Posted by
thekeenobserver on Friday, October 16, 2009 3:20:58 PM
February 23, 1945: in the middle of a hell-on-earth struggle for a desolate, 3-mile square Pacific island, a war photographer would snap an immortal picture - that of six U.S. Marines hoisting up the American flag.
Everyone born an American since has seen this photo:
The picture was such a sensation it immediately made the front pages of every American newspaper back home. Life magazine put it on its front cover. The photographer, Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press, became famous overnight.
The identity of the six Marines in the picture, 3 of whom survived the carnage on Iwo Jima, all would become household names - similar to the astronauts who landed on the moon a generation later.
But what was it - a picture a six men and a flag - that had so aroused the American people back home? It was the overriding symbolism that the flag stood for- no one could defeat the United States, because ours was a land of the free - a country worth fighting for.
Back during the days of World War II, our nation's very survival was actually in doubt for a time. Again, the operative word here is FREE. And back in those days, the American flag was symbolic of everything the nation stood for - the preservation of freedom!
But now, several generations hence, there is trouble in America:
Once again our survival as a free republic is in doubt. Everywhere, our freedoms are being attacked by an even more dangerous enemy than any Axis dictator; America is at war with the liberals - vicious people who despise their own country for the very reason the rest of us all love it- because of its freedom.
Which of course, leads us to to ask...why do liberals have such vitriolic hate for the American flag? Yes; put an American flag in front of a liberal, and it's like waving a fire engine-red blanket before an angry bull. They see red! They foam at the mouth; they want it gone! "Get it outta my sight!"
Such irony!
That flag - the very thing these liberals despise - is what actually gives these sickos their RIGHT to oppose it! Or speak out against it. But that's where it ends. They have no right to keep the rest of us Americans from saluting it, or displaying it, or pledging our allegiance to it, which they are so determined to do nowadays.
But what do they care?
Never mind the tens of thousands that died on Iwo Jima; or on Omaha beach; or in the horrid cold of winter 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge. Our brave soldiers once gave their lives for these anti-Americans; the same people now imperiling our freedom to display and salute our beautiful American flag.
But why are they so embittered toward the country that guarantees them the right to do this? What makes them so different? What is it about America they so abhor?
We all drink from the same water supplies. We all breath the same air. Are liberals born that way? Could liberalism be like autism, where science has yet to determine the actual cause?
Michael Savage -The widely-known radio talk show host - has written a book..."Liberalism is a Mental Disorder."
One can only conclude that the man has researched his subject well.
What could possibly cause a person to hate the American flag?
Sure, we understand that it stands for the history of a country that supposedly has been imperialistic, jingoistic, militaristic, and even downright racial in its 235-year past - but so what? Who's perfect?
Could have the U.S. have done things any different?
Slaves were imported into this country 150 years BEFORE the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In every war which the U.S. has fought, and won 'em all (except for one), have we ever kept territory, or demanded war reparations, or sent those we vanquished into bondage?
Or how about World War II? In the post war, did we not entirely rebuild Europe, and make sure the Japanese people had order and stability in their destroyed country, giving them the opportunity to rebuild to the prosperous free society they enjoy today?
But the salient point is this: THEY were the ones who started it; and we finished it; but did we rub their noses in it?
As far as slavery goes, is any one familiar with that five year period of horrid carnage that is called THE CIVIL WAR?
And there's the old liberal standby..."But look what Cheney & Bush did in Iraq!"
Yes, look what they did.Those people are now free from the terror of Saddam Hussein, and can actually go about on the street and rail about their new, FREELY-ELECTED government, without some secret policeman to drag them away to be tortured- then beheaded.
And not a DROP of Iraqi oil did we expropriate! Not a drop. So there goes that liberal argument that..."we went in there for their oil."
And while you're at it, if you liberals despise this county so much - instead of trying to force your anti-Americanism upon the rest of us, and stop us from displaying the flag, or saying a prayer at work or school, or just being patroitic for no other reason than, well, being patriotic -go away; stay out of it; move along.
Canada and Mexico are but a hop-skip 'n a jump. South America is nice and warm this time of year.
You'll then find out why EVERYONE in the world wants to be an American and come here; but no American - other than a fleeing criminal- is trying to escape the United States.
Gee, do you think it could be that freedom thing about America that everyone around the world seems to love - except the liberals.
The vast majority of Americans greatly APPRECIATE their country, and the lifestyle that goes with it. They know there's literally no other land like it - no better place to live. So to all you hateful liberals; stop trying to change it.
We've fought enough wars already to protect the Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms we cherish; but if we have to, we also will battle you odious liberals to the very end, to affirm our belief that America - despite her imperfections - has always been, and will always be...the best place on earth.