Freedom Isn't Free
by Jay Dubya

I feel inspired and patriotic every time I see a car's back bumper sticker 
featuring an American flag stating, "Freedom Isn't Free!" The moral clarity of 
those words rings as true as the Liberty Bell. Those Americans that do not 
fathom the significance of the motto Freedom Isn't Free suffer from the very 
problematic "victim/slave mentality," which ultimately will become a future 
reality should more citizens not heed the simple message the sage language 
conveys.

Yes it indeed bears repeating, "Freedom Is Not Free!" Its acquisition by our 
Founding Fathers from King George's England involved struggle; its maintenance 
throughout the first two and a quarter centuries of our Great Republic required 
sacrifice, and its continuation into the twenty-first century demands 
perseverance. Wise people fully realize that struggle, sacrifice and 
perseverance are the vital characteristics of freedom, democracy and 
independence.

In the late 1930s complaisant European nations were lulled into the jaws of the 
very dangerous "Victim/Slave Mentality." Weak democracies tried placating and 
accommodating the tyrannical proponents of the Communist, Socialist and Fascist 
ideologies and Europe soon found itself in jeopardy with maniacs like Stalin, 
Hitler and Mussolini threatening the existence of taken-for-granted freedom and 
human rights. Thanks to the intervention and the military might of the United 
States Hitler and Mussolini were ultimately defeated (despite incredible 
adversity) and Europe was mercifully salvaged from the scourge of Fascism. But 
Nazi Fascism did not go away meekly. Its defeat required intensive struggle, 
loss of American treasure, sacrifice and perseverance with over 50 million 
military and civilian deaths occurring during the widespread devastation.

Yes, during War World II the social axiom "Freedom Isn't Free!" was definitely 
validated and verified. Millions of innocent people became "victims and/or 
slaves." But nearly fifty years removed from the terrible Holocaust today's 
gullible anti-war idealists can't logically fathom how and why it is easier to 
prevent a madman like Hitler (or Saddam Hussein) from threatening our existence 
than to eliminate his or her power once the madman gets on a conquest roll. 
"Prevention is always much better than cure!" is a good maxim to always 
remember.

Throughout its history the United States has selflessly liberated more people 
from tyranny than any other civilization this world has ever known and America 
truly represents the greatest force for good the this planet has yet yielded. 
And following World War II U.S. benevolence financed the rebuilding of Europe 
through the Marshall Plan and during the Reagan Presidency the world witnessed 
the decline of the Soviet Empire and the relinquishment of Russian Communism 
dominating Eastern Europe. Thanks to American perseverance democratic capitalism 
emerged triumphant over its very formidable totalitarian rival.

And even today America has liberated fifty million people in Afghanistan and in 
Iraq from the Taliban and from Saddam Hussein's cruel rule but despite the fact 
that the seeds of democracy have been sown in neighboring Lebanon and in 
Palestine (not to mention Libya abandoning its nuclear weapons ambitions) many 
critics abroad and at home cynically insist that the U.S. is to blame for 
virtually every conflict throughout the world. These "blame-America-first" 
skeptics assert that when New York City's Twin Towers were destroyed on 
September 11th, 2001 "the chickens came home to roost!" These misguided cynical 
pundits indeed are modern-day possessors of the "Victim/Slave Mentality," for if 
and when a majority of Americans think and believe as they do then that 
certainly will be when this great nation will be vulnerable to takeover from 
dictators, from repressive foreign ideologies and from Fascist Jihadists. These 
contemporary European and American anti-war Apologists do not (and will never) 
understand the maxim, "Freedom isn't Free!"

The anti-war Apologists in Europe and those in America inadvertently and naively 
align themselves with the Arab Press and with the Arab Street by proclaiming 
that Al-Qaeda and its related cells only attack institutions and people in the 
United States and in Great Britain because the two long-time allies have a 
military presence in Iraq. The popular falsehood that the anti-war faction 
supports is that the Jihadists will only leave the U.S. and England alone when 
our forces jointly pull out of Iraq.

