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September 11, 2001.

An hoa/co-op board requires 9/11 relatives to remove American flag from their front door.

Hat Tip: MidnightBlue

Sampson County, North Carolina is about as far as you can get from liberal San Fransisco, both in geography and ideology. In Sampson County you are more likely to find hog farms and tractors than leftists and coffee houses. That’s why it surprised me when a story about a Sampson County High School preventing a student from wearing an American flag t-shirt made it to Drudge.

Apparently the school board in Sampson County was surprised too… because just a day after making national headlines, the School Board rescinded the flag ban and said they would be making all dress code decisions in the future.

Down South we might make mistakes, but at least we correct them real quick. Thank you Superintendent Dr. L. Stewart Hobbs, Jr and everyone who made sure the flag ban wouldn’t last.

UPDATE - FREE T-SHIRT: If any students at Hobbton High School send me an e-mail before October 1st, I’ll send you a free American Flag t-shirt from the American Elephant store. Conditions: 1. You must promise to send me a picture of yourself wearing the t-shirt in front of something distinguishable at the school (sign, stadium marquee, etc.) 2. You must proudly wear the shirt to school at least once. 3. You must actually be a student at Hobbton High School.

“As for our own fortune, it is not in this world,” he said. “And we are not competing with you for this world, because it does not equal in Allah’s eyes the wing of a mosquito.” found here

What is it that Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and all of the other appeasers out there don’t get? “[W]e are not competing with you for this world, because it does not equal in Allah’s eyes the wing of a mosquito” says the terrorist as he sits in front of computer images of a burning World Trade Center.

I was going to keep silent today and not say much… if you were alive six years ago, the memory of that day provides more eloquence and substance than anything I could ever write. But after reading that line, my blood began to boil. What sickens me, is that my blood isn’t boiling at the terrorists so much as it is boiling because so many people don’t get it or just don’t care.

How can you break the will of the beast that doesn’t fear dying? Even cockroaches run when you try to squash them under foot. Yet these animals are trying to breed and indoctrinate a culture that has no fear of death, or pain because their false profit promises them joy in the after life. Religion of peace? Not by their interpretation.

They murder people for drawing cartoons. They blow up children on buses to seek revenge. They fly planes into buildings, for what?

Does Ron Paul really believe the “competition” that murderer was talking about was because we had troops in Saudi Arabia? Really? If that were true we’d have even more rationale for removing every last one of the terrorists from the face of the earth. If you are going to kill innocents because we had troops on your holy land protecting your brothers, then what vengeance do I get when your brothers strap bombs to their chests and murder innocents in Jerusalem? Its my holy land too… even Bin Laden repeated an eye for an eye.

You can not rationalize with evil. You can not will away hatred. You can not appease fundamentalist whack-jobs who believe their earthly purpose is to kill unbelievers. Imagine if Jesus taught us to kill anyone who didn’t believe in salvation through Christ… do you think the left would explain our actions away? No. Yet somehow, these monsters are excused because their terror doesn’t always hit our soil.

Well it did hit our soil six years ago and thousands of innocent lives were taken and even more families destroyed. And on that day, the rest of us should have woken up.

NOTE: This post is a response to a comment left by Daniel on this post about last night’s debate.

What the people think does matter, that is why we have elections. In representative republic (what we actually have), we elect people to office based on what they tell us they believe and how we think they will handle themselves. Then it is up to the elected official to act accordingly. WE THE PEOPLE don’t get to dictate every little decision… if we don’t like the decisions our elected officials make, then we get to “throw the bums out” and elect new officials.

Now that that’s out of the way… I would rather have a representative that is willing to lose an election, or be voted out of office, never be elected, or be vilified in the polls once elected in order to do what he/she believes is right. I don’t want the government basing every decision on what WE THE PEOPLE believe according to some pollster… as polls are almost always inaccurate, and the populous as a whole is very fickle.

Honor is not more important than what WE THE PEOPLE think… but I venture to guess WE THE PEOPLE, by and large, want to protect our honor and understand that this war is about something greater than ourselves. WE THE PEOPLE were attacked on 9/11. WE THE PEOPLE re-elected a President who brought us into two fronts of a war trying to prevent 9/11 from happening again. WE THE PEOPLE overwhelmingly supported that war, and re-approved it by Bush’s re-election in 2004. Just because some of THE PEOPLE have forgotten what it felt like on 9/11 or no longer have the stomach for this just cause doesn’t mean that we should take our ball and go home.

Make no mistake, this war and the greater fight against terrorism and specifically Islamic fundamentalism is the greatest threat we have ever faced. Much greater than the threat of nuclear war with the Soviets… because at least they didn’t really want to die for their cause. If not for Mutually Assured Destruction (i.e. if the Soviets had been societal maniacs who wanted to kill us at all costs, including the lives of their own families and themselves) we’d already be dead. Now the protection of Mutually Assured Destruction is no longer available as the terrorists proved on 9/11 and again with various suicide bombings in Israel before and since. If they are willing to die and kill innocents for their “cause” then much of our protection is gone.

George W. Bush understood this, as did many of the citizens in this country. Sadly, some of THE PEOPLE have since forgotten.

Did Sadam and crew plan 9/11? No. And no one ever said he did. What they did say, and I will continue to espouse is that those who think Iraq didn’t have anything to do with 9/11 are missing the big picture. Sadam supported terrorism. Sadam tortured his own people. Sadam & Sons put citizens in wood chippers. Sadam was sending money to the families of suicide bombers in Israel and the Palestinian territory. Sadam wanted weapons of mass destruction, and had previously used them on his own people. We, and the world are better without Sadam. Period. And removing him, and working to make a democracy in the Middle East has a DIRECT EFFECT on our possibility of ending Islamic terrorism, stopping the terrorist attacks, and securing America. It is a long hard road, but if we see this through, my children and my grandchildren will be safer because of it.

The Iraq war has not been downgraded by anyone but the media. There were multiple reasons for going to war… the greatest of which was to fight there so we could attempt to prevent fighting again here. Did the administration sell it wrong? Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean the cause wasn’t just.

I grew up in a military town and have many servicemen in the family. Try telling any of them that we are not doing good things over there and see what they say? Try telling them that the cause isn’t just and the purpose isn’t clear. Try telling them their sacrifice wasn’t worthwhile and we are going to just pack up and leave. While we get to argue about it on blogs in some idealistic world, they make real sacrifices for it everyday. They don’t just talk about it, they do it. And they deserve our commitment and our HONOR.

The United States of America doesn’t back down from a fight or stop when the going gets tough. The security of our future depends on that fact remaining true. If we are willing to turn tail and run away… what happens the next time free-loving people and our own citizens need a champion? Who will protect them then? Who will protect us? Freedom for all people, both home and abroad, depends on us maintaining our HONOR. We must see it through.

Thank God many of THE PEOPLE agree with that, including Governor Huckabee. It will be a sad day if we elect a President who doesn’t.