Firebrand

For starters, this post is really going to piss some people off if they don't stay for the whole show. In fact, it will probably piss some people off if they do read the whole thing but here goes anything.
This week was the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. During the national service of thanksgiving and remembrance of this event some guy decided to disrupt the service because he feels the British Government of to-day should apologize.
My question is why? Why should this guy think he deserves an apology? Unless this guy is a good bit over 200 he has not been a slave in British rule.
Whining and bleating about the past does not change the past. Every person who was ever enslaved under British rule still was. Every abuse that happened will not be canceled out by an apology now. The slave ships of the 1700's will not just warp into some other dimension because someone says some words.
The liberal leftist media tagged right along with this guy and the whole slavery angst angry pout industry was cranked up for the billionth time. All of us who haven't descended from slaves (unless like Obama you rewrite your family history) are now obligated to feel guilty as hell for the plight of the coloured folk.
Let me tell you a bit about my family history. In a time of famine, my family was forced to eat grass rather than be allowed to catch fish in their own streams because their own streams had been taken over by a occupying military force. My female ancestors were raped while their husbands and children watched and then the families were brutally killed and thrown into the ruins of their own burning houses as warning to others. This was in Ireland.
Another part of my family was thrown off their lands at a moments notice whan an
English Lord decided he would make more money hiring labourers than just taking a cut of the crop as had gone on for hundreds of years. When forced to steal to survive, some were deported to Australia and some fled the country. That was Scotland.
Another part of my family was slaughtered for following the wrong religion. They were Huguenot and that was in France.
Another part of my family is still being treated like third class citizens in a first world nation. They are first nations peoples in Canada.
Are you getting my point?
If this guy deserves an apology then I deserve at least four. If I don't deserve an apology then he doesn't either. In fact he is more racist than many of those he wants an apology from.
What makes him a racist? He is doing the one thing that has started and still perpetuates every act of racism going. He thinks he is better and more deserving of something on the grounds of the colour of his skin or his family lineage.
That kind of attitude leads to both the African slave trade and to the expulsion , murder and violence against white farmers in Zimbabwe and increasingly in South Africa to-day. There is no difference in the mindset.
I would suggest that those out there who are so against slavery put as much effort into eliminating the slavery going on now than getting some words spoken about something that stopped 200 years ago.
In large areas of Africa, the Muslim Middle east and Asia slavery is still very very real. People are being sold...Right Now. Families are being split apart...Right now. People are gaining high profits from selling the flesh of others....Right now.
Let's quit demanding restitution for yesterday and do something about to-day.
Nothing would be a more fitting apology to the memories of past British slaves than to eliminate slavery as an institution everywhere on this planet.
We are all children of God and we are all deserving of dignity and freedom to live our lives as we choose. I would submit that the man who protested at the British ceremony would find more peace eliminating slavery now than getting a forced apology for past acts that will never change.
All that ever changes about the past is how we view it and how we react to everything around us through the lens of our own perception. That is why the slights of the past can continue to torment us long after the event has passed.
If I could speak to the man who disrupted the ceremony, I would say "Let it go, buddy....let it go. I applaud your heart of anguish for the past abuses of your people. You will find true freedom from the slavery of your ancestors in forgiveness."
Now....Aren't you glad you read the whole thing before firing your computer out the window.

With the latest round of Democratic witch hunts under way to catch those who would fire 7 US Attorneys, it behoves me to wax poetic about the record of the democrats while in the Oval Office the last time. Where to start? How about at the top. Slick Willie (I never legally had sex with that woman) Clinton getting a blow job while talking on the phone in the Oval Office, getting disbarred, having the entire Supreme Court protest his actions, avoiding and evading all through Ken Starr's investigation. How about the second in command who invented the internet and is currently prostituting himself as a pseudo evangelist on the global warming circuit. Gore is even less credible when you consider the dismal record of his own huge carbon foot print. Then there is "white water" Hillary whose accents change depending on which area of the country she is in.
Janet Reno was the author of a move to remove a small child at gunpoint to send him back to Cuba against any of his biological relatives wishes. (For those who do not know, Elian's "father" in Cuba was seperated from Elian's mother two years before he was born) Then there was Waco which speaks for itself. Item after item and criminal act after criminal act can be lain at the feet of the Clinton administration and it's supporters.
The Katrina fiasco was never blamed on the true criminal in the crowd, none other than the Mayor of New Orleans. It was he who parked all the school buses in the days before Katrina when it was possible and actually suggested to him that the poor without cars could be bused out. The evacuation and the safety of those who stayed behind was a municipal responsibility prior to asking the state and federal governments for assistance. But, of course, being a Democrat, Ray is still in office. If he had been a Republican, he would have lasted a week after the hurricane at most. Then there is the granddaddy of them all, Senator Edward Kennedy, drunk and mistress murderer who was never made to pay because he is a Kennedy. He is mentor to all that is worst in the Kennedy clan and some of his younger relatives are following in his stead.
The thing that saddens me most about all this is the fact that there was a time when the Democrats actually cared about the people. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were products of a party that wanted real social justice in times when it was seriously needed. Lyndon Johnston was of the same mold and made great inroads towards the great society he envisioned before Viet Nam spread like a cancer over his administration.
These days, the Democrats idea of the downtrodden are baby murderers and athiests who whine to the ACLU anytime anyone actually mentions God.
They have decided for political reasons that the war in Iraq must be lost to suit their own political gain. No matter the loss of brave men and women, no matter the waste of billions of dollars, no matter the loss of another nation to the Islamofascist beast; as long as their agenda to the '08 election is fulfilled and their candidate becomes president.
When you look at it all, it sure makes the firing of a few US Attorneys small potatoes, doesn't it?

