“SAY IT LOUD AND CLEAR”
by OPOVV, ©2015
(Sep. 23, 2015) — I figured we were outnumbered 20:1, maybe not, but in war it’s better to err on the side of extreme exaggeration than to be short one. So maybe it was 18:1; so what? The order of the day was we’d survive until the next, and the Rules of Engagement were formulated by Yours Truly: whatever it takes to survive. If I had access to a nuclear device I would’ve used it, for sure. No question.
“Any boats reading me that have ICBM capability?”
“Calling all Flyboys, could use a couple of bombs, preferably napalm. Keep your frags, just give me something that will suck up all the oxygen so if anyone’s hiding in a hole in the ground that’s where they’ll stay.”
“Pardon me while I call my congressman.”
“Hey, Mom? Enlisting may have been a mistake.”
Only trouble was, there was no radio. Oh, there were radios, but if a radio doesn’t work it’s the same as not having any. Out of gas? So you got $100 in your wallet and have enough money to fill the tank. Out of bullets but there’s more over there? You got all the luck in the world until you’re hit, then you get make yourself feel better reading “Get Well!” cards.
So we surrounded the camp of the enemy. I wanted to shout “Geronimo!” and start firing away, but all I did was shoot. Those on the South and East sides were to take cover behind a rock, healthy tree or a hole in the ground and shoot their weapons in the air, way over our heads, to let the enemy know they were surrounded. It worked. We won. We walked away; they didn’t. End of story.
Looking back on it 50 years later, I do believe I would’ve yelled “Deport!” I would’ve instructed my “stuck-in-the-middle-of-nowhere” troops to also yell “Deport!” It seems as if the most feared word in the world is “Deport!”, so maybe had we yelled “Deport!” we wouldn’t have had to use our weapons and fire real bullets.
So I make a joke of it; so what? One time I was surrounded by a bunch of my fellow citizens at O’Hare airport. I was in uniform and I guess they were, too: long hair, tie-dyed, peace-beads. They were yelling “Baby Killer” and were surrounding me. I was outnumbered considerably, so I looked at what I figured to be the leader, eyeball to eyeball, and said, “What’s your point?”
Talk about diffusing the situation; letting the air out of the balloon; raining on their parade, that was it.
So what’s my point of this editorial? We used to yell “Geronimo!” when we attacked. I say we yell “Deport!” and get rid of the Muslims and illegal immigrants in our country.
“Deport!” Go ahead, say it out loud. Say it loud and clear. Perhaps you’re reading this on a train, commuting to work. Go ahead, say it out loud, loud and clear. “Deport!” At work; bored in a classroom? Yell it. At home alone? Say it out loud. “Deport!”
Now say it again, but this time mean it.
“Muslims and illegal immigrants: DEPORT!”
One more time.
“DEPORT!”
Had the ancestors of Geronimo did had a better immigration policy he would not have had their woman, children, and old men, starved, raped, scalped and slaughtered by the U.S Army under the lie of manifest destiny otherwise know as the “God ordained me to take this land and I had the right of discovery as approved by the church and all mighty U.S. Supreme Court.
The genocide of the 1st nations people by the corrupt Europeans including the Spanish who killed Geronimo’s wife and children. That’s right, Spanish. Not Mexicans. Remember, though Santa Anna lead a so-called Mexican army that attacked the Alamo, and later became the president of Mexico, was Spanish, from Spain and working at the pleasure of the King of Spain.
And Geronimo, he is best known for his ability to evade capture by the U.S. Army for 10 years after the U.S. Government declared he and his followers enemies of the STATE. After being captured in 1886, he remained a prisoner of the U.S Government until death in 1909 and was never allowed to return to his home land.
Who can you relate to?
If you think it was right and honorable to kill the native Americans and take their land then you should be cheering for those who have highjacked the government and are ready to once again, settle the land with new immigrants and began anew American History 3.0.
Just as American History taught today is void of the facts of Native American History but only started with a murdering thug named Christopher Columbus accidently landing near America and claiming this as theirs for those immigrants soon to come in 1492, so to will the new history books be written as to how a Kenyan conqueror named Barack Obama who claimed it for the new immigrants who arrived since 2015.
Dear Mike,
Thank you for such a well thought-out and insightful comment.
Well look at this: here’s a box that says “Native American” that I can legally check in case I want preferred treatment for a job or benefits.
I don’t think I’ll check the box; matter-of-fact, I’ve NEVER checked that box because I don’t require any extra-head-of-the-line Affirmative Action nonsense.
Your history lesson was quite informative.
If I was writing I’d mention, by name, my relatives who were murdered at Wounded Knee. Truth be told, one of the primary reasons why I majored in Anthropology was because of Dee Brown’s ethnography, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”.
Let’s try and live our lives today for all the tomorrows. Although it is good to remember the past (“Those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it”), Santayana gave that statement at the 2/3rds part of his book, “The Life of Reason”. There were literally thousands of words before and after that one sentence that have a direct bearing of what, actually, Santayana was attempting to convey.
Unlike Muslims, the American Indian is, if anything else, stoic. I have been referred to as the 21st century Tecumseh because of my travels and contacts with the numerous Tribes throughout the United States and Canada.
That said, I am well aware of the treatment the American Indian received. I am also aware that the Constitution affords ALL men and women an equal chance at the pursuit of happiness. Some people chase power and money; some chase the Elk and Salmon. I chased the presidency in 2012 and, had I won, the world would be a much safer place than it is today.
The key to it all, the ability for anyone anywhere on Mother Earth to have a shot of living their life in Peace, is what the values and traditions the Constitution stands for: Christian/Judaea concepts that have proven worthy of emulating for generations to follow.
The American Indian Tribes signed their Treaties adjourning themselves with the written word of the Constitution, not with the handshake of a slick politician who spoke with forked tongue. Men are born and die while the written word remains so.
Anyone who equates Muslims and the American Indians are nothing but darn fools.
Good day,
OPOVV