[Vision2020] Re: Call them what they are: subversives.....

[Andreas Schou]

> One must bear in mind that
> these people are NOT loyal Americans.  They carry a mistrust and distaste
> for their own country.  While they have the right in this free country to
> agitate for its demise, the rest of us are under no obligation to pretend
> that they are anything other than TRAITORS.
>
> With that in mind, let us now dispense with the myth that the far left are
> loyal Americans with a legitimate and sincere difference of opinion.  They
> are the same motley group of shrill, misfit malcontents that spread like a
> flesh -- eating bacteria in the 1960s.  Unfortunately they have now
> metastasized into academia and all manner of public institutions.  They are
> the enemy.  They are the disease.  Good and loyal Americans must let their
> voices be heard, for this is the appropriate treatment for this freedom --
> eating bacteria that masquerades as "liberalism".

I've listened long enough to your pissing and moaning about how
everyone is attempting to silence you, how everyone is violating your
free-speech rights by not hanging on your every word as though you
weren't chanting the same limp, spittle-flecked right-wing talking
points  we've heard out of your mouth, keyboard, and pen since you
sent your first letter to the Lewiston Morning Tribune.

You are insisting that people who are sick to death of you hang on
your every word, and you are simultaneously insisting that the
government corral and execute anyone who criticizes the government,
disagrees with your tissue-thin rantings, or punctures your fragile
little delusions. If there's anything that's a danger to America,
Tony, it's that attitude, which is 180 degrees from the right of every
American to criticize the government, and its military, in wartime,
peacetime, dinnertime, or any other time any American pleases.

Because that's what you mean by "traitor", right? By "enemy"? There's
only one definition that I'm aware of, Tony -- and that's the
definition that is punishable by a swift and just execution, or, if
the government is merciful, by life imprionment. Let me make it clear
to you, Tony, that this is exactly what you are talking about, and
it's as un-American as lighting a campfire made of Constitutions with
the American flag.

Dissent is not weakness. Criticism is strength. We won the Cold War,
Tony, and we won it not because we out-Stalined the Soviets, but
because openness and dissent and the free exchange of ideas were
stronger than stultifying uniformity and a police state that concealed
overwhelming corruption. We won because, when we betrayed our ideals
-- and we frequently did -- we eventually came to understand that we
had. And it was always dissenters that brought this to light.

We are not morally superior because of who we are. We become morally
superior because of what we do. We made it through World War II,
against Axis powers that were infinitely more threatening to Americans
and their interests than cave-dwellers armed with X-Acto knives and
IEDs, without resorting to torture. We made it through the later years
of the Cold War -- when a well-developed spy service with national
backing was infiltrating our country -- under the rules established by
the Church Commission. We did this because so many of us, civilians
and military alike, were willing to sacrifice our safety, and even the
lives of ourselves and those we love, for the freedoms we have always
enjoyed.

And then right-wing bedwetters like you -- like the guy who wrote the
Bybee Memo, like Geoffrey "Take the Gloves Off" Miller -- decided that
to win a war against cavemen, we needed to betray the memory of
everyone who ever fought and died for the principles that our nation
has always tried, and often failed, to uphold. It is not, and never
has been, couragious to betray your ideals when thretened. It is the
rankest form of cowardice. And somehow, you have managed to confuse
the two.

You have no standing -- none whatsoever -- to criticize my own, or
anyone else's patriotism, when you appear not to have even a basic
understanding of what this country stands for. You've apparently
decided that your front on the "war on terror" is your own personal
crusade against liberals anywhere; everywhere. Somewhere, you have
managed to come to the conclusion that -- as a substitute for the fact
that you've never fought in a war with anyone, anywhere -- you have to
"defend" the honor of our military, even, bizarrely, if it's defending
the honor of war criminals against people who who have honorably
served; people who have paid more for their service than you can ever
imagine.

Go home. I'd suggest you take this back to Lewiston, but I am
hard-pressed to recommend inflicting you on anyone else. Your crusade
is embarassing you, embarassing me, and wasting electrons.

-- ACS