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We’ve heard a lot about “THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY”. Usually, it is referenced as a white anti-social conspiracy and has been used as a cudgel to demonize and build resentment against those who are conservative. However, there is much more to this than just a passing glance at a 30,000-foot level. The idea of “THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY” dates back well before any political office aspiration by the previous President of the United States. It is said the theory was invented in 2011 by the French author Renaud Camus and had similarities to the “white genocide conspiracy theory”, popularized by the American terrorist David Lane in his 1995 White Genocide Manifesto. But that’s the view most modern-day liberals would like us to focus on. But the theory actually goes back to American nativism around 1900. “According to Erika Lee, in 1894 the old stock Yankee upper-class founders of the Immigration Restriction League were ‘convinced that Anglo-Saxon traditions, peoples, and culture were being drowned in a flood of racially inferior foreigners from Southern and Eastern Europe’.” (Wikipedia.)

To varying degrees, some of those philosophies hold true today. It is our aim in this blog to bring a greater focus on those things that exemplify “THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY” in our Nation today. We challenge the reader to consider the idea of you being replaced as a citizen in our Nation today. When one looks deeply at all the various ways a citizen is being replaced in our society, we believe all honest readers will see the multitude of ways “THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY” is alive and well and expanding in our Nation today. Consider, in no particular order, the ways you are being replaced in our Nation.

Gas vehicles are being replaced with electric vehicles (EVs). You as parents are being replaced by teacher associations, schoolboards, and city and county governments, supported by biased attorneys and judges. As a blue-collar worker, you are being replaced by illegal aliens who are glad to take your job at less pay. Your vote is being replaced by those not legal to vote and diminishes your voice in the direction of our government. Those seeking housing refuge have found illegal aliens occupying and replacing your spaces, often supported by our own government and NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) funding. God is being replaced in our nation by atheists preferring to consider big government to be their god. Our U.S. manufacturing base is being replaced by being sold to foreigners and even moved overseas. Our food exports are being replaced by the need to import food products. Foreign entities are replacing U.S. citizens as owners of land, food and manufacturing facilities within our borders. Many citizens are replacing criminals in jails for simply exercising their rights under our Constitution for FREEDOM of speech and rights to protest. Our Nation’s energy independence has been replaced with a need to import energy from nations unfriendly to us. Delusional government and industry leaders are trying to replace 24-hour base-load natural gas and coal energy with sources incapable of constant energy production, where solar only operates on an average of 7.5 hours per day and wind only 4 to 5 hours per day. Cheaper energy sources are being replaced by more costly solutions increasing energy costs. Transhumanism, replacing humans with Artificial Intelligence, is expanding out of control. The U.S. dollar is being replaced with agreements from the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), among others, devaluing one of our Nation’s most vital commodities, the dollar as the world standard currency. Banking and cash transactions are in the process of being replaced with governmental controlled digital currency. The flood of illegal aliens across our Nation’s borders is outpacing natural born births because of decreasing marriage, lowering testosterone and sperm counts, infant mortality and miscarriages often associated with COVID-19 and the harmful effects of the often-mandated COVID-19 injections. National and world-wide peace is being replaced with growing wars and conflicts. World peace through strength is being replaced with weakness in our current government leadership. There is a push to replace our Electoral College with a popular vote where big metropolitan areas will dictate winners and losers. If the wrong party wins the election in November, one can be assured that the Supreme Court will be diluted, replacing the current count of nine, with four or more new Justices. In addition, at least two new states will be added to our union replacing the current balance by increasing the control of the winning party over any other. The current government leadership is laying the groundwork to replace our Nation’s independence with control dictated by world organizations and elite sociopaths in the WHO (World Health Organization) and the WEF (World Economic Forum). Our current cognitive compromised President is being replaced by one who had the lowest ever Vice-Presidential rating.

We are sure you could add to our short list. We will leave those additional areas in which you are being replaced to your own study and experience. One thing is for certain, “THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY” is alive and well in our Nation today. The only way to ensure saving our FREEDOM and LIBERTY is to vote and make a change at all levels our government. Do not seek perfection in a President, for none are perfect. Do not be a “one-issue” voter. Remember King Saul was not perfect, nor was King David, who was an adulterer and murderer. Moses was also a murderer. The Apostle Paul escorted Christians to their death. God works His will through imperfect people. We are imperfect, and so are you. Make your vote based on issues of right and wrong, good versus evil. Ensure that you vote, and that those you know and have contact with vote as well, for the continuance of the greatest Nation ever upon this globe is at stake.

Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 4.

“There’s letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged, They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery. Let it work, For ’tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard; and ‘t shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet.”

The “engineers” are those who have been devising plots against Hamlet. They assemble and wish to use lethal weapons upon him, but in fact will succumb to their own destructive devices. To use the word “hoist” is to suggest being tied up, strung up, as in hoisting a flag up a flagpole. And the “petard” can be construed to represent an explosive device, and in Shakespear’s joking way, could have derived its use and meaning from the French word “petarade”, or “breaking wind”, or as we might call it, a fart.

How in the world does this have anything at all to do with our Nation? Let us explain. The term “hoisted upon his own petard” is often used to describe situations where a scheme by one upon another has backfired and has in fact become detrimental to the schemer. The Looney Tunes character, Wily E. Coyote, depicted in the short video clip above, exemplifies this phrase in action, for all of his scheming always ends up backfiring to his demise. In our Nation today, events are being planned and executed in hopes of bringing success, reward, victory, and supremacy. Those who currently hold the levers of power within our National government have planned and executed multiple schemes to prevent a change in governmental leadership. They have secretly spied upon their opponent. They have used impeachment unsuccessfully to derail and thwart their opponent. They have orchestrated and conducted raids, lawsuits, court filings, censorships, threats, intimidations, lies, and invasions to bring down their opposition at all costs.

We would find it hard to believe that citizens of our Nation are unaware of any of these efforts put forth by the current government leadership. All of these actions are being perpetrated by the scheming “Coyote” in hopes of destroying the “Road Runner”. However, the “Coyote” does not look far enough ahead to predict his own demise. This is also true of those who currently wield the levers of power within our Nation’s government. We shout from the rooftop, warnings of their own demise.

