DRAGON'S FURY SERIES - VOLUME II
A Series on the Coming Wolrd War
Posted on 07/10/2002 9:27:58 AM PDT by Jeff Head
Volume II of the Dragon's Fury Series, "Trodden Under", which is about how current events lead to World War III, had been released to distributors and to press.
The book, which is the breathtaking sequel to Volume I of the series, "Breath of Fire", picks up the action immediately after the horrific events of March 15-16, 2006 when the U.S. 7th Fleet and the U.S. homeland are savaged by a massive and surprize conventional attack by the PRC.
It then follows the progress of the war through 2006 and into 2007 as it ragies in Asia and the Middle East and as it spreads to Central and South America and into the Pacific. All the while, extensive terror and military attacks continue to occur within the continental United States (CONUS).
Like Volume I, Volume II, "Trodden Under" is a story of faith and the ultimate triumph of good over evil in the face of horrific obstacles and setbacks. From leaders in high offices of power, to soldiers and sailors from the involved nations, to housewives and their children, down to kids on the street, it is also the story of people - common and not so common - caught up in the titanic struggle.
Look for it very soon on Amazon, at PocketPCPress, at KBSBooks and other places online.
It is this absolutely mistaken notion that somehow this economic prosperity is the end in and of itself. That it reperesent the object of our freedom. If you believe that, then whomever has taught you about American liberty and our strengths, hs entirely missed the mark. You underestimate us terribly if you think this is true. And such underestimations can be very dangerous.
What we are saying, and what is apparently hopelessly elusive to you, is that none of that would be possible or worthwhile without the fundamental moral principles that undergird the liberty ... which was the real purpose behind the founding of this Republic.
In addition to others (some of whom I have already quoted to you) , John Admas said it this way:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 AddressUltimately, all of the rest based on and rooted in this type of principle. Count on it.
I tell you what, since we have continued to same the same thing to one another over and over now ... in the future, when you want to post more about how you believe that the entire sum of America liberty is based on economic issues and principles alone ... for my reply ...
Simply re-read post 149 and this one.
Thanks for the BUMP.
Adieu.
The fact that one is selling a book, does not equate to that being the sole or primary object of one's liberty.
Very thin ... very surface level reasoning that. Thanks for another BUMP.
I never said that principles of freedom were not important or as hallowed as you say. I just said that the practical outcome of America's freedoms for most Americans is that they use their freedoms to pursue specifically economic activities for the most part, whether you like that fact or not. Insofar as that is the case, and because people simply need to make money just to eat and put a roof over their heads, economic prosperity really is the purpose or end of America's freedom for most Americans, practically-speaking. Economics is the arena in which America's freedoms are mostly expressed in a practical, everyday sense. Yes, we can go back and forth all day, but it's obvious to everyone that on a daily basis, America's freeoms are used by the vast majority of Americans to pursue specifically economic activities.
Regarding this series, read these reviews about Volume I of my series on Amazon --> HERE
Or, browse the site for the book ---> HERE.
Best to you and yours.
For most Americans who work for a living, that is not true. Even if one has other goals beside doing business in one's life like traveling, one simply needs to make the money first so that one can afford to take a trip.
Remember, my replies to this are already found in posts 149 and 182.
Thanks for the BUMP.
Goodnight to you, too, my FRiend......stay cooooooooooooool out there! … ((^:
shoot fast. shoot straight. shoot safe. practice. carry.
Amen. Stay safe ... stay armed.
You originally said, ‘The colonists declared independence because of the economic issue of taxes!’.
Now you say, ‘Sure, the colonists had many grievances, the foremost of which was tyranny itself.’
I see a switching of premise there. Don’t you? (If not, I believe you may need new eyeglasses/contacts. Go have your prescription checked. I’ll wait….)
