1
Liberty; it is a word that brings to mind the idea of being free, unbound, movement, and self-government. It is the happy doorway, path, and foundation for creativity, enterprise, and peace. It is also a word that may conjure images of American Revolutionary soldiers and statesmen, like George Washington on his horse before a battalion of soldiers, and John Adams imploring, giving gravity to, admonishing, and fine-tuning before the Continental Congress what should be the just measure of ideas that forms the government.
Liberty; a word of the past, encased in glass and history books; a story to behold and brighten the imagination, yet altogether, a word belonging only to the military soldier on a battlefield, for the practice of officially certified people in government, or in retrospect, as a scene invoking it on a painting. A word that cannot be held, and so, a word that enters and leaves the mind.
All this as it is, in America we have these unalloyed champions who are the example and heritage of our nation; trailblazers who were honest to the cause of protecting the individual rights of people; placing a strong claim upon the promissory note that is our Declaration of Independence. They are men and women who’s works have endured and have stood the test of time and generations of ‘progress.’
Liberty is the state wherein the individual’s life is without restraint; they are free to move, speak their mind and heart; to appeal unto the hearts and minds of their local and national community; they are free to work for their living and that of their family; and work for the improvement of community as they deem best. Liberty is the process and end result of a state of being wherein the individual enjoys and defends the right to be a benign force to defend, endeavor, shape, recreate, alter, abolish, distill, and establish no new ideological construct on the fundamental idea of liberty itself, but the furtherance of defending that liberty and the doing of good works amongst the local, national, and global community.
The works of Frederick Douglass, Senator Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King were those of writings and speaking in the form of appeals to the people, and as defensive refutes on new ideological constructions upon America’s founding document of liberty and a government to defend the same. These were traveling individuals who held steadfast in calling the people across the land to return to the promise of the Declaration of Independence. Frederick Douglass was defending liberty as he sat and shaped meaning with his words in front of his typewriter. He was in the process of liberty as he placed new ink in his printing press to prepare his newspaper for distribution. Senator Abraham Lincoln was defending liberty as he sat quietly on the train to his next debate with Stephen Douglas or speech before hundreds and before thousands. He was a man with a heart filled with good fire from 1854 through 1860 as he made the case to preserve the union, reminding the people of what America was supposed to be about according to the Constitution of liberty. Martin Luther King was defending liberty in his patience as he simply walked on the street. Surely, he walked with and for a purpose; lifted and sustained by Christian congregations of black-skinned Americans who wanted to also enjoy the promise that since we are all created equal, we have a right to be happy, with the blessings of education, work, and finally, prosperity. These individuals performed liberty in a practical way in continuing with clarity unto the cause of fulfilling the promise of the founding national document of 1776. None of these three called for physical violence or alluded to violent insurrection. They did not speak of a strange new doctrine for ‘progress,’ understanding that the best education and empowerment of the people was an objective, critical thinking mind, and a peaceable heart that was made to align with the simple fundamental, universal, God-endowed rights of humanity.
Now in the 21st century, wherein and how are we to defend liberty? How do we bring it forth from its glass enclosure, out of the history textbook, extricate it from the painting, cull it from the forgotten words of Senator Abraham Lincoln, and from the quiet typewriting of Frederick Douglass? How do we find this liberty and work its process now that the Revolution of the late 1700s is done, and the slavery of the 1800s is no more; the segregation of the 1900s has ended and women have the right to vote, own property, a business, and to be educated? Has liberty been achieved? Has the promissory note of the Declaration of Independence been fulfilled?
No.
No, it has not.
2
There is now the greatest threat upon liberty that mankind has ever experienced. George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and Senator Abraham Lincoln warned us of the ‘self-interest’ of a few always willing to manipulate the instrument of government to bend it to their narrow selfish ends. These are always an elite of clever minded people who prove through their actions that they are hard-hearted. They will go to great lengths of time and effort with narratives of new ideologies of ‘progress’ that promise a land of ‘milk and honey’ that does not have to be worked for, if only the people would approve of their visions for a better tomorrow. This was the way of Adolf Hitler, of Joseph Stalin, of Benito Mussolini. It is the idea that government can be harnessed to solve social, racial and income inequality. Each of these three individuals targeted a portion of the people of the nations they were from, blaming them, and bringing the instrumentation of the government and people of each of their lands against them.
In the United States of America, abortion began as a way of neutralizing the growth in population of American people of black skin color. Facilities were placed in low income neighborhoods were the descendants of slaves lived. The abortion lobby was helped by a rich family, the Rockefellers, who made great amounts of money from ‘shorting’ the stock exchange in the late 1920s. This was the same time that many people who had invested in the stock markets lost their money. A tremendous income inequality moment happened in America. The Rockefeller’s began pouring in cash into the abortion industry from that time until the end of the 20th century. Through the course of the last century, the political abortion lobby began to strategically insert the slavery lobby’s ‘Popular Sovereignty’ doctrine of ‘care not:’ that a person may own a second person as property, and a third person (or government) may not interfere.
