"Freedoms Watch" – A Front For The Bush Gang?
Comment to freedomswatch.org
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Re: Prime Time TV Ads and Internet Video Clips
(also viewable at http://www.freedomswatch.org/video.aspx)
Emotional appeals ... scare tactics ... typical Bush Administration propaganda. If you are anything other than a front for those people, whose agenda has been thoroughly discredited by the realities and heavily criticized by people better than I, you should recheck your premises.
We have a son on his way to Afghanistan, and a son-in-law just returned from Baghdad. Thankfully, they have managed to stay out of harms way so far. But if it happens that they too eventually become casualties, I will lay the blame at the feet of those who hijacked the White House and maneuvered our country into what future generations will surely see as one of the most shameful episodes in our history.
I will by no means support your position … that only through an eventual military victory can we be justified, save face, or otherwise provide some meaning for the casualties we have already suffered. If all the harm and heartache we have caused, for ourselves and those living in the countries we've invaded, is to ever have any meaning, perhaps it'll be that these sacrifices finally brought us all to realize that killing people and wrecking their stuff is a very ignorant approach to winning friends and positively influencing people.
My old elementary school teachers (late 1940's; early 1950's) taught us patriotism. Every morning we held our little hands over our hearts, faced the flag, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, then sang "God Bless America", "My Country 'tis of Thee" or "The Star-Spangled Banner." They also taught us that citizenship in a wonderful republic like this was a great blessing that few others in the world had ever known, but carried with it some great responsibilities. Among those was the duty to become educated so that we would be capable of voting intelligently and responsibly, and able to function successfully as good neighbors and contributing members of our society. A second duty was to remain ever watchful over our governments, lest they fall into the hands of people whose agendas risked all those things that made our country such a wonderful place, and a light to the world.
We've come a long way since then, haven't we? A long way in the wrong direction.
[-=glw=-]
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Re: Prime Time TV Ads and Internet Video Clips
(also viewable at http://www.freedomswatch.org/video.aspx)
Emotional appeals ... scare tactics ... typical Bush Administration propaganda. If you are anything other than a front for those people, whose agenda has been thoroughly discredited by the realities and heavily criticized by people better than I, you should recheck your premises.
We have a son on his way to Afghanistan, and a son-in-law just returned from Baghdad. Thankfully, they have managed to stay out of harms way so far. But if it happens that they too eventually become casualties, I will lay the blame at the feet of those who hijacked the White House and maneuvered our country into what future generations will surely see as one of the most shameful episodes in our history.
I will by no means support your position … that only through an eventual military victory can we be justified, save face, or otherwise provide some meaning for the casualties we have already suffered. If all the harm and heartache we have caused, for ourselves and those living in the countries we've invaded, is to ever have any meaning, perhaps it'll be that these sacrifices finally brought us all to realize that killing people and wrecking their stuff is a very ignorant approach to winning friends and positively influencing people.
My old elementary school teachers (late 1940's; early 1950's) taught us patriotism. Every morning we held our little hands over our hearts, faced the flag, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, then sang "God Bless America", "My Country 'tis of Thee" or "The Star-Spangled Banner." They also taught us that citizenship in a wonderful republic like this was a great blessing that few others in the world had ever known, but carried with it some great responsibilities. Among those was the duty to become educated so that we would be capable of voting intelligently and responsibly, and able to function successfully as good neighbors and contributing members of our society. A second duty was to remain ever watchful over our governments, lest they fall into the hands of people whose agendas risked all those things that made our country such a wonderful place, and a light to the world.
We've come a long way since then, haven't we? A long way in the wrong direction.
[-=glw=-]
Labels: Politics
posted by BoysMind at
7:23 AM
1 Comments:
Commenting on my own blog …
Surprise, surprise! FreedomsWatch.org is a White House front, its founders and major contributors mostly all being connected to the Bush administration at one time or another (see: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom%27s_Watch_organization).
How shamefully base of these people to exploit those who have already lost so much at the hands of their agenda to promote its unbridled perpetuation.
-=gw=-
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