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I ran across a brilliant opinion piece by non-other than legendary rocker Ted Nugent. It begins simply enough by taking another legendary rocker, Paul McCartney, to task for firing roadies for the minor "offense" (if you are a nutter vegetarian) of eating a hamburger. I always thought that the folks on the left were all about free choice? Yet McCartney, who is a hard-core vegetarian, has to force his vegan ways on the people he employs.

Nugent is right, in more ways than one, when he points out the whole agenda of PETA and their supporters is to ban the consumption of meat. They want to take away OUR right to choose what we eat.

If those of us who love a good barbecued steak every now and then, or a rack of babyback ribs, were to try and force our meat eating ways on the vegetarians among us, there would be such a hue and cry that it would be deafening. Yet when a radical vegetarian can fire employs for eating meat, silence is golden.

But the party of choice is not the Democrats, nor are the hard-left liberals all that keen on free-will.

They want to take away our right to drive the kind of vehicles we drive in the name of protecting the environment, falsely claiming that carbon emissions is the cause of global warming (which is a natural cycle of the Earth's climate, not caused by man).

They do not want us to be able to choose between eating in restaurants or going to bars that allow smoking versus those that do not. They take away that right through smoking bans locally, or at state level as has been done in my native California and Minnesota (begins Oct. 2007) where I now live. Yet those of us who are conservatives, and many of us who are non-smokers, like myself, would not force others to dine out only in smoke filled rooms.

They want to take away our right to defend ourselves and our families, making all of us victims by forcing our cities to be "gun-free" zones, where only government and criminals are armed. Yet, as Nugent pointed out, conservatives would never dare to force someone to carry a gun who does not want to.

What I like best from the piece is this passage:

Recently, Danny Glover, an otherwise fine actor, embarrassingly abused his uniquely American freedoms by siding with the communist Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to finance what clearly appears to be an anti-American propaganda film. Nice.

Meanwhile, right there in that communist country, old Hugo is shutting down an entire media network for daring to challenge his heavy handed, corrupt, dictatorial policies.

This is a leader who has proudly sided with terrorist support groups, and Danny Glover gives him a big hug.

Cindy Sheehan also gave hugs and kisses, okay maybe not kisses, to the Dictator of Venezuela.

There are also many folks on the hard left that think Castro is just peachy-keen as well. And they call Bush evil.

Nugent nails the hard-left dead-center when he wrote:

As for the American left: One hears the words of Mao Tse-Tung come broiling out of the mouths of its heroes, when Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton et al unflinchingly push for "redistribution of wealth."

They call themselves the party of tolerance, yet the hard-left, including the Clintons, Kennedy, Obama, and Al Gore, are anything but tolerant. They don't want you to have the ability to decide how you should live.

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