Preserving Liberty - The Price Is Always Paid With Blood

My Thoughts: It is almost inconceivable to me that Christian men and women who were born and raised in the greatest country, most achieving, most giving, and most founded on Christian precepts the world has ever known would even hesitate for one moment to defend our liberty; to defend the freedom granted to us by the Constitution of the United States. But on the other hand why should I be surprised, when I think about the horrific sins tolerated by the Church here in America over the past 50-60 years.

It’s not a cowardice fear in their hearts causing them to hold the view they cling to, but rather it is some twisted religious notion that the American traditions and ideals which once insured American citizens the freedoms paid for by blood are no longer worth fighting for –if, in their minds, they ever were. I must confess I am confounded as to how to respond to such religious loonacy. Therefore, please allow me to reference an earlier post on this blog, dated on September 10, 2011. The quote at the top of that post sums it up:

"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

—George Orwell (with a nod to the Mudville Gazette)

The following poem fleshes out Orwell's statement.

Russ Vaughn, 2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam 65-66 wrote a letter published in the Mudville Gazette titled Rough Men.

Rough Men

There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.

Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.

The faint—hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.

To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.

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"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."

-- John F. Kennedy

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

-- George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790

[W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense."

-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

-- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government"

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free? -- Andrew Ford

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

-- Hillaire Belloc

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

-- Claire Wolfe

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Ezekiel 33"...⁶ 'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman's hand.'

Esther 8:11-12 ¹¹ By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives -- to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions...

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Esther 9:1-5 ...the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them. ² The Jews gathered together in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could withstand them, because fear of them fell upon all people.^{... 5}Thusthe Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaughter and destruction,

Luke 22:35-39And He said to them, "When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?" So they said, "Nothing." ³⁶Then He said to them, "But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. ³⁷ "For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: 'And He was numbered with the transgressors.' For the things concerning Me have an end." ³⁸So they said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." And He said to them, "It is enough." ³⁹ Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him.

Psalm 144:1Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

Psalm 18:34 He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze

Nehemiah 4:14"Do not be afraid of them; remember the Lord who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.... ²⁰ "At whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."

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Luke 6:27-30 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Back to My Thoughts: Our LORD Jesus Christ is not saying to His followers they should allow the robber, the rapist, the killer or anyone bent on any sort of violence and harm, directed their way, should allow the perpetrator to continue to wreak havoc over and over and over again. NO. What Jesus is saying to the believer is to ignore personal offences, such as insults and other types of ridicule directed their way. There is a big difference between going to war over an insult, and going to war because the enemy wants to destroy you.

America is now at the tipping point. So, Church if when the time comes you are not willing to stand with the rough men, please, please, please get out of the way, while we do the necessary violence on your behalf.