Will Freedom Ring Again?

I did a little reading about the Revolutionary War this afternoon just to brush up a little on my history. Lord knows when I was in school I studied everything but the books but I do have memories of learning of our Founding Fathers and the great sacrifices that the new American people suffered in order to be their own country free of tyranny. Most of these people were dirt poor. Even some of the great politicians such as Samuel Adams had nothing to speak of but a chance to live free and pursue the American dream. These people lived in a time where all they could do was break their backs everyday to ensure that their family had adequate shelter, food, and clothing to wear to withstand the elements of harsh winters and sweltering summers. The American knew that in this land they had an opportunity to forge out a living and even possibly a chance to use their talents and hard work in order that they even had a shot at becoming rich. This was incredible because the land in which their forefathers left behind there were no such opportunity. In that land far away they were merely serf’s serving the Crown of England and forced to serve the religion that the Crown ordered them to follow. In that land there was little to strive for. These American’s not only suffered the elements but also the fear of attack from Indians that would sneak in and slay their whole village if caught of guard. But yet they stayed on working towards the dream of being totally free from oppression. Success for the colonist existed but they were still under the cloud of England putting restrictions upon them and adding taxes that burdened their efforts and yet the Crown worried over their success to the point that they tried to control their growth by adding even more taxes on imports and exports. The Crown began Requiring a stamp or seal on anything of value that was expensive to purchase and also the right of the King’s men to enter their homes for inspection and or for their own use. This did not sit well with the Colonist and the people began to revolt first by creating underground markets with other countries, then by fighting the Redcoats that were sent to reclaim order. Eventually, the oppression became intolerable for the people and the decision to revolt was made. It was not an easy decision and not all of the colonist approved. But the frustrations from oppression was to great that were levied upon them that those who wanted to be free were willing to fight and die than to be controlled by England thousands of miles away by taxes without representation. The Revolutionary War began and England sent her heavily trained and successful Army to the shores of America to fight the American who were grossly outnumbered and ill equipped to fight such a great force as hers. The English predicted victory within weeks if the American’s even dared to fight their great Army. As history shows us the Americans fought and won despite being outnumbered, starved, cold, and even without enough firearms and cannons. The driving force behind this victory was the desire for the American’s to be free. Even the greatness of England’s military might was no match for the compelling force in the hearts of this ragtag American people to be free. They fought on to victory and won their Independence. In America today we have strayed so far from the meaning of freedom that we do not even consult the events that took place at our beginning to recognize the dangers of an oppressive government. We have allowed our public educational system to replace these stories of greatness that purchased our freedom with trivial and useless information as a substitute for the knowledge that should be engrained into the minds of our children. Our children should learn the struggles their ancestors withstood, the wars they were forced to fight for freedom, and the hard work that paved the way to build the greatest country in the history of mankind. We Americans have fallen asleep in the comfort of security which our great military has provided us and have allowed the ranks of our politicians to introduce taxation for entitlements that would enslave Americans and steal their hope of opportunity. We ignored these politicians who replaced the message of pursuing the American dream with hard work and education with a message that told the people that the government should be sought out to care for their needs. These politicians twisted the truth and have diligently changed the text of our history taught to our youth in order to remove that desire of independence from the minds of our young so that they would seek help from the government to provide all of their needs instead of reaching deep within themselves to strive to make their own way in life. We slept while these politicians condemned the American dream and called the successful greedy and immoral. We slept as the politicians condemned those who worked hard and cleaved to the Founding Fathers principles and called them racists, bigots, and right wing extremist. We slept. Now these politicians have complete control over the government and we Americans recognize the oppression and many have awaken to the plots of tyranny that are before us. We allowed them to govern outside of our constitution and take our freedom of choice for health care away from us and mandate the purchase of government health care that most Americans do not want. But it was too late. We woke up much too late. How much further will the government overstep and trample on our rights before the people begin to call for another revolution? Will that be necessary or will the rest of America’s citizens come to their senses and wake up to the mounting oppression in Washington? Over the next few months we will be told by the government that those who oppose them are violent people, criminal people, and racist by nature. Those who seek their original freedoms will be labeled as hate groups and violent extremist in an attempt to keep the ranks of their opposition from growing. How many will believe their propaganda? How many will again fall back to sleep after eating the scraps thrown from the table of this government in Washington? Let’s hope that Freedom Rings again.

Changing The Rules

We are all born into this world with our own lot in life. We have been dealt a hand of cards in which we must play out using whichever combination of playing cards that are delivered unto us without a chance to throw out and draw three. What is our hand is exactly what God has dealt us. You are who God wanted you to be!

There are the few who were dealt a royal flush born into all the power, riches, and influence. There are the few dealt a straight hand that is hard to beat, born with the silver spoon in mouth and still others dealt with a full house of privilege, three of a kind, with opportunities better than others, and many more dealt with an average hand that can be played or folded depending upon the desire, ambition and chance of game how one may play.

Lastly there are the few who just drew a bad hand which provided differing suits and unhelpful status which allowed little opportunity to last in the game without the help of a great streak of luck and a few bets won. Some take their chances, and some fold and resign themselves to believe they were cheated in a fixed game even before it started.

