"Is America In
the Grip of
Cowardice?"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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Copyright Sunday, December 22, 2013 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
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readers a very special Christmas holiday with friends and family, at a time of
giving and love, as well as the religious celebration it was
designed to be for 150 years.
This will be our last article for
the year 2013. We will take up the torch of freedom starting on the first
Sunday of January, 2014. In the interim, we encourage you to take the time
to visit our two websites that are dedicated to the protection of our property
rights (http://www.narlo.org) and to
exposing the arrogance, fraud, abuse and corruption of the IRS (http://www.attackwatchspies.com).
Each website contains a wealth of valuable information and not just for
rural landowners, or disgruntled taxpayers.
“There
are those that recognize a wrong and act to right it. There are
those who "see" the wrong, but do nothing. But unfortunately there
are way too many of those who don’t "see" anything at
all.”
Ron
Ewart
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If you were standing on the railroad
tracks and you saw a train bearing down on you at high speed, what would you
do? If your child was playing next to a cliff and you saw him chasing
a ball towards the cliff, what would you do? If burglaries and thefts
were rising in your neighborhood, what would you do? If bullies and
thugs took over your town, what would you do? If a man
confronted you on the street and demanded your money, what would you do?
In most cases you would act swiftly to get out of the way, save your
child, take action to stop the neighborhood crime, confront the
bully and resist the robber from stealing your money ..... or would
you?
What if your neighbor came over one
day and said, I need more of your property and I am moving my fence twenty feet
onto yours and I'm not going to pay you a dime, what would you
do? If your boss said that he has established a new policy of welfare and
has decided to take a percentage of YOUR paycheck (not his) and give it to the poor, what would you do?
If you were part of an organization that existed on private donations and the
board members decided that they were going to use fear,
intimidation, threats, lies and propaganda
to increase donations, what would you do? If you were a deacon
of a church and you discovered that the other deacons were using parishioner
money for their own use, or grossly wasting that money, what would you do?
If the local school board decided that they were going to include in the
curriculum for your children, a course on Earth's salvation that
required teaching the kids that their parent's lifestyle
was environmental heresy and should be condemned, what would you
do?
In all of the above cases, a normal,
reasonable and prudent person would set about to right the situation, one way or
another and if necessary, he would enlist others to help him, because a
normal, reasonable and prudent person has a sense of what is right and
wrong. When they see a wrong, they try to right it, provided they have the
courage to face those who desire to continue the wrong for their own benefit, or
a hidden agenda.
The Revolutionary War righted a wrong
and declared freedom in America. The War of 1812 was a continuation of the
Revolutionary War and our winning it prevented America, once again, from falling
under British rule. The Civil War righted an egregious wrong and
ended black slavery ..... well sort of. The first and second
World Wars righted international wrongs against human life, dignity and
individual rights. These wrongs were righted by courageous leaders and
individuals who knew that they might have to make the ultimate sacrifice to
right those wrongs.
Today, we have a litany of wrongs
that need to be righted, right here in America. We have government
perpetrating on the people the same "wrongs" that we mentioned above, that a
normal, reasonable and prudent person would take immediate action to right, when
the wrong was recognized.
Why then would the normal, reasonable
and prudent people of America turn their heads when their government commits the
same wrongs as the neighbor, the bully, the boss, the board members, or the
deacons, but on a much grander scale? Why indeed!
Americans, by the millions, are
getting hammered by Obama Care through no fault of their own. Why do they
take it? Why isn't there a massive uprising? Why aren't lawsuits
flying all over the place? Why aren't the people demanding that
heads roll with the large, unified voice of millions?
Our school children are being
brainwashed and indoctrinated by a federal government-created curriculum
(Common Core Standards, Race To the Top and No Child Left
Behind programs) that emphasize socialism, collectivism
and multi-culturalism. Why aren't the parents crying foul? Why
don't they take over the local school boards and reverse this garbage? Why
aren't they at the state legislatures creating all kinds of Hell? Do they
just not care ..... or are they afraid?
Landowners are being treated like
criminals and going to jail for minor code violations on THEIR property.
They are forced to fight a tyrannical government, whether it be local, state, or
federal, all on their own. They seldom win. But you never hear of
these individual battles waged against an arrogant and abusive government, a
government that has become the master instead of the servant, a government
that blatantly ignores the constitutional limits on its power.
