THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNITED STATES - “These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls”

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”  The men who stood at Lexington Green and the Concord Bridge on April 19, 1775 and willingly faced down the world’s super power of the day and forced the British to retreat to Boston.

Those heroes and the ones who have followed in their footsteps have laid down their lives that we, as a People may live in Freedom.  But today, more than ever, you and I face an increasingly tyrannical government, both elected politicians and unelected bureaucracy. 

Will the blood shed by those heroes have been in vain as today’s citizens surrender the Freedoms for which they died?  Will those freedoms be whimpered away by an ungrateful population or will our People stand and state unequivocally that “enough is enough” and we are actually in charge of this Nation.

In another time, a Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) stood against the might of the Nazi Government that ruled Germany at the time.  He spent time in a concentration camp because of his stand.  After the war, Pastor Niemoller’s statement went world-wide and stands as a warning about what happens when the people don’t speak out against criminal activities by a government and accept those actions because “we” are not the targets of those actions.  This version may not be completely accurate but gets the point across:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me –

This could be happening today in the United States because so many citizens have forgotten that it requires diligence on their part to maintain a government that belongs to the people and not the other way around. 

One person ignoring an illegal act by a politician and not raising the alarm is complicit in the results of that act.

You and I are responsible for the actions of our government whether or not we support the people elected to run that government.  It is up each one of us to be aware of what our state and federal legislators are doing and whether or not that legislator is actually upholding his/her Oath of Office.  If that elected official is not following the rule of law, then he/she must be recalled and removed from office as unfit.

The future of this Nation is entirely up to you.  When you head for the voting booth this November, you must make a decision whether you want the United States to continue down the road to destruction that has been set by Barack Obama or make a turn back toward the vision set by the Founding Fathers. 

It is entirely up to you!

/r Martin