Can We Turn Back The Clock?
By Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
Time always runs
forward. It has no backward component, unless somehow we invent time
travel. What has taken place IS and no matter how hard we try, history
will record it for all to see. If we have made a mistake, in some cases
we can reverse it. In others, reversal is simply impossible and all we
can do is pay for the mistake and then apologize for it. But
what if governments make mistakes? They very rarely pay for it because
their money is our money. And they vary rarely apologize for it, because
they don't have to. They just promote the perpetrator,
or they appropriate more of our money to pay for the
mistake, while we stand in docile anquish at their audacity.
Now that we have
been fully immersed in socialism and radical environmentalism for five
score and seven, is there any hope of undoing what has been
done, when so many of American citizens have forsaken freedom and liberty
in exchange for the phantom veil of security and comfort? How can we turn
back the clock to a time when Americans were self-reliant instead of dependent,
when they were responsible for their actions instead of being excused for them
because they are victims of all of societies ills, when the rule of law meant
something, when they were individuals with individual rights, not part of a
collective where only the collective has rights, when they looked to themselves
to get them out of a scrape, instead of holding their outstretched hands to a
nanny government for rescue and salvation?
How can weunravel the tangled web of razor wire that is our legal and unjust
justice;system? How do you convince lawmakers that what they
are doing is sapping the very strength and vitality out of our people by being
everything;for them and regulating every aspect of their lives?
How do you round up
and send 13,000,000 illegal aliens back across the border they chose to
violate, because our government and special interests created a magnet for them
to come here in the first place? How do we stop the hemorrhaging of our
tax dollars to an ever-rising crisis that is illegal immigration?
How do you tell a
person that the handouts they are receiving from government are coming from
someone else's sweat, labor and earnings and that what they are excepting is
morally wrong, even though several generations in their extended family have
been receiving those handouts? There are those in our society that
need our help, but should that help come from government? Should it
not be the outpouring of compassion through those entities that are best
able to administer it, in the private sector. Unfortunately, there are
way too many people in America that are getting government help that shouldn't
be and the cost to our treasury and to the recipients independence and
pride, is astronomical.
Finally, how do you
undo the power that our government has amassed by violating the constitutional
limits on its powers for a hundred years, while WE THE PEOPLE looked the other
way?
There are two unchangeable axioms that are as inviolate as the Sun coming up in the
morning. 1) Those receiving something, (like handouts from
government) resist giving it
up and will fight tooth and nail to preserve it. It doesn't matter
to them the source of the handouts, and 2) power grows exponentially
beyond its limits, unless there is a corresponding power to inhibit it.
It took 156 years
from 1620 to 1776 for the colonials to have enough of England and King
George III to jump-start their clock forward to freedom and liberty and
they paid an incalculable price. The greatest price and the greatest
sacrifice of all, the giving of one's life for liberty. Will it take
another 156 years for Americans to finally see the light and commit themselves
to the fight for freedom? Perhaps in 2050 we will be closer to an answer.
But all the talk,
all the rhetoric, all the articles in the world will not turn back the clock
to America's finer yesteryear. Either the believers and
fighters in the defense of freedom and liberty, coalesce as one on a grand
scale, or the hands of the American clock will click ever onward towards abject
socialism, radical environmentalism and the one world order. The clock's
inertia is almost 100 years old. The Pendulum of our clock
swings ever wider towards enslavement, as freedom smiles from a distance and
then fades into a dim memory of all things past. The only human
characteristics that will set things right and return this once-great land
to its former greatness, is vehemence, determination, boldness and the
willingness to risk all by the multitudes who seek freedom, so that future
generations will be and remain free. Nothing less will turn back the
clock of time, or jump it forward to a brighter future in the brilliant
light of freedom and liberty, from which the pursuit of all happiness springs.
Abraham Lincoln best
descibed the American Clock to which we should return, when he said:
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging
thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You
cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot
further the brotherhood of many by encouraging class hatred. You cannot
help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by
spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by
taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men
permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for
themselves."
We have been
bewitched by traitors from within, who haunt the halls of our government and
taunt the devil within them and us. The traitors bring servitude
instead of freedom, security instead of liberty, and dependence instead of self
reliance. We must be forever on our guard to prevent the traitor from
convincing us that we are but victims and are in constant need of our father-mother
government, to watch out over us. Almost 2050 years ago, wise
men knew the evils of the traitor within and the devil that stalks freedom in
the night and in the back rooms where ambitious men lay the seeds of salvery
for all.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the
ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at
the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner
openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his
sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of
government itself. For the traitor appears not as a traitor; he speaks in
accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments,
he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He
rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to
undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can
no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Marcus
Tullius Cicero 42 B.C.
The clock is
ticking as liberty seeks men who are willing to lay it all on the line to
limit the power of government, so that freedom may enter and remain in the
hearts and minds of all people forever and government fears the people, instead
of the other way around.
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