Well. This is my very first blog post and, I admit, I always wanted to start up a blog. There's just so much to talk about and I'm getting tired of not speaking out about it. I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat and am proud to be an Independant! I like to promote thinking outside of the box and for people to vote out the riff raff in today's politics and vote in people who want to honestly want to serve our country and the American people.
No more political games and no more 'Democrat this' and 'Republican that!' I'm tired of the popularity games and people serving only for their political party! What about the rest of us? What about the Americans? The mothers? The fathers? Our children? When do we get a say in all of this? We deserve a government that will promote not only human integrity but to compromise with each other to get a solution on the table without shutting down the entire country.
Thats why I came to love the paper, Our Town. It is a local paper that is given out to every business with advertisements, reviews of restaurants of local areas and a thoughtful insight to the creative writer and thinker, Robert Beierle.
I loved what he wrote and, truth be told, has nailed it right on the head about the government. I loved what I was reading and I loved to hear someone from New Jersey to just say it how it is!
Unfortunately, he had to go "there."
What is "there"? Well, there is a trend every year that always points and blames certain parties to the point of conspiracy theories to prove a point. To Mr. Beierle's credit, he admitted that he isn't the conspiracy nut and I do believe him. He must be a wonderful man with a beautiful wife and great children. I hold much respect for him to take up a keyboard and write articles every two weeks for the paper.
However!
There is much I disgree with the article he wrote in Our Town's May 23rd Issue, "Thinking Outside of the Box... What Really Could have Happened with Osama."
I don't have permission to put up the entire article(Seriously, go to any business in Boonton or around that area. You can't miss. Grab a copy and read it if your curious! If not, well... Sorry man!) so I will summarize it for you: President Obama milked the death of Osama bin Laden for all its worth. The President and the Government lied to the American people about how they got the information of his whereabouts. Waterboarding was used to get the information. They jumped the big, fat, juicy worm. They've lied about it. Osama's probably alive and being tortured by the CIA.
Mr. Beierle thought outside of the box but he didn't look at it from every perspective. So allow me to let all of you look outside of the box, yet again, at a different point of view.
I'll confess, though. When I learnt Osama Bin Laden died? I popped up some popcorn and celebrated until the wee hours of the morning. I cracked jokes with some of my friends and listened to every single detail of what transpired. I mean, come on. I was a just a teenager(Sophmore year!) when 9/11 happened. A lot of people died that day and I never knew such hatred existed in the world until that very day. I was a naive girl who got the wake up call a little bit early.
Not only that but witnessing the pain and suffering my classmates and my teachers were facing that day? I'll never forget that. I'll never forget the jokester and classmate, Jared, frozen in terror with hundreds of other students in the school library glued to that television with the smoke bellowing out where all the Twin Towers used to be.
I'll
never forget that.
So when I learnt he finally got his due? I was happy. I celebrated. I thought it was the best thing ever, and then the different information came in. There was gunfire, and then there wasn't any gunfire. They shot and killed unarmed men. The wife begged and then the wife of Osama bin Laden lunged at the Navy SEALs. She was dead, then she was alive.
Mr. Beierle called President Obama in 'milking for all its worth on 60 minutes and other television shows,' that President Obama had him killed 'to increase his low president rating' and a lot more that put a lot of discredit to him.
He was correct that President Obama was in the center spotlight over the death. However, that was something thats better off. I did a little research before writing anything up about the people who did this - The NAVY Seals. None of them got really any much credit or badges of honor for what they did(Course none of them would have been able to if they did not get the go-ahead from the President in the first place.)
After looking much into it, I came to learn that Navy SEALs never get any credit what so ever. They serve their country and they do it faceless. They do the job that no normal person can do and they do it without parades and without medals. They are humble people whose only desire is to protect the people. Thats their jobs. Thats what they do.
Thats why President Obama is getting a lot of screen time and the real heroes are not. In a way, I'd prefer it that way because the men who shot and killed Osama bin Laden wouldn't want to be labelled as heroes. They are just people serving their country and ask for nothing else. To reveal who they are and put their faces on screen would defeat the whole purpose of the Navy SEALs and give the terrorists an idea of who to target in their revenge.
Yep. You heard it right, revenge. What, you thought terrorism would disappear with the death of Osama bin Laden? Even Mr. Beierle pointed that out and tried to say that President Obama might have possibly made it out that way. Well, anyone with common sense would know that it wouldn't disappear with the death of one man. It'll always be out there and the roots of hatred that Osama Bin Laden left behind wont be erased so easily.
I won't even touch the waterboarding issue with a ten foot pole as, despite my research of different news source, there is no real way to say where they got the information of the courier. None of us will ever know if its waterboarding or not that got the information leaked. In fact, I learnt that torture, in general, decreases the attempt of getting accurate information then other methods the CIA might be using. The torturee will instead spit out anything that the torturer will want to hear in order to get it out -- whether the information is true or false.
Something for Mr. Beierle to consider before making such an accusation.
What made me angry the most, however, was the idea that we should not have killed Osama Bin Laden and should have kept him alive for the information he would have had or be tried by the system.
Okay so, let's say they did it Mr. Beierle's way. They went in, picked up Osama bin Laden and held him in Guantanamo Bay to be awaited for trial. I don't know about any of you but I do not trust in our national security right now. As strong as the CIA and the others might be, I'd see a huge spike of attempted suicide strikes or even successful ones done on our American soil. Not only that but American tourists, reporters, soldiers, anyone thats a AMERICAN outside of our country would suffer the consequences of this by having some terrorist kidnapping many of them to demand the release of Osama Bin Laden.
The US would never do such a thing so, those people would be as good as dead.
Osama Bin Laden is worth more dead then he is alive. The information he could provide would be meaningless to all those people who would have suffered if America took that route. I think the CIA knew this, the President knew this and so did everyone in his cabinet. No, Osama Bin Laden is worth more dead then he could ever be alive.
Though his death could still provoke such a response but not in any of the high scale like keeping him alive would have done.
Now, don't get me wrong. I have absolutely nothing against Mr. Robert Beirle. In fact, I love some of his work(I got a good kick out of his Easter Bunny story!) and there are some things he's written that I do, in fact, agree upon. We're allowed to agree and disagree since thats what America gives us. Thats what America allows us to do.
He has the right idea. Forget Democrats, Republicans and get people thats for the American people. Only we can do that and only we can vote out the people that are wanting to serve a single party then our country. I just think he should give President Obama a little more credit. Is he perfect? No, he's made some mistakes. But I honestly don't think he had him killed just for his presidental rating. They were watching even before he became President(eight years!) and they just had enough for him to give the go ahead.
Voting out President Obama isn't going to solve any of our issues. Its not a presidental problem, its the government. And if we're going to have any change or our faith restored back into our government, we're going to have to make it clear that we're not going to vote for people serving only their parties. You serve for us, the American people AND our country and you will serve it with integrity and with respect.
Be it Republican, or Democrat.
Thats the way I think it should be done.