Are those who are currently in governmental power unaware of the dangers of our Nation’s burgeoning national debt? How do they intend to stem its growth and bring about its reduction? Do they really believe that opening our Nation’s borders to illegal aliens, including more than 435,000 convicted criminals now roaming free within our own borders, will not have long-term consequences? And we are not counting the over 226,000 who have criminal charges pending! Do they not worry about the some 320,000 unaccounted for the illegal alien children they have escorted across our borders? Do they not fear that sending our hard-earned tax dollars overseas to our adversaries will eventually come back to harm us? How much of the over 85 billion dollars of equipment and armament left in our retreat from Afghanistan be used against our own soldiers and allies? How can one believe in “moving our Nation forward”, when prices of energy and food are high and getting higher. Will they move us “forward” to our Nation’s destruction and demise? The current President’s campaign theme in July was “Let’s Finish the Job”. How much worse could our Nation get, where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer? Is the desire to “Finish our Nation for good”? The current Vice President’s theme talks about “A New Way Forward”. Was the old one wrong for them? If so, why wait for an election to start changing things now? They also speak of “Freedom”. How do they define “Freedom”. Is it their “Freedom” to alter our Constitution? Is it their “Freedom” to restrict our access to certain guns? Is it their “Freedom” to alter the makeup of the Supreme Court of the United States? Is it their “Freedom” to restrict your speech and actions when in contrast to their ideology? Is it their “Freedom” to spend more of our tax dollars through more governmental programs? Is it their “Freedom” to add new states, Senators and Representatives from liberal enclaves? Is it their “Freedom” to monitor your income and spending habits, and even your medical decisions? Is it their “Freedom” to allow citizenship to whomever and whenever they want? Is it their “Freedom” to alter policing practices while favoring criminals over victims? Their “Freedom” is NOT the same FREEDOM or LIBERTY which we declare each week in our blogs.

All of these things we have mentioned are issues pursued by the current occupants of our White House. They will spare no effort to obtain their desired outcomes. However, even if they succeed in the November elections, their victories will be short lived. As with the “Coyote”, their efforts and actions before the election will eventually come back to bite them. Their “Roosters Will Come Home to Roost”. They will not be immune from the destructive forces they have unleashed. They will be consumed by their own schemes. Chaos will consume our cities and states. Acts of violence and destruction will increase. They will fail and be “HOISTED WITH THEIR OWN PETARD”.

There is nothing more important right now to ensure and sustain our Nation than to vote for a change at all levels within our government. Our FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake, not just for ourselves, but for our prodigy as well. Pray with all fervor. Act with all diligence. Vote with conviction and patriotism.

We were actually gob smacked recently when we heard that only about three percent of all church pastors even mentioned from their pulpits the need to vote. That small portion of pastors didn’t talk about who to vote for or why, they only mentioned to the parishioners a general need to vote. We always thought of religious people being pretty conservative in nature, people being against racism, against war, against indiscriminate abortion, and believing in the second great commandment, to “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:30). First of all, for pastors to not even mention the need to vote, and then for those few that did, to not even be able to differentiate between the good versus evil parties, both are inexcusable. Many Christians have believed the lie that there is a separation between church and state in our Constitution, promulgated through the decades by those atheistic, non-believing personalities and entities. The fact remains that there is NO separation between the church and state. What our Constitution states is that there is freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. It’s part of the First Amendment to our Constitution. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; . . . “ Nearly all of our Founding Fathers were believers in God. Why else would General Washington have been allowed to fly AN APEAL TO HEAVEN flags?

For Christians who believe that we are simply a “spiritual” people, not to be concerned with “worldly, governmental things”, maybe you need a little Bible history lesson. Do you believe Jesus was against war, and that we all should be pacifists? Hear what Jesus said in Matthew 10:34-36.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.”

Yes, it is true that some in the same family will believe, and some will not, and that will divide families and bring strife, and that’s the cost for “taking up your cross and following Jesus”. But it also indicates that one must stand firm in the path of God and defend your stand at all costs. Sometimes the Word of God, the Sword, will cut deeply into human relationships. To share the Gospel message is not done only by your actions, but more importantly by your words, and these things can bring strife, persecution, and division, but to not speak allows Satan to rule in the hearts of others through our inaction and silence.

Do you still believe Jesus was against war? Let’s go further back in history. Remember what John 1:1-3 says. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” What or who was the “Word”? John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Yes, Jesus was the “Word”, and through Him was the Creation. Now consider the historical record told in the Old Testament. Have you ever tried to count the number of wars in which the Hebrews and Jews were involved? Some they won by faith, and some they lost because of their failure to trust in God and humble themselves to His Will. We don’t have time to list the battles, even to count all of them, but suffice it to say there were dozens upon dozens through the recorded centuries. God was always involved, sometimes to give them victory, and sometimes to turn them over to captivity. Sometimes to redeem them, and sometimes to rebuke them. And you know who was there all the time? Jesus. The plan for man’s salvation was always being carried out whether through the conquering of God’s chosen, or through their salvation.

In the United States of America, an interesting creation of a Republic did not put a king in charge, but “WE THE PEOPLE”. WE are the “kings“, and WE dictate the direction of our Nation. When WE fail to carry out our duty as “kings”, WE abdicate our “throne” and leave it for others to occupy. Your “religion” is not just for you personally. Your “religion” carries with it an obligation to share the Gospel, and to grow “in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man”, just like Jesus did (Luke 2:52). WE should be motivated to not only reach up to God, but also to reach out to man. Our “religion” extends beyond us personally and carries with it an obligation to fight against the powers of darkness, and evil spiritual forces that pervade this world in which we live (Ephesians 6:12). As “kings” in the United States of America, WE dare not be silent, for to do so only gives our consent to the forces against our God and fellow man.

Man and woman were created to tend to the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1:26-30). WE had a job to do, a responsibility, a task. God did not expect them to sit idly by while His Creation suffered. That was then, as it is now. WE are responsible for God’s “stuff”, the earth, governments (Romans 13:1), the orphans and widows (James 1:27).

Do you care about the unborn being killed? Do you care about your friends and family being killed in foreign wars? Do you care enough for your fellow man when they have financial difficulty gassing their vehicles, buying food and medicine, being able to afford the healthcare they need, and someday achieving the American dream of home ownership? Are you concerned with the nearly half-million illegal alien criminals, convicted murderers and deviants, that the current government administration has allowed to roam freely with the borders of our Nation? Are you concerned with the approximately 320,000 children who are unaccounted for having been smuggled across our Nation’s borders? Do you care that they may be involved in sex-trafficking, slave labor, or even if they are now dead? Do you care about the continuing violence in our streets and cities? Do you care that those who rob and steal often escape accountability? As “kings” in our Nation, do you care enough to even vote, and vote for what is righteous, and just, and true, and moral?

