American flag not flown at GITMO where it can be seen by the detainees
As a country we go overboard with trying to appease those who would like to destroy this country. We have a growing list of examples–from calling the war on terror an “overseas contingency operation,” to calling terrorist attacks “man-caused disasters,” to claiming we must allow Muslims to built a victory Mosque at Ground Zero to show we are better than they are, to calling the bombing of Libya a “kinetic military action” instead of what it truly is, an act of war–which perfectly illustrate this point.
The latest example of this appeasement is naturally Barack Obama’s decision not to release the pictures of Osama bin Laden with a bullet in his head. The theory behind this decision is this regime’s belief that it would inflame Muslims across the world and lead to violence. I would remind the president that the only Muslims who would be upset at the release of these pictures would be bin Laden supporters, and those supporters have already declared war on the United States. And these people are already inflamed–and always will be–at the United States, they have vowed to destroy us and the fact that the president has decided not to release these pictures will not cause a single one of them to revoke their “death to America” vow.
But this appeasement has been going on long before Barack Obama became the president and one of the most glaring examples of this can be read about here; The prisoners at GITMO have convinced prison guards not to fly the American flag where it can be seen by the inmates. I am not making this up.
Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo
Seriously?! The people being held at GITMO are there for one reason and one reason only–they have either been caught on the battlefield fighting against the flag of the United States or they have been implicated in plots to conduct terrorist attacks man-caused disasters against the flag of the United States, and we are afraid of offending them?!
These detainees have dedicated their lives to fighting against the flag of the United States of America and all that it stands for; in fact they were caught fighting against this flag and now we are providing them with the luxury of not having to look at the flag while they are detained in a United States prison for fighting against it?
This is outrageous and sad at the same time. How can it be that we let the detainees who are fighting against us dictate morality and the rules of the game? These are the people who are not only willing to kill innocent civilians but relish in it, and we show them this type of respect? We don’t want to offend their beliefs, even when there beliefs are in direct contradiction to our’s to the point where they are willing to attack and kill us.
Does anybody really believe that showing this courtesy to the enemy is going to change the mind of one single person who has dedicated their lives to the destruction of America? We have people who have dedicated their lives to defending the flag of the United States of America at GITMO guarding those who have dedicated their lives to its destruction and we feel it is more important to make sure the inmates don’t see the flag than we do with letting our military see the symbol they are fighting for. It is a sad state of affairs to say the least.
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I don’t know what to say, Steve. I’m dumbfounded. Since when does our military jump through hoops for enemy prisoners? Is this what is meant by human rights. As far as I’m concerned these are not prisoners of war. They are terrorist. They are the worst scum of the earth. They should be forced to listen to our national anthem every hour on the hour.
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Now that is an idea I can get behind!
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You got to be kidding me. You’re right Steve this is outrageous and sad. I would like to know who caved in and decided this was actually a good idea. I don’t know what to say.
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I would like to know who made this decision also, this just goes to show how far we will go in order to appear politically correct. Does anyone really think that this is going to change anyone’s mind?
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Make me commandant, I’ll tattoo that Stars and Stripes inside their eye lids
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That sounds like a great idea to me!
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You have my vote.
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I’ll second that.
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How long has this been a policy? Talk about motivating the enemy.
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I don’t know how long this has been going on, but this shows a sign of weakness that has to embolden the enemy.
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Troubling if true, but I can’t find any independent collaboration (or denial) – there are lots of Google hits, but all are dated the past few days and all cite the book as the source.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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“As a country we go overboard with trying to appease those who would like to destroy this country.”
And the appeasing is being done by people that would like to destroy this country from within.
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The fifth columnists!
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I guess myself coming from a time when U.S.M.C. bootcamp looked more like Full Metal Jacket’s opening I just do not understand this. My guess is it was done by the camp commanding officer who I beleive is Capt. Kirk Hibbert U.S.N the Marine Corps equivalent of Colonel rank of O6.
This mind set of appeasement towards our enemy is baffling. I would not only make sure they could see the raising and lowering of the flag but each area would have very loud speakers so they could hear Reveille and Taps. We could also do like some kind of elevator muzak playing patriotic songs all day.
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Thank you for your service and I like those ideas. I want them to be reminded who is holding them prisoners every moment they are awake.
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Well…just a thought…..If i were in charge would make the inmates stand revele each morning and evening for rasing and lowering the flag, regardless, of it being their country or not, they can respect it when we do.
go army!!
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Not only that but I would make sure that the ceilings were just low enough so that the inmates couldn’t stand completely upright during the raising of the flag.
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Send them to Arizona, That sheriff there will show them how to respect this great Country.
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Thank you for your service Gary.
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