Sunday, 13 April 2008
Protesting Thunder
« The Nefarious Acts Of The State Senate | Main | Budget Take 1 »Every year the "Silence Over Thunder" coalition gets together to protest the use of military planes in "Thunder Over Louisville". They believe the military planes represent war and not entertainment.
Harmer stressed that the coalition was not opposed to having an air show or the fireworks, only Thunder's military aspect....
...Several coalition members -- dressed in yellow T-shirts that said "War is No Future" on the front and "Nonviolence or Nonexistence" on the back -- left the picnic in mid-afternoon to pass out fliers to Thunder spectators. They planned a "nonviolent witness" on the Great Lawn.
These people make me sick. They smugly sit there and preach the rejection of violence as if it was some enlightened position of moral superiority. Do they think the rest of us love violence? That we want to have a military? That we revel in fighting wars? We do not. But we understand that we must have a military to defend the principles upon which this country was founded. Those rights outlined in our Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
We can only have these rights if we are determined to keep them. The only means to ensure that right, is through the ability to provide self defense. Otherwise we open ourselves up to become the subjects of tyranny. The military provides us with that form of self defense. Those planes we see flying over Louisville are the same planes that make it possible to live in the land of the free.
No, what these "peace" people are really preaching is for us to disarm ourselves. To completely surrender to evil. For if we reject the notion of self defense then we will be left with nothing but to ability to beg for mercy from our enemies.
Evil grants no mercy.
While they pontificate on the evil of our military they are really celebrating a culture of death. The inevitable results of their beliefs. Think of it this way: Refusing to provide self defense is like a sheep talking to the wolf. The sheep may talk about how it sees the habits of the wolf as morally wrong. The wolf just sees the sheep as dinner.
For those of us who love life. Who love living in the country that allows us to live our lives as we see best. We see the military as a necessity to protect those precious rights. So really, by embracing our military we are really celebrating our most precious possession, our lives.
