"America Is On the
Threshold of a Deepening Twilight"
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 Sunday, May
17, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, May 13, 2015
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes
shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in
your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to
execute your ideas." Henry
Ford
Henry Ford was the embodiment of the American free
spirit. No, he wasn't perfect. Fortunately however, he materialized on the
American scene before America became the country of "I can't" or,
"you'd better not", or "it's against the
law." Many like Ford have gone before him and many more will
follow him, because that bright star that is America, is a breeding ground for
new bright stars almost every day, in spite of the doom and gloom that we see
through the distorted window, into which we observe reality.
A star is born in our apparently infinite Universe as the
result of two opposing forces, gravity and nuclear energy. A whirling ball
of hydrogen gas, the most prevalent element in the Universe, starts to condense,
as gravity pulls the hydrogen atoms closer together. As gravity increases
the density of the hydrogen, the friction of the atoms crashing into each other,
starts to create immense heat. Finally, the heat rises to the point
(nuclear fusion) that atoms of hydrogen are fused into atoms of helium at
an un-imaginable rate. At the point of fusion, massive amounts of energy
radiate into the void and a star is born. The heat and light from the new
star bring forth life unto the Heavens.
The gravity of the infant star reaches out its tentacles into
the disc shape of gas that surrounds the star, where the accretion of gas and
rock have been condensed into planets. The planets then begin their long
journey around the mother star in the grip of her gravity, until the mother star
finally writhes in the death throes of its red giant and white dwarf phases, 8
or 10 billions years after the star's birth. At the point where the inner
planets are consumed by their mother, the Universe won't take a single notice of
the event, as stars are dying and being born every second, somewhere in the
cosmos.
Some balls of hydrogen gas are so immense they create super
stars, many times the size of our Sun. As the nuclear forces start to
decline, at the end of the star's normal nuclear life, the force of gravity
begins to crunch the star like a vice such that a sugar cube of material could
weigh 100 billion tons. At a certain point, the rising nuclear forces
resulting from the increasing gravity, explodes the star in a super nova,
sending the expanding gas and debris out into space at 600,000 miles per hour,
annihilating anything and everything in its path. The visible light from
the super nova can be seen from billions of light years away, billions of years
back in time. The light from the super nova can be many times brighter
than the light from all the stars in the galaxy, in which the super nova star
resides.
America was also born out of two opposing forces, government
oppression and the insatiable and unstoppable human desire for freedom. As
the "heat" began to rise from the tightening grip of King George the III on the
colonialists, the inhabitants of this new land on a new continent, reached
critical mass and a unique new country was born out of revolution, a country
that is the brightest star of any country that ever formed on this third planet
from our mother star, the Sun. America was and is the super nova of all
other countries and will remain so, if her bright light of liberty is not
snuffed out by apathy, neglect, in-attention, treachery and treason from
within.
The American people (millions of
them) are the energy that keeps the star of America shining brightly
and they radiate her message of freedom into the depths of depravity, despair,
corruption and savagery that exist in so many other parts of our world.
Her technology, industriousness, creativity, production and generosity reaches
out and touches almost every other person on the planet. That energy is
the product of living under the umbrella of liberty. That umbrella of
liberty has its foundation in our natural, God-given rights, codified into law
by our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the U. S.
Constitution.
But serious cracks have formed in America's foundation and
serious efforts are needed to shore up those cracks. If the cracks are
allowed to expand, at a certain point, no amount of effort will be able to fill
them, the foundation will collapse and a free America will be no more.
Fear of this deepening twilight has gripped us.
Deep in the recesses of our brains, lies a hidden dread from
the long, perilous days and nights in the mountains, steppes, jungles, deserts
and the grassy plains of tens of thousands of years ago. A leftover dread
no doubt, from our caveman existence, where our fears were not confined to our
nightmares, but in reality itself. Death stalked the day and the night in
the form of stealthy carnivores (animal and human),
in a pre-historic land where humans had not yet reached the top of the food
chain and were in fact, the hunted, as well as the hunter.
As our Sun sets on the western horizon, sometimes in unequaled
splendor of a thousand changing colors, sometimes in an iridescent flaming
yellow and then orange, sometimes hidden behind the clouds in a deepening
twilight, we grow almost unconsciously uneasy and seek the light and warmth of
our homes and the company of loved ones to escape the approaching darkness.
Even our children fear the night. Many young
children go through what are called night terrors. It is not a learned
fear from their environment, but an inherited one. All three of our grand
children experienced night terrors in one form or another, in their pre-school
years. To calm their fears we tried reasoning with them, explaining that
nothing was there in the dark that wasn't there in the light of day. But
that inherent, built-in irrational fear of the night would not be overcome so
easily by logic or reason. They wanted their night-light, period and they
wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Sometimes we gave in, sometimes we
didn't.
