Last year about this time, I resolved to start off the year on a positive note, but, alas. “How dare you!”... to quote young Greta. Ms. Jodie Sinclair has again turned her award-winning journalistic skills to manipulating emotions and employing the Saul Alinsky tactic of accusing her opposition of her own party initiatives. Beginning with a WWII story lauding the heroic sacrifice of our parents and grandparents to attract our patriotic emotions, she contorts into a fabricated description of a dystopian world that her Leftist followers are actualy bringing to fruition incrementally, even as the “boiling frog” analogy.
As the son of a WWII U.S. Navy gunnery officer and having been trained by the Marine Corps survivors of Tarawa and other campaigns for my generation’s war in Viet Nam, I am intimately familiar with the values that urged on those heroes “who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life”. Ask yourself if we are the same country they thought their lives worth spending to defend. Did they go to war until victory, however distant to reverse the Constitutional principle of innocent until proven guilty, or was the despicable tactic of tarring the opposition with lawfare in their minds? Was their sacrifice made to insure expansion of the Supreme Court to override the influence of those who interpret the Constitution in favor of those who would twist its meaning into creating “rights” that are actually subsidies for a few but which must be financed by all? Do you suppose they fought to make one party rule a certainty by creating new states of Washington, D.C. and the welfare dependent province of Puerto Rico? Their brand of politics is so much easier when they don’t have to listen to logic and reason from the opposition. Did they leave wives and sweethearts to embark on perilous missions in order to guarantee them the “right’ to abort their children, a “right” not invented until 1973? Is it probable that they even thought it possible for their grandchildren to change their sex? Did our warriors of all races mingle their blood together on distant lands in order to hear their children apply the charge of racism to all with whom they disagree and to destroy the records of our history? Did they interrupt their American dreams to allow our “leaders” who never let a crisis go to waste to vastly increase the Constitutionally unanticipated fourth branch of government, the bureaucracy accountable only to the Chief Executive, the patronage of which provides cronies to serve only his dictatorial powers? Did they accept a meager military wage only to see their wives conscripted into the labor force, flooding it with a permanent oversupply of workers, simultanteously depressing their wages, abandoning their children to the care of strangers forever? Small wonder that our military services are falling short of recruiting goals. Those that do volunteer are often doing so for the bribe of medical and educational benefits, rather than love of a country adrift from its values. The professor suggests in the same issue of the BB that we all abandon the call of our country to defend it, but it’s probably the only one left in the world with the ability to oppose totalitarian rule. Again, small wonder that a staff member of the higher education bureaucracy which has been completely dominated by the international Left would question the wisdom of defending a country after having majored in destroying the traditional values that made it worth the sacrifice. No one need school me on the horrors of war or the cynicism produced by fighting one for unworthy leaders’ motives, but the country must maintain the technical advantage and vigorous ability not only to protect itself but be able to deter and project power against evil wherever it presents itself as it does on a regular basis. If you’re against a strong military;you’re not a peace-loving person; you’re just a harmless enabler of the malefactors. The horrific conditions of WWI offer little more than a sad lesson for our times. In that war, the prior war’s march-in-a-line tactic of the Napoleonic Wars met the recently developed automatic weapons to the tragic effect that no higher value of civilization could survive. I’ll readily dispute his supposed Viet Nam era claim of mutiny among US forces. As a USMC rifle company officer wounded in combat during the 1968 Tet offensive, I saw nor heard of any significant examples of such conduct in action against the enemy, no talk among the wounded in the hospital nor among those we trained to take our place upon return to the US. The professor’s testimony is either conditioned by survivor’s guilt or is of the legions of posers claiming Viet Nam service, claims of which I have become extremely skeptical until I see tangible proof.
I will agree with Ms Sinclair that our enemies are among us. Their forces are building daily as she ought to know very well, being their local apologist. She perpetuates the Jan 6, 2021 riot as an insurrection myth, despite the absence of the necessity of armed insurrectionists. She exhibits no qualms with convicting enemies in the media and exacting punishment without trial or evidence. Meanwhile, actual criminal behavior and armed insurrection that makes our cities unlivable gets a pass and political cover as long as they are of her party. On the anniversary of the abandonment of the Berlin Wall, may I remind all that the East German Communists who erected it named it the Anti-Fascist Barrier to prevent people from escaping their socialist government. Remember that every time these people try to tell you they are protecting democracy. It follows that they would oppose by any means, illegal or un-Constitutional, the opportunity for Donald J Trump to get another shot at diminishing the unelected power of the bureaucratic racket. Ask yourself what dictator would dismantle his own Executive Department, the federal employees who enforce his dictates?. More importantly, when we could really benefit at the New Year, they oppose any manifestation of faith and hope that Americans may recover the consensus of positive values we once held to firmly.
John Brooks Parker, Bandera, TX