Our current government leadership is encouraging foreign entities like the WHO (World Health Organization) and the WEF (World Economic Forum) to push for global dominance, making our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights null and void, taking your FREEDOM and LIBERTY away, making it subject to forces that despise our “kingship” within our great Nation. Do these people really believe that China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran would ever allow their nations to be ruled by these elites? These pompous, overbearing, delusional dictators who believe themselves to be gods, when in fact they are only minions of the Devil, are evil themselves. They are not our superiors, and they have no right to overthrow our UNALIANABLE RIGHTS, not granted by any government or self-imposed authority, but given to each of us by our Creator.

WE call upon all Christian peoples, and all religious peoples, to speak for your God, to act for your God, to vote for your God, for to do so is your right, and privilege, and duty as “kings” in our Republic, The United States of America. Get out of your pews and get on your feet. Your FREEDOM and LIBERTY are dependent upon you. DO NOT BE SILENT AND LET NOT YOU SILENCE GIVE CONSENT.

We all have to admit it. There are things that OFFEND us all, but not all the same things OFFEND us. Some of those things we addressed in our blog two weeks ago on September 8, 2024, titled, “THE SMELL OF PREJUDICE”. Over time, many of us have become accustomed to being OFFENDED, and we have been trained over and over again to just accept being OFFENDED, either because others tell us we deserve it, or maybe because we feel isolated and out of the mainstream and we feel the potential for ostracization. For decades now, the federal government and its multiplicity of three-letter agencies, of which few if any of them can be found in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, have slowly and methodically pealed from us, like layers of an onion, our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Some make sense however as a function of the world in which we live today. Wear your seat belt, bicycle and motorcycle helmet, and take off your shoes when walking through screening devices at the airport. But many things that OFFEND us have little to do with our personal safety and health, and more to do with competing ideologies. Even so, we have been under constant pressure to not question those who are “in charge”, believing them to be purveyors of our best interests. We have become like goldfish in a small fishbowl totally dependent upon our daily sustenance from the feeding hand above. Many of us have found our lives to be somewhat comfortable allowing others to provide for our care, and with the potential loss of that care, we easily fold and willingly submit to whatever we are told to do. Get this injection or else! You have to wear a mask, and if you do not, you cannot go in or participate! Don’t you dare criticize your “betters”, because if you do, you might get a visit from the authorities, and even worse, you might be tried in a prejudicial court of law, convicted and sent to prison!

Well, at FREEDOMGOFORTH.COM, we are not goldfish, and we treasure our God given rights to FREEDOM and LIBERTY! We have been blogging now for several years bringing to your attention facts and documents supporting our selected topics. We do not fear the long arm of government, or elite industry censorship, or concern ourselves with potential ramifications. We know where we are headed after this life and feel secure in our beliefs to always do what is right, and fair, and just, and moral. To do otherwise is to diminish our faith and kowtow to moral-less, overbearing and controlling government, institutions, personalities, and ideologies. We have a right, and in fact a duty, to feel OFFENDED, and to not express our dismay and provide alternatives would be counter to our purposes in our many blogs through the years. With all of that in mind, we want to share with you many of the things that OFFEND us.

We are OFFENDED at “participation trophies”. We are OFFENDED that gay drag queens are in our schools and libraries, for they once were, and still belong, in over 21 clubs and venues. We are OFFENDED being told we are deplorable, bigoted, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and sexist. We are OFFENDED when we cannot speak our minds when “offending” someone else’s sensibility, for that’s the hallmark of our First Amendment to our United States Constitution. We are OFFENDED when the main-street media “memory holes” the assassination attempts on our former President. We are OFFENDED when thugs ransack businesses with no arrests or accountability. We are OFFENDED when religious people are surveilled and persecuted by government agencies for simply praying and trying to live a holy life. We are OFFENDED when our government continually spends more money than it takes in. We are OFFENDED by the countless number of politicians that move into lobbyist positions following their incubation period in Congress. We are OFFENDED when our government spends more time making weapons and less time making peace. We are OFFENDED that our Nation’s history is being re-written, and that books, statues, celebrations, and holidays are being supplanted and forgotten. We are OFFENDED that big government and big business is sucking the life out of personal ingenuity, incentive, small business, and commerce. We are OFFENDED that illegal aliens receive more support through housing, healthcare, transportation, money cards, schooling and jobs, than do our veterans and homeless citizens. We are OFFENDED that our FREEDOM to speak has become a threat and is often identified as mis, mal, or dis information. We are OFFENDED that our government and big business has allowed our manufacturing base to be given and sent away to foreign entities and governments. We are OFFENDED that our government leaders have allowed our citizens to become dependent upon foreign sources for our drugs and their materials. We are OFFENDED that the current government pushes and subsidizes wind and solar energy sources, that are totally dependent upon weather and earth rotation cycles and have depleted our base-load energy world dominance and have left our businesses and citizens crippled with exploding energy, transportation, and food costs. We are OFFENDED that many have forgotten 9-11. We are OFFENDED that our current government leaders and Congress seem willing to give up our Nation’s independence to the WHO (World Health Organization) and the WEF (World Economic Forum), entities that only wish to see the demise of our Nation as we will be burdened with the plan for subsidizing the costs for “developing” nations. We are OFFENDED at the lack of Democratic concern for non-citizens voting in our elections, and their unwillingness to ensure only legal, verifiable votes are cast on time. We are OFFENDED at the current government’s push to diminish our Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, the ONLY thing that keeps our current government from becoming another dictatorial British Crown. We are OFFENDED that “famous” people feel a need to influence their followers to vote a certain way, all the while alienating half of their following. We are OFFENDED that abortion rights continually are thrown into election debates as a primary concern when the question of abortion only impacts an extremely small fraction of our society. We are OFFENDED that parents are being excluded more and more from decisions made about their own children in the education and healthcare arenas. We are OFFENDED that our current government continues to allow foreign investors to own and control many of our manufacturing, food processing, and healthcare functions and facilities.

We suppose if we were to take several hours to review all those things that OFFEND us, we would find the list above to be only the tip of the proverbial ice burg. Our response to all of those things that OFFEND us is to not look like the baby in the picture at the beginning of our blog. Stand up, suck in your lower lip, and put some words and actions to your being OFFENDED. Our Nation’s FREEDOM and LIBERTY are dependent upon you, not just your words but also your actions. Speak as though your FREEDOM and LIBERTY depends upon it . . . because it does. Act as though your FREEDOM and LIBERTY depends upon it . . . because it does. Vote for a change at all levels in our next election, for if the status quo is maintained, our Republic will be lost and will join the list of failed nations in the dustbin of history.

