Posted on 12/19/2004 4:06:28 PM PST by CHARLITE
We live in a time when what is left is right, what is good is bad, what is up is down, and what is true is false. This is a period of our history unmatched in its preponderance of mind-control mechanisms meant to manipulate public opinion and fool people into believing what is black is white, what is white is black, and gray is all that matters. Every day I hear people parrot what they ingest from the mainstream media, foolishly believing they are informed and are paying attention.
I learned some time ago that lies and deception are not just negative traits of bad people, but are the tools that elitists use to force their agenda forward. Elitists use these lies and deception to convince their willing sheeple, (people easily led like sheep, that being most people), that their agenda is all for the “greater good”. Therein lies the reason for the success of the liars and deceivers. For a lie to succeed it has to be believed so the deception can then become a fact that history will record. Remember, “…and that’s the way it is”? What a sad day it is when the alleged “most trusted man in America” is a liar and a deceiver.
There are so many lies that have become “facts” in the minds of the sheeple that it would be impossible to document them all here, and there are other places where such truth is available. Of course, for the documented truth to be known, it also has to be believed, and to hear the truth, and to eventually know it by believing it, one has to seek it. They say a mind is a terrible thing to waste yet there are more people who waste their minds, by not seeking the truth, than there are people who use their minds to know the truth. It appears that entertainment has become the favorite pastime thus providing the liars and deceivers an easy chore.
I cannot imagine going through an entire life being misinformed, manipulated, and never knowing reality. That would truthfully be not only a wasted mind, but a wasted life as well. Reality is not the “relative reality” that is sugar coated and fed to us on a daily basis by the elitists. We cannot choose truth, we can only seek it, find it, and then know it through understanding it. The liberal mentality dictating truth to be relative to the individual is merely one of the many screwdrivers from the toolbox of deception. After all, how can bad become good and left become right if non-relative truth actually exists?
Who are these elitists who use mind-control mechanisms of misinformation to manipulate whole populations of people? They are the elitist “Insiders”, and their willing pawns. The Insider’s agenda is the removal of God from the face of the earth because God endows freedom and if the Insiders are to gain total power and control of the masses of sheeple, there can be no freedom. There is only one being whose sole existence is to see that end, and God exiled him to a nasty existence a long time ago. That being is whom the Insiders and their pawns serve, mostly unknowingly due to that big screwdriver of deception.
When one finally finds the truth through traveling down the road of seeking it, there comes a freedom that is indescribable. I imagine it to be akin to the removal of chains, or walking out of a prison after being released. This freedom is not something that is possible to fully describe in understandable words except to say that it is wonderful, and it is hard to imagine living a mortal life to an end without achieving it, yet many people do.
We like to say that “freedom isn’t free” and that is absolutely true for it takes work to achieve it and vigilance to protect it. However, we tend to think of freedom in simple terms of choices, the ability to come and go as we please, and not being bound by the rules of others, but real freedom is much more than that. Real freedom is something very few people actually realize. It can be known even when one is bound by chains or imprisoned because it is not a physical object; it resides in the mind and in the heart. When one knows true freedom, another man cannot take it away. That is to say freedom is in the soul. When we speak of winning the hearts and minds of people, we mean their souls.
As I write this in the wee hours of the Saturday before Christmas 2004, I am thinking of the men and women we call our military who are placing themselves between us and those who think they are so powerful they can steal our freedom. The joke is that real freedom cannot be taken from us because it cannot be touched, controlled, or possessed. It is a gift from God that can only be received by the willing who have the ability to see through all the lies and deception. Freedom is knowing that through God’s Grace, we can achieve that which He wants us all to have, even those who want to kill us. Many of our finest Americans are making the ultimate sacrifice so we can live physically free in this One Nation Under God. Every time I think of that, I come to tears.
Last year, my only son went into the den of the lion and placed himself on the front lines facing the enemy that wants to kill us. I found it to be the hardest year of my life to date. I fought the “enemy within” right here in America while he was fighting their allies thousands of miles away. It really is a small world. There are within our borders Americans who knowingly, and many unknowingly, aid and abet the enemies of freedom, naively led by the liars and deceivers. But I fought another “enemy within” at that time also. I met the enemy within and I defeated him. That enemy was inside me.
I cried and I prayed and I did that every day that my only son was in Iraq doing what must be done if we are to remain a free people. I thought of when I was 10 years old and my hero, my brother Scott, was an Airborne Infantryman in Viet Nam in 1967 and 1968 facing the enemy that wanted to kill him and us, and I remembered how I cried and prayed then also. I thought of our military families who sacrificed their sons and daughters in wars against tyranny and godless forces and the unspeakable pain they endure. I thought of our family friend, a friend of my brother Scott, who we lost in Viet Nam on September 24th, 1966 fighting the godless communists as an Airborne Infantryman with 101st Airborne, Stephen E. Burton (Panel 11E Line 6).
When I thought of Steve’s Mom and Dad and family, and about their loss and their pain, it was like a dagger in my heart. I felt anger, sorrow, physical pain, and strangely enough, I felt guilt about this ultimate sacrifice. I am told that the guilt is a thing called “survivor’s guilt”, and it is a phenomenon that occurs when others are killed and we are not. It is a well-known occurrence in the Combat Veteran community and there are whole group therapy sessions dedicated to understanding it. I wasn’t there in combat, but my brother was and we are blessed to have had him survive that war as we are likewise blessed to have my son return from this latest battle with the enemies of freedom. I don’t understand the guilt, and I don’t have any desire to lose my brother or my son, but is never the less there.
Maybe the guilt remains inside me because of the fact that I am not willing to sacrifice my son or my brother and is brought on by selfishness. When my son was in Iraq and I would hear of a soldier getting killed, and they named the soldier, for a brief moment in time, I felt relief that it was not my son. In that moment of relief there is an element of selfishness and it is normal for us to feel that. It is out of our undying love for our families that we feel this relief, and we cannot control that aspect of our human condition. It is pre-programmed in us for the survival of the species. Some would call that nature, but I call it God’s unending wisdom.
Then came a day while my son was in Iraq when I could not maintain the wall of denial anymore. You see, I thought I could face anything alone and through my personal strength, fortitude, tenacity, and downright hard headedness, defeat it. How stupid I was. I suddenly realized that I was so selfish, so selfish to not see that someone made the ultimate sacrifice for me. Someone gave up His only son so I could live in freedom. I believe that someone is God and His only son is Jesus Christ, and He sent his ONLY son, did you get that, His ONLY son to die so I could live. I also have only one son, but I don’t have that much love that I am willing to sacrifice him. How selfish of me to live my life in denial of that selfless ultimate sacrifice. How selfish of me to deny the depth of that gift.
This Christmas, more than any Christmas to date, the enemy within is attacking the Holy-day of the birth of Christ itself in order to remove it completely from public view and celebration. If they eventually achieve that, the ultimate sacrifice will become irrelevant and our military families’ selfless sacrifices for freedom will no longer make any sense. The eventual bottom to the slippery slope greased by deception may be near.
Comments:jeffsmith@qx.net
Without Faith, without Honor, without Truth, without Heritage, the Nation dies by malignant forces within.
"(people easily led like sheep, that being most people)"
The "that being most people" is the cruelest deception of all. If you think you're the minority, then you don't make waves. 62 million people - that's not a minority - that's a MAJORITY! Those who love GOD and have values are the majority - but the left's deception has been to say it's their views that are the majority - THEY'RE NOT!!
It seems the more things change the more they remain the same....
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