Even geniuses can't be right all the time, or How Einstein got it wrong.

by Angela K. Durden

I'm going on record as saying Einstein was wrong when he said

Sure, by all accounts ol' Albert was a great guy. And smart, too. He hated war. But you know, Einstein and his family fled Germany in 1933 because this fellow by the name of Hitler decided to do what he did.

Einstein decided to speak up against Fascism in 1933 by hying himself and his family off to a country where, and I quote him verbatim, "political freedom, tolerance, and equality of all citizens reign."

Where did Einstein go?
Not Russia.
Not Italy.
Definitely not France.
Einstein was not a stupid man, so...

He came to America. 

Lots of bumper stickers are sold with that first sentence of Einstein's quoted. Makes them feel good. But evil cannot be stopped with a bumper sticker, and don't forget it.

Like a lot of kindly and softhearted folks often do, Einstein forgot that the reason he could sleep easy at night in the U.S. was because the country had strong borders they were willing to defend with something more than a good attitude, wishes, and peace slogans.

The reason the U.S. could defend properly is that they prepared. The U.S. did not want to start a war, but damn they sure didn't want to get caught flat-footed like Britain and France and Poland.

And when it came to stopping war, Truman pulled the trigger on the very thing that stopped Japanese aggression cold and saved many more lives. At that time the war ended and the emperor admitted — to the dismay of the Japanese citizens — he was not God or even a god.

The same people who put this bumper sticker on their car are the same ones that — I double guar-OH-damn-TEE — have security systems on their cars and homes and businesses because they are preparing for bad guys to come and take their stuff and kill them and yet they do not see the difference.

Thank goodness others do know the value of preparation to meet evil.