Ronald Reagan and other good guys…
Ronald Reagan may not have been the most brilliant
president we’ve ever had, but his heart was in the right place and, there was
no doubt, that he was an American.
Here’s a few quotes from our 40th
President: “Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their
lives.” That, to me, sounds like the
opposite of what the current occupant of the Oval Office is all about. Another quote goes like this…”We must reject
the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the
lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is
accountable for his actions.” How can
society be responsible for mentally disturbed people, or for people that are
indoctrinated to hate America
and do us harm? A gun in the hands of a
sane person, one who has no hate in his/her heart, will probably do no
harm. The recent shooting in San Bernardino is an
excellent example of this. California has very
strict gun laws, but the killers had plenty of weapons, so the laws didn’t
bother them at all. They had been
inculcated to violence against America,
so it wasn’t OUR society that did them wrong, it was the training they received
somewhere else.
Thomas
Jefferson, a brilliant visionary, also had a few pertinent things to say, and
remember, he was a century(at least) ahead of our present troubles. He said, “For a people who are free, and who
mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.” His words were meant to get back to England and a
despotic King, but they are just as noteworthy today. Something else he said was “Our country is
now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to
destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its
necessary consequence.” You have to ask
yourself, how did he know that we would aid and abet our own destruction by
importing barbarians that have killing Americans uppermost in their minds? The consolidation of power in the executive
branch of our government has been allowed to take place because the Congress
has not done their job, which is to rein in the lawless
occupant of the White
House. Why they seem to rubber-stamp
his every wish is beyond me.
One
of my personal heroes is JFK and not just because he was in the Navy. He had a few memorable things to say
also. One is “The cost of freedom is
always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never
choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” As mentioned above, Congress seems to have
gotten the idea that you need to go along to get along, and that’s not what America is
about. We are a nation founded on
certain principles that were, at the time, contrary to the popular belief…and
we turned out to be the greatest nation on earth…ever! Something
else that JFK said was “The
world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to
abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.” If you think about it, almost any nation, the
US
included, that would drop a nuclear weapon could very well set off a
chain-reaction of other nations dropping their own bombs and THAT, according to
NewScientist.com could usher in a nuclear winter. A regional exchange of relatively small
nuclear weapons could plunge the world into a decade-long “nuclear winter”,
destroying agriculture and killing millions, according to a new study. Weapons experts to consider that small-scale
nuclear exchanges are now more likely than the massive US-Soviet exchanges
feared during the Cold War. In the
1980s, scientists calculated that such exchanges would put enough smoke into
the atmosphere to shade the Earth from the Sun, causing a nuclear winter.
Now scientists have
re-calculated the likelihood of nuclear winter using modern, vastly improved
climate models and a more likely modern scenario for small-scale nuclear war.
In short, we could be looking at
an event that would bring about the end of mankind. Period.
There
are many people, of differing beliefs, that populate the earth and if we start
with that as a given fact the rest of this becomes logical. To date we have not learned to live on other
planets, so we must learn to live, together, on this one. Any one group that threatens the existence of
all, must be dealt with, and in a manner that would preclude them doing
anything to jeopardize the rest of us.
If mankind is to continue, and continue to move forward, action would
seem to be the watchword here.
One
last quote, and this from Lawrence Eagleburger, “One nuclear war is going to be
the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I
just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.” Mr. Eagleburger was a diplomat during the
George H.W. Bush administration. Can
there be any doubt that, unless we are careful, we may be rushing headlong to
our own destruction?
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