Soap Box

Dear fellow American from the �dream world,�

I want to thank you for your letter and all the unkind things you attempted to say about me. I have a few comments of my own to make.

First of all, your command of the English language, while archaic, inane, convoluted and tiresome, is admirable - if not very communicable - but your finely-honed sense of hyperbole would qualify you for the upper echelons of liberal verbal overkill.

However, you really should go to your dictionary and look up the word �racist.�

I'll save you the trouble, the dictionary defines racism as the belief that one race is superior to all others; not those who criticize President Obama.

Your insistence that I want to starve old people and children, start a war, completely divest women of every right they've gained since the days of Susan B. Anthony, abuse minorities by demanding a valid ID to vote, put a gun in the hand of every violent person in the country, accuse every Muslim in the world of being a terrorist, take away the rights of every religion except my own, destroy the ecology with the internal combustion engine and by not believing in man made global warming, mistreat undocumented aliens by not allowing them to come into the country illegally, by not believing that Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world, believing that everybody should pay some taxes to have some skin in the game, not having compassion for lazy bums who refuse to work and sponge off the government and being the cause for the Chicago Cubs not being in a World Series since 1945 is a little over the top.

Kidding about the Cubs.

You did however pay me a couple of compliments.

You called me a �redneck� and a �hillbilly,� and I wholeheartedly accept both insinuations with gratitude and I acknowledge that at least you got two things about me right.

Let me elaborate.

�Redneck� from your point of view, because I passionately believe that the second amendment guarantees American citizens the right to keep and bear arms, and not just for sports and target practice but protection, because I like to spend my Sunday afternoons watching cars go around a race track real fast and heavyweight young men face each other over an inflated piece of pigskin, among other things you may consider to be trivial and plebeian.

�Hillbilly� because - first of all - I love country music and the rural lifestyle. Oh, and by the way, �hillbilly� is pass�, the only ones who use it are people who never venture outside their little circle of urban bound, self-ordained sophisticates with a weakness for Perrier and lime and reading books they claim they love, but don�t really understand.

When it comes to somebody who has my back I'll take the rednecks and hillbillies every time and leave the university professors and armchair philosophers to you.

Your idealism and tacit fascination with socialism reflect shallowness, indifference or downright ignorance - or perhaps a little of all three - as all it takes to understand the abject failure of the system, for at least three quarters of a century, is a cursory examination of history.

And your belief that you can bargain with terrorist states and dictatorships or contain their evil is naive to say the least, as the only kind of diplomacy these kinds of people will ever understand is a power much stronger than any they can muster.

While you'll go to all lengths to save the whales and see that baby seals are treated humanely, you condone the murder of millions of the unborn every year and condemn me for believing that a fetus is a living human being and deserves the same right to come into the world alive as you and me.

And one more comment insofar as the right to bear arms.

If and when a terrorist sleeper cell comes out of hiding and starts indiscriminately gunning down people in the streets and invading neighborhoods, or some hardened criminal escapes from prison and is considered �armed and dangerous,� put a sign on your door stating that your home is a gun free zone.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels