Here’s a shout out for FREEDOM!
Posted on 12/28/2018 6:40:46 PM PST by vannrox
Let’s spend some time talking about what it is to be an American. For we are all a very unique and special breed of person. This is a truth that should be obvious to anyone who has the ability to think. After all, what would the 20th century look like were America not to have existed? That being said, the sad reality is that we take this role for granted.
Oh, we certainly say that “America is the best”, and we wave the flag around a lot, but we do not really and truly appreciate just how spectacular we actually are.
Here, in this article, I make the argument that we Americans have gotten used to being unique. I also posit that others, with evil intent, have used this knowledge to deceive Americans and have made us believe many untruths. They have convinced us of many things that are just not so. They are lies, or at the very least, distortions of the truth. These lies and falsehoods have deceived us. They have tricked us. They have enslaved us. Yet, we continue to follow the lies that allow us to follow a dangerous path.
The way that they have enslaved us is through deception. What a American is has been redefined. And as such, has become so inclusive that everyone and everything from the welfare-immigrant to the ratty village dog down the street now considers themselves “American”. When they are absolutely and positively not.
Being a United States citizen does not automatically qualify you to be an American. No matter how loudly the progressive left shouts this from their mainstream media outlets. Being an American is a state of mind, an attitude and a way of life. You don’t automatically become an American just because you get food stamps. You don’t automatically become
The argument here is that the mainstream media has redefined what an American is. They have then used that new definition to promote liberal causes to the detriment of the Untied States. Thus changing the entire culture. The read is long. The point unusual. The message... important.
I am aware that since the founding of the colonies and for all time the Constitution defines Americans as individuals who find their identity in pre-existing, natural, intangible rights, and not in ethnic or racial heritage, and certainly not in the acquisition of things.
The country does not suffer a burden of social injustice prescribing kneeling for the National Anthem. Instead the country malingers under the burden of virulent mythologies producing urban black cultures erasing role models like Booker T. Washington and Fredrick Douglas. These men promoted cohesive families, education, entrepreneurship, and marketable skills as strongholds of competence for building individual character, and for enjoying and promoting personal freedom. If similar role models exist today, they have been effectively marginalized in these spiritually impoverished communities.
Previously success for all was defined in terms of marriage, families, careers, trade skills, etc. People stayed focused on freedom as they moved through and around the issues now termed insurmountable barriers to social justice. They moved past immediate frustrations seeking to entangle them and chose instead to hold fast the promise that all are created equal. Quang Nguyen who escaped from Vietnam and founded Caddis Branding Agency said,” You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here.”
However, in a new world view, success becomes defined around manipulating people into codependent relationships. A fashionable consensus defines success as one group adjusting their behavior to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves for unending perceived slights. The instigators reside as fragments of a swarm and trade adulthood and dignity for prestige without accomplishments. The subservient parties receive effortless addictive compassion as the drug of choice. This novel moral superiority only requires fabricating disgust for themselves and for this country. Both parties then shelter within a joyous cacophony of mutually supportive orations validating the miseries of their own making. I see both parties as feckless and their presumed causes as squalid and frivolous.
Sometimes I feel like such an odd guy out. To me Freedom and Liberty is everything. yet, there are only a precious few who appreciates the importance of this basic human need.
People make fun of the movie Braveheart, and hordes of mindless NPC follow that socialist in Florida. You would think that at least FR - FREE Republic would consider “freedom” important. and that LIBERTY was something worthy of discussion.
Anyways. Knowing that just one other person out there cares about liberty gives me some hope.
Thank you. I sure understand living here in Eugene Oregon. At least my wife and two sons have accurate moral compasses.
Kneeling for the National Anthem (813 words)
Kneeling when the National Anthem plays means disparaging the extraordinary essence of this country. We enjoy glorious expressions of freedom and do not experience the social injustices demanding the offensive behavior endorsed by the NFL, ESPN, and Nike.
The Star-Spangled Banner provides the majestic musical symbol of the Constitution I swore to support and defend. My allegiance requires me to stand for the National Anthem and kneel to pray for the nation. These actions derive from the indefinitely binding oath I took as a Navy officer. Veterans understand grievances can be resolved within confines of reverence for the country.
I am aware that when armed forces members make the ultimate sacrifice, they are wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner for a traditional remembrance of freedoms found throughout our unique Republic. When America’s fallen arrive at Dover Air Force Base from the Middle East, their caskets are covered with a Star-Spangled Banner. When they are buried the flag is removed, elegantly folded, and given to a spouse, child, sibling, or parent.
I am aware that since the founding of the colonies and for all time the Constitution defines Americans as individuals who find their identity in pre-existing, natural, intangible rights, and not in ethnic or racial heritage, and certainly not in the acquisition of things.
