Someone Who “Gets It”
Aussie Dave | Sep 05, 2007 | 3 comments
Don’t worry…I’m not going to become one of those blogs that mostly posts YouTube videos, and not much else. But I just had to share this video with you.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Uncategorized
Newt might have gotten this one right, lets see that makes him one for a thousand.
Stan
I would suggest 1 for 4. Within my own family, we are roughly 50% left and right, half of the right pragmatic. A statement such as, “we should be reasonable and surrender or victorious” (paraphrasing) is a useful distillation. The vast middle of my family could appreciate an un-nuanced statement like that.
In the US, it’s easy for people to say, “why don’t they just re-elect Netanyahu.”
I don’t think it’s possible for many reasons, but many in the US think it’s possible to elect an attorney that worked for the Black Panthers, I am reasonably certain for Puerto Rican terrorists, I know for certain has supported the PLO and Arafat, and it’s as if you are watching a movie:
“Forrest Gump’s Looney Girlfriend.”
I don’t think it can ever happen and I don’t think it is one in a thousand. The US will hang in, at least those that shower when they have a chance. There are very many that shower, but don’t mess with nuisance telephone calls for polls.
For myself, I suspect that both Israel and Australia have very many persons that are not reflected by polls. For myself, I’ve been of voting age for 36 years and never been polled, except for every year when I’ve voted and not been filtered through a polling firm.
Polls are run constantly, as a way to fabricate news. It gives people something on the airwaves to talk about.
We’re going to be fine, even if we are only one in four. Another 2/4s lean our way, if we focus.
The US faces a scalding during the next year. Elections are more than a year away and I haven’t given a penny to the party I support. All of the money that has infused everybody’s campaigns is fake. Even though it is ‘record’ money, it didn’t come from the voters. The US will be what we are and my best belief is that we will stick.
People from outside the US have been given the unfortunate impression that our people are wavery. I have never seen that.
This site, occasionally, lets me link to something meaningful and impartial, and send it to somebody on the fence. Sometimes, I know they will laugh. I see it. I know my family doesn’t think I’m a secret Jew. What you are doing here is important.
Every September, I recall that is more than half a century (62 years) since I landed at Nagasaki with the 2nd Marine Division in the original occupation of Japan following World War II. This time every year, I have watched and listened to the light-hearted “peaceniks” and their light-headed symbolism-without-substance of ringing bells, flying pigeons, floating candles, and sonorous chanting and I recall again that “Peace is not a cause – it is an effect.”
In July, 1945, my fellow 8th RCT Marines [I was a BARman] and I returned to Saipan following the successful conclusion of the Battle of Okinawa. We were issued new equipment and replacements joined each outfit in preparation for our coming amphibious assault on the home islands of Japan.
B-29 bombing had leveled the major cities of Japan, including Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Yokosuka, and Tokyo.
We were informed we would land three Marine divisions and six Army divisions, perhaps abreast, with large reserves following us in. It was estimated that it would cost half a million casualties to subdue the Japanese homeland.
In August, the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima but the Japanese government refused to surrender. Three days later a second A-bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The Imperial Japanese government finally surrendered.
Following the 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese admiral said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant…” Indeed, they had. Not surprisingly, the atomic bomb was produced by a free people functioning in a free environment. Not surprisingly because the creative process is a natural human choice-making process and inventiveness occurs most readily where choice-making opportunities abound. America!
Tamper with a giant, indeed! Tyrants, beware: Free men are nature’s pit bulls of Liberty! The Japanese learned the hard way what tyrants of any generation should know: Never start a war with a free people – you never know what they may invent!
As a newly assigned member of a U.S. Marine intelligence section, I had a unique opportunity to visit many major cities of Japan, including Tokyo and Hiroshima, within weeks of their destruction. For a full year I observed the beaches, weapons, and troops we would have assaulted had the A-bombs not been dropped. Yes, it would have been very destructive for all, but especially for the people of Japan.
When we landed in Japan, for what came to be the finest and most humane occupation of a defeated enemy in recorded history, it was with great appreciation, thanksgiving, and praise for the atomic bomb team, including the aircrew of the Enola Gay. A half million American homes had been spared the Gold Star flag, including, I’m sure, my own.
Whenever I hear the apologists expressing guilt and shame for A-bombing and ending the war Japan had started (they ignore the cause-effect relation between Pearl Harbor and Nagasaki), I have noted that neither the effete critics nor the puff-adder politicians are among us in the assault landing-craft or the stinking rice paddies of their suggested alternative, “conventional” warfare. Stammering reluctance is obvious and continuous, but they do love to pontificate about the Rights that others, and the Bomb, have bought and preserved for them.
The vanities of ignorance and camouflaged cowardice abound as license for the assertion of virtuous “rights” purchased by the blood of others – those others who have borne the burden and physical expense of Rights whining apologists so casually and self-righteously claim.
At best, these fakers manifest a profound and cryptic ignorance of causal relations, myopic perception, and dull I.Q. At worst, there is a word and description in The Constitution defining those who love the enemy more than they love their own countrymen and their own posterity. Every Yankee Doodle Dandy knows what that word is.
In 1945, America was the only nation in the world with the Bomb and it behaved responsibly and respectfully. It remained so until two among us betrayed it to the Kremlin. Still, this American weapon system has been the prime deterrent to earth’s latest model world- tyranny: Seventy years of Soviet collectivist definition, coercion, and domination of individual human beings.
The message is this: Trust Freedom. Remember, tyrants never learn. The restriction of Freedom is the limitation of human choice, and choice is the fulcrum-point of the creative process in human affairs. As earth’s choicemaker, it is our human identity on nature’s beautiful blue planet and the natural premise of man’s free institutions, environments, and respectful relations with one another. Made in the image of our Creator, free men choose, create, and progress – or die.
Free men should not fear the moon-god-crowd oppressor nor choose any of his ways. Recall with a confident Job and a victorious David, “Know ye not that you are in league with the stones of the field?”
Semper Fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WW II and Korean War
Job 5:23 Proverbs 3:31 I Samuel 17:40
http://www.choicemaker.net/