It is the Monday after, after the weekend the American people throughout the country came out of their homes, and, with one loud thunderous voice echoed by the sounds of pyrotechnic cannons as they brilliantly and colorfully light up the night sky, spoke a message heard round the world. It needed no translation. It was spelled out in glistening glittering red, white and blue. International patriots from Norway, Denmark, Australia and dozens of other countries flew the American flag in celebration and unity. So many shared the same sentiment that it was a 4th like none other they had ever seen—evidenced in so many captured images and videos the fake news was forced to show even if they just had to add a condemnatory narrative. That narrative and the images they aired stood in such stark contrast even a preschooler could discern their hypocrisy. Social media was abuzz with patriotism and this unified message. Although the message of the people was spoken with one voice, it carried within it many meanings.
It was a message of defiance, defiance to a violent tyranical power that is sweeping our land attempting to erase all signs, symbols and statues of our heritage and freedom won by incredibly gallant men and women of our past, from all walks of life, from every ethnic background—from George Washington to Booker T Washington, from Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglas and so many more we simply can't list them all on this page. This power, though loud in voice yet weak in numbers, is on a murderous march in every state targeting for destruction the very icons to those who won their freedoms they employ in their ignorant violent criminal actions. It is the belief among many that if these giants of the past, of all colors, were to visit us in the present they would be instantly and inconsolably moved to tears in disappointment to see their life's work vilified and quickly being erased in just one generation. But this 4th, the people said, NO! No more! Enough! Your day is soon to be over. You will not succeed. We are many and even our weaknesses are greater than your strengths. You have only witnessed the beginning!
It was a message, a testament, of the human spirit that strives to be and remain free from those who would oppress them. Too long have they been ordered to stay in their homes, forbidden to assemble, even for church. Forbidden to sing in worship. Forbidden to pray. Forbidden to touch. Forbidden to shake hands. Forbidden to hug to comfort those in pain and suffering. Forbidden to attend loved ones' funerals. Forbidden to visit their sick and dying, their sequestered and quarantined aged parents, many within nursing homes relegated to die in loneliness in a cold sterile environment. How dare you. How dare we! This is madness. This is evil. This 4th, the people said, NO! No more. Enough! We are taking off your masks. We have seen through you and your lies. We will visit. We will hug. We will pray. We will sing. We will step outside the 6 foot circle you imprisoned us within and we will come together. We will congregate and we will celebrate, even though you have declared it illegal! You will no longer imprison our spirits that are meant to soar to the confines of our own bodies! No more!
It was a message of hope, hope that beats within the breast of every human, a hope that creates a belief that tomorrow has to be better than today. The idea that it would not be is so antagonistic to this hope that it provokes one to sacrifice all that is necessary to try and make it a better day—one that builds up, not tears down, one that creates, not destroys. To see the antithesis of this demonstrated in our streets, our town halls and state houses, and, yes, even our modern megachurches, is intolerable. We will not live without hope. We will not let those steal from us what makes getting up every morning meaningful. A life without meaning is a life without hope. But this 4th, the people said, NO! No more. We've had enough! Your day is done. You will not steal our hope, hope in a future that is brighter than today. Where you sow hate, we will sow love. Where you sow despair, we will sow encouragement. Where you sow division, we will sow brotherhood.
It was a message of resolve, resolve to arise from our complacency, stand up to the tyrants we have elected in the hope they would do the right thing once in power. Little did we do to vet these people. Had we, we could easily have discovered their pedigree. Born and breed by those studied in a method of government other than our Constitution and long-held Judeo-Christian background, they have for decades quietly but steadily seated themselves at the head of, if not all, almost every institution in America, and the world for that matter. They entered our living rooms in the evenings through a sympathetic media as wolves dressed like us in sheep's clothing. They spun their lies. They have become embedded from top to bottom of most banks, businesses, institutions of learning, from the lowest to the highest, board rooms to pulpits, medicine to sports, arts to entertainment, sheriffs and police chiefs to military generals, intelligence departments to government agencies, judgeships to prosecuting attorneys, and finally, in the highest court of our land. We did this. We allowed this. We created this. NO! This 4th, the people said, no more! Enough! We see you now. It may not be today we come for you, but your day is done. You can no longer hide. We will take from you the power you stole by deceit you used to further your own agenda and not the will of the people who elected you. And those of you who may escape payment for your crimes in this life, make no mistake, soon you will stand before your creator, the Judge of history, and you will for them all, large and small—some for the thousands, even millions of lives you caused to end. Their blood cries out for justice—old people forced into nursing homes knowing it was their death sentence. You have no shame, no conscience. But that will not excuse you. Nothing will! Your only hope is to repent now and pay for those crimes.
And it was a message of unity, unity that was defined by one voice speaking the same language, a language easily understood the world over. It was a language and message of freedom. We want our freedom back! We have become weary of so few wielding such power, in some cases, unethically, and others even criminally, over so many that enough is enough. We are adults, from 18 to 110. We are wise. We are intelligent. We are judicious. We have had enough experiences in successes and failures to best know what is good for us without some tyrant or bureaucrat dictating how we are to live our lives going forward. We have seen enough Faucis, enough "medical" experts, enough politicians. You had your chance and blew it. It is time for you to go away. In America, the government and its vast power lies in the hands of the people not the politicians no matter how much they may think and act differently. It is time we the people reeducate them and if they cannot be, then we must take the power back we invested in them. We have become weary of being resegregated by factions, race, religion, etc. We are weary of the division, eyeing each other with an unhealthy suspicion. Where you sow division, we will so unity. Where you sow differences, we will accentuate those things we hold in common. And in that we will create a bond between us so that all those who preceded us would be proud—proud that we took the infancy of a nation and nurtured it into one healthy organic body, one people, all equal in the eyes of God, but more importantly, in the eyes of each of us. We will make true the motto of our founders when they began to aspire in 1872: E pluribus unum--"Out of many, one."
- Monday, July 6, 2020
See also: America.
