Etaoin
09-13-2001, 10:07 AM
A recent poll stated that 60+% supported more loss of freedom. Then there are the rest of the Americans.
**************************
Repeal the Assassination Ban
Executive orders since 1976 prohibit the United States government from using
the tool of assassination to protect its people in our war against
terrorism. Please go to: http://www.libertypetitions.com and sign our
online petition urging your congressman and President Bush to repeal of the
ban on assassinations. We shouldn?t have to fight this war with one hand
tied behind our back. The lives of the innocent many outweigh the lives of
the guilty few . . . or the one.
**********************************
Democrats Revert to Partisan Form Already, So We Return to ?GOP? News &
Views
??In its scope and devastation, the attack drew instant comparisons to Pearl
Harbor,? says a new LA Times commentary. But, the writers add, ?Bush's
challenge now is quite different. Unlike Pearl Harbor, the airliner attacks
came with no return address. And unlike FDR, then in his third term, Bush is
in only his eighth month as president, still untested as an international
leader. In that political context, the best analogy may not be Pearl Harbor,
but rather the Cuban missile crisis that confronted President John F.
Kennedy.?
?BUT, unlike JFK, Bush helped set the stage for the current crisis: his
stances have systematically provoked anger at the US around the globe.
Meanwhile, his focus has been on long-term missile shield schemes, not on
the immediate threat of terrorism, thus leaving the US more vulnerable.
Worse yet, he helped fund (through a $43 million donation) the very group
harboring the man believed to be behind the attack.?
- Democrats.com, 9/11/01
**********************************
Eight Years of Clinton/Gore/Christopher/Albright Bumbling & Neglect; But It?
s Bush?s Fault?
?Bush and his network of Cold War hawks have pushed their bloated missile
schemes at the expense of nearly every other type of military funding -
including intelligence. Over the years, underfunding and under support has
lead to a serious decline in the efficiency of our national intelligence
system.?
- Democrats.com, 9/11/01
**********************************
Not All Arabs Are Enemies
?Chuck: Greetings from Amman, Jordan. I have been on your list form some
time now, and I want to just send my deepest feelings to you and the
American people. While I know that you have seen pictures on TV showing
people here celebrating, I assure that it is not the general mood here.
People here are very shocked and appalled by these senseless attacks. These
attacks are inhumane and who carried them out should be hunted and punished.
I, however, worry that everybody is passing judgment on us Arabs as a
collective group. I urge that, as President Bush said last night, we all
have a quiet and unyielding anger. My heart goes out to those have lost
loved ones in these attacks. No words can express, only prayers that come
from the heart.?
- GOPN&V reader Paul Hijazin, Jordan
**********************************
Letter to Osama: Your Mission Failed
?You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. What lesson did you hope
to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon,
us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that
you failed. Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your
cause. Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve. Did you
want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.?
- Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald, 9/12/01
**********************************
Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around
?This is not crime. This is war. One of the reasons there are terrorists out
there capable and audacious enough to carry out the deadliest attack on the
United States in its history is that, while they have declared war on us, we
have in the past responded (with the exception of a few useless cruise
missile attacks on empty tents in the desert) by issuing subpoenas.
Secretary of State Colin Powell's first reaction to the day of infamy was to
pledge to ?bring those responsible to justice.? This is exactly wrong.
Franklin Roosevelt did not respond to Pearl Harbor by pledging to bring the
commander of Japanese naval aviation to justice. He pledged to bring Japan
to its knees. You bring criminals to justice; you rain destruction on
combatants.?
- Columnist Charles Krauthammer, 9/12/01
**********************************
For Want of a Gun, Thousands of Lives Were Lost
?The only thing preventing some armed citizen from being a hero yesterday
were the wicked, delusional, and thoroughly evil Federal laws prohibiting
citizens from exercising their absolute, God ordained, Second Amendment
protected right of individual self defense. The WTC lies is ruins, in part,
for the want of an armed citizen. It is an ironic and exceedingly bitter
truth that New York City pioneered the gun control mindset that made sure
the terrorists could safely overcome a plane load of people with crude
weapons.?
- GOPN&V reader Randall Dunning, 9/12/01
?Terrorists took advantage of the ultimate ?gun free zone? yesterday morning
to bring the nation to its knees. The stupid notion that evil, vicious
killers can be deterred by preventing law-abiding American citizens from
having guns made it easy for terrorists who were armed with nothing more
than small knives.?
