Hunt Down and Destroy the Pirates!
I reside just minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and the coast of North Carolina and those barrier Islands along our coast which made for wonderful hiding places for the Pirates of yesteryear. The Coast of North Carolina is drenched in folklore about Pirates.
That was then
. This is now.
Again the high seas are infested with pirates. Their aim is the same… to rob and steal, and rape, and pillage.
Recently we heard of the ocean liner being attacked, but managing to speed away. A few days later, in the same waters, a freighter was attacked. It, too, managed to get away.
Our own Caribbean is littered with modern day pirates. Yachts disappear to show up at some other location, with a different registration, and different name. Sometimes passengers disappear, too.
Once before, in our history, the US Navy, and Marines, had to rid the coast of Africa of pirates. The Barbary Coast Pirates.
I bring up these particular pirates because they were based along the African coast, mainly the North African coast. The pirates we seem to be having the most trouble with today are also on the African coast, but the east African coast…the coast of Somalia to be more exact.
Somalia still has no functioning government and it is a breeding ground for this type of activity.
Teddy Roosevelt, the President of the United States at the time of the Barbary Pirates, had the opportunity to use the big stick he carried and, he did just that. He sent seven battleships from the Atlantic Fleet to the North African Coast. His threat worked and the Pirates backed down.
Now, it is time again for the Navies of the free world to joint together and sail the globe destroying these modern day pirates where they find them. No arrests, no trials, just eradicate them on the spot. It’s time, again, to use Teddy’s Big Stick.
This blight on the oceans will not go away if we turn a blind eye. It will get worse. Eventually they will manage to stop and board a passenger liner and death and destruction will be the result.
Now is the time to hunt them down and destroy them.
“Longstreet”
We are fast approaching the Holiday season in America. Now, I don’t mean the politically correct “winter break” or “winter solstice” or any of that Left-Wing pabulum. I mean we are approaching Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Thanksgiving is set aside as a day to give thanks to God for his bounty bestowed upon this nation, and Christmas... to celebrate the birth of the Son of God, the Savior, Jesus Christ.
Today, Christians, in this nation and around the world, are being persecuted to a degree not seen in many centuries. Some of the worst persecution is being levied against the Christians in the very nation founded by Christians, America.
A movement straight out of the bowels of Hell, called "Political Correctness", is destroying this nation. It is undermining the tenants upon which this nation was founded and re-writing history in an attempt to remove our children from their birthright inheritance of a nation based on the Judeo-Christian faith.
When the Mayflower dropped anchor, just off these shores, in November of 1620, the crew and passengers gathered to thank God for their safe, though troubled, passage to this new world. And then… they drew up a document, which would be
come the founding document for this nation. It was the "Mayflower Compact".
Little noted these days because it’s contents are explosive… blowing holes through the Politically Correct doctrine that this nation was not founded on Christian values and is not a Christian nation. As a result, many textbooks stir a course far away from, or around, the actual contents of that document which would put the lie to their claims of a totally secular nation.
Have you ever read the Mayflower Compact? My guess is that most of you have not. Well, grab your reading glasses, ‘cause here it is:
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith, 
and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe, by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the II. of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereigne lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fiftie-fourth. Anno. Dom. 1620
Below are the names of the men aboard the Mayflower who signed on to the above document: (Note: None of the women aboard signed. I’m assuming they were not permitted.)
John Carver, John Howland, William Brewster, Edward Winslow, George Soule, William Bradford, Isaac Allerton, Samuel Fuller, John Craxton, Miles Standish, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Stephen Hopkins,
Edward Doten, Edward Liester, Richard Warren, John Billington, Edward Tilly, John Tilly, Francis Cooke, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Rigdale, James Chilton, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Thomas Williams, Digery Priest, Edmond Margesson, Peter Brown, Richard Bitteridge, Richard Clark, Richard Gardiner, Gilbert Winslow, John Alden, John Allerton, and Thomas English.
Do you see the danger this document presents? It shreds the claims of a secular nation by today’s Political Left.
As Americans we have much for which to be thankful. Not the least is those hardy souls aboard the Mayflower who weathered the storms of the Atlantic, during the period of the year we now know as the "Hurricane Season", to start anew and to plant the seeds of what would become a New Nation, Under God.
