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“There Are Many More Like Me . . .”

by Ray on December 28, 2009 · 0 comments

in Terrorism

“There Are Many More Like Me . . .”

The would-be assassin of the 278 innocents aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, made that boast/threat after his bombing attempt failed due to a faulty detonator.

I just hope and pray that the FBI and CIA have a sufficient supply of Hershey bars to entice Mr. Abdulmutallab to “tell all” and spare the lives of others among us whose greatest sin might be a desire to travel to visit loved ones. Heaven forbid that anyone might even consider making dear Mr. Abdulmutallab (who is, after all, only alleged to have attempted a terrorist act) uncomfortable in any way. Only rightwing zealots would even think of waterboarding. The mere suggestion of such uncomfortable acts is ridiculous when we all know that Hershey bars and double frequent flyer points for the flight he almost blew up will surely provide enough “incentive” for Abdulmutallab to spill his guts.

Dear Mr. Abdulmutallab, as you lift your pretty little Muslim-terrorist head from your soft pillow this morning, my suggestion would be that you unfurl your little Prayer Rug, point it in the direction of Mecca, drop to your knees, and thank Allah that George Bush is not President! Not to fear, you will live to fly again. Those promised virgins are still within your reach . . .

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ObamaLand, The Movie

by Ray on September 9, 2009

in Big Government,Liberty,Videos

The direction in which President Obama is currently pointing us is so drastically far removed from anything any of our Founding Fathers could have imagined, that we here at Liberty’s Army thought a little video contrasting the two different paths might be useful. Although we certainly hope you enjoy “ObamaLand, The Movie”, more importantly we hope it reinforces the need for activism – – No More “Mr. Nice Guy”! No More “Silent Majority”! Now is the time to make our voices be heard . . . If not now . . . when?

Mr. President: This Bud’s On Us!

by Ray on August 23, 2009 · 2 comments

in Big Government,Economics,Obama Administration

As President Obama joins his family for some quality time together during a week-long vacation at the exclusive Blue Heron Farms, many are suggesting that the $50,000 per week rental (paid for personally by the President) sends the wrong message. Critics contend that with the unemployment rate approaching 10% nationally, such extravagance proves that the President is not able to identify with the “common” man.

Here at Liberty’s Army we feel that such criticism is not only unwarranted, but also unwise. We feel the financial burden of the vacation should be borne entirely by the taxpayer and that, indeed, considering all he’s been through to this point, that the week-long vacation should be extended to last 186.48 weeks!

Do the math:

“. . . an administration official told Reuters the 10-year budget deficit projection will jump by about $2 trillion to roughly $9 trillion from an original forecast of $7.1 trillion.”  Think of that – – – only six months of Mr. Obama’s irresponsible, sophomoric, socialistic, rookie fiscal blunders, costs $9+ trillion!

Cost of 3-year 4-month (balance of the President’s first and only term – 186.48 weeks) rental of Blue Herron Farms: $9+ million.

Benefit to the nation to have him kick back, put his feet up, light up a Camel and enjoy his family, forgetting about Presidential duties: PRICELESS!

So, pu-l-eeeze. Mr. President – – – Relax! This Bud’s on us!!!

kickback

U.S. As Miss Congeniality?

by Ray on July 26, 2009 · 1 comment

in Media

Step aside, Sandra Bullock! Barack is coming atcha!

In what is likely to become regarded as President Obama’s crowning glory, the world press (including our own MSM) has widely reported that a recently released Pew Research Poll shows that the “World” loves us much more with Obama as President than it ever did before.

Woo-hoo!!! Let’s all run out and buy something Chinese to show the world our appreciation! Here are some sample headlines:

ABC News: “CONFIDENCE IN OBAMA LIFTS U.S. IMAGE AROUND THE WORLD.”
San Francisco Chronicle: “Poll: U.S. image abroad surges under Obama”
Dallas Morning News: “World opinion of U.S. improves since Obama’s election”
USA Today: “Obama’s ‘rock star’ persona boosts U.S.”

No shock there! What’s not to like about the America of Barack Obama’s dreams? With the exception of the Brits and the Israelis, we could expect most of the “world” to rub their collective hands together with glee and break into a rousing rendition of “It’s A Wonderful World” at our demise. France would gladly exhume and return the bodies of all Americans who died saving French derrières if, in so doing, they could be relieved of any future perceived obligation to say or even think anything nice about us. In spite of (and maybe even because of) our billions spent on foreign and humanitarian aid to the rest of the world, we are still much despised.

