Why They Want Us To Forget 9/11

I will never forget the morning of September 11, 2001. We were in our old office complex on the 12th floor of the downtown Civic Center. I walked by the office of the homicide bureau chief and noticed a small group of ADA's standing in the doorway watching a TV monitor. There was a story about a burning building of some kind and I asked what was going on. They told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I looked at the smoke for a second and thought, "How the %^$# can you miss a building that size? Must be a suicide," and went back to my desk. I didn't know that it was a passenger jet.

A little while later I walked past the office again; there were a few more people watching the newscast. I stopped again and watched for a few minutes. I was told that a passenger jet had crashed into the WTC and that the building was being evacuated. Now I started to pay attention to what was being said on the television.

Then I saw the second plane crash into the other tower.

It was a truly gut wrenching moment. I felt as though I was physically punched in the stomach. Twice is no coincidence. Instantly, without a doubt, I knew we were at war. I did not know who attacked us; didn't care either.

Something was rising in my throat.
It was rage. I couldn't talk.

Those who seek to enslave us first must lull us to sleep. This is America. As a Japanese general officer once said, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. For us to be defeated it must come from within. For too many decades we have been preoccupied with external threats and have ignored the internal ones.

The threat that will bring us to our knees is not the result of invasion, but from neglect. Our death as a free nation will not come from explosions but from rot.

That threat is being realized today in the form of the Democratic Party.

Let's remove the veneer of civility, the Democratic Party is controlled by socialist thugs who have patiently waited for the opportunity to impose their values on a sluggish. materialistic population who is more concerned with the number of chocolate chips in their cookies rather than their freedom.

Some have been diligently warning about this for a long time. To their credit, many people are finally waking up. Like a dreamer caught up in a nightmare and shuddering awake, we regain our prospective with Joe Wilson's heartfelt spontaneous utterance as a rallying cry, "You lie."

Rub the naivety out of your eyes America. Get your ass out of your suddenly cold and uncomfortable bed. We are still at war with people who hate what we stand for and if we are not diligent, we will surely find that, as a nation, we will no longer be different, we will be just like the rest of the world.

We will no be the incredible story of success and hope that the rest of the world longed to emulate. We will no longer be the coveted destination for the disenfranchised, the hopeless, the starving and destitute.

We will become just another socialist shithole that people seek to escape.

That is what Obama and his commie thugs have in store for America.

Too Many Lawyers

Too Many Lawyers, Too Little Wisdom
By Doug Patton
June 23, 2008

“When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty.
When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.”
— Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
Chinese-American writer and editor

In Henry VI, Shakespeare wrote, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Anyone with “esquire” behind his or her name will rightly tell you that the bard’s quote, when taken in context, is in praise of lawyers. Personally, I prefer it taken out of context, as do most who quote it. Like all lawyer jokes, it makes the point that no one likes them and that there are far too many of them.

Paradoxically, it is the law that separates us from the uncivilized; yet lawyers in excessive numbers create a barrier to progress that threatens the very civilization we enjoy. This is especially true when wisdom is divorced from the practice of the law, as is so often the case in America today.

Take, for instance, the ridiculous ruling of the California Supreme Court, which mandated that the people of that state must accept a redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples.

Or the recent United States Supreme Court decision that invented a constitutional right to habeas corpus and all the rights associated with citizenship for hostile combatants taken prisoner on foreign battlefields. Our ancestors would think us mad, indeed.

Thousands of years ago, King Solomon is reported to have been the wisest man in the world. When asked to judge between two women who claimed to be the mother of an infant, Solomon ordered that the child be cut in two and each woman be given half. One of the women immediately cried out that the king should give the baby to the other woman, which proved to Solomon that this woman was the child’s mother, for she was willing to give her child to someone else rather than see it slain. Solomon’s wisdom is not often in evidence in the legal profession today.

Recently, an Associated Press article was published concerning the number of American lawyers and law schools. It seems that the United States now has the dubious distinction of having 200 accredited law schools. Currently in this country we have one million lawyers, most of them hungry and anxious to sue someone. Anyone.

Contrast that with Japan, a nation with approximately half our population, which has 18,000 practicing lawyers. We have nearly ten times that many people in law school at this very moment!

“I think we have this fundamental disconnect between images of lawyers in the popular media, in the courtroom dispensing justice, where everyone seems prosperous and well paid,” says William Henderson, an Indiana University-Bloomington law professor who studies the job market. “The reality is for a lot of people, law school is a route to trying to start your own private practice, and that’s a very crowded business right now.”

So we have one million lawyers, their ranks swollen annually by fifteen percent from 200 law schools around the country. Many who cannot make it in private practice join the ranks of advocacy law. These are the legal parasites who impede society’s advancement in the name of a cause such as global warming or homosexual special rights. They specialize in attacking traditional values and institutions and generally wreaking havoc on society. They are the ACLU types and other radical fringe groups bent on destroying America. And many times, they become the judges who find themselves ascending the ladder to our federal courts — where they can do some real damage.

Ethical lawyers and wise judges are rare today, and they are not rewarded for their common sense. A judge who wants to see his career flourish will not rule in a manner that will invite scrutiny by a higher court. To have a decision overturned is not in the best interests of a jurist’s long term career goals.

Do you suppose King Solomon would have concerned himself with such things?
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© Copyright 2008 by Doug Patton
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at mhtml:%7BB5A5E0E5-09A7-4E7E-ABCC-097CA314DBE1%7Dmid://00000091/!x-usc:mailto:dougpatton@cox.net.