Subject: "Empowered For Freedom" clarifies further...

"THE BRAT IS FATHER TO THE RAT" -- ADDENDUM

 

       About eleven years ago, long before the Evil

Thief invaded Mary's lungs, we were walking our

small female dog Flotsam in a huge, wide park. 

This park had prominent signs reminding everyone

of the leash law, and we were obeying that law;

but a woman some two hundred yards away from

us, with an unruly Dalmatian (I've never known

a non-cartoon Dalmatian that was well-behaved),

had decided that laws were for other people. Her

uncontrolled Dalmatian, catching scent of our dog,

came charging straight at us full tilt, barking and

growling furiously (not playfully).

       Mary performed her usual dubious defensive

maneuver for such situations, lifting Flotsam in

her arms and holding her up at chest level. It never

seemed to occur to Mary that this move did nothing

to protect herself  from being bitten. But then, that's

what I, her husband, was there for.

       The Dalmatian closed in, still at full speed, and

sprang right up against Mary, trying to reach and

attack Flotsam. But before it could sink a tooth in

either of its intended victims, I seized its collar,

forced it down to the ground, and held it pinned.

      Now, let's review the situation. Mary and I were

conscientiously obeying the law; the other woman

was consciously disobeying it. The encounter

began at a great distance; we made no aggressive
move at all, but the illegally-loose Dalmatian

unilaterally crossed all the distance between us

with the intention of attacking Flotsam and maybe

Mary as well. I intervened to protect my wife and

our dog when the stranger's dog was in the very

act of attacking them without any provocation,

and I used no more violence than was absolutely

necessary to ensure that the Dalmatian could not

harm them or me. Have you got that straight?

      I ask this, because the Dalmatian's owner did

NOT have it straight. Having seen everything

that had happened, she came running up in the

wake of her animal's attack vector, not with the

apologies she manifestly owed us, but with angry

screams and curses at me for manhandling her

poor darling pet! Apparently, her Dalmatian would

have had to come to our house at night, soak us in

gasoline and set us on fire, for her even to consider

a possibility that her dog was wrong. I think she

would have assaulted me herself if she had dared.

      I don't know if that Dalmatian-worshipper

was a registered Democrat; but I can tell you that

the dominant dogs in today's Democrat pack are

like that woman. They are so full of the spoiled

brat's delusion of entitlement, so determined to

have everything their own way, that the slightest

check to their desires appears to them as a great

injustice against them. I can't help thinking of

Joycelyn Elders, the Clintonian surgeon-general,

and the "wise analysis" she once gave of American

society's problems. In a time awash with teenage

pregnancy, abortion, sexually-transmitted disease,

adultery, pornography, divorce, prostitution and

homosexuality, Elders proclaimed that America's

real problem consisted in being "a repressed and

puritanical country"!!! In other words, with the

poisonous fruit of human selfishness all around

her, she insisted that the solution was to indulge

human selfishness even more. That is what C.S.

Lewis called "crowding to that side of the boat

which is already nearly gunwale under;" and that

is the very spirit of today's Democratic Party.

      It's all right with them for George Soros to

spend millions of dollars on attack ads against

President Bush; but if the Swift Boat veterans

raise half a million for ads opposing Flipflop

John, suddenly that's unethical. It's all right with

them for Dan Rather and See-B.S. to use phony

documents to slander President Bush; but if the

much smaller Sinclair broadcasting group runs

a truthful and factual documentary exposing

Kerry's treason, suddenly that's partisan.

       For the spoiled children walking a political

attack Dalmatian, the rule is "Heads we win,

tails you lose." The rest of us had better use our

heads, and our power as voters, to grab John

Kerry's collar and pull him off of Lady Liberty,

or we will be the ones who lose.

     

 

        Yours for Jesus and America,

            Joseph Richard Ravitts

              Columbia, Maryland