Surrender Monkeys—Chapter 13

Or Would You Like To Have What Is Behind Door Number Two?


Help me understand this situation, if you will.

First of all, suppose that you’re a wealthy, “politically connected” citizen of a country in what we are all now supposed to call “The European Union.”

Say you’re from Italy, perhaps.

Being from Alabama, and currently residing in Georgia, I’ll take this opportunity to refer to you as a “Dang Foreigner” because I personally don’t give a shit what I’m supposed to think or do according to the UN and the “authorities.”

Any way…

Now suppose that you decide to take yourself and the other members of your highly educated, politically correct, elitist family on a vacation.

Somewhere special.

Somewhere exotic.

Let’s say…Yemen, perhaps?

That’s right…you’ve just won an all expense paid trip to the lovely country of Yemen.

You know… the Arab Republic of Yemen, where they just released the German diplomat and his family held hostage until this weekend.

So now you and your group of four fellow Italians have been kidnapped by the same Yemeni “Tribesmen” that have made a cottage industry of ransoming foreigners in the past.

SAN`A, Yemen - Tribesmen seized five Italian tourists Sunday, but released three female hostages after a government negotiator convinced the kidnappers that abducting women violated tribal values, Yemeni officials said.

Sheik Darham al-Damaa, secretary-general of a government council in Marib Province, said negotiations were continuing for the release of the two Italian men, according to the Web site of Yemen's ruling party.

The kidnapping came a day after the government negotiated the release of a family of five Germans who also were taken hostage while on vacation. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah

Saleh pledged Sunday to hunt down "outlaws" who kidnap foreigners.

Tribesmen frequently grab tourists in an attempt to force concessions from the government in this poor, mountainous nation on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Hostages are usually released unharmed, but several were killed in 2000 during a botched police raid to free them.

Security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with reporters, told The Associated Press that the Italians' kidnappers were members of a tribe responsible for past kidnappings of foreigners and Yemenis.

The kidnappers have demanded the release of eight fellow members of the al-Zaydi tribe, one of whom faces murder charges and was extradited to Yemen from the United Arab Emirates.

Yemen versus Paris?

Yemen versus Las Vegas?

Yemen versus Panama City Beach?

Yemen versus St. Simons Island?

Let the Italians and the Germans and the Yemenis kiss my redneck ass, because I’ll pick Panama City or St. Simons over Yemen any day of the week.

Call me biased, racist, bigoted, or whatever...I don't care.

Finally I ask you:

When you are on vacation, and you let the NY Times and the liberal media control your security from their beloved "minute men," otherwise called “insurgents”… you know...the "terrorists."

Who You Gonna Call?

Ghost Busters?