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On May 2, 9:15 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > *I Used To Have A Country ** > GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary > By Don Feder > 04/01/2013* > > Once upon a time, I had a country. It was called America or the > United States, “Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean,” the land of the free and > home of the brave. The Founding Fathers envisioned it as a Shining City on > a Hill. > > For more than two centuries, it blazed across the skies of history. > Now, its light flickers. Soon, it may be no more than a trail of dust and > debris. > > It was the nation that taught humanity the lessons of republican > government, personal sovereignty and inalienable rights. It was the foe of > tyranny which twice in the last century saved humanity from unspeakable > horror. > > It was the shores of refuge where my Jewish grandparents and your > Irish or Italian or Hispanic or Asian ancestors came for a life which was > impossible and, indeed, inconceivable, anywhere else. > > It was a cornucopia of products and inventions that enriched the > masses here and abroad and made life infinitely easier for millions. It was > the factory from whose assembly line rolled forth the incandescent light > bulb, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the television, the > refrigerator, the computer and on and on. > > It was a land of strength, determination, optimism, ingenuity and > heroism. It was a nation that led by example, inspired, liberated and > defended – that was unbelievably generous to the destitute and disaster > victims around the world. > > It was a country that produced giants – leaders touched by the > Divine – like Washington, Adams, Lincoln, Coolidge and Reagan – inventors > like Edison, Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, the Wright > brothers and Jobs, and artists like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and > Cecile B. DeMille. > > It was a nation whose optimism was reflected in movies like “The > Wizard of Oz,” “Casablanca,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Best > Years of Our Lives,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and “The Ten Commandments.” > > It was a nation that was born in blood, endured wars and > depressions, slavery and segregation, bread lines, picket lines and > quarantine signs, reversals and betrayals, gang warfare, urban riots and > “peace” rallies. > > That was then. Today, what are we? > > We may still dominate the world – industrially and militarily – but, > increasingly, we are living off the accumulated capital of the past, > drawing down on our legacy until nothing is left but a wistful memory of > our former glory. > > We are a people drowning in an ocean of debt – $16.6 trillion, over > a third in the past four years alone, a nation of indigent sheep blindly > following politicians who lack the will to stop spending money we don’t > have (at an average rate of $3.86 billion a day). We are a car without > brakes full of happy drunks, oblivious to the fact that we are careening > toward a cliff. > > We are a culture of brokenness. For every 100 children born here, 60 > will grow up in broken families. We are killing the future – 1.1 million of > them a year –in the name of a spurious right to choose. Now, our fertility > rate is the lowest since we began keeping records. > > Reagan said, “A nation that can’t control its borders is not a > nation.” We lost our sovereignty at the Rio Grande. > > While politicians dress up amnesties as a “pathway to citizenship,” > the nation is infiltrated by parasites, criminals, potential terrorists and > the arrogantly unassimliable – and there’s not a damn thing we can do about > it. Washington, the courts and media multiculturalists tell us that > attempts to stem the flow are hateful, bigoted and futile. > > We’re a nation whose entertainment industry is a cavalcade of > degeneracy – a steady stream of nudity, raw sexuality, bathroom humor, > gut-wrenching violence and sadism. Instead of manufactured products, this > toxic trash is now one of our principal exports. > > We are a nation with leaders whose answer to rampaging psychopaths > is to disarm the innocent, leaving them at the mercy of thugs and lunatics, > while congratulating themselves on their courage in standing up to the > mythical gun lobby, as they travel about with armed guards and live in > gated communities. > > We are a nation of serfs whose laws are written by geriatric > ideologues in black gowns who have made a mockery of democracy and turned > the Constitution into an excuse for tyranny and bizarre social experiments. > > We’re a nation which betrays its historic friends while slobbering > over its foes, whose response to the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 Americans > was a decade-long orgy of tolerance and understanding for the death cult > that animated the murderers, dubbed the “religion of peace.” > > We’re a country where a plurality now favors “solemnizing” an > absurdity and calling the travesty “marriage” – an unparalleled corruption > of language that is deconstructing an institution on which civilization > depends. > > We are a republic riding a rising tide of secularism, rapidly > turning away from the God in whose name we were founded. > > Our officials hypocritically take an oath of office on the Bible, > while they rarely miss an opportunity to undermine its teachings. We’re a > land of the lost where it’s illegal to display the Ten Commandments on > public property or erect a cross as a memorial to war dead, with a > president who deliberately misquotes the Declaration of Independence, > leaving out the crucial affirmation “endowed by their Creator with certain > unalienable rights.” > > We are a people so consumed by envy that we habitually fall for the > Democrats' con that society is a zero-sum game, that profits come at our > expense and that Obama and his Congressional gang are all that stand > between our precious programs and Republican budget-warriors determined to > preserve “tax cuts for the rich” at any cost. > > We are a country of benefit-addicts who are hooked on handouts. We > tell pollsters that we want Washington to reduce spending rather than > raising taxes – but not at the expense of my program or any program > marketed as benefiting children, the elderly, the disadvantaged, the > disabled, or any but tap-dancing, Anglo-Saxon millionaires. > > America 2013 is epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama, a man who so > despises this nation and every thing it stands for that he can’t even bring > himself to say that there’s anything objectively special about the country > he leads (American “exceptionalism”), who showed his contempt for Middle > America right at the start, when he characterized small towns as the haunts > of religious zealots, gun nuts and bigots – a president who’s determined to > govern without Congress and outside the Constitution, who’s committed to > expanding government as rapidly as possible – for whom > “revenue-enhancement” is a religion and mega-deficits are a ritual. > > Still, the man who occupies the White House, the way Germany > occupied France during World War II, is a symptom, not the disease. As a > conservative congressman recently remarked: “I think we can survive another > four years of this guy. I’m not sure we can survive another four years of a > country that would reelect this guy.” > > It wasn’t the media or the elites that ushered in the Age of Obama. > We the people put him in office and we kept him there. > > He’s given us the longest sustained period of 7%-plus unemployment > since the Great Depression, and we reelected him. He’s given us our only > trillion-dollar deficits – one for every year he’s been in office – and we > reelected him. Due to his war on energy, gas prices more than doubled on > his watch, and we reelected him. He nationalized health insurance, > resulting in huge increases in premiums, and we reelected him. > > Due to a failure to mount a rescue operation (while he was off > playing golf), a U.S. ambassador and three others died in Benghazi, and we > reelected him. His administration spent weeks denying it was terrorism, and > we reelected him. He called the Ft. Hood massacre (perpetrated by a Muslim > militant shouting “Allah is great!”) “workplace violence,” and we reelected > him. > > His Justice Department became an enabler of the New Black Panther > Party, and we reelected him. ATF ran guns to Mexican drug lords, and we > reelected him. He told businessmen who somehow managed to make a profit in > his economy, that their success was due to the collective (“You didn’t > build that”), and we reelected him. His family takes > lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous vacations at our expense, while the ranks > of the chronically unemployed swell, and we reelected him. > > No wonder zombie movies are so popular. > > Those of us who still believe in America are confronted with the > appalling choice of two political parties. One is run by a conglomeration > of radicals, panhandlers and perpetually aggrieved minorities; the other > has turned our values into campaign slogans which it sneers at in > non-election years. The Reptilian National Chairman recently castigated his > party’s base for “acting like Old Testament heretics” *(sic.)* by taking > his party’s platform seriously. > > We are fiscally and spiritually bankrupt. We are rubes at the county > fair who fall for the most absurd nostrums, and gape in awe at the panaceas > that are peddled to us, who care more for “Dancing With The Stars” (while > Obama dances with the Czars) and the latest mini-series than our nation’s > survival. > > We allow the decent and the honorable – the Boy Scouts, law-abiding > gun owners, churchgoing Americans, entrepreneurs – to be vilified. We arm > our enemies ($1.5 billion in military aid to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood), > undercut our allies (dictating extinction borders to Israel), surrender our > sovereignty and sell our inheritance for a bowl of government pottage. > > What can be done? First, accept the reality that we will probably > lose – that those of us over 40 may well be the last generation of real > Americans. > > But in that acceptance, there is power and, perhaps, hope. In “Band > of Brothers,” a captain advises a private who admits his fear: “The only > hope you have is to accept the fact at that you’re dead and the sooner you > accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed > to function.” > > America may yet beat the odds, though the prospects grow dim. If > not, what better than to die for than the country that once was? While > there are still words to write and speak, ballots to cast, flags to wave, > cases to argue and noble gestures to make, duty requires us to stand fast. > > Like the Marines who died in a green hell in the Pacific and the > 101st Airborne who fell at Bastogne – like those who stayed at machine gun > emplacements until the last bullet was fired and were later found dead with > the bodies of the enemy piled up around them – we must fight to the last. > > Our sacrifice will be an appeal to Heaven that may yet avert what > now seems inevitable. Or, perhaps, centuries hence, another people will > arise to claim the title of “Americans,” more worthy of it than our > contemporaries. May they be inspired by the example of the last of the old > Americans.**** > > *Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a > political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, > DonFeder.com.** ***** > > *The following story can be found on the GrassTopsUSA website > athttp://www.grasstopsusa.com/df040113.html<http://grasstopsusa.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aca8d391b7110c5...>. > Permission to reprint or quote this commentary on the Internet is granted > provided you include a byline to Don Feder, attribution to GrassTopsUSA and > link back to the article at the URL above.***** > > ** ** -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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