It is so disheartening to see the state of our Republic...from the immigration travesty to so many other travesties. Here in Idaho, in the intermountain west where so large a percentage of the people still hold fast to the way of life and the values that made this nation what it is...even here in the last week we have witnessed the following:
1) Constant national and local coverage of a spoiled girl's experience with the law in Los Angeles. When Idaho's own sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom on distant shores, when so many other things are happening, yet we are bombarded with a very small case that should have been handled straight forwardly and without being deemed worthy of national news IMHO.
2) A Federal Judge overruled the Bureau of Land Management's agreement with local ranchers and removed cattle from 100,000s of thousands of acres of range land because in this Clinton appointee's opinion, the BLM did not do "enough" studies with Fish and Wildlife over the impact to any species that may eb endangered in the area. HWayne Hage and his wife Helen Chenowith-Hage are turning over in their graves.
3) In Ada County, the most populas in the state, the state government is going to shut off dozens and dozens of wells, ruining and idling productive farmland so that the Bull Trout can have more water in the River...a river that is not hurting for water in the least.
4)Boise Idaho held it's Gay Pride march today. It was a disgusting and sickening spectacle...and my heart aches and my ears hurt from the report of such behavior, so openly displayed, and so "offically" condined.
The poor people of this land have been lulled, they have been indoctrinated from early ages, and they have been beguiled into accepting a notion that diversity means strength, that diversity at almost any cost is somehow good. Well, coming from diverse backgrounds can and does add perspective for us all...but being UNITED is what is good, and being UNITED is what makes us strong, particularly when we are united upon fundamental, everlasting principle and truth.
The people who founded this nation and suffered, bled and died for its birth understood this. we should never forget it.
The same types of things...in spades,...are playing themselves out all across our nation.
I was talking to a co-worker when we were working at one of the regional dams for the federal government this last week. We were talking about just these issues. We both agreed, that we do not know when, but that at some point, such activities, such mass indoctrination, will one day cause us to fall over from our own weight.
He believed it will be sometime when our grandkids grow older...after we are gone.
I said it may be...and even could be longer. But I also said it could be sooner too...even much sooner. Events could overtake us within the space of a day or two that brought it crashing down. Bio-terror, nuclear terror, economic warfare, horrible natural disasters...there are many possibilities.
But this fellow...a good salt of the earth man...a local farmer who had to take an extra job to make ends meet, and who has done so and who, with his wife is raising a wonderful family...he remains optimistic about the ultimate outcome. As do I.
Despite the painful and distressing events of the day. Despite politicians who are blatantly leading our nation to destruction. Despite so many of our own people who have become hooked on entitlements, who are so eager to get what they can from their hard working neighbors and countrymen...despite so many who have been educated to hate our nation and what it stands for...still there is reason to hope.
In the 1980s, most thought that we were on the brink...and under Carter we were.
But then a miracle occurred. In the midst of the dominance of the democratic party in the political areana...in the midst of the push for cultural, sexualy, moral, and foreign policy malais...Ronald Regan came on the scene. And the people elected and chose him overwhelmingly...and time was purchased, a measure of our greatness was retained and we moved on.
Although he has failed in so many critical areas...in 2000 and in 2004, at a time when again the forces of abject betrayal and treachory are working from within to destroy us...this nation picked Bush over Gore and then over Kerry. it was a near thing...and with either of those two things would have gotten much worse, quicker. But the people came out in record numbers and voted...and it was based on most of the same issues we are hearing belabored this time around again.
Then we have this immigration bill fiasco. Clearly a quick and direct ticket to ending our soveriegnty and continuing the push for a borderless, stateless North American Union...and a stab in the heart at our culture and way of life. Again we see the American people rising up and making a difference. Make no mistake, the votes this week are a result of millions and millions of direct phone calls, in person visits, emails, letters, and faxes.
