Are your blinds open? - The Firearms Forum

satellite66 · 07-29-2006, 03:15 PM

Got this in an email today. I wanted to share it. It is long and I'm sure that some might not like it.

>Are your blinds open?
>
> For all the liberal press, I have never heard a better analogy of U.S.
>aggression. Nobody wants to see our troops have to go to war but
someone has
>to do it.
>
>
> The other day, my nine-year-old son wanted to know why we were at
war...
>My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I
were in
>the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and
defend our
>country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good
>explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son
to go
>stand
>in our front living room window.
>
> He said, "Son, stand there and tell me what you see?"
>
> "I see trees and cars and our neighbors' houses," he replied.
>
> "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the
United
>States of America and you are President Bush."
>
> Our son giggled and said, "OK."
>
> "Now, son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every

house
>and yard on this block is a different country," my husband said.
>
> "OK Dad, I'm pretending."
>
> "Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend

you see
>Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is
>hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he
>throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their
>children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and
crying,
>they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are
>afraid of their father. You see all of this, son.... what do you do?"
>
> "Dad?"
>
> "What do you do, son?"
>
> "I'd call the police, Dad."
>
> "OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your

call.
>They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do
you do
>then, son?"
>
> "Dad....... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts
to
whine.
>
> "They don't want to, son, because they say that it is not their
place or
>your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
husband
>says.
>
> "But, Dad... he killed her!!" My son exclaims.
>
> "I know he did... but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I
want
>you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
>pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his
children."
>
> "Daddy... he kills them?"
>
> "Yes, son, he does. What do you do?"
>
> "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next
door
>neighbor to help me stop him," our son says.
>
> "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to
get
>involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him,"
my
>husband says.
>
> "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"
>
> "WHAT DO YOU DO, SON?" Our son starts to cry.
>
> "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you
ask for
>help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and
puffs
>out his chest. Guess what he does next, son?"
>
> "What, Daddy?"
>
> "He walks across the street to the old lady's house and breaks down
her
>door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on
fire and
>then... he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window
>and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"
>
> "Daddy...."
>
> "WHAT DO YOU DO?" Our son is crying and he looks down and he
whispers,
>"I'd close the blinds, Daddy."
>
> My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him.
"Why?"
>
> "Because, Daddy... the police are supposed to help people who need

them...
>and they won't help... You always said neighbors are supposed to HELP
>neighbors, but they won't help either... they won't help me stop him...I'm
>afraid.... I can't do it by myself, Daddy ...... I can't look out my
window
>and just watch him do all these terrible things and do nothing ... so
.....
>I'm just going to close the blinds ... so I can't see what he's doing
. And
>I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."
>
> I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine-year-old son standing
in the
>window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's
>questions. He says....
>
> "Son....."
>
> "Yes, Daddy?"
>
> "Open the blinds, because that man...... he's at your front door...

"WHAT
>DO YOU DO?"
>
> My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up
>his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, and without
>hesitation he says, "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM
HURT
>MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT
>HIM!!!!!"
>
> I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his
>chest and hugs him tight, and says.... "It's too late to fight him,
he's too
>strong, and he's already at YOUR front door, son... you should have
stopped
>him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children, and the old lady
across the
>way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before
>it's too late," my husband whispers. "THAT scenario I just gave
you is WHY
>we are at war with Iraq When good men stand by and let evil happen, son,
>THAT is the greatest mistake, believing that the atrocities in the world
>won't affect them. "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN
IF
>YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE! BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR
>TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR
CHILDREN
>WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."

Marlin T · 07-29-2006, 03:39 PM

It is a rerun well worth reading again. Thanks

southernshooter · 07-29-2006, 07:42 PM

Defenitaly worth the read

glocknut · 07-29-2006, 09:39 PM

That pretty sums up the truth of the situation with todays terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The translation of a recent speech by the second in control of al qaeda had him quoted as saying that they would not stop fighting until islam reigned supreme from Spain to Iraq...
They need to be stopped. Period.

mike
gn

Marlin · 07-30-2006, 03:00 PM

I agree with Marlin T. It is well worth reading again, again and again as a reminder of what it's all about.....

Bernie109 · 07-30-2006, 05:09 PM

And what you are actually doing is finding out that the domestic violence turned out to be the mother and kids beating up on dad for tossing out the sons dope and gang paraphailia and tossing out the daughters boyfriend for sleeping with her in her room. Now that you killed the man of the house, Mom is free to do her meth, the son is free to smike his dope and hang out with his gang, and the daughter is free to scew her boyfriend.

Our decadent permissivness is not the answer to their problems

Marlin T · 07-30-2006, 09:21 PM

Bernies blinds are forver closed and bolted shut.

southernshooter · 07-30-2006, 09:22 PM

Bruce FLinch · 07-30-2006, 09:27 PM

My blinds are open

Bernie109 · 07-30-2006, 10:14 PM

Actully, I refuse to wear your blinds.

