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To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln - a house divided against itself cannot stand — the nation cannot endure half slave and half free.

In 1776 our founders chose freedom versus servitude to the English monarch. Between 1861 and 1865 the nation fought a war to end slavery based on skin color. Today we face another choice for or against freedom. We can submit to the will of a leviathan state led by self appointed elites (today’s nobility) or return to the principles of individual freedom. In 1776 and 1861 there could be no compromise. You rightly point out today there can be no compromise of core principles.

Conservatives must choose to make a stand for freedom or cede liberty to the state. For decades we have attempted to find the middle ground while the left has fought aggressively for without yielding or seeking moderation. As a result of us compromising we have been pulled leftward to the point we are now looking into the abyss. To avoid the flame of liberty being extinguished we must stand and say no more. There is no middle ground when someone has a loaded gun at your head. You either fight or die.

Let freedom ring, let freedom ring.

There is no middle ground when someone has a loaded gun at your head.

Ahhh, the "middle ground." Perhaps this can now be seen as one of the most dangerous concepts ever unleashed upon our Nation. How much effort has been brought forth over decades to convince the majority of our population to revere and respect the "middle ground?" These forces have been very successful (all the while fully understanding that the "middle ground" was not their goal at all) at brainwashing large segments of our population that we must avoid those nasty "extremes," especially those from and of the Right.

This has brought us lukewarm politicians of all stripes that firmly believe that "go along to get along" is the wisest strategy (and perhaps it surely is for their self-interest). It has brought educators, parents, and religious and social leaders that extoll the virtues of "seeking compromise," "finding a consensus," and striving to "meet in the middle." Of course their pedantic examples and illustrations of the wisdom and virtue of this approach rest on its application to overly simplistic and trivial matters (in which the choices of what is "right" or "wrong" are based solely on non-objective opinions).

It has brought us to the point in which a network claiming to be "fair and balanced" is the only one that will broadcast about 10% of the real news and information available on a given day (and at least give some voice to those that are brave enough to speak truthfully). But how many of that network's hosts sit there with a straight and solemn face while guests appear to spew outright LIES and provide "justification" for pure EVIL?

"Fair and balanced" is an appropriate stance when the ideas and policies being debated are equal in their foundation in TRUTH. However, once the equation turns to the point at which one of the stances is the voice of EVIL and enslaving TYRANNY, "fair and balanced" is no longer an appropriate stance.

It is our fellow citizens that "just want to get along" and are still motivated by a selfishly weak need to "want to be liked" by those that are seeking to impose complete TYRANNY on us all, either by their ignorant action or inaction. Does it really matter that these useful idiots are somehow related to them or have been "friends" for many decades? Are they so willfully ignorant and blinded to the TRUTH? Would they offer the same level of respect and "tolerance" to these "friends" or relatives that would approach them at gunpoint and demand that their property be seized by others? Then what weakness inside them causes the blindness to the fact that this more subtle attack will lead to the same result?

I believe that one of the most vital fronts in the current war being waged is for those that know what the TRUTH represents (and precisely what EVIL is waging against it) to step forth and boldly declare our belief in the TRUTH (and to steadfastly resist all pleas and demands that we move from it to find "compromise"). And to be willing to understand that there is no "middle ground" to be sought, no "compromise" to be found with those that either actively or passively fight against it. We must all be willing to take a stand for the Freedoms and Liberties that are being eroded with each passing day. What good will remain for any of us by "getting along" with a brother/sister when our lives are reduced to the enslavement of each other and all of our children? What value will be preserved by insisting that we need to be "liked" by a lifelong friend once neither of us any longer has a claim to our own lives?

It is very easy to speak the TRUTH toward and at those that we have no close association with (the ones that we are comfortable labeling as the enemy). And because of the fact that there are no personal ties with those people, it is far too easy for them to dismiss us. However, when a person is confronted with the clear and distinct message that we will no longer value our relationship with them (and refuse to silently go through the pretenses of maintaining one) over our desire to reclaim the Freedoms and Liberties that our Nation once stood for, maybe that friend or relative will start to wake up. Maybe even more quickly if they find that many of us become willing to firmly take the same stance.

If we are not willing to sacrifice our "comfort" and security by taking such a stand as this, how can we continue to delude ourselves that we will ever take a stand when our lives are more directly and forcefully threatened?