James Holske

SGT FREEDOM!

One time, a teacher in one of my courses told a student that he should be ashamed for disagreeing with what the teacher believed. Sad? You bet! It is moments like that in my college experience which make me wish graduation would come faster so I can serve as an Ensign in the United States Navy.

Also, how about people like Sean Penn, and Rosie O’Donnell? I often hear you talk about how our troops’ presence in foreign nations is the cause for America Bashing. It’s not, the troops do things like help in Humanitarian missins, Security, and Building public utilities and people around the world are grateful for that. Actually, the cause for hate against America is exemplified by people like Sean Penn and Rosie O’Donnell.

America’s media does a hell of a lot more than distort military operations and troop efforts in foreign soil to beef up political controversy for their own profit. Our movie and music industry has a profound influence in foreign cultures. It is robbing the indigenous people of their ethnic sovereignty. Knowing this makes me want to vomit and to remember that both O’Donnell, and Penn aren’t good role models for me or my fellow youth.

In my Spanish 102 class, we had a discussion of how American media is obtrusive on the cultures outside of ours. How American movies are shown overseas more often than Foreign movies shown here in America. How our negative musical culture has promoted materialism, and prejudice. These are the causes of disdain for America, not our people or the people that make up our military institute. Nor is it religion or our way of living as some on both the left and right sides of the political spectrum falsely claim.

Last but not least, I will say this again to clarify. I don’t agree with Sgt. Freedom’s solution to the illegal immigrants of America. I proudly believe in amnesty, and nothing will ever change that. However, when you have a lot of our public funds being drained by their presence, something definately has to be done, not to the immigrants but with how we deal with the immigrants.

What I would like to see, is fixing our immigrant policies. I would like to see our country make getting a work permit, getting naturalized, or acquiring a green card and/or a visa a lot easier. If we were to help these people by making it easier to become a productive member of society, then we won’t have the issue of draining our tax dollars to support them. They will be able to support themselves. With this solution being implemented, I envision a better future for us all, both as individuals and as a society.

Overall, I hope nobody felt that I was attacking Sgt. Freedom personally. I am just sensitive on the immigration issues. He made better videos in the past. I don’t think this one was his best, but more or less it was a good episode. Thanks for posting it, CJ.

Now, regarding the first sentence of the first paragraph in my previous statement. My point was, you laugh at Sgt. Freedom’s rants for it’s quality, yet you post comments similarly here often. As you have noticed, I justified your past comments and Sgt. Freedom’s with a statement made by Voltaire.

Even though I don’t think that your beliefs are correct, I would do whatever it took to for you to have the right to say it. Even if it meant laying down my life as a soldier. I couldn’t possibly get away with justifying your rants without doing so to Sgt.’s, that would be setting up double standards which is wrong in my moral perspective.

After having read my first comment, you must realize that I am not taking sides. Like I said, I want changes like Sgt. Freedom does and I respect that. However, not all the changes I wanted are the same as his. I don’t agree with his statements on Illegal Immigration. My dad maybe legal, but more or less he’s an immigrant and I think Sgt. Freedom is insanely prejudice to immigrants.

I have beef with his comments on immigrants because I am a classic example of a person who isn’t considered American enough by many but is willing to die for what this country stands for no matter what they think. Kind of like how many Japanese Americans went into the Army despite how many Americans hated them.

If that cleared things up, then I am happy. So I hoped that did the trick if there were any misunderstadnings. Also, just to be as honest since we both are. I don’t see the connection between your statement in response to the first sentence on the first paragraph on my previous comment.

Always good to chat, and happy holidays to you and your family and best wishes for the next semester!

In reading through your comment, is it reasonable for me to conclude, at least, that Sgt Freedom provides a rant without substance? The flow of logic in your comment – e.g., your first sentence, first paragraph, suggesting the Sgt. might welcome my style into the club – leads me to that conclusion.

Ah, what the heck regardless, what would this country be like without a little political sparring from time to time? Dull, at best!