Posted on 07/03/2015 7:51:54 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
'When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." -- Proverbs 29:2
Don't get me wrong. We'll be barbecuing tomorrow and greatly enjoying the fellowship of family and friends.
We'll be lighting off a few celebratory firecrackers, as John Adams suggested we should do.
We'll go to the local fireworks display and commemorate our national liberty and independence with our fellow citizens.
But, on this particular Independence Day, something important is missing. I can't help but mourn, as traitors, cowards, wicked men, and oath-breakers run amok in American halls of power.
To me, this is not a time to celebrate, but to call to memory the righteous indignation of our forefathers at the lawless actions of tyrants. It's a time to remember the fact that though they did not want war - no sane man wants war - they were willing to have war if that was what it was going to take to remain a free, self-governing people, sovereign under Almighty God.
It is a time to ask ourselves, and each other: What exactly are you willing to do to restore and preserve what they were willing even to die for?
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." - The Declaration of Independence
Personally, for a long time, I’ve believed that the primary problem lies with the willingness to compromise of Christians, not so much with the general voting public.
I firmly believe that if Christians would get back to first principles and stop compromising those principles things would change virtually overnight for the better.
New tagline ....
True. If Christians would have voted as Christians, we would not have a BHO as president. Many Christians of color voted according to skin tone and ignored warnings.
If Christians would have voted as Christians should, we wouldn’t have had McCain or Romney either.
Yes, that’s true to a large degree. I think though that it’s because Christians are just people like anyone else they have needs, fears, and they will go along to get along, just like the majority of the population.
“Sheeple” might be a bit harsh, but it fits.
Most people I have gotten to know personally over many years pretty much vote their pocketbook.
They believe the media baloney about democrats in that they care about people and will take care of their needs, and they never see it as dependency. They see it as a right.
Over the last 100 years, the people have been made soft and dependent on both political parties but mostly created and led by democrats, and that has now grown to the tipping point where it’s unsustainable.
In human history, this is nothing new.
It’s happened several times before and ends with the fall of the civilization. A new one is built on the rubble and tries to remember how it all went bad, but the memories do not last.
No, it’s not just Christian reluctance to stand on principle..
Our revolution with the British was fought and won with less than a third of the able bodied men and most of them deserted General Washington when it got hard.
We are lucky we even won..
I am a man of faith, but I don’t worship or attend Church. So I don’t speak for Christians, I defend them.
The oath I took long ago when I enlisted is still valid, as far as I am concerned.
To defend against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.
“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
— Samuel Adams
Good stuff right there. It’s energy and will that gets the job done.
Very true words..
But I’m reluctant to say that they are enough.
Time will tell. However I have been waiting a long time to see some pushback against the progressives. I have not seen much at all. This is why Trump is getting so much attention.
There has to be a lot more....
There is another thing EV that needs to be said..
Do enough people believe in their heart that they are being denied freedoms..?
Do they even think about what freedom means? (Liberty)
Do they even know what has been lost to government?
If we can get that argument going, then there might be a chance..If not, then I see nothing when I look to the future.
If you ask most folks if the still “hold these truths to be self-evident...”, they will say ‘yes.’
What they haven’t grasped is what public policies must be to conform to the great principles of our Declaration, the stated purposes of our Constitution, and that Constitution’s explicit, imperative requirements.
Our job is to help them grasp it.
“These communities [the Fathers of the Republic], by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’
“This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to his creatures.
“Yes, gentlemen, to all his creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children, and their children’s children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages.
“Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.
“Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution. Think nothing of me — take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever — but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man’s success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy that immortal emblem of Humanity — the Declaration of American Independence.”
— Abraham Lincoln, speech in Lewiston, Illinois, August 17, 1858, four days before his first historic debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Printed in the Chicago Press and Tribune.
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
It appears we have come full circle, the last elections have meant nothing substantial, instead of a STOP sign, they’ve become rubber stamps, sigh.
last stance from the Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride:
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,-—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
From Longfellow’s pen, to God’s ear.
Winston Churchill had this to say about Americans:
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.”
Everyone has a different role to play.
James Otis fought the tyranny of the British in the courts, before he lost his mind.
Men like Samuel Adams and Ben Franklin argued with them incessantly for years.
Joseph Warren laid down his own life at Bunker Hill.
Jefferson and Paine contributed their unmatched writing abilities.
Robert Morris mortgaged his entire mercantile fortune to supply the army in the time of their greatest physical need, ultimately dying a pauper.
Patrick Henry delivered the red hot oratory that kindled the fires of revolution.
George Washington was of a different sort. He didn’t argue with the British. He shot them.
Happy Independence Day, my friends.
Good night.
I agree but add to the lack of will. It could be symptom of lack of will... we lack organization. We are fragmented.
We have mega vote and other reporting venues on the votes and activities of the pubocrats but we have no power over them after they are elected.
I agree. It is the voters and you can’t fix stupid and you can’t deprogram them from their brainwashing in any hopefully reasonable time.
Not only are the voters stupid they are not even citizens in many cases and if they are citizens it is in name only. The are uneducated sloths and only want to vote for what they can get from US.
And many christians seem to be firmly dedicated to winning battles to lose the war. They stayed home instead of voting for a mormon who favors choice... which in reality exists with or without the SCrOTUS and their dictates.
True though, we do usually come about, and head for the best way forward. These times shouldn't be any different, eventually.
They don’t understand what Freedom really means let alone the even higher concept of LIBERTY.
I see Freedom as passive and LIBERTY as something constantly earned.
Maybe I’m parsing words but why are there two words for this?
Nobody said “Give me Freedom or Give me Death!”
“The are uneducated sloths and only want to vote for what they can get from US.”
That’s a big problem, along with the generational sloths that we already have, we are importing more, intentionally.
They are being created for votes for the ruling elites.
Term limits would be a nice start.
>>>Unlike Germans, we’ve had a free constitutional republic for more than two centuries<<<
Yeah, we HAD. Look up Ben Franklin’s comments on the odds that we would KEEP the Republic.
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