If you are forced to listen to a liberal for more than two minutes, you will learn how intellectually superior they are. They will tell you that they are better educated and smarter than any mouth breathing conservative.
Many are indeed educated beyond high school . I long ago learned one of the most important lessons in life and that lesson was learned outside the hallowed halls of academia. That lesson is that education means nothing by itself. In other words, even the best of education is wasted on people who simply have no common sense. It is wasted on people who, for all their letters after their name, cannot connect the dots between two concepts or end up connecting the wrong dots. Knowing how to read and write, do quantum physics and the molecular structure of a virus are all nice things to know and might save humanity someday. But a college education ain't always what it's cracked up to be. I admit, I don't have a college degree. You won't see me in a courtroom playing Clarence Darrow or in a hospital doing brain surgery. Despite my lack of a sheepskin from some "institute of higher learning" (that phrase always makes me laugh), I know how to connect a dot or two. I understand cause and effect.
In Berkeley, CA, the average resident has more education than I will probably ever have. I'm sure that many of them are responsible for many things in our lives that make them easier and more enjoyable. There's a lot of smart folks in Berkeley. It's the home of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Hall of Science, Space Sciences Laboratory, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. There's some really smart folks running around that town and yet, for all that high octane intelligence, they cannot connect the dots between their freedom to go to school or to do their research and the fact that a strong, well trained, disciplined and professional military force stands watch in order that they might have that freedom.
When they look at someone in a military uniform, they don't see someone with courage, a deep understanding of what it means to be an American. They don't see someone who has a sense of duty and honor. They see something else. They equate someone in a uniform with some of the more baser and disgusting elements of society.
In Berkeley, they are trying to make it as hard to open a recruiting office as it is to open a porn shop.
In response to a Marine Corps recruiting office established in Berkeley last year, local activists are trying to make it more difficult for future recruiting centers to open in the city.
If passed by a majority of Berkeley voters, a proposed initiative would require military recruiting offices and private military companies in Berkeley to first acquire a special use permit.
To obtain this permit, a business must hold public hearings and a public comment period.
If the initiative passes, recruitment offices could not be opened within 600 feet of residential districts, public parks, public health clinics, public libraries, schools or churches.
And yes, they do equate it with a porn shop.
The author of the initiative, Berkeley-based lawyer Sharon Adams, modeled the initiative after current zoning law that restricts the location of adult-oriented businesses.
"In the same way that many communities limit the location of pornographic stores, that's the same way we feel about the military recruiting stations," said PhoeBe sorgen, an initiative proponent (emphasis added) and a member of the city's Peace and Justice Commission. "Teenagers that really want to find them will be able to seek them out and find them, but we don't want them in our face."
You see, for as smart as these people claim to be, they are as ignorant of the military as I am of quantum mechanics. The difference is you don't need a PhD in physics to understand the cause and effect relationship between the military and freedom. They see the individual military members and think they are the war mongers. They see them as violent, evil and corrupt. They see the military as evil right wing death squads who revel in torture and blood. They are blind.
They have absolutely no concept of a civilian controlled military. To them, a military uniform is representative of fascism and most of them wouldn't know a fascist if one goose-stepped up to them and slapped them.
I could sit here and type pages about the military, foreign policy and how it relates to the individual soldier, the politicians and society. On the other hand, I can sum a lot of it up with this:
It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given us
Freedom of the Press.
It's the soldier, not the poet, who has given us
Freedom of Speech.
It's the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the
Freedom to Demonstrate.
It's the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the
Right to a Fair Trial.
It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves under the flag and
whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who gives the protestor the right to burn the flag.
~Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
For all their degrees, this simple piece of prose was somehow left out of their education.
The men and women of the United States Military stand guard so they can be ignorant.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
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