from THE PATRIOT

"Rome fell September 4, 476AD.
It was overrun with illegalimmigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths,Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals, who at first assimilatedand worked as servants, but then came so fast they did not learnthe Latin Language or the Roman form of government.
Highly trainedRoman Legions moving rapidly on their advanced road system, werestrained fighting conflicts worldwide.
Rome had a trade deficit,having outsourced most of its grain production to North Africa, andwhen Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have the resources toretaliate.
Attila the Hun was committing terrorist attacks.
The city of Rome was on welfare with citizens being given freebread. One Roman commented: 'Those who live at the expense of thepublic funds are more numerous than those who provide them.'
Taxcollectors were 'more terrible than the enemy.'
Gladiators provided violent entertainment in the Coliseum.
There was injustice incourts, exposure of unwanted infants, infidelity, immorality and perverted bathhouses.
5th-Century historian Salvian wrote: 'O Roman people be ashamed... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us'." ---William Federer
"Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest Isleep the sleep of death; Lest my enemy say, 'I have prevailed against him'; Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved. But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation."
-King David

"[B]eing vague about the enemy and non-judgmental about evil is not what we should be five years after Sept. 11.
This brings usto the one small bright spot to mark off the anniversary weekof Sept. 11---an anniversary blackened by the decision to allow Mohammed Khatami, former president of Iran, the pre-eminent state sponsor of terrorism, into the United States.
Khatami,who supports Hezbollah and the destruction of Israel, will be speaking on the eve of Sept. 11 at Harvard on---get this---'Ethicsof Tolerance in the Age of Violence.'
Bring your own air sickness bag.
But here's that bright spot: Denouncing the Khatami visit,GOP Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ordered state agencies to refuse to provide assistance during the Khatami visit---which means no pomp and motorcade for the Iranian stooge.
As Romney put it, 'State taxpayers should not be providing special treatment to an individual who supports violent jihad and the destruction of Israel.'
How simple, how true. Five years later, somebody gets it." ---Diana West


"For too long, the world was paralyzed by the argument that terrorism could not be stopped until the grievances of terrorists were addressed.
The complicated and heartrending issues that perplex mankind are no excuse for violent, inhumane attacks,nor do they excuse not taking aggressive action against those who deliberately slaughter innocent people... Effective antiterrorist action has also been thwarted by the claim that... 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.'
That's a catchy phrase, but also misleading.
Freedom fighters do not need to terrorize a population into submission.
Freedom fighters target the military forces and the organized instruments of repression keeping dictatorial regimes in power.
Freedom fighters struggle to liberate their citizens from oppression and to establish a form of government that reflects the will of the people...
[O]ne has to be blind, ignorant, or simply unwilling to see the truth if he or she is unable to distinguish between those I just described and terrorists.
Terrorists intentionally kill or maim unarmed civilians, often women and children, often third parties who are not in any way part of a dictatorial regime. Terrorists are always the enemies of democracy." ---Ronald Reagan