I continue to see articles from the Associated Press and others that shamelessly push their anti-military, anti-recruiter, and anti-recruiters in schools agenda without an ounce of effort to provide any evidence to dispute the essence of the claims in their articles.
As I will always say, it is their right to use free speech to push any agenda they wish, but if everyday people allow the media to push an agenda of any kind that is not based in fact and evidence, and yet continue to support said media, how can everyday people ever hope to be informed of the truth by the media, politicians, or anyone in the public eye?
Just because someone has a better writing style, or some snazzy vocabulary that enables the masses to get all riled up in an anti-war agenda, doesn't make any of the report factual, or prudent. It doesn't make them smarter for printing it, nor you for reading it. What makes one more intelligent is the ability to discern fact from fiction, truth from lies, and more importantly, and more difficult for the public at large, discerning half truths, from half lies.
This isn't always the publics fault however. Between working 10 hours a day, and taking care of families, one cannot be blamed for being a little lazy and trusting in our media to provide us with facts. That is until you decide to take up a cause purported by said media. Once you cross that line from merely informing yourself, by passively digesting your media of choice, into actively pushing their agenda on their behalf, you have accepted a level of automatic responsibility, and you now have a responsibility to check the facts FIRST! You have a responsibility to ensure anyone that you may influence to your way of thinking, and by default that media outlets way of thinking will be on the right side.
This can be difficult because if you are not an expert in a given area, where are you supposed to get the facts from. Isn't that what the media is for after all? Aren't they supposed to be the ones that investigate, put two and two together and ensure that it totals up to four on OUR behalf? Yes, they are!
Unfortunately each time we allow a journalist, news paper, website, news radio, cable news network, politician, actor, or even Lindsey Lohan to inform us in any manor as a public, without insisting they do it based on facts, we let America slip farther and farther away.
Even more disconcerting we let the idea of America slip away, and we do so at the peril of not only ourselves and our children, but in reality no less than the peril of the world! For what other nation on this earth will take up the cause of freedom and sacrifice not only for their own benefit, but so often on behalf on others?
What other nation on earth will stand up and say enough when the Nazi's or the Communist, or the Fascist, or the Racist, or the just plain cruel, try to force their will and cruelty upon other people and if required, be able to back it up? No other nation could do so without the help of this nation! To think otherwise, is just plainly absurd!
To fight evil requires great power and great resolve. Many nations of this Earth are made up of greatly resolute peoples, but may lack relevant power. Other nations may have great power, but lack any resolve to help those in need.
Yes, it only takes a little dose of realistic, rational thinking to understand America is uniquely positioned at this time, and on this Earth to help millions upon millions that would suffer at the hands of true tyrants. America may do so not merely by her military might, or resolve. She isn't able to conquer every cruel dictator or prevent every evil genocide on this planet, but what She can do, has done, and continues to do for millions around the world is provide hope. America offers a better hope for humanity and freedom than any other country on Earth.
This isn't to say America is perfect, or the military is perfect. No one, no people, no organization anywhere at anytime, except maybe Jesus, was, or ever will be perfect. That fact is not an out from Americas responsibilities to do what can be done in the name of good. A bad political decision in the past, or poor leadership, does not mean that we are forever relinquished from doing our part to help those that need it most, anymore than a bad cop, makes all cops bad, or an arsonist fireman, makes all firemen bad. If your house catches on fire, you will still call 911, even if you saw the bad news the night before on Channel 5 ACTION News! Action News. That right there says it all!
Anyway, if you can understand that we are like the chaperones at the dance, and that is just the way it is, like it or not, then you can begin to accept our role in the world for what it truly is. That doesn't mean the dance will always be perfect, and that the prom queen won't get screwed, but at the same time, the school can't just throw in the towel and say, "o.k, we'll just let everyone get screwed."
We are not perfect, and are not always right, but we are still responsible and cannot abandon our duty. We cannot say that a failure of leadership by a President releases us from our obligations as a nation, or more specifically as a people, to do that which we must if we intend to ever help those whom cannot help themselves.
