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<H2 class=date-header>Friday, March 16, 2007</H2><!-- Begin .post -->
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<H3 class=post-title>Fred Thompson Kicks Gandhi's Ass </H3>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both"></DIV>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 <A
title=http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTM1NTg1YjFhMGE5MzZjZDUzNzNhNzdkMjE2YmEyNTY=
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color=#473624>National Review</FONT></SPAN></A> called "Gandhi's Way Isn't the
American Way" Thompson <A
title=http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2007_03_11_archive.html#3533484394624990027#3533484394624990027
href="http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2007_03_11_archive.html#3533484394624990027#3533484394624990027"><FONT
color=#473624>kicks</FONT></A> Gandhi's ass in a way that is sure to have
liberals and terrorists who read the <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">National
Review</SPAN> running scared. Just as tough as he appears to be in the movies
and on TV's<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> Law & Order</SPAN>, Thompson is
not the kind of guy who goes in for easy victories by knocking down straw
men.<BR><BR>According to Thompson, <A
title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi"><FONT
color=#473624>Gandhi</FONT></A>, 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 <A
title=http://www.codepink4peace.org/ href="http://www.codepink4peace.org/"><FONT
color=#473624>Code Pink</FONT></A>, an anti-war group protesting in front of the
<A
title=http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/15/audio-fred-thompson-wonders-what-would-gandhi-do/
href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/15/audio-fred-thompson-wonders-what-would-gandhi-do/"><FONT
color=#473624>home</FONT></A> 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."<BR><BR><A
title=http://ambivablog.typepad.com/ambivablog/2007/03/gandhi_shocker.html
href="http://ambivablog.typepad.com/ambivablog/2007/03/gandhi_shocker.html"><FONT
color=#473624>Gandhi</FONT></A> apparently took the whole <A
title=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/09/13/kurlansky_nonviolence/index_np.html
href="http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/09/13/kurlansky_nonviolence/index_np.html"><FONT
color=#473624>non-violence</FONT></A> 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 <A
title=http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/2007/03/why_its_always_a_good_idea_to.php
href="http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/2007/03/why_its_always_a_good_idea_to.php"><FONT
color=#473624>Gandhi</FONT></A> even stuck to his <A
title=http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fred_Thompson_Gandhis_way_isnt_American_0315.html
href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fred_Thompson_Gandhis_way_isnt_American_0315.html"><FONT
color=#473624>principles</FONT></A> when it came to the Holocaust. He believed
that <A title=http://die_meistersinger.tripod.com/gandhi9.html
href="http://die_meistersinger.tripod.com/gandhi9.html"><FONT
color=#473624>Jews</FONT></A> 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 <A
title=http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004247.html
href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004247.html"><FONT
color=#473624>advice</FONT></A>, or a lot more of them would have died in the
Holocaust.<BR><BR>"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.<BR><BR>Even George Bush has succumbed to this rampant Gandhi
hero-worship, stopping at a shrine to Gandhi when he <A
title=http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/india/index.html
href="http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/india/index.html"><FONT
color=#473624>visited</FONT></A> India last year to sign a treaty to help them
develop nuclear weapons more efficiently by going around the silly <A
title=http://www.slate.com/id/2137105/
href="http://www.slate.com/id/2137105/"><FONT color=#473624>Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty</FONT></A>, 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.<BR><BR>Gandhi might be a hero to some
people, but not to Fred Thompson. "When American's [<SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">sic</SPAN>] 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.<BR><BR>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 <A title=http://eddriscoll.com/archives/010564.php
href="http://eddriscoll.com/archives/010564.php"><FONT
color=#473624>sophisticated</FONT></A>, <A
title=http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2007_03_11.html#006514
href="http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2007_03_11.html#006514"><FONT
color=#473624>nuanced</FONT></A> view of liberalism and doesn't have to <A
title=http://coldfury.com/index.php/?p=7994
href="http://coldfury.com/index.php/?p=7994"><FONT
color=#473624>exaggerate</FONT></A> to make the threat they represent apparent.
By the way, it should come as no surprise that liberals in Hollywood once
produced a <A title=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/
href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/"><FONT color=#473624>movie</FONT></A>
about Gandhi, which made him out to be a hero, and even gave it an
Oscar.<BR><BR>Thompson first learned of the maleficent influence of Gandhi and
his <A title=http://thechangingmap.blogspot.com/2007/03/fred-thompson_16.html
href="http://thechangingmap.blogspot.com/2007/03/fred-thompson_16.html"><FONT
color=#473624>un-American</FONT></A> 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 <A title=http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm
href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm"><FONT
color=#473624>voted</FONT></A> against background checks at gun shows. <A
title=http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119055.html
href="http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119055.html"><FONT
color=#473624>Thompson</FONT></A> also voted against a law restricting violent
videos for minors, believing that our young people need to learn American values
early.<BR><BR>Instead of running a "suicidal foreign policy" <A
title=http://www.foxnews.com/specialsarchive/index.html
href="http://www.foxnews.com/specialsarchive/index.html"><FONT
color=#473624>Thompson</FONT></A>, 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.<BR><BR>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 <A title=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/15/202820/897
href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/15/202820/897"><FONT
color=#473624>Fred Thompson</FONT></A> who will support good-old American
Christian values instead of un-American Gandhi
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