Monday, November 23, 2009

Remember the Alamo

The US flag should have been lowered to half-mast after the Senate health care vote on Saturday. Sixty senators agreed to debate the best way to obliterate the power of the Constitution, capitalism and Christianity.

It was not a day for anger; it was a day of sadness.

It was a requiem for the ideals and fortitude of generations of Americans who defended the world's right not to live in fear of government tyranny. Sixty people voted to snuff freedom's brightest beacon on earth.

Their act is beyond party labels and political squabbling. It defines the loss of America's pride in itself. The heroic tales of the generations of individual Americans who forged a nation with simple tools, perseverance and ideals were shunted aside; dismissed by sixty people anxious to extinguish freedom's breathe.

What happened to the courage of a nation founded on the principle that every individual had the right to pursue a life of liberty, the right to dream, the right to excel? What happened to a nation born of men willing to raise the colors on a battlefield? What happened to the spirit of America that propelled it to greatness?

Sixty people proclaimed its death.

Their names should be engraved in granite and anchored to Lady Liberty on Ellis Island. The monument's existence will remind the world that no people are safe, no shores impregnable, and no ideals immutable if the citizens entrust their rights to elected representatives who sneer at their oath to defend the Constitution.

It was a day of infamy.

Sixty elected representatives attacked the nation. They have no honor. They abandoned all pretense of Constitutional justification. Their sneak attack depended on secrecy, lies, distortions and the American people's natural generosity and trust of government.

And those who sold their votes for thirty pieces of silver should rot in hell for betraying every person on earth to whom America gave hope.

The sixty elected representatives' goal of universal economic slavery is built on the support of an ignorant constituency they groomed to run from challenges. They legislated multi-culturalism, diversity and political correctness to sap the vitality of American enterprise.

They justify the acceptance of defeat and retreat by labeling America's successful as aggressors and America's losers as victims. These cowards live in fear of the truth. That's why they ravage those who espouse common sense, those who shed a tear when they witness the deliberate annihilation of the prosperity of future generations of Americans.

Sixty senators put America on a death watch.

Their handmaidens in this treason, the media, celebrate the demise of the innate personal pride that is born of endeavor, the reward of accomplishment and their readiness to accept the artificial boundaries that decay the spirit of exploration.

I exhort every American to "Remember the Alamo" when they vote in 2010.