I Want My Country Back!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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All Americans, in these troubled times, would do well to remember the words of Jesus which so aptly describe America today:
"And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”… From the Bible, Matthew 12:25.
The schism that slices through America today has been widening since the 19th century. Little by little, decade-by-decade, year-by-year it has continued to get ever wider and ever deeper. It has nothing to do with geography. It has nothing to do with slavery… and, yet, it has everything to do with slavery.
What, you say? Didn’t we put the slavery issue to rest with a war in the 1860’s? The truthful answer is NO, we did not. We put to rest the issue of whether or not a man could hold another man in bondage in this country. What we did not put to rest, however, is the question of whether this country’s government could hold its citizens in bondage.
The Founders of this country intended to set up a government with very little power. They intended the government to have only the power the citizens allowed it to have. Almost instantly the power struggle began between those who wanted a strong central government and those who wanted strong states and a weak central government. After all, it was The States that created the Federal Government… as a utility of the states - not the other way around. Look it up.
In 1860 there were 33 states in the so-called United States of America. I do mean “so-called” because they were anything but UNITED. By the spring of 1861 thirteen of those states had had enough of being dictated to by a dictatorial federal government wielding powers the constitution did not grant it, so they waved goodbye and took their leave of the United States. They created a country of their own with a constitution (mostly copied from the original constitution of the US) and they became a separate country.
A few Americans today actually know what caused that split. A handful of Americans understand what the ensuing war was fought about
A few million Americans still feel the sting of being forced, at the point of a government bayonet, to be a part of a country their ancestors had forsaken in order to set up a government in the image of the government the Founding Fathers of America had given the United States.
A few million Americans who either live in, or hail from, the only portion of this country to ever be invaded, conquered, and occupied by a foreign power, understand what is happening in America today, not because we learned it in school, no… because we learned it from the stories our families have handed down from generation to generation and from our own research into what happened to a country which had, less than a hundred years before, won it’s Independence from the Mother Country. We are scattered all over America today. We see where America is headed… and we fear for our fellow Americans because they/we are not ready for the cost of what is about to happen to her. None of us are. What America is facing, in the next few years, will make the American Civil War seem like a Sunday School picnic.
Yes, I am referring to SLAVERY - voluntary slavery to begin with… then involuntary slavery… when it is then too late. The socially accepted word for it these days is… SOCIALISM.
We warned, before Americans went to the polls last November, how important that election was. We warned that the choice was between freedom or socialism. We warned that the issue we were voting for, or against, was slavery. We explained that we would be deciding whether America would stay free, or whether America would give up the freedom so many have fought, bled, and died for, and assume the yoke and chains of slavery under socialism.
Make no mistake. SOCIALISM IS SLAVERY.
Not until the Obama Regime hit the American people with the sweeping freedom-killing bill, HR 3200, “ObamaCare,” did Americans come to realize what they would be exchanging for their freedom. Americans finally came to understand that under socialism we Americans would give up all our rights - all our freedom… and for WHAT? Well, they tell us it will be security guaranteed by the Central Government.
Believe me, if you think democracy is expensive; wait ‘til you have to pay for all those FREE programs the socialists in the Obama Regime and the US Congress intend to push through the national legislature and onto the President’s desk for his hurried signature.
Look, America is divided into two parts now. If you want to see what socialism can and WILL do to a people you have only to look at that section of the American populace which, for generations now, has depended on the federal government for it’s very existence. If the Obama Regime, and the other socialists in the Congress, have their way, ALL Americans will live that way. Yes, all Americans will be totally dependent upon the federal government.
Trading one’s freedom for security is the most un-American of all un-American activities.
Do not expect the half of the country which stands solidly against socialism to go along quietly into the self-inflicted slavery of this hell-spawned form of government we call socialism.
The word “United” can be dropped from America’s official name – “The United States of America.” The country has been torn in two. There can be no compromise. It cannot be healed - ever again. Two peoples, this diametrically opposed, cannot share the same space. And today, at least half of this country is deadly in earnest about their love of freedom and are willing to sacrifice, as their forefathers did, to preserve it.
Yes, we are in dangerous times -- extremely dangerous times. America, as we knew it, is gone. I am having difficulty recognizing the America we have now. It bears little resemblance to the free America of just a few decades ago. We have become, in a very short time, the kind of country to which America used to send missionaries.
The battle cry in America today is: “I want my country back!” At some point, the anger over the socialist takeover of America will reach critical mass. When it does… all bets are off!
J. D. Longstreet
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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All Americans, in these troubled times, would do well to remember the words of Jesus which so aptly describe America today:
"And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”… From the Bible, Matthew 12:25.