Such is life.

Here we are each playing out their own lot in life trying to stay in the game of life an collect on bets won or paying out on bets lost. As long as the game is fair and played by the rules we each have cards to play and rely on both skill and luck to succeed. Life is good when we win and bad when we lose.

But what happens when the rules are changed during game play? What happens when the value of the individual cards are changed and now have new meaning? Those who held good cards when dealt prior to the game now hold useless cards and visa versa. Those whose cards now have value feel the new rules are fair while those whose cards now mean nothing feel cheated and robbed.

As human beings we are born into this world and raised to believe in certain principles established by our faith which is handed down to us from our parents according to our culture which was formed from many different aspects such as geographical location, national origin, race, education, and religious teachings to form our own individual spiritual belief system which may be shared by many or just a few.

In most cases our individual personal behavior and conduct derive from our core religious belief system in which we have a standard of rules we follow to stay in accordance with our beliefs and faith. Our lives are guided by this system though we are sure to err at times, but primarily we stay within those set boundaries.

As collective groups of population gathered into nations of origin and or race these nations developed, enacted and enforced these principles of behavior and conduct according to their belief system into civil and local laws which governed the individual and communities as a whole. Your personal liberties and freedoms would be defined by the interpretation of those laws, as well as the punishments and penalties you would suffer when you broke the laws. The severity of which also defined by interpretation of the atonements the penalty demanded.

Throughout history many people have suffered ungodly injustices, enslavement, oppression and even death by the masses at the hands of their own government leaders, solely from those that rose to power that interpreted the laws and grievances in their own personal belief system differently than the people did as a whole. They deviated from the core values of their religion and twisted them to fit their personal philosophy or interpretation away from the good of the people as a whole for achieving self ambition, riches, power and greed. They continued to claim they were true to their religion but had deeper revelation of understanding of their God and how their God wished for him to rule. Some of these religious rulers believed their own insight to the point that they believed they were a prophet of God or equal to God themselves. Still others convinced themselves that they were Devine and demanded to be revered as such or those who opposed would suffer according to his will. Only by means of death of the ruler, overtaken by conquest or by a successful coup could he be removed from rule by the people he governed.

History has taught to those who sought wisdom and knowledge that tyranny is the end result of a people who turns over control of their government to those who govern without regard to the will of the people who empowered them. Deviating from boundaries and traditional rule set by the people, to ensure the power remains in the hands of the people against their will should always be considered an act of treason against the sovereignty of their nation and that appointed leader removed from power.

We as a people, as a nation began our country to flee tyranny. Even still we were oppressed and governed from afar by a Tyrant promising death if we did not continue to submit and pay much more in tax than possible to prosper. It took incredible courage and sacrifice, and trust in God to defeat the King of England and sever his strangling hold on our freedom. We claimed victory and built a nation founded on the truths of God in his word the Bible and prospered as the pioneer’s had envisioned. Still, our nation continued to be influenced by the rule of England by those whose loyalties were not fully committed to an independent America. Our founding father’s selflessly sacrificed and placed their lives, families and everything they owned to compose a set of rules and laws that would ensure that they nor any future representative of the people would be able to empower the government to rule the people, but instead that the majority of the people would rule and govern the nation. This document, the Constitution was written and amended to include the bill of rights that would guarantee that each of us born American citizen’s would be free from government oppression, state sponsored religion, illegal searches and seizures and be taxed without representation. Among other rights extended to the citizen would be the right to the freedom of speech, government decent, the right to bear arms to defend ourselves from government take over and other threats.

We owe our founding fathers and all who served in defense of our country to stand up and stand firm on our rights to keep them from being infringed upon by whatever means necessary to ensure our nation remains free.

We are at a crucial point in time where all of our traditional American ways of life have been under relentless attack by those in a minority who wish to strip us of our liberty which was paid for in full by spilt American blood and have us ruled under their Godless philosophies that demand our children in schools not to be taught about Jesus Christ and his Father, God. They wish to replace Christianity with the spiritual enlightenment and guidance of their own man centered religion that worships earth itself and all religion’s void of Christianity, termed Political Correctness.

In this age of time the majority of American’s are discounted and excluded from the political process based solely on being of the Caucasian race and or believing the Christian faith. Their only acceptance being if you agree with their philosophy and ideology of moral decadence, marriages of same sex gender, supportive of twisted sexual perversions, criminal conduct, the right for women to murder their unborn child, taking the earnings of the working person to give to those who refuse to work, allowing anyone and everyone to illegally enter our country, take our jobs and use our resources.

Our freedom of speech has already been trampled on to the point that you are punished by the thought and talk police for any words spoken that might offend a member of any politically correct protected class of people such as minority groups, non-Christian religious groups, homosexuals and politicians left of center while anyone has the right to use speech to offend Christians and Caucasian’s.

It is time that those of us who believe in Christianity stand up and fight for it. It is time that those of us who believe in America and our constitution stand up and fight for it. It is time that those of us who believe in freedom of speech stand up and speak it without shame or fear. Liberalism and political correctness did not build this country!

It’s time to take it back!