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Brave Men Speak Pat Boone "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
— Patrick Henry "I regret I have but one life to give for my country."
— Nathan Hale "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
— Admiral Farragut "From time to time, the soil of liberty must be stained with the blood of martyrs."
— Thomas Jefferson "America . . . love it or leave it!"
— John Wayne "If you want to be an Australian, if you want to raise your children in Australia, we fully expect those children to be taught and to accept Australian values and beliefs. Basically, if people don't want to support and accept and adopt and teach Australian values, then . . . they should clear off."
— Brendan Nelson, Australian Education Minister "I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts."
— Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Hey, what ever happened to "political correctness," to the almost universal notion that personal convictions shouldn't ever be voiced publicly, for fear someone of a different persuasion might be offended? For that matter, who ever said that somebody could just sound off about his beliefs without the approval and authority of the government and all minority groups? Oh, that's right . . . our Founding Fathers, the writers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That's who. I almost forgot.
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In fact, most honest opinion — especially on topics like illegal aliens, Muslim extremism, religion and morality in public life — has been so effectively smothered and stifled that I could hardly believe my eyes and ears this week when the last two quotes above were reported in the media. But there they were, and what a firestorm of liberal, "progressive" protest arose. And predictably, the original quotes were mangled and misrepresented and largely condemned by many in the anchors, reporters, and writers in the media. If you listened to any network but Fox, you got the impression that the Australian education minister and America's top military officer had practically been discovered in robes and hoods, speaking to a Klan rally! Actually, the "down under" quotes came from a special meeting in Canberra with a group of mainstream Muslim leaders, who immediately pledged loyalty to Australia after Prime Minister John Howard and his ministers made it very clear that extremists would face a sudden crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, heir apparent to Howard, said forcefully, "I'm saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law . . . that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law . . . and you have the opportunity to go another country which practices it, perhaps that's a better option." Sounds like John Wayne!
Then the Howard dropped the big one.
Asked whether he was prepared to "get inside" mosques and schools to ensure there was no support for terrorism, in a governmental monitoring program, he was blunt. "Yes, to the extent necessary," he told Southern Cross Radio. "I have no desire, nor is it the government's intention, to interfere in any way with the freedom or practice of religion. But we have a right to know whether there is, within any section of the Islamic community, a preaching of the virtue of terrorism, whether any comfort or harbour is given to terrorism within that community."
Wow! Do you Aussies mean that you won't allow a deadly cancer to keep growing in your bowels, even if it means the temporary interruption of your normal routines? You're actually willing to suspend some of your own civil rights to get this death-dealing virus out of your system, before it cripples and destroys you? What a concept! Wonder if we Americans should look at that option. And then our own straight-arrow top general, Peter Pace, stepped right on a hornet's nest of wild protest, when he answered a question put to him in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. Following on the above quote, he added honestly "I do not believe that the armed forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way. Just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior." Well, you'd have thought the general had told all homosexuals serving in the military "Clear off!" or something, which he most certainly did not. In fact, he said he supports the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows male and female homosexuals to serve, which thousands have, if they keep their sexual orientation private and don't engage in homosexual acts. This policy was enacted in 1994, under Bill Clinton, and prohibits commanders from asking about a person's sexual orientation. In other words, it expects the same outward evidence of moral behavior of homosexuals and heterosexuals alike; have they left out anybody? The policy, debated heatedly by Congress in 1993, tilted toward military experts who argued, sensibly, that allowing homosexuals to openly declare their proclivities while in uniform would hurt troop morale and recruitment, and likely undermine the cohesion of combat units. And so far, God bless him, Gen. Pace, although he has expressed regret that he spoke about this publicly, has not offered an apology. This in spite of the firestorm of demands from some members of Congress and virtually every gay advocacy group. Even Sen. John Warner, ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said through an aide, "I strongly disagree with the chairman's views that homosexuality is immoral." Hmmmm. Seems to me, either he or God has got to do some re-thinking. A wise man said "All that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." And the quicker, perhaps, if good men can be intimidated into saying nothing. Here's an even wiser saying, and one perfectly on target for these times: "Upright citizens bless a city and make it prosper. But the talk of the wicked tears it apart."
— God, Proverbs 11:11 Thank God for brave men.
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