Dr. Mike S. Adams, a professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, penned this article which was published in Townhall.com on 14 June 2004. At the risk of being - yet again - politically incorrect, I reproduce it here. Please note: an email making the circuit (again) which altered it and credited Retired U.S. Marine Corps General Chuck Pittman is false. This is the real McCoy:
My Apology To The Arab World
Mike S. Adams June 14, 2004
Author’s Note: the following editorial contains mildly offensive language. Given the subject matter, the author is sorry that it does not contain highly offensive language.
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. The pictures of those “abused” prisoners have been plastered all over the front pages of papers around the country. Some of my conservative friends have interpreted the excessive coverage as proof that papers like the New York Times are actually rooting against America in its current war on terror. Even those who aren’t willing to go that far say that such coverage is helping the enemy to recruit a new generation of terrorists to inflict harm upon our troops.
Despite these views, I have decided to make a formal public apology to the entire Arab world in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib. It is my hope that the following apology will help bring some clarity to the situation and, who knows, maybe even lasting world peace:
Dear Arabs,
I am truly sorry that Americans decided to take up arms and sacrifice their own youth in the defense of Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo, and the first Gulf War. After we clear up this mess in Iraq, we will refrain from any such activity in the future.
I am truly sorry that I did not hear any of you call for an apology from Muslim extremists after 911. After all, the hijackers were all Arabs.
I am truly sorry that Arabs have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships throughout the Middle East. I am also sorry that the “leaders” of these nations drive their citizens into poverty by keeping all of the wealth in the hands of a select few.
I am also sorry that these governments intentionally breed hate for the U.S. in their religious schools while American schools do the exact opposite.
I am sorry that Yasir Arafat has been kicked out of every Arab country and has attached his name to the Palestinian “cause.” I am also sorry that no other Arab country will offer nearly as much support to Arafat as we offer to them.
I am sorry that the U.S. has continued to serve as the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arab nations while wealthy Arab leaders blame the U.S. for all of their problems.
I am sorry that left-wing media elites would Rather (pun intended) not talk about any of this, thereby perpetuating your anger towards us. It’s probably really bad for your blood pressure.
I am also sorry that most of you lack the medical resources to measure your blood pressure.
And, of course, I’m sorry that few of you have indoor plumbing. That’s bad for your health, too.
I am sorry that the U.N. cheated so many poor people in Iraq out of their “food for oil” money so they could get rich while the tortured, raped, and poverty-stricken citizens of Iraq suffered under Saddam Hussein.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers after their children are blown to pieces in pursuit of Arafat’s “cause.”
I am sorry that these homicide bombers have as little regard for babies as the local office of Planned Parenthood.
I am sorry that so many people are unable to differentiate between the gang rape rooms and mass graves of Saddam Hussein on the one hand, and the conditions of Abu Ghraib on the other.
I am sorry that our prison guards do not show the same restraint that Arabs show when their brothers in arms are killed. By the way, you shouldn’t be sorry about that.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state. I am sorry we have not yet dropped at least 100 Daisy cutters on Fallujah in order to stop that effort.
I am also sorry that cleaning up the mess in Iraq is taking so long. It only took Saddam Hussein about 30 years to accomplish all he did in the realm of human rights.
Come to think of it, that’s about ten years less than the duration of our War on Poverty in the U.S. Come to think of it, I’m sorry we haven’t sent all of our gang bangers from South Central Los Angeles to Fallujah.
I am sorry that every time the terrorists hide, it just happens to be inside a “Holy Site.”
I am sorry that Muslim extremists have not yet apologized for the U.S.S. Cole, the embassy bombings, and for flying a plane into the World Trade Center, which collapsed in part on Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which is one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry that we have not taken a portion of the diet of Michael Moore and shipped it to one of your starving villages in the Middle East. You need it Moore (pun intended) than he does.
I am sorry that your only supporters are professors, journalists, and other assorted Leftists who also support homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, partial birth abortion, and everything that you abhor in this world.
I am sorry that everyone else in America is against you.
Finally, I am sorry that I am going to have to end this apology by asking you to kiss the right side of my conservative butt. I’m probably just having a bad day.
For that I am truly sorry.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Stop! Just Stop!
I will apologize right now, before I even begin. Maybe some kind of pharmacological assistance would help my anger right now, but I'm not sure they even manufacture what I would need . . .
