Just as money freely given is seldom appreciated because we did not invest our own blood and sweat in the attaining of it and is quickly and easily lost, so do the freedoms and liberties we have that we did not invest our own blood and sweat in attaining become taken for granted, unappreciated and can be quickly and easily lost.
The liberties and freedoms that all in this country enjoy are due to the sacrifice of those past and present who offered their own blood and sweat to create and to preserve this Republic. Few understand that it is easier to give birth the idea of a free nation than it is to keep it once it becomes a reality. It has taken thousands more sacrifices to preserve America than it did to give birth to it.
Not only do we not fully understand what that cost has been, we don’t fully understand what the true cost will be should we fail to keep it, both to us as Americans and to the world that has been blessed by our very existence.
America was created with the full knowledge of the dignity and sanctity of life but over the past 4 decades we have replaced that precious responsibility with casualness toward the unborn and apathy toward life itself. What some see today as an infringement upon other countries and a will to impose our lifestyle upon them is actually an attempt to make sure that people all over this globe experience what freedom taste like.
American has always been a moral nation but as those morals have eroded and the sanctity of life of both born and unborn has suffered neglect, we are losing our position of respect and influence in the world. Powerful politicians and the “Blame America First” crowd would have us believe it is because of our arrogance and interference that we have suffered this diminished reputation, but as we began to devalue human life, especially of the unborn, God’s protective hand began to be lifted from our shoulders.
Value for human life is not only a Biblical principle but it is a foundational principle of a civilized society. To lose that principle means to cease to be a civilized community and the door is opened for a myriad of problems and challenges and all the while we struggle to understand why they befell us.
With the slipping of traditional morality, traditional marriage and family values began to erode. Families are what makes up a community, communities make up cities and states and states make a nation. When the foundation is cracked and crumbling, all that was built upon it begins to show signs of stress and cracks and its days are numbered.
As we devalue one building block of a strong society after another all that America once was begins to change and we all suffer because of it.
Our 33rd president Harry Truman penned it perfectly when he wrote, “The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus, and Saint Matthew, from Isaiah and Saint Paul…. If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State”. America is in danger of that very prediction today.
As he left office in 1796 President George Washington warned us with these words, “It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
I echo his sentiment. No one calling themselves a friend of free government and freedom of the people can allow apathy to cloud their vision when they see concerted efforts being made to shake the very foundations upon which this great country was founded. To do so informs us all that he is not a friend of America who turns a blind eye to those who would dismantle this Republic. And it certainly says the same of those who would shake America in an attempt to “fundamentally change the United States of America”, to use our current presidents own words spoken five days before being elected to our highest office.
This shaking is not coming from without, even though we have been openly attacked from outside our borders. The greatest danger America faces is from within the ranks of our own self-serving government which boasts of the fundamental changes its leaders want to make. I say boast because they are obviously more proud of their attempts to degrade and tear down America than they are of what America stands for. When our fundamentals change, we are no longer the same country. While some desire it, I warn against it.
And what becomes of those who speak to expose such treason against America? They are labeled as Nazis, paid-dissidents, part of a false movement with no value and even un-American. All the while the ones whose desire is to destroy the foundation of this country are heralded as patriots. Somewhere we have gotten our wires crossed.
Why are Tea Party participants maligned daily by those in power? Why are those who ask probing questions smeared at every turn? Why is every voice that speaks against a socialistic take over of the health care industry tagged an un-American “Right-winged extremists”? There is but one answer and it is not a complicated one. They are purveyors of the truth and the truth cannot be tolerated by those who wish to re-make America in their image. Their agenda cannot withstand exposure to the light.
Politicians need to understand fully that the desire to debate issues like freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, climate change, energy resources, independence, renewal and responsibility, true health care reform, moral integrity, freedom of, not from, religion and so much more IS truly the American way. It is the desire to stop and to hinder debate and questioning that is un-American and politicians should know that or they have no business taking our money on the pretense of “serving” us. They do not deserve the trust we placed in them and it is time to give their seat to one who does.
