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Proud to be an American

If someone asked, "are you proud to be an American?", who would say no?

But, what does it really mean to be an American?

My friend the Mind Numbed Robot recently asked that question. And I want you to know that the answer is very important.

The wrong answer is the difference between Freedom, and slavery.

Either you are an asset to society or you are a burden on it.

Think about that for a minute.

There are many people in this country, far too many in my opinion, who believe the solution to every problem lies within a government program.

We've lost our self-reliance gene. Little by little, generation by generation, the ideals of our Founding Fathers have been beaten down, until it seems perfectly natural to demand what your country can do for you rather than ask what you can do for your country.

So long, of course, as someone else pays for it. "The Rich," for example. Or "corporations." They've got all the money!

What happens when the citizenry realizes they can vote to give themselves free stuff? I think we're about to find out.

The entitlement behemoth will collapse. Of that there is no doubt.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck."
— Robert A. Heinlein

It's time to take a stand. The upcoming presidential election is likely to be the defining moment for our children's future. Four more years of unchecked deficit spending will result in a country that might still be called "America" but it won't be American.

Yes, I can imagine if there were no heaven, no countries, no religion. Just "peace."

I was asked one time by a preacher if I wouldn't like world peace. I told him "no sir, I wouldn't like that at all." He was a bit surprised and asked me why I wouldn't care for world peace. My answer to him is something you all should think about when people speak of peace. The only way for the world to find peace is through oppression. Anywhere ideas are free to be expressed there will be disagreement, conflict and war. Peace can only be purchased by oppression and tyranny. Peace is preferred by those willing to do anything other than endure conflict. They value peace over freedom. They prefer your imprisonment over their discomfort.

That's T.L. Davis, by the way. I wish I could write like him. I wish I had his courage.

I live in a Blue town, in a Blue county, in a predominantly Blue state. My political views are, as my wife gently puts it, unpopular around here. Recently she took down my Tea Party lawn sign because she said it made the neighbors uncomfortable.

They're good people, the neighbors are. They work. They pay their taxes. They play with their children in the park. Of course they are Americans, even as they vote reflexively for candidates who are the antithesis of what T.L. or I would recognize as worthy successors to Jefferson, Adams, Madison, or Reagan.

Seventeen months. We have seventeen months to get it right, to decide if we remember what it means to be an American. T.L. kicked me in the ass:

You know what it takes to be one. SO, are you? Can you prove it? What are you willing to do to ensure it?

I'm putting my lawn sign back, that's for damn sure!

The longer that question goes unanswered, the more it will take to answer it. They are making laws against being American and have been for a long time. When you decide to be an American, it may be too late, it may be completely illegal. What will you do then? Or, are you just too proud to be an American anymore? It might be too much trouble, it might make you unpopular.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

I snapped this picture in Constitution Gardens:

I can do no less.

I am an American.

Posted at 15:05 by Chris Wysocki   []   Comments | Perm Link |
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