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[Paul Myers]

Friday, March 16, 2007
Fred Thompson Kicks Gandhi's Ass 

Fred Thompson has not decided whether he is running for President yet, but he has already come out swinging like a presidential candidate. Giving us a preview of what his campaign would be like, Thompson has launched a no-holds-barred attack on a formidable foe. His target: Mahatma Gandhi. In a piece in the National Review<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTM1NTg1YjFhMGE5MzZjZDUzNzNhNzdkMjE2YmEyNTY=> called "Gandhi's Way Isn't the American Way" Thompson kicks<http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2007_03_11_archive.html#3533484394624990027#3533484394624990027> Gandhi's ass in a way that is sure to have liberals and terrorists who read the National Review running scared. Just as tough as he appears to be in the movies and on TV's Law & Order, Thompson is not the kind of guy who goes in for easy victories by knocking down straw men.

According to Thompson, Gandhi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi>, who led India to independence through non-violent civil disobedience, "is pretty much the symbol of the anti-war movement." Thompson knows this because members of Code Pink<http://www.codepink4peace.org/>, an anti-war group protesting in front of the home<http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/15/audio-fred-thompson-wonders-what-would-gandhi-do/> of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, have erected a papier-mâché statue of Gandhi and some people have held up signs saying "What Would Gandhi Do?" at anti-war demonstrations. While some people might dismiss these protesters as fringe elements of the anti-war movement, Thompson knows that they represent the heart and soul of liberalism, and that the only way to beat them is to knock their papier-mâché Gandhi down. "At what point is it okay to fight dictators like Saddam or the al Qaeda terrorists who want to take his place?" asks Thompson. "It turns out that the answer, according to Gandhi, is NEVER."

Gandhi<http://ambivablog.typepad.com/ambivablog/2007/03/gandhi_shocker.html> apparently took the whole non-violence<http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/09/13/kurlansky_nonviolence/index_np.html> thing much too far. Instead of joining the British army to fight the Nazis in World War II, he continued his protests against British rule in India and got himself locked up in a British prison for two years. Thompson also points out that Gandhi<http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/2007/03/why_its_always_a_good_idea_to.php> even stuck to his principles<http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fred_Thompson_Gandhis_way_isnt_American_0315.html> when it came to the Holocaust. He believed that Jews<http://die_meistersinger.tripod.com/gandhi9.html> in Germany should have committed suicide en masse because it "would have aroused the world and the people of Germany to Hitler's violence." It's a good thing Jews stuck to the plan they had instead of following Gandhi's advice<http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004247.html>, or a lot more of them would have died in the Holocaust.

"The so-called peace movement certainly has the right to make Gandhi's way their way, but their efforts to make collective suicide American foreign policy just won't cut it in this country," says Thompson. If Gandhi had his way the more than 3,000 soldiers who died in Iraq would have just killed themselves instead, which would have accomplished nothing. Liberals who oppose the War in Iraq apparently want our soldiers to stage sit-down strikes instead of military strikes. They think peaceful protests will make the terrorists cry uncle. Thompson doesn't share these liberals' simplistic views. He knows there are only two solutions to the situation in Iraq: victory or surrender.

Even George Bush has succumbed to this rampant Gandhi hero-worship, stopping at a shrine to Gandhi when he visited<http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/india/index.html> India last year to sign a treaty to help them develop nuclear weapons more efficiently by going around the silly Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty<http://www.slate.com/id/2137105/>, which will help make us safer. Maybe Bush didn't know how suicidally dangerous Gandhi's ideas are and was just being polite. Gandhi even wanted to make peace with Muslims, which wasn't any more successful then than it would be now.

Gandhi might be a hero to some people, but not to Fred Thompson. "When American's [sic] think of heroism, we think of the young American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking their lives to prevent another Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein." By opposing the war in Iraq liberals are, like Gandhi, on the side of Hitler.

The time Fred Thompson spent in Hollywood has given him a better understanding than perhaps any other presidential candidate of those who want to destroy our country; that is, liberals. Having spent so much of his career working with liberals, Thompson has a sophisticated<http://eddriscoll.com/archives/010564.php>, nuanced<http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2007_03_11.html#006514> view of liberalism and doesn't have to exaggerate<http://coldfury.com/index.php/?p=7994> to make the threat they represent apparent. By the way, it should come as no surprise that liberals in Hollywood once produced a movie<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/> about Gandhi, which made him out to be a hero, and even gave it an Oscar.

Thompson first learned of the maleficent influence of Gandhi and his un-American<http://thechangingmap.blogspot.com/2007/03/fred-thompson_16.html> ideas back in the 1960s when he was a young lawyer in Tennessee. One of Gandhi's followers was Martin Luther King, who caused a great deal of havoc in Thompson's part of the country with all of his non-violent protests. King was in Tennessee fomenting trouble with striking garbage collectors when he was killed in 1968. Like one of King's adversaries in the Civil Rights movement, H. Rap Brown, who said "Violence is as American as cherry pie," Thompson knows that Gandhi's dangerous ideas about non-violence don't belong here. Thompson is opposed to gun control, as Brown no doubt was, and he voted<http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm> against background checks at gun shows. Thompson<http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119055.html> also voted against a law restricting violent videos for minors, believing that our young people need to learn American values early.

Instead of running a "suicidal foreign policy" Thompson<http://www.foxnews.com/specialsarchive/index.html>, who supported Bush's surge plan, would continue the very same foreign policy we have now. And not only will he not be turning the other cheek in response to terrorism, he will also bring good Christian values to the White House. Thompson opposes gay marriage and protecting gays from job discrimination and he voted against including sexual orientation in hate crime laws. Thompson's Christian compassion is especially notable in his passionate support of Scooter Libby, whose defense fund he sits on.

I don't know where Gandhi got all of his subversive ideas about non-violence, but they most certainly are not welcome in this country. We need a President like Fred Thompson<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/15/202820/897> who will support good-old American Christian values instead of un-American Gandhi values.
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