- Columnist Neal Knox, ?Neal Knox Report,? 9/12/01
?If I -- or someone like me -- a fat middle-aged American couch potato, but
with police-quality training in firearms, had been allowed to carry my Glock
23 pistol on one of these flights, this couldn't have happened. But what is
the solution of the big brains in charge of our national security? Yes, you
got it. This is not a joke. Before you get on a plane, they want to take
away your pen knives, nail clippers, and box cutters!
?This new FAA regulation goes into effect before they will allow commercial
flights to even take off. If you still are one of those who believe in
petitioning the government for a redress of grievances, please let your
duly-elected public servant know what you think of Americans who board
airliners being treated even more like cattle than they are already. Ask
them how many Americans must die before they intend to allow us to defend
our lives.?
- GOPN&V reader J. Neil Schulman, 9/12/01
*********************************
The Feminization of America
?The Israelis, when hit, hit back. They hit back hard. But Israel is run by
men. We are run by women. Perhaps two-thirds of the newscasters were blonde
drones who spoke of the attack over and over as a tragedy, as though it had
been an unusually bad storm -- unfortunate, but inevitable, and now we must
get on with our lives. The experts and politicians, nominally male, were
effeminate and soft little things. When a feminized society runs up against
male enemies -- and bin Laden, whatever else he is, is a man -- it loses. We
have.?
- Columnist Fred Reed, 9/12/01
*********************************
Welcome to the REAL Real World
?The sky isn't supposed to fall in New York City. But yesterday morning it
did just that. As I watched from my vantage point on the Lower East Side, I
witnessed surreal, almost wartime carnage that my generation has never seen
firsthand. . . . In my life, the only warfare I've seen in real time was
against Iraq. That looked like some high-tech computer game transmitted from
a land far away. I'm not supposed to see this. Our fathers and grandfathers
saw the war. We're the lucky, pampered generation. This isn't supposed to
happen in our lifetimes. To Gen Xers, battles and wars are antiquated - and
only seen through fuzzy footage on the History Channel.?
- Johanna Huden, New York Post, 9/12/01
**********************************
Poetic Justice
?Given what occurred in New York yesterday, I think it would be perfect
poetic justice if we were to hang Osama bin Laden from the Statue of Liberty
in the harbor. It would send a powerful message to other would-be terrorists
as well as build American patriotism.?
- GOPN&V reader David Rieben, 9/12/01
?Killing Bin Laden is too good for him. His dream was to see the World Trade
Center towers toppled. We should hunt him down, capture him, encase him in
concrete up to his neck and put him in the middle of where the even bigger
and better World Trade Center towers will be built - forcing him to watch as
we rebuild around him, with him as part of the foundation. Once the building
is completed, we can then finish the job and seal his head in concrete, too.
THAT is the fate this son of a bitch deserves.?
- GOPN&V reader Jim Riley, 9/12/01
?We used to fight the pirates, not countries in the Caribbean, who attacked
American interests. It's time to let the military go do what they do best.
Hunt them down and kill them.?
- GOPN&V reader Gavin Grooms, 9/12/01
********************************
Where We Should Go From Here
?Here's what President Bush should rally us to do as a nation:
* Build a missile-defense system as quickly as possible - no matter what
the cost, no matter what the sacrifice. Maybe now people will understand the
threats they face in a hostile world.
* Cut off all foreign aid to Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Authority,
which, despite their attempt to distance themselves from these attacks,
bears at least some responsibility.
* Take the handcuffs off Ariel Sharon and Israel to respond appropriately
to the terror attacks the Jewish state has endured for the last year.
* Achieve energy independence by beginning an aggressive domestic
oil-drilling effort in Alaska and elsewhere, removing all misguided
environmental barriers to this national security necessity.
* Repeal all restrictive gun laws so that every law-abiding American can
take part in national defense against this elusive enemy who can strike
anywhere, anytime.
* Require every airliner in America to include armed guards on board,
require all crews to be armed and to allow properly permitted passengers to
bring firearms on board as well. Think of the lives that might have been
saved if any one of those four airliners was carrying some appropriately
armed crew members or passengers.
* Drop all plans for relaxing controls at our borders and step up rigorous
enforcement of our immigration laws. Amnesty? Forget about it.
* Call for a national day of prayer - just as our Founding Fathers would
have done in a time of national emergency.?
- Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com, 9/12/01
****************************
Published by the Republican Liberty Caucus
?The Conscience of the Republican Party? http://www.RepublicanLibertyCaucus.com
Chuck Muth, Editor
3659 Scotwood Street
Las Vegas, NV 89121
Phone: (702) 454-0350
Fax: (702) 454-7798
E-mail: chuckmuth@earthlink.com
**************************
Repeal the Assassination Ban
Executive orders since 1976 prohibit the United States government from using
the tool of assassination to protect its people in our war against
terrorism. Please go to: http://www.libertypetitions.com and sign our
online petition urging your congressman and President Bush to repeal of the
ban on assassinations. We shouldn?t have to fight this war with one hand
tied behind our back. The lives of the innocent many outweigh the lives of
the guilty few . . . or the one.
**********************************
Democrats Revert to Partisan Form Already, So We Return to ?GOP? News &
Views
??In its scope and devastation, the attack drew instant comparisons to Pearl
Harbor,? says a new LA Times commentary. But, the writers add, ?Bush's
challenge now is quite different. Unlike Pearl Harbor, the airliner attacks
came with no return address. And unlike FDR, then in his third term, Bush is
in only his eighth month as president, still untested as an international
leader. In that political context, the best analogy may not be Pearl Harbor,
but rather the Cuban missile crisis that confronted President John F.
Kennedy.?
?BUT, unlike JFK, Bush helped set the stage for the current crisis: his
stances have systematically provoked anger at the US around the globe.
Meanwhile, his focus has been on long-term missile shield schemes, not on
the immediate threat of terrorism, thus leaving the US more vulnerable.
Worse yet, he helped fund (through a $43 million donation) the very group
harboring the man believed to be behind the attack.?
- Democrats.com, 9/11/01
**********************************
Eight Years of Clinton/Gore/Christopher/Albright Bumbling & Neglect; But It?
s Bush?s Fault?
?Bush and his network of Cold War hawks have pushed their bloated missile
schemes at the expense of nearly every other type of military funding -
including intelligence. Over the years, underfunding and under support has
lead to a serious decline in the efficiency of our national intelligence
system.?
- Democrats.com, 9/11/01
**********************************
Not All Arabs Are Enemies
?Chuck: Greetings from Amman, Jordan. I have been on your list form some
time now, and I want to just send my deepest feelings to you and the
American people. While I know that you have seen pictures on TV showing
people here celebrating, I assure that it is not the general mood here.
People here are very shocked and appalled by these senseless attacks. These
attacks are inhumane and who carried them out should be hunted and punished.
I, however, worry that everybody is passing judgment on us Arabs as a
collective group. I urge that, as President Bush said last night, we all
have a quiet and unyielding anger. My heart goes out to those have lost
loved ones in these attacks. No words can express, only prayers that come
from the heart.?
- GOPN&V reader Paul Hijazin, Jordan
**********************************
Letter to Osama: Your Mission Failed
?You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. What lesson did you hope
to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon,
us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that
you failed. Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your
cause. Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve. Did you
want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.?
- Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald, 9/12/01
**********************************
Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around
?This is not crime. This is war. One of the reasons there are terrorists out
there capable and audacious enough to carry out the deadliest attack on the
United States in its history is that, while they have declared war on us, we
have in the past responded (with the exception of a few useless cruise
missile attacks on empty tents in the desert) by issuing subpoenas.
Secretary of State Colin Powell's first reaction to the day of infamy was to
pledge to ?bring those responsible to justice.? This is exactly wrong.
Franklin Roosevelt did not respond to Pearl Harbor by pledging to bring the
commander of Japanese naval aviation to justice. He pledged to bring Japan
to its knees. You bring criminals to justice; you rain destruction on
combatants.?
- Columnist Charles Krauthammer, 9/12/01
**********************************
For Want of a Gun, Thousands of Lives Were Lost
?The only thing preventing some armed citizen from being a hero yesterday
were the wicked, delusional, and thoroughly evil Federal laws prohibiting
citizens from exercising their absolute, God ordained, Second Amendment
protected right of individual self defense. The WTC lies is ruins, in part,
for the want of an armed citizen. It is an ironic and exceedingly bitter
truth that New York City pioneered the gun control mindset that made sure
the terrorists could safely overcome a plane load of people with crude
weapons.?
- GOPN&V reader Randall Dunning, 9/12/01
?Terrorists took advantage of the ultimate ?gun free zone? yesterday morning
to bring the nation to its knees. The stupid notion that evil, vicious
killers can be deterred by preventing law-abiding American citizens from
having guns made it easy for terrorists who were armed with nothing more
than small knives.?