The above is just one sample of a Voter Registration Card. We want to call attention to the upper right-hand corner of the document. “Are you a citizen of the United States of America?” What defines a “citizen” of the United States of America? When filling out this card, you have two choices of answers to this question, “yes” or “no”. What would happen if an illegal alien, or “undocumented immigrant”, answered this question by marking “yes”. Our answer to this question is, “NOTHING!” Nothing is likely to happen to this individual, at least without an investigation. Why would we say this, after all, isn’t it against the law for a “non-citizen” to vote in our elections? Well, that is the question we want to address in our blog today.

What makes a person a “citizen”? If you attend any gathering, and are in the audience, are you not a member of that audience? If you are a student in a classroom, even if you enter the classroom by mistake, are you not considered a person in that classroom? If you visit a new church on Sunday, would you not be considered an attendee of that church service? Is a person who holds a “Green Card” a citizen? Are those who are allowed to stay within our Nation’s borders pending asylum review, are they considered to be citizens? How about those illegal aliens who receive from our government, or any NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), a phone, cash cards, transportation, housing, healthcare and schooling, do they consider themselves to be citizens? What about those who are granted “Temporary Protected Status”, do they consider themselves to be citizens? We are not building a case for excusing those who illegally enter our country and who may end up voting, but what we do want to do is to shed some light on the confusion that may exist in the minds of those who come to our Nation without first making the appropriate application for legal citizenship. If one of those individuals is now present within our Nation, might they consider themself to be a part of this country since they are in it? Usually, they cannot speak our language, and undoubtedly know little of our culture and less of our laws. They become nearly totally dependent upon others to assist them in their integration processes. Herein lies part of the problem. Many who provide “assistance” have an ideology and purpose contrary to our Nation’s laws. Often there is an ulterior motive to those who claim to help. When you sign a document, or click on the “I accept these terms” when agreeing to any streaming or app service, or just about any contract, do you always read the fine print? We wonder if the fine print under the signature line on the card above is pointed out to the illegal alien when being prompted to sign the card by an unscrupulous agent of any NGO or current government agency. We suspect that fewer illegal aliens might agree to sign these forms if they knew the penalty for false statements could cost them up to $125,000 and 5 years in jail. Of course, that assumes that some unidentified person or organization uses an unestablished method of determining citizenship and would spend the time and effort to challenge a single individual in an expensive court process. For those who assist aliens to fill out forms, do they ever inform them of the consequences for documenting false information? We have stated in a previous blog that having an illegal alien vote may be the end of the process for the attempt to flood the voter rolls with Democrat voters, but this is preceded by other less noticed influences that have a direct impact upon the governing of our Nation. Specifically, some areas in our Nation allow non-citizens to vote in local elections on local issues. Also, our Nation’s Census, taken every 10 years, asks for ALL people to be counted within an area, not just legal citizens. For further understanding, refer to our blog on March 10, 2024, titled, “THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE”. Our Nation’s House of Representatives is formed from Census results, including ALL people, not just legal citizens. National laws can be passed or defeated by the improper weighting of the number of state’s Representative’s by counting non-citizens, thus allowing illegal aliens to determine our own laws. Democrats have continually thwarted efforts to put a citizenship question on the Census. Why? If they didn’t believe fraud existed in our electoral processes, then why do they fight so hard to prevent election reviews or recounts? If they knew or believed our elections were above-board, transparent and free of any form of fraud, they would gladly welcome and assist in any investigation or review of any election, to shut up the neigh sayers. Why do they resist any investigations into potential election fraud. We feel the answer is obvious. They will do whatever it takes, allow whatever fraud may be present, to help them to achieve their desired outcomes. It is truly strange that ID must be shown to get on a commercial airplane, or even into the Democratic National Convention, but when it comes to exercising our most sacred duty as a legal United States citizen, proof of citizenship is not required to vote.

For a moment, consider the individual who may unknowingly vote in any of our Nation’s elections. Whose job is it to ensure that the voting individual is actually a citizen? Assuming you can find that person or institution, how is that done? We have ways of knowing when a person from one voting area moves to another voting area. We have ways of knowing who may pass from this life and is no longer alive to vote. We have ways of knowing who may be incarcerated and who may be prevented from voting. We also have ways of determining if a person who signs a mail-in ballot is actually the person who received that ballot. But how do we know if the person is actually a citizen? Right now, our Nation is unable to definitively determine citizenship, not only on Census forms, but also on voter registration cards. Proof of citizenship is not required. It is dependent totally upon an “honorary system” where we expect all individuals filling out a voter registration card to be truthful and honest. People who cross our borders illegally, and have already violated our laws, cannot be assumed to be honest and truthful on any of the forms they may fill out.

Under current “motor-voter” laws, those who are in our country illegally can obtain an ID (identification) card giving them the authority to drive. This ID is also what can be used to complete a voter registration card. This process is totally acceptable for those current legal citizens who do not or cannot drive. What is crazy is that hardly any identification is required to fill out a voter registration card. A Social Security Card number is not required. Note the card above. “A paycheck stub, a utility bill, a bank statement, a government document” are all acceptable forms of ID. Understand that in the state of Oregon, landlords are allowed to rent to illegal aliens. Once they are in a property and receiving utility bills, that is the only proof they need to register to vote.

Until our Representatives and Senators in Congress put on their “big boy pants” and do the right thing and make our Census for legal United States citizens only, and require PROPER ID to vote, our Nation’s FREEDOM and LIBERTY are in deep jeopardy. Only a change in the power levers of our Nation will bring about the needed change to secure our governing and electoral processes. This coming November, vote for change at all levels in our upcoming election. If our Executive and Legislative branches are not secured in this next election, be forewarned that the greatest ever experiment in self-government, The United States of America and her Constitution and Bill of Rights, will fail. If this happens, you and yours will have to learn how to live with less, own less, travel less, earn less, speak less, work more and die earlier.

Have you ever heard this little ditty? “Beans, Beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel. So eat those beans with every meal.” Granted, not a very high-brow approach to today’s blog topic, but it does draw attention to the power of one of our five senses. So does the short little video clip above. SMELL is a very pervasive sense. We are not like sharks that can smell a drop of blood up to a quarter of a mile away (americanoceans.org), or like a dog that can sniff out drugs, an on-coming seizer, or even a cancerous tumor, but nevertheless most humans can smell many types of odors. Sometimes smells are pleasant, and sometimes they are not.

