But that’s beside the point. Did you ever “Google” someone and misspell the name? Did you notice how Google will ask you if you intended to search for the properly spelled name? Can’t we hire someone to set up the data server that we keep the terrorists names on to do that? Can’t we set up a server to be intuitive? Also why can’t we buy a computer with a nice Azus raid motherboard in it and put a 5 drive raid array, striped with parity. Use some really big hard drives and use the search program that Google uses and strip it of the graphics’ except for photos and fingerprints and the like. Every time someone gets a valid looking warning checked out and entered, every check using a name similar to the listed one will pull up the info on that one. Let every query go to that server no matter who makes it. Of course you will have to have whole forest of these computers but can’t we manage that for homeland security? EBay and Google can.
The last point. And I’m not trying to be weird. I know the idea is grotesque but so is cutting off a fellows head with a butcher knife and putting it on video. The rectum is used in prisons for transporting contraband. A terrorist can be trained to accept a 1 lb block of C4 or even C8 with a plastic blasting cap encased in a couple of condoms. Once in place the only thing exposed would be two tiny wires. Those wires could be pulled out in the restroom and later be attached to a power supply and Boom! Any personal electronics can supply the power needed. This is why I want to see more screening of actual terrorist suspects so that we can stop these people getting onto a plane. There is no way you can defend against a determined foe by doing the generalized screening you’re doing now. We do need to profile people. When was the last time you saw an Irish Catholic grandmother hijack a plane?
Ipsa Conteret,
Herbert Seel
Thank you for your faithful service. I would like to encourage you to maintain the best of Conservative ideals.
I listened to the President give his speech about how the “Panty Bomber” got through the security net. First point I’d like to make is that no mater what we do someone is going to get through. We have been focusing so hard on restricting ourselves that we forgot to focus on Islamic Wahabist Terrorists.
The only way we can insure total safety while flying is to surrender all our possessions to the security personnel including the clothing we are wearing, submit to a cavity search and x-ray examination then submit to being strapped into a chair and having to ask to be released to use the restroom, while being observed. Then and only then can we be totally safe from a terrorist being able to hijack or blowup a plane. I wont do that. Will you?
The only way you can provide any level of security is by identifying and focusing on those most likely to be Islamic Wahabist Terrorists. You know young Islamic males of African and middle eastern extraction who display certain behaviors. Did you notice that none of this stuff ever happens on El Al flights? They have a system of screening these people. Think of how many of their passengers are Middle Eastern. Yet they successfully identify the terrorists. Do You think we can call up the guy in charge of their security and ask him how?
The President mentioned that the simple act of changing the spelling of ones name can cause a problem. Why did he let that out anyway? But that’s beside the point. Did you ever “Google” someone and misspell the name? Did you notice how Google will ask you if you intended to search for the properly spelled name? Can’t we hire someone to set up the data server that we keep the terrorists names on to do that? Can’t we set up a server to be intuitive? Also why can’t we buy a computer with a nice Azus raid motherboard in it and put a 5 drive raid array, striped with parity. Use some really big hard drives and use the search program that Google uses and strip it of the graphics’ except for photos and fingerprints and the like. Every time someone gets a valid looking warning checked out and entered, every check using a name similar to the listed one will pull up the info on that one. Let every query go to that server no matter who makes it. Of course you will have to have whole forest of these computers but can’t we manage that for homeland security? EBay and Google can.
The last point. And I’m not trying to be weird. I know the idea is grotesque but so is cutting off a fellows head with a butcher knife and putting it on video. The rectum is used in prisons for transporting contraband. A terrorist can be trained to accept a 1 lb block of C4 or even C8 with a plastic blasting cap encased in a couple of condoms. Once in place the only thing exposed would be two tiny wires. Those wires could be pulled out in the restroom and later be attached to a power supply and Boom! Any personal electronics can supply the power needed. This is why I want to see more screening of actual terrorist suspects so that we can stop these people getting onto a plane. There is no way you can defend against a determined foe by doing the generalized screening you’re doing now. We do need to profile people. When was the last time you saw an Irish Catholic grandmother hijack a plane?
Ipsa Conteret,
Herbert Seel
Friday, January 1, 2010
And The Women Cried. Pt 1
And The Women Cried
It was one of those warm April mornings you get in the south. Clear skies and fair seas promised a good day to go to sea. People gathered in small familial clumps on the dock quietly kissing and clinging to their men and each other. A quiet whisper could barely be heard beneath the sound of the seagulls. Hundreds of women slowly crowded the gang plank still holding hands pushing rosaries and kerchiefs into their sweethearts palms as they parted with one more kiss. Their men ascended the gangplank as the sun broke over Charleston harbor. All of them in their dress whites. All except the duty crew who wore khakis and dungarees starched and pressed to perfection. Gear was stowed and the gangplank withdrawn. The men assembled into formation. The women watched quietly. My mother stood as quiet as she could though if you watched she was visibly shaking watching my father on the bow as he barked orders to cast off line and get under way.
As the sun rose from the water all hands stood at attention saluting the women who each searched their mans face to get a last look at their sailor. My father stood at his post all the way forward near the anchor chain. Straight and tall at attention he saluted his wife. Fighting her own emotions my mother forced a smile and waved, it was considered bad form in those days to not send a sailor off with a smiling face to remember. I, being the Navy brat I was, stood at attention barely managing to keep back the tears.
The loud speakers played the Star Spangled Banner, not their normal “go to hell” song as the ship slipped away from the pier. Each woman choking back tears in a stoic attempt to retain composure at least as long as their men could see and hear. The USS Glennon drew away slowly gaining speed with her characteristic permanent port list. The crowd on the pier kept very still in near silence though the low moans and those hiccups you get from holding back a scream were getting louder. No one moved away. All stood staring out to sea until the stern of the ship slipped over the horizon.
As a group they all broke in one horrible heart piercing wail. I don’t know if Angels can be slain. But if they can this must be what it would sound like. Receiving unspoken permission from the group they all poured forth in one continuous wailing for what seemed like a very long time. It was terrible to watch a thousand tear soaked women crying together staring at the empty sea.
Soon the Shore Patrol reluctantly began to move the crowd from the pier to send them home. If they didn’t move them some might have stayed sobbing and staring out to until shaken back to life.
I loaded my mother into the Beatle and started for home. The crying settled into sobbing and then into a fragile silence. My mother settling into the behavior expected of the wife of a Chief Boatswains Mate with 25 years. We had gotten soft. For four years my father was assigned to the USS Hunley. The giant ship was named Hunley after the Confederate sub lying on the bottom of the sea somewhere near Mount Pleasant. Like the sub it never went anywhere except for a regular cruise down the coast to dump heavy water out at sea. It was believed though not confirmed that when the Hunley went out the river mouth it had a polaris sub sitting directly underneath it. It never went out when there was any possibility of heavy weather. Of course a ship with an anchor chain that consisted of links weighing hundreds of pounds could see some pretty heavy seas before she felt threatened. A very comforting thought. Like driving a tank down the highway. Not much can touch it.
Before his tour of duty aboard the Hunley my dad was on the roll of a security agency. Sometimes pulling seemingly normal duty but doing abnormal things like the time we spent on Guam with him working in special services by day and running around the island’s back roads in a jeep carrying a shotgun and a .45 by night. Or working as liason with the Polizei in Germany while arranging to get certain scientists visa to the US expedited. Sometimes Dad would load a couple days uniforms in a bag along with a couple of pistols and disappear for a few days to a week to parts unknown and reappear with Spanish or African or Middle Eastern money in his pockets. Any of these assignments could have gotten him killed or worse. But this one was the most traumatic. Five years before he was assigned to duties that would keep him out of harms way and provide him with the opportunity for promotion to Chief before he retired.
