I traveled all the way from California to be with you on 8/28. With tears in my eyes as your tears have flowed, I have shared in your efforts, since mid-2008, to save our country and the pain you and your family have suffered at the hands of hateful progressives. But I must say to you now that I believe you have contracted a form of "Conservative PC." This may be a natural outgrowth of being branded as a hate-monger. However, considering that it was George Washington who won the Revolutionary War, and not Ghandi, I was shocked at your response to Pastor Stephen Broden when he rightly said that violence can never be taken off the table as a last resort. Was this not what the original "Black Robe Brigade" preached? Were they pacifists who stood by to watch their countrymen suffer at the hands of tyrants?
Broden acknowledged that we are nowhere near that point yet, but you have begun to act like Ghandi has replaced George Washington as the iconic element to save America. Ghandi is not a Founder; not a man that could have parted us from England in that time. The pacifists have their place as Dr. King and Ghandi have shown us. But relying ultimately on them to stop the march of progressive socialist communism or the Islamic juggernaut is a fools idea. How can you support our troops, law enforcement, and freedom without arms and the possibility of using them?
I honor you for all you have done for your country; all you have suffered and given of yourself. But God did not make us to be slaves, nor did he make us helpless. By taking all ultimate action off the table as a last resort in the face of tyrants is not only un-American, it is crazy. The meek never inherit anything, Glenn. They become slaves. Broden deserves an apology from you.
With love and respect,
Steve Bayrd
California