Yes, our children eventually grow out of it, but that fear lies
semi-dormant in most adults, civilized or aborigine, that are not accustomed to
sharing the night with the carnivores (man or beast)
that lurk in the dark shadows, outside the perceived protection and security of
our homes.
So each day, we proceed from day to night with subconscious
trepidation. Lingering in the back of our minds, we wonder if we will ever
see the Sun again. Will death or severe illness come in the dark of
night? Will this be our last night on Earth? Will the power of
government consume us? Nevertheless, in spite of our fears, we have the
"faith" that the Sun will rise again and provide us the light on the coming
morrow that will illuminate our way, on a brand new day.
And so it is with fear and trepidation, we transition from the
bright light of 230 plus years of American liberty to the darkening skies of
government-instituted tyranny and socialism and maybe even fascism. We
fear for our liberty, our security and our lives. We fear for our
children's future. We fear for our beloved America. Will she
continue under the flag of freedom, or will she descend into the depths of
depravity, mind-numbing mediocrity, bankruptcy and slavery? Are we to be
consumed by the growing national and international power of those who would
enslave us all, or will the strength of our belief in individual freedom and
liberty be enough to overcome the evil beast that is Hell bent on wrapping us in
chains?
As we have faith that the night will soon turn to the welcome
light of day, so too we must have faith that the twilight of tyranny we now
enter, as our Sun of Freedom descends into the deepening darkness, will
ultimately end in a new day of liberty, on a not-too-distant horizon. We
can hold that faith because the spark of freedom in the minds of the
preponderance of Americans, is unique to any culture or country on Earth and it
shall not, it will not, be extinguished. American liberty is like bubbles
in the sea that always rise to the surface in search of the freedom to fly
"free" in the open sky.
As we wrote in our book, "Stare Deep Into the Cosmos",
"he who looks down shall see a very narrow horizon, but he who looks up,
shall feast on all of heaven." As Americans who are free in
thought and deed, we must start the daily and nightly practice of looking up, if
we are to have the courage to re-claim our freedom.
Although silent we may be, when united, people of freedom have
the power to climb over any obstacle, root out any corruption, or replace any
tyrannical government. The difficult challenge lies before us, the place
is here in America, the time is now and the world is watching what we do.
This author has the unshakable confidence that true, brave and courageous
Americans are up to the challenge and will ultimately prevail. As we pass
into a "night" of gathering uncertainty, so too will we pass into a new dawn of
freedom, just as we did the year freedom was born, and like then, we will be
born anew.
Today, the American people are still capable of collective
heroism and the challenge to abusive authority, just as they were during the
revolution that set us free. We see the growing signs of that emerging
heroism almost every day now. That those in government and on the left,
are becoming aware of this rising tide is evident by their irrational panic to
pass more controlling legislation and "sending hither onto our land, evil
agents to eat out our substance" ….. before all Hell breaks loose.
Let us emphasize that there is no other country like America
and there are no people like the American people, anywhere on earth. Freedom is
burned into their souls and the brave ones, the collective American heroes, will
not let freedom die, no matter what it takes to preserve it.
So we say to those who oppose individual liberty, the gift from
our creator, we are right and you are wrong, because freedom is right and
slavery is wrong; achievement and to strive for excellence is right and free
loading, sloth and mediocrity are wrong; independence and self-reliance are
right and dependence is wrong. We also say to those who work to tear
down America's liberty, sovereignty and its moral and ethical values, your time
is drawing to a close. In the end, we have no doubt that we shall prevail, just
like we prevailed on the day that freedom was born when "..... a shot was
fired, a shot heard 'round the world".
Stand steady and strong. Tyranny and corruption will be
challenged on all fronts. The threshold for a peaceful American revolution
is at hand. Wait for it, because it is coming. It is now "they" that
fear us and as we gather strength, we shall no longer fear "them." At the
very moment our fear is gone, our Sun of Freedom will burst forth on the
horizon.
But like all births, "some pain through adversity will
come with the escape from the hidden dread of the deepening
twilight." Because you see, adversity is the forge that molds our
strength and courage and is the only true lesson for life and survival.
When we eliminate adversity, as government has done and is still doing, the
people grow weak, apathetic, sloppy and mediocre. Weak, apathetic, sloppy
and mediocre people are easy to subjugate and enslave.
NOTE: The
foregoing article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily
shared by the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
publisher.
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@narlo.org.
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