DO YOU CLOSE THE BLINDS? RW e-mail...

[B Calm]

DO YOU CLOSE THE BLINDS? I HOPE NOT ...



From a person who's there, in the midst..........



The other day, my nine-year-old son wanted to know why we were at war...My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window.



He said "Son, stand there and tell me what you see?"



"I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses," he replied.



"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United States of America and you are President Bush."



Our son giggled and said, "OK."



"Now, son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.



"OK, Dad, I'm pretending."



"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are afraid of their father. You see all of this, son....what do you do?"



"Dad?"



"What do you do, son?"



"I'd call the police, Dad."



"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your call. They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do then, son?"



"Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.



"They don't want to, son, because they say that it is not their place or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband says.



"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.



"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're pretending is Saddam, turn around and do the same thing to his children."



"Daddy...he kills them?"



"Yes, son, he does. What do you do?"



"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door neighbor to help me stop him," our son says.



"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my husband says.



"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"



"WHAT DO YOU DO, SON?" Our son starts to cry.



"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next, son?"



"What, Daddy?"



"He walks across the street to an old lady’s house and breaks down her door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"



"Daddy..."



"WHAT DO YOU DO?" Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the blinds, Daddy."



My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him, "Why?"



"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help people who needs them...and they won't help.... You always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself, Daddy.....I can't look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds.... so I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."



I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and he says...



"Son."



"Yes, Daddy."



"Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front door... WHAT DO YOU DO?"



My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY, DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"



I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his chest and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late to fight him, he's too strong and he's already at YOUR front door, son.....you should have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady across the way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before it’s too late," my husband whispers. THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good men stand by and let evil happen, son, THAT is the greatest evil. All the atrocities in the world won't move them. YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."



This should be printed in every newspaper and posted in every school in America. Of course that won't happen so we'll use the internet. If your blinds are closed, do nothing with this email. If they are open, I do not need to tell you what to do.



GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!

Forwarded by:
Steven R Chandler, CMSgt

332 ELRS/Vehicle Management Flight

Balad Air Base, Iraq

[HuffleClaw]

1. a story based upon lie after lie

sickening.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. pardon me while I puke. As Ahnold said, Ahll be bahk.

[riderinthestorm]

3. 9 yrs old??!! This isn't education, it's cruelty. n/t

[KyuzoGator]

4. Told at the intellectual level of a Republican...

...a nine-year-old.

Yeah, and Saddam sure was poised and ready to take over the "neighborhood" (i.e., the world). Whatever.

[riderinthestorm]

6. I sure as hell hope this story is just made-up shit.

[KyuzoGator]

14. Ummm, you hope? You aren't sure?

According to this story...if we hadn't invaded Iraq, Saddam would have beaten up, raped and murdered the entire world, then come to the U.S. to do the same.

I sure hope you understand it's made-up shit.

[riderinthestorm]

16. I'm hoping that scenario with the Dad and the boy never happened

[KyuzoGator]

37. I see...sorry, misunderstood. nt

[Chiyo-chichi]

40. Flesch-Kincade Grade Level = 4.6

You are exactly right! I pasted it into Word to check the F-K grade level. It is written for a 4th grade reading level!

[immoderate]

44. That's about the same as most popular novels.

Most Hemingway will come in at about that reading level. Remember, it's not a measure if intellectual content, just readability.

--IMM

[sutz12]

5. Step one....scare the hell out of them...

step two....take over.

:puke:

[Roland99]

7. Oh, for fvck's sake! What a pathetic steaming pile of CRAP!

[tridim]

8. It's simpler than that

"Do you see that house over there?"

"Yes"

"Don't ask questions.. Make up a fake reason for your anger, then go over there and blow it up, then torture the family and steal all their stuff. Don't worry how much it costs, just send the bill to every kid in the country."

It should be illegal to lie to children like that guy did.

[DrBloodmoney]

9. I wonder if the little boy will torture him for info

[Danieljay]

10. These people are effing nuts & cruel! Substitue Bill Clinton as President

and they would argue the very opposite. This bunch is the biggest group of hypocrits on the planet.
SICK!

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Well, if you look out the window and see Uncle Saudi Arabia do the killing

then you close the blinds and go back to watching Fox News.

[Faygo Kid]

12. How to raise the next Dylan Klebold.

Poor kid. Dad's right, though, about good people standing by and doing nothing in the face of evil. That's why we have to continue to push back against the Chandlers. If this crappy story isn't evil, I haven't seen it.

[donco6]

13. Josef Goebbels would be proud.

Right out of the Nazi playbook. Jeebus.

