Hear No Evil, See
No Evil – Just Say It!
Deborah Venable
May 22, 2004
I
find it utterly appalling, shameful and fearsomely dangerous that the “good”
citizens of America have spent weeks now sitting in public judgment of a
handful of young people who didn’t quite live up to America’s ideal of a
soldier. The media has spoon fed the
“horrors of Abu Ghraib Prison” through every outlet in the country now for
weeks and will continue to offer up the court marshals and sentencing of these
individuals as long as the public will eagerly partake of the feast. Politicians will continue to pick at “those
in charge” for the “atrocities” against Iraqi prisoners and conveniently forget
the subhuman actions of those prisoners, which landed them in Abu Ghraib in the
first place. No one in the media will
bother to write the story without the token “scumbag” or like comparison label
attached to the “handful of evil doers” – not even members of the media who
find themselves part of the hated right wing conservative bloc. Even some of the soldiers and ex-soldiers
are quick to judge the “non-representative few” as undeserving of their
uniform.
Pictures
are worth a thousand words. The sheer
numbers of the pictures now released are worth all the oil in foreign deserts
when it comes to the undermining of American purpose. Playing on the sensibilities of the gullible American public, the
“information machine” of socialist thinking has made God-fearing people accept
the images of abuse as testimony to America’s ugliness while denying us the
right to see certain other images that should be a wake up call to all
Americans’ natural instinct to survive.
There is no balance here.
Socialists, after all, have never been able to fairly fight their way
out of a paper bag. That is precisely
why they are socialists. The pictures
of balance offered up alongside those of the “atrocities” should at least
include evidence of what these “poor prisoners” did to get themselves
incarcerated.
Has
anyone in the responsible reporting media bothered to ask about the crimes of
these “victims” or are they simply content to worship at the idol of Geneva
Conventions in “responsibly reporting” their story? Has anyone in said media bothered to examine the “guilty” for any
other reason than catch them like deer in the headlights and encourage them to
“expose” others’ dirty deeds and those of their commanding officers so that all
can be “brought to justice” and America can once again breathe the free air of
imagined innocence in the court of world opinion. No. We are supposed to
sit harshly by and judge these young people as the bad apples that have sullied
our reputation as a liberating army. We
are content with forcing the administration to go, hat in hand, before the
world and denounce the “actions of a few” as non-representative of
America.
Anyone
care to make a wager or even take a guess at how many other young American
soldiers will die or be brutally injured as a direct result of the actions of
reporters and non-actions of a bruised, disillusioned, and let’s not forget,
sensitive American public?
Meanwhile,
our enemies are loving it. At a time
when they should be running scared at the thought of the most powerful military
machine the world has ever known unleashed on their sadistic actions and even
more sadistic plans, they are becoming emboldened by the ever-increasing hobble
the American public and politicians are placing on that machine. Our soldiers must now think far too long
about the ramifications of taking down the enemy instead of following his or
her trained instinct to survive. Ask
them. If they can get the knots out of
their also hobbled tongues, they will answer with the truth about the enemy’s
advantage that you, the American public with all your sensibilities intact, has
served to that enemy.
The
“we shouldn’t be in Iraq” crowd is beside itself with righteous indignation at
the scandal of the century. Those same
zealots will defend to the death the “rights” of Hollywood starlets to
purposely bare their anatomies before cameras for “entertainment” in suggestive
poses and “artistic” depiction of sex acts with the hunks of Hollywood, but the
zealots find it unthinkable that soldiers born of this same “culture” could
find such things “entertaining” in the presence of the “religiously sensitive”
enemy. The “we shouldn’t be in Iraq”
crowd doesn’t think we should ever be anywhere that the United Nations has not
commanded us to go. After all, that blessed
paragon of moral virtue is the only human organization with a right to direct
America’s military actions, isn’t it?
Let
the record show that this is one pundit who will use her last remaining threads
of free speech protection to berate the evil I have seen and heard from my own
countrymen over this so-called “scandal” as I ask you all one burning question
- how well will your “sensibilities” serve you when you are forced, as you most
assuredly will be, to defend your home and your way of life, (whatever that may
be), from the likes of those “poor victims” when they make their presence known
in your own back yard? When they rip
every shred of decency you might still posses from the bodies of your loved
ones while you watch in real horror, will you want to “bring to justice” the
actions of these soldiers who tried to stop the horrors on foreign soil, or
will you insist that a courtroom awaits the violators of these ludicrous “rules
of war”?
While
you chew on that one, let me serve up a little dessert. Think about the effects of Marshal Law on
your sensibilities – that will be the outcome of a war in your own backyard –
and it has been planned for decades now.
How well do you think you will do when the young soldiers with the “bad
apples” are in charge of your every action?
Do you think any will remember how your sensibilities dictated their
level of danger while they were still fighting on foreign soil?
Let’s get this straight, America, for once in the last half century – support the troops AND their cause or get ready for more evil than you can imagine!