GUEST OPINION

THE MAJORITY RULES . . .NOT!           

            Today, in America, minorities rule, power-brokers drool, the media acts “a fool,” students run the school, and we have lost our cool. We will not show replays of the jets slamming into the World Trade Centers, we won’t treat jihadist prisoners harshly, and our news media daily convinces us we are losing a war that has been a resounding success, but we; after all, are a much kinder, gentler America and do not want to traumatize our children, anger our enemies, or hurt our balance sheet. All right Usama and al-Zarqawi, stop chuckling. It’s not that funny. In fact, it really is sad.

Most Americans, a large majority, support our troops, but the minority during Vietnam learned how to easily manipulate the wimpy, willing, witless, wily news media, who; in turn, manipulated an innocent naïve public. The naysayers and media miscreants are following the same formula today.  Grown up spoiled rich kids, Jane Fonda and John Kerry both recently labeled our proud young patriotic fighting men and women in Iraq as “terrorists.” They want to turn today’s veterans into a re-creation of Vietnam Victims of America. Howard Dean, the head of the Democratic party in this country, said we cannot win the War in Iraq about one week before over 70% of Iraq turned out to vote in free elections in a democracy, a democracy not named Israel in the mideast. Of course, I think Howard was also the kid in our schools who stuck his tongue out at us while driving away after safely jumping in the car when mommy picked him up.

We, the majority, must think for our senseless neighbors. It is time to stand and be counted. In this country the majority is supposed to rule, but it cannot, if we do not have the gumption to stand firm against the minority oppression of the majority. The ACLU, the Association of Corrupt Liberal Undesirables, be damned: if you are in the majority, do not be afraid to voice your opinion. When you hear idiocy coming from the mouths of the misinformed, please speak your mind. Our silence is the same as consent to stupidity.

There are several areas where the minority has manipulated the media, or the media has manipulated the minority:

RACE

I am not a “European-American,” as I was born in Akron, Ohio, not Europe. I am white, like a saltine “cracker,” but I did not have to grow up black, red, or yellow to abhor and despise racism. I have fought against it my whole adult life, and my children got spanked if they even tried to bring racial jokes into our home.

            I am sickened by the Rev Jesse Jackson’s, Al Sharpton’s, and Charles Rangel’s in this country. Instead of telling black children how many of them came from a race of mankind that survived some of the harshest jungles of the world or the personal hell of slavery, these men tell black children that they are victims, and they tell their moms and dads the same thing. They pooh-pooh the efforts of blacks who have worked hard and worked smart to rise to great heights such as The Honorable Dr. Condi Rice, Dr. Bill Cosby, CORE head Niger Ennis, GEN Colin Powell, and even an outstanding NFL player Donavan McNabb. Dr. Cosby created a black TV family wherein the dad was a medical doctor and mom was an attorney and the family was cool and normal. What an example of heroism for all kids, but especially minority kids, but have the Poverty Pimps praised his contribution to American society, and specifically, black society? No, because if they do they will start losing their power base and funding if black children really do start realizing they can actually reach for the stars and ascend to greatness in this country.

            Besides murdering 3 other victims, Tookie Williams, founder of the Crips, during a hold up, blasted a former serviceman in the back with a sawed-off shotgun and laughed with his gang-banger buddies about the young man’s gurgling sounds when he died, and somebody wanted to give Tookie the Nobel Prize, and for books that sold less than 300 copies? Then the usual publicity-craving “Poverty Pimps” got on camera and warned about race riots if he was not pardoned by Gov Schwarzenegger. Please!!! He was facing death by injection and finally saw the error of his ways. So what? We should lionize him for that? How many innocents, how many law enforcement officers, have been murdered by Crips, rendering a non-commutable life sentence for their survivors? Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, Baby.

            CHRISTMAS

I am a conservative and strongly believe that tax breaks and capitalism provides jobs and begets more money, however the dollar has become so important to so many, that some in corporate America will sell their soul just to grab as many dollars possible, but what good is a large business if it does not stand for something? On the other hand, I will not join some who want to boycott Wal-Mart because they say “Happy Holidays” and not “Merry Christmas.” There is good with the bad. Wal-Mart is at least smart enough to have a Veterans Wall with photographs honoring veterans in each community. 95 percent of all Americans celebrate Christmas. 95%!!!!!!!!! That is a lot bigger percentage than actual Christians in America, so it must include many Jews, Muslims, atheists, and other groups, yet businesses like Wal-Mart are stupid enough to kowtow to the 5% and not the majority. How many times in America can you find 95% that agree on anything? Yet businesses bow down to the 5%. Brilliant, huh?

