I will never forget first reading the words of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in my ninth year out of the World Book Encyclopedia just west of Tyler, Texas in the early 1960s. They struck a chord with me. “Freedom is the soul’s right to breathe.” During my fifth year as a curious and inquisitive young man, after my dear mother taught me to read, three of the first things I eagerly sought to read were the Holy Bible, the Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution. USA. I found that these three documents were inseparably linked by the application of two very powerful words, freedom and liberty. My mother had continually emphasized that I, unlike many millions of subjugated people in the world, had been born free and endowed with liberty under the law. And that was how I learned that a free people must constantly treasure the God-given life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness commanded by the Creator of nature. Therefore, I learned at an early age to give thanks to the God of nature every day before getting out of bed in the morning and going to bed at night, for the freedom I had to do what would bring good. and happiness in my life. More than anything else, I thanked God for the freedom he had to choose good over evil, to perpetuate the freedom I and millions of other Americans had from restriction and dictatorship.
When I first read what Beecher had written more than a hundred years earlier, my mind was formed of the way I had felt in the woods southwest of Chandler, Texas, when I had gone hunting rabbits with my squirrel rifle. and squirrels for dinner. meat. The hills and valleys of acres of unfenced forest had made me feel very special to be in a free land where no person or government could enslave and subjugate me to do and say according to the whims of a dictator. My soul was graciously endowed by my creator with the substance of the alienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As I had never forgotten the breath of freedom that my soul experienced that day and many days after, when I had enjoyed feeling it over and over again, I had so wanted others, my friends and family, to feel the euphoria of that sale. filled my soul
Yet there are so many Native Americans who have never experienced the feeling of being free, of working a job, any job, wanting to be able to freely earn a salary for doing something well or making a worthwhile product. get paid to do it. I fondly remember my father, a freelance welder from East Texas, telling me when I was five years old to move a pile of pig iron from one place to another in his yard in his shop, and for doing it to his specifications, I would receive a quarter. twenty-five cents. From his hand to mine. It was then that I learned about free market economics and the value of a job well done. With that coin I could have bought five large chocolate bars or put them in my pocket to save. That same day I told my father that I would work for him whenever he needed me, and whenever I did a job for him, he would pay me accordingly.
The freedom I had to choose to work, first to support myself and then my own family, was very appealing to me, and the intense desire I had to use that freedom to do well in school, in sports, and in extra activities. -curricular activities like the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program, which I was allowed to freely immerse myself in when I was thirteen, followed me into adulthood, my time in the military, and beyond. The only people who don’t know the joy of being free to choose their own path are those who were born into a condition of state dominance and weaned from the nipple of state control over them, as most Americans age 50 and under have. experienced over the past 70 years. years. Yet even after 1960, I had to carefully navigate the waters of government intrusion into my life after JFK uttered infamous words that seemed to cordially inaugurate every American’s duty to wholeheartedly promote the space race: “Don’t ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”.
The spirit and specter of statist Hegelian Marxism was encapsulated by Kennedy’s rhetoric. Instead of affirming what James Madison had humbly affirmed in 1787, that the duty of a representative constitutional government is to serve the People, and not the other way around, Kennedy affirmed that the duty of every American is to serve the government with body and mind. The promise of the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program that I chose to support at age 13 embodied fervent statist principles. I can still recite it, word for word. It read: “I pledge to serve faithfully in the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program and to attend meetings regularly, participate regularly in unit activities, obey my officers, wear my uniform properly, and advance expeditiously in my education and training to prepare me to be of service to my community, state and nation. The main thing I learned from the CAP was to take orders and never question the orders you would receive, the foundation for a successful career in the US Army. In 1971, I enlisted in the USMC and made PFC out of boot camp. , at San Diego MCRD and later promoted to E-5 Sergeant in less than three years.
Soviet socialism, Marxism, and the Marxist-Communist dialectic relied on meaningless configurations of meaningless apologetics, which made no sense at all when uttered. Soviet citizens were taught, from 1918 until the fall of the Soviet Empire, in the same way that German children were taught Hitler’s hidden madness and nonsense Nazi doctrine in Nazi public schools from 1934 to 1945 to create the Nazi master race propaganda hoax. Nazism and Marxism are basically the same in their application, as both are totalitarian and despotic in their control over the minds of the governed. Of course, a militant revolution usually precedes the imposition of totalitarianism on a nation-state, such as Russia. However, despotism can be voted in as the system of government, as it was in Germany. You see, Hitler legally took control of Germany through the uninformed vote of the German people, through the lies and misrepresented propaganda of the Nazi forces who were working to oppose freedom. In other words, an uninformed and deluded electorate can vote itself into the tyrannical chains of a virulent dictatorship.
Liberty and freedom, to me, are the joy of getting success from one’s works and activities. There are hardly any American children today who can work menial jobs assigned to them by their parents, feel the sweat form on their brows in the performance of the jobs, experience the accomplishment and purpose of the jobs, and then receive Your parents’ payment for completing jobs in the form of money is worth its value. When I had done a job for my father to his satisfaction and received coin for doing it, he could use that coin for any purpose I chose; To save it, buy five candy bars or three comics. Most of today’s American kids in the 21st century are allowed to demand worthless money from their parents, allowances, just for being lazy kids. Most children are not required to do any work for the money they receive. The statist state and federal governments, for the last 70 years, have ingrained in the minds of the governed that people do not need to work for what they receive from the boob government. They are taught to suck the teat of government subsidies vigorously and without thinking.
Dr. Fred Schwartz first wrote in 1960, and then again in 1961, a best-selling book entitled “You Can Trust Communists (To Be Communists).” Over a million copies of the book have been sold since its second printing. In the book, Dr. Schwartz states,… The title of the book is not as initial as it may seem… because, in a sense, communists (Marxists) can be trusted. They have declared their intentions, their beliefs and even their methods in simple and unmistakable words in all the languages of the world. And they can be trusted to pursue these intentions unceasingly.” Are the Marxists of today, in the 21st century, different in their pragmatic goals and objectives than the Marxists of the era of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during the 1950s? Joseph McCarthy he might have been a little antagonistic in his efforts to expose American Marxists during the 1950s, but he was much more right than he was in his Senate investigations.That time period was the start of a sympathetic movement for Marxists. popular marxists who were committing espionage, who heralded the post-Khrushchev, “We’ll bury you” and Cuban missile era with the “Oh, they didn’t mean that at all” crusade.
The Communist Manifesto is as clear today in its denial and refutation of the freedoms proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence as it was when it was first written by Karl Marx during the 19th century. His economic rhetoric proclaimed in Marx and Engle’s “Das Kapital” is also as unintelligible, misleading and absurd today as it was when it was adopted by the Russian Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Just as a human hand or foot becomes callous and numb over time from continual disuse, the collective consciousness and sentiment of a republic may, over time, become numb to what once was the emotion and fervor of freedom. Because? Liberty and liberty must be perpetuated and kept alive and prosperous like a dear public sentiment, like a tree or a flower must be continually nourished with water and fertilized. Free Americans must wake up each morning to thank the God of nature for the liberties that were enshrined by restriction in the sacred law of the Ten Commandments and preserved through secular constitutional law in the Bill of Rights. They, all Americans, should pray daily that the blessings of liberty be secured and perpetuated for them and their posterity, as proclaimed in the Preamble to the United States Constitution.
