Loose Lips Sink Ships
on 01/09/2006 at 04:33 AM
If Osama and company were not initially aware that they would acquire a willing and able fifth column in this country, they are all too pleasantly aware of it now.
Frankly, I am beginning to regard the fifth column as a far greater threat to us than Osama and his gang.
GRRRR!
This wouldn’t even have been an issue before Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Government secrets were government secrets and unpleasant things happened to people who revealed those secrets. Then came the war in Viet Nam. The first signs of problems began with President Johnson’s Credibility Gap and spiraled downward from there. As long as the American People had faith in their leaders, there was no significant demand for the release of secrets. The overall toll of Viet Nam goes far beyond the dead and wounded. It did something to our national spirit that hasn’t healed yet. Part of the legacy is that disagreeing and protesting government policy has morphed to being anti U.S. interest in general. As Americans, we have a right, sometimes a duty, to disagree with our government. BUT to willfully undercut our men and women overseas, to publish information on secret programs that ferret out the plans of our enemies, that is not a right, that is treason.
Ah, but none dare call it treason. You’ve heard the yelping and screeching when it is so named.
I think you’re correct in every respect, Dr. Jeff. I will add that I have the feeling that it’s also an opportunity for aging hippies and their offspring to relive the legends of the sixties if not the reality. Their grip on reality vanished in those days and has never been regained.
I AM an aging hippie/radical! What I know as liberalism is a lot closer to what’s called conservatism today. Yeah, I’ve got some serious disagreement with parts of the NeoCon program, but in general I like it a lot better than the neo fascism that I see coming from the “liberals”. Most of the liberal politicians that have come from my generation are the biggest pile of double dealing, two faced, “let big daddy tell you what to do and think”, pile of narrow minded crap that I’ve seen since the Nixon administration!