            But, for those of you who are Christians and who do have a job where your corporation says you cannot say “Merry Christmas,” before the wimpy greeting “Happy Holidays” escapes your lips, I want to remind you of one Bible verse, the words of Jesus Christ in Mark 8:38, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him shall also the Son of Man be ashamed, when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” Before you open your mouth to a customer, ask yourself if you want to follow the wishes of your spineless manager or Jesus? Your decision.

            GAY RIGHTS

            And, I am so very sorry but what you choose to do sexually does not make you a minority. It makes you an American doing what you believe in but not a minority. What you practice sexually is totally your business unless it involves children, then I will make it my business, but it does not equate to being an oppressed race or oppressed gender.

I complained to the manager of a local convenience store about a clerk, who happened to be gay, and she immediately said, “Why, Don, are you homophobic?”

            I replied, “No, I could care less where other guys put their lips and body parts as long as it is not on me. Your clerk is a rude, arrogant jerk, and I will only shop at places where I am treated like a customer. Are you going to straighten him out or are you afraid of being labeled a homophobe?”

            After many complaints from others, he was eventually fired, but I already was shopping elsewhere.

            NATIONAL SECURITY

            I am sickened by the feeding frenzy attitude of the media and their bed-partners, liberal politicians, right now trying to curry votes for the next election, and each one with their own selfish agenda. The Patriot Act could be misused to violate our civil rights, but millions of guns in this country could also kill people everyday if responsible parents didn’t teach their kids gun safety. The Patriot Act, unchecked, could violate our privacy, but carefully monitored has probably helped prevent another 9-11. People have written to me that I hate liberals. That’s crazy. 2 of my 6 grown children are liberals, and I do not love them any less or more than the others. This to me is not really about liberals and conservatives. I love America, and it is about America and our survival. Every waking thought of the members of al-Qaeda and fanatical muslim terrorists and their sympathizers in every country in the world is how to destroy us and destroy Israel. If John McCain or anybody thinks the al-Quaeda will stop sawing off the heads of hostages, because we pamper prisoners, then I have some prime oceanfront property to sell them in Nebraska.

            SOLUTIONS

            One guy wrote me saying that I am “the voice of the majority in this country,” and I laughed, explaining, I am simply Don Bendell expressing my own views. You can do that, too. Write your local congressman, or woman, and demand that you want the Patriot Act extended. Write your local paper and blogs and express, not my opinion, but your own personal opinion. Speak out when people say stupid things. Don’t be part of the “silent majority.” If your local TV or radio station derides our effort in Iraq call them. Tell them, when they mention 2,000 soldiers being killed in Iraq, that according to the Source Book of Criminal Justice Statistics, in just 2002 alone when the War in Iraq started, in just 8,500 American cities, 11,750 citizens were murdered. In California alone in 2004, there were 2,394 murders. Tell them to also speak about all the dams, schools, bridges, factories, power plants, banks, hospitals, homes, and major democracy our troops built there. When the media and political mega-mouths get to you, and you are ready to give up on Iraq remember this: The overall military commander of the North Vietnamese, General Vo Nguyen Giap, in his 1985 memoir of the Vietnam War, wrote, “…if it were not for the disunity created by stateside protests, Hanoi would have ultimately surrendered.”  Divide and conquer: It works.

I will do whatever needs to be done to protect my wife, my children, my grandchildren, my neighbors, and my fellow citizens. Like it or not, we will have to fight the jihadists either here or over there, but fight them we must. How about you? A tame grizzly might be entertaining, impressive, and beautiful, but you still never want to slap it. It has long claws, sharp teeth, and a lot of power. We must see this through to the end! We must back our troops and our commander in chief! We should always be America the Beautiful, but at the same time, we must be the United States of America the Beautiful, but always carry that big stick. Think a grizzly looks majestic? Go slap one. I dare you. I double dare you.

Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, including a tour on a green beret A-team (Dak Pek) in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and was in the Top Secret Phoenix Program, is a top-selling author of 21 books, with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado. His pro-Bush/anti-Kerry editorials were widely published in newspapers and magazines, and circulated by millions all over the world on the Internet. He has been interviewed on FOX NEWS LIVE and on many radio shows and speaks all over the country. His newest novel, a modern day military thriller, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DETACHMENT, was released worldwide by Berkley (Penguin) in December, 2005.

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Blessings, Don Bendell