The IRS targets conservatives for
political purposes and the president and congress promise a full and complete
investigation. The FBI says they are investigating. Nothing
happens. Why aren't the people, en masse, demanding answers and not
taking a "we're-investigating" as the answer? Why aren't IRS
officers, employees and agents being tried in court, fined and incarcerated for
long periods for their known criminal acts? Why do Americans tolerate this
injustice? Do we enjoy being slaves to the IRS? Have we all become
cowards and unwilling to challenge tyranny when it arises?
Four of our diplomats are killed in
Benghazi well over a year ago, due to government negligence and neglect.
No one in government provided the necessary security, asked for by the
diplomats. No one came to their rescue during the attack. No
one is being held accountable for the criminal negligence that allowed the
attack to happen. Congress is investigating. The Obama
Administration is stonewalling and obstructing. Nothing is
happening. No one is fired. No one is in jail. Where is the
outcry for four dead brave Americans who paid the ultimate price because
their government failed them? Have we lost our courage to right a wrong
when we recognize it?
Then there are the Fast and Furious
and the NSA scandals. In the Fast and Furious scandal, U. S. Attorney
General Eric Holder, the top law enforcement officer of America, has been
shielded by his boss, our liar-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama, who
has declared executive privilege and won't release the documents that Congress
has requested to find out who the Hell allowed Fast and Furious to happen in the
first place. One of our brave border agents was killed by one of those
guns in this gun-running scandal. Has anyone been fired? Has anyone
gone to jail? Holder lied to Congress, which is a crime, but he gets off
scot-free. The Congress seems to be powerless to stop him or put him in
jail for this crime.
The NSA says it isn't spying on us,
but it probably is, based on releases by ex-NSA staffer Edward Snowden, who now
resides in Russia fearing for his life. Is he a patriot or a
traitor? We don't know. The public simply does not know the depths
of NSA spying and how much data it is really collecting. NSA Chief James
Clapper lied to Congress and that's a crime. But he is running around
loose, free as a bird, telling the public that the NSA isn't really spying
on us. Yeah, and President Obama says you can keep your doctor and your
health care plan and health care costs are going to go down!
Sure!
Why aren't Americans rising up by the
millions to find out the truth? Once again, why haven't there been
multiple lawsuits by harmed individuals over these egregious violations of our
constitutional rights? There should be class action
lawsuits exploding all over the place? Why aren't there?
Winston Churchill said at
a time of great sacrifice and often quoted: “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win
without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too
costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds
against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse
case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is
better to perish than to live as slaves."
We do not believe that America is in
the grips of cowardice because after all, we are Americans. We have a
chance to right these wrongs peacefully, before the only action left to us is
war. But do we have the will, the courage, the commitment and the
resources to right these wrongs before war is our only option?
Or, "Will we have to fight when there is no hope of victory,
because it is better to perish than to live as
slaves."
The abject failure of Obama Care has opened
millions of eyes to the flawed policies of liberals and progressives that have
foisted these policies upon all Americans, doing great harm. If we do not
act on this knowledge with the courage of our convictions and quit trying to
compromise our beliefs because liberals have more votes, then we will have
let over 200 years of freedom slip through our fingers. Ladies and
gentlemen, there are other ways to fight these criminals, than at the ballot
box.
Future generations will damn us for our
cowardice in the face of danger because they will say we knew and did
nothing. They will ultimately pay the price in money and eventually in
blood, if we let them down.
If the people are afraid,
as so many Americans are, and let the bully (government) win, the bully will win all the time and the
bully is winning and has been winning for over 100 years ..... not just for
the 5 years under the Obama regime. It's the people that let the
bully win, out of fear and cowardice. Unless the
people stand up en masse, as we are "standing up" with our
articles, there will be no restoration of freedom.
Let us all promise that in the year 2014 and
from then on, courage will return to those who have allowed easy times and a
chicken in every pot to cloud their vision about the huge price that was paid
for their freedom and the price that now must be paid to reclaim it, because we
chose to look the other way when tyranny raised its ugly head.
In liberty, until Sunday, January 5, 2014
.....
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