With these types of things going on at the same time we so much else depressing...I say there is reason to hope. There is a vast segment of our population that can and will act. They have proven it over and over again. Sometimes it takes longer than we hope...many times much ground is lost between. But the power is out there to make the difference.
Now, I blieve that there is a very difficulty and very wrenching coorrection coming. I do not know when...could be sooner than we all can imagine...could be decades. But it is coming. And it will be ugly.
But I still hold out hope, that with the blessings of Heaven for the sake of those who do hold fast to moral principle, that it might somehow, miraculously be avoided in favor of a tremndous revival spirit taking hold. But if it is not to be...I still have absolute faith that right will prevail and that God in Heaven will honor those who do hold faithfully to the blessings of liberty and their foundation that He has bequeathed upon this land.
Sorry to be so long winded...but I needed to vent all of this.
God bless you Joanie and God bless all Americans who love liberty and recognize and cherish, and with a pasion will defend at all costs all that it is based upon.
So many of them here on FR have checked in on this thread.
I am deeply saddened to hear about the recent radical ‘environmentalist’ decisions that have affected your Idaho ranchers and farmers. The ‘environmentalist’ movement is really nothing more than an incrementally increasing power grab that seeks to, and is succeeding in, (1) increasing the role of federal bureaucracy in every American’s life, (2) emasculating capitalism and free enterprise, and (3) cutting America ‘down to size’ so as to minimize our ability to compete with the rest of the world. And to think that Idaho ranchers and farmers (just as the farmers here in Lancaster County), the kind of people who have always formed the very backbone of this country, are now being consistently handcuffed by leftist-agenda-driven bureaucracy.
Here in Pennsylvania, the legislature recently floated a trial balloon in an effort to place water meters on private wells (one of which supplies our water in our home), in an effort to eventually be able to dictate the amount of water we private well owners use, and tax any amount above that – claiming that the water we draw from our own wells affects the communal water table that feeds the public water supply in other areas. Fortunately, that particular bill went down to defeat, but it’s only a matter of time before it garners enough supporters. I cannot see myself allowing a government worker on my land in order to place a water meter on my well. So let’s just say that I’m hoping this bill, or any version of it, doesn’t become law in my lifetime.
Your conversation with your co-worker is uplifting. Thank you for sharing the generalities.
An elderly friend of mine (who sounds somewhat similar in ‘salt of the earth’ character to your co-worker) — a gentleman who survived the Battle of the Bulge, and still walks with a limp as a result of injuries sustained there — is a staunch conservative. He has retired from work as an elected official in our township, but he still comes into my office regularly just to talk politics.
Several weeks ago, he brought up the subject of Al Gore’s move, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
Long story short, despite Bob’s abundantly conservative credentials, he was taken in by that movie (which spurred me to write an essay on global warming on my weblog, a copy of which I then gave to him, and he has now re-joined the conservative fold where ‘environmentalism’ is concerned. :)
My point is that even the most intelligent of us, and those who pride themselves on being well-informed, risk being taken in by the glib, practiced arguments of the left. And I am afraid that an ever-increasing number of people who genuinely possess conservative leanings are at least oocasionally abdicating their responsibility to expend the time and effort to ferret out the truth, and, as a result, are falling victim to cleverly-disguised lies that serve no purpose but to transform them into useful idiots.
Truth be told, I know many people, both ‘real life’ and internet, who call themselves patriots and conservatives. And yet I can count on the fingers of two hands the number of those who really understand the awful, no-turning-back precipice at which we are standing, will not soft-pedal the dangers, and refuse to wear rose-colored glasses.
Your eyesight is 20/20, your glasses are clear, and yet your optimism, as always, is much greater than mine. His will -- not our efforts or our enemy’s hatred -- will prove to be the final determiner of the fate of our republic. And I pray daily that you are a more accurate predictor of His will than I.
Continued best wishes to you and yours, Jeff, during these troubling times … and thank you, as always, for your unfailing dedication to restoring our republic to its former greatness.
~ joanie