We often use the analogy of smell to make a point, like “I smell a rat”, or “That smells fishy.” Do we actually SMELL the rat, or fish? No, it’s just a saying drawing attention to the fact that in our opinion something just doesn’t seem right. Over the last few years, as a society, we have been trained to avoid wearing perfumes or colognes in public, as they could possibly trigger an allergic response in a few others nearby. Some who eschew avoiding other’s discomfort, have been known to engage in what has been called “crop-dusting”, where the perpetrator expels “gas” in a store aisle as other unsuspecting shoppers cruise on through the SMELL. Cheap thrills at another’s expense. Regardless of your concern or disregard for another, some SMELLS are uniformly agreed to as disgusting. Most “poops” are foul smelling, whether coming from humans or animals. One flower, the “Corpse Flower”, that blooms once every seven to nine years, “reeks of rotting flesh and death”. (livescience.com.) Many will flock to see and smell it because of its uniqueness. Most rotting food is abhorrent to all. It’s God’s way of telling us it’s probably not safe to eat. An odiferous warning.

We mention all of this to set the foundation for our blog topic today. It is obvious that some SMELLS are disgusting and are worthy of our efforts to avoid. However, some SMELLS have been so pervasive that over time, we have become accustomed to them. A smoker’s house will be permeated with the smell of smoke, in the walls, ceilings and flooring. Over time, it will become imperceptible to the smoker in the house. But for the non-smoker who enters the house, the SMELL will be obvious. For those who work in fragrant shops, it is likely that over time, they too will no longer notice the SMELL. Just like one, who through routine, has become accustomed to simple tasks of life and no longer needs conscious thought for its task completion, so too do humans, and more specifically our Nation’s citizens, become accustomed to pervasive influences.

Unfortunately, our great Nation has been subjected to an onslaught of the SMELL of prejudicial influences over the last several decades. Our Nation fought a Civil War to end slavery, fought and won the women’s suffrage movement, among many other less noticeable battles, but the seeds, the SMELL, of resentment, restitution, and retribution endure today. Many in charge of our institutions of learning and in current positions of governmental power have stoked these simmering seeds of discontent, some for political, financial, ideological and/or egotistical reasons. More tragically, some even seek to supplant our Nation’s Constitution believing it to be a deterrent to democracy. Through these last few decades many of our citizens have gotten used to the SMELL OF PREJUDICE. The SMELL has permeated our society. Many don’t know where the SMELL came from, or even if it still exists.

We are all AMERICANS! We have all been entrusted with the care of this great Nation, one that provides FREEDOM and LIBERTY to all. Why would any of us desire to live with the SMELL of yesterday. As legitimate Americans, we have more in common than what separates us. Sometimes we are more critical of family and friends that are closest to us, yet we will smile and say “Hi” to a complete stranger on the street. As a Nation we overcame the “Great Depression” (1929-1939), and the terrible “Dust Bowl” (1930-1936). We unified as a Nation after our Nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. We did the same after the attack on our Nation in New York on September 11, 2001. In 1969 our Nation landed two Americans on the moon. Our Nation brought the USSR to its financial knees throughout the 1970s and 1980s, finally watching its collapse in 1991. These are just a few of our Nation’s historical events that have unified us as Americans, yet some still SMELL PREJUDICE, even long after its demise. For those that have lived too long in the SMELL of prejudice produced by self-serving elites and institutions, they can no longer recognize that the SMELL of prejudice that pervades them is an aberration. They have been deluded to think that it continues to exist. FREEDOM and LIBERTY need to be brought to those who remain trapped in the SMELL OF PREJUDICE. Your vote for a change in our National leadership is one of the first steps you can take to do your part.

There is a stench in our Nation, the SMELL OF PREJUDICE. “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14; NIV.)

A “PLATITUDE” is a very funny creature. It sounds like a very normal animal, but up close and personal, there is more to behold. If you simply just glance at it, you may miss some of its unusual aspects. What is its purpose? Are there secrets about its presence that need to be exposed? Can it be dangerous if not revealed for what it is? These are all legitimate things that must be dealt with when confronting any “PLATITUDE”.

So, we again ask the question found under the short video clip above. Is what is depicted a “PLATITUDE”? What is shown above may “sound” like a “PLATITUDE”, and everything we mentioned in the paragraph above certainly applies, but that creature is NOT a “PLATITUDE”. The video clip above depicts a PLATYPUS, not a “PLATITUDE”. We had better define both so that there will be no confusion, and so that we can fully explain why we have titled our blog, “PLATITUDES”.

PLATYPUS: “The platypus . . . is one of the most unusual creatures in the animal kingdom. The platypus has a paddle-shaped tail, like a beaver; a sleek fury body like an otter; and a flat bill and webbed feet, like a duck.” “Males have a spur, connected to a venom-secreting gland, on each hind foot.” “The venom is not life-threatening to humans, but it can cause severe swelling and excruciating pain.” Adults range from 14.5 to 24.8 inches in length and can weigh from 1.3 to 6.6 pounds. “Platypuses live in Australia”. “They can stay underwater for only 30 to 140 seconds . . .” “Platypuses are carnivorous.” Females lay eggs which hatch after about 10 days and the offspring are bean sized. (livescience.com.)

“PLATITUDES”: “a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before.” (dictionary.cambridge.org.) “1. A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. 2. Lack of originality; triteness. 3. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.” (wordnik.com.)

As legal voters in our Nation, we take great offence at those who claim broad and bold statements during campaigns without providing details which could make the claim become reality. For example, “MAGA” means nothing in and of itself without laying out the processes, methods, plans or procedures to be used to achieve the Greatness espoused. Likewise, “Saving Our Democracy”, also means nothing without first laying out what is failing in our Democracy and then producing the processes, methods, plans or procedures to be used to achieve the Salvation desired. Standing at a podium in front of thousands of cheering sycophants, fawning parasites, and saying things like, “I’m going to lower your food prices and rents”, or “I will lower your taxes”, and then not provide the pathways forward to achieve either statement, is an empty promise, voiding the speaker’s pronouncements. Unfortunately, many cheering fans love the goal without knowing the plan.

It’s too easy for a candidate, for any office, to make a grand promise in order to sway voters to win the election. We remember years ago a radio talk show host talked about a personal experience, the subject matter now or the point he was trying to make currently illudes us, but his story helps to lend credence to our blog today. He stated he was a student running for an elementary or high school office against a girl who promised everyone a trip to Disneyland if she was voted into the office. Well, she won the election, but do you think everyone enjoyed their trip to Disneyland. Nope. They got no trip to Disneyland for their votes. It’s too easy to make promises. It’s harder to fulfill commitments. “PLATITUDES” are nothing without nuance. You need the roadmap, the way forward, the details, the refinement, and without any supporting information, you might as well just believe you’ll be getting a free trip to Disneyland. And that ain’t going to happen.

