Posted on 09/12/2013 5:31:06 AM PDT by wistful
Today at work I was standing once again in front of the same machine I was running on 9/11/01. Went to work that morning late, like everybody else an hour behind the East coast after having witnessed the second plane fly into the towers on live TV and confirming the horrible truth that it wasn’t an accident.
That same fall feeling is in the air, just a little warmer than then. The same smells, sounds, the same radio playing, but this time not the news, but the names of the dead being read. I began thinking about how much has changed, how much is the same and how much worse off we are as a people and how we got here.
I thought about all the people who survived, the tremendous out pouring of sacrifice and generosity. The feelings of brotherhood that allowed all manner of American to come together in a dark time. The awe inspiring ability of a nation of free individuals to coalesce behind a common ideal and work towards a common objective.
But I also know that even then there were those who schemed with hate to tear that unity apart. The same ones that worked night and day, slowly to destroy the ties that bind America together. The ones who said hating an enemy is wrong. The ones who argued against natural justice to avenge the deaths of innocents. The ones who seek to gain power by division and fomenting envy and the ones who now that they have gained power are hollow in it’s proper and just use. Those who have set in motion a tyranny more insidious than that of the people we are at war with.
It is now perfectly clear who the real enemy of freedom is, it’s been right in front of us all along. The battle is with the Islamists, but the war is with the left, they are the main enemy of free men everywhere.
As a Christian I pray, but when I pray it is for the Lord to send down the Angel of Death and slay them, because they have been allowed to run too long.
Thanks for posting this article. Appreciate it.
” It is now perfectly clear who the real enemy of freedom is, it’s been right in front of us all along. The battle is with the Islamists, but the war is with the left, they are the main enemy of free men everywhere.
As a Christian I pray, but when I pray it is for the Lord to send down the Angel of Death and slay them, because they have been allowed to run too long.”
Agree.
It seems contradictory, but it's not.
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