On the anniversary of the signing of our nation’s Declaration of Independence from a tyrannical, unresponsive and abusive rule, I beg you all to consider our individual duties to preserve this freedom so costly won. Those who signed this document pledged their fortunes, destinies and lives or else “hang together” to gain the right to determine their futures without management from a disconnected, unconcerned and ruthless hand. Two hundred plus years afterward, we still face some of the same struggles that haunted those powdered-haired ghosts of our past. A more contemporary American once said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” The speaker has passed on but his words echo ever more clearly in this new age of National Socialism. Every aspect of this “new” philosophy of abdicating personal responsibility for one’s well being to a bureaucracy located in some far off land most Americans will never visit would be abhorrent to our founders. A British subject said: "...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them." The socialist’s intentions are always on the highest order; however, socialism always makes misery from hardship by hindering mankind’s competitive spirit and quashing his individuality. When first we gained independence, our inability to pay the national debt it was thought, would return us to the bonds of enslavement more surely than an invading army. Once again we face the same threat; brought on not buy fighting for our independence but by purchasing creature comforts in the present and promising our progeny’s fortunes to pay for our excesses. Sadly, the outcome of all this “progressive” thinking will be the same…mutual poverty and loathing of the thing which was promised to “save” us all…our government. No, thankfully we don’t have to fight a shooting revolution again. We do, however, have to fight a more subtle battle on every Election Day. We must continually be mindful of the fact that our existence is fleeting and our primary concern should be for those who will follow. Each vote we cast in favor of their future is like another stone placed in the fortress of freedom for their protection. Take this as a “Call to Arms”. Sharpen your quills and cast your vote wisely. Never was the phrase truer, the pen is mightier than the sword. I say, It must be used more frequently and be just as sharp. God bless the United States of America! Konrad 4 July, 2010
my ancestors fought for freedom and they was labeled traitors and are considered racist bigots today dishonored and ill thought but i tell you what i am proud of the job my ancestors did by wiping over 350,000 yankees off the face of the earth and putting a bullet in that bastard lincoln's head long live dixie! deo vindice!
Konrad, I read a speech yesterday that was just well, phenomenal. It was by Frederick Douglas July 4th in 1852. The way he wrote was pure literary magic. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=162