Exposure to the truth is to them as one who exits a dark theatre on a bright sunny Saturday afternoon. The sun’s light hurts their eyes. They wince. They try and shield their faces from the light until their vision adjusts.
Today’s politicians with only darkness as a goal for America, are blinded by the light of the truth. They wince. They shield their eyes from the truth. Truth can be blinding when one does not desire to see. There is nothing wrong with the truth, just as there is nothing wrong with the sunlight.
They have simply been living in the darkness of their own greed, self-serving policies and the interests of those who spread money for them to walk on. It feels like soft clover to bare feet and they love it more than they love the responsibility they swore an oath to serve. They love the darkness more than they love the light of freedom and to correct the situation they try and extinguish the light.
It is time that we shine the light of truth squarely into their face, pull their hands from their faces and force them to see the light that is America. It is time we hold them to their post as they try and retreat back into the darkness they have grown to love for the darkness is the only place that their actions can thrive. It is time to remove that option.
Why do they continue to love the darkness? Why do they continue to slip acts past us in the dead of night? It is their way and they love the darkness more than they love the light. Eventually the truth always manifests itself. So why do they try so hard to deny the truth and hide from the light? Stubbornness? An un-teachable spirit? A childish, “I want my way” attitude?
It is time that our leaders put away the childish ways of name-calling, degradation of true citizens, and embrace debate. It is time to shy away from the half-truths and outright lies that plague the political system and embrace the light of the truth, even if it is uncomfortable to do so. And they should be fore-warned: If they cannot embrace the light of the truth, they will be replaced at the earliest opportunity with a true American who understands the foundations upon which America was built and who understands that their office is a place of service not entitlement.
If “public service” feels beneath them, cut them free to find work in the real world where responsibility and accountability are the norm. Let them reconnect with the common people by once again becoming one of them. Let them learn the hard way that the elitism of political office is a fairy tale and theirs is about to end.
The disgrace that has become our system of government has run its course. It is time for a correction, not a “new system” like the radical Van Jones shouts about. America needs some tweaking, some refining, some modifications but it does not need a total overhaul. It is time to recognize the good and the bright among us and to listen to them giving no regard to whether they wear the Republican, Democrat, or Independent label.
America is circling the drain and she did not get here in the past eight months. It has been a long time in the making and there is plenty of blame to go around. But the time for blaming has past. Only so much can be blamed on George W. Bush. Only so much can be blamed on Barack Obama. And we as a people shoulder part of the blame because we did not recognize the power we have to change a system that is bound to destroy America. We allowed apathy to overcome us and we chose the posture of an ostrich rather than a lion to challenge the system.
As we all shoulder the challenge for returning America back to her fundamental values while they can still be recognized, we must put aside the labels when they divide us but not be afraid to label those who pose a danger to America. Political Correctness can no longer be tolerated and it should be shown the door.
The issues that need to be faced must be faced even if it hurts someone’s feelings or ruffles a few feathers. There is too much at stake and the time for games is over. It is time for the truth to prevail even if it is uncomfortable to implement policies that are controversial. Controversial is acceptable but those bulging with half-truths and lies, misleading platitudes and our-right lies are not.
It is time we question boldly those policies that serve a few and play to the pettiness of politicians. It is time to wake and be counted among the ranks of those that readily admit to the importance of our foundational principles, their source and vow to preserve this Republic.
America was founded upon morality and it is to that end, or to that renewed beginning, we must submit ourselves.
Should we neglect the moral instruction with which this country was begun, as the Statesman Daniel Webster said, “no man can tell how suddenly a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity”.
We cannot afford to forsake our morality for the sake of any cause. Without it America is nothing and we need too reclaim it with utmost haste. Time is not on our side, but we must always be on the side of truth.
