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Put the fireworks in storage.
Cancel the parade.

Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time.

This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement.

For we have sinned.

We have failed to pay attention. We’ve settled for lame excuses. We’ve spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago.

The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner.

The America they founded should never imprison people for years without charge or hearing.

The America they founded should never ship prisoners to foreign lands, knowing their new jailers might torture them.

Such abuses once were committed by the arrogant crowns of Europe, spawning rebellion.

Today, our nation does such things in the name of our safety. Petrified, unwilling to take the risks that love of liberty demands, we close our eyes.

We have done such things, on orders from the Oval Office. We have done them, without general outrage or shame.

Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. CIA secret prisons. “Rendition” of prisoners to foreign torture chambers.

It’s not enough that we had good reason to be scared.

The men huddled long ago in Philadelphia had better reason. A British fleet floated off the Jersey coast, full of hands eager to hang them from the nearest lampposts.

Yet they pledged their lives and sacred honor - no idle vow - to defend the “inalienable rights” of men. Inalienable - what does that signify? It means rights that belong to each person, simply by virtue of being human. Rights that can never be taken away, no matter what evil a person might do or might intend.

Surely one of those is the right not to be tortured. Surely that is a piece of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

This is the creed of July 4: No matter what it costs us, no matter how it scares us, no matter how foolish it seems to a cynical world, America should stand up for human rights.

No, not even the brave men who picked up a quill, dipped it in ink and signed the parchment that summer day in Philadelphia lived up perfectly to the creed. But they did something extraordinary, founding a new nation upon a vow to oppose all the evil habits of tyranny.

That is why history still honors them.

But what will history think of us, of how we responded to our great challenge? Sept. 11 was a hideous evil, a grievous wound. Yet, truth told, it has not summoned our better angels as often as our worst.

We have betrayed the July 4 creed. We trample the vows we make, hand to heart.

Don’t imagine that only the torturer’s hand bears the guilt. The guilt reaches deep inside our Capitol, and beyond that - to us.

Our silence is complicit. In our name, innocents were jailed, humans tortured, our Constitution mangled. And we said so little.

We can’t claim not to have known. The best among us raised the alarm. Heroes in uniform, judges in robes, they opposed the perverse logic of an administration drenched in fear, drunk on power.

But did we heed them? Hardly. Barely . . .

We were so busy. Soccer practice at 6. A credit card balance to fret. The final vote on Idol.

We left it to those in power to keep our precious selves from harm. Whatever it took.

We took the coward’s way.

The world sees this, even if we are too dim to grasp it. We’ve lost respect. We’ve shamed the memory of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin.

And all for a scam. The waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep - all the diabolical tricks haven’t made us safer. They may have averted this plot or that. But they’ve spawned new enemies by the thousands, made the jihadist rants ring true to so many ears.

So put out no flags.

Sing no patriotic hymns.

We deserve no Fourth this year.

Let us atone, in quiet and humility. Let us spend the day truly studying the example of our Founders. May we earn a new birth of courage before our nation’s birthday next rolls around.

Feel free to e-mail this dickhead at -  csatullo@phillynews.com.

I found this series on You Tube Clips via The Black Republican posted back in April.
If you have the time you should watch them together because it really shows why liberalism is such a socially corrosive disorder

What is leadership?

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” - Albert Einstein

What is Racism?

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is the Truth?

“The sting in any rebuke is the truth.” - Benjamin Franklin

What is Freedom?

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.” - Frederick Douglass
Iraqi Politicial Tells the Truth

REMEMBER: Kerry Belittles U.S. Troops

Fucking asshole Steven King insults soldiers - Yup his message board is closed

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I don’t want to sound like an ad–a public service ad on TV–but the fact is that if you can read you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t then you got the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that. It’s not as bright. So that’s my little commercial for that.

King thinks the troops stationed in Iraq are illiterate, uneducated people who couldn’t get jobs in the U.S. Nice. Real nice.

In 2005 a Pentagon official addressed the myth of the stupid soldier [via Gateway Pundit]:

“They are so clearly a cut above America,” Bill Carr, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy, said of today’s recruits.

Carr bristles when he hears unfounded charges that the men and women entering the military are less educated, less affluent or less likely than other 18- to 24-year-olds to have alternatives to military service. Rather, a combination of volunteerism and commitment to service is prompting young people to enlist, Carr said, noting that a measure of shrewdness plays into their decision. “They are planning their future and considering what part we can play in it,” he said.

Carr likes to think of himself as a “myth buster,” helping break stereotypes he said are flat-out wrong and cheat servicemembers out of the pride they’ve earned and deserve.

MORE ON THE BLOG The American Mind

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 From Newsbusters: Horror Author Tells Fans to Email NB, Shuts Down Discussion of Anti-military Remarks

The saga of horror novelist Stephen King’s disgraceful comments about America’s military took an interesting turn Monday when shortly after instructing visitors to his website to send me a message stating “Hi, Noel—Stephen King says to shut up and I agree,” his own message boards were shut down.

This followed the creation of a number of threads by members that wanted to comment about King’s remarks.

The cover-story for shutting down the boards came from the Moderator in a thread entitled “Stephen King Insults Soldiers“:

Another post: Stephen King Pulls a John Kerry

From Michelle Malkin
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“Keep spinnin’, pal. You’re going to land right back into the gutter, with your bowling ball. Video of Obama’s response to Snob-gate is now posted on his YouTube channel:”

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This “Bittergate” controversy is one of the best examples of liberalism run amuck on the campaign trail.

It is so easy to process liberals. Not your old guard Democrats who voted for FDR types. I’m talking about the leaders, elected officials and people that work in Washington and these two assholes running for president on the Democratic side.

These fucks are no different than the typical European socialists’ assholes that look at the United States with disgust. They’re intellectual elitists. They think they are entitled to wealth and power because of their “superiority”.
These mutherfuckers believe in their soul that they should run the world.
They know better!

You… (or the bitter folks of Pennsylvania) are just a bunch of serfs that can’t manage your own lives.

As far as liberals are concerned they look at the United States as a mistake, an aberration. Socialism and communism is where it’s really at. It just hasn’t been given a fair shot.
This is what motivates folks like Obama.
Obama and liberal elitists think that average Americans are a bunch of uncivilized, dirty, embarrassing little people. We must be in charge to take care of you little slubs.
Obama was not just talking about folks in Pennsylvania; he was speaking to the folks in Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Mississippi, the heartland, the backbone of this nation.
You poor slobs have to be given everything.

The people of Pennsylvania are suffering because “we” the “Democrats”, are not reaching deep enough into the pockets of Americans to help make them feel better.

The Obama’s and the Hillary’s of the world don’t expect you to have the talent to do anything for yourself. Please vote for us. Let us set up a welfare system that will keep you poor for the rest of your life if you sign on to it. No need to be bitter, vote for me so I can take care of you!
That is this change shit he keeps ranting about.
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Malkin has more here

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