Comments on: Freedom Still Isn’t Free

By: Anti-Federalist

Anti-Federalist — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:28:32 +0000

I always love the uninformed “Marxist a-hole” comment. The truth is Marx was nothing more than an economic theorist who’s writings were self-interpreted by early communist leaders like Lenin and Stalin. Everyone seems to forget that before the rise of “Marxist Socialism,” Carl Marx expanded the economic theories of classic economists such as David Ricardo and Adam Smith. Do you recognize these names? You should because they are the ones responsible for establishing America’s first economic epistimological premise. Government shall not intervene in economic affairs they said, only it didn’t work so well. After the great depression a new economic system was instated, one in which the central government had direct control of expanding and contracting the money supply of our nation. If you don’t believe me, look it up. What I find disheartening is that people such as yourself defend something you know little about strictly on the basis of current political brainwashing. We already live in a socialist state, but at least some of us have the balls to disagree with it.

By: Libertyship46

Libertyship46 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:05:42 +0000

Hey Dena, #9, I just noticed your post. You know what? You’re a real Marxist a__hole. Was that direct enough? For you to spew your misguided venom on today, of all days, shows just how stupid you are. And what I despise most about lowlifes like you is they always say jackass things like, “I love the military, but…” There’s always a but in a sentence like that so that dolts like you can make some strange political statement that comes right from MoveOn.org or some other dirthole like that. It’s just a pity that our brave men and women in the military have to defend people like you. But, hey, at least you’re enjoying the right to make a jerk of yourself, a right they are defending with their lives. Think about that for a while, you moron, the next time you think this country is so horrible. Hope you choke on those words.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:43:13 +0000

Both my grandfathers served during WWII- my father’s father in the US Navy, and my mother’s father in the Polish Resistance. Four years ago, I told my paternal grandfather on his deathbed what an inspiration he’d been to me. I tried to join the Navy myself, but they won’t take me for medical reasons, despite me fighting tooth and nail to try to get in, so I applied for a job refueling nuclear vessels during their midlife maintenance. I haven’t heard a final decision yet on that job, and I wouldn’t be able to start until May anyway. If they won’t let me serve on the front lines, I can at least make sure our ships are ready to fight when it’s time to deploy.

By: Bohemond

Bohemond — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:22:16 +0000

” Did the US bother to ask the people of Afghanistan if they want to become a democracy? What give us as Americans, the right to force other countries to accept our way of living?”

We have the right to force them not to shelter the savages of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. We have the right to kill our enemies. Got it?

By: 1MPTomb

1MPTomb — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:52:46 +0000

Thank you Dad, Mom, both Grampies, brother, uncles, cousins and great uncles. I am a proud “Army Brat’. Thank you too, Dad-in-Love even though you served in the Navy!

By: john from cinncinatti

john from cinncinatti — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:49:28 +0000

i never relinquished control over the education of my sons. My dad a navy veteran USS Lexington CV-2 was really amazed when his grandson called him from Afghanistan. he didn’t realize the technology available to the troops. yeah he was proud of his grandsons. that is our family tradition Grandpa, uncles, dad and grandsons, all veterans. Semper Fi to the USA.

By: viet vet

viet vet — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:34:28 +0000

Thank you for all the great comments.

I am grateful for my mother working 12-16 hour days at Oak Ridge Tennessee for 3 years and later learning that she had helped produce the fission material used in the first atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Her telling me before she died at a young age that her bomb had saved the lives of millions of people.

My father driving a bulldozer for the US Army Corp of engineers covering a few of the bodies of 6,000,000 Jews killed in German concentration camps.

It changed his life forever.

His telling me to go fight the communist bastards in Vietnam or even serve at the Berlin wall to try and kill enough of them that they would never ever attempt to conquer the entire world again.

Everything he predicted has come to past.

Our withdrawal from South East Asia but the communists stopped in Cambodia.

Thailand, Indonesia and hundreds of millions of people are still free.

He thanked me and patted me on the back for going off to a crappy little war and killing communists.

Even my NFL hat was made in Vietnam so I guess they have jobs.

My dad before he died also predicted that some day our government leaders would become rich, fat, and passive appeasers who no longer give a Shiite whether we won or lost our brave troops in battle.

I hope these are not those days.

I pray we will not forget those that have given their blood, lives, health,
and even their own feelings of security.

Sometimes having a dream,
hearing a sound or even a smell can bring back that fear of fear itself.

They can never tell you some of the things we have seen, heard or caused them to cry.

May God preserve our great country and bless its constitution and righteous leaders.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:34:02 +0000

Dena, I don’t honestly care whether or not the people of Afghanistan want freedom. We went into Afghanistan for our sake, not theirs. The fact that the Afghan people now have the opportunity to have freedom is a beneficial side effect, but this war was started to purge Afghanistan of Islamic terrorists who declared war on the United States.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:24:18 +0000

Dena – I just read your post and am blown away by the fact that you think the media presents all wars as noble. Since Vietnam, every war we’ve been in has been attacked by the media and those very attacks have put our soldiers at greater risk. As for Afghanistan, they make their own determinations. Did you not see that they had an election last week? They choose what direction they are going to go, not we. And have no doubt but that when our soldiers die for freedom in the Middle East(and elsewhere), Goldman Sachs and “corporate greed” are not the reasons.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:19:39 +0000

What great story about the kinds of things our men had to endure to win WWII. I believe we’re so far out of touch now that people have forgotten the struggles of men like those Hawkins’ recounted. I say thanks to every veteran I meet today or on any other day.