tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post5414145824466848765..comments2023-11-03T03:37:02.548-05:00Comments on WEBSTER'S BLOGSPOT: Oath Keepers: Not on our watch!Terry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00166609562028309038noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-64187715553571522132009-10-27T16:06:01.963-05:002009-10-27T16:06:01.963-05:00Ah, the Clinton era. I think of Elian Gonzales be...Ah, the Clinton era. I think of Elian Gonzales being seized at gunpoint as the iconic moment of Clinton's presidency.<br /><br />I have to wonder how many people even remember that, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-60788806306742119062009-10-27T07:04:37.495-05:002009-10-27T07:04:37.495-05:00By the way, I agree with you both that the video i...By the way, I agree with you both that the video is powerful. Though I own that I wasn't particularly moved by the latter part of it. In my opinion they should have shown clips from the siege at Waco and the like.Terry Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00166609562028309038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-78606089468691820302009-10-27T06:57:19.696-05:002009-10-27T06:57:19.696-05:00DR, thanks.
It's hard for me personally to gr...DR, thanks.<br /><br />It's hard for me personally to grasp why it is that a supposedly conservative site like RedState would approvingly host an author like this.Terry Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00166609562028309038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-78818458327128673622009-10-27T06:53:44.498-05:002009-10-27T06:53:44.498-05:00His 'thoughts' barely deserve an answer, I...<i>His 'thoughts' barely deserve an answer, I'm puzzled that you would waste page space quoting him.</i><br /><br />Well, had it amounted to more effort on my part than copy and paste in blockquotes, I wouldn't have. <br /><br />My intention was for everyone to actually read this jerk's blathering nonsense. I figured that was more likely to be the case if I posted the entire article here rather than a hyperlink. My initial impulse was to personally refute everything wrong with the author's assertions in the article. But by the time I was little over half finished with it in draft form, it already looked like mince meat, thus was barely readable. <br /><br />I did particularly like how he, twice, used the phrase "as a conservative". I got the impression from that that he's trying to convince someone. Namely himself. But there is, of course, a lot more wrong with the article (it's not really an article, but I can't think of a proper term for it at the moment -- "hit piece" maybe, and a bad one at that) than that. <br /><br />Of course, in the end I scrapped the whole idea of adding my comments to it and posted it as you see it on the main page. Also, there are some comments in the comments thread by the author which are helpful in showing his anti-American, anti-constitution bigotry if the article itself isn't enough. Some of his arguments there are so utterly nonsensical that you really do wonder how this guy has survived this long. What is worse, though, is that he has a following that enthusiastically agrees with everything he says. But I guess it's like someone said to me some time back, "it's us against them, man; all there is is us ... and them." Foreign <i>and domestic</i>, right? Right.Terry Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00166609562028309038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-85965693396573578202009-10-27T00:24:21.776-05:002009-10-27T00:24:21.776-05:00I actually like reading RedState, but this post of...I actually like reading RedState, but this post of theirs is just pure trash. I am actually seriously considering joining the Oath Keepers; I am still researching them. In the RedState post, I can't stand the stuff about Lincoln, someone needs a history lesson.<br /><br />I like the music on the video.DRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02513605442426244898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-75128216738342393452009-10-26T22:06:34.606-05:002009-10-26T22:06:34.606-05:00Yeah, the video was good...I think they should hav...Yeah, the video was good...I think they should have used more than one musical theme, the Last of the Mohicans music is great, but that Arlington theme would have been good too in a couple of places.<br /><br />Structurally, I think it would have been better to intermix the example clips with the provisions being illustrated. Just a little. But the material itself is pretty powerful anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-34653244068848473642009-10-26T11:04:30.782-05:002009-10-26T11:04:30.782-05:00That was a great post and video!That was a great post and video!DRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02513605442426244898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763883859696167228.post-79433519967460254362009-10-26T10:25:54.266-05:002009-10-26T10:25:54.266-05:00This guy hasn't read the Constitution, or he w...This guy hasn't read the Constitution, or he would know that accepting any existing paid infantry commission requires participating in a direct violation of the express prohibition on appropriations longer two Years, which the Founding Fathers expressly intended to make the maintenance of a standing army impossible.<br /><br />He would also know that any orders which would conflict with the provisions of the enumerated Oathkeepers pledge could not be Constitutional and would therefore not be "according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice."<br /><br />His 'thoughts' barely deserve an answer, I'm puzzled that you would waste page space quoting him.<br /><br />On the other hand...the point that you're making about conservatism as a bias in favor of whatever has already been done, no matter how unprincipled, and Conservatism as a philosophical commitment to the founding principles of the American Republic is well illustrated here. But I still think that I expressed it more concisely and clearly in my last sentence. I'm vain that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com