tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post5753452745584915949..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Recent history and the current danger in 118 words.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-38179092184260458362015-08-22T20:03:34.140-04:002015-08-22T20:03:34.140-04:00Reg T, it's as you say. The problems took roo...Reg T, it's as you say. The problems took root before the Boomers were a reality. Wilson himself was not on board with the constitutional scheme and thought that all power should be in the hands of an enlightened president. Sieg Heil and no kidding about that. He, Wilson, knew better than the previous generations about how much we had to have an all-powerful executive.<br /><br />The internet has been a great eyeopener for millions and since I started blogging in 2005 I've seen a real shift in how frankly people express themselves on race, Islam, the ruling class, the media, globalism, immigration, etc. Black-on-white crime would not be the issue it is today but for Paul Kersey and Colin Flaherty, among others. Without them it would be covered up totally.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-41118913060569165042015-08-22T19:56:12.615-04:002015-08-22T19:56:12.615-04:00... Snepp.... Snepp.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-57116478450387832452015-08-22T19:55:27.070-04:002015-08-22T19:55:27.070-04:00Thanks, Mr. Turner.
On the war, that was a lot ...Thanks, Mr. Turner. <br /><br />On the war, that was a lot of my motivation at the time. You served when you came of age. Was there another option? It wasn't for me to question how the military might be used because I trust the political leadership to have the interests of the country at heart. <br /><br />Naive in retrospect but I did think that Johnson was more misguided and opportunistic than actively seeking the destruction of the country. Nixon was a great wartime leader and his Cambodian incursion was a stroke of common sense if not genius. It made a huge difference to us in the Delta but, natch, it drove the anti-war scum bananas. As Sbepp made clear, the N. Vietnamese were scared to death that Nixon would renew the bombing. Only Congress's obsession with bringing Nixon down caused the war to be lost. Politically!<br />Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-71154922647886574852015-08-21T01:06:03.620-04:002015-08-21T01:06:03.620-04:00I can't really argue with your analysis, Col. ...I can't really argue with your analysis, Col. Having been a military brat and in the service myself (USN), even in college I didn't hang with the protesters and the manipulated fools who joined the SDS. I'll admit I did have a number of college "friends" who thought _I_ was the fool for enlisting.<br /><br />I never hung out with lawyers - or those even interested in law school, so I missed whatever dynamic was occurring there. Somehow I see most folks who went into law as liberals of one stripe or another, definitely _not_ a subset of conservatism. So many politicians began as lawyers, that I tend to see that group - of which both Shakespeare and Robert A Heinlein wrote - as a group desperately in need of elimination. Even though I have also known a (very) few who were decent, worthy individuals.<br /><br />I do agree the Boomers tended to be silent (those not caught up as young, impressionable students). But I submit (IMHO) that none of the generations as far back as during Wilson's administration fought against Wilson's socialist push that FDR went on to increase by an order of magnitude. I think the greatest reaction has occurred here since the advent of the Internet, where information has become available without being censored or distorted by the mainstream media, nor propagandized in our schools and universities. <br /><br />I believe many of my Boomer generation, who knew some remaining vestiges of freedom, have awakened to what is going on around us - _has_ been going on around us. It is this ability to reach out and communicate with like minds all over the country that has served to make so many of us, who would indeed otherwise continue to be silent, speak out and begin to forge bonds with others who also see how desperate are the straits in which we find ourselves.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-8337381962110356772015-08-20T19:28:04.615-04:002015-08-20T19:28:04.615-04:00Oops. While I was typing, Bunny made my point much...Oops. While I was typing, Bunny made my point much better than I did.<br /><br />Tim Turnerfurballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779319678886254479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-54820120976931982422015-08-20T19:24:21.435-04:002015-08-20T19:24:21.435-04:00I too enlisted and served in Vietnam. In my case, ...I too enlisted and served in Vietnam. In my case, it was after a year spent as a freshman at UC Berkeley. I saw the free speech and early anti-war demonstrations first-hand, but my decision to enlist wasn't really based on much more than I thought it was the right thing to do.<br /><br />I interpret the overall generational contempt for "Boomers" as similar to that held for Muslims. If they're a religion of peace, why aren't they stopping the terrorists? We "other" Boomers didn't work hard enough to stop the left (or statists in general) from taking over education, media and government and its bureaucracies.<br /><br />By the way, I notice this blog is now using my google name. In keeping with Fran's policy of having the guys to say who you are when you post, I'm Tim Turner. furballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779319678886254479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-14951461276959404632015-08-20T19:09:07.151-04:002015-08-20T19:09:07.151-04:00Glad to hear that, Reg T. Loss of even one comment...Glad to hear that, Reg T. Loss of even one commenter would amount to a 33% reduction! :-)<br /><br />I prize highly the friends I made in the service but there's no getting around the fact that they were a small minority in my life's experience. Then as now I know few who were willing to serve. I always considered it a rite of passage, not to mention its being just what any man should do. Many who did not serve were also patriots but I think most people whom I've met as an adult were almost all positively averse to it. In my law school class after Nam there were two maybe three other guys who were vets. And I was startled then to see how the hair had grown long and the drugs had proliferated. These were a different breed of cat, though not of course Boomers.<br /><br />Bob Whitaker was the first person I ever heard trash the Greatest Generation. He thought they had presided over a trashing of our country and wholesale subversion thereof without uttering a peep of resistance. Think too of all the state bar associations and courts out there who are similarly silent when it comes to the basics. The NFIB case was a constitutional travesty but did lawyers speak out en masse? Nope. Has there ever been any resistance to the egregious expansion of federal powers under the Commerce Clause from lawyers? Nope.