I just read an article that said the Sierra Club (poster child for Tree-huggers of America) had done a "study" that showed the FEMA trailers provided to New Orleans' displaced peoples (and others) contained extremely high content of formaldehyde. After the results of this "study" were released, suddenly hundreds of people living in these trailers began complaining of many and varied physical ailments. A class action lawsuit against the federal government is being considered, apparently. A hue and cry about the terrible way the feds went about getting these trailers, perhaps without making sure they met EPA regs and other standards of manufactoring, is getting a whole lotta folks all riled up.
Now - I'm not going to sit here on my leather couch in air-conditioned comfort and state categorically that these are all charlatans lookin' to make yet another buck off the government (translation: you and me). These allegations may well turn out to be true. I read "other studies" are being conducted to verify whether the claims of the Sierra Club have merit.
What frosts my cake is the mindset of the average American that the United States Federal Government was created to fix anything and everything the could possibly go wrong within its borders, including what insurance companies refer to as "acts of God" or "acts of nature", et al.
Madness!
How on earth did we get to this point, where a hurricane blows away a city and it is considered the responsibility of the government to rebuild said city?? I bear no ill will toward any of those citizens left homeless after Katrina hit their area, but - come on !! New Orleans was destroyed because it is below sea level. It was only a matter of time before this happened - everyone living there knew it, and made a conscious choice to gamble that it would not happen in their lifetime. They lost that bet.
But why did they collectively hold out their hands and expect the feds to essentially 'un-do' what nature had 'done' ? To rebuild New Orleans is stupid. I don't care how much culture would be lost. Pompeii never got rebuilt either. It makes no sense to rebuild a city below sea level exactly the way it was. If there were folks bound and determined to rebuild a city at that spot, at the very least some consideration should have been given to building an American version of Venice or something. Certainly building exactly the same again is ridiculous - and expecting our TAX dollars to do so is madness!
Again - I feel sorry for those people who lost their homes, pets, and everything else in that tragedy. It was devastating, and will affect them the rest of their lives. But that doesn't excuse them from demanding the government step in to make it all better.
It is no different with the victims' families of 9-11. Why on earth should the federal government have paid any money to those affected by that terrible day in our history? An appropriate speech by the President would be great - but payments?? What kind of lunacy put that expectation into place?
Washington has become our "Daddy Warbucks". Anything and everything we don't like, we expect the feds to pay for. We want them to step in and save us from our own personal irresponsibility, it doesn't matter how many steps we take to get ourselves in a particular mess - it doesn't matter if it is a random act of nature or terrorist looney toons. We want the feds to "fix it", whatever "it" may be. We EXPECT them to "fix it". We DEMAND them to "fix it" !
Now somewhere along the line, people have forgotten that the money to pay for all of this comes from their neighbors and friends and family members. Taxpayers are the ones to foot the bill for all of this. And with our tax rates climbing ever higher, we are just about tapped out. But the outstretched hands never stop.
My fear is that more and more entitlements will be voted in, and more and more government fingers will reach into every facet of life, until America simply implodes. And I'm afraid it will happen in my lifetime. Our only hope is to educate the ignorant - demand accountability for elected officials - and stop! just STOP expecting others to bail us out of hard times! Let's rekindle the old "pull yourself up by the bootstrap" mentality again, and get busy with it. Humanitarian organizations will still be there to assist those truly in need, and all of the government waste and fraud will be eliminated.
Let's get back to teaching our kids personal responsibility - what a concept, eh? Of course, that lesson will have to be taught by our example as well, so let's get crackin' here. Quitcher whinin' and belly-achin' about how hard life is, and instead focus and use that energy to make a difference. If Americans lose that American spirit, America herself is doomed.
I just read an article that said the Sierra Club (poster child for Tree-huggers of America) had done a "study" that showed the FEMA trailers provided to New Orleans' displaced peoples (and others) contained extremely high content of formaldehyde. After the results of this "study" were released, suddenly hundreds of people living in these trailers began complaining of many and varied physical ailments. A class action lawsuit against the federal government is being considered, apparently. A hue and cry about the terrible way the feds went about getting these trailers, perhaps without making sure they met EPA regs and other standards of manufactoring, is getting a whole lotta folks all riled up.
Now - I'm not going to sit here on my leather couch in air-conditioned comfort and state categorically that these are all charlatans lookin' to make yet another buck off the government (translation: you and me). These allegations may well turn out to be true. I read "other studies" are being conducted to verify whether the claims of the Sierra Club have merit.
What frosts my cake is the mindset of the average American that the United States Federal Government was created to fix anything and everything the could possibly go wrong within its borders, including what insurance companies refer to as "acts of God" or "acts of nature", et al.
Madness!
