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Mary Ann Parker
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 Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: An Open Letter To Europe by Herbert E. Meyer |
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This is not specifically directed to the UN, however, it seems
appropriate words the share here since so many of the
members of the UN share the same view of USA and our
President.
I think it makes a lot of sense.
Mary Ann
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An open letter to Europe
by Herbert E. Meyer
Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director
of Central Intelligence
and Vice Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council.
His DVD on "The Siege of Western Civilization" is a nationwide best-seller.
November 11th, 2004
| Quote: | Hi. Are you nuts? Forgive me for being so blunt, but your
reaction to our reelection of President Bush has been so outrageous that I'm
wondering if you have quite literally lost your minds. One of Britain's largest
newspapers ran a headline asking "How Can 59 Million Americans Be So Dumb?", and
commentators in France all seemed to use the same word - bizarre -- to explain the
election's outcome to their readers. |
In Germany the editors of Die Tageszeitung responded to our vote by writing that
"Bush belongs at a war tribunal - not in the White House." And on a London radio
talk show last week one Jeremy Hardy described our President and those of us who
voted for him as "stupid, crazy, ignorant, bellicose Christian fundamentalists."
Of course, you are entitled to whatever views about us that you care to hold. (And
lucky for you we Americans aren't like so many of the Muslims on your own continent;
as the late Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh just discovered, make one nasty crack
about them and you're likely to get six bullets pumped into your head and a knife
plunged into your chest.) But before you write us off as just a bunch of sweaty,
hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by
dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso - and who
inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined, host 25
or 30 of the world's finest universities and five or six of the world's best
symphonies, produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have
built the world's most vibrant economy, are the world's only military superpower
and, so to speak in our spare time, have landed on the moon and sent our robots to
Mars - may I suggest you stop frothing at the mouth long enough to consider just what are these
ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?
We believe that church and state should be separate, but that religion should remain
at the center of life. We are a Judeo-Christian culture, which means we consider
those ten things on a tablet to be commandments, not suggestions.
We believe that individuals are more important than groups, that families are more
important than governments, that children should be raised by their parents rather
than by the State, and that marriage should take place only between a man and a
woman.
We believe that rights must be balanced by responsibilities, that personal freedom
is a privilege we must be careful not to abuse, and that the rule of law cannot be
set aside when it becomes inconvenient.
We believe in economic liberty, and in the right of purposeful and industrious
entrepreneurs to run their businesses - and thus create jobs - with a minimum of
government interference.
We recognize that other people see things differently, and we are tolerant of their
views. But we believe that our country is worth defending, and if anyone decides
that killing us is an okay thing to do we will go after them with everything we've
got.
If these beliefs seem strange to you, they shouldn't. For these are precisely the
beliefs that powered Western Europe - you -- from the Middle Ages into the
Renaissance, on to the Enlightenment, and forward into the modern world. They are
the beliefs that made Europe itself the glory of Western civilization and - not
coincidentally - ignited the greatest outpouring of art, literature, music and
scientific discovery the world has ever known including Michaelangelo, Leonardo da
Vinci, Shakespeare, Bach, Isaac Newton and Descartes. Europe is Dying
It is your abandonment of these beliefs that has created the gap between Europe and
the United States. You have ceased to be a Judeo-Christian culture, and have become
instead a secular culture. And a secular culture quickly goes from being
"un-religious" to anti-religious. Indeed, your hostility to the basic concepts of
Judaism and Christianity has literally been written into your new European Union
constitution, despite the Pope's heroic efforts to the contrary.
Your rate of marriage is at an all-time low, and the number of abortions in Europe
is at an all-time high. Indeed, your birth rates are so far below replacement levels
that in 30 years or so there will be 70 million fewer Europeans alive than are alive
today. Europe is literally dying. And of the children you do manage to produce, all
too few will be raised in stable, two-parent households.
Your economy is stagnant because your government regulators make it just about
impossible for your entrepreneurs to succeed - except by fleeing to the United
States, where we welcome them and celebrate their success. And your armed forces are
a joke. With the notable exception of Great Britain, you no longer have the military
strength to defend yourselves. Alas, you no longer have the will to defend
yourselves.
What worries me even more than all this is your willful blindness. You refuse to see
that it is you, not we Americans, who have abandoned Western Civilization. It's
worrisome because, to tell you the truth, we need each other. Western Civilization
today is under siege, from radical Islam on the outside and from our own selfish
hedonism within. It's going to take all of our effort, our talent, our creativity
and, above all, our will to pull through. So take a good, hard look at yourselves
and see what your own future will be if you don't change course. And please, stop
sneering at America long enough to understand it. After all, Western Civilization
was your gift to us, and you ought to be proud of what we Americans have made of it.
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JannDallas
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| I may be blind and not see it, but where was this published? Just curious, if it was internet, magazine or newspaper. I liked the article. |
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homesteader
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| Not to mention how much American blood and treasure has been spent trying to keep them from self destructing even faster. There are a few who are grateful that they are not all speaking German but they are dying off and the new generations are as blissfully unware of history as American liberals seem to be. |
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Mary Ann Parker
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject: Hi Jann - Need To Ask You About A Christmas Project |
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Hi Jann!
I need to ask you about a good project for Christmas for our
Precious Warrior.
Here is the link to The American Thinker and Meyer's article.
It is a good and sensible site.
Make it a great day.
Mary Ann
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4006 |
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JannDallas
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| Send me a PM and ask away. |
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