<br /><br />Even before Obama was elected I knew he had started his career in the living room of two communist terrorists and was a drug-taking, Islamophilic freak. This was knowable to anyone with a smidgen of curiosity but millions of all generations voted for him, not just Boomers.<br /><br />You are right to protest that not all X or like some of them who are Y but, bottom line, I think that the Boomers as a whole have showed remarkable passivity while this great nation has come under determined attack after the Democrats were taken over by the treasonous left. Boomers were The Passive Generation. And more often than not were likely to spout the nonsense about Nixon the Megalomaniac or the lie that the bombing of Cambodia brought the Khmer Rouge to power propagated by that ass Shawcross. Asininity on matters of human nature and the realities of international politics might be their hallmark characteristic.<br /><br />Looking at Europe one sees the same phenomenon that vexes me so. That is this accursed passivity. It's astonishing. They will not lift even a finger to reverse the deadly tide of events and, as I say ad nauseam, starve the salvationist parties of oxygen when at the polls.<br /><br />Sweden is a positively lunatic country that has taken oikaphobia to the stage of self mutilation. Europeans and the Boomer generation (and its progeny) have just suddenly become brain dead or lost their spines. There's no fight in us at all apart from the patriot minority.<br /><br />Here at home there are millions who cheered sacramentalization of sodomy by the Supremes recently. Young people were especially giddy about it. The center cannot hold indeed, a la Yeats, and the Boomer generation can justly be said not to have protested much. For an image of real protest, recall the Vietnam War protests. That got people into the streets. Over immigration and constitutional betrayal it's basically ho hum.<br /><br /><br /><br />Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-47364257939139489452015-08-20T14:21:47.068-04:002015-08-20T14:21:47.068-04:00As a Boomer, I'd like to say that we have been...As a Boomer, I'd like to say that we have been vilified just as Jews are vilified because there are bad Jews (Soros, Schumer, etc.). Yes, there were many bad Boomers - the bulk of which were young college students, seduced by Communist agitators. Quite a few of us back then ignored our draft status and enlisted in military service. We knew the war protest was fueled by Communist funds and trained agitators - kind of like we saw in a young drug-using "community organizer" (aka Communist agitator) whom this country was depraved enough to place in the highest office in our land.<br /><br />Many of the parents of those Boomers had - as did my father (B-17s over Germany and B-52s around the world in the fifties and early sixties) served in the military too, and were hoping to keep there sons from dying overseas, but they supported them when they entered service themselves. Dale Snodgrass, arguably one of the best F-14 pilots ever, was the son of a friend of my father's, Ruben Snodgrass, a test pilot at Grumman, who built the F-14.<br /><br />I'm not saying there weren't a lot Boomers who were bad, even beyond being misled. I just am bothered when an entire generation is blamed for the ills we are currently facing. Just as I am bothered when all Jews are blamed for the Soros, Rothschild, banking fraternity, and other power-mad elite groups.<br /><br />And yes, Col., we're still friends :-)Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-89664453964605445462015-08-20T12:51:01.841-04:002015-08-20T12:51:01.841-04:00Sorry, Dr.D, but that's too vague for me to be...Sorry, Dr.D, but that's too vague for me to be able to respond.<br /><br />The Boomers have been a disgrace and not just for the fact that they failed to reduce military spending. Stockman's is a strangely blinkered view that smacks of the lunacy of the left's analysis of events. If you have any thoughts on why my post is confused I'd be happy to respond to them.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-77135210363671261232015-08-20T12:37:37.532-04:002015-08-20T12:37:37.532-04:00Thanks, Mr. Ponder. There's a curious hole in...Thanks, Mr. Ponder. There's a curious hole in his approach. His financial insights are good but I don't get his idea that Boomers were some kind of a vanguard who were destined to do great things but didn't. The Vietnam War was confused and confusing but, like the Korean War, it represented a line drawn in the sand when it was clear the Soviets were intent on operating in the area where nuclear weapons simply would not be used. Much moralizing took place over it but it's clear that micromanaging the war, absurd rules of engagement, congressional betrayal, and the deliberate hamstringing of Nixon and his conduct of the war. A military victory was in fact achieved as Frank Snepp made clear in his book. It was a war worth fighting and victory was thrown away by the Democrats in Congress. Stockman is oblivious to all of this and sees the Boomer anti-war activities as something wonderful. <br /><br />I like where he ended up v-a-v our current predicament but he sure left out a lot of things and seems just another anti-war naif when it comes to Cold War realities. When your opponent is a homicidal regime adept at subversion and obviously arming itself to the teeth while occupying Eastern Europe, military preparations rise to the top of one's to do list, to my way of thinking.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-22368742312228469012015-08-20T11:36:11.869-04:002015-08-20T11:36:11.869-04:00That all seemed pretty confused.That all seemed pretty confused.Dr.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18360786634583725263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-18059471730867283972015-08-20T09:45:08.271-04:002015-08-20T09:45:08.271-04:00As an OPFOR officer and instructor for the Army (1...As an OPFOR officer and instructor for the Army (1978 - 1987), I am horrified by the shallow views of Mr Stockman. Financially he gets it. His projections of our long-term debts and obligations inspire more fear and loathing than solutions, but in these subjects he seems spot on.<br /><br />What did I see/learn/experience that he did not? OK, he was not in the military, and I never served in combat, but there seems to be just a bit of bifurcation in his financial worldview versus his interpretation of our own surrender to the third-world invasion (ongoing, and apparently accelerating) as well as the composting of our founding documents by each administration since Reagan left office.<br /><br />Excellent swordsmanship with the pen, Col Bunny.<br /><br />J F PonderJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861191582000332595noreply@blogger.com