Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: July 31, 2007 08:00PM

Charlton Heston 2008



A cultural war is raging across our land-storming our values, assaulting our freedoms, killing our self-confidence in who we are and what we believe. (Mr. Heston then asked those present who owned a gun to raise their hand.)

I wonder how many of you own guns but chose not to raise your hand? How many of you considered revealing your conviction about a constitutional right, but then though better of it?

If so, you are a victim of the culture war being waged against traditional American freedom of beliefs and ideas. You have been assaulted and robbed of the courage of your convictions. Your pride in who you are and what you believe in has been ridiculed, ransacked, and plundered! It may be a war without a bullet or bloodshed, but with just as much liberty lost: You and your country are less free!

Because you choose to own guns- affirmed by no less than the Bill of Rights- you embrace a view at odds with the cultural war lords. If that is the outcome of cultural war, and you are the victims, I can only ask the obvious question. What will become of the right itself? Or other rights not deemed acceptable by the thought police? What other truth in your heart will you disavow with your hand?

Rank-and-file Americans wake up every morning, increasingly bewildered and confused at why their views make them lesser citizens. The message gets through; Heaven help the God fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle- class Protestant-or even worse, evangelical Christian, Midwestern or Southern- or even worse, rural, apparently straight-or even worse, admitted heterosexuals, gun-owing-or even worse, NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff-or even worse, male working stiff-because, not only don't you count, you are a down-right obstacle to social progress. Your voice deserves a lower decibel level, your opinion is less enlightened, your media access is insignificant, and frankly, mister, you need to wake up, wise up, and learn a little something from your new-America and until you do, would you mind shutting up?

That is why you didn't raise your hand. That's how cultural war works. That's what happens when a generation of media, educators, entertainers, and politicians-led by a willing President-decide the America they were born into isn't good enough anymore. So, they contrive to change it through cultural warfare of class distinction! Ask the Romans if powerful nations have ever fallen as a result of cultural division. There are ruins around the world that were once the smug centers of small-minded, arrogant elitism. It appears that, rather than evaporate in the flash of a split atom, we may succumb to a divided culture!

The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of wise old dead white guys who invented our country! Now some flinch when I say that. Why! Its true-they were white guys! So were most of the guys that died in Lincoln's name opposing slavery in the 1860's. So why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is "Hispanic Pride" or "Black Pride" a good thing, while "White Pride" conjures shaven heads and white hoods? Why was the Million Man March on Washington celebrated by many as progress, while the Promise Keepers March on Washington was greeted with suspicion and ridicule? I'll tell you why, Cultural warfare!

You don't see other Hollywood luminaries speaking out on this do you? Its not because there aren't any. Its because they can't afford the heat! They dare not speak for fear of CNN or the IRS or the SAG or NBC! It saps the strength of our country when the personal price is simply too high to stand for what you believe in. Today, speaking with the courage of your convictions can be costly, the price of principal can be so high that legislators won't lead and citizens can't follow, and so there is no arm to fight back. That's cultural warfare!

Mainstream America is counting on you to "draw your sword" and fight for them. These people have precious little time and resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it is a divine duty for woman to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand while they seek preference with the other, New Age apologists for juvenile crime who see roving gangs as a means to only the merchandising violence as a form of entertainment for impressionable minds, and gun bans as a means to only the Lord-knows-what. We have reached that point in time when our social policy originates on Oprah. Its time to pull the plug!

dawgfart Report This Comment
Date: August 01, 2007 08:32PM

well said Mr. Heston, well said....gentleman, its time to celebrate your"whiteness"down with black history month, down with hispanic history month, down with gay pride, and down with all other so called "pride" months, its time we as AMERICANS celebrate AMERICAN HISTORY be it politically incorrect or other wise, we are americans, not african americans, or mexican americans, or even fucking irish americans, if you were born here in AMERICA and have never even been out side its boarders, how dare you disrespect the country you were born in by useing the hyphenated name of the country of your supposed ancestry first! If you dont like being an american 0f african descent, or and american of mexican descent, i have a suggestion for you, go back to fucking africa and mexico!!! Be an AMERICAN and be proud to be an AMERICAN, or get the fuck out of our country and leave it to the AMERICANS. 'NUFF SAID,
DAWGFART, an AMERICAN

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: August 02, 2007 03:19AM

Whoever said it ..... WELL PUT !

