"The behavior of the incident with the Wambier family* tells you everything you need to know about North Korea." John Bolton, Former Ambassador to the United Nations
September 27, 2017
By: Linda Case Gibbons
It might have started at the breakfast table when George Washington turned to Martha and asked, "This tea cost how much?"
The rest is history. American history. Our history.
The Boston Tea Party. Founding Fathers. Sons of Liberty. Jefferson, Madison, Adams. Thomas Paine. And the nameless patriots who fought in the Revolutionary War, with bloody feet, no food, no pay or clothing.
These people had no safety net. They didn't know how things would turn out. But they knew the time had come to cut ties with England. And they were willing to give their lives for an idea, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
They signed their names on a "Declaration of No More of This," aware they most likely were signing their death warrants, and that, in Benjamin Franklin's words, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
They crafted brilliant documents that gave "We the People" protections that never existed under a tyrannical king, or anywhere in the world, among them, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and an exceptional Constitution, a template for what was to become the greatest, most generous country in the world.
This tells you everything you need to know about Americans. Brave, persistent, strong, and until eight years ago, unapologetic.
It is never easy to do, or say unpopular things, at any time in history. Ask Donald Trump.
No one wanted to talk about illegal immigration, or spoiled football players disrespecting our flag.
No one wanted to admit there was a bipartisan Washington Swamp. And who wants to be the one to tell an unbalanced Kim Jong un that if he is aggressive, the United States will destroy him?
When Trump did, Hillary called his comments "troubling," but then again, she wasn't keen on talking about Benghazi, either.
We've tried "Nice," and "Politically Correct," and it hasn't worked. It's like teaching a pig to sing. It doesn't get you anywhere, and just annoys the pig.
So the time has come to be Politically Incorrect. We're being played for fools by people who live here, and hate this country. And people who want to come here to live...And hate this country. We're asked to start each sentence with "despite the deep flaws of our country..." Why?
It's time to say to refugees and illegal immigrants: "This is our history. Our country. Not yours. Back off."
To tell the violent Black Lives Matter, "Slavery was hundreds of years ago. Ever heard of the Civil Rights Movement? And knock it off with your nasty nastiness, 'What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.' We've had enough of your ignorant disrespect."
We've heard the talking points for illegal immigrants: "These people want to make better lives for themselves...They come from terrible conditions in their countries...They are poor."
"They pay taxes...They serve in our military. They're nice people."
It's time to say, "We don't want your taxes. We don't need you to serve in our military. We never asked you to come here, and yet you went ahead and did it anyway, violated our immigration laws, anyway, and came here illegally. THE Question that is never asked: Why aren't you in your own country, fighting in your own military, driving out the drug cartels, working to make your country better, the way Americans have?"
"And I'm puzzled. Why do you think we owe you anything? What gives you the right to wave the Mexican flag in our faces, shout your demands, and use our freedoms and First Amendment against us, as your safety net?
No one wants to say what is unpopular, even when it's the truth. Americans have better manners than that. But, alas and alack, unhappy people have a way of making everyone around them unhappy, and have no problem sticking it to America, while they enjoy the fruits of this great country. To these unhappy, ungrateful people, from far and near, we say, we've had it, we're tired. Go home.
To those Muslims who use their mosques to plot jihad against America, knowing that they will never be monitored because of "Political Correctness;"
To the millionaire, Pig/Police-Sock-Che-Guevara-T-Shirt-Wearing Kaepernicks of the world, to the cowards in the Hire-a-Mob ANTIFA, who hide their faces while they hide behind our First Amendment, to those that have the gall to destroy our monuments, denigrate the names of our country's heroes and give us Che Guevara in their place! And to those who have profited from the blood, sweat and tears of Americans, without ever, ever thinking they had to give anything back, or ever, ever saying thanks, we say: "Grow up." We've had enough.
Hold the line, America.
*Otto Wambier is the American student imprisoned in North Korea who died days after he was released and sent home to his parents. If you wonder, as the mainstream media and Hillary do, if President Trump is too harsh with North Korea, go ask Otto's parents.