07-29-2006, 03:15 PM	#1
satellite66 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Central NJ Posts: 2,068	Are your blinds open? Got this in an email today. I wanted to share it. It is long and I'm sure that some might not like it. >Are your blinds open? > > For all the liberal press, I have never heard a better analogy of U.S. >aggression. Nobody wants to see our troops have to go to war but someone has >to do it. > > > The other day, my nine-year-old son wanted to know why we were at war... >My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in >the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our >country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good >explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go >stand >in our front living room window. > > He said, "Son, stand there and tell me what you see?" > > "I see trees and cars and our neighbors' houses," he replied. > > "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United >States of America and you are President Bush." > > Our son giggled and said, "OK." > > "Now, son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house >and yard on this block is a different country," my husband said. > > "OK Dad, I'm pretending." > > "Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you see >Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is >hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he >throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their >children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and crying, >they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are >afraid of their father. You see all of this, son.... what do you do?" > > "Dad?" > > "What do you do, son?" > > "I'd call the police, Dad." > > "OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your call. >They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do >then, son?" > > "Dad....... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine. > > "They don't want to, son, because they say that it is not their place or >your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband >says. > > "But, Dad... he killed her!!" My son exclaims. > > "I know he did... but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want >you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're >pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children." > > "Daddy... he kills them?" > > "Yes, son, he does. What do you do?" > > "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door >neighbor to help me stop him," our son says. > > "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get >involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my >husband says. > > "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!" > > "WHAT DO YOU DO, SON?" Our son starts to cry. > > "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for >help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs >out his chest. Guess what he does next, son?" > > "What, Daddy?" > > "He walks across the street to the old lady's house and breaks down her >door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and >then... he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window >and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?" > > "Daddy...." > > "WHAT DO YOU DO?" Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, >"I'd close the blinds, Daddy." > > My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him. "Why?" > > "Because, Daddy... the police are supposed to help people who need them... >and they won't help... You always said neighbors are supposed to HELP >neighbors, but they won't help either... they won't help me stop him...I'm >afraid.... I can't do it by myself, Daddy ...... I can't look out my window >and just watch him do all these terrible things and do nothing ... so ..... >I'm just going to close the blinds ... so I can't see what he's doing . And >I'm going to pretend that it is not happening." > > I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine-year-old son standing in the >window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's >questions. He says.... > > "Son....." > > "Yes, Daddy?" > > "Open the blinds, because that man...... he's at your front door... "WHAT >DO YOU DO?" > > My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up >his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, and without >hesitation he says, "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT >MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT >HIM!!!!!" > > I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his >chest and hugs him tight, and says.... "It's too late to fight him, he's too >strong, and he's already at YOUR front door, son... you should have stopped >him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children, and the old lady across the >way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before >it's too late," my husband whispers. "THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY >we are at war with Iraq When good men stand by and let evil happen, son, >THAT is the greatest mistake, believing that the atrocities in the world >won't affect them. "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF >YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE! BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR >TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN >WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..." __________________ “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not” — Thomas Jefferson. "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948 -->

07-29-2006, 03:39 PM	#2
Marlin T Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: New Mexico Posts: 7,857	Re: Are your blinds open? It is a rerun well worth reading again. Thanks __________________ "But the simple truth--born of experience--is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people." Judge Alex Kozinski - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. - Thomas Paine Did you read todays GOOD shooting? >>>KEEPANDBEARARMS.COM <<<

07-29-2006, 07:42 PM	#3
southernshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Deep South Mississippi Posts: 5,943	Re: Are your blinds open? Defenitaly worth the read __________________ Only you can see this

07-29-2006, 09:39 PM	#4
glocknut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: THE FORUM MASCOTT... Posts: 12,482	Re: Are your blinds open? That pretty sums up the truth of the situation with todays terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere. The translation of a recent speech by the second in control of al qaeda had him quoted as saying that they would not stop fighting until islam reigned supreme from Spain to Iraq... They need to be stopped. Period. mike gn

07-30-2006, 03:00 PM	#5
Marlin TFF Admin Staff Chief Counselor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: At SouthernMoss' side forever! Contributor Posts: 13,853	Re: Are your blinds open? I agree with Marlin T. It is well worth reading again, again and again as a reminder of what it's all about..... __________________ *The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.* *The only criminal class native to the United States is Congress.*

07-30-2006, 05:09 PM	#6
Bernie109 Former Guest Join Date: May 2006 Location: Central CA Posts: 274	Re: Are your blinds open? And what you are actually doing is finding out that the domestic violence turned out to be the mother and kids beating up on dad for tossing out the sons dope and gang paraphailia and tossing out the daughters boyfriend for sleeping with her in her room. Now that you killed the man of the house, Mom is free to do her meth, the son is free to smike his dope and hang out with his gang, and the daughter is free to scew her boyfriend. Our decadent permissivness is not the answer to their problems

07-30-2006, 09:21 PM	#7
Marlin T Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: New Mexico Posts: 7,857	Re: Are your blinds open? Bernies blinds are forver closed and bolted shut. __________________ "But the simple truth--born of experience--is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people." Judge Alex Kozinski - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. - Thomas Paine Did you read todays GOOD shooting? >>>KEEPANDBEARARMS.COM <<<

07-30-2006, 09:22 PM	#8
southernshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Deep South Mississippi Posts: 5,943	Re: Are your blinds open? __________________ Only you can see this

07-30-2006, 09:27 PM	#9
Bruce FLinch Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Point, Kali..aka Gun Point Posts: 5,016	Re: Are your blinds open? My blinds are open __________________ A bad day @ the Range, is better than a good day @ work.

07-30-2006, 10:14 PM	#10
Bernie109 Former Guest Join Date: May 2006 Location: Central CA Posts: 274	Re: Are your blinds open? Actully, I refuse to wear your blinds.