Comments on: They’ve been watching Red Dawn again

By: usmc 0300

usmc 0300 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:46:34 +0000

Every time I see enlightened Americans being called crazy, paranoid, radicals, racists, or right or left wing extremists, I cringe. Its like when Those few who stand up on behalf of all, get arrows in the back by those ignorant many they tried to help. It is obvious here that race is a factor for Cynthia. When this is the case, its called racist, not reverse racism, just racist. Hate begets hate.
Patriotism is a dark and demanding obligation to take the most serious possible steps and undergo the most serious kinds of personal risks in defense of this freedom, that is our natural right. This universal challenge that always included the demand for self correction, must always be unto ourselves. To face the national mirror with open eyes and not fail to be humble.
Semper Fi 0300

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:33:19 +0000

F-16s do not make up the fabric of a lawful society. People who are willing to uphold their legal and moral obligations – even in the face of Tanks – are the fabric of an orderly, lawful society. Grow up Cynthia Tucker. Not everyone is proud of cowardice nor willing to submit (”peacefully”) to whoever is strongest.

By: revjen45

revjen45 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:50:55 +0000

“But, really, folk, the government has nuclear weapons and F-16s. If by some convoluted Manchurian takeover, the feds wanted a dictatorship, would your hunting rifles stop them?”
Ms. Tucker – Armed people can be killed but they can not be conquered. As has been pointed out, the Iraqui military (IIRC, the 4th largest in the world at that time and posessed of all the modern accoutrements of war) was defeated in a couple of weeks. The Resistance continues after years. The Afghanis have sent every invader packing since Alexander the Great. Better to perish fighting for Freedom than live to see defeat.

By: Buster Collins

Buster Collins — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:24:06 +0000

Cynthia Tucker, queen of pointless commentary.

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:28:19 +0000

Quoth Cynthia: “But, really, folk, the government has nuclear weapons and F-16s. If by some convoluted Manchurian takeover, the feds wanted a dictatorship, would your hunting rifles stop them?”

When someone asked an anti-Nazi Yugoslavian partisan leader how he and his men hoped to counter state-of-the-art German Panzer tanks with their old rifles, he said, “When the Germans get out of their tanks to take a piss, we will shoot them with our old rifles.”

The Three Percent aren’t going to be standing in formation on some uninhabited Utah plain awaiting execution from 50,000 feet. We watched the First Gulf War, honey.

The classic paradox of counterinsurgency ops, as our military has learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that the tactics brutal and savage enough to actually hurt an insurgency, are brutal enough (and cause enough “collateral damage” to be an insurgency’s best recruitment tools.

So, you think a domestic dictator would be stupid enough to use nukes in CONUS? Or even give American urban areas full of non-combatants the “Fallujah treatment” with airstrikes and artillery?

And you think WE are making up paranoid fantasies?

By: DrT

DrT — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:08:25 +0000

I guess militia in Afghanistan, who have been unfortunately quite successful, fly around in their F-16s and shoot off their nuclear weapons… as that would be the only way to be able to have even moderate success against US military forces. Perhaps you are a military advisory who thinks “what can a bunch of local “militia” really do?” Hmmm. Care to rethink that assumption?

By: Ektarr

Ektarr — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:43:05 +0000

I took that Oath back in ‘65…the one to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC…” [Emphasis added]

. . . I do not recall that it came with an expiration date.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:01:19 +0000

Cynthia, I think what you fail to realize is that the use of that nuclear weapon or F-16 against US citizens is illegal. If it ever came down to someone giving that order to use those weapons against US citizens, I would hope that an Oathkeeper be the one with his finger on the button or at the controls of that plane.

Oathkeepers don’t repledge to defend the Constitution even if it means disobeying orders, they pledge to defend the Constitution even if it means disobeying an ILLEGAL order. As a Republic, the law is the highest authority.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:44:45 +0000

To Chris Broe:

Regarding your 1:53 comments you make my 12:30 points. If you win …….. all is forgiven “and” you get to write the history ……. )

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:37:49 +0000

Cynthia is just another small mind, attacking what she doesn’t understand and has no desire to do so. She relies on the old fallback cry of “Racism!” when she has nothing intelligent to say. No one buys the race card anymore. If this is what passes for a Pulitzer Prize winner, then I have as much respect for that award as I do the Nobel Peace Prize.