2008 Soap Box Archives

Fourth of July

As we prepare to celebrate the 232nd birthday of the greatest nation the world has ever known, I am thankful to God for being born and raised in a country with freedom and opportunity.

It seems that everybody doesn't feel that way.

An article by some guy named Chris Satullo in the Philadelphia Enquirer states that America doesn't deserve to celebrate a birthday and the reasons he states mainly have to do with the prisoners of war in Guantanamo Bay and other places.

While Mr. Satullo has a perfect right to express his opinion on America, I also have mine and intend to use it too.

America is fighting a totally different war than any one we have ever engaged in. We are fighting people who think if they die destroying innocent women and children, the god they serve is going to put them in some kind of sensual paradise where they can while away the eons in the company of sloe-eyed virgins.

The prisoners we are holding in Gitmo are not traditional prisoners of war. They don't fight for a flag or a country, they are rogue Islamist terrorists who, if given their way, would walk into Mr. Satullo's house and cut his throat and the throats of his own family and laugh at them as they bled out on the floor.

I often wonder what would happen if Mr. Satullo and others of his ilk had their way. We'd close down Gitmo, bring all the terrorists to America, give them court appointed attorneys, give them access to classified material they could use in their defense and give them a show trial and probably have many of the released by some technicality or other.

Mr. Satullo, have you stopped to think how many of the prisoners who were released from Gitmo have gone right back to trying to kill American troops?

Do you think by any stretch of your imagination that if and when these murderers are tried and turned loose they will become good citizens and live productive lives, or do you think they'd smirk at a toothless American justice system with a renewed determination to destroy us?

Mr. Satullo, I wonder if you ever wrote a story about the beheading of American prisoners or the cruelty of Saddam Hussein and his depraved sons and the horror they visited on the defenseless people of Iraq for over a quarter of a century.

If I had my way Mr. Satullo, we would release a few of these prisoners and put them under house arrest at your home. If they are so harmless and deserve the rights of the constitution of a people they're trying to annihilate, you'd have nothing to worry about.

Mr. Satullo, I don't know, but I'd imagine that you have degrees from prestigious universities hanging on your wall, while all I have is a humble high school diploma. You probably consider yourself one of the elite, while I admit to being a country boy and proud to be a redneck.

But with all due respect, I think you're full of liberal platitudes and the stuff I dig up out of the lot where I keep my bulls.

America does deserve to celebrate a birthday, with firecrackers and watermelon, hot dogs and sparklers, parades and long-winded speeches, with picnics and flyovers and anything else we dern well consider a part of honoring the birth of a nation that has won it's own independence, brought freedom to Europe and stared down the Soviet Union.

I wonder, Mr. Satullo how you would feel if Islamist terrorists were holding your family hostage and threatening to remove their heads and one of the prisoners in Gitmo you're so concerned about had information that could save them.

What would you say? Would you be willing to wait it out while they received their undeserved due process or would you be frantically suggesting that somebody look for a charged twenty-four volt battery and a pair of jumper cables?

Happy birthday, America. Walk proud, talk loud and don't let the pantywaists shake your faith. Old Glory may be a little tattered but she's still flying high.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

July 4, 2008