The abortion, or eugenics ideology was purposefully brought into the policy of our government, education, music and entertainment and national news outlets, using the same political party that promoted slavery, and racial segregation, the Democrat Party.
In 1973, the mass killing of innocent life began with a Supreme Court decision disregarding the Declaration of Independence’s central, fundamental, universal tenets: the right to life, liberty, and the establishment of a government for the care and protection of the people. In that ruling, the construction of the abortion lobby was firmly nailed immediately upon the foundational ideas of liberty and justice for all in a land where we are all of equal created value. Our own humanity in the womb was no longer legally a separate entity, but now became the property of the pregnant woman. Since that year, more than 63 million humans have been murdered through a torturous dismemberment while alive or through live chemical burning, followed by vacuum-suction extraction. Since 1932, living children procured from abortions where also brought to the University of Pittsburgh for study that were finally killed, and confirmed news reports in the 1970s and this year have shown that the same university has been involved in government sanctioned (National Institute of Health) organ extraction while the child is alive.
3
I think of Frederick Douglass laying on his bed with a wet cloth around his neck. He is no able to speak for reason of speaking so much. His body overworked from the toil of speaking and travel. I think of him as he quietly wrote hundreds of articles calling upon the hearts and minds of the people to care for the rights of women and of the black-skinned humanity. I think of the man as he took the northern Atlantic passage in the Winter, avoiding capture by a government beholden to a sectional and radical faction repulsed by the thought of liberty to all humanity. I see the man at his desk; now walking out his door to begin the distribution of his paper. I see him in Ireland and in England; weaving, networking, befriending the people, winning their trust and giving them hope. I think of Frederick Douglass as a genius who was All American before ‘America’ wanted anything with him. That spirit of liberty was in him. He worked its fire patiently. His newspaper enterprises always teetering on the verge of financial collapse, yet he endured because he cared.
Yes. He endured!
Yes. He triumphed for America, and for Americans.
The champion of America was making a most tremendous impact in his determination to ‘care;’ in his fortitude to maintain the priority of establishing the promise of our Declaration of Independence.
He held unto that pillar of liberty.
It proclaimed gentle dignity unto him in response for his selflessness.
He stands shoulder to shoulder
amongst a line of strong minded, gentle hearted men and women.
The Declaration of Independence; the foundation; a blueprint of liberty.
In the heart of General George Washington;
he moved his barefoot men through the snow.
The true spirit of liberty, unalloyed from the narratives that would soon follow.
Mr. Douglass held unto that liberty;
knuckling down,
holding his train seat,
refusing to go to steerage.
He held unto the claim of that promise;
That declaratory pillar of liberty;
now disregarded, mocked, laughed at, spit upon, scorned, snickered at, placed aside, twisted, constructed upon, mutilated, dismembered, burned.
That is why he, and the those selfless few held the sharp countenance.
Selfless champions of and for liberty.
Admonishing the haters, despising the hate,
carrying on with hearts that said, “I will continue to defend and protect.”
“I will hold onto that promissory note, and proclaim its promise.”
4
Determination, endurance, clarity of understanding of what liberty is; awareness and study of the works of the true defenders of liberty; these are requirements to understand how to be aware and how to best defend. Do we need clean oceans? Must we save the wildlife? The whales? The amazon rain forest? Yes, yes, yes.
But we must protect our right to life foremost. We must first end the slaughter of the children in the womb; of the children who’s organs are being extracted for sale as they are maintained alive. It is our Declaration of Independence that is being mutilated. The American way of life was founded on the valuing of the individual person’s right to life and liberty, but now as Lincoln has put forth, we have altogether allowed ourselves to run the opposite way, calling the evil good and the defenders of liberty wrong. The hearts of the people lulled into indifference as news outlets suppress the national conversation, in effect, they are ‘organs’ of the abortion conglomerate apparatus and its political lobby managing, curating and controlling the flow and release of information telling us to ‘stay calm’ as these infants are dying in great pain and finally killed and trashed. Our humanity, trashed. Our Declaration of Independence…
Give no place to ‘glory,’ forget ‘legacy.’ Do put on that armor of righteousness; raise your intellect, let your conduct be its best at all times, sharpen that countenance. Be resolute to care enough that your heart and mind to become a determined instrument for good. Each day 3,000 children are casualties of this evil. Follow the practical application on how to best defend: you must be a part of the national conversation. Speaking responsibly, harnessing emotion, being clever as serpents, and harmless as doves. Maintaining your cool, yet quick-witted. Read the works of Abraham Lincoln, John & Abigail Adams, read the writings of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, read the ‘Federalist ‘writings of Alexander Hamilton, of John Jay; be acquainted with the speeches and works of the Supreme Court Justices, and by all means, do care!
Comments