2010
Soap Box Archives
Ellis Island
I'm currently on tour, and as I write this, our show tonight will be
on Ellis Island where so many immigrants began their journey to the
freedom of the New World and the Land of Opportunity.
They worked hard, kept their families together, gave their children
the education they themselves never had the chance to get and carved
out their piece of the American dream by perseverance, going the extra
mile and faith in the God of their fathers.
They brought their children up to be good Americans to become a part
of the fabric of the nation they had embraced as home, they built railroads
and sky scrapers, fought wars and brought forth the industries and technologies
that would make the United States of America the envy of the planet.
The spirit of America was forged and fostered by many races and nurtured
by moral strength and tenacity.
The freedom of America was purchased by the blood of patriots and blessed
by Almighty God. The hope of America has never been in its politicians,
but in her people.
As I look across this river at the great City of New York, I realize
that there are two pieces missing from the skyline, two towers that
once rose above everything else on Manhattan Island, two monuments to
the nobler accomplishments of mankind, destroyed in an hour by madmen
who hate everything America stands for.
No matter how the media tries to sugar coat it, no matter what this
administration calls the War on Terror and the Islamic fanatics who
wage it, no matter how much politically correct tripe we hear to disguise
it, there is one undeniable truth: The only thing that could possibly
cause men to fly an airplane full of innocent people into a building
of other equally innocent people is pure, undiluted hatred, fueled by
totally satanic evil.
I for one have heard enough about Islam being a peaceful religion. I'm
happy that it is and I'm glad for them, but the peaceful ones are not
the ones we're concerned with.
The evil that caused the deaths of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 is still
out there in the world just waiting for the next opportunity to hurt
us again and any letting down of our guard or any gesture we make as
a nation which can be perceived as weakness can be and will be exploited
by our enemies.
As long as the Obama Administration has Eric Holder as Attorney General
there is a leak in the ship of state. Eric Holder is more beholden to
his sick ideologies than he is to protecting this nation and Obama should
not hesitate another day in getting rid of this weak and dangerous link
in an already weak and dangerous chain of unrealistic snobs who play
games with the safety and prosperity of this nation.
It would at least be a good start.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops, and for our country.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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