But April of 1972 saw him on board the USS Glennon DD840 a ship with a port list, a number 1 gun that was so slow to turn that the whole ship was brought to bear when targeting with #1 gun. Number 1 gun had an old man with a beard, a nightshirt and a candle painted on it. Number 2 had a Tweetie bird painted on it because it screeched so bad, and there was some doubt about whether she could handle a near miss without bursting her seams. And they were headed to Vietnam to the firing line. The commies had started another one of their offensives and just about every combat capable ship that could be spared headed to Vietnam. Along with them went a lot of Marines and Seabees, Pilots etc.. Along with them went my Dad an aging Chief about to retire. The fear in our house was palpable.
This time we weren’t living in some Washington D.C. area township among civilians, the only family on several blocks with a loved one in harms way.
This time we were quartered in Menriv Naval Housing near Goose Creek.
It was a pretty new community. First class housing and landscaping and if you’re familiar with the military way you know there was everything from a bowling alley to a commissary and a military style chapel complete with chaplain. A little town within a town. A little town filled with combatants. Every body had a dog in this hunt.
On March 30 1972 the NVA got a wild hair and assembled all their tanks and equipment and charged south. There was already a group poised on the border of Vietnam having moved through Laos and Cambodia. That group moved through near An Loc trying to split the country and the northern group came south to try to retake the ancient capitol of Hue. They were stopped dead after just a short offensive. They were denied an effective guerilla campaign because of the destruction of the V.C. in South Vietnam after Tet ’68 and subsequent trouble recruiting new V.C. . The Ho Chi Trail was buzzing just north of the DMZ where it came close to the sea well within the reach of the 5” 38 guns on the Glennon. The heavy overcast slowed the use of air power at first. Massive sea power moved in.
The Glennon exited Charleston harbor and joined with the Mullinnix, the Dipple, and the Sarsfield. The four destroyers headed south to the Panama Canal.
The atmosphere at home was quiet, one of those quiets you knew better than to break. Any noise at all may be greeted with a crying jag of indeterminate duration. Nervous silence was demanded. The truth of the matter was that fleeing the house was to no avail the whole housing area was enveloped by the very same “Mal de Esprit”. As though with the departure of the Glennon a grey filter had been pulled down and the world was all shades of grey.
Daily chores and school getting ready for the summer break and the traditional Junior beach party quickly brought us back to near normal. After all our Dads didn’t fly in they would be a while getting there. About a week out we realized that they had just passed the Panama canal and were heade for Hawaii. We visited each others house and watched the war on Tv to see what was happening, at least for a while. We knew that it would be pointless to send any mail before they hit Vietnam because the mail would only chase them all the way there at worst or they would catch up with it in Subic. We got the letters and cards from “Pearl”, Midway, Guam. Then Subic that was the big one. The mood so heavy before had gotten much lighter. I think the time combined with nothing to worry about but a couple of Pacific storms sets you at ease. Then the Subic. From there the short hop across The South China Sea to the firing line and the largest amphibious landing since Inchon and Fuson. Our housing area was heavily invested in this battle and we again held our collective breaths.
But in the mean time we realized there was no reason to worry for a couple of weeks. The mood among the naval dependents became more relaxed for a short while and we turned our energies to one more hurrah. The Goose Creek High school Junior / Senior spring beach party was a resounding success. The weather was perfect, unusually warm and sunny, and the surf while not large was still respectable and surfable and we got plenty of liquor smuggled in past the chaperones. We played volleyball, surfed any wave we could, had a world class clambake and had the best beach party since Frankie and Annette. Plenty of hangovers and second degree sunburns were had all around.
Then the mail arrived from Subic and we knew that within a couple of days the last few destroyers would be joining the firing line. Some of ours were already on the ground and some others were yet to land but even the rest who would stay on board still were in danger. Handling and firing huge amounts of ammunition and explosives. Attacks from Migs and shore batteries were all dangerous especially in a lightly armored ship like a destroyer. Any ship disabled and left unattended too long would drift on the prevailing current into the North Vietnam coast. Navy families understood and we were concerned. Especially for the Glennon. Even The Charleston Evening Post had expressed concern about the state of non battle readiness of the Glennon.
