Where do our rights come from?

Once in a while I get too close to a subject and cannot be objective. When this happens I try to stay away from the subject all together. That’s how I feel about the treatment of our Military personnel and Veterans. We take these kids right out of high school in many cases and three months later they are dodging bullets in a foreign country. These are the same kids who got their keys taken away last year for coming home late from a dance.

I am fortunate to have several friends who have served recently in the Iraqi and or Afghanistan theaters. Some of these kids came home missing limbs and some with severe burns from IED’s. Their attitude to a man has been positive, both about their experiences and their ability to re enter civilian life. When I hear a coward who thinks it’s his or her right to demean these hero’s, I get enraged. The other day on computer news site I saw a comment in the middle of a General Motors article that had nothing to do with the story itself. This imbecile just added a comment that I won’t repeat about he and his buddies going to a Federal Cemetery and urinating on the graves of young people who have died in the war. It’s a darn good thing I wasn’t at that facility at that time or they would be urinating sitting down for the rest of their lives, and I would have something hanging from my rear view mirror beside fuzzy dice.

I am so disgusted with creeps like this hiding behind the civil liberties that so many brave men and woman died to defend. It’s easy to speak out against war and its terrible consequences. No one I know likes war, sometimes it’s a necessary evil and other times like Viet Nam it has a political motivation. Either way it’s not the veterans who deserve the wrath of the anti war bunch. These are just the people who stood side by side to defend the honor of the United States. They have served in this manner since the Revolutionary War and hopefully there will always be some willing to serve and protect our freedoms.

This country used to have laws regarding Treason, I don’t know what happened to them, but I could name a few that should be tried for it. What I don’t really understand is why some of these actors feel they have the right to talk against America. Does acting give them some special intelligence to comprehend things the rest of us can’t. To me an actor is just a highly overpaid sales person. What did Jane Fonda do to make her so smart in Hanoi. She put thousands of people at risk with her careless association with the enemy. Why wasn’t she arrested and tried for treason? We have an enemy in South America named Chavez, he has aligned himself with our sworn enemies many times, yet Danny Glover and Sean Penn think he’s a straight up guy. Penn said he would rather have his picture taken with Chavez then our own President. These people have made huge fortunes in this country, yet they hate what it stands for.

Why do good people still go to see their movies? When someone trashes my country and our troops and then asks me to support their movie efforts, I draw the line. When my end comes I just hope I have done enough in my life, to deserve the honor of serving in the same unit of Gods Army as some of these wonderful young men and women. The service they have given to their country and their people, should always be remembered with reverence.

We will always have cowards in our midst, and cowards will always be cowards, nothing will ever change them. They can’t be trusted behind your back and surely can’t be trusted to protect and defend the rights they so readily abuse.

And that’s my opinion,
Don