Alright, I feel I have to put my
in here. Let me just say that I'm from Kentucky and I've lived here all my life. I don't think I'll please anyone in here.
First, I believe that America should adopt an isolationist policy towards the rest of the world. Let's withdraw our troops and withdraw our aid, and then we'll let the rest of the world SEE how much we really mean to them. I think they'll have so much crime, terrorism and poverty that they'll be begging to intervene again. And then I would have them all sign treaties giving us sovereignty over all those who come crawling back. That's my policy on the rest of the world.
As for LIVING in America, well, I can trace my ancestors to have been in ALL the wars fought on this continent back to the Revolution (the land I live on today was a gift from George Washington to one of my great (x ?) grandfathers for his valor), and from before that I can trace my roots to Scotland, Ireland, England, Switzerland, and Germany. I LOVE America.
At least, I love the way America USED to be, how it was envisioned by our founding fathers. Now all the gov't is trying to do is TAKE AWAY every single right that was given to us in the Constitution. I think that everyone in these United States, who is not in gov't, should be a part of a militia. In the end, when Uncle Sam comes to claim the last of your human rights, you'll have no one to fight for you EXCEPT the militia. Uncle Sam controls all the armies, and they'll be working for HIM! I've always wanted to move out of America, and partly still do as soon as I finish my degree (International Economics) but then I feel that I can't abandon the people here. I've got to do all that I can to ENSURE our freedoms, or else democracy will die. If it dies here, in it's Heartland of America, then it will die across the globe.
I'm a conservative, right-wing, Christian, Republican, and I believe that George W. Bush is doing more to protect these freedoms than any President has for some time. I support him in everything he does, and I'd like to see him as a PERMANENT President, but that's not the way democracy works. Now I'm left worrying that some liberal Democratic hack is going to get elected and whose pacifist ideas are going send us into some irreversible spiral downward to where WE are the underdog country, and anyone who wants to can walk all over us.
Yes, I support militias (it is our right). Yes, I am a gun-owner and member of the NRA (this is also our right). But I'm not the gun-toting maniac shouting "KILL! KILL! KILL!" that you are probably thinking I am. This is how you've been CONDITIONED to think of those who would fight for our freedoms. You may call me a revolutionary, but wasn't that what England called our forefathers? If we do not fight back, if we do not fight to keep our freedoms, then we are no better than those Iraqis over there who are having us bail them out. They were under a dictatorial regime whose leader could have you killed on a whim. And nobody fought back. Is this what you want?
Post back and let me know what you think. Before you judge me, tell me what problems you have with what I've stated above, and let me defend myself if need be. I'd do the same for you.
Thanks for letting me have my say. - S