On the 13th of May ‘72 the little group of four joined over 40 other destroyers on the firing line.
Note: Certain names and details have been changed for obvious reasons.
It was one of those warm April mornings you get in the south. Clear skies and fair seas promised a good day to go to sea. People gathered in small familial clumps on the dock quietly kissing and clinging to their men and each other. A quiet whisper could barely be heard beneath the sound of the seagulls. Hundreds of women slowly crowded the gang plank still holding hands pushing rosaries and kerchiefs into their sweethearts palms as they parted with one more kiss. Their men ascended the gangplank as the sun broke over Charleston harbor. All of them in their dress whites. All except the duty crew who wore khakis and dungarees starched and pressed to perfection. Gear was stowed and the gangplank withdrawn. The men assembled into formation. The women watched quietly. My mother stood as quiet as she could though if you watched she was visibly shaking watching my father on the bow as he barked orders to cast off line and get under way.
As the sun rose from the water all hands stood at attention saluting the women who each searched their mans face to get a last look at their sailor. My father stood at his post all the way forward near the anchor chain. Straight and tall at attention he saluted his wife. Fighting her own emotions my mother forced a smile and waved, it was considered bad form in those days to not send a sailor off with a smiling face to remember. I, being the Navy brat I was, stood at attention barely managing to keep back the tears.
The loud speakers played the Star Spangled Banner, not their normal “go to hell” song as the ship slipped away from the pier. Each woman choking back tears in a stoic attempt to retain composure at least as long as their men could see and hear. The USS Glennon drew away slowly gaining speed with her characteristic permanent port list. The crowd on the pier kept very still in near silence though the low moans and those hiccups you get from holding back a scream were getting louder. No one moved away. All stood staring out to sea until the stern of the ship slipped over the horizon.
As a group they all broke in one horrible heart piercing wail. I don’t know if Angels can be slain. But if they can this must be what it would sound like. Receiving unspoken permission from the group they all poured forth in one continuous wailing for what seemed like a very long time. It was terrible to watch a thousand tear soaked women crying together staring at the empty sea.
Soon the Shore Patrol reluctantly began to move the crowd from the pier to send them home. If they didn’t move them some might have stayed sobbing and staring out to until shaken back to life.
I loaded my mother into the Beatle and started for home. The crying settled into sobbing and then into a fragile silence. My mother settling into the behavior expected of the wife of a Chief Boatswains Mate with 25 years. We had gotten soft. For four years my father was assigned to the USS Hunley. The giant ship was named Hunley after the Confederate sub lying on the bottom of the sea somewhere near Mount Pleasant. Like the sub it never went anywhere except for a regular cruise down the coast to dump heavy water out at sea. It was believed though not confirmed that when the Hunley went out the river mouth it had a polaris sub sitting directly underneath it. It never went out when there was any possibility of heavy weather. Of course a ship with an anchor chain that consisted of links weighing hundreds of pounds could see some pretty heavy seas before she felt threatened. A very comforting thought. Like driving a tank down the highway. Not much can touch it.
Before his tour of duty aboard the Hunley my dad was on the roll of a security agency. Sometimes pulling seemingly normal duty but doing abnormal things like the time we spent on Guam with him working in special services by day and running around the island’s back roads in a jeep carrying a shotgun and a .45 by night. Or working as liason with the Polizei in Germany while arranging to get certain scientists visa to the US expedited. Sometimes Dad would load a couple days uniforms in a bag along with a couple of pistols and disappear for a few days to a week to parts unknown and reappear with Spanish or African or Middle Eastern money in his pockets. Any of these assignments could have gotten him killed or worse. But this one was the most traumatic. Five years before he was assigned to duties that would keep him out of harms way and provide him with the opportunity for promotion to Chief before he retired.