- Columnist Neal Knox, ?Neal Knox Report,? 9/12/01
?If I -- or someone like me -- a fat middle-aged American couch potato, but
with police-quality training in firearms, had been allowed to carry my Glock
23 pistol on one of these flights, this couldn't have happened. But what is
the solution of the big brains in charge of our national security? Yes, you
got it. This is not a joke. Before you get on a plane, they want to take
away your pen knives, nail clippers, and box cutters!
?This new FAA regulation goes into effect before they will allow commercial
flights to even take off. If you still are one of those who believe in
petitioning the government for a redress of grievances, please let your
duly-elected public servant know what you think of Americans who board
airliners being treated even more like cattle than they are already. Ask
them how many Americans must die before they intend to allow us to defend
our lives.?
- GOPN&V reader J. Neil Schulman, 9/12/01
*********************************
The Feminization of America
?The Israelis, when hit, hit back. They hit back hard. But Israel is run by
men. We are run by women. Perhaps two-thirds of the newscasters were blonde
drones who spoke of the attack over and over as a tragedy, as though it had
been an unusually bad storm -- unfortunate, but inevitable, and now we must
get on with our lives. The experts and politicians, nominally male, were
effeminate and soft little things. When a feminized society runs up against
male enemies -- and bin Laden, whatever else he is, is a man -- it loses. We
have.?
- Columnist Fred Reed, 9/12/01
*********************************
Welcome to the REAL Real World
?The sky isn't supposed to fall in New York City. But yesterday morning it
did just that. As I watched from my vantage point on the Lower East Side, I
witnessed surreal, almost wartime carnage that my generation has never seen
firsthand. . . . In my life, the only warfare I've seen in real time was
against Iraq. That looked like some high-tech computer game transmitted from
a land far away. I'm not supposed to see this. Our fathers and grandfathers
saw the war. We're the lucky, pampered generation. This isn't supposed to
happen in our lifetimes. To Gen Xers, battles and wars are antiquated - and
only seen through fuzzy footage on the History Channel.?
- Johanna Huden, New York Post, 9/12/01
**********************************
Poetic Justice
?Given what occurred in New York yesterday, I think it would be perfect
poetic justice if we were to hang Osama bin Laden from the Statue of Liberty
in the harbor. It would send a powerful message to other would-be terrorists
as well as build American patriotism.?
- GOPN&V reader David Rieben, 9/12/01
?Killing Bin Laden is too good for him. His dream was to see the World Trade
Center towers toppled. We should hunt him down, capture him, encase him in
concrete up to his neck and put him in the middle of where the even bigger
and better World Trade Center towers will be built - forcing him to watch as
we rebuild around him, with him as part of the foundation. Once the building
is completed, we can then finish the job and seal his head in concrete, too.
THAT is the fate this son of a bitch deserves.?
- GOPN&V reader Jim Riley, 9/12/01
?We used to fight the pirates, not countries in the Caribbean, who attacked
American interests. It's time to let the military go do what they do best.
Hunt them down and kill them.?
- GOPN&V reader Gavin Grooms, 9/12/01
********************************
Where We Should Go From Here
?Here's what President Bush should rally us to do as a nation:
* Build a missile-defense system as quickly as possible - no matter what
the cost, no matter what the sacrifice. Maybe now people will understand the
threats they face in a hostile world.
* Cut off all foreign aid to Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Authority,
which, despite their attempt to distance themselves from these attacks,
bears at least some responsibility.
* Take the handcuffs off Ariel Sharon and Israel to respond appropriately
to the terror attacks the Jewish state has endured for the last year.
* Achieve energy independence by beginning an aggressive domestic
oil-drilling effort in Alaska and elsewhere, removing all misguided
environmental barriers to this national security necessity.
* Repeal all restrictive gun laws so that every law-abiding American can
take part in national defense against this elusive enemy who can strike
anywhere, anytime.
* Require every airliner in America to include armed guards on board,
require all crews to be armed and to allow properly permitted passengers to
bring firearms on board as well. Think of the lives that might have been
saved if any one of those four airliners was carrying some appropriately
armed crew members or passengers.
* Drop all plans for relaxing controls at our borders and step up rigorous
enforcement of our immigration laws. Amnesty? Forget about it.
* Call for a national day of prayer - just as our Founding Fathers would
have done in a time of national emergency.?
- Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com, 9/12/01
****************************
Published by the Republican Liberty Caucus
?The Conscience of the Republican Party? http://www.RepublicanLibertyCaucus.com
Chuck Muth, Editor
3659 Scotwood Street
Las Vegas, NV 89121
Phone: (702) 454-0350
Fax: (702) 454-7798
E-mail: chuckmuth@earthlink.com