Unfurl The Flags

We are Americans and we will come through these tough times. We always do. It’s who we are… down to our souls. We were built by a revolution, we were tried through many wars, we were tested as a country in our own Civil War, we have suffered recessions and depressions, we have felt the sting of humiliation of scandals and had our leaders be great disappointments – but we hoisted our flag, believed in what we know is right about our country, we set our eyes on the horizon and marched on.
At least some of us…
Every time I think about what we’re going through right now I see the Americans coming out of the dust of the fallen World Trade Centers looking like walking ghosts. They were the huddled masses trying to find their way home. Scared, uncertain, unaware of what they were standing in the middle of, not knowing what happened to them, looking for help from anyone who could get them out of there.
Then there were those running INTO the dust. Those running to try to save those they could, trying to make a difference, trying to bring out the wounded and get to those who were trapped. They were running into the dust knowing one of the buildings had already collapsed, heading into a danger most others would run away from, a special breed that IS the American Hero. And it’s in most of us. It’s there when we call on it – when we need it.
We are seeing the American Hero start to emerge again as the grass roots of our nation starts to rear its head and take on the government in Washington. These are Historic times that will be written about and studied by scholars as yet unborn in the years to come. Most of us do not take the time to weigh our position and see that we are facing another of those ‘times that tests men’s souls,’ but this is every bit of that. We have a new challenge that is bringing out the American Heroes all across the country and they are standing up together en mass to protest the loss of our strength and the mortgaging of our future. Even in the face of being attacked by our own press and the sitting administration, Americans are standing up and fighting back. Almost 200,000 people took to the streets on April 15, 2009, all across the country to send a message to the government that they are on notice. Become responsible or become history.
There is an understanding that runs through all of us who are getting involved that we are facing a new kind of challenge – one that is coming from inside the country and it is every bit as dangerous to our way of life as any other attack. So, once again, it is time to unfurl the flags and march out to defeat the new challenge – as we have always done and will always do. It’s who we are – Americans.

American vs. Global

We’re being sold a bill of goods. While our leaders are busy creating a climate of crisis to push through their agenda, they are also busy turning to another huge agenda item, which is to take away our American nationalism and replace it with a global mentality.
The current administration is busy apologizing to the world in London for the downturn in the world economy and laying the blame at our feet. In essence the president is taking responsibility the downturn in the world economy. But that’s not what he’s really doing. What he is doing is trying to extend his agenda of redistributing wealth inside our borders to our own people to include people around the world.
The world is at war. It is a war that has been going on since the Cold War. The Cold War appeared to be over – or that was the way CNN reported it – but the American way of life has remained under attack ever since the walls came down. Capitalism is under attack on all fronts. The most visible are the attacks against us along the lines of the September 11th attacks where brutal terror attacks jolt our world. The less visible attacks are the attacks on our way of life. As Western Europe fell into their own form of Socialism the U.S. came under attack for being ‘cowboys’ and having no regard for the world. As we went to war to fight back the most recent wave of aggression from the Middle East against the West, we went virtually alone. Only Great Britain and Australia brought troops to the table at the kind of level that could be considered true allies. The rest of the world fell into attacks against the U.S. in one form or another.
So I have to ask: Are we ready to be part of a global experience? Is the world ready for that? I don’t think so. As high-minded as the idea of globalization sounds the world is far from a place where nationalistic self-mindedness can be put aside and replaced with holding hands and singing cum-bae-yah. We are just over sixty years from the last world war, we’re less than twenty years from the end of the Cold War and we’re still locked in a war against extremism determined to destroy our way of life – yet we’re supposed to believe the world is ready to join hands with us and be one. That’s far from the truth. The world would LOVE to suck us into putting down our guard to give them a better shot at taking us out.
The world is at war. If we’re not smart enough to recognize that fact and defend ourselves we will ultimately pay the price for our arrogance. We have to – at least for the foreseeable future – remain vigilant.