But April of 1972 saw him on board the USS Glennon DD840 a ship with a port list, a number 1 gun that was so slow to turn that the whole ship was brought to bear when targeting with #1 gun. Number 1 gun had an old man with a beard, a nightshirt and a candle painted on it. Number 2 had a Tweetie bird painted on it because it screeched so bad, and there was some doubt about whether she could handle a near miss without bursting her seams. And they were headed to Vietnam to the firing line. The commies had started another one of their offensives and just about every combat capable ship that could be spared headed to Vietnam. Along with them went a lot of Marines and Seabees, Pilots etc.. Along with them went my Dad an aging Chief about to retire. The fear in our house was palpable.
This time we weren’t living in some Washington D.C. area township among civilians, the only family on several blocks with a loved one in harms way.
This time we were quartered in Menriv Naval Housing near Goose Creek.
It was a pretty new community. First class housing and landscaping and if you’re familiar with the military way you know there was everything from a bowling alley to a commissary and a military style chapel complete with chaplain. A little town within a town. A little town filled with combatants. Every body had a dog in this hunt.
On March 30 1972 the NVA got a wild hair and assembled all their tanks and equipment and charged south. There was already a group poised on the border of Vietnam having moved through Laos and Cambodia. That group moved through near An Loc trying to split the country and the northern group came south to try to retake the ancient capitol of Hue. They were stopped dead after just a short offensive. They were denied an effective guerilla campaign because of the destruction of the V.C. in South Vietnam after Tet ’68 and subsequent trouble recruiting new V.C. . The Ho Chi Trail was buzzing just north of the DMZ where it came close to the sea well within the reach of the 5” 38 guns on the Glennon. The heavy overcast slowed the use of air power at first. Massive sea power moved in.
The Glennon exited Charleston harbor and joined with the Mullinnix, the Dipple, and the Sarsfield. The four destroyers headed south to the Panama Canal.
The atmosphere at home was quiet, one of those quiets you knew better than to break. Any noise at all may be greeted with a crying jag of indeterminate duration. Nervous silence was demanded. The truth of the matter was that fleeing the house was to no avail the whole housing area was enveloped by the very same “Mal de Esprit”. As though with the departure of the Glennon a grey filter had been pulled down and the world was all shades of grey.
Daily chores and school getting ready for the summer break and the traditional Junior beach party quickly brought us back to near normal. After all our Dads didn’t fly in they would be a while getting there. About a week out we realized that they had just passed the Panama canal and were heade for Hawaii. We visited each others house and watched the war on Tv to see what was happening, at least for a while. We knew that it would be pointless to send any mail before they hit Vietnam because the mail would only chase them all the way there at worst or they would catch up with it in Subic. We got the letters and cards from “Pearl”, Midway, Guam. Then Subic that was the big one. The mood so heavy before had gotten much lighter. I think the time combined with nothing to worry about but a couple of Pacific storms sets you at ease. Then the Subic. From there the short hop across The South China Sea to the firing line and the largest amphibious landing since Inchon and Fuson. Our housing area was heavily invested in this battle and we again held our collective breaths.
But in the mean time we realized there was no reason to worry for a couple of weeks. The mood among the naval dependents became more relaxed for a short while and we turned our energies to one more hurrah. The Goose Creek High school Junior / Senior spring beach party was a resounding success. The weather was perfect, unusually warm and sunny, and the surf while not large was still respectable and surfable and we got plenty of liquor smuggled in past the chaperones. We played volleyball, surfed any wave we could, had a world class clambake and had the best beach party since Frankie and Annette. Plenty of hangovers and second degree sunburns were had all around.
Then the mail arrived from Subic and we knew that within a couple of days the last few destroyers would be joining the firing line. Some of ours were already on the ground and some others were yet to land but even the rest who would stay on board still were in danger. Handling and firing huge amounts of ammunition and explosives. Attacks from Migs and shore batteries were all dangerous especially in a lightly armored ship like a destroyer. Any ship disabled and left unattended too long would drift on the prevailing current into the North Vietnam coast. Navy families understood and we were concerned. Especially for the Glennon. Even The Charleston Evening Post had expressed concern about the state of non battle readiness of the Glennon.
On the 13th of May ‘72 the little group of four joined over 40 other destroyers on the firing line.
Note: Certain names and details have been changed for obvious reasons.
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