[poconopundit]

Wow, it's a powerful statement President Trump had made.  And it directly speaks to the robbery of our liberties as the power-hungry tyrants try to steal this election from We the People! I happen to love T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral, which dramatizes the last days of Thomas Beckett.  This work of genius is well-worth hearing in the spoken word.   I have excepted the crucial conclusion of the play where Thomas Beckett is about to be killed in the Cathedral by the King's men: In the cathedral. Thomas and Priests. Priests Bar the door. Bar the door. The door is barred. We are safe. We are safe. The enemy may rage outside, he will tire in vain. They cannot break in. They dare not break in. They cannot break in. They have not the force. We are safe. We are safe. Thomas Beckett Unbar the doors! throw open the doors! I will not have the house of prayer, the church of Christ, The sanctuary, turned into a fortress. The Church shall protect her own, in her own way, not As oak and stone; stone and oak decay. Give no stay, but the Church shall endure. The church shall be open, even to our enemies. Open the door! Priest My Lord! these are not men, these come not as men come, But like maddened beasts. They come not like men, Who Respect the sanctuary, who kneel to the Body of Christ, But like beasts. You would bar the door against the lion, the leopard, the wolf or the boar. Why not more against beasts with the souls of damned men, Against men who would damn themselves to beasts. My Lord! My Lord! Thomas Beckett Unbar the door! You think me reckless, desperate and mad. You argue by results, as this world does. To settle if an act be good or bad. You defer to the fact. For every life and every act Consequence of good and evil can be shown. And as in time results of many deeds are blended So good and evil in the end become confounded. It is not in time that my death shall be known; It is out of time that my decision is taken If you call that decision to which my whole being gives entire consent. I give my life to the Law of God above the Law of Man. Those who do not the same: How should they know what I do? How should you know what I do? Yet how much more Should you know than these madmen beating on the door. Unbar the door! unbar the door! We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance. Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering.  This is the easier victory. Now is the triumph of the Cross, now open the door!  I command it.  Open the door!

Canterbury Cathedral

[poconopundit]

I will check out the Tennyson piece. Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!