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This is outstanding. This lady tells it like it
is.
Last week, the Shelby County Alabama Legislative Delegation
hosted a "Stand Up for America Rally." More than 1,200 people attended
including featured speakers Chief Justice Roy Moore, Adjutant General Mark Bowen
and Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman.
Attached is a copy of Mrs. Chapman's speech, which resulted in
five standing ovations, tremendous applause and an encore. It's a short read and
well worth it.
I hope you enjoy it as we continue to "Stand up for
America!"
The program may be viewed Wednesday, March 5th at 8:00 PM on
Charter Cable Channel Six in our area.
Stand Up for America Rally Speech By: Beth Chapman
I'm here tonight because men and women of the United States
military have given their lives for my freedom. I am not here tonight because
Sheryl Crowe, Rosie O'Donnell, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Jane Fonda or Phil
Donahue, sacrificed their lives for me.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was not movie stars or
musicians, but the United States Military who fought on the shores of Iwo Jima,
the jungles of Vietnam, and the beaches of Normandy. Tonight, I say we should
support the President of the United States and the U.S. Military and tell the
liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippy, tie-dyed liberals to go make
their movies and music and whine somewhere else.
After all, if they lived in Iraq, they wouldn't be allowed the
freedom of speech they're being given here today. Ironically, they would be put
to death at the hands of Sadam Husssein or Osama Bin Laden. I want to know how
the very people who are against war because of the loss of life, can possibly be
the same people who are for abortion?
They are the same people who are for animal rights but against
the rights of the unborn. The movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve
as "human shields" for the Iraqis. I say let them buy a one-way ticket
and go.
No one likes war. I hate war! But the one thing I hate more is
the fact that this country has been forced into war-innocent people have lost
their lives - - and there but for the grace of God, it could have been my
brother, my husband, or even worse my own son.
On December 7, 1941, there are no records of movie stars treading
the blazing waters of Pearl Harbor.
On September 11, 2001; there are no photos of movie stars
standing as "human shields" against the debris and falling bodies
ascending from the World Trade Center. There were only policemen and firemen -
-underpaid civil servants who gave their all with nothing expected in return.
When the USS Cole was bombed, there were no movie stars guarding
the ship - - where were the human shields then?
If America's movie stars want to be human shields, let them
shield the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles, or New York City, let them shield
the lives of the children of North Birmingham whose mothers lay them down to
sleep on the floor each night to shelter them from stray bullets.
If they want to be human shields, I say let them shield the men
and women of honesty and integrity that epitomizes courage and embody the spirit
of freedom by wearing the proud uniforms of the United States Military. Those
are the people who have earned and deserve shielding!
Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free,
not because of movie stars and liberal activists, but because of brave men and
women who hated war too. However, they lay down their lives so that we all may
live in freedom. After all - "What greater love hath no man, that he lay
down his life for his friend," or in this case a country.
We should give our military honor and acknowledgement and not let
their lives be in vain. If you want to see true human shields, walk through
Arlington Cemetery. There lie human shields, heroes, and the BRAVE Americans who
didn't get on television and talk about being a human shield - they were human
shields.
I thank God tonight for freedom - - those who bought and paid for
it with their lives in the past - - those who will protect it in the present and
defend it in the future.
America has remained silent too long! God-fearing people have
remained silent too long!
We must lift our voices united in a humble prayer to God for
guidance and the strength and courage to sustain us throughout whatever the
future may hold.
After the tragic events of Sept. 11th, my then eleven -year-old
son said terrorism is a war against them and us and if you're not one of us,
then you're one of them.
So in closing tonight, let us be of one accord, let us stand
proud, and let us be the human shields of prayer, encouragement and support for
the President, our troops and their families and our country.
May God bless America, the land of the free, the home of the
brave and the greatest country on the face of this earth