The schism that slices through America today has been widening since the 19th century. Little by little, decade-by-decade, year-by-year it has continued to get ever wider and ever deeper. It has nothing to do with geography. It has nothing to do with slavery… and, yet, it has everything to do with slavery.
What, you say? Didn’t we put the slavery issue to rest with a war in the 1860’s? The truthful answer is NO, we did not. We put to rest the issue of whether or not a man could hold another man in bondage in this country. What we did not put to rest, however, is the question of whether this country’s government could hold its citizens in bondage.
The Founders of this country intended to set up a government with very little power. They intended the government to have only the power the citizens allowed it to have. Almost instantly the power struggle began between those who wanted a strong central government and those who wanted strong states and a weak central government. After all, it was The States that created the Federal Government… as a utility of the states - not the other way around. Look it up.
In 1860 there were 33 states in the so-called United States of America. I do mean “so-called” because they were anything but UNITED. By the spring of 1861 thirteen of those states had had enough of being dictated to by a dictatorial federal government wielding powers the constitution did not grant it, so they waved goodbye and took their leave of the United States. They created a country of their own with a constitution (mostly copied from the original constitution of the US) and they became a separate country.
A few Americans today actually know what caused that split. A handful of Americans understand what the ensuing war was fought about
A few million Americans still feel the sting of being forced, at the point of a government bayonet, to be a part of a country their ancestors had forsaken in order to set up a government in the image of the government the Founding Fathers of America had given the United States.
A few million Americans who either live in, or hail from, the only portion of this country to ever be invaded, conquered, and occupied by a foreign power, understand what is happening in America today, not because we learned it in school, no… because we learned it from the stories our families have handed down from generation to generation and from our own research into what happened to a country which had, less than a hundred years before, won it’s Independence from the Mother Country. We are scattered all over America today. We see where America is headed… and we fear for our fellow Americans because they/we are not ready for the cost of what is about to happen to her. None of us are. What America is facing, in the next few years, will make the American Civil War seem like a Sunday School picnic.
Yes, I am referring to SLAVERY - voluntary slavery to begin with… then involuntary slavery… when it is then too late. The socially accepted word for it these days is… SOCIALISM.
We warned, before Americans went to the polls last November, how important that election was. We warned that the choice was between freedom or socialism. We warned that the issue we were voting for, or against, was slavery. We explained that we would be deciding whether America would stay free, or whether America would give up the freedom so many have fought, bled, and died for, and assume the yoke and chains of slavery under socialism.
Make no mistake. SOCIALISM IS SLAVERY.
Not until the Obama Regime hit the American people with the sweeping freedom-killing bill, HR 3200, “ObamaCare,” did Americans come to realize what they would be exchanging for their freedom. Americans finally came to understand that under socialism we Americans would give up all our rights - all our freedom… and for WHAT? Well, they tell us it will be security guaranteed by the Central Government.
Believe me, if you think democracy is expensive; wait ‘til you have to pay for all those FREE programs the socialists in the Obama Regime and the US Congress intend to push through the national legislature and onto the President’s desk for his hurried signature.
Look, America is divided into two parts now. If you want to see what socialism can and WILL do to a people you have only to look at that section of the American populace which, for generations now, has depended on the federal government for it’s very existence. If the Obama Regime, and the other socialists in the Congress, have their way, ALL Americans will live that way. Yes, all Americans will be totally dependent upon the federal government.
Trading one’s freedom for security is the most un-American of all un-American activities.
Do not expect the half of the country which stands solidly against socialism to go along quietly into the self-inflicted slavery of this hell-spawned form of government we call socialism.
The word “United” can be dropped from America’s official name – “The United States of America.” The country has been torn in two. There can be no compromise. It cannot be healed - ever again. Two peoples, this diametrically opposed, cannot share the same space. And today, at least half of this country is deadly in earnest about their love of freedom and are willing to sacrifice, as their forefathers did, to preserve it.
Yes, we are in dangerous times -- extremely dangerous times. America, as we knew it, is gone. I am having difficulty recognizing the America we have now. It bears little resemblance to the free America of just a few decades ago. We have become, in a very short time, the kind of country to which America used to send missionaries.
The battle cry in America today is: “I want my country back!” At some point, the anger over the socialist takeover of America will reach critical mass. When it does… all bets are off!
J. D. Longstreet
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"Trading one’s freedom for security is the most un-American of all un-American activities."
ReplyDeleteAre we still talking about healthcare or the Patriot Act??
Reads like it was written yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAnybody else want their country back?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le7IV1ltgNE