“Longstreet”[INSIGHT on Freedom]
Just so it comes as no surprise to the Democrat readers of this site… the US will soon be at war with Iran.
I can hear the audible gasps, emanating from the Left, all the way to the Atlantic coast! Dear me! Was it something I said???
Look, you can choose to look reality in the face or you can turn your back and hope it goes away. It really makes no difference. Reality happens... anyway. One of the realities we face is a coming war with Iran. I suggest we go ahead and accept that fact… and prepare for it.
The US has to do absolutely nothing to cause Iran to declare a war on us. In a way, they already have. The second Iran attacks Israel; the US is committed to the war. Everybody, with half a brain, knows that.
Iran is openly preparing for war with the US. Here in the States, the government is tiptoeing around it’s own preparations for the war with Iran by publicly avoiding discussing the probability.
The pussyfooting around by the UN, and Europe, with Iran is doing nothing but delaying the inevitable. While those two impotent entities continue to talk and appease, Iran continues to create, and build, her nuclear arsenal.
That nuclear arsenal will have to be rendered useless... sooner, rather than later. The US knows it, Israel knows it, and the UN and Europe, both, know it. Of all those countries and international organizations mentioned here, the one other fact that is known by all, including Iran, is the simple fact that there are only two countries on the globe able to take Iran’s nuclear arsenal out. Yep. Those two countries would be… the United States and Israel.
Both the US and Israel are nuclear ready. Both understand that Iran cannot be allowed to actually create an Atomic bomb. Both countries know they must take action to prevent that. Plus, both countries know that the remainder of the world will publicly criticize their efforts at defanging Iran while secretly applauding the attacks on Iran’s nuclear laboratories and underground factories.
My parents used to say they didn’t much worry about my brother and I, as children, so long as they could hear us. But, as soon as we got quiet, they knew we were up to something. I would draw your attention to the near dead silence from Washington, and Tel Aviv, in recent months, concerning anything having to do with Iran.
Do not be surprised one morning, soon, when you turn on your radio, or TV, to catch the news as you have your breakfast, to hear frantic reports on unexplained underground explosions detected in the area of Iran. Or, reports from Iran that unmarked aircraft, or low flying cruise missles, attacked some non descript pharmaceutical plant or some Iranian government installation. The attack will be, of course, unprovoked.
The MSM will rush to the area and lap up the propaganda fed them by the Iranians and immediately begin sending satellite film footage of dead and wounded civilians. The “Blame America First” crowd will spring into action; the American Left will collapse in a fear-induced swoon! The Democrat Party will immediately complain that the President has gone and made those sweet, lovable, and friendly, Iranians mad at us, too. All very predictable… and all very real.
Agreed, the scenario above is not a pretty picture. But it is reality. And it is coming. Soon!
“Longstreet”
Why is the President backing off from his aggressive counter attack on the Democrats over the pullout of troops from Iraq? Why, for heaven’s sake?
If there is one thing I fault this President over, this is it. NEVER back off and NEVER back down! Go for the jugular, latch onto it, and do not turn loose ‘til the prey stops struggling!
The Ole “Pullout Party” has no intention of softening their attack. Why in the world should we?
Elections are just a few weeks away now in Iraq. The so-called "insurgents" are going to pour it on in the next few days and weeks. They will wreak as much havoc as they possibly can between now and then.
Let me see if I can explain something. I’m no military strategist, nor tactician. But most military, and ex-military types, see Iraq for what it is… a killing ground. It has been carefully designed that way by our military planners in the Pentegon.
The idea is to draw as many terrorists into Iraq as we can… and kill them there. Yes, there are more terrorists there today than there were when we invaded. That was what we planned. Remember the President said: “Bring it on!”. That was what he meant. Bring them on… to Iraq.
It’s simple, really. If we can get them to commit, in Iraq, and use as much of their resources there, and their personnel there, as possible, we will weaken their entire infrastructure. The added plus is… that we keep them occupied there… and away for the United States!
You see the box score in the local papers every day, or two, listing the number of Americans killed in Iraq. You never see the same type of box score listing the number of terrorists killed. The political Left would have a conniption fit if they knew how many of those people we have killed! They military learned its lesson with “body counts” in Vietnam. Never again.
