There was a time when only a beautiful woman could send chills up and down my spine. Now you can add Washington politicians or anyone trapped in the trance-like undertow of Obama monomania. Rest assured, however, these are very different chills — more like the ones that ran my backbone as a kid, when the alien found frozen in a glacier thawed out in “The Thing From Another World”.
In a conversation the other day with a friend, who also happens to be a Left-leaning liberal Democrat, he informed me that if I expect “to continue saluting the Stars and Stripes,” I’d better “readjust my context” and start supporting ‘H’ (he said Obama). I know he’s a Left-leaning liberal Democrat because he consistently passes all the tests for this designation with flying colors: He lives in a Utopian bubble, is generally uninformed or ill-informed and denies being either Left Wing, Liberal or a Democrat.
My horror was not generated so much by his statement as by his reasoning. I’m afraid it is an attitude afflicting an ever increasing number of contemporary Americans and which plays directly to the radical Socialist agenda currently being crammed down our throats by elected officials. He reasoned that I had no right to pay honor to the flag if I didn’t support the administration because “our flag represents the government!” Let me repeat that for any Founding Fathers who may have missed it because of the sound vibrations generated while shuddering in their graves. My friend said that “our flag represents the government!”
For now and all time let me say, emphasize, decree or otherwise bellow from the hilltops, housetops and tabletops to Socialist sheep, greedy Capitalists and ideologues of all persuasions that our Stars and Stripes represent many things — freedom, liberty, hope, pride, prosperity, strength, success, our people, God’s grace, brave sacrifices, victory over oppression, triumph over tyranny and numerous other blessings — but our flag does not, and was never intended to, represent this pack of pitiful partisans or any other government!
Some would argue that the people are the government and they would be right, according to original design and intent; but increasingly, as the United States Constitution is treated as merely a list of really neat suggestions, it becomes a truth that is less self-evident. We must not and cannot let my friend’s misguided point of view prevail. He is old enough to know better but most of our children are not. It falls to us, as patriotic Americans, to counter the perverse, agenda-driven rantings of Liberal educators and teach future generations about liberty, freedom and the true meaning of our flag. They must learn that America is not the problem but the solution. They must learn about the perils of tyranny as well as the price of freedom before it is lost or simply relinquished through ignorance and misinformation.
The next time you see our Stars and Stripes feel free to salute and sing of all for which that banner truly stands, until your voice is hoarse, your throat is raw and your breath is gone. Remember you are saluting something far greater than government — far greater than self. The government was created to salute you. Hussein and Pelosi, Reid and the rest were elected to serve you. We have spent too much time peering through the wrong end of the telescope and now the time has come to turn it around!
R.S.F.
0 Responses to “New View Of More Than A Few”