But you know all that already! It doesn’t surprise you in the least that what our “rock star” president has brought us (in addition to near double-digit unemployment; unprecedented assaults on our Constitution; record-setting debt and deficits; and a clear path to socialism–illuminated by the fires of Healthcare Hell) is a warm and fuzzy feeling from the rest of the world.

What you might not know and what might just surprise you, however, is that according to that same Pew Research Poll, the Muslim world now has more confidence in Barack Obama than they do in Osama Bin Laden. Interesting.

That, of course, begs the question: confidence that our president will do what? What was it they previously had confidence in Bin Laden to do? Do they view Barry and Bin as sharing the same goals and aspirations, but put Barry a step or two ahead of Bin along his career path?

For my part, though I hate to disrupt the pageantry of the moment, I wouldn’t trade one ounce of my children’s birthright and future as Americans for all the pounds of “world praise” that either BO or BL could heap on my plate.

Ironically, Iran…

by Ray on June 24, 2009 · 1 comment

in Iran,Revolution 2.0

Neda Soltani

One needn’t examine today’s headlines about Iran too closely to trip over a good bit of irony cascading from those nifty little fonts marching across your monitor or leaping off the front page of your paper.

Iran, our nemesis….

Iran, the nuclear threat….

Iran, the sponsor of terror worldwide…

Iran, the best example of the power of the will of the people??

Wait a minute, here! Something is terribly wrong! How on earth can Iran be simultaneously our nemesis and our inspiration?

The answer is quite simple: there is a huge difference between the Iranian people and the terroristic theocracy that rules the country and threatens the peace of the world. It is quite obvious that the mullahs and their surrogates do not represent the views and will of the Iranian people.

As interesting, inspiring, tragic and, at times, exhilarating as the events in Iran today might be, they remain, ultimately, remote and aloof from our everyday lives . . .

Or are they?

Is the youth-led Iranian Revolution a harbinger of possibilities yet to be realized here in America? As fluid as the situation in both countries might currently be, one fact is indisputable: pushed to the edge, the “Silent Majority” can and will indeed be heard. “Yes We Can” takes on an entirely new meaning when viewed through the prism of events in Iran.

Frustration and anguish are universal human emotions. In Iran, the very awareness of freedom has been sufficient to create an unquenchable thirst for more. Glutted with a 200+ year history of freedom-taken-for-granted, Americans are only just now experiencing an inexplicable tingle of fear that much more is at stake than was evident in the fall of 2008. “Change” for the sake of change, after six months of the Obama administration, holds less allure than was imaginable in November, 2008.

Let’s face it: neither George W. Bush nor John McCain could hold a candle to Barack Obama in oration. We so long for the beauty of the spoken word…Though poetry may have left our lives, we somehow or another recognize its place in the order of things. Words, well-placed, are that which inspire. They not only provide hope, but, more importantly, offer evidence that mankind is not banal, not petty, not vindictive, not lost . . . Words allow us the luxury of soaring, as we all feel we were once intended to soar. The problem, of course, is that words are only words.

Words are both consistently and persistently, just words. Albeit trite, I feel compelled to remind, that actions speak so much louder than words. The current Administration’s words have been lofty . . . and they have indeed inspired. However, the “pudding’ derived therefrom lacks proof.. So far, all that we’ve actually witnessed is an epidemic of insane government deficit spending, an absolute reticence to assert American influence, and, finally, an embarrassing proclivity to apologize to the world for who we are and that for which we stand.

Where is the proclamation of solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Fighters? Where is the condemnation of the same sort of theocratic fanaticism that brought down the Twin Towers and created 3,000 grieving families? Barack – - – We don’t hear you!

“Death to America”??? You bunch of power-hungry bastards! Death to YOU!!! Your own people condemn you! Your days are surely numbered!

Remember Neda Soltani! The purest of souls and one for whom we shall forever mourn . . .

