The time for action is now.
It’s been a while since I have posted anything. I’ve been altogether too busy with work, family, the Moapa Valley incoporation thing, and so on. I still don’t have much time, but this is is important enough that I took the time to write it.
I just finished reading this report from michellemallkin.com about a DHS report on “Rightwing Extremism.”
These are scary, sobering times we live in.
There are so many things wrong with this report, and while I guess I shouldn’t be, I am shocked that my country has gone this far this fast. As usual, Michelle covered every point, so I don’t need to restate what she has said, but this part of the report, found on page two, got my attention.
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that…are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
Here is how fascism is defined by Merriam Webster:
A political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
Look at some of the bills that Congress is discussing, as well as those already passed. Look at their actions, look at some of the things they say. The current crop (that’s a pun - keep reading) of food related bills bill would cause grocery prices to skyrocket, and would make growing your own garden a federal crime (google HR875, HR759, and HR1332). A proposed Internet bill would give the POTUS unilateral power to cut off parts or all of the Internet in the case of a “national emergency” while failing to define a national emergency (of course). It would also give an unelected appointee power to see ANY and ALL Internet data (i.e. your online bank account statement, your online medical records, etc). The GIVE act requires compulsory volunteerism at the organization of the governments choosing (no churches allowed). Then there is socialized medicine, the “smartgrid”, cap and trade, global warming, monetizing the debt, assuming more and more debt and the way we are treating our allies and our enemies (Cuba, House of Saud and Iran), just to mention a few problems. We have also already seen the federal government go after individuals here and here. These issues just barely scratch the surface.
Are these not the actions of a fascist government? The DHS now states that if you “reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority,” you are an extremist, so much so that the DHS feels it necessary to have a report about you. Is this really where we want to go, what we want to be, and what we want to leave to our children?
The Founding Fathers created the union known as the USA from several sovereign states. The Constitution clearly states that the federal government derives it’s power from the states, and grants - GRANTS - permission to the federal government to do 18 specific things. It then goes on to state that ALL other rights are retained by the people, and that the enumerated powers of the constitution CAN NOT be used to weaken or deny other rights retained by the people. But now, according to the federal government, if you don’t acknowledge their complete and total power, you are a person who is just as threatening to them as Islamic terrorists, or members of the KKK, ALF, or ELF.
At some point, people are going to have to stand up to this evil. And make no mistake, it is evil. We have faced it before, a long time ago. Remember that Lucifer proposed that no one would have the individual liberty to choose the wrong thing. Ever. The good of the group would be put above the good of the individual. This would mean that all people would be successful, and he would get all the glory for the accomplishment. This proposal was soundly rejected by his Father, and by the majority of God’s children. One reason I suspect it was rejected (there were many) was because it violated one simple, eternal truth: There must be opposition in all things. How can one be successful when one can’t fail? Without having the freedom to fail, or the freedom to make a wrong choice, how can you succeed or make a right choice? It is not possible. All of us at one point understood that, but it is amazing how many have forgotten that. Let’s just say that Lucifer’s plan had been accepted by all in attendance. So we would all be saved; we would all be “successful.” But how could that be? We all would have gone through life without ever learning what we need to learn to enjoy that success. Even though all of God’s children would be present, none of us would be prepared to be exalted. We wouldn’t know what to do, and as a result, all of us would be failures. Our government is on the fast track to remove so many of our liberties that we no longer have the option to fail, or to make what in their mind is a wrong or bad decision (like having more than one or two children). When that happens, we will all be “successful.” But since we won’t know what to do, the only thing we could possibly be successful at is failing. There “must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things,” and the reason for that is simple. Opposition is the refiners fire that makes us all better.
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
That is one of my favorite quotes. Abagail Adams wrote that to her son John Quincy in 1777, in the middle of the Revolutionary War. Challenges force us to look deeper into ourselves and draw upon powers and talents we probably don’t even know we possess. We discover them, learn to use them, and as we sharpen those abilities, they sharpen and form us into the being that our Creator intends for us to be.
What actually scares me, even more than this latest DHS report (there have been others), is that I see so many people who know, who have been taught what evil is, yet choose to ignore it. They have access to all of the truth, light and knowledge that exists in this life; while they don’t remember specifics, they know what they fought against before coming to Earth. Clearly, since these people are part of God’s kindom on Earth, since they are living in these latter days, in this great nation that God created for a specific purpose, they did something special to fight this evil before. Yet now so many sit and do nothing. They simply say they will continue doing what they are doing, and pray for a good outcome. Since faith without works is dead, how will that approach work?
In a previous life, you did something extraordinary. Neither you or I know what it was, but because you are here, at this time, you can know you did something that was extremely valiant. You did not sit on the sidelines and watch, you were very involved. You were successful in fighting evil once, and now it is time to fight it again. Lucifer was a fascist. Like every other fascist who has followed him (Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Che), he has morphed into something even more heinous. Our current politicians are fascists. History shows what road they take, so I ask again: is this what we want to leave to our children?
Tomorrow is April 15th. Tax day. You may have heard about the Tea Parties that will be happening throughout the country. I would encourage you to go to one. Most feel that it won’t make much difference, that those in DC don’t care, and they are probably right. But it still needs to be done. It is the next (still peaceful) step. If you want to know where the nearest one is, click here. The Tea Party site is here.
Once again, it is time to stand up for freedom, liberty, truth and righteousness. No doubt it is scary. A latter day prophet has told us it may cost us in blood (last paragraph, but the entire speech is outstanding). However, we are blessed with knowing the outcome, but we still have to fight for it.
I recently finished reading the fictional series “The Great & Terrible.” At one point in the series, one of the characters explains his belief that when we can do for ourselves, God lets us do it. But when we can’t, and it is necessary for the survival of the righteous, God intervenes and performs miracles. The more trying the time, the more spectacular the miracle. While this is a work of fiction, that sentiment makes sense to me, and seems to be borne out in scripture. On several occasions, I have heard Glenn Beck say that we live in a time where we are soon going to witness many marvelous miracles. If both sentiments are correct - and I mention them because I think they are - then we are about to go through an extraordinary time. A separating of the wheat and the chaff the likes of which have never been lknown. Just as in the pre-existence, you won’t find “wheat” sitting on the sidelines, it will be actively engaged, this time in saving the world.
We have been told of this time. We have been told to prepare. The time for preparation is over, it is now time to choose and act.