Engaging my favorite quote: SSDD
Sips a coffee sharing some words I know:
The eagle was born to those who pledged their lives and sacred honor, was smiled upon by God, freed from chains and iron collar. He is held aloft by unity and history, revered. For preserving peace through strength, his wings now reach across over 200 years, but for each of those plus some more, God has smiled upon the Corps…
From the Barbary coast to the Eastern sand, by gun, by sword or bare hand, so it’s been and shall be weighed; many are born, few are “made” Faithful always: they shall remain.
Dogs to lose when war is made.
Whatever your opinion of the Marine Corps is, just it file under:
Best friend or worst enemy
you be fine
I’m going to share a story of my people, every Marine knows the story, but! not everyone is a Marine, if everyone was it wouldn’t be the Marine Corps.
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed ever G’damn one of them in the village.
It didn’t take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, “To the Shores of Tripoli “.
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the “Barbary Pirates”) were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic .
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
Pay attention
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.
The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam “was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the u\American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.
The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming.
That changed everything.
Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States.
Sips coffee… don’t want to bore too much, wait, ya I do for it’s important.
America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.
A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him.
His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.
It’s death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America.
As in this example:
A Sharia-Compliant Muslim City in the Heart of Texas
This one… yeah this headline
Three residents of Pittsburgh, including Mohamad Hamad, a 23-year-old dual Lebanese-U.S. citizen and member of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, have been federally indicted on charges related to explosives,stating his intention to die as a martyr rather than defend the United States. The indictment also names Talya Lubit, 24, and Micaiah Collins, 22, in connection with antisemitic hate crimes, terrorism sympathies, and involvement with explosives. Authorities allege Hamad lied on his Air Force clearance application
Derna, all those years ago, and here we are, still dealing with the head choppers
Some days dog, the supply of available curse words is insufficient to meet my demands
sips coffee…
