interesting discovery... another point of view out there...

Consider this analogy: In the middle of the night, you (the USA) hear a scream from your neighbor's house (a sovereign country). You go to the window see that your neighbor (the ruler of the said country) is beating the living crap out of his wife (the people in this sovereign country). This happens on a nightly basis. You have called the police (the UN) numerous times, but every time, the wife refuses to press charges because she is completely afraid for her life and that her husband's retaliation will be much worse. The ineffectual cops are powerless to do anything at this point. You are sick and tired of seeing that timid, poor bruised lady with downcast eyes. Each day, she looks worse and worse and is missing teeth. One day you see her arm in a sling. Her husband has fractured it in a drunken fit of rage. You try to convince her to go to a battered women's shelter and even offer her shelter. She meekly replies, "I'm so afraid he'll hurt me even more". You are convinced that if her husband isn't stopped, the poor woman will inevitably suffer permanent brain damage or possibly even death. It's midnight and you hear the screams once again. Do you just sit idly by and consider it a "domestic affair"? Or do you break down his door and put an end to the persecution? I sure know what I would do. Sometimes privacy laws protect the unjust. These laws must be disobeyed. Laws protected slavery, but it was completely just to disobey them as well. International law was on the side of Saddam, but that didn't make it any less justified when we removed that brutal dictator.

also:

Despite the fact that government is bad, it is a necessary evil in order to ensure the nation’s security interests and keep people from violating each others’ rights. Why is it so anathema in the punk scene to express one’s love for one’s country? Despite its many faults, a lot of people don’t realize that it’s still the best country to live in. A friend of mine enlisted in the Army and got tons of flak from all her friends who told her how un-punk it was to serve one’s country and how the Army is an evil institution that should be abolished. I don’t understand the logic behind those people. Do they actually think that this country can survive without a means of defending its borders? Man, they are living in a dream world! Just imagine a world without cops and soldiers. Who would you call if your house got robbed? I’m not saying that there aren’t bad cops and soldiers, but eliminating the Army and the Police altogether certainly won’t fix the problem. That’s like trying to cure the headache by cutting off the head. Many punks tell me how wrong it is for the USA to impose liberal democracy by force on another country. All I can say to that is I’m sure glad the US Troops came to Korea in 1950 or I wouldn’t be alive today and my parents would have been executed for being of the “wrong”class under Kim-Il-Sung’s socialist utopia. Let the ideals of Jane Fonda die out with the hippies. The punk scene can do without you, Jane. Unfortunately, there are already many “Jane Fondas” in the punk scene spreading their toxic message of Anti-Americanism. One liberal friend of mine told me that she believed that our ideals shouldn’t stop at our borders. I responded by saying, “I wholeheartedly agree with you. We should impose liberal democracy beyond our borders, by force if necessary!” Of course she meant for everybody to drop their weapons, join hands with the terrorists and sing kumbayah, and maybe hug a few trees along the way to Bagdhad. Oh, I forgot -- she might not have much luck finding a tree in the desert!

-Pat Kim, Conservative Punk