(Reposted from October 16, 2011)
Our great nation was born through the Declaration of
Independence, to be governed by Constitutional guarantees that the freedoms
listed therein would endure forever.
In the 230 plus years since then it was the exercise of those
freedoms that molded our country into the greatest on earth. It’s true that
“Freedom isn’t Free,” and from the time of America’s beginnings until the
present day, it’s citizens have been called upon to make sacrifices, and in
many cases, to risk their lives so that those freedoms could be preserved. Over
those centuries thousands of American men and women have given their lives for
our liberty. Today our freedom is endangered; not so much from the wars we
fight, but from concerted efforts to destroy America from within.
Since the early 20th Century there have been those who would radically change our way
of life. Seldom have they identified their plans as an attempt to subvert our
Constitution. Nor have they identified themselves with their revolutionary
scheme. They work privately and anonymously in a most insidious manner.
Over the years we have paid little attention to those who
embraced the weakening and eventual destruction of American ideals, either
misunderstanding their intentions or believing that eventually they would
simply go away. They haven’t. They are in fact growing in numbers and in
boldness.
Those of us who grew up in the 40s and 50s find the country very
different from the one we knew in our youth. Almost everything has changed;
many believe for the worse. We are being converted from a society dominated by
doers and givers, to one of watchers and takers.
As a child growing up in Pittsburgh I learned from my
mother about how to confront and deal with problems and about the difference
between right and wrong. My mom was my strength and the person I turned to
every day for answers to life’s problems. She sacrificed her teaching career to
spend her days tending to the needs of her children and always took the time to
guide us along the road to maturity. She taught us that there are no free
rides, and that we must earn our way through life.
As a youth I took it all for granted. I didn’t realize the
extent of her sacrifice and wisdom until I was grown and raising my own family.
It was from her and my dad that I learned to cling to traditional values, and
how important they were to our freedom. Bless her heart, mom lived for 99
years. I miss her a lot, and think of her every day. In all of my novels I
highlight the values I learned from both of my parents.
There are those who say that to draw attention to the growing
attacks on our liberties is an attempt to instill false panic. They say America is too intelligent a nation to fall into that kind of trap.
That’s what the German people thought in the early 1930s and who would argue
that they were not intelligent? Here in America the decline into
disastrous social change has been taking its toll. While each generation’s
opportunity to grow academically has increased, our educational standards have
decreased. To disagree with a “politically correct” idea labels one a
trouble-maker, a Nazi, a sexist or a racist. The growing inclination of the
public to accept these standards is like a cancer; eventually we will simply go
and do, where and what we’re told.
We are “progressively” turning from a nation of leaders to one
of followers; from an independent society into one dependent upon the
government. In the end the goal of the “progressives” is that we be governed
without our input or consent.
We’re told now that our nation’s flag, the proud symbol of our
country is something that shouldn’t be worn on our lapels, or displayed
publicly. In schools we no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because it might offend someone. Might offend someone? Who the hell would
have dared to spew such a shameful lack of respect for our flag and our values
fifty, or even twenty years ago?
Our government was created to guarantee checks and balances, so that
no one political group could force their agenda on society, yet today that is
exactly what is happening.What used to matter was the will of the people;
now it seems that the only thing that counts is the will of the government and
now their agenda seems to be to “fundamentally transform America.” The question many now
ask is “Into what?”
Our strength as a nation is our Constitution and the freedoms
set forth in that document. It is the foundation of this great country. Tear
the pages from the Constitution, lose the freedoms it guarantees, and we will lose our Republic.
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