The high cost of winning,maintaining and sustaining freedom
As we sit in our comfortable homes and watch our big screen high definition televisions and gripe about how our government is not listening to us, a few people in a far off land take to the streets against a very oppressive theocratic dictatorial government to protest what they think was an election fraudulent in its outcome. These folks are risking sure death and even torture to attend this protest if caught and taken into custody.
And for what?
For nothing more than to have a say in which of the two hand picked candidates should hold the office of President in that far off country.
What is a Theocratic Dictatorship?
It is a country run by a supreme religious ruler, and in this case he runs his country with a very heavy hand. That religious ruler is never selected by the people of that country, he (and it shall always be a he) is selected by his cronies – fellow religious leaders who are of the same oppressive religion and a like mind as the others.
This religious leader selects who can run for what office and who cannot, and in this case he decides who will win the elections. It is no secret throughout this country that this is how their country is run.
So why are these people protesting?
They are protesting for nothing more than to have their votes count. That is it, nothing more and nothing less. They all know who they voted for, and they all know that the supreme religious leader said that the one that they did not vote for won the election in a landslide just four hours after the polls closed. That is their protest and that is why they are rioting and risking their lives and livelihood. The news has reported that the family of one of the protesters who had been killed by government militia has now been kicked out of their home by the government, and still the others continue to take to the streets in even more protests.
For nothing more than to have a say in which one of the supreme religious leaders hand picked candidates gets to hold that office.
That isn’t even a speck of dust of the freedom that we in this country still enjoy.
Yet, here we sit, griping and groaning about how our government continues to ignore us and do whatever it wants in spite of our peaceful tax day tea party protest. We do this as we sit in front of our high definition televisions, watching “so you think you can dance” and other pseudo reality programs and eat our fattening foods, snacks and beer and belch out a tear or two at the news that Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson all passed away this week.
We citizens of the United States of America have long forgotten about the high cost of maintaining and sustaining our freedoms that were guaranteed us in our Constitution almost two hundred and thirty three years ago by a group of men who in their time were just like those protesters in Teheran Iran – Angry that they could not have a voice in what their oppressive government was doing to them and who could rule in their government.
How soon we forget.
In the vast course of Human History, two hundred and thirty three years is not even a blink of an eye.
How soon we forget.
We The People of these United States of America need only to look toward those desperate and brave protesters in the Theocratic Dictatorship of Iran to be reminded as to how precious and fragile freedom is, and how much the cost of winning, maintaining and sustaining that precious freedom really is.
They are willing to pay their price, for just a smidgeon of a hint of freedom.
How soon we all have forgotten!
3 comments:
Most have forgotten. Or perhaps many never knew what maintaining freedom really means. But there is a cohort of Patriots out there who are organizing and building their armies. We look at this as war and are developing strategies to WIN. It is a lot of work but the playbook has already been written. By the opposition. They are the masters and we must learn from them and use their tactics. Now all it takes is people getting off of their butts and activating. Everyone, young and old, can contribute something. Everyone MUST contibute. Too much is at stake to stay on the sidelines.
How much longer will we take it? We will take it as long as we are splintered into hundreds of well-intentioned web sites. We will take it as long as we do not have a single coordinated plan. We will probably take it until the trespasser at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has his Internal Defense Force in place in every neighborhood in the country. We will take it until someone shakes the Mainstream Media by their collective throats for their complicity in destroying the Republic. We will take it until it becomes public knowledge that our elected officials have become self-serving traitors. That is how long we will take it."
First of all, thank you for your honored service to our country. I found your blog on Mustang's blogroll at Social Sense. You have some great thoughts here. I will add you to mine. God Bless us all as things aren't looking good for freedom loving patriots.
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