The Right of All Sentient Beings
Well that's enough moping for this week.
In other news, it looks like we stand a high probability of being saddled with a Democratic President in a time of crisis. Pretty soon, Americans are going to be faced with a choice: Do we stand back and watch as well-meaning people start granting religious rights to Muslims, or do we do something about it?
Sharia courts are already legally operating in Britain--Britain of all places. An archbishop recently called for Islamic law to be introduced as British law. If that starts happening here, how much will it take for America to stand up and do something about it? Where will you, good reader, draw the line?
I look out my window, at the quiet, peaceful rural landscape. Untouched. Unblemished. Unconcerned by the ravages of war, strife, and famine. I see good people, living as best they can. And I imagine Muslim clerics one day sweeping through, raping and killing the women for showing their ankles, and slaughtering the men for not being Muslim. I see the good and pure land twisted and blighted, with out machinery cast down when we finally run out of educated people to build and maintain it. I see the legacy of what might happen if the good people of the world stand by and do nothing.
It's true that our ancestors did the same to the Native Americans. And they did the same to other tribes in ages past. But are we to lay down and die to atone for those ancient sins? Shall we let the cycle begin again, all our great military might and social progress torn down not by an invasion, but by a slow sickness spread by envy and shame?
Some would say, "But that could never happen! Why even think about it?" Others would reply, "Look at Germany, and how easily they were deceived!" But I have a better example: Look at Britain. Would the British of Elizabeth's era condoned what we see today in that fair land if it were the French, and not Muslims? Would Lord Nelson have nodded approvingly of their appeasement and weak-heartedness? What of Churchill?
You say it cannot happen here in the land of Washington and Lincoln...but it is not an army we face; it is a disease. And the only defense against it is to think about the hard things no one wants to consider. If you depend on someone else to defend your freedom, it is already lost. If you expect someone else to build the future for you, they will--according to their vision, not yours.
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." It is funny how such wisdom can come from such an unlikely source.
So I entreat you, friends: think about what America means to you, and where the line will be drawn for you. Should the Democrats win and do the unthinkable, will you have considered your place in the world? Will you have thought of such things, when no one else has? Will your granddaughters and great-granddaughters be subject to Sharia law if they live in the wrong places, or be forced to learn Spanish to operate in their city?
All too often our thoughts are steered from such notions, because they seem so far away. But look to Britain, and how easily a society can be deceived. You are the only one who can write the pages of your future. Anything less is a false and empty hope of freedom continued "because it is our right". Rights do not fight for themselves--and they are all too easily washed away by good intentions and insidious design.
In other news, it looks like we stand a high probability of being saddled with a Democratic President in a time of crisis. Pretty soon, Americans are going to be faced with a choice: Do we stand back and watch as well-meaning people start granting religious rights to Muslims, or do we do something about it?
Sharia courts are already legally operating in Britain--Britain of all places. An archbishop recently called for Islamic law to be introduced as British law. If that starts happening here, how much will it take for America to stand up and do something about it? Where will you, good reader, draw the line?
I look out my window, at the quiet, peaceful rural landscape. Untouched. Unblemished. Unconcerned by the ravages of war, strife, and famine. I see good people, living as best they can. And I imagine Muslim clerics one day sweeping through, raping and killing the women for showing their ankles, and slaughtering the men for not being Muslim. I see the good and pure land twisted and blighted, with out machinery cast down when we finally run out of educated people to build and maintain it. I see the legacy of what might happen if the good people of the world stand by and do nothing.
It's true that our ancestors did the same to the Native Americans. And they did the same to other tribes in ages past. But are we to lay down and die to atone for those ancient sins? Shall we let the cycle begin again, all our great military might and social progress torn down not by an invasion, but by a slow sickness spread by envy and shame?
Some would say, "But that could never happen! Why even think about it?" Others would reply, "Look at Germany, and how easily they were deceived!" But I have a better example: Look at Britain. Would the British of Elizabeth's era condoned what we see today in that fair land if it were the French, and not Muslims? Would Lord Nelson have nodded approvingly of their appeasement and weak-heartedness? What of Churchill?
You say it cannot happen here in the land of Washington and Lincoln...but it is not an army we face; it is a disease. And the only defense against it is to think about the hard things no one wants to consider. If you depend on someone else to defend your freedom, it is already lost. If you expect someone else to build the future for you, they will--according to their vision, not yours.
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." It is funny how such wisdom can come from such an unlikely source.
So I entreat you, friends: think about what America means to you, and where the line will be drawn for you. Should the Democrats win and do the unthinkable, will you have considered your place in the world? Will you have thought of such things, when no one else has? Will your granddaughters and great-granddaughters be subject to Sharia law if they live in the wrong places, or be forced to learn Spanish to operate in their city?
All too often our thoughts are steered from such notions, because they seem so far away. But look to Britain, and how easily a society can be deceived. You are the only one who can write the pages of your future. Anything less is a false and empty hope of freedom continued "because it is our right". Rights do not fight for themselves--and they are all too easily washed away by good intentions and insidious design.