The country does not suffer a burden of social injustice prescribing kneeling for the National Anthem. Instead the country malingers under the burden of virulent mythologies producing urban black cultures erasing role models like Booker T. Washington and Fredrick Douglas. These men promoted cohesive families, education, entrepreneurship, and marketable skills as strongholds of competence for building individual character, and for enjoying and promoting personal freedom. If similar role models exist today, they have been effectively marginalized in these spiritually impoverished communities.
Previously success for all was defined in terms of marriage, families, careers, trade skills, etc. People stayed focused on freedom as they moved through and around the issues now termed insurmountable barriers to social justice. They moved past immediate frustrations seeking to entangle them and chose instead to hold fast the promise that all are created equal. Quang Nguyen who escaped from Vietnam and founded Caddis Branding Agency said,” You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here.”
However, in a new world view, success becomes defined around manipulating people into codependent relationships. A fashionable consensus defines success as one group adjusting their behavior to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves for unending perceived slights. The instigators reside as fragments of a swarm and trade adulthood and dignity for prestige without accomplishments. The subservient parties receive effortless addictive compassion as the drug of choice. This novel moral superiority only requires fabricating disgust for themselves and for this country. Both parties then shelter within a joyous cacophony of mutually supportive orations validating the miseries of their own making. I see both parties as feckless and their presumed causes as squalid and frivolous.
This theater of dilutional relationships proves not only personally futile but provides the opportunity for politicians become patricians to accumulate a useful constituency. As this swarm of acolytes and petty bureaucrats shout that there ought to be a law, the political class stands ready to offer enchanting administrative laws and rules. Supposedly these initiatives enable equal security and outcomes for all. However, these actions inject patricians and their mandarins with ever greater powers to compel obedience from citizens. People then confront ever narrowing boundaries for exercising inherent needs for independence and mutually agreed voluntary cooperation.
I will always reject these political charades and remain impassioned when considering the founding of our country. The Constitutional Convention members in their spirited debates maintained a devotion to first principles and avoided the avarice and duplicity expected of a political class. In just 114 days they produced a document forwarded to the Continental Congress and states for ratification. Here was a perfection of human wisdom seldom achieved; a miraculous achievement celebrated when standing for the National Anthem.
I will always choose success through the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedom over Faustian like bargains exchanging the essence of the human spirit for illusions of government benevolence. This country needs “a new birth of freedom” if we are to keep faith with the Constitution as the embodiment of the American ideal. Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the blood stream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same”.
Partial Bibliography:
The Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
ESPN president wants less politics at network: ‘It is not our jobs’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/espn-president-wants-less-politics-at-network-it-is-not-our-jobs-to-cover-politics/2018/08/17/6d54c706-a252-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.dfaa5f77d48a
Colin Kaepernick’s Nike Campaign Keeps N.F.L. Anthem Kneeling in Spotlight https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/sports/kaepernick-nike.html
Meaning of the Folding of the American flag https://www.truthorfiction.com/foldsoftheflag/
Conservative Black American Role Models Are Being Erased from History https://therevolutionaryact.com/best-black-american-role-models-erased/
Quang Nguyen Director/Founder Caddis Branding Agency http://caddisad.com/ Vietnam Veterans Appreciation Speech http://www.armsmart.com/includes/emails/Quang_Nguyen.html
The Case Against Liberal Compassion https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-case-against-liberal-compassion/
The History and Danger of Administrative Law https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/history-danger-administrative-law/
Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr05.htm
Property by James Madison http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/property-by-james-madison-march-29-1792.html
The msm doesn’t have that power. The schools on the other hand
Outstanding essay. I, for one, appreciate it.
It is a sad commentary on our society that important things like your essay and the post should be considered trivialities, while other items like what Nancy Pulaski said be given wide ranging news. It’s heartbreaking.
Quang Nguyen who escaped from Vietnam and founded Caddis Branding Agency said,
” You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn’t just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here.”
I sent it to the NFL, their player association, and the CEO’s of Nike and ESPN. At least I could irritate them for a couple minutes.
True freedom is messy, dirty and stinky. It is not neat and organized. The most organized and clean countries are Socialist like Norway, or communist like North Korea. In communist China, with all the baggage about being a single party run capitalist republic (it is really different than the communist state of the 1960’s under Mr. Mao), you get to experience true and real individual freedom.
True freedom is being able to go sit down in a restaurant with your dog, smoke a cigarette, order a beer at nine in the morning all without confrontation. (Commonplace in China, Iceland, and Thailand to name just a few places. Uncommon in repressive North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela.)
True freedom is working and keeping how much you make secret from the government, your neighbors, and the busybody down the street. (You don’t have to be Hillary Clinton to have this ability. It should not be reserved ONLY for the richest in the United States.)
True freedom is being able to go into a store and not worry that you are being observed by the police, recorded by the NSA, or monitored in any way.
True freedom is not having to take a urine drug test…ever. Ever. EVER.
E – V – E – R.
True freedom is not having to submit to questions WHY you did such and such on some date, or why you have so much money in your wallet…
Freedom is FREE. Is that really too difficult to understand? In a free country, no one questions you. No one.
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