You also say to Jeff, ‘It's ironic how you argue that economic freedoms are secondary when in your own case you are attempting to engage in the economic activity of selling a book!’ Again, you need to check your vision. Yes, Jeff is promoting his book (and understandably so. It has been his ‘baby’ for many months now (years, if you consider its creative mental conception).
This may be difficult for you to understand, but, aside from putting bread on the table (which may, or may not, be Jeff’s main interest in the writing of this series. I don’t know, and I wouldn’t presume to ask), I do know that Jeff is determined to do all that is within his power to awaken the sleeping among us to the fact that there are forces out there whose over-riding goal is to destroy the existence of individual freedom on this planet, and the first, all-important step toward accomplishing that is to destroy the American republic, which is (was?) the visual embodiment of the (former?) success of government based on the concept they so loathe.
Are there places in this world where the publication of Jeff’s book would be forbidden? You bet. And therein lies the core of this debate. What is more important to Jeff (and, I daresay, to most of us on this forum…present company possibly excluded) – the dollars he may make as a result of the book series, or the fact that he enjoys the freedom to publish it in the first place?
The ‘irony’ that you find in his belief that economic freedoms are secondary, while he is simultaneously engaged in selling a book, exists only in your (apparently fertile) imagination. During the incubation stage of Book I, Jeff put the effort aside and focused his attention on helping the farmers at Klamath Falls. Spent much of his time there with them (at the head gates themselves, and elsewhere), in an attempt to draw attention to the despicable tyrannical activities that were going on in the name of ‘preservation of endangered species’, but which were actually a subterfuge….aimed at continuing the unabated incremental usurpation of individual freedoms by the federal government.
Yes, Jeff is promoting his book (and I am working at my office every day). Both activities involve dollars/economics. But he and I also attend church regularly, fellowship at other times with members of our churches, spend significant time during our week discussing the state of America, and the world, with the friends and neighbors with whom we come into contact, write (both here on FreeRepublic and elsewhere) about our opinions as to what is happening to America, and humanity in general, engage in a myriad of personally-chosen activities each day which we are (pretty much still) free to do because of the nature of our particular society. The almighty dollar, while important to our physical-world existence, in no way ranks even near the top of our list of priorities when it comes to defining the value of freedom. If it did, why did Jeff place the writing of his book aside in order to make his own physical presence known at Klamath Falls …. on more than one occasion …. when, financially, his attention to the book was far more important? In the answer to that question lies the difference in mindset between you and him.
The potential for economic prosperity is a glorious result of individual freedom. But there are many more outgrowths of human liberty which are of much more eternal significance (such as the freedom to speak our mind without concern of censorship, the freedom to worship (or not) our God without restraint, the freedom to choose where we will live and travel, and with whom we will fellowship and spend our time, the freedom to decide for ourselves how we will earn our living, the freedom to earn that living without government interference, the freedom the enjoy the fruits of our own labors….the list is unending, and it is a list whose blessings are not shared by millions of other humans who inhabit this planet.)
Anyone who asserts that freedom is primarily an economic thing (and especially anyone who asserts that it was primarily an economic concept in the minds of the Founders of the American republic) both doesn’t comprehend the mindset of the Founders, and doesn’t appreciate the freedoms listed above. And….sadly….it is precisely when something dear and eternal is taken for granted/overlooked that that precious commodity is most easily relinquished. You are not alone in your myopia, AIG …. which is precisely why America is standing on the brink of the most threatening precipice of her existence.
Here in Boise the Hastings carried it.
But, the B. Daltons, Waldenbooks, etc. carry those books put out by major publishers. Until a major publisher picks it up, I have to content myself with the few individually owned stores who hear of it and carry it, and with Amazon and other online sites carrying the Print on Demand version.
It is followed up by many, many terror attacks in the CONUS while the war rages in the Mid East and Asia.
Have you tried Regnery? I don't know whether they do fiction or not.
You mean like the attack at the El Al desk at LAX? Oh year, that's right, that wasn't a terrorist attack...
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