America is engaged in a war not of her own choosing. It isn’t a war that you will see statistics printed in the newspaper listing deaths, injuries or costs. It isn’t found as the headline story of any TV or Cable network. In fact, you may not even realize it but it is a war that has been fought many times in history. It is the war between a people and their government and the United States government is at war with its people.
When one stops to ponder the idea, it is apparent that this is nothing new. Wars are not of nation against nation. Even our own Revolutionary War was not a war between nations. Wars are government against government. Wars are declared by governments against governments but the cruelest are those declared by a government against its own people.
Sometimes, as after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the people condone an
d even insist upon a declaration of war. They see it as justified and necessary for their own survival. But the most dangerous of wars, the wars I refer to between a government and its people, doesn’t come with public support but at public expense.
Adolph Hitler’s greatest atrocities were not committed against the American soldier, or the Russian soldier, but against the people of his own country. Chairman Mao was a man with the blood of upwards by some estimates of 70 million of his own people on his hands.
During the 70 years that Communism infected this globe, the U.S.S.R. was at constant war with its own people the greatest victims, with some estimates reaching 150 million. Any government that seeks to deprive its people of liberty, freedom and property has chosen to walk a path that can only lead to war. Why? Because people do not voluntarily hand over their liberties, freedoms and property but only do so when forced to do so by the might of a powerful government. At that point they are no longer free but subjects.
Never in the history of this country has there been such an attempt to repress liberties, restrict freedoms and confiscate and redistribute property from its people as it is under the Barack Obama Presidency. Almost daily it seems the hands of this administration reaches in to meddle with another aspect of America, creating problems where there are none, attempting to “solve” problems that do not exist, demanding obeisance and homage from a questioning people who are growing more considered every day.
Every politician makes promises that they feel will endear them to the voters, and many times those promises are not kept. Often those promises are impossible to keep and should have never been made. But sadly such is the political scene.
Yet this administration has made a practice of breaking those promises, the very commitments that got Obama elected in the first place. Closing Guantanamo Bay detention center and justly dealing with the detainees held there has become much more of a problem than he, in his naiveté, thought it would be. But the promise sounded good to those who are more concerned with the rights of those who killed 2,800 innocent Americans than for the rights of those who died.
America was attacked by a visible enemy and yet on the last anniversary of that fateful day, President Obama neglected to single them out in his appeasement speech and insulted every American. Not being willing to call out ones attackers for what and who they are is an affront to those who died that day and an insult to every America that was horrified by the events of 9/11.
Calling it a “Day of Remembrance and Service” was nothing more than an continued attempt at appeasement aimed at the Muslim world, one that now elected Obama, embraces with understanding but denied his connection with during the campaign. The “War on Terror” has now, under the direction of the White House, become an “Overseas Contingency”, a way of toning down its importance yet it belittles the sacredness of every life lost in this endless battle.
Other promises such as swearing not to take away our guns was a lie of misdirection with every appointee of Obama’s strongly anti-gun ownership. The laws and regulations underway that will hinder every Americans right or ability to possess a firearm, while doing nothing towards the removal of guns from the lawless criminal, is another broken promise.
The majority of people in the United States do not believe that abortion should be as accessible as it is and see the 50 million babies that have been aborted since the Roe vs. Wade decision a national shame. Yet this administration in pushing its pro-abortion stance doesn’t care what the majority of people think.
Obama was the only Senator to speak out against a bill that would assure that a baby born through a botched abortion would receive every available medical treatment to protect his/her life. He said it would someday have an affect on a woman’s right to choose even though the bill dealt entirely with a baby already born. To show how out-of-touch he was, the bill passed 90-1 in spite of his gauged rhetoric on the floor.
In showing his lack of concern for a newly born baby he showed his contempt for life and liberty of the most innocent among our nation. His agenda and continued approval of the slaughter of 4,000 babies a day is more important to him than protecting life. In a campaign speech he called babies a “punishment for making a mistake”. It sickened and angered me to hear that phrase.
Now with health care, abortion, as much as he has denied it, is included in the final bill he wants written. Efforts to keep it out have been blocked, making it clear that abortion is important to this administration and to the Democratic Congress at large.
