2010 Soap Box Archives

Political Correctness: The Death Of A Nation

Rarely has there been a more poignant point illustrating the silliness of political correctness than that recently made by an Illinois school superintendant who is refusing to let a girl's high school basketball team travel to and compete in a tournament to be held in Arizona, simply because of the new immigration law that state recently passed.

The arrogance--and in my humble opinion, downright stupidity--of this person speaks not only to the out of control cancer of political correctness in this country, but also to the ignorance of this individual for not knowing that Arizona's new immigration law does nothing more than enforce the federal laws already on the books that the feds lack the will or the gonads to enforce.

In 1980 Jimmy Carter refused to let our athletes compete in the Summer Olympics in Moscow. In retrospect, what did he accomplish except to deny young athletes the opportunity to do something they had worked so hard for all their lives?

Looking back it was nothing more than a weak, meaningless gesture and I'm sure the Illinois basketball team's refusal to play in the Arizona tournament will be viewed in the future as just as weak and just as futile.

The problem at our borders has been glossed over by Democrat and Republican administrations and basically ignored by the Congress and Senate until the problem is no longer a political one but a matter of the survival of a state and the welfare of it's citizens.

Last night in Charlotte, NC, I met the wife and son of the rancher who was violently shot down by an illegal who murdered a good man and escaped back over the border.

These are solid American citizens, a family that has been torn apart by some scumbag who will probably never be caught and tried.

I'd like to see that school superintendant in Illinois explain her silly, meaningless little protest to this family. That's the problem with political correctness; there is no underpinning, only empty symbolism, as Mr. Shakespeare so succinctly put it, sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The federal government has ignored murder, rape, kidnapping, organized drug cartels and all manner of violence and nobody but the good people of the state of Arizona seem to have the will to do anything about it.

We have watched this problem grow, going from a minor irritation a few short decades ago to being one of the most serious threats to the future of America.

And something else we should all remember. It's easy to sit half a continent away and criticize what's going on in Arizona, our opinions formed by the meager, one-sided information we get from an agenda driven media.

It is quite another to live there, afraid to work or even walk across your own land, never knowing when or where violence is going to break out and catch your family in the crossfire, watching the local and federal agencies responsible for your safety unable to enforce the laws that would protect you because of the political correctness that is sapping the strength of this nation.

If your family was threatened with violence and the law refused to protect them, what would you do? If you're any kind of man, your answer to that question would be "anything I have to, to keep my loved ones safe."

Well Arizona is doing just that and it's going to take more than some puffed up, self-righteous, politically correct little school superintendent to keep them from it.

Lock and load Arizona, lead the way, and lets hope and pray that there are still patriots left in this nation who will follow your lead.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and our country.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

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