Freedom Isn't Free And The Bill Has Come Due
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." - D. H. Lawrence
This usurper of the Constitution must NEVER be allowed to occupy the White House!
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
Regarding the George Floyd riots
“They’re not going to stop,” Harris said at the time. “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.”
Despite seeing the absolute destruction of George Floyd riots:
Milwaukee burned for three days thanks to Governor Walz refusing to send National Guard. Other cities were also on fire. Harris wrote a blog post urging bail fund donations for rioters to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which raised $40 million from her endorsement, that bailed out violent rioters and that has subsequently been used to bail out rapists and murderers. According to ActBlue, she is still involved with the effort!
Freudian slip at a recent rally:
“I have fought for people who have harmed other human beings”.
When asked REPEATEDLY if she would do ANYTHING different from the disastrous Biden/Harris administration
Which means you can expect more of the same:
According to ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on the agency’s non-detained docket (NDD). “Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges. That included 13,099 convicted of homicide, 15,811 convicted of sexual assault, and 14,301 convicted of burglary, along with many others convicted of serious offenses.”
Apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, Chicago and other cities are being taken over by Venezuelan gang members.
Over 112,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses from the drug being brought across the border in 2023.
How many millions more can come in before we’re not America anymore because Harris claims, “they did the right thing” and obviously plan to keep on doing it.
The legacy left you by great Americans who preceded us:
The fight for freedom started April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord.
The Declaration of Independence approved and read out loud for the first time July 4, 1776
The Revolutionary War won on October 19, 1781, with the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown.
The Constitution was ratified September 17, 1787.
The first ten Bill of Rights were ratified December 15, 1791.
We went thru a Civil War where it is now estimated 1,129,418 people died!
We need to look at this “reparations question” from a different point of view.
From the Revolutionary War all the way to the shameful exit from Afghanistan by Biden, excluding the Civil War, 1,723,483 Americans died in armed conflicts. For us to argue they were unnecessary, useless, etc., is the utmost act of disrespect because these Americans obviously believed in them enough to give their lives during them.
What were the great Americans who came before us thoughts on America and freedom?
Nathan Hale:
Born on June 6, 1755, in Coventry, Connecticut.
Attended Yale College and became a teacher.
When the War for Independence broke out, he accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the Continental Army.
He served at Boston and then New York. Washington desperately needed intelligence on British troop movement around Manhattan and Long Island. Hale was part of Knowlton's Rangers, the first organized American intelligence service of America, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton. Hale volunteered on September 8, 1776, to go behind enemy lines knowing fully well that an act of spying was immediately punishable by death.
Side note. Hale was not cut out to be a spy. He volunteered for a dangerous mission because he loved his country.
Hale spoke with a friend, Captain William Hull, about his mission before he left. According to Hull, he tried to talk Hale out of carrying out the mission and facing what he considered a guaranteed death.
To be a good spy, you need to be a good liar – a skill Hale likely hadn’t perfected. Hale also Couldn’t help but carry himself like a soldier and did not easily blend into a crowd. He had a powder burn on his cheek, a most unusual and suspicious scar for a schoolteacher.
Hull didn't believe Hale was right for the mission, writing that it was "not in his character; his nature was too frank and open to deceit and disguise, and he was incapable of acting a part equally to his feelings and habits.”
He was captured by the British on Sept. 21, 1776, and immediately admitted that he was spying for General Washington.
Accounts say he requested a Bible and was denied. His request for a clergyman also denied.
He was hanged on Sept. 22, 1776, at 21 with his famous statement being his last words:
I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country.
On the way to his execution which was in an apple orchard somewhere around present-day sixty-sixth Street and third avenue in New York City:
He was calm, and bore himself with gentle dignity, the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions.
One witness noted that Hale “walked with the grace and stateliness of a man carrying out the will of his people, the will of his God."
Samuel Adams:
Born September 16, 1722, Boston, Massachusetts
Adams was a failure till he was 41, when he got involved in the Revolution and over the next dozen years lived up to Thomas Jefferson’s description of him as “truly the man of the Revolution,” and “the earliest, most active and persevering man of the Revolution.” His cousin John Adams swore that “Samuel was born to sever the cord between Great Britain and America.”
He was like Thomas Paine in his brilliance at grasping ideas and being able to communicate them to others and motivate them in the direction he felt they would eventually go in themselves. He was a political genius.
Shallow men called this cunning, and wise men wisdom. - A grandson of Samuel
Skilled at plausible deniability, he operated a gorilla war right in front of the British. For example, the Boston Tea Party was done by Adams and his Sons of Liberty. To this day, most of their names are still unknown. Truthfully, I think he scared the rest of the Founders with his boldness.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
Samuel Adams, Article in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771
President John F. Kennedy
Born May 29, 1917
He suffered from many physical ailments, including chronic back pain that required four surgeries, asthma, ulcers and Addison's disease, an adrenal condition that affects bodily hormones and blood pressure. Despite all that, he joined the Navy during WWII.
