AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR LATE ALLIES

We love you. By 'We', I mean we normal citizens of the United States of America, the former shining beacon on a hill. I assure you of this, because since the election of our aberrant president who you know as Barack Hussein Obama, you may justifiably have doubts that this is still so.

Please do not confuse what passes for foreign policy as it comes from Obama, with the sentiments of the American Citizenry. Yes, we voted him in. Some of us knew what a disaster he would be and did not vote for him. Unfortunately, we were in the minority. Now you will pay as dear a price as will we American citizens. We have already begun. So have you.

You folks in Czechoslovakia and Poland understand of what I, your grief-stricken Ostrich Killer, speak. You folks in Europe of whatever language understand. You new eastern European nations, former Soviet satellite states, know even better. Latvia. Lithuania. Albania. Kazakhstan. All you other Stans. Especially Georgia. You have every reason to be alarmed at Obama rhetoric and actions. And Israel. Can you survive Obama? You'll have to fend for yourself no matter the threat or menace to you, because Obama has shown every sign of abandoning you and siding with your enemies. Prepare. You may be forced into pre-emption, since you can't depend on support to survive an attack.

But if you are a former enemy, rejoice. Obama has held out the olive branch. He has signaled repeatedly that he wishes to do your bidding. He has signaled, as has this lapdog congress, that his goal and theirs is a more humble, vulnerable United States of America. A less influential, less powerful economically and militarily, United States of America. A suicidal America.

So if you're an enemy, the time to attack us is in about two years. By that time we'll be prostrated economically, our military will be in an ill-trained, ill-equipped shambles, Obama will have castrated our nuclear deterrent, and of course Obama is simply not willing to fight for traditional American survival. No, he wants a new type of country, one modeled after Marx and Lenin's teachings. The sort of country most attackers will convert us to. Mr. Obama will be, of course, Collaborator in Chief. - - Wait. On further consideration, maybe he already is . . .

Were you an ally of ours? If you were, now is the time to prepare for going it alone, because the Ostrich Killer doesn't see Obama living up to any treaties with you.

I can't wait to see him out of office. I know you allies have the same sentiments. Let's pray for each other.

THE GIMME SOCIETY

I'm sitting here listening to Walter Williams (one of the clearest thinkers I've ever had the pleasure to hear) on the radio. Here's what he had to say about so-called entitlements - you understand that an entitlement is money that government takes from someone who earned it and gives to someone who didn't, right? - and what they really are.

Here's his example: I'm walking down the street. There's an old woman there, shivering on a grate in the dead of winter in New York. She asks me for some money so she can pay for a room and a hot meal and a visit to a doctor. I don't have any money, but I do have my handy pistol. So I pull the pistol and accost a passerby and tell him to give me $200 so I can give it to the woman, who obviously needs it more than the passerby does.

Walter Williams asks: is this moral? Or is it theft? And how is this different from the government taking money from one person and giving it to another? - - oh. The gun, right? Wrong. Refuse to pay, and armed cops will come for you. Resist them and they'll cuff you and take you to jail. Resist that, and they'll shoot you. So how is it different?

One is against the law, and the other is legal.

Oh, you say. Of course. But that begs the question: what is moral about theft, be it legal or not?

Taking a person's property against their will and giving it to another is immoral. You can make any argument you like about it, but in the end it is really simple theft, no matter the misguided good intentions. Because, you see, the luxury of this sort of good intention comes at the expense of others. It's easy to say that someone else should pay to help the unfortunates or worthless (Yes, there ARE worthless people) in our society. But if a person wants to test the value of their good intentions, let them see if they're willing to surrender their own property to someone else. The answer will nearly always be something like "If we all do it together, it'll cost each of us just a little . . ." In short, they want to keep their own property and pull a gun on the rest of us. They, and the other brain-dead hand wringer bleeding hearts among us, are no better than ordinary muggers.

I quoted somewhere in past blogs a prediction by Alex deToqueville. Something along the lines of 'This noble experiment of democracy is doomed the day the electorate discovers they can vote themselves largess from the public coffers.'

Are we there?

Is our future one of Obamunism - collectivism, socialism, communism? Fascism? Compare, for your own homework, his vision for America and Hitler's Germany.

It's time we non-ostriches begin to lose sleep at night. It's time we let others know what we think about takings, like government oversight of health care, welfare, and other programs that transfer money from those who earn it to those who don't.

Because, in the end, government control of our money equates to government control of every aspect of our lives. If you don't like that idea, let your voice be heard. Start your own blog. Talk to your friends and family about the morality of theft, no matter the perpetrator. Talk to them about the personal traits that made this country strong - individuality, personal responsibility, the work ethic, the knowledge of American History (Pre-PC, of course), and the potential for success without being penalized for it.

Write regularly and clearly to your representatives in Congress. Send copies of those letters to your local newspaper's editorial pages. Show up at political meetings such as Town Halls (if you can get past the screeners). Speak your mind dispassionately but plainly. Bring others with you.

I'll look for you there.