How on earth did we get to this point, where a hurricane blows away a city and it is considered the responsibility of the government to rebuild said city?? I bear no ill will toward any of those citizens left homeless after Katrina hit their area, but - come on !! New Orleans was destroyed because it is below sea level. It was only a matter of time before this happened - everyone living there knew it, and made a conscious choice to gamble that it would not happen in their lifetime. They lost that bet.
But why did they collectively hold out their hands and expect the feds to essentially 'un-do' what nature had 'done' ? To rebuild New Orleans is stupid. I don't care how much culture would be lost. Pompeii never got rebuilt either. It makes no sense to rebuild a city below sea level exactly the way it was. If there were folks bound and determined to rebuild a city at that spot, at the very least some consideration should have been given to building an American version of Venice or something. Certainly building exactly the same again is ridiculous - and expecting our TAX dollars to do so is madness!
Again - I feel sorry for those people who lost their homes, pets, and everything else in that tragedy. It was devastating, and will affect them the rest of their lives. But that doesn't excuse them from demanding the government step in to make it all better.
It is no different with the victims' families of 9-11. Why on earth should the federal government have paid any money to those affected by that terrible day in our history? An appropriate speech by the President would be great - but payments?? What kind of lunacy put that expectation into place?
Washington has become our "Daddy Warbucks". Anything and everything we don't like, we expect the feds to pay for. We want them to step in and save us from our own personal irresponsibility, it doesn't matter how many steps we take to get ourselves in a particular mess - it doesn't matter if it is a random act of nature or terrorist looney toons. We want the feds to "fix it", whatever "it" may be. We EXPECT them to "fix it". We DEMAND them to "fix it" !
Now somewhere along the line, people have forgotten that the money to pay for all of this comes from their neighbors and friends and family members. Taxpayers are the ones to foot the bill for all of this. And with our tax rates climbing ever higher, we are just about tapped out. But the outstretched hands never stop.
My fear is that more and more entitlements will be voted in, and more and more government fingers will reach into every facet of life, until America simply implodes. And I'm afraid it will happen in my lifetime. Our only hope is to educate the ignorant - demand accountability for elected officials - and stop! just STOP expecting others to bail us out of hard times! Let's rekindle the old "pull yourself up by the bootstrap" mentality again, and get busy with it. Humanitarian organizations will still be there to assist those truly in need, and all of the government waste and fraud will be eliminated.
Let's get back to teaching our kids personal responsibility - what a concept, eh? Of course, that lesson will have to be taught by our example as well, so let's get crackin' here. Quitcher whinin' and belly-achin' about how hard life is, and instead focus and use that energy to make a difference. If Americans lose that American spirit, America herself is doomed.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Kudos to Swanton School Board
Never in the history of taxation has there been an example of a school district lowering its tax rates for constituents. At least, none that I know of. But up here in NW Ohio is a small town school board that is going to do that very thing. Makes your head swim.
Currently, the income tax rate is 1.25%. This was voted in several years ago, when there was serious financial difficulties in the district. Those were dark days for Swanton - housing took a hit, people actually moved out of the district, and Swanton School district had a black eye in the area for quite a while.
But the school board is moving forward with lowering the income tax rate to 0.75% - can you believe it? Plans are in the works to place the new, lower amount on the ballot this coming November, when a large voter turnout is expected for the Presidential election. I think the exissting levy collects until 2009, so if this new - lower - rate passes in the fall, it would take effect January 2010. Is that right? I think so . . . but if I have that mixed up, please tell me.
It is no small thing for a school board to work this hard to help their district residents. School board members deserve alot of credit for this action, so let them know how much you appreciate what they're doing by calling or emailing them. You can find contact information on the school district website: http://www.swanton.k12.oh.us/index.php?section=51
Currently, the income tax rate is 1.25%. This was voted in several years ago, when there was serious financial difficulties in the district. Those were dark days for Swanton - housing took a hit, people actually moved out of the district, and Swanton School district had a black eye in the area for quite a while.
But the school board is moving forward with lowering the income tax rate to 0.75% - can you believe it? Plans are in the works to place the new, lower amount on the ballot this coming November, when a large voter turnout is expected for the Presidential election. I think the exissting levy collects until 2009, so if this new - lower - rate passes in the fall, it would take effect January 2010. Is that right? I think so . . . but if I have that mixed up, please tell me.
It is no small thing for a school board to work this hard to help their district residents. School board members deserve alot of credit for this action, so let them know how much you appreciate what they're doing by calling or emailing them. You can find contact information on the school district website: http://www.swanton.k12.oh.us/index.php?section=51
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