The pandering of our legislature by the PACS, gay rights groups, womens rights/feminist groups, african-american groups, mexican-american groups,and any other .....-american groups, and so many other "groups" only serve to dilute what life within the US is supposed to be which is as AMERICANS one and all!

The pussification of our laws and our people in the lack of the ability to stand up for themselves and their individual views without coming under attack from the above mentioned groups and then the compounding and confounding further more of our rights as citizens to hold and express differing views by the constraints of political correctness within our society is what I see as the most undermining factors to our continuation as a free society !

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 02, 2007 05:59AM

ISN'T THIS WALT DISNEY ?

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: August 02, 2007 12:11PM

I have said it before and I will say it again, our political correctness will be our downfall. It will not be another Hitler or even another person which will bring it about, but it will be our own actions as a whole which wil spell our downfall through our political correctness.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 02, 2007 10:29PM

jgoin, for once you are correct, now keep going!


Do you think that the people push those things? No! Groups, Organizations etc... now where do/did they come from?

You have groups that do nothing but push propaganda down peoples throats..... how do they do that?

Mainstream Media..... who owns those companies?

It's simple, I'm all for Equal Rights, but, Equal Rights does not mean to feel sorrow for a wrong-doing and then kiss up continuously, or at all.

For instance, when will the "black man" EVER feel EQUAL, never, that's when, they see Equal Rights as a opportunity, a way to "get over", but, it is TOTALLY unacceptable to even say that, now I'm a Racist.... they (all of them not just the black man) know they have a good scam going and they're not going to just let it go. What should the white man do, just sit around and watch things continue to fuck them over? If we would join an organization for Proud White Men, that would be a Racist thing to do.

Like I said I,m all for EQUAL RIGHTS, so..... where are they?

Once you start to open your eyes you'll start to see more and more.

ToucanSam Report This Comment
Date: August 03, 2007 01:37AM

Where are equal right? I'm a white male, I support my self. Where's my rights group where do I fit in. Oh yeah... arien nation? But there "racist fucks", right? What about NAACP? bla bla bla bla. Now that is SOME RACIST SHIT.


"Do you really think it could never happen again?"

No, not in a million years. Men will NEVER seek power and over do it. N-E-V-E-R.
I don't believe it. I don't WANNA BELIEVE IT. Make up something that SOUNDS better, I'll be happier. There, that makes me happy. Happily ever after.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: August 03, 2007 11:15AM

Racism is wrong no matter what race you belong to, but racism from the blacks is acceptable. Just how is that acceptable? I never owned any slaves and none of my ancestors were ever rich enough to own any either. so why should I pay for repairations and why should it be my responsibility? I shall stop being politically correct in my everyday life and if everyone would do it we might get rid of it nationally.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: August 03, 2007 12:46PM

There's plenty of equal rights in our society .... so long as you aren't white

On a side topic I was in Oklahoma City day before yesterdee to oversee the loading-out of a machine our company had sold to one of our customers and you should have seen the thinly veiled hate filled looks I received from the Mescan truck driver when I pulled up with my "Secure Our Borders NOW" sticker on my back window.

I know every Mescan that sees this sticker likely views me as a racist though in reality all it means is that I'm tired of the current overly lax border controls and want our borders enforced, which is an American position, not a racist one .... Hi Ho

However, as a white American ANYTHING I do to support MY rights or address my thoughts on any other race is considered racist. I'd sure like to see the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton or all the protesting Mescan groups spewing obvious hatred for America and especially white Americans be held to the same standards. If I were to publicly voice similar views I'd be arrested for hate crimes and federally prosecuted !

So ... all us white Americans might as well just hold up our hands and wave Buh-Bye to any thoughts of having 1st Amendment rights anymore

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: August 04, 2007 11:34AM

Free speech is still available as long as the speech is the same as everyone elses and is approved by NAACP.

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Date: June 19, 2024 05:48AM

I don't know about yankee land but I saw it here in Australia. His name was Barry Unsworth.