The best advice to honor is that we shouldn't give the "power of discretion" to 
maniacal anarchists. Yet the foolish possessors of the "Victim/Slave Mentality" 
don't realize that the crazed Muslim Jihadists really want U.S. and British 
militaries out of Iraq so that "the enemy" can organize a Middle East Islamic 
Revolution, turn Iraq into a post-war 1990s-type Afghanistan with a Taliban-
style regime in command, reinsert a Baathist-oriented government in Iraq (with 
the nefarious goals of unifying the entire Middle East Arab block against the 
West) and then systematically extorting Europe and America with hundred-dollar-
a-barrel oil (to weaken and then paralyze our economies).

The craven Apologists must comprehend once and for all that "Freedom Is Not 
Free!" and that the several thousand American soldiers that have lost their 
lives in Iraq have not died in vain. (Please remember that over 450,000 American 
troops had died in WWII). Those brave troops currently serving in the U.S. 
military believe in their mission and fully know that true freedom involves 
struggle, sacrifice and perseverance.

The easy-way-out Apologist "Victim/Slave Mentality" has no vision of what the 
world would be like without the United States economy and military or what this 
planet's future would be like if the United States did not take the leadership 
role in preventing Jihadism and anarchy from spreading their poisonous tentacles 
around the globe. The last thing that radical Islamic fundamentalists want is 
the establishment of democracies (like those being instituted in Afghanistan and 
Iraq) to grant Middle East Muslims freedom and individual rights.

Let's analyze in a time-line exactly what the Apologist's philosophy of ignoring 
the terrorists and hoping that their insidious cancer will cure itself has 
recently accomplished. On February 26, 1993 during the Clinton Administration 
radical Islamic extremists targeted New York City's Twin Towers with a truck 
bomb that exploded, killing six innocent "VICTIMS" and injuring a thousand 
others. Attorney General Janet Reno called the reprehensible blatant execution 
of terrorism "a criminal act." Without having their barbarous evil deed avenged 
(again during the Clinton Administration) Al-Qaeda terrorists on August 7, 1998 
blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and in Tanzania killing 224 people (including 12 
Americans) and injuring 5,000 others. Then again during the Clinton 
Administration Al Qaeda proponents in Yemen drove a boat into the U.S.S. Cole 
killing 17 American sailors. And who could forget the infamous Blackhawk Down 
debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia? Bill Clinton's Administration did little to 
counteract the series of unwarranted attacks, merely treating them as "criminal 
acts" and not as violent terroristic acts of war against the United States of 
America.

Then of course on September 11, 2001 the Twin Towers came down when a pair of 
jet airplanes used as missiles impacted the structures and over three thousand 
innocent civilian "VICTIMS" perished. President George W. Bush instantly 
declared war on terrorism. But U.S. Apologists believe and state that the 
terroristic acts are isolated angry Arab reactions to exploitive U.S. foreign 
policy and that America is to blame for their implementation.

Get real now you anti-war dissenters! Sometimes war is necessary to stop 
tyranny, to thwart terrorism, and to keep Americans "FREE." But liberal elements 
of the U.S. Press have aligned with the Arab Press and the Arab Street by 
condemning the "War on Terrorism" as being "Bush inspired." But this War on 
Terror has gotten Usama Bin Laden out of his comfort zone and hiding in caves 
and safe houses and it has gotten Saddam Hussein out of power and into U.S. 
custody awaiting trial as a diabolical mass murderer of hundreds of thousands of 
innocent Kurds. Please remember from the past that because of greedy dictators 
like Hitler and Mussolini that over 50 million people had needlessly died in 
World War II. And if Americans don't want to see their children or grandchildren 
become "VICTIMS" of terrorists or "SLAVES" to dictators, then they should 
wholeheartedly support the War on Terror and not foolishly give aid and comfort 
to this country's enemies.

The resident U.S. Apologists argue that (if the U.S. does not withdraw its 
forces from Iraq) terrorists will continue to punish the U.S. and Great Britain 
by hitting famous landmarks and/or soft targets and that the suicide bombers and 
assassins will continue to reward France and Germany by favoring those countries 
and not committing attacks in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris and Marseille. And 
conversely those same anti-war advocates glaringly demonstrate through their 
quixotic rhetoric that they are willfully conceding power to our declared 
enemies by empowering and emboldening terrorists, who do not represent in any 
way, shape or form any organized legitimate government. The terrorists want the 
U.S. out of the entire Middle East so that they can take over and control the 
Arab oil. The jealous Arab terrorists are the true "Imperialists."

