Notes from Here and There--Assault on Liberty Heats Up

The assault on personal liberty is heating up all across the country and around the world. Let's recap some of the examples in these notes from here and there.

1. The city of Belmont, California just decided to ban smoking completely, with the exception of a few single-family-homes that are not connected. In other words, people who live in townhomes, condos, or apartments can no longer smoke legally.

Lest anyone think that this is about health, think again. I am not suggesting smoking is not bad for you. But I am definitely suggesting that government control of personal choices is very bad for you. If they can take away your freedom to make personal choices, even when it is bad for you, what's next? Look for them to start banning the Big Mac because advocates of Big Brother believe the citizens are too dumb to make decisions for themselves.

It is NOT the government's place to save me from my own bad choices.

Thus, you can safely refer to Belmont, California as ground zero in the fight for individual liberty.

2. Democrat David Kucinich is calling for Congress to withdraw funding for the War in Iraq. Is anyone really surprised? With the leftist wackos now in charge in Congress, we can expect proposals like this to take center stage.

The reason why I refer to this as an assault on liberty is very simple. Every single expert and consultant who knows anything about the region has vehemently lobbied against immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. Here is why.

The lack of U.S. troops in the country will create a vacuum that Iran will fill. Iran is developing nuclear bombs that can blow Israel off the map. Our support of Israel makes us a target as well. Our treaties with Israel mandate our defense of the nation should they be attacked. An Iranian attack on Israel will mean full-scale war in the Middle East. Israel will unleash its impressive arsenal on Iran, and we will be drawn into the middle of the fighting because of our commitment to the safety of Israel.

Thus, to leave Iraq without a viable plan to stabilize the country will set the stage for a war even more dangerous and widespread than we are involved in now, including the use of nuclear weapons.

Such a scenario is always a danger to liberty. Those who are calling for retreat are not only showing their vast ignorance but they are actually advocating for a major nuclear war in the region without even realizing it.

In short, my friends, we as Americans have just turned over the control of Congress to a bunch of numbskulls.

3. Nobel Prize Winner Elie Weisel, a German Holocaust survivor and author, has stated that there is a coming Holocaust under the Iranian President, who is every bit as much a threat to human freedom and dignity as was Adolph Hitler. We know that he wishes to destroy Israel with nuclear bombs. He has stated he believes that Israel has no right to exist.

Weisel's analysis of the danger is echoed by former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyaho, who stated at an international conference on terror recently, 'It is 1938 all over again.'

A threat of genocide against Jews is a threat to human liberty period. Such persons have no right to perpetrate their mayhem upon groups of people. The question is, does Iran as it is configured now have a right to exist?

4. The city of San Francisco has decided that junior ROTC programs are no longer welcome in their public schools. The school board of the 'people's republic of California' decided that having such programs promotes militarism, that it makes for a bad influence on young, impressionable minds, and that the 'don't ask don't tell' policy of the U.S. military is unacceptable.

Well, now. These imbeciles, once again, must believe that the public is too dumb to know that the ROTC does not have a policy of 'don't ask, don't tell.' Gays and lesbians can join, and many in California already have. So, this lame excuse is not the real reason.

San Francisco for quite some time has exhibited an anti-military attitude in many of its decisions concerning public policy. Go back a couple of years to the plan to dock a major naval carrier from WWII in San Francisco as a historic site. The San Francisco city council said no, that it 'sends the wrong signal about what we are about.' The carrier wound up going to Pearl Harbor instead, which is probably a better site for it anyway, but the display of anti-American sentiment of the San Francisco officials is very telling.

The reason they have banned junior ROTC programs from its schools is because they are against the U.S. military, pure and simple. There is no other adequate explanation when one takes this decision within the context of other decisions they have made concerning the U.S. military.

Perhaps if North Korea were to attack San Francisco (heaven forbid, but it certainly is possible) they would like to fend for themselves, since they obviously feel the U.S. military is evil and a 'bad influence on their school children.'

Would this be an acceptable scenario for the numbskulls who run San Francisco, since they hate the U.S. military so thoroughly?

Yeah, right.

The attitude of San Francisco toward our armed forces is simply appalling and alarming. It is a blatant assault on liberty for the simple reason that in dangerous times such as these we need the protection of the military and we need the willingness of young men and women to volunteer to serve. In the 'people's republic of California,' however, military service is frowned upon. It is not considered honorable.

These are the kinds of idiots that gave us Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Diane Feinstein.

Americans need to wake up. We are asleep at the wheel. In our knee-jerk reaction to the war in Iraq, we rushed to replace ineptitude with tyranny. The tyrants who now control Congress are on a collision course to place this nation in grave danger, both within our borders and without. At this point it is hard to tell which is worse--the assault on liberty within, or the dangers to all human liberty we face internationally.

The Democrats have yet to show one bit of concern about either, which leads me to believe that either they don't care or they have vastly underestimated the nature of the danger we face.