Iraq is the chosen killing ground. They continue sending them… and we continue killing them. At some point attrition will catch up with the terrorists.
Granted, this is a bloody way to wage a war, but the dividends are worth it. Our causality rate is low. (Believe me… 2000 KIA’s in 3 years is extremely low.)
This is not the time to even think of pulling out. Now is not the time for the President to back off the pressure on the Democrats. They painted themselves into this corner, now force them to pay the price for it. If the Republicans don’t keep the pressure up you can be sure the Democrats will turn it back on them at the first opportunity. The Republicans will take the Democrats to the very edge of the cliff and then... fail to throw them off. Why is that? I don’t get it.
Soon the Republicans will have another opportunity to get the Democrats to commit hari-kari. It is looking more and more as if they intend to filibuster the nomination of Sam Alito to the Supreme Court. If they do, the Republicans would be well advised to bring the hammer down with the Constitutional Option and be done with it.
Many Republicans, including myself, are beginning to feel that we are wasting our time, and efforts, in supporting the Republican Party. Maybe we should create our own party… a Conservative Party, a party that will not hesitate when the chips are down. Something to think about, what?
"Longstreet"
San Franciscans Choose “Subjection” over Freedom!
So San Francisco has decided to give up its guns, huh? I suppose they’re gong to ask the French to protect them now that they have no way to resist those who did not give up their guns.
Somewhere, somehow, the people of San Francisco missed the expression: “An Armed man is a Free Man. An unarmed man is a subject.” Or, they have chosen to become subjects. Subjects of whom? Of anyone who is armed an is willing to impose his, or her, will upon the “subjects” of San Francisco.
Look, you may counter that San Francisco has a police department to protect them. Which world are you living in? Surely, it is not the world the rest of us reside in.
The stark truth is… the police cannot protect us. They never could. I have been a police officer, I know! It is incumbent, upon the individual, in a free society, to protect himself, or herself. But, you see, that goes against the “secular socialist” philosophy. In order for one to protect themselves they must become responsible for themselves. The people of San Francisco have just told the rest of the country, they are no longer willing to be responsible for themselves and they have thrown themselves upon the mercy of the people of America. How pathetic.
There is an old expression: Freedom stands on three boxes: the soapbox, the ballot box and the cartridge box. Take any one of those boxes away and you lose your freedom. San Francisco has just capitulated and surrendered their freedom.
Why is there such a rush to socialism mainly in the northeast and the extreme west of this nation? There is something fundamentally different about the folks who populate those regions from the remainder of America. They embrace socialism. They welcome it. They have an undeniable urge to merge into something bigger than themselves and lose themselves, and their identity, in that larger thing. Whatever that “thing” is. It smacks of insecurity. They seem to want, no… NEED a nanny!
Here in Middle America, and in the South, we can’t stand the idea of being less than an individual. We celebrate our ability to stand-alone and to defend our freedom with whatever means necessary. That includes firearms. But those folks in the northeast, and west, have lost that feeling of responsibility for oneself. They have turned their welfare over to the government. That is so uniquely un-American.
If there can truly be anything funny about such a move, it is that those who choose to give up responsibility for themselves adopt a “superior attitude” towards the rest of us. I cannot fathom that attitude. It would take a “shrink” to explain how one can become a “subject” of the state, yet feel superior towards those of us who choose to remain free.
There’s something sick about that.
“Longstreet”
(NOTE: THIS POST FIRST RAN A NUMBER OF WEEKS AGO.)Bill of Rights Amendment I:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Look closely at the above amendment. Do you see anything regarding separation of church and state? No? That’s because it isn’t there.
Now, before I dive headlong into to this post, allow me, please, to say that after years of wrestling with this, I have concluded that if the “separation clause” was, indeed, in the Constitution, I could probably support it. As it is, I haven’t that choice… because it simply isn’t there.
The Supreme Court is deciding an issue, I happen to believe, they have no authority to even consider. The case of the Ten Commandments displayed on public property, namely courthouse lawns and such. Elsewhere in the Constitution, it is plainly stated that if it is not in the Constitution, then the matter is left up to the states. That's anything not already in the Constitution!.