Most people in America believe that the illegal immigration issue be addressed firmly while Obama seeks amnesty for the 12-20 million lawbreakers who disregarded our laws to come here. Crossing our borders every day are Hispanics seeking a better life and that is commendable but there are lawful ways to enter this country. Showing a disregard for our laws is not the way to do it.
Not addressed are the OTMs that are crossing the border as well, “Other Than Mexicans”. And that number could include Muslim terrorists or anyone else who simply walks across the invisible line in the sand or climbs an inadequate fence. Border agents are understaffed and often have their hands tied where they cannot properly do their job. Government wishes over the wishes of the people once again are evident.
Freedom of speech is under attack daily. From Cable news outlets to individuals that dare to question this administration are labeled as “opponents”. Opponents? Are battle lines being drawn in a stand-off to restrict freedom of speech? You had better believe it.
“No taxes on the middle class” was a promise that is disingenuous as well and the health care proposals will ensure that almost every American will see higher taxes. Higher energy costs are in effect taxes as EPA restrictions are increased to chase a phony “green” policy.
No civilization has ever survived when the energy source they depend upon is cut or hindered. We are an oil-based society and until we create another source to replace it we cannot afford to expand costs and levy heavy restrictions because of its use. In this economy it is suicidal. But the government really doesn’t care about the people in this respect but cares more about the planet, buying into the phony science that redistributes the wealth and hinders progress into the future.
Just as no sensible person quits a job until the have another one and we as a nation should not close the door to progress that continued use of oil can bring until we have an alternative that works. It doesn’t hurt the government as much as the people.
Make no mistake about it, our government is drawing a line in the sand between itself and its people and that path only leads to war. There are 300 million Americans that love their way of life and they will not give it up or hand it over to bureaucrats freely. And the war between a people and its government and its people lies down the path that this administration has chosen to walk.
We have the examples of Russia, China, Germany and some African nations to study and pay attention to. An oppressive government is simply that, an oppressive government and people who have tasted liberty, freedom and prosperity will not allow it to be striped from their grasps.
But of course before that ever happened in any country, the populace was disarmed and that is happening in America today. And then it will matter little what the people will have to say. The government will have free reign to force its agenda, no matter how radical and no matter how anti-Constitutional it is, upon a helpless people.
Before you say it can’t happen here, tell that to the people of Germany (20.9 million civilians killed), Russia (83 million), China (45 million), Japan (5.9 million), Vietnam (1.6 million), Poland (1.5 million to “ethnic cleansing”). Tell that to the two million people slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia as they lost 30% of their population to violence from their own government. Tell that to the one million Armenians that lost their lives at the hands of the Turks after they were systematically disarmed in the early 1900’s.
This scenario was repeated in Uganda, Rwanda, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, and Sudan, to name a few. Our founding fathers did not wish for us to be armed as a protection against each other as much as a protection against a government gone awry.
No government can exercise genocide against or even undue control over its people as long as they are armed. Any government seeking ultimate control knows that and will disarm its people as a prelude to their going to far in their thirst for power. It is the first step even if taken years before things get out of hand. Even using those weapons is not necessary but that possibility keeps out-of-control governments in check.
An armed people are a free people. Slaves are not allowed to “keep and bear arms”, only free men can. The removal or severe limitation of this one specific right will spell the end of freedom in America. History has proven that power hungry men choose to dominate their people and power hungry certainly describes this administration.
While there are no records that indicate any democratic government has directly or indirectly been involved in the extermination or genocide of its own people, absolutism certainly has. When a government garners absolute control of the populace by government take over of private industries, banks, large corporations, as apparently is the aim of this administration, dangerous times loom ahead.
Will America right its course and not become another added to the above list or will it continue to travel the road of denied liberties, withdrawn freedoms and stolen property? There is a point of no return and I can’t say where that line is. I simply hope we don’t cross it.