No, any such failure by our leaders, should only harden our resolve, and embolden our public to demand BETTER leadership, and better results. It should make us ask why was the Principal so negligent at the dance, and how can we ensure the chaperones do a better job next time, not lead a rebellion to close the school on one end, and say what the heck, let all the girls get screwed on the other!
I read these stories like this one from the Associated Press,
(AP; SUN TIMES), and I wonder if they truly believe what they print is in the spirit of providing real truth, or have they openly abandoned any journalistic principles in their effort to support an agenda?
Have they done this relying on the American people to forever digest such garbage without ever figuring out what is really going on? Do they really consider YOU to be so utterly ignorant and lazy that you will never catch on, and one day demand MORE of OUR media, our government, our politicians, our President, our schools, and frankly, even more out of our protesters?
Yes. That is absolutely what they believe and count on. They rely on you to wake up each morning prior to your upcoming long day of work ahead, and the unheralded task of raising a family, and spend the only 10 minutes you have reading, and believing, their garbage! They do so ensuring they have influenced yet another person, and another person, and another person, to take on their cause, knowing they have done so on the basis of lacking, flawed, and dare I say false information! They do so, knowing we rely on them for the truth, and in their mind, they understand the truth is whatever they tell us it is.
They would NEVER want you to know that sometimes, although we may want peace, a lack of war, is almost never based on only one side desiring peace. They would never want you to know that there are far more alternatives to the military offered in schools in the form of college academic recruitment, college sports recruitment, guidance counselors, faculty, staff and parents, helping young people to make an informed decision, than there are recruiters in the school offering that alternative. They would never want you to know that joining the military doesn't automatically mean that everyone who does so is given an M-16 and sent straight to Baghdad to fight in a war with a failed political leadership. They would never want you to know that the military conducts humanitarian operations around the world, providing food, water, medicine, housing, schools, and dare I say even hope, to millions upon millions of earthquake, tsunami, volcano, cyclone, religious genocide, political strife, and countless other victims around the world, while you sleep safe and sound, night after night.
They would never want you to know, these young people do these things day in and day out, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, asking only that they make enough money and benefits to properly take care of their families. They would never want you to know that all these young people ask of you is that the American people will ensure, via politics, journalism, activism, or whatever means necessary within the law, that they are only tasked to do these things they have volunteered to do when it is the right thing to do.
You see, they are trained to do the mission, and not to sit around debating if it is politically correct, or politically expedient for someone, or a good cause, or fascist cause. They are only capable of doing the sometimes unthinkable task required in war, on our behalf, because of the understanding and hope that America, as a public has their back, and will ensure that anything they are asked to do on our behalf will be a noble request, and that if it is not a noble task, the politicians, not them, will be the ones to suffer.
They ask that American's understand that a citizen of this country can never say, "this is not my war", for the ability to use your First Amendment rights to say what you will only proves you are a citizen of this country, and we are all in this together.
So Ms. Sally Ferrell, I say protest all you want. Hell, I say to the Wilkes County school board to even let her in! I say that with the warning that Ms. Ferrell, The Associated Press, the Sun Times, and any other media source out there should understand that America is not full of ignorant lazy people, and one day, we will put the facts together and realize you have told us two plus two equals five!
One day, we will wake up and realize that politicians and media had their nation bending to their desires, and didn't bend their plans and will to the will of the people, nor the truth! And when America wakes up, she will demand an explanation. Fair warning.
The recruiters in Wilkes county can no doubt take care of themselves and have nothing to fear from a little dis-information from some lady using her first amendment rights to get her name in the paper, and push a misguided, misinformed agenda.
No, it is not the defenders of free speech that ever have anything to fear, because they know what they stand up for and believe in. They know better than to rely on that 10 minutes in the morning with the AP as gospel truth. They have often been around the world and know better. They know the hope America brings. They are truly the fortunate one's to have the gift of truth and knowledge, and I truly feel very sad for so many living in ignorance, often of their own free will, desire and design.
If you do not wish to be one of these ignorant people, demand more! It's time to stand up and demand more America and it all starts with YOU!
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