IF
...IF only my dad had pulled out I wouldn't have to go through life scared shitless of every little thing that might or could happen while I wait/hope/pray for the government to ensure my total safety because I'm too stupid to realize that rules were broken in order to commit the bad thing that I'm so afraid of and that future criminals will not be deterred by more rules from committing another crime.
Thanks dad.
I had Rudyard Kipling in mind when I posted above. Compare/Contrast my version of IF with his version of "IF" and realize how far we have fallen and the harm of the nanny state conditioning has done to society.
Rudyard Kipling
If
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Our military has kicked ass since 9/11. Sadly Im beginning to believe the home front surrendered on that day (probably before) in the hopes of gauranteeing their comfortable lives and a false security.
If you read the following link keep in mind Brandies is the Jesuit school equivalent for the Jewish Faith.
Phyllis Chesler: Brandeis Caves in to Academic Lynch Mob in Shunning Ayaan Hirsi Ali We are giving up our freedoms like a sheep offering its neck to the butchers knife.
Here is Brandeis contact page
http://www.brandeis.edu/about/contact.html I think many on this site are well educated on what appeasement will bring us.
