John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© July 9, 2024
Some – or even many - might contend that I’m just a senior citizen lamenting about an innocent American past lost (and some would an illusory past). The younger naysayer generations might have even elements of truth in their John’s just an old crabapple trying to re-instill the lost past.
BUT I GOTTA TELL YA, I and many in my generation lived and experienced that gone-past. It did not feel like an illusion. I had the freedom to go where I wanted largely without even the slightest apprehension or fear of being accosted violently.
Even as a single-digit child in the 1960s, I hoped on my bike I went alone or with same-age friends miles away from my home or neighborhood to pass the day. In fairness, I lived in a small town of about 10,000 in the 1960s (According to Wikipedia, the 1960 population was 8,625 and the 1970 population was 13,568). In case anyone is interested, I departed from my hometown circa 1982 to attend a Bible School in Oklahoma. Between Bible School graduation (1984), I travelled back and forth between Ellensburg WA and Tulsa OK largely to be close to my children (from 1st wife) ultimately settling in Oklahoma from 1997 (I re-married to my Cherokee princess in 1990) to this present time (2024) to be close to my wife’s family. (Currently – as grandparents – we have grown weary of Oklahoma Summer humidity and are putting the finances together to move back to the Northwest. Hopefully Idaho. Washington State has drifted too far Left for my liking.)
Oh sigh… Back to lamenting by all appearances a more freer and independent past.
TODAY! Elections are manipulated. Yup, I’m one of those that that stopped believing MSM lies about free and fair elections when I saw hundreds of thousands of people at Trump rallies and less than hundreds at Biden rallies. Saw vote counting suspended. Saw GOP election integrity watchers booted from observing vote tallies. Then watched Court after Court deny civil actions based on the absurdity of a lack of Standing rather than the merits of proof.
THEN an obviously installed puppet President with dementia enforced Medical Tyranny Mandates which have now been not only proven UNNECESSARY but also dangerous.
And I can drone on and on and have done so often from 2020 to the present.
AND SO, how can Americans – Left or Right – have allowed such despotism to occur in this American Republic? Dem-Marxist propagandists whine about protecting American Democracy from those MAGA folks. That Democracy brainwash-speak is hogwash. Our Founding Fathers made a Representative Republic where a tyranny of the majority (the democracy concept) cannot steal the Liberty of the dissenting minority. The Judicial Branch’s modern failure is not protecting the dissenters from the designs of a Dem-Marxist controlled government Bureaucracy. This Bureaucracy has exerted unconstitutional power to prevent DISSENT from becoming the majority. There is nothing democratic about that from the whiners of protecting American Democracy.
This has become the very Tyranny of control that are Founders were willing to give their lives to RESIST way back in 1776. The Patriot Post has the best array of American Historical Documents which can be accessed HERE. From that TPP Historical Page, I found the Declaration of Independence. Here’s an excerpt (YOU SHOULD READ THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT):
“In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. …READ IT ALL”
Today’s lamentation against this New American Tyranny was intended to go originally in another direction. But it seems my thoughts have become a bit longwinded. Perhaps I will get to what I was going to share another day.
NEVERTHELESS, I believe you get the idea. The Founders’ Liberty has become so dissipated by a slow political erasure that we as Americans have become the proverbial frog in a pot of water. As the water has come to a boil, WE-THE-PEOPLE are close to not noticing are Liberty has been terminated by a Fundamentally Transformation Dem-Marxists Agenda (which are essentially Globalist Elitists), which are boiling away that which once made America Good – a Christian National Ethos and Morality.
JRH 7/9/24
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