Fighting for America

On this day of days in our history, George Washington declared that we should give thanks to God for all our bounty and our great country. Amen to that.

America is the last great anchor that keeps the world from sliding into a black hole of violence and terrorism. Many Americans on this day hate what we stand for and have contempt for those that stand up and be counted for Freedom and Democracy.

With all of the bounty that we have here, one wonders how these people have come to the conclusion that we are the problem and that the best way to live in this world is on our knees or in mass graves. We have a choice.

The following is from an article in the Whisleblower Magazine by David Kupelian. It's only a few paragraphs of a larger article, but I believe it points up what we have to recognize as the physiology of terrorism and how it is playing out in America as we speak.

How terrorism works

On one level, terrorism works by simply causing us so much pain, suffering
and dread of future terror that we eventually weaken and give in to the
terrorists' demands. But the ultimate goal of terrorism is to capture our
hearts and minds – to convert us.

What? How can terrorizing us transform our attitudes in favor of the
terrorists' viewpoint? Wouldn't we recoil in horror and, if anything, move
farther away from sympathy toward the perpetrators? Not necessarily.
Remember, militant Muslims "convert" individuals to Islam by threat of
death. Why shouldn't they try the same tactic on entire societies?
Stop and consider what happens when we're intimidated and frightened by
terrorism, or even the threat of it. Wonder of wonders, some of us start to
sympathize with our enemy.

There's a funny thing about appeasement. It's hard to give in to evil
without first agreeing with that evil, at least a little. We have to allow
our minds to be bent, our previous values and perceptions altered, even
slightly; we somehow have to see the terrorists as not quite totally evil.
"Yes, they may be angry and even murderous, but after all, don't they have
legitimate grievances against us? Maybe we brought on this attack by our
past actions. Maybe we're at fault. Maybe their cause is just. Maybe we're
the real terrorists."

Does that sound like an exaggeration? Do you remember Cindy Sheehan, so
lionized by America's "mainstream press" as the courageous public face of
the antiwar movement? She referred to Islamic terrorists flocking to Iraq
to kill American soldiers as "freedom fighters." Meanwhile she calls the
president of the United States a "lying bastard," a "jerk," an "evil
maniac," a "gangster," a "war criminal," a "murderous thug" and – of course
– a "terrorist."

To become an appeaser, you have to sympathize with the enemy, either
overtly like Sheehan, or secretly. How else can you look at yourself in the
mirror and justify giving in to evil?

The question is, how do we come to side with those who are intent on
destroying us?

I think it is time for all of us to take a look at what these people are saying and how they mean to change the way we live.