Congress is now on a 12 day recess.  Before leaving they had plenty of time to rename Post Offices and pass resolutions congratulating athletic teams on well earned accomplishments.  They even had time to hold hearings on steroids in Major League baseball and listen to a he said-he said argument between Roger Clemons and his former trainer.

What they didn’t have time to do, understandable since Congress has only been in session a very few weeks before deciding it was time for a break, was to protect us from the enemy who is fighting our soldiers abroad and trying to kill our loved ones here.  Congress went on vacation without renewing the survelliance act and by their inaction have left all of us in the sights of our Islamofascist enemies.  Enough!  It is time for a change in Washington, DC.  It is time to fire the career politicians who play games with our lives, who do not see the threat to our country, who fiddle while our enemies plan, now safely hidden from the eyes and ears of our intelligence community.

It is time to pick up the phone and fire up the email.  Our Representatives don’t need a vacation, they need to earn their pay.  It is time to demand Congress return to DC and pass this protection for the folks.  Then I would ask you to look around and, if your Representative is part of the problem, find a candidate to believe in, contribute to their campaign, volunteer to get them elected.  Do not stay on the sidelines – these people are playing Russian Roulette with our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

As a Marine veteran who volunteered to defend America in the mid-1970’s, I watched with frustration the unfolding controversy fomented by the Berkeley, California City Council’s disrespect of our Marines. First they provided a reserved parking space for Code Pink directly in front of the Marine Corps recruiting office to aid Code Pink in their harassment of those doing their patriotic duty to defend their country by joining the Marines.

When that didn’t scare the Marines away, the Berkeley City Council sent a letter that said the local Marine Corps recruiting office was an “uninvited and unwelcome” intrusion. In my opinion, a disgusting display of left wing hatred and intolerance for the very folks who protect the rights of those politicians to political free speech and action. The kicker is that when their Federal earmarks were then threatened, they folded like a bad chair and by a 7-2 vote; the City Council retracted its statements. So much for conviction. Those on the left who only tolerate one point of view are always stunned when there are consequences to their words and actions.

We do have the right of free political speech and I defend that right. I also believe we must be prepared to stand by those words and actions or we should not act. Those of us who cherish our Bills of Rights must realize we are in a fight for our culture with those who would deny the rights of the free practice of religion and free political speech with new hate crimes legislation and the reinstatement of the misnamed ‘Fairness Doctrine’. Please join our campaign to send one of the folks to Washington to protect our basic rights.

In regards this particular incident, I, as a Marine veteran, will not be satisfied until the City Council of Berkeley, California issues a public apology and thanks our Marines for being willing to sacrifice their lives to protect our freedoms and those we love.