To bring “PLATITUDES” into reality, the candidate must back it up with substance, laying out the problem, then showing the plans forward to solve the problem. For example, knowing that illegal aliens are flowing nearly unimpeded across our Nation’s southern border and bringing deadly opioids and sex trafficking with them, by simply saying, “I will solve that problem” means absolutely nothing. Declaring your plan to solve that problem by building a wall, increasing border security and staffing, and arresting and expelling border and law violators, and drug and sex smugglers, adds the substance to the “PLATITUDE” making it worthy of consideration.

Our FREEDOM and LIBERTY in our Nation are at stake. We can no longer allow our politicians and candidates to throw baseless “PLATITUTES” at us willy-nilly. Citizens of our Nation deserve facts and legitimate policies and procedures to solve our problems. Hold these people accountable to their “PLATITUDES”. If you do not, and if they fail to produce, then they are nothing more than a silly looking mammal with a beaver’s tail, an otter’s furry body, a duck’s bill and feet, and has a potential sting that can cause us extreme pain. To liken some candidates to the creature we showed at the beginning of this blog is a dis-service and demeaning to the very special PLATYPUS.

Beaker, one of our favorite Muppets characters. Innocent, obedient, and always seemingly on the short end of any accident. We suppose that having your hair on fire could potentially have an impact on your brain, maybe even searing it a little. We are defining the word “SEARING” by using “Dictionary.com”: “serving to burn or char the surface of something”. One can sear your meat when cooking it to lock-in the juices and flavor. One can experience a searing pain, or a searing emotional experience that can leave a permanent emotional scar.

Have you thought recently about your “CONSCIENCE”? What is it? Where did it come from? Is your “CONSCIENCE” different from another person, and if so, how and why? It seems evident that “CONSCIENCE” is derived by something that happens within each of our own thought processes. “CONSCIENCE” is formed from our experiences, from our training, from our social interactions, and from our own study. It is developed over time beginning at our birth. There probably is a portion of our “CONSCIENCE” that may come from the seeds of DNA passed on to us by our parents. How and where we are raised, from our early youth on up, help to define and refine our “CONSCIENCE”. “CONSCIENCE” is “An awareness of morality in regard to one’s behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement. Conformity to one’s own sense of right conduct.” (wordnik.com.) It is obvious that there is an important moral element to one’s “CONSCIENCE”. Each one of us applies our own “CONSCIENCE” to differentiate between right and wrong. For further study on the topic of “CONSCIENCE”, please read our blog posted on June 16, 2021, titled, “WHAT ESTABLISHES CONSCIENCE”. Is it possible to have one’s “CONSCIENCE SEARED”?

The forming of one’s “CONSCIENCE” is to some degree predictable based upon many of the factors we mentioned earlier. One’s “CONSCIENCE” can be corrupted over time due to many of the same factors that developed it. One needs to define what a “corrupted” “CONSCIENCE” looks like. One’s “CONSCIENCE” can be “corrupted” from a center point of neutrality. “CONSCIENCE” can swing toward good or toward bad, either toward right or toward wrong. We would like to believe the preferred state of a “CONSCIENCE” would lean away from neutrality toward that which is good or right. It is counterintuitive to think that a bad or wrong “CONSCIENCE” could be “corrupted” toward that which is good or right. The very definition of “corrupted” is “Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved. Dishonest. Containing errors”. (wordnik.com.) So, we will state that “CONSCIENCE” is our thinking processes that let us know the difference between good and evil, and that the vast majority of us have angels sitting on our right shoulders telling us to do what is morally right and good. The “corruption” of one’s “CONSCIENCE” then allows the devil on the left shoulder to lean one’s thoughts and actions toward thinking and doing what is morally wrong and bad. As we stated in our blog title, this would lead to a “CONSCIENCE SEARED”, a “CONSCIENCE” being “corrupted”.

Some individuals have been raised, educated, and taught in the ways of sociopathy. Please read our blog on June 13, 2021, titled, “DANGERS OF SOCIOPATHS”. We have heard enough of the lies being told over the last several days during the democratic national convention. Where simple research of the facts, available in multiple ways, would clearly refute unsubstantiated claims promulgated by multiple democratic speakers and supporters. We can only attribute this scourge in our society to be due to many having their “CONSCIENCE SEARED”. They have been “gaslighted” for years, believing lies to be the truth. They have failed to seek truth and are comfortable in believing and spreading lies told by others. They have no problem, nor do they see any conflict in their “CONSCIENCE”, in projecting their own sins upon the lives of others who do not have those same sins. Truly they are comfortable in having their “CONSCIENCE SEARED”. They have no problem living with the devil on their left shoulder. They have found comfort in sinful acts, ones of both commission and those of omission. They have no problem killing those still in the womb. They see no problem in violating any laws if doing so enables their desired outcomes. Morality for them is defined by doing whatever is necessary to get their way. Their beliefs and ideologies are how they would define their “morality”. They often speak using godly and righteous tones, but their actions are contradictory and speak louder than their words.

Let’s look to the authority on a “CONSCIENCE SEARED”. I Timothy 4:1-2. “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” (New International Version.) Their outward sanctity is stained with their hypocritical guile. “Professing to lead others to holiness, their own conscience is all the while defiled. Bad consciences always have recourse to hypocrisy.” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary.)

The only way to counter those who are sociopaths is to defeat them. You cannot debate them or argue with them, for their “CONSCIENCES” are too badly “SEARED”. If you treasure your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, you must vote to change out those who control the power levers in our Nation. However, your vote is not sufficient in and of itself. Prior to casting your vote, you need to insure those with whom you have contact also vote for this change. If they are not registered to vote, register them. If they cannot get to the polls to vote, take them. If they need assistance in returning a mail-in ballot, provide them with the assistance they need. Your small part, your seemingly insignificant part, is part of the vital whole that is required to bring about the changes necessary to save our Nation. Your most sacred duty in our Nation is to vote. Make it count.

Most of us are probably pretty familiar with the folk tale of Chicken Little. If not, then we are certain you have heard the phrase “THE SKY IS FALLING”, which comes from the tale of Chicken Little. In short summary, Chicken Little is walking in the woods, and she gets hit on the head by a falling acorn. She immediately surmises that the “SKY IS FALLING”. On her way to warn the king, she encounters other birds who believe her with no actual first-hand knowledge of the encounter with the acorn. On their way to the king to provide warning, they are met by a fox who cunningly leads them away from the king and to his den where the entourage is never heard from again. “We might [summarize] the moral messages of the story as follows: 1) don’t form incorrect conclusions from insufficient data; 2) don’t stoke fear in others without good cause to do so; and 3) don’t take other people’s word for things, especially when those other people are making extraordinary claims (which should require extraordinary evidence). (interestingliterature.com.)

