THESE UNALIENABLE RIGHTS CONFERRED BY OUR CREATOR
Well here we are - facing the war we knew would be inevitable - especially if our fellow humans across the world did not stand.
The people are beginning to stand now - over four years later - and may they be praised and celebrated for doing so.
At first the world did not see the forces of tyranny and of how this tyranny comes for us in the shape and form of a globalist regime agenda which are out to destroy all of the freedom and agency we hold in common.
We recognize that we as individuals come to our awareness of this situation at our own pace and that this tyranny is waged so insidiously that it is difficult at first to recognize and understand.
But now the situation is critical and is becoming clear to nearly everyone.
So clear that many commentators believe the globalists suffered unintended consequences as they sought to take over the world - so much so that now everyone can see the intentional harm being done.
And now we find ourselves in a critical situation - not knowing where to turn.
Because the first casualty of war is the truth - a situation critical for all of us who seek to defeat tyranny.
How does one fight tyranny in the midst of war?
Carefully - and with much understanding, prayer and contemplation and foresight.
But most of all with free speech - free speech fortified with inquiry-based compassion and respect and an understanding of the individual - as each of us struggles to regain these unalienable rights conferred by our creator.
SITUATION CRITICAL
Many of us - fortunate indeed to have been having an ongoing conversation on SubStack - have had a Birds Eye view of this - and had free speech and dialogue available to discuss it.
The situation now is that international globalist forces have taken over and threatened the freedom and agency of billions of their fellow citizens.
The important thing to recognise is that this is not about Covid alone, or about the Ukraine or Israel or Gaza alone, or about immigration alone, or about political sides.
All those issues will continue to be used and weaponised against us - as they have been for many years - but the main over riding issue is that the globalist forces continue to use these hot button issues to divide us,
The way in which all these things - and more - have been used to divide and conquer we the people across the world is a well understood and ancient political manoeuvre - favored by tyrants.
The first president of these United States, George Washington, dedicated his last speech to the American people to his worry and concern over the danger of political parties and to the danger of foreign wars.
He was correct and I wish my studies had focused far more on the words, advice, strategies and enlightened thinking of these ancestors.
They - like ourselves - were far from perfect people and - like ourselves - men and women of their times.
Hindsight is perfect and given the 20/20 vision of hindsight we all could go back and make ourselves and our lives perfect.
The reality is far different and we must struggle to put in it in context - using a “there but for the grace of God attitude” - when judging the lives and actions of others.
As a person who once took for granted the relative peace and freedom we have enjoyed in the USA - peppered as it was with violence, war, racism, sexism and all the rest - I can now clearly see the error I made in taking any of this for granted.
Our educations do not teach us - they impose and dictate and manipulate and indoctrinate - so much so that we are forced to overcome the many failures of our education as we grow older - discarding the indoctrination - and thinking for ourselves.
The over all consensus I have currently is I so wish these founding ancestors were here with us today to assist as we now negotiate our own struggle with tyranny.
Because these ancestors knew it was just a matter of time until tyranny arrived in our midst.
Our founding ancestors did not know whether it would come from within or without - but suspected both as likely.
For as Thomas Paine wrote in his little pamphlet which changed the world the fight against tyranny is not easily won.
"These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
THOMAS PAINE - THE AMERICAN CRISIS
Today we do not have the founding ancestors with us - but we have their words, their deeds and the scaffolding of the Constitutional Republic they left us.
Although our nation state has been infiltrated by nefarious globalist forces and although America today has been decimated by her enemies - both internal and external enemies aplenty - we the people are not defeated - bedraggled and dragged through the mud perhaps - but still - for a little while - possess a treasure worth far more than any gold.
And that treasure is the scaffolding our ancestors left behind - a scaffolding to turn to - especially when times get tough.
For we must remember this scaffolding which was forged from the very heart of tyranny and wrested with great difficulty amidst the horrors of war has been tested by the forcing house of this tyranny which still - and always will - remain to threaten our freedom.
Those unalienable rights - the ones referred to in the Revolutionary Declaration of Independence - are still - and will always be - unalienable rights.
What are these strange things the founding ancestors insisted on calling unalienable?
Unalienable because they are conferred by our creator at the moment of our creation - unalienable because no earthly force - no government, no constitution, no person has the right to either bestow them or take them away.
Each of us as humans are created with these unalienable rights - in our form of government rights underwritten by our founding documents and properly functioning government and institutions.
What the founding ancestors were aware of is the corrosive effect of tyranny as a force always present to erode and destroy what they had built.
They were more than correct - as we stand today amidst the very wreckage of our civilizations - like our own flag in battle - tattered and torn and weary.
Defeated?
No - not at all - because that flag still flies - still stands - and as our eyes are dimmed with tears and even blinded by blood - she stands undefeated to give us the strength and faith which moves mountain.
Ablaze with our unalienable rights - rights which no one ever has the right to deny.
May God bless America - and bless the unalienable rights conferred on the billions of fellow humans we share this beautiful planet with.
As tainted as the people of this world are by tyranny we still stand for the great dream of those unalienable rights as conferred by our creator.
A government dedicated to the support of these rights is indeed not an American dream - but represents the dream of all mankind.
The American flag is just a symbol - but symbolic of what?
Symbolic of those same unalienable rights all humans possess - rights conferred by our creator - the very same creator who creates us all.
Symbolic every where of the rights of every human being to live on his or her feet - and not on his or her knees - fallen to tyranny.
We - as these mothers, fathers, and children - need to prepare the way for the defeat of that very same tyranny which has forever plagued us and which will always threaten our Creator conferred unalienable rights.
Government always represents a double edged sword - an entity to be regarded with s fair amount of suspicion and critical questioning by a well educated populace.
And, with tyranny our constant enemy - always on guard to recognize and destroy such tyranny before it can claim a foothold in our midst.
From whence cometh our strength?
From the creative and beautiful and imaginative and playful mind of our creator - the mind we all have available to stand by us in our darkest hours.
GOD BLESS THE PEACEMAKERS AS WE TRANSIT THESE DARKEST OF HOURS
NONE OF US IS ALONE
“Ask and it shall be given, seek and you will receive.”
And keep those critical minds functioning as the mainstream media - those handmaidens & propaganda agency of the globalist’s agenda - focuses on war and the horrors of war in Israel and Palestine and the Ukraine and on college campuses - to distract us all from the main issue here.
Wage free speech against the dictates of the war propaganda.
Choose to wage peace over war.
Maybe we did not choose these times but it appears the times have chosen us.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Great summary of the tyranny that should now be evident to all. Sadly there are still so many that don’t, or choose not to see.
But I disagree with you in stating that we are not defeated. I think we have lost our once great country and now face an uphill battle to take it back. That won’t happen unless the global cabal of ultra wealthy trillionairres (not just the George Soros’ and Bill Gates’ who are just tools for the cabal) that are directing this world tyranny are destroyed. Otherwise they will continue their assault.
This is truly a spiritual battle between good and evil. Even though I despair when contemplating this monumental task before us, I believe in an all powerful God that can do anything. But why would He do anything to help our current godless state? As a nation we need a revival of our Judeo-Christian faith and a revolution with God at the helm. Dismantle this totally corrupt system and build again based on natural/God’s law.
2Cor 4 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
God always wins that’s the reason In God We Trust!
Loved your article and the care you took to write it. You are a blessed woman indeed. Thanks