While watching the Democrat fight last week, a debate broke out…almost. I wanted to see if any of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players could appear presidential. They couldn’t. Barack, looking contemporary, was not nearly as prepared as he should have been and a couple of times I thought Billery was going to burst into tears. It was puzzling to watch their continued pummeling of the President; they seemed totally focused on him. Let’s keep it that way. Don’t anyone tell them that Bush is not on the ballot this time!
The problem I’m having with all the candidates is that I don’t see anyone, in either the red or the blue corner, that I’m completely comfortable with leading our country at this critical point in history. I look at the Republicans and see a long line of vice presidents. I look at the Democrats and don’t see anyone I’d trust to even sweep my sidewalk, although none of them look like they can handle a broom anyway. Despite her phony enthusiasm and lack of direct answers to most direct questions, I actually found myself agreeing with Billery about one thing…2008 may be the most important election in our history. This time, there are some stark differences that reach beyond Republican and Democrat. This election isn’t merely about Right or Left, it’s about right or wrong. It’s also about whether or not we’ll recognize this country in another four years.
With Thanksgiving upon us, we have more to be thankful for than ever. The economy is humming, we so far remain safe and enjoy the greatest standard of living in the world. The Liberals want to change that. They want to seize power, minimize our rights and make us wholly dependent upon government. They’ve been fooling around with first amendment rights for years; now they’re after the second amendment. Piece by piece the Left is trying to dismantle the bulwark of liberty and freedom created by our founding fathers.
Instead of celebrating the legacy of abundance and opportunity offered by this great nation, the schools in Seattle Washington are observing Thanksgiving as a dark day of mourning, playing upon the ‘injustices’ Pilgrims perpetrated upon the Indians. Native Americans? [I haven’t seen any westerns about cowboys and Native Americans lately, have you?] No…Indians. Liberal educators are taking the lead from hack politicians and brainwashing our youth to believe in their gloom and doom scenarios instead of teaching documented, historical fact. There’s even a movement in the wind to do away with Thanksgiving, altogether, for the same misguided reasons. This year there’s P.C. and pumpkin pie on the table for Democrat dessert…plus the specter of socialism in America to make their perverse vision a reality.
Just to set the record straight, the Pilgrims set sail on The Mayflower September 6, 1620. During the arduous journey to the New World, their leader, William Bradford, set up a contract establishing fair and equal laws for everyone, irrespective of their religious beliefs. When the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness and during the first winter half of them, including Bradford’s own wife, died of starvation, sickness or exposure.
When spring finally came, the Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, how to fish, and skin animals for their coats. Life improved somewhat for the Pilgrims but their situation remained difficult. The original contract the Pilgrims had
entered into called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All they produced, even the houses they built, belonged to the community. They were, actually, employing a socialist system! Life was not improving. Bradford, who had become the governor of the colony, recognized that this form of organization was as detrimental to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter had been. The most talented and able bodied were not motivated to work any harder than their neighbors, thus, there was little progress.
Bradford formulated a bold plan to attempt to remedy the situation. He assigned a plot of land for each family to work and manage, giving them the right to sell or trade what they produced. With the forces of competition and free enterprise as personal incentives, the colony began to flourish. The Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves, so they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. With the profits they were able to pay off their debts back in England and their success attracted more Europeans in what eventually became known as the Great Puritan Migration. In other words, capitalism saved the Pilgrims, not the Indians!
Being people of strong religious background and conviction, the Pilgrims decided to thank God for all their good fortune. And that was originally Thanksgiving…neither praising nor oppressing the Indians but giving thanks for their prosperity [and, indirectly, for the capitalist system that saved their hides]. I’m willing to bet none of our kids will ever hear the whole story in school, especially in Seattle. Long before the existence of Karl Marx, the Pilgrims experimented with socialism, as have many societies since, with the common, predictable result of sluggishness or failure. Fortunately, they were smart enough to scrap the system.
This is what Billary, Barack Hussein, the lovely Jon Edwards and their cohorts are soft-peddling for America. Will the majority among us be wise enough to realize that the Democrat agenda is nothing but a journey into decline? Will we wake up in time to reject their false promises and remain the greatest country God has put upon this earth?
I watch what passes for debates, listen to the petty bickering and wonder, not which candidate has the most experience, but which cares more about our country than about his or her own self-interest. This Thanksgiving, let us give thanks for our liberty, freedom and prosperity…and celebrate the abundance with which we’ve been blessed. Let us pray that it may always be ours to enjoy.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
R.S.F.










Stealing Liberty
Today we have Marxist Socialists masquerading as Democrats, who attempt to undermine America and steal our liberty with every excuse they can fabricate. It’s a political party which has been hijacked by the far Left and has given birth to purely self-interested bureaucrats like the Clintons, Gore, Kerry, Murtha, Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Ted Kennedy and the list goes on. They lie, smear, cheat, steal and sweep aside, by any available means, those who would impede their progress toward achieving the power they so wantonly crave. They’ll stop at nothing, including destruction of The United States Constitution, that guiding beacon of light created by those who established this great nation.
They’ve been taking pot-shots at the First Amendment for years, most recently with the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”. Although Democrats have had some limited censorship success, for the moment at least, our First Amendment rights remain reasonably intact. Now they’ve taken aim at the Second Amendment which specifically states:
The language seems pretty clear to me. We are THE PEOPLE but the Libs are, once more, mongering fear about the average citizen having the right to own a gun. It has come to the point where the Supreme Court will examine Second Amendment language, yet again, and hand down a ruling by July. This could become another hot election issue. The Justices will wield the questionable power of their black robes and decide whether more of our freedom shall be eroded, leaving only sanctioned government agencies to bear arms…or if will “we the people” continue to have that same right, as intended by framers of The Constitution. It is another instance of unelected officials attempting to manipulate our lives. To judge constitutionality is one matter; the making of law is quite another. That is the province of elected public officials.
I hasten to point out a few facts. First of all, the people are the Militia. Citizen soldiers made up the Continental Army and still comprise law enforcement agencies as well as our military. All of us have always been obliged to protect our freedom either by force of arms or the ballot box, the only difference being the matter of a formal uniform. With the dawning of a new kind of warfare, it is not impossible that it may befall citizens to confront terrorism as individuals; we have the right as Americans to take up more than broomsticks to accomplish that task.
Crime seems to be the song of the Left; same old lyrics, same old tune. They seem to ignore that most crime is not committed by people who waited six months for a legal gun permit. Those with intentions to commit harmful acts will always find the necessary implements somewhere, as will perpetrators of crimes of passion. The simple fact is that more crime is prevented by ordinary armed citizens than there are crimes committed with such weapons.
The core issue was raised, this time, by Dick Heller, a resident of The District of Columbia [hint: not a state] where the possession of a hand gun is not permitted. The underlying problem is prying the lid off an age old can of worms with a new opener. Should the Second Amendment not be fully upheld, a dangerous precedent may be set for more liberal interpretation of other amendments in the future. If he really needs a gun that badly, I respectfully suggest that Mr. Heller pack up and move, instead of gambling with the rights of his fellow citizens throughout the rest of America.
R.S.F.