There are many ways we can relate this tale to current world events. Anyone with a megaphone can espouse their beliefs without adequate proof or justification. Anyone willing to believe the user of the megaphone without first-hand knowledge or personal experience can be equally at fault for believing anything they may be told. Finally, believing a falsehood can lead to your destruction. The story of “the boy who cried ‘Wolf’!’ is a similar tale although in that telling the meaning is clearer. The Chicken Little tale dates back to the Danish folklorist and scholar, Just Mathias Thiele (1795-1874). In America the Chicken Little tale ” had already been [popularized] by John Green Chandler, with the help of Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), who is best remembered for writing the rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ and for campaigning to have Thanksgiving recognized as a national holiday in the United States.”

“The Chicken Little story continued to enjoy popularity in the twentieth century, with Disney producing a short film in 1943 warning about mass hysteria, with specific reference to the Nazis. The 2005 Disney adaptation completely changes the plot by adding aliens whose spaceship, or parts of it, really do fall from the sky, and, in doing so, misses the moral message (or messages) of the fable: in this version, Chicken Little is right to spread mass fear among the townsfolk and is thus vindicated.” (Same reference as before.)

So, why are we talking about the Chicken Little tale? Chicken Little was falsely reporting a past event. In our blog today, we are prognosticating future events. While we do not have any actual proof of events that may transpire, nor do we possess a “crystal ball” telling all, and while we have no idea how to “read the tea leaves”, what we can do is lay forth possible events that, based upon past events, can only lead to potential outcomes. With less than three months until arguably the most important national election in our Nation’s history, we will predict two different outcomes depending upon the election results. The events will begin to occur in mid-September and will likely continue deep into 2025.

The current conservative opposition candidate for the office of President of the United States is due to be sentenced on September 18 following the fraudulent court case. It is likely that the biased judge will rule that some form of detention is warranted, either in prison or house arrest in state. This will prohibit the candidate’s ability to campaign throughout the Nation and any temporary release may only occur at the discretion of the judge. This is obviously election interference. Those on the political right will be incensed, although the outcome was predictable, and will undoubtedly bring animosity toward the left to a fever pitch. Outrage will be evident, but the current government and social media’s attempts to censor free speech will only exasperate the animosity and some violent acts will be orchestrated to further lockdown dissent by conservatives. This is only the beginning.

The election in November will be tight, and outcomes may not be known for days leading to the distrust of voting systems and numbers. Lawsuits will fly in both directions, and the predictable dismissal by courts will be “lack of standing”, as has happened since 2020. Few, if any, judges will be brave enough to risk their employment and futures by making courageous and constitutional decisions in favor of the political right. Historical precedence is already the determinative factor. Once the election results are made final, and Electoral votes established, there are only two outcomes possible.

OUTCOME NUMBER ONE: Should the conservative candidate win, the opposition will take to the streets in every major city to protest the election results. Riots will occur, and many cities, institutions, structures and statues will either burn, be ransacked, or defaced in ongoing street protests. Many citizens will be hurt, and many law enforcement officers will be harmed as well, some of both will die. National Guard forces will need to be federalized to quell the violence and destruction. Some conservative businesses and individuals will feel it necessary to use fire power to provide protection which will only further exasperate the lefts incessant efforts to bring down our democracy, for which they touted a need to protect just a few months earlier. The new year of 2025 will be one to forget, one filled with rebellion, destruction, and anarchy.

OUTCOME NUMBER TWO: Should the liberal candidate win, many protests from the right will be initiated. Several will be infused with members of the FBI and CIA, among others, to exacerbate the destruction and violence that will be encouraged. This is all the current administration needs to further crack down upon dissenting civilians. Force will be used to invaded private homes and businesses bringing many into custody, into courts, with convictions leading to years in federal penitentiaries throughout our Nation. Opposition to the current elected government will be forced underground, and fear will reign supreme among the conservatives. The “Two Party System” in America will cease to exist, and a new era of political rule will take its place, forcing all into compliance, and if not compliant, limiting the FREEDOM and LIBERTY of conservatives to participate in commerce, speech, participation, and travel anywhere in our Nation and even throughout the world. World conflicts will increase. Inflation will again rule the roost, and food and other material supplies will run short due to the diminishing of fossil fuels and the premature governmental push to non-supportable EV and other similar mandates. A counter insurgency will develop, and our Nation will fall prey to other world nation’s attacks, both with kinetic and “Non-Kinetic Threats” (for further clarification please read “444. Non-Kinetic Threats and the Threshold Spectrum of Strategic Endgame Warnings”) (madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/444; Robert McCreight; May 11, 2023).

Either way, the immediate future is not bright. We do not want to stoke fear, but we do want all to be prepared for possibilities. Before the election in November, stock up on food and water supplies. Provide for adequate defense for yourself, family, and friends. Do not succumb to “irrational exuberance” but be predictive and smart. Our FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake. We are not “Chicken Little”, but we are not stupid either.

No, we have not invented a new word. FEARDOM is “the state of having freedom but being afraid of expressing it.” (urbandictionary.com.)

What does it take to obtain and maintain FREEDOM?

As we approach the final days leading up to the most important election in our lives, and maybe in the life of our Nation. We are being inundated with manipulated polls, where crosstabs are either hidden or intentionally weighted for maximum propaganda. There is an effort to create despair, hopelessness and even resignation among the conservative opposition. It has been a long slog over the course of many years. The Marxists, socialists and Communists have been eating away at our resilience and have slowly and methodically sluffed-off vital pieces of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Restrictions, mandates, regulations, shortages, increasing debt and inflation, foreign illegal alien invasions, increasing dangers of racial and ethnic divisions, biased legal prosecutions, increasing social violence, and the manipulation and control of social and national media have tried to bring many conservatives into submission. They have tried to overcome our FREEDOM with FEARDOM.

We may not be technically in a kinetic war overseas, or even seemingly within our Nation, but have no doubt, we are in a war in this Nation with those in control of the power levers within our Nation. Bullets are not yet being fired at us, but one did wound the conservative opposition party leader three weeks ago. Those bullets did severely injure two other conservative supporters, and they did destroy one family life and take the life of its heroic household head. Those in current power within our Nation have used every trick in their playbook to bring about the defeat of conservatives, democracy, and the very heart of morality and justice espoused within our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Sometimes we are called upon to fight on, even when we think our small part of the war, or maybe our effectiveness, has come to an end. We must admit that at times all we want to do is throw up our arms and say “I quit! I can’t do this anymore. My ability to help is all spent.” Do we have it worse than any of those who fought and gave up so much to establish our Nation’s FREEDOM and LIBERTY nearly 250 years ago? Maybe we need a small refresher course in how difficult it was for many of those of our original patriots who help to establish our Nation. Many gave some. Some gave all. In Patrick K. O’Donnell’s book, “The INDISPENSABLES”, his research of facts, along with those patriot’s personal notes and letters, have revealed the extent of their sacrifice and dedication. (Excerpts taken from pages 4, 5, 349, 339-340, 342, and 350.) We hope these excerpts from his book will add some clarity to our desires to flee or to our desires to fight.

