The Anti-Hippie Manefesto

Make Love not War…. Flower Power…. All of it hogwash.

It is not often that I read something on the squinter-net that causes my blood to boil; much less one that warrants a blog dedicated to it, but this is one such occasion that cannot be forsaken. I came across a comment posted by someone whom Carlos Mencia would label “Dee-de-Dee,” accusing our soldiers of being murders in an unjust war brought about by a president’s personal agenda and the greed of corporations. While I respect the right of the poster to say this, protected by the ever vigilant First Amendment, I feel it is my duty to exercise the same right to lambaste their idiotic ramblings. For years now we have listened to politicians and anti-war protestors claim there were never any WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) or Al Qaeda in Iraq. I’ll admit that the US military did not find any WMDs when they kicked in Sadaam’s front door, but UN inspectors had reported that there were facilities in place that could have been used to produce WMDs, and they did know several months before the invasion that we were coming. Any one with a functioning brain would know that the WMDs could have been easily destroyed or moved into neighboring countries or simply just hidden in the vast desert sands. Any one who has watched the news knows that top Al Qaeda officials have been killed in Iraq. That being said, these new-age hippies make me sick. Do they not realize that the very rights that allow them to spew their unpatriotic dribble were paid for by the blood of the very men and women they now deride? I am sure they would have been out chanting their flower power nonsense the day after Pearl Harbor. No one in there right mind would have called the soldiers the fought and died in WWII murders or the war unjust or motivated by a president’s agenda or corporate greed. How is Pearl Harbor any different from 9/11? Terror knows no borders and in theory anyone could be a terrorist. Both attacks were committed by terrorist groups, but the nation of Japan was a well defined enemy, while Al Qaeda is an organization with out borders. We would have pursued the attacks to the ends of the Earth and attacked any country that harbored these people. With all this being said, we need to be in Iraq and see this war to the end. The last thing we need is for Iraq to be a safe haven for terrorists. Do we really need another 9/11? Next time you neo-hippies want to bad mouth the soldiers or spit in their faces and call them murderers, first thank them for protecting your right to do so. The movement brought nothing but a generation of confused burnouts and divided a nation. We still suffer from the consequences of the free love that the hippies touted as the answer to war. The neo-hippie movement can only result in the same effect. So, all of you that hold fast to the flower-power movement remember that your flowers were grown in soil bought with blood of the brothers and sisters of the men and women you know defile. One word of advice, try waving the flag instead of burning it? How about thanking a soldier instead of cursing him or her. How about celebrating your country instead of loathing it? Some of you are asking how I can condone war, and I answer this greatest nation was born of war. Oh wait! The founding fathers were murders and the war was unjust.
GET A HAIRCUT HIPPIES!

~ by Will on February 18, 2008.