Posted by
ConservaTease on Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:48:01 AM
Great pivotal moments arise in our country, not out of hatred or fear, but out of determination. When those of us who believe that freedom and liberty are more important than comfort and peace, we are determined to stand up. We are determined to choose, not the easiest course, but the only course for a free people.
Just as Ronald Reagan believed that the ‘60s and ‘70s were key to the survival of the American Republic, so too are the next few years. We are quickly approaching our time for choosing.
In his Liberal playbook Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky wrote that between the “Haves” and the “Have-Nots”, are the “Have a Little, Want Mores”. These people make up the middle class, he said, and they are schizophrenic: “Torn between upholding the status quo to protect the little they have, yet wanting change so they can get more, they become split personalities.”
Alinsky describes this American middle class as being inert. Afraid to move, afraid to rock the boat, afraid of drastic change and revolution. And from that fear comes the willingness of the middle class to go along with change when it appears inevitable and easy.
This becomes our choice. To allow radical changes to take place within our borders under the threat of crisis. Or to remember the faith that our Founding Fathers had in us, and to keep that faith.
Barack Obama and the socialists within the Democrat party are no longer relying on the pretense that you and I, given a chance to be free from government interference, can resuscitate the American economy. These socialists do not believe in us and our talents and our dreams. They believe in themselves, and the exercise of their power through their constricting governmental monopoly.
During his weekly radio address, Obama demanded action on his multi-billion dollar stimulus bill saying, “Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us. Let's show them that we are. And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.”
The promise of America does not reside in Barack Obama. Nor does it reside in Congress or a government program. America’s promise is not that government will ensure that your salary will match your neighbors, or that you will own as many cars as your friends. No government grant or welfare program can keep the promise of America.
That promise resides in you and me, and in our freedom. It is our pursuit of our own happiness, without the interference of the government, that gauges the health of the American promise.
And our Founding Fathers placed that promise in our hands, not in Barack Obama’s hands, when John Quincy Adams said, “Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
From hundreds of years ago come the voices of men who pledged their lives, their wealth and their sacred honor so that we would be free. So that when our generations were faced with a choice…that we would choose liberty.
Those voices warn us of the road we are choosing to travel: “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Thomas Jefferson understood the siren’s song of comfort that socialists use to coddle free people into an obliging acceptance.
Contrast Obama’s call to his fellow bureaucrats for “help” -- in the way of more spending, more government, more transfer of wealth from you to your neighbor -- with the wisdom of James Madison: “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.”
These men lived under tyranny and understood injustice. Yet they were determined to be free, and so they chose to resist the bonds of government.
Barack Obama made his choice when he decided that government programs, the rights of terrorists and the redistribution of wealth are more important than your freedom and your rights.
America is reaching a pivotal point when our time to choose will come. Let us be determined to preserve the gift of freedom. Let us be determined to resist the march to socialism, and not to be the inert middle class. Let us choose to take control of our own lives and our own destiny, and to never trade a handout from the government for the safety of our liberty.
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