[IndyOp]

24. Bing-Bing-Bing-Bing-Bing-Bing. Donco6 gets a prize!

Though I would argue that Goering's Playbook would be an even better fit:

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[HughBeaumont]

15. And after you capture Saddam, you can kill the rest of the county

. . . bomb THEIR houses, THEIR markets, THEIR churches, drag innocent women and children out of THEIR houses, blow THEIR heads off, contaminate THEIR drinking water and soil for centuries.

Then, Son, you'll make a FINE president of the United States of Dumberica!

:patriot: :patriot: :sarcasm:

Hey, "Master Sarge". WHO STOPS US?

Oh wait, we're the good guys because we're white Chris'tun Murkins. :eyes:

[B Calm]

19. Then when they say get the hell out of my house, you say..I can't

I have to clean up the mess, then punch them in the face!

[lisby]

17. Glurge

:puke:

There really is nothing else to be said.

[oasis]

18. Police ignore calls from crackpots who they know are goddam liars. (n/t)

[IndyOp]

20. This has been circulated for years. WE ARE THE BULLIES WHO ARE KILLING

- rampaging the neighborhood and killing. Since the civil war has broken out - they are killing each other, too - and civil war would not have broken out.

:grr:

[renate]

21. when I saw "do you close the blinds", I thought it was about wiretapping

I bet the people who say "If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't worry about wiretapping" close their blinds to keep Peeping Toms from looking in their windows.

Does that mean they're doing something wrong? If they're not, they shouldn't mind having people look in their window.

[riderinthestorm]

22. Touche!

[BlooInBloo]

23. Propoganda is written to match its audience....

... It's written to the intellectual level of around 50% of this country (proof: if it's audience were smarter, they would be receiving smarter propoganda).

Never forgot that. The idiot electorate of this country is our true problem.

[TexasLawyer]

25. The one line I agree with:

"When good men stand by and let evil happen, son, THAT is the greatest evil."

There's a lot of evil coming out of the White House. Good men and women need to rise up to stop it.

[Peanutcat]

26. Why are consevatives

Always filled with such nastyness?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Iraqi soldiers steal incubators leave babies to die.

German soldiers bayonet Belgian babies.

Czech soldiers murder Sudeten Germans.

North Vietnamese patrol boats attack American ships in Tonkin Gulf.

"The first casualty when war comes is truth" - Aeschylus (525 - 456BC)

[jumpoffdaplanet]

28. send back skygazer's reply

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x737069

this was the best one I've read yet.

[Blue_Tires]

43. brilliant!

yeah, this e-mail has become an oldie...It's been posted with some good responses over the last 3+ years, so i'm glad one came up without needing an extensive search

[RandomKoolzip]

29. That's fucking hilarious!

These people don't even realize when they're parodying themselves, do they? Jack Chick: move over!

[alphafemale]

30. I wonder if FReepers forward this while wearing their Club Gitmo T-shirts.

They truly are irony challenged.

[Rocknrule]

31. That is actually a good analogy

Except that Bush is the abusive husband who beats everyone up and Saddam is just one of his victims who is also an abusive husband but much weaker.

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. Tell the kid the cops (UN) didn't come cause Sadaam wasn't beating on her

His eyes must be fooling him.

[Swamp Rat]

33. Karl Rove = Joseph Goebbels

This vile piece of propaganda was written for the most uneducated segment of society.

[Emit]

34. After scaring the shit out of him

did this Dad then take his son down to the recruiters office?

This is nuts.

[Goat or Panic]

35. Tough neighborhood

Well if you're Donald Rumsfeld, you sell your neighbor some steel-toed boots to better kick his wife.

[Lefty48197]

36. That's just about the stupidest thing I've ever read

probably came from Hannity.

[B Calm]

41. One thing for certain, they never stop with the propaganda!

[rucky]

38. Darfur n/t

[Nobody]

39. But that wasn't Saddam Hussein, that was Osama Bin Forgotten, Daddy

Daddy.... I know that guy, and he ain't Saddam Hussein. Different beard, Daddy. Saddam is a mean old guy, but he wasn't who I saw beating up that little old lady. It was Osama. Daddy, let's only beat up on people who really did do something bad, can we, huh?

But son, Saddam didn't buy girl scout cookies from your sister.

I know, daddy, and Osama did. But that doesn't change nothing. It's Osama beating up that little old lady, come and see. Oh oh, Osama just burned down the house.

Son, this is my fantasy and I'll do it my way. OK?

But Daddy, you're the one who taught me never to lie.

(on edit: typo's R us)

[KyuzoGator]

42. Synopsis: If we hadn't invaded Iraq, Saddam would have conquered Earth.

That's more or less how I read this.

[Redneck Socialist]

45. WTF!? That's about the dumbest thing I've read recently. n/t