"Everyone knows a Walt Kozlowski"

[Kathryn Ball]

Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski.
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January 12, 2013
Dangerous Old Men
By Ebben Raves

Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski. He is the grizzled Korean War veteran Clint
Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino. A man who spends his days sitting
on the porch, keeping his house and yard immaculate, satisfied to drink his
cheap beer while watching his neighborhood and country go to hell around him.
He is an anachronism, a dinosaur -- part of the old America where you worked
hard, took pride in your work and where you lived, and fought for your
country and what it stood for when called upon. Armed with his M1 Garand
rifle and 1911 .45 pistol he brought back from the war, he put new meaning in
"Get off my lawn."

(Warning: spoilers follow.)

As anyone who has seen the movie knows, Kowalski is recently widowed and
terminally ill. He does not have much to live for until he befriends his
young Hmong neighbors. After teaching them what honor and self-reliance are,
he eventually gives his life for them.

Fewer have heard of Ben Mitchell, who features in the book Enemies Foreign
and Domestic. Mitchell is a former Vietnam-era Green Beret operative who
paralyzes Washington, D.C. by crippling the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. (Again,
spoilers follow.) Though not terminally ill -- yet -- Mitchell does not see
much of a future ahead of him and is angered about his friend being set up by
the federal government during an unconstitutional gun-grab passed in the heat
of the moment by legislators after a tragedy. Before losing his life,
however, he manages to take out most of the federal law enforcement team sent
against him.

Both of these men are fictional characters, but is it just fantasy? Let us
look back at Samuel Whittemore. Samuel was an old man -- seventy-eight years
old, to be exact -- on April 19, 1775. After many years of service bearing
arms for the British Crown, surely he was too old to fight, and his wife even
told him so. On that fateful morning, though, he gathered up his musket, two
pistols, and a cavalry saber that he acquired from a French officer who "died
suddenly" and took his place to meet the British Regulars in Menotomy. When
it was over, the British thought they were fired upon by a whole company and
sent the same to subdue him. After dispatching some British Regulars by
emptying his musket and pistols and drawing his sword, he had half his face
shot off and was bayoneted thirteen times and left for dead. Samuel did
indeed die -- ten years later.

There is also David Lamson, a mulatto voted by his peers to take charge of a
group of gray-haired old men. On that same morning, they surprised one of
General Percy's supply columns, asking them to surrender. Seeing just a few
old men, the British refused, leading to Lamson's men shooting the officer,
the sergeant, and the horses in their traces. The remaining grenadiers fled,
finally surrendering to old Mother Batherick after throwing their arms away.
Hearing about this, a British paper printed, "If one old Yankee woman can
take six grenadiers, how many soldiers will it require to conquer America?"

There are over twenty-five million veterans in the United States -- among
them many Walt Kowalskis -- and most of them are gun owners. Some of them
remember the horrors of the concentration camps and of communism. Others are
from the Vietnam era and remember what awaited them when they came home. They
see John Kerry, the same man who threw his medals over the White House fence
and was photographed with Jane Fonda and the North Vietnamese, nominated as
secretary of state. They remember. ObamaCare, where you get painkillers
instead of treatment because you are old? They have heard this. They have
been spat at and vilified before, and now, with time running out for them,
and the America that they knew seemingly fading away, many will say, "At one
time, I was asked to write a check to my country for up to and including my
life. Do I need to do it again?"

You would be surprised at what you can overhear at the VFW, or even the
"early bird dinner," for that matter. Thanks to the "War on Terror," there
are also many younger combat veterans, many from a lineage of soldiers. They
know that old people can be stubborn, and "the government threw grandpa in
jail because he didn't turn in his guns" will not go over well. As an older
friend of mine whom I see at Denny's on occasion tells me, "I'm just sayin'."

Ebben Raves is a veteran, constitutional activist, and speaker who teaches
American history and has been a guest on several talk radio shows. He can be
reached at [e-mail] [1].

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

Playing Their Hand Too Soon?

Written on Sunday, January 13, 2013 by JohnRizzola

It appears that our government may have made some grave miscalculations on a couple of key issues. The liberals have tasted blood after the reelection of their king and now they believe that there support has been solidified and they can get away with anything. I think they may need to reconsider that.

First, they went ahead and passed their little “fiscal cliff’ legislation even though they were only given three minutes to read it. What else would anyone expect? We know congress can’t read the legal language they pass into law. It turns out, as many angry liberals are discovering, that the biggest tax burden in the bill falls on the lower and middle classes and not the evil disgusting rich. Many of us conservatives spent a great deal of time trying to warn people of this.

We have known for the past four years that President Obama’s policies would favor his rich friends and hurt the middle class. We know that his idea of wealth distribution means taking it from you and giving it to the ever expanding, all powerful government. What’s funny, yes I find it quite hilarious, is that many of his biggest supporters, those believing that Obama was going to rip the undeserved profits from those evil rich people and give it to them are finding out there paycheck is about 100 dollars smaller. This affected my wife and me just the same, which is why I argue for conservative policies. Perhaps this group of people may now find themselves a little more interested in exploring the conservative alternative.

The second thing I would like to point out is that their attempt to rally people to the anti-gun dark side is having the exact opposite effect. People are buying weapons off the shelves of gun stores across the country. Just this weekend 15,000 people attended a gun show in California. Despite what they would have you believe it isn’t just the old, white, bitter clingers that are interested in exercising their second amendment rights neither. I have always believed that the second amendment is the one issue that held the potential to keep Americans united if all the other obvious reasons were to fail.

As our traitorous leaders in Washington are marching to the beats of their own drummer in their attempts to demonize the gun owner, the real affect it is having is that Americans are beginning to remember what it means to be free. Americans are starting to see that freedom hangs somewhere in the balance and they are not quite ready to see it go by the way side. It shows that we are not that far separated from our grandfathers and the truth of our remarkable history.

Mr. Obama once said the issue of gun control would be decided by public opinion. Well Mr. President, 74% of the American public believes gun ownership to be an inalienable right. How’s that for public opinion? I take a certain amount of comfort knowing that Americans are taking this attitude toward gun ownership because it shows that not all is lost.

My friends, if there was ever a time to become a bit of a “boat rocker” and start voicing the conservative position the time is now. When you’re in line at the grocery store and the liberal in front of you is complaining about their smaller paycheck that is your cue to explain to them and all who will listen why their pay check is smaller. It’s time that we start using their tactics of “sowing the seeds of discontent” against them while this small window of opportunity has presented itself. While people are actually in the moment of seeing the truth we must do what we can to seize upon the narrative and get those willing to listen to cross the line and come to our side. We can still win this America; we can stand united for freedom and truth and preserve our nation. We don’t have to let them divide us.

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[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

I'm thankful that we can talk to our Lord. He loves and guides us.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Thank you Pat Chadwell.

[Pat Chadwell]

And there are a lot of patriots there that have never told of their time of service, like my time I never talked about until 2005 while talking to another vet that did some what the same as I... Old Navy..

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

There are true patriots everywhere.