The terrorists are indeed encouraged and emboldened when they can commit acts of 
carnage and destruction by destroying trains and killing people in Madrid and 
then consequently influencing the outcome of Spanish elections. The terrorists 
are further encouraged and emboldened when they can interrupt the G-8 Conference 
in Scotland and simultaneously indirectly showing that the 2012 Olympics in 
London could be in harms way should the British government not accede to their 
militant demands to vacate Iraq.

And on the home front the resident U.S. Apologists (and anti-war bleeding 
hearts) are showing the same apathy to danger that the populations of Europe had 
exercised prior to Hitler's plot to dominate Europe and to threaten freedom all 
over the world. The Apologists are ignoring the underlying truth in the 
statement "Freedom Isn't Free!" and history attests (through its habit of 
repeating itself) that nations that don't oppose tyranny and Fascism soon either 
become a "victim" of it or a "slave" to it!

And now during a time of worldwide crisis some of America's formerly trusted 
allies that had been liberated from the WWII "Victim/Slave" existence are 
turning their backs on the United States. But the USA is not deterred because 
there's something marvelously American about mustering up sufficient courage and 
fortitude for standing up for and doing what is right and for doing what is 
necessary in order to confront imminent national and international challenges. 
When a tough and dirty assignment needs to be done, thank God that America is 
there to do it!

While the American and the Arab Press are prattling about inhumane treatment of 
"prisoners" (a poor euphemism for "war combatants") at Abu Ghraib and at 
Guantanimo Bay, the prevalent anti-war "Victim/Slave Mentality" wants to protect 
the civil rights of terrorists that are bent on destroying our civilization when 
the captured terrorists aren't even U.S. citizens protected by the U.S. 
Constitution and its First Ten Amendments. And when told this salient fact, the 
anti-war sophists switch gears and maintain that the "prisoners" deserve Geneva 
Convention rights even though they don't represent any country or army and don't 
wear military uniforms but merely desire to eliminate and exterminate all 
aspects of Western Civilization.

But despite the lack of support from France, from Russia and from Germany, the 
United States wisely refuses to legitimize avowed enemies of this country and 
contrary to sane reason the naïve Apologists will continue equivocating their 
talking-points that express that terrorists are entitled to fair trials in 
courts of law when their prime objective is to eradicate all facets of Western 
law and order. The anti-war bleeding hearts won't be satisfied until they 
themselves are either blown up or become "Victims and/or Slaves" to lunatic 
Islamic anarchists. But then in the final analysis it will be too late for the 
Apologists to moralize, to politicize, to prevaricate and to give moral 
equivalency to the enemy because their freedom to oppose will have been abruptly 
extinguished. 

Most European nations have been experiencing zero population growth so to 
satisfy the demand for low-paying jobs France and Germany have aggressively 
imported large Arab populations that have not been thoroughly assimilated into 
their cultures. The French and the German governments don't want to antagonize 
the already alienated Arabs so their option-of-choice has been to tolerate the 
minority residents, many of whom listen weekly in mosques to the inflammatory 
diatribes of Muslim clerics that espouse the decline and fall of Western 
democratic nations.

But most astute practical Americans grimly recognize that tough times and a 
determined enemy require struggle, sacrifice (in lives and money) along with 
steadfast perseverance. Terrorists must be ferreted out in the U.S. and abroad 
and moderate Muslim leaders must show the courage to denounce their clandestine 
activities and to help authorities identify Islamic militants and radicals. Hate 
speech extolling anarchy and violence does not constitute free speech!

And when the misguided Apologists cry out that the rights of these "suspected 
criminals" are being jeopardized, then the sane silent majority should stand 
together in unity and volley back with conviction, "The rights of the majority 
must prevail for the welfare of our country. These demented extremists being 
identified are not suspected criminals; they are suspected enemies-at-war with 
the United States."

The terrorist bombers of today have much in common with the Japanese kamikaze 
pilots that committed suicide during the dying days of World War II. Their' 
extreme willingness to die crashing airplanes into battleships (while taking 
along as many Americans as they could) only confirms the fact that the martyrs 
had accepted in their minds that the defeat of Imperial Japan was imminent. The 
present-day Islamic radicals realize that the Taliban, the Baathists and other 
repressive Arab regimes will eventually totter and fall once democracy takes 
hold in Afghanistan and in Iraq. That is why the terrorists are committing these 
desperate heinous acts of violence. The fanatics know that their time is just 
about over and that the sand in their hourglasses is rapidly expiring.

