It only happens because we are cowed, afraid to speak up for what we know to be true.
Our forefathers sacrificed EVERYTHING to give us a free country. They left their homes, their beloved wives and their cherished children to march miles and miles barefoot in ice and snow, with little to eat, racked by fever, dysentery, intestinal worms and lice. They didn’t even get paid for their trouble, except with sporadic distributions in worthless continental dollars.
With threadbare rags on their backs and unreliable muskets on their shoulders, they waded through streams that had suddenly became storm-gorged torrents; they tumbled down muddy ravines in pitch darkness, only to have to claw their way back up the other side.
If they survived the forced march, they then faced the prospect of going up against the most well-trained, experienced and well-equipped army the world has ever known. There was every expectation that they would be slaughtered right there on a battlefield; anyone not killed outright in the battle could expect to be run through with sword or bayonet or hanged.
They lost again and again. They retreated to one place, then another. They ran out of supplies. Their Congress turned tail and ran. They were laughed at and mocked by their Tory neighbors, the sophisticates of the day.
Their chances of getting through it alive were miniscule; their chances of victory were about one-in-a-million.
But they BELIEVED. They believed that liberty is worth any sacrifice. They believed that liberty is the natural state of mankind. And they believed that, ultimately, God would not let them fail.
They suffered and they died, leaving widows and orphans. But they were right, and they succeeded.
How DARE we now allow these hard-won liberties to be frittered away in the name of “security” or “tolerance” or “fairness” or “ecology”!
Speak up, America. Let the real voice of freedom be heard throughout the land.
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”
Amen, Walrus.
Excellent post! I agree completely.
and by freedom and liberty you mean forced servitude to the state masters?
You just called for the draft as an answer to the price of college on another thread.