This issue should be a state matter… decided by each separate state’s legislatures and, when necessary, their state courts. 
What we have here is another case of the Supreme Court assuming powers it doesn’t have…again. When will the Congress grow the cajones to rein in that runaway court?
Maybe the time has come, if not it is surely approaching, when we have to convene a Constitutional Convention and clear up a few things. One would be to amend the Constitution to allow term limits for ALL Federal Judges including the Supreme Court Justices. The "insulation" of lifetime appointments has the effect of cutting them off from any contact with the real world, outside their tiny little world, and results in a disconnect with the American people. The same thing has happened to Congress. The answer to the Congressional disconnect? Term limits. Well, guess what, the Court ruled Term Limits are unconstitutional. I wonder why.
We are faced again with the oligarchy thing. Our freedoms are being eroded away and we have no recourse. To continue along this course is bound to end in a very unpleasant mess. I would advise the government to review the events of
the 1850’s with even closer attention to the events of 1861 through 1865. The underlying cause of that unpleasant period was overbearing government. The Congress and the Federal Judiciary would do well to consider that period in our history because, as we all know, history has a way of repeating itself. (The US government didn’t believe it could happen then, either.)
The people must have recourse. We are well past being tired of the legislation coming out of the Federal Courts including the Supreme Court.
The great unwashed, out here in the hinterlands, have begun the inevitable rumbling and the momentum will only build. Congress would do well to be attentive to these dissatisfied constituents and put the brakes on the Federal Courts. Congress has the power. The question is, are they men, and women, enough to do it?
Your Obedient Servant,
“Longstreet”
We ain’t leaving!!!
The US House of Representatives voted, overwhelmingly, last night to throw the Democrat's calls for cut and run tactics in Iraq back in their faces. The final vote was 403 to 3 not to remove our troops from Iraq. The US Senate also turned back a Democrat attempt, at roughly the same thing, earlier this week in the Senate.
So, suck it up Democrats! Get hold to your shaking psyches and screw-up the courage, from somewhere, to see this war through.
I hope now that we have this on record the Democrats will slink back to the shadows form whence they came. But they won’t.
We need to publish the official voting record from the Resolution in the US House last night. It is important for all voters to know who voted for, and who voted against, the Resolution to "cut and run".
The Resolution last night was a way for the Republicans to call the bluff of the Democrats and, for all intents and purposes say: “Put Up... or Shut Up.” The Democrats didn’t even have the guts to “put up” and vote the way they had been claiming they would. When the chips were down, the Democrats folded. When the going got tough, the Democrats sputtered out.
The Resolution in the House was a glove across the chops of the Democrats yesterday. They chose not to answer the challenge. They left the field in disgrace. It was a wonderful sight!
I am pleased, beyond words, that the Republicans did this. And I can see glimpses of the Republican Party we thought we elected. Now, if only they will drive the point of this political spear home and silence the "Whiners of the Left" once, and for all, on their cries for surrender in Iraq.
So, a furious bunch of Democrats went home for the two week Thanksgiving Break. A triumphant bunch of Republicans will be received with open arms and hugs of appreciation when they arrive back in their districts. I wonder how the Democrats wil be recieved???
The men and woman of the United States Military, in Iraq and Afghanistan, were watching this vote in the US House last night. They will be heartened and will understand that when they are told not to mind the jelly spined Democrats, who called for their surrender, that the Democrats do not even have the courage to go on the official record because they KNOW the American Public, the American Electorate, will condemn them for it. They do not have the courage of their convictions. Finally, finally, the American service man, and woman, will breath a sign of relief and know that back home, the good people of America still stand with them no matter how hard the US Media and the Democrats have tried to undermine that support.
Now, we say to the Military Commanders, take the leashes off our troops and let them go after the enemy… even if they have to cross the Syrian border, or the Iranian border, and being death and destruction to those terrorists who want so much to be martyrs. Let the US Military win this one. Do not take another victory from them… as you did in Vietnam.
To the politicians in Washington, we say, give them what they need, and get out of the way and they will bring us victory in Iraq.
One other thing: get the US media out of Iraq. We can’t trust them anymore than we can the terrorists.
“Longstreet”
. This is now.