First, let’s set the stage for what we will learn later on in this blog. “Nestled between a peninsula known as the Great Neck and a stretch of rockbound coast sixteen miles northeast of Boston lies one of New England’s finest ports – Marblehead, Massachusetts. At the time, the crowded, bustling town ranked second only to Boston on the list of the most heavily populated and prosperous towns in New England. The pungent odor of fish wafted among the more than five thousand souls crammed into hundreds of clapboard houses, many of them ramshackle, set in grimy, meandering streets.” “In Marblehead, fortunes were made and lost on the sea. By the 1770s, Marblehead’s economy relied on fish, especially New England’s most profitable commodity: cod.” “The prominent merchant families of the town . . . amassed their wealth by risking the perils of the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Marblehead fishermen sailed in schooners typically thirty to sixty feet in length, from thirty to seventy tons each, with crews of seven to eight and captains skilled in the art of navigation and leadership. They fished some of the most treacherous waters in the world – the Grand Banks. An area off Newfoundland larger than the state of Maine, a two-thousand-mile round trip from the mainland, the Grand Banks were singularly brutal. Men fought against the sea to wrest their living from it with little more than determination and their bare hands.” “Life at sea was grueling: from 1768 to 1769, more than 120 Marblehead sailors lost their lives to the sea. Twenty-three ships sank in the raging storms of the Atlantic. Such conditions produced hardened men who could surmount almost any adversity.” These were the same men that allowed General George Washington to cross the Delaware River on Christmas eve in 1776 on their way to defeat the Hessians in Trenton, most likely the single most important victory that propelled our fledgling colonies to eventual victory over the British Crown. Speaking of these Marblehead patriots, “They warred in a divided country. They not only fought one of the toughest adversaries in the world – the mighty armed forces of Great Britain – but also some of the most tenacious, the Loyalist Americans who were their neighbors. The greatest foes Americans have ever fought, throughout time, have been their fellow Americans. Had the British stoked this internal division more – through race and the divisiveness of the institution of slavery – and formed more Loyalist American units earlier in the war, and given them equal footing with their British counterparts, the Revolution might have collapsed from its internal division. The British would have divided and conquered. And while years of grueling work lay ahead on race, the diverse men of the Marblehead Regiment broke new ground with a more egalitarian view of race in society that was centuries ahead off their time.”

So, how did these Marbleheaders fair at the conclusion of the war? “The members of the Marblehead Regiment often fought for no monetary gain and became broken men – physically, economically, and mentally. Some paid the ultimate price, surrendering their very lives. They served honorably, against tremendous hardship, and did not desert their brothers in arms. The price to Marblehead was enormous in blood and treasure. By the end of the war, the town had 378 widows, 35 percent of the female population in the town, and 652 children would never see their fathers again.” “Their generation – America’s greatest – fought for a higher purpose and sparked a Revolution with groundbreaking ideals and principles, creating a constitution that changed the world.”

Back then, as it is today, many wanted to give up, but some persisted on, even at great personal cost. “John Glover, physically drained, infirm, nearly ruined financially, and with his wife sick, decided to part ways with the army. He considered the absence permanent, but in February 1777, Congress promoted him to brigadier general. Glover initially declined the commission, writing to George Washington on April 1, 1777, ‘I Cannot think myself in any Degree Capable of doing the duty, necessary to be done, by an officer of that Rank’.” “Washington responded first by conveying understanding of Glover’s situation and then praising the Marbleheader: ‘After the conversations, I had with you, before you left the army, last Winter, I was not a little surprised at the contents of yours of the first instant . . . . I know of no man better qualified than you to conduct a Brigade. You have activity and industry and as you very well know the duty of a colonel, you know how to exact that duty from others.’ A master motivator, Washington then laid on the guilt: ‘I have with great concern observed the almost universal listlessness, that prevails throughout the continent; and I believe, that nothing has contributed to it more, than the resignation of officers, who stepped early forward and led the people into the great cause, in which we are too deeply embarked to look back, or to hope for any other terms, than those we can gain by the sword. Can any resistance be expected from the people when deserted by their leaders? Our enemies count upon the resignation of every officer of rank at this time, as a distrust of, and desertion from the cause, and rejoice accordingly. When you consider these matters I hope you will think no more of private inconveniences, but that you will, with all expedition, come forward, and take that command which has been assigned you. As I fully depend upon seeing you, I shall not mention anything that has passed between us, upon this subject, to the Congress’.” “Glover relented and returned to the service.” During his continued service, he lost his son John Glover Jr. and his daughter-in-law. Having served and saved portions of the army and having played an important role in the war effort, “By the summer of 1782, Glover had had enough of the war. He wrote to Washington, ‘When I enter’d the service in 1775 I had as good a Constitution as any Man of my Age, but it’s now broken & shatter’d to pieces, good for nothing, & quite worn out; However [I] shall make the best of it.” “The expense of my little fortune, earned by hard labor and industry; to sacrifice . . . and total ruin of a family of young children.”

“The indomitable Henry Knox recalled that freezing Christmas night on the Delaware to the Massachusetts legislature: ‘I wish the members of this body knew the people of Marblehead as well as I do – I could wish that they had stood on the banks of the Delaware River in 1776 in that bitter night when the Commander in Chief had drawn up his little army to cross it, and had seen the powerful current bearing onward the floating masses of ice, which threatened destruction to whomever should venture upon its bosom. I wish that when this occurrence threatened to defeat the enterprise, they could have heard that distinguished warrior demand, ‘Who will lead us on?’ and seen the men of Marblehead, and Marblehead alone, stand forward to lead the army along the perilous path to unfading glories and honors in the achievements of Trenton. There, Sir, went the fishermen of Marblehead, alike at home upon land or water, alike ardent, patriotic, and unflinching, whenever they unfurled the flag of the country’.”

Are you in the grasp of FEARDOM, and afraid to speak and act in FREEDOM? So now we ask once again, “What are you willing to do for your family, for our Nation, to save and maintain FREEDOM and LIBERTY?” Have you given as much as have our Founding Fathers? Are you willing to sacrifice much to save all?