Don't let their deaths be in vain
Charley Reese
Commentary
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on November 09, 2000
Did you know that every day in this country millions of Americans
desecrate and insult the fallen war dead?
It's true. These young men died painful deaths to preserve
freedom. Yet, how many times, have you heard people say,
"Well, I agree with you on this political topic, but I'm afraid to say
anything about that."?
When you keep your mouth shut out of fear, you are
abandoning your God-given right to free speech.
When you abandon your right to free speech, you are saying the
sacrifices others made to preserve that right are worthless. You
might as well drive to the nearest national cemetery and spit on
their graves.
Think about it. You are saying you're going to surrender your
right to free speech because somebody might frown at you, or
call you a bad name or, heaven forbid, stop doing business with
you. Yet you expected young men to overcome their fear of
death and terrible wounds in order to preserve a right you won't
even exercise.
I tell you the truth. I heard from a man who fought in World War
II, and he said if he had it to do over, knowing how the country
was going to turn out, he wouldn't go. That's a pretty damning
indictment of the present-day apathy, corruption and lack of
patriotism.
When we wake up in the morning, we should first all smile and
thank God. We are alive, which means that there are yet useful
things for us to do. We are free, and we only have to use our
courage to live like free people.
When you let other people intimidate you into surrendering the
rights God gave you, you are also insulting God. You are, in
effect, saying, "God, your gifts are not worth any discomfort on
my part and are certainly not worth the money I might lose if I
exercise them."
I don't know how God will receive that. I've never presumed to
speak for him or to say that he has spoken to me. But, pardon
the unintentional blasphemy, if I were God, you would be in deep
trouble.
Whenever we allow other people to capture our brains, we
become their slaves. Late 20th century slave owners, commonly
called the establishment, are very smart. They figured out that
chattel slavery is costly and inefficient. If you enslave the body,
you have to pay for its upkeep. Enslave a person's brain, and he
will do your work and pay for his own upkeep. Talk about
cheap labor.
Hardly anybody wants you to be a person who can think, live his
or her own life, and live free. The commercial, political and
ideological organizations want to control your mind so that you
will spend your life in their service, accomplishing their goals,
enriching them. They spend billions of dollars trying to cram your
brain so full of their messages there won't be any room for your
own thoughts.
They want you to slave at your job so you can buy their
overpriced junk or tickets to their tasteless entertainment. The
socialists want to fill your mind with their bilge so you'll abandon
the one system that created the wealth the socialists are living off.
Some preachers want to fill your mind with a false religion so they
can enjoy six-figure incomes.
The Hate America crowd treats you like human cattle. It wants to
hate yourself, hate your history and hate the symbols of your
culture so you'll obey it.
Americans, get up off your knees and stand tall. Your life is
sacred. Your freedom is sacred. Your history and your culture and
your country are invaluable. Live free. The worst someone can do
is kill you, and you're going to die anyway. It doesn't matter how
you die; it matters how you live.
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I had an uncle whom I never met who died in WW II making the world safe for communism, bankers and international corporate raiders. I can assure you he will not have died in vain. I urge all of you to speak-out when confronted by the spinmeisters of our present culture.
