Comments on: Updated: Joe Horn: Wanted Man…And A Hero

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:19:54 +0000

Hi Barbara. The full title of the book is “Conversations with God: An uncommon Dialogue” and the author is Neale Donald Walsch. You can find it and read parts of it on Amazon. This book is now a series and I can’t believe how many buy into it. The god Walsch believes in is an utterly passive, useless god who loves and allows everything with no punishment or consequences. That’s apparently how some would like our country to be too.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:49:03 +0000

Jennifer, no, I’ve not read “Conversations with God.” Could you please name the author, or provide a link to the work?

So many of our own American churches are also choosing deliberate ignorance of evil in these times.

By: Black Dog

Black Dog — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:11:16 +0000

As usual, what happens in the US happens here in the UK 10 years or so later. From personal experience, I've seen that the more "liberal" (i.e. Politically Correct) we are to so called "non violent crimes" such as burglary, the more violence, disorder and "petty crime" we end up with. UK Citizen Tony Martin did much the same as your man Joe Horn: there's a sizable minority who would make him Prime Minister for not only defying the low-lives, but the forces of stupidity, gullibility and damned "the victim is worth less than the criminal".

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:30:20 +0000

“so many today reject the concept of absolute evil entirely, considering it antiquated at best, dangerous to social “progress” at worst”

Quite right, Barbara. Have you read “Conversations with God”? I’ve never seen such trash in my life; the joke of an author says that everyone goes to heaven (Hitler included) and that no one harms another person with malicious intent (my personal favorite). What is this world coming to?

By: t isaacson

t isaacson — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:01:10 +0000

In South Africa a man came home to find his family tied up, being robbed. Whilst being stabbed 4 times in the neck, he managed to shoot and kill the robbers. He is now charged with murder. What is this? A world gone mad! Keep writing! Tamara

By: JP Strauss

JP Strauss — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:01:34 +0000

I find it interesting that, here in South Africa at least, a murder case is opened against you straight away if you kill an armed attacker inside your house. It is then up to you to prove your innocence... A stark contrast to the more logical viewpoint of the state having to prove you guilty. [In some states in the US, this is also he case. Please send link to the story in SA.--IM]

By: Christopher Link

Christopher Link — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:51:45 +0000

Does Mr. Horn Hater understand that in a civilized society crime does not pay? Why does he want to reduce the risk for criminals? If he and his wife found themselves alone in an alley with the kind of thugs Mr. Horn dispatched, would he still be feeling all warm and fuzzy towards them when they put a knife against his throat, demanded his money, and started checking out his wife?

Mr. Horn didn’t run out of his house shooting, he gave those career criminals a choice. Not for the first time, they chose badly.

When William Rasberry, a nationally known columnist who claimed to be against guns, heard drunken college kids fooling around in his pool one night, he ran out of his house shooting one of those guns he disapproved of. He did not give those students a choice, he panicked.

If Mr. Horn Hater was in a plane about to crash in the Andes, I’d give odds he’d be the one screaming, “We’re all gonna die!”

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:07:42 +0000

Ilana, you’ve done well in often referring to evil in your writings; but so many today reject the concept of absolute evil entirely, considering it antiquated at best, dangerous to social “progress” at worst. Look no further than the morally bankrupt “New Age” movement for the spiritual underpinnings of a guilt-free, blame-free approach to doing whatever horrible thing an individual cares to do, because after all, he will have to work out the consequences during his subsequent “incarnations.”

It is no coincidence that the desire to sidestep the issue of evil correlates with the decline of Judeo-Christian values in this country. As America becomes increasingly a country of people who do not share those values (including those who trash their own western traditions) look for even greater sympathies for thugs like those named above.

By: EN

EN — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:04:45 +0000

It’s troubling that some believe “Petty thieves” are benign. They are not benign! For those of you who are willing to accept that they have a right to live, please put your chips down and advertise that you feel this way. A large sign on your front and back doors would be most helpful.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:40:14 +0000

It is an interesting contrast between Joe Horn, Moshe Klessner, and David Shapira who are defending the peace and rights of their neighbors with the "troops" who get sent off into Iraq to serve as IED/sniper-"bait". Not only have I used the word "bait" but several soldiers and Marines have used that exact word (in conversations where I was NOT present) and others said it slightly differently that their mission was to go out on patrol in order to "engage the enemy". Joe Horn and the other heroes did not travel halfway around the world seeking "monsters to destroy" (words of John Quincy Adams) but were peaceful people defending their natural rights. Much of the mainstream will denounce them while supporting the concept of sending mercenaries into foreign lands to provoke dubious engagements with local thugs. Rather sad sense of the lack of perspective in modern America. Likewise, on Independence Day weekend - contrast the farmers/militia who showed up defending Bennington and Saratoga against invading Hessians and Mohawks vs. "National Guard" members ordered to go on HMMWV patrols from the Green Zone of Baghdad 8,000 miles from home. Joe Horn is a true American. [Related: "The Real War Is At Home."]