But the vocal Apologists want the USA to fail in Iraq while the Bush 
Administration is directly staring into victory's face. The Apologists all share 
the fatal "Victim/Slave Mentality," for that tragedy is what will surely happen 
to the USA, France, England and Germany should America falter in its resolve. 
Then America would sometime in the future fall prey to a newly appeared 
treacherous dictator with designs of conquering the world or fall prey to a 
radical predatory ideology determined to snuff out our revered human rights. 
That's precisely why "Freedom Isn't Free" and that's exactly why the 
preservation of liberty, independence, and civil rights essentially requires 
struggle, sacrifice and perseverance, three vital characteristics that the 
Apologists sadly lack and shirk.

The next major disaster performed by desperate terrorists might (in comparison) 
make the Twin Towers destruction seem like a minor event. The fanatics 
avariciously desire to get their hands on chemical, on biological and on atomic 
weapons capable of killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. It really doesn't 
matter to them that these targeted people are ordinary civilians with ordinary 
families. Their wicked goal is to see Manhattan, Washington DC, Chicago, 
Philadelphia or Los Angeles totally obliterated. We cannot allow this insanity 
to happen even though our necessary solution might endanger the rights of 
"suspected war criminals" that think your neighborhood is their battlefield. If 
the anti-war "Victim/Slave Mentality" should ever become the majority opinion in 
America, then regrettably the lyrics of the rock group Kansas would become 
prophetic truth, "All we are is dust in wind!"

Let's be wary and vigilant and do our best to not permit horrific catastrophe to 
happen! Wake up all you American Apologists while you still have precious breath 
in your lungs to perform your pathetic apologizing! It's now time for all 
Americans to openly acknowledge that Freedom Isn't Free and that these dire 
times require the tried and true virtues of struggle, sacrifice, courage and 
perseverance.

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The terrorists' have an evil end game that needs to be disclosed and addressed. 
Here is the terrorists' end game in a nutshell. The maniacs' headed by Usama Bin 
Laden are modern-day Fascists using Islamic Jihad as their cover and as their 
modus operandi in an effort to make their evil scheme appear legitimate. 
Crashing jet airplanes into skyscrapers and detonating explosives in 
metropolitan subways are merely highly visible means of accomplishing their 
sinister secret goal.

The determined lunatics want to get their paws on chemical, biological and 
nuclear weapons of mass destruction in order to kill hundreds of thousands of 
innocent people and effectively frighten and traumatize millions of others. But 
the acquisition and usage of these reprehensible weapons of mass destruction is 
only another means of achieving their evil end game.

The shrewdly concealed wicked end game of the terrorists is to destabilize and 
inevitably cripple the U.S. economy. This diabolical achievement will cause 
widespread chaos in the United States ultimately leading to a second Great 
Depression. The U.S. will be the first domino to tumble that will soon make 
England, France, Japan, Russia and Germany totter and then fall into a Worldwide 
Depression.

A future power vacuum would then be created similar to the one that existed 
after 1929 right before Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin came to power prior to 
World War II. In a similar future scenario the United States and the Free World 
would then be vulnerable to the ascension of Fascist dictators and their Islamic 
radical ideologies. The Muslim/Islamic suicide/homicide bombers are just naive 
pawns that Bin Laden and his confederates are exploiting as part of their 
sinister plot to take over all Arab oil and to eventually rule the entire world. 
The Muslim religion is simply Bin Laden's cover (and the Jihadists lying 
justification) for worldwide conquest and for Arab triumph over the West.

The Jihadists want to unify the Arab World against the West and then extort 
Europe, Japan and the U.S. with hundred-dollar-a-barrel oil to help bring about 
the decline and fall of Western and Eastern civilizations. You don't see Bin 
Laden blowing himself up now, do you? The maniac has found gullible suckers 
(young idealistic martyrs) in the Arab World to use and manipulate as tools to 
accomplish his repugnant purpose, a devastating worldwide depression allowing 
him and his cohorts to ascend to tyrannical power. Wake up World! The Jihadists 
are the ones that want to take control of the Arab World and its oil, not the 
Americans! The terrorists are the damned bad guys, not the Americans!

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