Al-Obama Backers Resort to Terrorism
Jul 18, 2008 Political
There have been disturbing reports that people who oppose Barack Obama have received death threats and have had their property vandalized. One person had a site up with a petition to get Obama’s birth certificate released (the real one, not the photo shopped Kos copy) but he had to take the site down because of death threats that included information like his address.
A group of women who supported Hillary Clinton in the primary and who still support her have formed a group that is opposed to the Obamination. A number of them have received death threats and that list of victims continues to grow. The latest victim received several email threats and a phone call before someone set fire to a tree on her property. A woman who runs the Hillary is my girl website is that victim.
Two weeks later as PUMA began to gain attention the Campaign began bothering me again. I received an email and then the phone calls started.
One evening I received a phone call another death threat and then shortly after my son came in and yelled fire. Someone set my tree on fire. The fire department said the fire was arson.
I do not care for Hillary Clinton and I would never vote for her because I do not agree with her politics and I believe she is a criminal. Having said that, no one should be threatened or have their property vandalized because of who they back politically. This same thing happened in 2004 when Democrats keyed cars with Bush bumper stickers and set Bush/Cheney signs on fire. These acts are unacceptable and do not help any candidate.
I am here to say that I oppose Barack Obama. He is a Socialist and he is a disaster waiting to happen. He lacks leadership ability and the only thing that helps him is a charisma that mesmerizes weak minded people and lures them into robotic servitude. I cannot stand his politics and I think he is a typical mob like Chicago politician (and the terror tactics show it) and he will say or do anything to get elected. Having said that, if the Obama terrorists don’t like it they can take their death threats and go straight to hell.
The unfortunate thing is these liberals who are being threatened probably have no means to protect themselves because liberals are not in favor of guns. Who knows, maybe now they will become bitter and start clinging to guns like the rest of the unenlightened.
I hope that the terrorists in the Al-Obama camp are caught and prosecuted and I hope these tactics damage the Messiah’s chances of winning.
To the PUMAs I say, I don’t support Hillary but I respect your right to do just that. I wish you safety and hope they catch whomever is committing these crimes.
Now, is it any wonder Obama wants to make nice with the terrorists?
Tags: death threats, Obama, puma, terrorist, vandalism
Ignoring History Leads to Ignorance
Jul 6, 2008 General
George Santayana is credited with saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This goes along the lines of the thinking that people learn from their mistakes. Unfortunately, there are segments of any society (and some individuals within) that would prefer to ignore the past, thus guaranteeing a repeat performance of history, bad and good.
People like Bill Clinton write books that are supposed to be an accounting of thier lives and public years but those books leave out the bad things that happened and they gloss over or spin things that cannot be avoided. This is dangerous because people who read those accounts believe that is the way things happened and the accounting of history is changed. We see this every day with people repeating falsehoods in order to make them part of the collective psyche so they will be accepted as true. The repetition and gullibility of people is why a site like Snopes exist.
The Germans have a sordid history in the last century. They had a maniacal leader who exterminated millions of people, most of whom were Jews. Adolph Hitler was on a quest for power and was hell bent on taking other county’s land by force. He wanted to rule the world. He was, by all accounts, a certifiable nut though I am sure there are instances in his life where he did good things. However, ignoring him and failing to display his life before the public does no one any good. For if we hope to never repeat his mistakes then we must know them and learn from them.
Madame Tussauds’ Berlin affiliate had a wax statue of Hitler displayed in a bunker. The look was sullen and it was obvious that this was supposed to be the way Hitler looked near the end, when defeat was all but certain. There was a big ruckus about the display. People complained that it should not even exist and that it was wrong. Only moments after the doors opened a maniac (someone no less maniacal than Hitler) ran in and ripped the head off the statue. He was arrested but people in Berlin are hailing him as a hero. The saddest part of the story is that people think that his actions were appropriate.
In Pearl Harbor there is a museum and the Arizona rests at the bottom of the Harbor. There are pictures of Japanese airplanes and the people who were in command of them. We do not slash them with knives or destroy them because they are a part of history. Those displays do not honor the people who attacked us, they show the history of how it happened.
There are plenty of items of history that are displayed everyday and people don’t run around destroying them. The people of Germany need to get over this idea that the mention of Hitler is taboo and tantamount to treason. He was a part of their history and they should acknowledge it. By recognizing the danger that just one person can inspire the Germans, and the rest of the world, will be less likely to repeat the mistake of blindly following a charismatic lunatic to destruction.
We have museums that demonstrate the horrors of the slavery that once was a legal part of this nation and we have plenty of memorials to the people who fought for state’s rights and those who fought against them. Somewhere along the way slavery was ended and that was a good thing. Of course, we have our deniers as well. There are those who refuse to allow a Confederate Flag, who refuse statues to Confederate soldiers and who refuse to allow anything that demonstrates the struggles of that time in our history. They refuse by erroneously calling it racist when the Civil War was not about race or slavery. It was about state’s rights and slavery was one of the issues.
Whether it is Germany, the US or somewhere in between, people must be willing to face the ugly chapters in history in order to keep from repeating them.
Source:
TimesOnline UK
Tags: history, Hitler, vandalism, wax museum