If I were an American, I would be hopping mad at the Democrats and at the other assorted peaceniks who are bound, bent and determined to lose in Iraq. It is a real view into the lack of comapassion the leftists have for people in general. The nation of Iraq was being ruled by a sadistic madman whose sons carried cattle prods and ran rape rooms for their own sadistic pleasures. People were put into wood chippers feet first for Saddam's personal enjoyment and his inner circle did whatever they wanted. Entire villages of people were murdered time and time again because Saddam's thirst for depravity and personal paranoia knew no bounds.
Since Saddam was deposed there has been negative story after negative story about the war. No mention  of the positive reception the coalition forces received and continue to receive from the majority of the people in the nation. No mention of the good works done by the troops on a personal level and the inroads that have been made. The Cindy Sheehans have been built up as saints and any supporter of the war has been villified over and over again in the liberal press.
Why would a group of Americans want to lose the war? It's simple. It's to make the Republicans look bad in the eyes of the nation so the Democrats could gain control of the House and Senate in the midterms and to gain the presidency in '08. With the Democrats in the House and Senate in the majority they can continue to sabotage the war effort and blame it on the Republicans. There is something very sad about  a generation having a mid life crisis and we are seeing it happen right before our eyes. It's almost as some of these aging hippies, yippies and  peaceniks are trying to recapture their youth and seeing the struggle with "the man" happening all over again. They even dug up Hanoi Jane and her merry band of fellow travellers for another go. It's enough to make you puke.
The saddest part is about all the people being hung out to dry by this. The people of Iraq are being hosed once more in the name of narrowminded selfishness. If the Democrats would trade an entire nation and region of the world for their own seats in the corridors of power, they would trade you and me as well and not lose a wink of sleep over it. The prospect of Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton in charge make my very happy that I am a Canadian.

Up here in Canada, we have had the results of our 2006 Census come out. The lead stories have all talked about the fact that the declining birth rate here almost ensures that in the next few decades all of our population will be replaced through immigration. Facts and figures are all tossed around with the usual gloom and doom predictions and a lot of angst and a sad time is had by all. Elsewhere in the West, it is the same thing. The US, Europe, Japan and other nations have all become preoccupied with low birth rate and our inevitable slide into depopulation.
Every possible reason or non reason has been cited except the one that starts with "A".  Here in Canada there are about 105,000 abortions every year. That is one quarter of all pregnancies in the nation being ended by an unborn child being  legally murdered under the guise of medical treatment.  Hundreds of garbage bags of dead babies off to disposal each day. Little lives snuffed out before they ever got a chance.
I had a nurse friend tell me a story of a nurse friend of hers who was ordered to take a bag of dead babies to the hospital incinerator. While she was making her way down to the basement she heard a faint crying coming from the bag. She summoned assistance as her training and instinct demanded. The result was that the baby ended up in the incinerator anyway and the nurse was fired for not following Doctor's orders. The whole thing was hushed up and the public was never told.
Abortion is murder pure and simple and no amount of legalistic slight of hand will change that. It kills both child and mother. Any woman who has had an abortion who is even slightly honest with herself knows that a part of her died with that child in that operating room. The guilt and shame that follows abortion lives on beyond the social stigmatization of our past because fundamentally everyone knows abortion is wrong. It isn't society pointing the finger that causes the distress and depression but the finger of the carrier of the child pointing back at herself after the fact.
The rest of us sit back and allow it all to happen because we are too afraid to say the "A" word. The fault for all this lies at the feet of the legislators of our nations for taking the easy road out in the name of political expediency. Tthe rest of us are at fault for allowing them to do so.
Shame on us all.
Don't like what I say? Take a hard honest look at the facts and tell me they aren't true.
 

Well kids, Firebrand is on the air. If you are the type who loves being driven crazy by right wing nutjobs, this blog is for you. You will get the world as I see it and like it or lump it. I am an Anne Coulter fan (just lost some of you) support the war on terror (just lost some more) and am pro-life (just lost the Democrats in the States and the Liberals and NDP here in Canada)
I think manmade global warming is junk science being used to scare us and our governments into supporting the dismantling of our economies and turn us into welfare states. I also think Conrad Black's only crime was to have money and to continue to own his own testicles instead of bowing to the metrosexual concepts of transferred guilt and manufactured angst over his success.
The reason I am starting this blog is to actually get a few facts and a little truth out there in the face of all the shallow BS that tries to pretend it is intelligent debate. So if there is anyone left reading this who hasn't run for the hills (or to safer blogs) I suggest you tighten your seatbelts because the road gets pretty rough from here on in.