A Nation of Sheep or Sheepdogs?

As we've all heard by now Nigerian Muslim, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, boarded a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. He is on the "terror watch list," the CIA was warned by his own father of his intentions and associations with Al Qaeda, he paid a large sum of cash for his one-way ticket and checked no luggage. Yet he was able to slip by the tight security where we strip search everyone but Middle-Eastern Muslim males on terror watch lists who check no luggage after paying cash for a one-way ticket to the US.

Fortunately, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's fellow passengers were alert enough to douse the flames created by his ill-conceived "bomb" and subdue him for the authorities.

After the incident, the Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, declared, "The System worked!" Wow. This is the same clown who issued a report warning of the dangers of NRA members, Ron Paul supporters, anti-abortionists and others who failed to find the tingle in their leg when B. Hussein Obama draws a breath to lie. Springing to action in light of this most recent terror attack attempt, Napolitano and her host of DHS cronies have banned pillows and blankets on flights! It's another example of the System working well enough to identify the eeeevil blanket and pillow jihad.

It's ironic that as the administration of B. Hussein Obama works tirelessly to drive us down the road to serfdom and dependence on his utopian nanny state, we are left largely to our own devices to defend ourselves from terrorists! But that's OK. We are Americans and historically, it's been the American people who have stepped up to save the world from various evils.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (Ret.) described our situation in this way:

One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:

"Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident." This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another. Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.

Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.

I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful. For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.

"Then there are the wolves," the old war veteran said, "and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.

"Then there are sheepdogs," he went on, "and I'm a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf."

If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed."

Again, we've traditionally been a nation of sheepdogs to varying degrees, of course. As the leftists, with promises of taking care of our every need attempt to make us all as soft as them, it still falls to the sheepdogs to make up for the System working so well. Even before the System had fully realized the scope of what was happening on 9-11, citizen sheepdogs said, "Let's roll!" and took decisive, life-saving action.

It's the citizen, armed with a full compliment of constitutional rights and an informed moral compass who is usually on-scene first and able to respond in a proper and principled way. As the old saying goes, "When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away." Absent that citizen, we may rely on the nobility of our first responders. Government bureaucracies and programs don't even make the long list.

B.Hussein Obama, a radical leftist from his youth identifies more with the terrorists than with the average American. He is, himself, a coward-- a man who would be the first to duck behind someone else when the bullets start to fly--and a man who has never produced anything but additional misery for all he's "served."

Yet he never hesitates to fire up the teleprompter to lecture us about the evils of our country and our system of government and the free market. Like his dysfunctional and illiterate Hollywood cronies, they are long on untested self-righteous blather and short on contributing anything of value to anyone. In short, they are sheep (or braying jackasses, if you prefer,) bleating loudly in support of the wolves and in excoriating the sheepdogs among us.

But they will never so much as burn a calorie in defense of the nation that provides them the umbrella of freedom and the capital to pursue their aberrant lives.

With each new attack, we see B. Hussein progress through the series of:

1. It's no big deal. It's under control. "The System worked."
2. Um, it was a fairly big deal, actually, and we're looking into it.
3. This was a pretty big deal, and it's all Bush's fault and I'm a historic figure who will save the planet by taking over the private sector, starting with the banking and health care industries.
   
4. "Are my cape and tights back from the cleaners yet?... Is this thing on?"
   

Teddy Roosevelt said it best, I think:

"FAR BETTER IT IS TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS, TO WIN GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS, EVEN THOUGH CHECKERED BY FAILURE, THAN TO TAKE RANK WITH THOSE POOR SPIRITS WHO NEITHER ENJOY NOR SUFFER MUCH, BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THE GRAY TWILIGHT THAT KNOWS NEITHER VICTORY NOR DEFEAT...

"IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS, NOR THE MAN WHO POINTS OUT WHERE THE STRONG MAN STUMBLED, OR WHERE A DOER OF DEEDS COULD HAVE DONE THEM BETTER......

"THE CREDIT BELONGS TO THE MAN IN THE ARENA WHOSE FACE IS MARRED BY DUST AND SWEAT AND BLOOD, WHO STRIVES VALIANTLY, WHO ERRS, AND WHO COMES UP SHORT AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHO KNOWS THE GREAT ENTHUSIASMS, THE GREAT DEVOTIONS, AND SPENDS HIMSELF IN A WORTHY CAUSE. THE MAN WHO AT BEST KNOWS THE TRIUMPH OF HIGH ACHIEVEMENT AND WHO AT WORST, IF HE FAILS, FAILS WHILE DARING GREATLY, SO THAT HIS PLACE WILL NEVER BE WITH THOSE COLD TIMID SOULS WHO KNOWS NEITHER VICTORY NOR DEFEAT."

Obama is the Sheep-in-Chief and I mean every possible negative connotation in saying so. His cowardly incompetence is matched only by his arrogance and boundless ego. He is infinitely more similar to an ego-maniacal and incompetent corporal in history than, as he claims, to Abraham Lincoln (all of B. Hussein's protestations notwithstanding).

Again, I put to you the question: If you don't believe Obama and his minions are attempting to orchestrate a total socialist takeover of our country and the establishment of B. Hussein as dictator for life -- what would they do differently if they were?