by John Thurman

How would Patrick Henry address our dilemma?
 
They tell us fellow patriots, that we are weak, unable to resist their accumulated power.  Will we get stronger or will we choose to surrender to their usurpation of our liberties and freedoms?  Shall we succumb to the implantation of their RFID chip into the body of every man, women and child?  Will we resist the installation of a surveillance device in every room of our homes?
 
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we surrender our constitutional right to be effectively armed to protect our lives and our sacred honor to be free?  Shall we acquire the means of an effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs hugging the delusive phantom of hope, while our enemies shackle us hand and foot with debt or prison?
 
From the hallowed halls of the structures our founders built along the banks of the Potomac, our fathers erected likenesses of our patriotic founders and preserved the documents which testified of their noble efforts to secure and perpetuate our liberties and freedoms!  Over the years, we have become so passively content that we have rested on the laurels of their sacrifice and efforts.  Never have we been alerted to the possibility that diabolical politicians with a clandestine agenda were making mockery or our heritage and the dedicated resolve of our founding fathers.  
 
While we have been in an anesthetized state of slumber, our vigilance has not been disturbed .  There has been no galloping horseman with a couple of lanterns shouting, "The tyrants are coming"!  Our trust in the integrity of the so-called "free press" funded by our onetime "free independent states", has now become allocated to a small group of profiteers.  While they are hawking the wares of their advertisers (who add all their cost to the products we purchase), they are propagandizing our slumbering neighbors into believing it is more "socially acceptable" to exchange our Constitutional Republic and our Freedoms [for] a Fascists styled so-called "democracy". 
 
Perhaps Patrick Henry would conclude this observation with a paraphrase of his eloquent words:
 
We have no election.  If we were base enough to desire it, it is too late to retire from this contest.  There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery!  Our chains are forged!  There clanking may be heard on the banks of the Potomac and on the Hudson.  The confrontation between the International cartel headquartered in DC and the people of the Republic is inevitable---let it come!  I repeat Sir, let it come!!
 
Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!!!   

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