"A Cherub's Glee, 'Long
Side the Christmas Tree"
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.
© Copyright Wednesday, December
17, 2014 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, December 17, 2014
This article is also
available on our website at:
!!! This is our last column for 2014
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We have written many songs and poems throughout
our lifetime, so we elected to write something far removed from what is being
reported on the various news channels and what we have been writing about for
the last 10 years.
Instead, as our contribution to Christmas, we
wrote a poem and super imposed it by voice over the popular Christmas song,
"Oh Holy Night". Then we added some
pictures of precious children around the Christmas tree. The poem is
dedicated to the little innocent ones that we call cherubs. It's all about
the real foundation of America in particular and civilization in general.
That foundation is the nuclear family of one man, one woman and our precious
children, especially at Christmas time. That is where America's real power
and strength lie, if those Americans only knew it and had the courage and were
united enough to use that power, en masse.
As our final article for 2014, we have uploaded
our Christmas poem, music and pictures as a video to Youtube, available at the
following link.
entitled: "A Cherub's Glee, 'Long Side the
Christmas Tree"
We hope you enjoy the video and consider it
worth sharing with others during this Christmas season.
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As many of you know, for almost 10 years now, we
have authored a weekly column about America from the perspective of a
conservative. If there are one or more of our articles of interest to you,
they can be viewed on our website by title at these two links: "The Parallax
Prophecies" "In Defense of Rural
America".
Our focus has been, for those 10 years, on what
is wrong with America as it relates to her principles, ideals and the foundation
of individual liberty. We have covered most of the pressing issues facing
America and Americans today.
Although we have tried to include a little
inspiration in some of our articles, it is hard to be inspirational when so much
of who we were, has evolved into who we wish we weren't. We have even
inserted some solutions to those issues in our articles but there haven't been
many takers, probably due to the fact that America is so fractured, divided and
just generally apathetic. As a testament to this, out of the thousands who
read our column, only four (4) people signed our "Declaration of
Resistance" petition and
mailed it to us. We sincerely thank those four for their uncommon
courage.
Most people just don't feel that it is all that
bad anyway and it doesn't require their attention. Life is good for the
most part. Millions of people have a home, a couple of cars, some kids, a good
job and a little extra money to spend for vacations and wish lists.
Government isn't bothering them (as far as they know)
so why upset the apple cart and attract government's attention by getting
involved in resisting government? The prevailing mindset is, let the other
guy take the "hits", if it's so important.
Unfortunately, the rural landowner isn't able to
say that. The hard truth is, the rural landowner is under a constant,
intense and virtually a daily assault by government, mostly at the insistence of
national and international radical environmentalists, aided and abetted by
local, state and the federal government. It was and is NARLO's goal to be an
advocate for rural landowners, to the extent our resources allow.
If urban Americans were under the same kind of
government assault as are rural landowners, there would be a lot more people
interested in what government is doing to them and they would start challenging
government and holding it accountable. Urban Americans ARE under assault
by government, they just don't know it, or won't acknowledge it.
Perhaps this is why we get so few responses to
our articles these days. Or, maybe it's the uncertainty of the political
and financial scene, or the severe weather and an early winter, or the
distraction of the holiday season from Thanksgiving to Christmas and New
Years. Perhaps we have just gone stale and lost our ability to communicate
our message. It would seem that the serious issues facing America just
aren't that important to the people right now, no matter what time of year it
is. The people say, "Let the government do whatever it is going to
do and hopefully it won't affect us. We just don't want to get
involved."
Whatever the reasons for the apparent lack of
interest in our efforts, we'd like to convey our best wishes to all in our
reading audience. May you find peace and happiness as we celebrate
America's two religious holidays that emanate from our Judeo-Christian
heritage. May next year be an uplifting one where some of our national,
local, financial, economic and cultural problems are addressed head-on and
solved by honorable men and women working for America, not a political
party. We can only hope that men and women of common sense will re-surface
and prevail in the end. For far too long America has had a belly full of
the arrogant, educated idiots in this country, usually coming from the
left. Need we mention Jonathan Gruber, the sniveling little Harvard
Professor who took $4,000,000 dollars from the taxpayers to consult on Obama
care and then had the gall to call those same taxpayers stupid?
So until next year then, when we shall start out
with a series of four articles dedicated to exposing corruption in all of our
institutions. Sadly, government in America, local, state, or federal,
whether it exists in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches, has
become institutionally corrupt by virtue of decades of no oversight and citizen
indifference and apathy. This corruption has become systemic at every
level of government where graft, payoffs, bribes, nepotism, cronyism and
unconstitutional law making are the rule rather than the exception. The
last of these four articles will launch a major effort to rein in that
corruption, starting in the rural counties of America. With this effort it will
be our goal to strike fear into every politician, judge and government
bureaucrat in America. Because, you see, we are not afraid of taking the
"hits" ….. for America! America might
just survive national suicide if there were a lot more people willing to take
the "hits."
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org),
an advocate and consultant for urban and rural
landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington
State. He can be reached for comment at info@harlo.org.
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