That Didn't Take Long

I see that Britain's kidnapped sailors and marines are still in captivity in Iran. I don't imagine that we will hear too much more about this. As I searched my usual suspects today, "the news" on the subject is that the limeys are sending a naval officer, with the approximate rank of commodore to grov...I mean "negotiate" for their release. As I write this on tuesday evening, I had to scroll way down the page at the Globe and Mail to find a story about them that seems to focus on the "hope" that the Iranians may soon get back a "Diplomat" that was picked up by "armed and uniformed gunmen" on his arrival in Iraq in February. The story goes on to allege that these gunmen were under the command of...wait for it...AMERICANS.

I figured that the fifth estate would not take long to:
a.) start to bury the story, and
b.) spin this in to the fault of the Great Satan, The United States of America. After all, their masters really would not have it any other way. I have heard several stories in the past days about the nations of europistan, Britain included, having slashed their military budgets, while the world's no-goodniks, China, North Korea, the seething nations of arab street, have all been increasing their military spending. The observation was made that the British fleet is little more than a coastal defense force now. How the mighty have fallen. Somehow, I think my welsh forbears would not be happy to see England on the verge of extinction by an act of suicide. While there was no love lost for the English, at least John Bull of old was not afraid to treat acts of piracy as the crimes that they are, and exact swift and sure retribution on the offenders.

I said a few days ago that if I were a British Marine or Sailor, I would categorically refuse to take part in any more bording parties. It is heartbreakingly clear that their own government is not terribly concerned abaout getting them back. I repeat that here. Admittedly, it would be difficult to tell from US news sources if there were still real Englishmen and Englishwomen in Britain who had both a sense of pride, and unmistakable outrage of their own with the Iranian provocateurs, and their own government, which has shamefully abdicated its duty to its citizens and servicemen who are in the service of the Crown. However, I interpret the gradual descent of this story from the headlines of the news to below the fold and the implications that this is America's fault as an indication that we, too, have lost something as a nation.

We have lost the solidarity of free nations.

No longer does the "free world" stand together as a force arrayed against the coming night. Europe has fallen prey to lackisdaisical immigration policies and the mistaken belief that its cultures had nothing better to offer immigrants who made a point of coming to them. Instead of requiring these immigrants to assimilate into their culture, they abandonned their own in the lie of moral relativity. And now, like the British sailor of ages past, the free nations of europistan are coming off of cultural benders to find themselves impressed into the service of others, who have no respect for them and view them and their lands as booty to be spent or horded at leisure.

We are in danger of the same thing happening here. The concepts of right and wrong, and of cultural superiority have been banished for education; no culture, no idea, no ancestor, is better than another. There is no right and wrong. Things simply are. Our collective consciousness is continually misdirected. Greed and narcisism are cultivated, and everywhere you look, we are exposed to the constant message that we as a nation are bad, that we are evil.

Don't believe it. We saved the world. Twice. When there is a disaster in the world, we're among the first on the scene. Our scientists have done much to fight disease, to feed the hungry, and improve the human condition. Have we been perfect while doing it? HELL NO. We turned a blind eye to the plight of many of our own citizens here in the land of the free. At times, we have sacrificed the rights of the individual to ensure that our nation would survive to return to a free exercise of the blessings of liberty. Do not forget who you are. Do not forget your legacy, your birthright. We are being invaded at this very moment. Some in society continually try to redirect the debate from the focus on the very illegality of these people being here with emotional arguments, with irrelvancies, with illogic, with lies. Don't Let Them. The time may soon arrive when each of us will have to make hard choices about our very survival. I am not so optimistic that I think that I will survive, but when I am called to account for my time on Earth, I want to be able to say that I gave my life in the defense of liberty.