February 5, 2005
John Newby
NewsWithViews.com
Contrary to what some may believe, this column isn't a partisan love fest. This column is about presenting the facts and then allowing each of us to reconcile those facts in whatever way we see fit. It's about making each of us aware of what is going on. Hopefully a few will decide to make a difference. I'm reminded of Admiral Yamamoto's quote in Tora, Tora, Tora as the Japanese fighter planes descended upon Pearl Harbor, "I'm afraid we've awakened a sleeping Giant." I often wonder what it will take to awake the sleeping giant inside each of us as our freedoms are slowly eroded?
Truth sometimes is difficult to understand. Arthur Schopenhauer said; "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident." We are involved in an epic struggle between good and evil. This struggle takes on many faces. There is the face of liberalism versus conservatism, the face of pro-life versus murder, the face of family values versus deviant perversion, the face of freedom versus socialism/slavery and the list goes on and on. Each of those and many more are worth fighting for and worth expending our energy and resources.
While not condemning anyone for fighting the above battles, there is another struggle waging behind the scene, one that will determine the outcome of the battles above. It's also a fight between good and evil, but it is being waged while our attention is diverted elsewhere. You won't find this war reported on FOX or CNN, nor will you find it in the newspapers. The media's only purpose in this war is to divert the attention of the masses. This isn't a war we can watch from the comforts of our homes with our remote cheering for the best one-liner. Nor will we be informed on our car radio as we drive to work or home. Unfortunately, in this war many have been relegated to spectator status in the game that counts most. We can even show some short-term victories in the battles listed above while we lose ground in the ultimate war that raging.
The war I speak of is that of liberty and agency, that would be free-agency. While the above battles are symptoms of this struggle, they're only by-products of a more sinister behind the scenes battle taking place beyond the scrutiny of the public. They take the place of unconstitutional laws being passed by our elected officials without public awareness. They take the place of politicians and others subverting the rights of each American citizen. They take the place of international treaties dictating our future way of life. They take the place of traitorous individuals pushing for a global community through the New World Order. They take the place of leaders navigating our Nation towards more UN control. Yes, if one watches long enough, you'll see mentions here and there in the media, but by in large, the media aids and abets with the smoke-n-mirrors tactics while ignoring the real war.
The real war isn't the war most Americans are engaged in. While we've been diverted by other skirmishes, traitorous warriors are attacking where we least expect it. To use a sports cliché, "Hit'em where they ain't." The media has been careful to insure we aren't focusing on the covert assault. David O. McKay, referring to the battle of freedom, called Americans a "sleepy and apathetic people, urging them to awake to a sense of their awful situation."
Judge Learned Hand said, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." It's my hope that liberty hasn't died in too many of our hearts for, if that be so, Socialism or slavery will certainly flourish.
Quick note, a reader response to last week's column. I wrote, "how the Federal government spends money like a drunken sailor." The reader responded, "Not entirely true. Government does not spend money like a drunken sailor because a drunken sailor, however frivolous, spends his OWN money, while the government frivolously spends OUR money." I stand corrected. Well put!
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