This morning on my way to work I was listening to the Rick
Roberts Show and a caller to the show made such a great comment that got me
thinking. I don’t have the exact quote,
but pretty much the jest of it was he has lived most of his life in what the
countries greatest generation left for him, and he was happy to have lived in
the zenith of civilization, and he was disappointed with what we have done to
the legacy of what our generation inherited.
I was quite impressed and it has made me think of what the
generation of my grandparents left us, and what my generation and my parent’s
generation did to flush what they did for us, down the drain.
My grandparents were all immigrants, and they were legal of
course. On my dad’s side, his father
hailed from Ireland and his mother was from Germany. On my mother’s side her father was from Germany and her mother
was from France. They all learned to
speak English, got jobs, and worked hard to build a life for themselves.
They survived the depression and in fact all were
homeowners. They were also the
generation that won World War II. At
the end of that War the United States was a respected country, and people
looked up to us. What happened to us,
and why are we looked down upon now.
I started thinking about that. Before World War II the United States was kind of an isolationist
government though there are some folks in some of the US territories, the
Philippines, and Mexico that might disagree with that, as there were still a
few things going on from the Spanish/American War and the Mexican/American War.
World War II gained America respect throughout the
world. What have we done with that
legacy? We have flushed it own the
drain is what we have done. And I blame
the whole thing on the media, our schools, politicians and Hollywood.
While I was in the Navy for most of my adult life I watched
opinions of Americans drop. I remember
my first trip to Townsville, Australia in 1976 and my last trip there in 2000
and saw the difference. In 1976 people
stood in line for hours to tour the ship.
Our dial a sailor program for people to take us out and show us around
never had enough sailors to fill all the requests. In 2000 that attitude had changed as there were few dial a sailor
requests and I had many people there voice that they were disappointed in the
US as we were immoral, greedy, and trying to dominate the world.
Where did they get that view? It is from the movies and television shows that come out of
Hollywood and also our left wing news media.
Oh and by the way this was when Bill Clinton was still President so it
cannot be blamed on President Bush.
The United States started its decline in the 1960’s as
television and movies seemed to start stretching the decency boundaries. You also had all the entitlement programs
started by President Johnson and his new society movement. The colleges and high schools were taken
over by people that were busy teaching the liberal agenda, and the students who
were busy getting high on marijuana and other drugs. The news media had a heyday trying to stop the Vietnam War, and
as they are now, always reported just the bad things that happened.
Since I was in the Navy through the 70’s up until the
millennium I didn’t really keep up much with the news. I never had the time, as I was married to my
job and trying to advance. I would have
a good idea about things that were going on, but I never had the time to
analyze it as I have the chance to do now.
I knew about some of the bigger things that happened in the press, and I
kept up with a little politics, mainly just to vote for who I thought would do
the best job.
I also spent a lot of time deployed over those years and
during deployment you don’t have the access to the news as you do when you are
at home. Actually you do have more
access these days as ships now have satellite Internet and satellite
television.
On my last deployment I was exposed to FOX News for the
first time, and I connected with it more than I had connected with news in the
past. Before I had been watching CNN,
NBC with Tom Brokaw, and Nightline.
When I started watching FOX it was more in line with what I
had experienced while I was deployed. I
would watch CNN or NBC’s reporting and wonder where they got their story from,
as I didn’t see or experience what they were reporting.
After I retired from the Navy I started channel surfing and
comparing news reports. I started
seeing that commentators on the networks were presenting the news in a manner
to make the United States look bad.
At the same time I started watching the recording and movie
industries, along with TV. I wonder how
everything got so vulgar, and wondered how the FCC let all this happen to the
public airwaves. I started watching the
ACLU attacking religion and supporting those that would destroy this
country. I also got to look carefully
at the games politicians play to stay in office at all costs, while going
against the will of their constituents.
When I see the protest groups running around criticizing the
government and the troops, wanting to open our borders, and now even supporting
terrorists it sickens me. If people are
so dissatisfied with the way things are, then leave. There are plenty of countries that will take you in. If the United States were to go the route
that these people want it to go, there would be no more United States. We would be just as messed up as some of
these other countries that have gone socialist.
Better yet when the terrorists that some of these left wing
wacko’s support against Israel start blowing them up in shopping malls, pizza
places, and movie theaters, they might then open their eyes to the fact that
these people could care less if you support them or not. They just want to kill the infidels and they
don’t care if you are white, black, Hispanic, 80 years old, or 8 years old.
Imagine a world where women can’t drive, can’t divorce,
can’t vote. Imagine a world where if
you speak out you will receive their justice.
That will happen if we lose World War III. It took Pearl Harbor to awaken the nation to the horrors of the
Axis Powers. We have already had our
Pearl Harbor for World War III in the World Trade Center bombings. But it seems there are many people out there
that have forgotten about that. Instead
their hatred for anything Bush is causing the enemy to sit up and take
notice. They are seeing the weakness
our society as a whole is exhibiting.
In World War II all the people of this country came together
and worked toward the war effort. As a
result we are speaking English instead of German or Japanese. In these times people are worried about
their Starbucks coffee, or who is going to win American Idol. The world outside of our borders is a nasty
place, and these terrorists are doing this stuff all over the world. You just won’t see it on the news unless it
makes the Bush Administration look bad.
This Hezbolla group currently at war with Israel has said
that thy will activate their cells world wide, and that included the cells they
have right here in the United States. I
would say get all of your Starbuck’s coffee now, before there is no more
Starbuck’s.
I guess that is all I have to say today. I am just rambling now but I’m sure I got my
point across.
