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| SANTA'S TOW TRUCK |
Ron’s Repair, on Hwy 13 just north of Washburn, has a delightful Holiday light display, a (I think) 1957 or so Ford tow truck, all decked out with lights, even with blinking lights that make the wheels look as though they are gong ‘round, and flashing emergency lights. Couldn’t be cuter!
Political comment: the Obama administration is again “missing in action” on what I consider an international incident of greatest importance to all of us. An American citizen of Thai origin has been arrested in that country on the charge of defaming the Thai king on the internet, and has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. One might say he is subject to the laws of that nation and we have no beef. Except that he is being sent to prison for what he blogged as a US citizen while living in Colorado, not in Thailand. The Administration has not to this point protested the arrest or the sentence, which is a tacit admission that you and I are subject to the laws of other countries, even while at home in our own.
This is an outrageous and cowardly stance for an American government of any political stripe to take, and opens all of us to the abuse of the legal systems and tyranny of foreign governments, and even religions (think Sharia law) and makes us all subject to potential arrest abroad for exercising our rights of free speech in our own land.
It is also a tacit admission (and I believe an actual precursor to a future policy) that the United Nations, the International Court in the Hague and other international organizations can enforce their laws, legal precedents and penalties on U.S. citizens. That endangers the freedom and right to due process of every one of us, whether we travel abroad or not, and creates precedent for our own judicial system to hand any one of us over to foreign courts, in violation of our own constitution, All this is no different than the impressment of US citizens into the British navy at the beginning of the 19th Century, which of course led directly to the War of 1812, the "Second Revolutionary War." Two hundred years ago our nation protected its citizens from the abuse of foreign potentates. Now it looks the other way.
The proper recourse for our own government in this matter is to vigorously protest the false imprisonment of our fellow American, immediately recall our Ambassador, and threaten the harshest of sanctions against the tyranical Thai regime unless our compatriot is immediately released and allowed to leave Thailand.
We have become a disrespected nation, and are being pushed around even by third world countries. Our democratic institutions, economic and military power are no longer respected, which will inevitably lead to a major war when one of these petty antagonists goes too far and the American public wakes up and demands our spineless govrnmnt defend our honor and God-given rights as Americans.
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