THE LIGHT IS EXTINGUISHED
Today I feel great sadness.
This sadness has been anticipated. Since shortly before the 2010 election, through many months of reflection and thought, I have been unable (unwilling?) to post. Now I understand. My reluctance to communicate stemmed from the discouragement reflected in my last post - a discouragement founded in the fear that our great nation was lost. Today, June 28, 2012, that fear was realized. Today, that wonderful experiment called the United States of America ended in tragedy. Today, the government founded on the premise that all men are created free, to be limited only by sufficient law to protect them from the deceit, fraud and violence of others, fell to the greed and avarice of power. Today the rights of all men granted by their Creator were sacrificed and another nation enslaved.
This sadness has been anticipated. Since shortly before the 2010 election, through many months of reflection and thought, I have been unable (unwilling?) to post. Now I understand. My reluctance to communicate stemmed from the discouragement reflected in my last post - a discouragement founded in the fear that our great nation was lost. Today, June 28, 2012, that fear was realized. Today, that wonderful experiment called the United States of America ended in tragedy. Today, the government founded on the premise that all men are created free, to be limited only by sufficient law to protect them from the deceit, fraud and violence of others, fell to the greed and avarice of power. Today the rights of all men granted by their Creator were sacrificed and another nation enslaved.
Sadness because of what I believe are great difficulties ahead for me, my wonderful family - children, grand and great-grand children, and my beloved friends - my sisters and brothers who have labored long and diligently, in loving service, for the principles of peace, harmony and freedom.
Sadness because the sacrificed lives of my father and a step father and the service of another step father, grandfather, uncles and friends in military service to this nation (and so many thousands of their compatriots who also served and died in so many wars and conflicts) is now reduced to the meaninglessness of forgotten history and destroyed dreams.
And sadness simply because something wonderfully constructed through the wisdom and great effort of our founders and forefathers, at great risk and selfless sacrifice (recall General George Washington and the valiant patriots who soldiered with him at Valley Forge and through the battle of Trenton in rags, marching on frozen feet and empty stomachs) has today been pulled down and the remaining shell feels so empty, its greatness misunderstood and its promise abandoned.
Sadness because the sacrificed lives of my father and a step father and the service of another step father, grandfather, uncles and friends in military service to this nation (and so many thousands of their compatriots who also served and died in so many wars and conflicts) is now reduced to the meaninglessness of forgotten history and destroyed dreams.
And sadness simply because something wonderfully constructed through the wisdom and great effort of our founders and forefathers, at great risk and selfless sacrifice (recall General George Washington and the valiant patriots who soldiered with him at Valley Forge and through the battle of Trenton in rags, marching on frozen feet and empty stomachs) has today been pulled down and the remaining shell feels so empty, its greatness misunderstood and its promise abandoned.
I expect that I will vote in August and November, because to fail to resist, even in that small and likely insignificant way, this destructive take-over by the forces of totalitarian fascism would seem both cowardly and hypocritical. But, I know - much as I crave to deny it - that it will be futile. The Supreme Court today upheld the abomination known colloquially as "Obamacare" and thereby denied the wonderful promise of the Declaration of Independence and trampled the guarantees of those promises delineated in our Constitution. No election will alter that decision. In the United States of America the relationship between government and those governed has been fundamentally and irrevocably changed and freedom is lost.
Nor will any manner of election impede or restrict the control of those in power, in whichever of the three branches of government they serve - whatever their political affiliations, whatever their protestations to the contrary. Those who now rule will continue to use all their power to retain their power. They now have the means to crush any resistance and they will use it. The system they set in motion has overwhelmed us, their deceit has carried the day. Our trust in their patriotic natures and in their promises to act for the best interests of the citizenry have been betrayed. They may rightly be labeled as traitors, but what matter - the light is extinguished.
History will record this day as one of great sadness. This nation, once the light of the world, is lost. And all men, under all governments, are once again condemned to the darkness of the rule of men instead of the rule of law!
From the Aspen Grove: may the Great God who loves you bless you and yours.
Nor will any manner of election impede or restrict the control of those in power, in whichever of the three branches of government they serve - whatever their political affiliations, whatever their protestations to the contrary. Those who now rule will continue to use all their power to retain their power. They now have the means to crush any resistance and they will use it. The system they set in motion has overwhelmed us, their deceit has carried the day. Our trust in their patriotic natures and in their promises to act for the best interests of the citizenry have been betrayed. They may rightly be labeled as traitors, but what matter - the light is extinguished.
History will record this day as one of great sadness. This nation, once the light of the world, is lost. And all men, under all governments, are once again condemned to the darkness of the rule of men instead of the rule of law!
From the Aspen Grove: may the Great God who loves you bless you and yours.
