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In Memoriam
Another comrade gone—Harry and I went through electronics school at MCRD, San Diego in 1965. ~Bob. Excerpt: Harold P. Harry Surette, age 64, of Brockton died unexpectedly Thursday, March 3, 2011, at Good Samaritan Medical Center. …Harry was a proud U.S. Marine who served as a sergeant in Vietnam and saw action in Khe Sanh. Harry was a founder and principal of AAMS Corp. in Taunton and was well-known for expertise in the metal fabrication industry. He was an avid outdoorsman who was a master archer and loved hunting and fishing. He was a passionate member of the NRA and a proud American with a great patriotic sentiment….Harry’s family would prefer donations in his name be made to NRA Processing Center, P.O. Box 420648, Palm Coast, FL 32142-0648.
Excerpt: Anjem Choudary, the leader of the Islamic group that would like to sandblast Lady Liberty, and Arid Uka, the airport gunmen, were not hatched in some cave in Pakistan. Choudary was born in the London Borough of Bexley. Arid Uka was born and raised in Germany, where his family had lived for some 40 years. They are not immigrants, but native born European Muslims fighting to remake Europe into an Islamic state. The idea is fanciful, just like the Statue of Liberty being blown up by the American Taliban to make way for a minaret. But there was a time when a short Austrian corporal's plans to build a Thousand Year Reich on the bones of Europe were as laughable as Choudary's antics. In 1993, Americans laughed at a gang of stupid Muslim terrorists who had tried to blow up the World Trade Center using a Ryder rental van, and then actually tried to get their deposit back on the van. 8 years later a gang of terrorists not all that much smarter than them hijacked four planes with box cutters and knocked down both towers, killing 3,000 people. And suddenly it wasn't funny anymore. Evil is often ridiculous in its pretensions, but horrifying in its execution. It is silly only until it begins to succeed, and then the joke turns to horror and madness. We may find Kim Jong Il funny, but no one in North Korea does. Saddam's love poems, Stalin's toupee, Hitler's comic bellicosity, Khaddafi's eccentricity are funny only because we never lived under them. The presumptuousness of a Choudary presuming to wave the flag of Islam over the White House and announce plans for dynamiting the Statue of Liberty is a joke. But the punchline is how little we are doing to halt the day when it really does fly over the White House. "All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." But our governments are not doing nothing, they are aiding it along. European leaders grumble about multiculturalism and call for more integration. Choudary and Arid Uka are the successes of their integration. The politicians talk and the refugees swarm and the mosques spread. Most European Muslims are not going out guns blazing or cursing returning soldiers. They don't need to. They can do the math better than the politicians can. And they already know they will win. We don't have the same demographic gun to our heads yet, but we are retreating almost as quickly.