WINTER SOLDIERS AGAIN

How far can political correctness go? Well, in the liberal stronghold of Minneapolis-St. Paul, it can go beyond the realms of believability. The Minnesota Twins, the most fan friendly team in Major League Baseball, decided that it might be fun and not just a little respectful to our armed services to give the first 5,000 children coming to the game a free GI Joe doll, excuse me, action figure. In an attempt to be not to pro-military, the Twins had Hasbro, the makers of GI Joe remove the machine gun from the figure, although they did leave the belt of hand grenades.

Well, as you might expect, this left the peaceniks with there dresses over their heads.

"It's not a credible way to honor those who've suffered the inhumanity of war,'' said Phil Steger, executive director of Friends for a Non-Violent World, a St. Paul-based group with about 4,000 members in Minnesota.

"One wonders whether a desire to increase ticket sales is masquerading as good intentions. We hope not. Minnesotans' moral sense and empathy with those who have lost life, limb and loved ones in war — soldier and civilian — rejects this kind of opportunism,'' Steger said.

Mary Beaudoin, a leader of Women Against Military Madness, Minneapolis, said she's "appalled'' by the giveaway.

"This is hideous … a bad message to send kids,'' she said. "Kids need to be raised with the values of life, not killing.''

GI Joe – “hideous”? Please, groups of panty-wastes like these are trying to emasculate this country. A few posts ago I wrote about how better people than I spoke of democracy standing because people are willing to do violence to protect it. People remember Col. Nathan R. Jessup’s speech on the stand in A Few Good Men more than any other part of the movie because it resonates truth:

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand at post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”

Everything he said was true and the people, “under the blanket of the very freedom” provided by people with the guns this action figure was denied decry the very existence of a GI Joe action figure, much less the existence of the REAL GI Joe’s who fight and die for them. The very thought that kids might even be exposed to soldiers and Heaven forbid (if they only believed in Heaven) look UP to the members of our armed forces makes them sick. This is what liberalism does to our country.