MORE ON AMERICAN IMPLOSION
Indications over the last few days suggest further deterioration in the viability and stability of America and it’s institutions.
Certain actions by the media and courts leave one wondering if common sense, decency, rational thinking, and American principles have gone down the sewer of political correctness or plain idiocy.
First, this past week NBC refused holiday advertisements thanking our troops for serving overseas. The ads, paid for by the non-profit Freedom’s Watch, reflect a simple video thank you, with people shown paying gratitude to members of the military and the final frame showing Freedomwatch Web address.
Clickhere andhere to view the ads that NBC refused to air.
Second, a federal appeals court Dec. 6 temporarily blocked Kansas laws restricting pickets at military funerals as constitutionality is reviewed.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in favor of Shirley Phelps-Roper, who sought to temporarily block enforcement of statutes restricting where members of Topeka, Kansas.-based Westboro Baptist Church can picket at military funerals is reviewed, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
Westboro Baptist Church members believe God punishes the United States for tolerating homosexuality by killing Americans, including soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Members of the church have picketed funerals of soldiers killed in the two theaters, sometimes prompting confrontations.
Let me understand the NBC refusal. An organization simply wants to buy advertisement on NBC TV in the form of a video “thank you” to American troops for their service. NBC initially refused to accept the paid for advertisement as “controversial” and because the purchaser happens to be Freedomwatch ? If after viewing these “thank you” messages you find controversy, I’ll kiss you butt and give you 5 weeks to draw a crowd. We have troops fighting and dying to ensure NBC’s constitutional freedoms and in turn NBC cited a lame controversy excuse when in reality they attempted to use their political position to trump recognition of our service members. It took an outcry across America to convince NBC their refusal was despicable, forcing them to reverse their decision. On the other hand, it is my understanding NBC willingly provided over 30 hours of “free” television coverage in support of former vice-president Al Gore’s global warming propaganda. Yet NBC had to be forced to accept a message to say “thank you” to our troops, even though it was paid for? Can NBC’s initial action be characterized in any other term than an unpatriotic betrayal of America and our troops? I think not.
Now the Westboro Baptist Church goes a mile further than NBC and takes aggressive action against our troops and families by engaging in the most vile behavior at funerals of our fallen warriors. Somehow this vicious Westboro group are able to get near immediate bench time in Federal Appeals Court and granted an injunction to block a Kansas law that stops the Church bizarre activity.
Picketing at military funerals? The thought that anyone can find justification in picketing, demonstrating, or disrupting a funeral is beyond comprehension…at what point does freedom of speech stop? Protesting at a funeral ranks right up there with screaming “fire in a crowded theater”…it is disgraceful, putrid, and cannot be allowed.
Our troops are simply doing what the nation and it’s leaders are asking them to do…they are the last ones that want to be in harm’s way, putting their life on the line, or for that matter taking the life of another, but they are willing to answer their nations call, even in the face of loss of their own life and limb.
What do our service members get? A major American media network, NBC, must be bombarded by the American public to convince them to accept advertisement “thanking our troops” for their service. Further, a so-call church engages in the despicable action of taunting, disrupting, and dishonoring our fallen during personal family funeral services. NBC experienced the wrath of American consumers, unfortunately, the courts are untouchable and virtually unaccountable to America.
American media, the US legal system, and the US Congress reflect a worrisome and destructive attitude, scared to death of anti-America, surrender elements, who have one goal…the destruction of America.
How far and long will America go in putting up with the insane direction elitist elements are taking our nation before we stand up and hold them accountable in tangible, uncompromising terms?
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret