Searching For Logic

Time is precious and time becomes more so when one's liberty is threatened. I have mentioned to folks that the perception of freedom was much stronger when I was a youth. Of course there were things that needed to be corrected, like overcoming racism and ensuring that the playing field for all was equal. My generation of the 60's, sadly, proceeded to destroy personal responsibility as they proffered free love, drugs, live for today and a contempt for our military. Our parents were "the Greatest Generation." My father was a machinist, my mother a seamstress. This was a time when our parents (most of them) held us to a higher standard of personal responsibility. But many parents also must have failed in this critical control because it bred the Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffmans, John Kerrys and various haters that have since bred themselves and failed their children miserably, too. While trying to do good in many things, my generation failed their country and their children, with a few exceptions, continue to fail it.

I'm happy to have been blessed with good parents that loved me, made sure I knew it, and yet gave me hell if I erred. I'll never forget the day I said the "N" word in my mother's presence, having heard it for the first time in school that day. She clubbed me good and told me how reprehensible a thing it is. She did this and other things out of love, and all the while taught me the conservative principles I live by today. My parents believed in their country and the Constitution, but rather that recite it to me, they lived it; they showed by example. This ethic is alive today, but it does not exist in any great measure in Washington, D.C. or in many state executive or legislative bodies. It exists in the non-elite; in everyday people who still must live by laws and logic.

Every public official must take the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America." I took it as a deputy sheriff and when I held positions of trust. Most politicians have failed this and most have KNOWINGLY subverted and broken their oath. To me, this is treason. That is logic to someone who takes an oath as a point of honor. Honor is what this country needs more than any other cure. If there is any justice, 2010 and 2012 will be the rebirth of liberty, freedom and an America that loves itself for the shining thing it was and can be again.

Actions to Take Our Country Back

Friends have raised the idea of national petitions to demand that the things presented in the "We The People Stimulus Package" video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA) be created and signed around the country by all of us who believe our national government is taking us on a trip to Hell. This is essential to start us on the road again toward "that shining city on the hill" that Pres. Reagan envisioned. 

It will take leadership to get this done. Some strong individuals in every community will need to coordinate online and get this done... to shove it down any politician's throat who is part of the problem!  I will do my part in my community if you will do it in yours. I cannot lay down while my country is destroyed. Can you? Join me. In the immortal words from Flight 93 on 9-11, "Lets Roll."

All the pundits who say they are "puzzled" by the Palin announcement must be deaf or fools. She told us all what she would be doing: supporting smart conservative candidates who love their country and don't deride it. Was there a secret message embedded in her announcement that I missed... like the walrus in the Beatles album? No. 

Here is the most forthright, honest, gutsy and human leader we have seen since Reagan. Let the MSM and the Fox "experts" ridicule and puzzle away. I heard Sarah Palin loud and clear, and if I live long enough, I'll see a new day dawn for the United States... one like I knew and treasured as a young man.

The spinners will spin and the Socialists/Marxists will continue to bark without any history or facts to back up their policies. When they have no facts they lie and slander. Check Obama's playbook written by a Marxist "community organizer." Gov. Palin has reason to release the leash on her attorney against vicious liars. The key word in the law is "malicious." If the intent of bloggers or anyone is malicious, then it satisfies the legal test. Opinion is protected by the 1st Amendment, malicious attack is not. I defer to what my parents and their parents knew: actions have consequences! If you attack maliciously, be prepared for a counter-attack (if the respondent has a spine... and unlike the Beltway crowd, Palin has a spine of Titanium!).

Wow... an old geezer getting first into "Tweeting" and now into blogging. Amazing what love of country can inspire. I have also been inspired by the many bloggers and sites that have articulated the "New Patriotism" so well and shun the nanny-state mentality of the big-government left. I have watched with dismay as both parties pander to the needy population. I am reminded of what Alexis de Toqueville wrote in his 1800's analysis of American democracy: (paraphrasing) the American democracy will survive until Congress sees that they can bribe the people with the people's own money.

It will take the brave and bold (like Sarah Palin) to overcome the Beltway elitists. It will take people like me to "watch their backs" and also be as brave and bold... to dedicate our "lives, our fortunes and hour sacred honor" to save our country and our children's future.