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Reuters/Yahoo News: July 6, 1997 By Randall Mikkelsen
- Actress, Entertainer, Gun Control Supporter
- Entertained troops in Vietnam- North Vietnamese troops.
- Husband Ted Turner wants to dump "The Star Spangled Banner."
"It should be changed because 'The Star Spangled Banner' is a war song," Turner said in a medal ceremony at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was issued on July 4, 1776. "Now the whole western hemisphere is at peace, most of the world's at peace. It's time to change with the times because brotherhood is a lot more important than military force and that's what 'America the Beautiful' is all about," he said.George Orwell's Animal Farm - recently broadcast, ironically, on TNT Network- describes exactly what the Ted Turners, Dianne Feinsteins, and Charles Schumers are doing to our country. In Orwell's story, the animals of the Manor Farm rebel against their abusive farmer, Jones, and rename the farm "Animal Farm." They establish a Constitution- the Seven Commandments- and a national anthem, "Beasts of England." George Orwell was Right
The pigs (party bosses), however, want to take over the farm and make it into a dictatorship. To do this, they have to make the other animals forget why they created Animal Farm, i.e. make them forget what their country is all about. One of the pigs, Squealer, goes out at night and writes "addendums" to the Seven Commandments. "All animals are equal" becomes "All animals are equal, but some animals [the pigs] are more equal than others." Similarly, the Feinsteins and Schumers want you to believe that the Second Amendment no longer means what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote it: the right of individual citizens to own arms.
The pigs also abolish the singing of "Beasts of England," for the same ostensible reason that Ted Turner wants to abolish "The Star-Spangled Banner." "It's no longer needed, comrade," said Squealer stiffly. "'Beasts of England' was the song of the Rebellion. But the Rebellion is now completed. ... In 'Beasts of England' we expressed our longing for a better society in days to come. But that society has now been established. Clearly this song has no longer any purpose."
"The Star Spangled Banner" is indeed a war song. "The rockets' red glare" refers to the Congreve rockets that the British were launching at Fort McHenry. The fort's defenders did not strike their colors despite "the bombs bursting in air." It's because of people like Fort McHenry's defenders that Ted Turner's Cable News Network and Turner Broadcasting have the First Amendment right of freedom of expression. That's something that members of the pampered and privileged liberal elite like Jane Fonda, Ted Kennedy (his brother was on the PT boat, Ted had it easy), Dianne Feinstein, and Bill Clinton can't seem to understand- they never earned it, they had it handed to them by the veterans of our country's wars. If they had to go to war, submit to rationing (their kind, like Animal Farm's pigs, would probably figure out why rationing was for everybody but them), or do without consumer goods to earn freedom, if they learned by first-hand experience that freedom isn't free (and that's what "The Star Spangled Banner" is all about), they'd probably value freedom, and the Constitution, a lot more.Jane Fonda:
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