Hooray for Holland
Posted in Straight Shooter by R Lee Wrights on September 3rd, 2009 by Jessi Winchester, author of From Bordello to Ballot Box and America: The Final Chapter
“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”
- Marcus Cicero, 106-53 BC
Finally ….. a country with a backbone and common sense. America allows our president to get us into an endless war through outright lies, killing thousands of our young men and women for his own personal cause - and then we reelect him!! Holland kicks butt and takes care of business.
On November 2, 2004, Muslim terrorists kidnapped and murdered a filmmaker from Holland who was a descendant of Vincent van Gogh. Theo van Gogh’s movie, “Submission” showcased a Dutch politician who grew up Islamic but renounced her birth faith which triggered Muslim militants to kill van Gogh. Holland’s response to terrorism upon one of their own citizens on their own soil? Swift and sure. They simply deported all Muslims who were not yet citizens and changed their open border policy. They didn’t invade another country and get into a war they couldn’t win or withdraw from; they simply took care of the problem within their own country. Simple, logical, and effective.
America is no longer a country to be admired or a country with a spine. We are hated and disrespected because we invade countries we have no business attacking, impose our way of life on people who don’t want it, and fail to handle the situation properly at home. We elected a leader who believes he has a mandate from God and whose troubling policies parallel the Dark Ages Inquisition. He lied to us to get us into a war he was determined to enter even before getting elected and then brainless voters reelected him to continue his ineffective and problematic policies.
There are striking similarities between the Vietnam and Iraqi conflicts, yet despite Bush’s long ago proclamation that the Iraqi conflict was “over,” we continue to lose ground and troops in Iraq and there is a conspicuous lack of outrage or protesters in the U.S. When it became apparent that the Vietnam War was a conflict we could not win and we were paying too high a price in American lives, the U.S. landscape came alive with protesters. Young people stepped up to the plate and let their government know in no uncertain terms, their displeasure. Today’s generation just doesn’t seem to give a rat’s behind that the entire globe hates us or that our young soldiers are dying in vain.
Holland demonstrated how effective it is to take quick and sure action by expelling troublemakers from their own country and then closing the border. It shows America there is a blueprint we could have followed to make our own country safer. Holland’s leaders do what they think is right for their fellow countrymen and don’t worry about political fallout. America’s leaders pander to political “correctness” and leave its citizens vulnerable and unsafe. The Bush administration looks weak and ineffective in the face of strong and decisive leadership like Holland’s. Could this be the reason the story completely disappeared from TV news after only an hour or two of airing and never saw newspaper ink? Is the Bush administration afraid Americans will be pissed off that the president is incapable of nipping problems in the bud so quickly and effectively and had the story quashed? Why else would such an important and inspiring story disappear? It’s a disturbing thought.
America is no longer the wise, strong, most respected nation on earth. Holland just took our place. Wake up America.
Originally published in Liberty For All in 2004.
