Required Reading: "Never Again" by John Ashcroft

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has released a new book called Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice. We highly recommend church members buy it and read it. It will give many of you who wonder whether or not we may be too politically incorrect comfort in knowing that we are not. In fact, it sounds like Mr. Ashcroft is already a member of the Church. Check out these book quotes:

"A moral imperative for toughness exists if we are asking America'’s young people to go out and stand in harm'’s way, to risk getting shot, or to lay their lives on the line. Then we are not eligible to be “"nice guys”" who will take a soft and easy approach to the enemy when we realize what is needed to preserve American lives. When we ask for the lifeblood of the next generation of Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq, or on other fields of battle, the moral imperative demands we defend our freedoms with an unyielding mental toughness. If we lose our resolve, our will to win, by mistaking the tranquility of our daily lives for peace with terrorism, or caving in to propaganda campaigns built on a false sense of security, we will fail our moral obligation to young Americans who risk all to protect us.

"The moral imperative demand toughness not simply on the next generation'’s part but on ours.

"Another aspect of the moral imperative for toughness is the recognition that America at its best represents the values of freedom and goodness, and the terrorists represent imposition and evil. Osama bin Laden and his ilk intend to dictate the conditions of a person'’s existence; Americans believe that liberty and freedom are God-given rights. If we are truly endowed with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by our Creator, how dare we acquiesce in the face of terrorists, implying that we don'’t care enough about those freedoms to defend them?"

Those lines remind me of the inaugural sermon for the Church. And, this next quote could easily become part of our prayer canonade* at the left, Muslims, and evil in general:

"My prayer is not merely that God will bless America. —He has done so abundantly, —but that we would be granted wisdom in protecting this grand experiment that many of us believe was His idea in the first place."

Amen.

*Canonade is a new word, not a misspelled word. It reflects combining the proactive ideas of the Church of the Politically Incorrect's "canon" with the aggressive artillery fire of a "cannonade".