HALF-FULL REPORT 04/17/09

My wife and I watched the televised images of so many thousands of Americans gathering in hundreds of places all across our country to support freedom and the nation’s founding principles against their destruction by a socialist-fascist president and Congress – and we cried.

They were tears of relief.  We’re going to have our country back again.  There is hope for America after all.  We wanted to believe this, but our faith had been profoundly shaken  by the act of mass insanity last November 4.  Now we could see with our own eyes – America is coming to its senses.

At least enough Americans are to make a difference.  And if they don’t, we all know to where we can escape:  Lone Star Texas.  Thanks to Gov. Rick Perry noting (however elliptically) that Texas has the right to secede "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people," all conservatives are Texans now.

The MSM desperately either ignored or dissed the Tea Parties, with one ultimate example from the schizo Wall Street Journal (left-wing reporters, right-wing editorial writers).  Believe it or not, on page A3 yesterday (4/16), the story about the Tea Parties had the headline, "Obama Calls for Simpler Tax Code."

You can see the online version of the story here.  The picture in the print edition is better, folks in Nashville holding signs, "Give me liberty not debt," "Save trillions of dollars now – lay Congress off," "Enough hope and change, we want competence."

Lots of folks are trying to answer the question, What happens now? – like aftertheteaparty.com.  One thing you can count on:  the patriotic rejection of Zero’s fascism is not going to fade, it is going to grow – because Zero and the Zerocrats have a compulsion to keep doing fascist things.

Janet Napolitano’s designating "right-wing extremists" as possible terrorist risks – including our soldiers returning from Iraq – is one example.  And a perfect example of how the Left is defining patriotism, as we predicted (1/21/09) in OTO Patriotism (OTO: Obedience To Obama).

There will be many more examples to come, in an endless stream, for the people providing them are compulsively fascist in a religiously fanatical way.  Fascism is their religion.

So the tea parties will continue.  Wait ‘till you see how many more of them and how bigger they are on July 4^th.  The real question is:  Will Republicans acquire the brains and spine to take advantage of them?

Will they dump the RINOs, the squishes, the greenie-weenies like Gingrich, and promise to get Washington the hell out of America’s way?  If they don’t, if they don’t start kicking fascist Dem butt, a freedom election in 2010 is a pipe dream.  No third party illusions – one cannot be formed in time.  The tea parties better focus on putting steel in Republican vertebrae and brass knuckles in their hands.

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We can raise a full glass of your favorite adult beverage to all the Tea Party participants – and to the one group of Americans the Zerocrats despise above all others:  our soldiers in the US military.

All of us want to raise our glass the highest this week to the Navy SEALs who popped those three Somali pirates.  And I’m sure you want to hear the real story of what happened.   Especially because there is a revoltingly opportunistic and cowardly side to it.  Guess which side Zero is on.

Why, for example, did it take SEAL Team Six (aka DEVGRU, Navy Special Warfare Development Group, the Navy’s equivalent of Delta Force) over 36 hours to get to the scene?

Because Zero refused to authorize the SEAL deployment for those 36 hours, during which the OSC – the on scene commander, Cmdr. Frank Castellano of the USS Bainbridge – repeatedly requested them.

Once the SEALs arrived – parachuting from a C-17 into the ocean near the ship – Zero then imposed Rules of Engagement (ROE) specifying the SEALs could not do anything unless the life of the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, was in "imminent" danger.

Thus, when Capt. Phillips attempted to escape by jumping off the lifeboat into the ocean, the SEAL snipers had all four pirates (one later surrendered) sighted in and could have taken them out then and there – but they could not fire due to Zero’s ROE restrictions.

When the SEALs approached the lifeboat in a RIB (rigid-hull inflatable boat) carrying supplies for Capt. Phillips and the pirates, the pirates fired upon them.  Not only was no fire returned due to the ROE, but as the pirates were shooting at the RIB, SEAL snipers on the Bainbridge had them all dialed in.  No triggers were pulled due to the ROE.

Two specific rescue plans were developed by Cmdr. Castellano and the SEAL teams.  Zero personally refused to authorize them.

After the second refusal and days of dithering, Cmdr. Castellano decided he had the Operational Area and OSC authority to "solely determine risk to hostage" and did not require any further approval of the president.

Four hours later, the White House is informed that three pirates are dead and Capt. Phillips has been rescued unharmed.  A WH press release is immediately issued, giving credit to the president for his "daring and decisive" behavior that resulted in such success.

Zero has absolutely no military knowledge or experience whatsoever.  He demanded decisional control over the entire hostage drama to the last detail.  All actions required his personal approval.  He dithered like a coward while the world laughed at our warships flummoxed by four illiterate teenagers with AKs in a lifeboat.

Only when the Navy Commander decided to ignore his Pantywaist-in Chief and take action and responsibility himself, were the incredible skills of the SEALs put into play.

That Zero could cynically and opportunistically claim that his "bold" "calm" "tough" leadership was responsible should remind everyone that not a single action, not a single word of this man can be trusted.  He is bereft of honesty and moral character.  That’s why he’s Zero.

The HFR raises a glass full of pride and gratitude to Navy Commander Frank Castellano, the Navy SEALs for their incredible competence, and our military.  Let’s hold a Tea Party in their honor.