FREEDOM IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi,


You'll have to indulge me this week. My birthday is near and I must admit I have seen a few of them.

Enough so that the over the top rhetoric of forty-some year old prophets doesn't move me to agree. I've been there, done that, and at some point have lived to regret some of my own prophesizing. When I've seen some of the things I advocated, advanced twenty years later, when it no longer made sense because time and tide had moved on, I wince. I was often thankful that I did not write the book I envisioned in those days because I'd have to have seen it all come true TOO LATE TO DO ANY GOOD.

However, anyone without some regrets at my age either has done little with their talents and time or is still too stupid to understand that even the best intentioned can be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone I was very fond of years ago told me "It is just as bad to be ahead of your time as behind your time" and that is a truism that "coming of age" certainly has proved.

I fought against Communism now called Socialism for most of my adult life. I have not changed my viewpoint. A system that VIRTUALLY ENSLAVES A LARGE BODY OF PEOPLE AND IS RUN BY A SMALL BODY OF PEOPLE IN ORDER TO MAKE AN EVEN SMALLER BODY OF PEOPLE COMFORTABLE is not intellectually practical, sensible or caring no matter how it is touted by those enthused by the ideas. It is simply another route to WORLD POWER or totalitarian domination as the James Bond movies made a lot of loot depicting.

It's a dream passed down by EMPERORS, DICTATORS, DESPOTS, ROYALTY and surprisingly enough, PLATO AND CONFUCIANISM.

It's not a NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT or a CHANGE as those who would take control, would like you to believe; and I am sure you're way too smart to believe.

There's not much new under the sun. Our form of Government which is a REPUBLIC was loosely based on Aristotle's thinking. Don't we owe a lot to the Greeks??????????Whose success today is a testament to their Philosophers????? But since Aristotle's (not Onassis but the ancient Philosopher) brand of intelligence doesn't fit the World Power mode as well as Plato's, our form of government is not as poplular.

FOR ONE THING, IT TAKES VIGILENCE. It's not easy and not a give away. FREEDOM IS A TOUGH THING TO HOLD. It is elusive, requires hard work, and nothing is FREE. It takes CHARACTER, ABILITY, INDUSTRIOUSNESS, ETHICS, RESPONSIBILITY, HONESTY, and MORALS.

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!

Actually these were all characteristics of most of the Americans who made this country truly great.

If some of our forefathers did not possess all of them, they had a good measure OF THEM and the rest of the group made up the lacks. People who ran in short supply of these ATTRIBUTES were looked down on because they were considered if not BAD, at least LAZY, POORLY RAISED, OR JUST PLAIN STUPID. They were pilliored out of the general group of people who thought themselves more morally perfect. THAT HAS ITS DRAWBACKS AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!

But by and large, our Republic was an attempt at CHANGE and as a political system is VERY NEW at 200+ years so there have NOT been CENTURIES to work out the kinks in it. Therefore, we do make mistakes and big ones.

Not that Communism (Socialism) doesn't make mistakes. They have practiced in other nations trying to get it right. IN FACT I might add here that as long as they have had to get it RIGHT, they haven't done so well. China is still stealing OUR IDEAS to help her impoverished lands.

We seem to be advocating presently "throwing out the baby with the wash water". Dumping our MOSTLY SUCCESSFUL REPUBLIC because we are being told we are BAD PEOPLE who made some mistakes. Those mistakes, by the way, were certainly HELPED ALONG by the people who seek to CONTROL OUR FREEDOM AND CHANGE OUR GOVERNMENT TO A SOCIALIST STATE.

Before we allowed our borders to be overrun, our poverty rate was among the lowest in the world and poverty in this country did not find ragged beggers overrunning our streets as we see traveling across the world. We have always been a generous people AND DON'T LET THE doomsday experts CONFUSE YOU WITH PHONY STATISTICS; our poor could always receive what they needed. We are a GENEROUS, VOLUNTEERING NATION WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF CHARITABLE WORKS. SOME of our homeless chose to live as they do for many reasons, those of us who can't conceive of such a life, find hard to understand.

Perhaps those who chose a homeless lifestyle (as opposed to those who have no choice) are much like the Buddhists in the East, and conceive of FREEDOM rather differently than the average person. They see it as having no personal responsibilities at all. But of course since nothing is FREE one must undergo a certain amount of sacrifice to attain that situation.

We have been hated for our SUCCESS and many gloat about our SUPPOSED FAILURE but it will only be a failure if we do not mend our mistakes and carry forward the dream of our forefathers adopting the attitudes that allow FREEDOM TO survive.

I won't LIVE long enough to see what kind of future THIS GREAT LAND will choose to have in the next fifty years but I'm hoping that I am again AHEAD OF MY TIME by predicting a revolution FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC and with no apologies for ITS SUCCESS.

Cheers, Connie