Comments on: Freedom isn’t Free! http://lenina.blogivists.com/2009/02/03/freedom-isn%e2%80%99t-free/ Casting conservative ideas...breaking the liberal spell. Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:32:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Joe4liberty http://lenina.blogivists.com/2009/02/03/freedom-isn%e2%80%99t-free/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Joe4liberty Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:19 +0000 http://lenina.blogivists.com/?p=27#comment-316 Just a small comment on the "we have become a nation of cowards." I firmly believe that this statement is true. Sad, but true. But with that said, I think that it has little to do with diversity. I think (and it is only an opinion), that it has mush more to do with the darned television set. With 100+ channels of crap to watch every day, more and more Americans spend an ever growing amount of time sitting in front of the darned thing instead of going out and living life. Back in my father's time, he knew all of his neighbors - all of them. Was friends with many to most of them, and if he ever had a problem with ANY of them, he would simply go to their house (or call them on the phone), and discuss the issue. Today, most of us have no idea the name of the people living right next door to us, much less taken the time to get to know them. Should that neighbor do something that bothers us (playing the stereo too loud, parking the car too closely to our drive, etc... etc...), it has become the norm to call the police to 'deal' with this 'problem.' That is what I call a coward. And from this has grown a much larger level of cowardice. Right up to the point where we are afraid to defend ourselves against a business owner who wrongs us, or a neighbor who mistakenly offends, or a door-to-door salesman that we simply cannot face to simply say "no thank-you" Call the police, that has become the rallying cry, and our politicians have been paying attention, and now, rather than taking the responsibility for rolling up our sleeves, we have a congress that just plunged us head-long into socialism. I just saw a clip on internet where a man called 911 because his order was not correct at a fast-food drive through - now that's cowardice. I just gave a man a ride who was hitchhiking. He told me of the coffee shop owner who called the police on him when he offered to clean up the garbage in front of man's restaurant in exchange for a hot cup of coffee and perhaps a sandwich. Here's a business owner too much a coward to simply say no thanks, I like garbage in my parking lot. I wonder how much excrement he will have in his Jockeys should any actual danger find its way into his shop. No, tolerance isn't causing the cowardice, our self-isolationism is (or so I think). Cowards? you bet, but it gives me cause for hope. Seriously, I have been in the fight for liberty for more than a decade now, and I can tell you that I have never seen so many patriots as I do now. It tells me that the heroes are realizing that they are becoming outnumbered by the cowards, and the uprising is beginning. Just a small comment on the “we have become a nation of cowards.” I firmly believe that this statement is true. Sad, but true. But with that said, I think that it has little to do with diversity. I think (and it is only an opinion), that it has mush more to do with the darned television set. With 100+ channels of crap to watch every day, more and more Americans spend an ever growing amount of time sitting in front of the darned thing instead of going out and living life.
Back in my father’s time, he knew all of his neighbors – all of them. Was friends with many to most of them, and if he ever had a problem with ANY of them, he would simply go to their house (or call them on the phone), and discuss the issue.
Today, most of us have no idea the name of the people living right next door to us, much less taken the time to get to know them. Should that neighbor do something that bothers us (playing the stereo too loud, parking the car too closely to our drive, etc… etc…), it has become the norm to call the police to ‘deal’ with this ‘problem.’
That is what I call a coward. And from this has grown a much larger level of cowardice. Right up to the point where we are afraid to defend ourselves against a business owner who wrongs us, or a neighbor who mistakenly offends, or a door-to-door salesman that we simply cannot face to simply say “no thank-you”
Call the police, that has become the rallying cry, and our politicians have been paying attention, and now, rather than taking the responsibility for rolling up our sleeves, we have a congress that just plunged us head-long into socialism.
I just saw a clip on internet where a man called 911 because his order was not correct at a fast-food drive through – now that’s cowardice. I just gave a man a ride who was hitchhiking. He told me of the coffee shop owner who called the police on him when he offered to clean up the garbage in front of man’s restaurant in exchange for a hot cup of coffee and perhaps a sandwich. Here’s a business owner too much a coward to simply say no thanks, I like garbage in my parking lot. I wonder how much excrement he will have in his Jockeys should any actual danger find its way into his shop.
No, tolerance isn’t causing the cowardice, our self-isolationism is (or so I think).

Cowards? you bet, but it gives me cause for hope. Seriously, I have been in the fight for liberty for more than a decade now, and I can tell you that I have never seen so many patriots as I do now. It tells me that the heroes are realizing that they are becoming outnumbered by the cowards, and the uprising is beginning.

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