Check out FoxNews Report and video here:

Neda Soltan, Young Woman Hailed as Martyr in Iran, Becomes Face of Protests

The Harlot Of The Harbor

by Ray on May 22, 2009 · 9 comments

in War

We could wander, perhaps whistling, past graveyards all over the globe this Memorial Day— in Vietnam; in Europe: France, Italy, England, Belgium; in the Pacific:  Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines; in the Middle East: Iraq, Afghanistan; and in the U.S.: Concord, Valley Forge, Arlington, and so many more. We might pause to ponder the enormity of the sacrifice attached to each one of those ever-so-neatly arranged little white crosses. Row upon row ––– an endless stream of very still, very young Americans. Children who never had the chance to be remembered for their special talents or their craft, or even for their loves and foibles. Special talents and abilities, loves and lovers, follies and foibles – –all those “might have beens” – – were entombed with their young bodies. They sacrificed their all to protect the freedom they’d been raised to hold dear. The very freedom about which we, the living, often so glibly speak, but so seldom actually comprehend.

As we tiptoe by, a chorus of bewildered voices may well up from that hallowed earth to plaintively ask, “Is this what it was all for?” “Is this that for which I laid down the only life I’ve ever had or ever will have? Tell me – - how goes it with my ‘Land of the Free?’ Does the flag I vowed to protect still fly head and shoulders above all others? Does my country remain the Hope of the world? Tell me, please! Though I’ve lost touch, I feel an unease in the land.”

While kindness pleads for a place in my response, a sense of duty and an allegiance to forthrightness ultimately commands the day.

“Although I’ve no desire to alarm you . . . I must report that that very selfsame ‘unease’ of which you speak, is running rampant throughout the land. There’ve been some changes.

The Grand Lady in the harbor –– you know, the one that symbolized that which was best about America? Her once proud head is now bowed in sorrow. She thinks her vision impaired, for she sees less of the familiar landscape that once was  her purview. Rubble stands where once there was life. Yet the leader of the land frolics about, vapidly apologizing to the world for the collective ‘sin’ of our refusal as a nation to allow such transgressions to go unpunished!

Would he transform her into the Harlot of the Harbor? ‘Arrogant’, he calls us! Was it ‘arrogance’, I ask, that provided you your wee slice of eternal foreign real estate? I think not. ‘Twas the currency of your blood that financed the current crop of Freedom – – not just in America, but throughout the world. That is one American currency which must never be devalued”

“Surely you jest!”, say they who’ve given their best. “Change for the sake of change has no value. Has he forgotten our address? Have you all forgotten? The only reason we provide sustenance to French flowers, rather than to the daisies of our mothers’ liking, is our love of that which is quintessentially American: freedom. Given a choice, we’d rest a bit closer to home. But we make no apologies for our addiction to air that is free, to governess that empowers rather than enslaves. We coddle not our enemies. We curry not the favor of the world at the expense of our principles. ‘Don’t tread on me!’ is a way of life, not just an historic slogan!”

Cowed by their vigor, somewhat abashed, I meekly say, “Sorry – - – I guess I let it happen.”

“We ask but one favor….”, say they. “Spread the word: Freedom is never free.”

In solemn and loving memory of those who have provided me my freedom, I spread their word.

7,992 Young Patriots Far From Home

7,992 Young Patriots Far From Home

Transparency Exposed

by Ray on May 4, 2009 · 5 comments

in Barak Obama,Politics

There is trouble afoot in Obamaland. Certain right-wing extremists are taking exception to Obama’s orchestrated revelation of sensitive information from this nation’s “secret” spy agencies. Obama, obviously relishing the opportunity to repent on behalf of “W”, subscribes to the belief that confession is “good for the soul” . . . that we’ll all be “better off” for his current orgy of gut-spilling. Perhaps even safer. Certainly more socially acceptable to the Europeans, those impeccably credentialed bastions of civility and fair play (setting aside, of course, vague memories of the Bastille, the Tower of London, and a few other anomalies.)

As previously mentioned, there are some cretins among us who feel that perhaps secret spy agencies might qualify for an exemption from the “Obama Transparency Rule”. After all, there have been past exceptions (quite a few, actually). The most notable of such exceptions that comes to mind is the “don’t ask, don’t tell” motif with which Obama has decorated the circumstances and place of his birth. And if total opacity is judged to be the proper level of “transparency” for such mundane matters as one’s legal qualification to assume the office of the most powerful leader on earth, perhaps the activities of secret spy agencies should also remain “opaque”.

The inference that we as a people are somehow or other miraculously “safer” due to Obama’s regurgitation of government secrets is an insult to the intelligence of all but the most liberal among us (… one can’t insult what’s just not there!)

A skittish, demoralized CIA is the answer to every Jihadist’s prayer. Apparently, Obama really is a messiah . . . to some.