History is Closer Than It Appears
“It is of value, it is of interest unto itself. It’s an extension, an enlargement of the experience of being alive. That’s what history is. And I don’t think anyone ought to be, or really wants to be, provincial in time, any more than one would want to stay locked in the same place in the map all one’s life. I have to say too if the Revolutionary War had been covered — 1776 is the most important year in the most important conflict in our history — if it had been covered by the Media, and the country had seen now horrible the conditions were, how badly things were being run by the officers, and what a very serious soup we were in, I think that would have been it, too.”
“And so many of the blessings and advantages we have, so many of the reasons why our civilization, our culture, has flourished aren’t understood; they’re not appreciated. And if you don’t have any appreciation of what people went through to get, to achieve, to build what you are benefiting from, then these things don’t mean very much to you. You just think, well, that’s the way it is. That’s our birthright. That just happened. But it didn’t just happen. And at what price? What grief? What disappointment? What suffering went on? I mean this. I think that to be ignorant or indifferent to history isn’t just to be uneducated or stupid. It’s to be rude, ungrateful. And ingratitude is an ugly failing in human beings.”--Historian David McCollough
Person of Interest Jefferson has come in for a particularly hard time recently. His statues are under threat by the Democrat Paramilitary mobs, ostensibly because he owned slaves. But I think it's because the mobs wish to own slaves themselves. Namely, us.
"All men are created equal," Jefferson wrote. That phrase stands in the way of these new would-be Slave Owners. Nor can you steal elections from equals. Clearly, like pledging lives, fortunes and sacred honor, the man's writings are a threat.
As are all the Founders' writings. There is no good place to stop the suspicion, suppression and censorship once you've declared yourself against the Declaration.
For example, George Washington's Address to the troops before the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776: “The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
Or Jefferson himself: "All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."-- his last letter, to Roger C. Weightman, 1826
Or anything that ever fell out of Sam Adam's mouth: "It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer the liberties of our country to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”--Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771
"Broadway Al" Hamilton's Federalist Papers: "The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority."
The Revolution has come full circle; the Ruling Junta now views the Founding Fathers exactly like King George did.
And beyond the Founders to Lincoln's First Inaugural: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
And Frederick Douglass' #Resistance: "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge on the League of Nations: "...an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first..."
To Harry S. Truman: "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
Or that wild-eyed radical, Ike: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military-Industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
And CIA Crime Victim Jack Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
To President Reagans First Inaugural: "We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed."
Our God says He will make His Glory known in the Earth.
Numbers 14:21
"Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
Psalm 22:27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
Isaiah 11:9
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
Isaiah 40:5
And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Father, we stand upon Your Word and thank You for the Mighty Work You are now doing in America and around the world. We praise You and give You all the Glory, in Jesus Name we pray, Amen and Amen!
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