Mr. President, blow the bugle, raise the flag, and show the damn picture.

(WARNING: Mothers - your children might be harmed by not having them view the pictures in this post)You'd think that after finally putting the birther issue to rest, President Obama would try to stay away from saying things which call his status as an American into question... but apparently that's not the case.

Bill Chadwell

Asked about the decision Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Carney said:
"The fact of the matter is, as the president described, these are graphic photographs of someone who was shot in the face -- the head, rather," he said. "It is not in our national security interests to allow those images, as has been in the past been the case, to become icons to rally opinion against the United States. The president's number one priority is the safety and security of American citizens at home and Americans abroad. There is no need to release these photographs to establish Osama bin Laden's identity. And he saw no other compelling reason to release them, given the potential for national security risks. And further, because he believes, as he said so clearly, this is not who we are."

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Bill Doolin



Seriously? President Obama decided not to release the death photo of osama bin laden because "this is not who we are"?!

Apparently he and his press secretary are equally ignorant of who America is, and has always been. Actually, quite to the contrary, America has always been just the sort of country that blatantly displays not only the images of outlaws having received justice, but the bodies themselves - that is exactly the type of people who we are and who we have always been.
 

Which explains why so many today are trying to pretend that that is the type of people we are not. The proregressives have been trying for over a century to breed it out of us, trying to namby-pambify our tastes, trying to take the violence out of our stories, take the competition out of our games, and remove the concept of justice from our Justice system. But we have got a long, long history of not only displaying the bodies and pictures of dead outlaws, but even of making a family outings of attending a public hangings, not to mention displaying the bodies of the dead miscreants for all to see - young and old alike.



Bonnie & Clyde's last

   

Bonnie & Clyde



Why?

Not to revel in or gloat in the death of anyone, but because we have always been a nation who knew and believed that the wages of sin, is death, and you don't try to hide that, or give any unwarranted dignity to those who have scoffed at the rule of law and taken the lives of others.

 

 As I said to a friend just the other day, it is not reveling in death to exult when a threat to life is extinguished.



Dalton Gang

  

John Dillenger's death scene

 It is not reveling in death to rejoice when an end has been brought to one who has brought about such horrific physical and emotional carnage as this one, and whose very life was lived for the purpose of causing ever so much more.
 

It is no mere catharsis of the flesh to rejoice when an existential threat is removed, but one of the spirit and an Affirmation of life. I pity those who interpose such contrived calculations between their mind and body, and even worse, consider them ethical positions to take.

“But are you any safer than you were last week?” Are you such a utilitarian that only those transactions which produce a measurable value are worth engaging in? Truly, few philosophies offer a more dismal and empty view of life than that of the materialists.

Harvey Logan, aka Curry



George West Musgrave





Justice done is a value in and of itself, and ridiculing or minimizing it is the most childish and cowardly action of all – a flight from the responsibilities of living.



John Dillenger

 You kill the outlaw, and you put on display how ugly, how unglorious, unromantic and meaningless they allowed their lives to become; you do your very best to extract some measure of value from their wasted and worthless life by enabling a lesson to be learned from their deaths.

If you want to do Justice, then your first task is to unwaveringly look at things as they are. It is your responsibility to honestly and deliberately identify the facts and nature of the situation you face, and judge, and act, accordingly. You must look squarely at what you’ve determined that you must do, and at the consequences of your actions. You don’t’ brush anything aside, you don’t look away from what you must face or their consequences, you face up to them and take responsibility for them, and learn from them. And you should know that attempting to avoid the responsibilities of your actions in a misbegotten attempt to shield others, is only going to deprive them of what they should have known, and weaken the strength of what you thought you knew, prior to your turning away from it.
 

So, sorry Mr. President, but that is exactly who we are as Americans.

I have no reason whatsoever to doubt that osama bin laden was killed by our military, and killed nearly next door to the home of Pockeestan's military, and I for one am glad of it.
 

Horse theif

 Mr. President, be an American. Show the picture.

We are not a people who cower with concern over what the reaction of those who hate us will be. Do you want to know how to inflame the sensibilities of the islambies? Show even more concern for their sensibilities. That is how you inflame an aggressor, encourage a bully and invite violence - show concern for, and respect for their sensibilities.

Baby Faced Nelson



John Wesley Hardin

 Mr. President, that is the kind of people who we are not. Very few people in your administration, and very few in the previous administration, seem to understand that.

The Tea Party explosion was, and is, not due to financial considerations or high taxes, it is due to our realizing that our government doesn't have any clue or regard for who the American people actually are, and are too intent on making us into some alien people which proregressives on the left, and the right, have long been so intent on reforming us into being.

We aren't interested. That's not the sort of people we are.

You want to know what other kind of people we also are not? We are also not the sort of people who lower their flag in order to avoid offending the sensibilities of those seeking to kill us. According to Richard Miniter’s 'MASTERMIND': .

"More than that, though, Miniter’s book includes shocking new disclosures about how the US treats its detainees. Miniter tells Big Peace:

I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo.."

Mr. President, blow the bugle, raise the flag, and show the damn picture.