“THE SHARP RAZOR OF SOCIALISM”
by John Porter, ©2013
(Jul. 2, 2013) — It seems to me that no matter what, we continue down the path to the complete loss of all Individual Liberty in the United States of America. I actually, literally cry in my observance of the death of Liberty. I sit alone in the quiet of my study and do my utmost to understand why, why are the American people seemingly so willing to just watch, and in some cases, embrace the death of Liberty.
The greatest possession a human being owns is Liberty. For two hundred years we in America have been blessed with our God-given Liberty. It has now become the most abused, neglected and ignored possession we own. The men who founded our nation did so upon the belief that government’s primary purpose was to protect and defend Liberty.
The actual founding was the establishment of a Federal government and its ruling Constitution and Bill of Rights. Benjamin Franklin realized and understood that the only thing which could preserve it, or lose it, was the people themselves. That understanding was evident in his reply to a reporter when asked upon his emergence from the Constitutional Convention, “What have you done in there?” “We have given you a Republic, if YOU can keep it.” I would ask you to now stop reading and sit back in your chair, close your eyes and think deeply about his answer.
From that founding moment, the struggle between the government’s authority and the citizen’s right to Individual Liberty has never stopped. Over the course of time in that struggle, we have allowed Individual Liberty to be sacrificed on the altar of government provision and entitlements. We have now placed ourselves in a position where the Liberty our founders envisioned and gave us is barely recognizable. And through the current leadership of Barack Obama and others, we are on the precipice, teetering on the edge of losing what little Liberty we have left.
A good friend and I were having a conversation about this very subject the other day, and I want to share with you her accurate and meaningful words to me.
“We grew up in a time of great patriotism. I was concerned about the Vietnam War, which never should have happened. Part of our generation rebelled against authority and ultimately formed the New Left, which has finally come into its own. The Supreme Court began watering down the Constitution, giving more rights to criminals, invalidating victims and set out to remove God from our institutions. We witnessed it and yet felt helpless to do anything about it.
“John, it is spinning out of control. We don’t have that many years left, which I’m glad of, but what are we leaving our children and grandchildren? THEY ARE THE ONES TOO PREOCCUPIED TO NOTICE. I tried to tell my children…both think I’m paranoid. They do not believe…will not accept…what is happening.”
My dear, dear friends, for two hundred years we have allowed the government to bring us to the teetering edge of losing our Liberty and entering a life of bondage. We must begin pulling ourselves back from the deep, dark cavern of slavery to the government. We are not losing our Liberty from one huge chop of an ax, but the slices of a thousand cuts of the sharp razor of Socialism. Someone said, “Government has sliced away for generations at Liberty, all under the guise of a paternal mentality of ‘providing for’ the average citizen.”
Even if we can take it back, it will not be done overnight, but we must begin. If we don’t, I harbor a great fear that we will not “keep it.”
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Dear John Porter,
The exact time of the beginning of the end was when those witnesses who saw guns firing from the grassy knoll were purposefully not interviewed by the Warren Commission.
Others may argue the end started at the Yalta Conference when we gave the USSR half of Europe.
I could say it started in Vietnam when we just fought to fight with no end game in sight.
But the beginning of the end DID start sometime, maybe when our so-called “higher centers of learning” started to accept money from Islamic States, with the goal of skewing the curriculum to favor the anti-American view (John Kerry comes to mind).
Quite obviously their ploy worked, and even though many didn’t get to hear the warped teachings first hand, the broad stokes of the lies covered the rest of society, with the end result is that the dumb, in order to pretend they were smart, picked-up and ran with the banner, such as “Stop the War” vs. “Win the War”.
Same story today. The United State’s last day was January 20, 2009, the day that an non-vetted-non-citizen-Constitutionally ineligible-illegal-immigrant was sworn in to be the president by the name of Obama, which isn’t really his name who is using a stolen Social Security number, which makes him automatically guilty of identity theft, a felony.
The day that it was brought home to the American people was the day that the judge in the Court Martial of LTC Terry Lakin was denied the Constitutional privilege of presenting a defense on the grounds “it may embarrass the president”.
End of story. The final nail in the coffin that holds our Constitution.
What we’re trying to do now is to get our country back. They have the media, the courts, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but they don’t have us.
Solution? Arm yourselves and stock-up on supplies.
Practice shooting. When I was on active duty I was a pretty good shooter, and here it is, 40 years later and I’ve improved. We all can.
Great editorial, thanks for writing it.
Semper Fi,
OPOVV