He commanded PT boat 109. His ship was sunk when it was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer and he saved ten of his twelve crew members because he was such a strong swimmer. One of the crew, Machinist's Mate 1st Class Patrick McMahon, had burns over 70% of his body. Kennedy put a life raft on him and swam with the life jacket straps between his teeth. They clung to what was left of the boat for 12 hours. They drifted 3.5 miles toward an island that had no food or water. Kennedy swam miles looking for another island. He found one and the group then swam over 4 miles to it, with Kennedy dragging along McMahon and lived on coconuts and rainwater for six days. The whole story is pretty astonishing, and I invite you to read the brief of it here. Kennedy was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal and a Purple Heart.
He was a Congressman, Senator and the 35th President of the United States. The youngest at the time at 43.
Democrat President Kennedy did things that would be horrifying to the present party. In fact, he would undoubtedly think the Soviet Union won the Cold War. For example, he cut top income tax rates by 70% and corporate by 48%, which despite fears greatly increased revenue. Where have I heard that before? He said no to social programs proposed by his party at the time. He lifted President Eisenhower’s embargo of arms sales to Israel. Interest rates were about 1% and GDP was 5.5%. At that time, the Democrat and Republican parties were not that much ideologically different.
Kennedy had the unique gifts of inspiration and motivation like our Founders Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams who I just mentioned. His Inaugural Address was a true masterpiece:
Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens:
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom symbolizing an end as well as a beginning signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge and more.
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge to convert our good words into good deeds in a new alliance for progress to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this Hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.
So let us begin anew remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.
Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah to “undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free.”
And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
Now the trumpet summons us again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need not as a call to battle, though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation” a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas at 12;30 PM on November 22, 1963. Who did it? Take your pick! After 61 years we still don’t know the whole story! After the Bay of Pigs debacle, a furious Kennedy vowed to disband the CIA. Hoover and the FBI. Vice President Johnson. Kennedy only sent advisors into Viet Nam and was hesitant to send troops, heeding the famous advise of his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower to “beware of the military industrial complex.” Or all of the above? He had numerous great accomplishments, including creating the space program. Who knows what else he would have accomplished. A truly great American!
THIS is what the Democrat Party has come to?
Kamala is the proverbial kid you have to tie a porkchop around its neck for the dog to play with! Nobody wanted her! She got where she is without one vote by a coup committed against Biden who actually got 16,000,000 votes!
The only way she will win is by cheating which can absolutely NOT be allowed! Only a few examples:
From Townhall by Katie Pavich from Pennsylvania:
Voters consistently report to us that at Boards of Election Offices across the Commonwealth, they are told that 'computers are down,' the site will be closing early, they are not accepting any more voters, and that mail ballots will not be counted.
From the rocky mountain voice by Brian Porter:
More than 600 BIOS passwords for voting system components in 63 of the state’s 64 counties were publicly shared in a file on Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s website.
“The passwords were not encrypted or otherwise protected – this means they were available for public consumption,” the Colorado Republican Party’s email reads.
If you are foolish enough to think mail in ballots are secure
Jamie Visaya of Bellvue, Washington who lives in a two-bedroom apartment, got ballots in 16 different names of people she did not know besides her own at her apartment! All were addressed to her building and unit. First, she got nine and returned them to the Post Office. She then got seven more.
“It's all names of, like, Indian descent and possibly Middle Eastern," she said.
When it was brought to the attention of King County Elections Office, Chief of Staff Kendall LeVan Hodson said she wondered if it may have been because the tenants who used to be registered at her apartment didn't update their address when they moved.
Sixteen different people lived at that apartment and didn’t update their voting record? Get the waders on!
However, Visaya said most of the ballots are addressed to different last names, which leads her to believe the ballots do not belong to one, two, or even three prior households.
Why didn't I get all of their other mail forwarded here, or junk mail, or anything like that? She said the mix-up gives her concern about a democratic election. - Jami Visaya
Decision time:
When we meet the great Americans who came before us face to face, (and we will), will we hold our heads high because we did all we could to keep America free, or will we hang our heads in shame? One or the other.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free. – Ronald Regan, 1961
Gallup, Rasmussen and Atlas have all released national polling that indicates Trump is going to win the national popular vote by 2 to 3 points, which basically means this is gonna be a blowout election for Trump. Every major election indicator is pointing in Trump’s favor: early vote turnouts, economic conditions, voter sentiment, priorities and enthusiasm, all point to a massive Trump win. So when you see final polling flooding the news cycles all saying Trump is down these next few days, take comfort in knowing that it’s all a bunch of bullshit. Atlas and Rasmussen were some of the best pollsters of 2020, and Gallup has a long history of accurately calling the national electorate.
This one is winner take all. It will mark the end of the America we love, or a massive revival with traitors being severely punished -- https://www.johntrudel.com
Great post. Is it even possible to have men the quality of the founders in national politics now? Or is power mongering, greed, pandering, amorality and immorality of character all that avails?