Winston Churchill was called upon by the British people to take over as Prime Minister of the country following a perceived weakness shown by Neville Chamberlain in dealing with Germany’s Chancellor Adolf Hitler in the early stages of WWII. The question today, as then, is “How long” before we see strength of character, courage of conviction and commitment against dark and nefarious forces? Photo courtesy MuseumFacts.co.UK.
At what point will we make a commitment to defend our society and fight against evil?
At what point have others made the commitment to fight against the evil in their own time or place? And if they chose not to speak up or fight what was the result?
We know that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves…”
Let’s look at what happened to people who continued to ignore and suffer these wrongs without largely speaking up and acting against these ills.
Russia? Germany? China?
The Russians following WWI didn’t fight against the evil in their own country. Between Lenin and Stalin 25 million of their countrymen were murdered by imprisonment, police state murders and starvation in the Holodomor—-defined as “the hunger”.
For years there was a growing political divide developing in Russia. In 1917, a group known as the Red Russians—Bolsheviks—were able to take power and overthrow the Czar. They murdered the Royal family and took control of the government.
The Bolsheviks then wrote a book called History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks): Short Course. This was later changed to History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union commissioned by Stalin. A Bolshevik official said there was a “need for a book which “instead of the Bible” would “give a rigorous answer… [t]o the many important questions”.”
The version of the history of the party described in the first edition of 1938 was significantly changed to match Stalin’s preferences and it changed during subsequent reprints following changes in party leadership. During this time the name of these Bolsheviks was changed to Communist.
Reformed Marxist Leszek Kołakowski described the “Short Course” as a “perfect manual of false history and doublethink”:
Its lies and suppressions were too obvious to be overlooked by readers who had witnessed the events in question: all but the youngest party members knew who Trotsky was and how collectivization had taken place in Russia, but, obliged as they were to parrot the official version, they became co-authors of the new past and believers in it as party-inspired truth. If anyone challenged this truth on the basis of manifest experience, the indignation of the faithful was perfectly sincere. In this way Stalinism really produced the ‘new Soviet man’: an ideological schizophrenic, a liar who believed what he was saying, a man capable of incessant, voluntary acts of intellectual self- mutilation.
—Leszek Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, Volume III, Chapter III, part 2
For decades the Holodomor disaster remained a state secret, denied by Stalin and his Soviet government and concealed from the outside world with the help of the ‘useful idiots’—as Lenin called Soviet sympathizers in the West. Thus, 25+ million people died without knowledge or protection from brutal tyrants and their henchmen.
These millions didn’t even include approximately 13 million people murdered during WWII by the Soviet Communists.
Were the people just too afraid to say or do anything? At what point does fear and inaction outweigh your life?
How about the Germans during WWII? They didn’t fight against the evil in their own country. And Hitler was responsible for 25+ million people killed on the European continent.
German civilians interviewed by US military following the war said, “we didn’t know” he was murdering people. But they did know people were being removed from their jobs, they did know people were having their stores and businesses boycotted and closed by law, they did know people were being removed from schools, universities, as doctors, lawyers and other positions in their society.
But, they still chose to keep silent.
From 1933 forward the rise of the Brown Shirts, SS, and NAZI factions segregated, vilified, and demonized various peoples in Germany. The German citizens knew people were disappearing from their society. All this happened with the citizens rarely if ever speaking up or acting against the policy.
Was it true that they did know and just did not speak up? Were the people just too afraid to say or do anything?
How about the Chinese following WWII? They didn’t fight against the evil in their own country. Between 1950-1955 Chinese Premier Mao Tse Tung’s government was responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labor, and mass executions.
Did the people know and just not speak up? Were the people just too afraid to say or do any thing?
These dictators regulated what resources were available to the people. Then they deprived the people and starved them into submission and death.
A self sufficient people are a threat and danger to dictators and totalitarians. Thus they limit what resources are available to citizens to gain control over them.
In 1776 the congress of the United States declared they were not going to take it anymore. This after a “long train of abuses”.
The colonists suffered 27 abuses at the dictate of King George III. Each of these abuses had been directed at the colonies for the purpose of establishing a tyrannical government in North America. Jefferson stated in the Declaration that “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such…”
Beginning with not obeying the law and abusing legal justice all the way to the fact that the king “excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
Those men assembled said they were “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world”—Almighty God!
Here we see a very different approach to tyranny. They DID speak up, and they DID act against the evil in their own country! And they DID call upon Almighty God for their help! They told the king and his minions they were not going to tolerate the abuse and ungodly actions the king was taking!
Following their vocal disputation of the king’s behavior, the men at Lexington Green let him hear the “shot heard round the world”! It was loud! Because the men spoke up, but more importantly took action, they won their self respect, their community, and their nation back for Liberty.
Less than a century later, another group of tyrants thought they could breeze by the citizens and abuse them. After nearly 50 years of frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, the SC state legislature voted unanimously to repeal South Carolina’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution and thus leave the Union.
Upon doing so there were other Southern States who joined them. Each State proclaimed the right of independent and sovereign states to govern their own affairs without interference from the Federal government.
They claimed that the Federal government had subverted the Constitution, and “inaugurat[ing] a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its peace and safety.”
The South Carolina legislature representing “the people of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge…” Here the people of SC called on the Almighty again to hear their pleas for help.
Thus, the people voiced their disapproval of the Federal government’s interference in the sovereignty of SC. Like the men at Lexington Green these would soon engage in action defending their beliefs and values.
The men of that day spoke up and took action. In doing so they won their own self respect and that of their fellow citizens. I regret to say, they did not win the war for Constitutional government and independent state sovereignty.
That battle rages today as new tyrants have arisen. Now we have a mutual enemy who has come in to our country and once again seized power at the highest levels influencing and capturing the hearts and minds of our people. Our youth are falling prey to devils pushing forward a perverted agenda to destroy their minds and their bodies. They have convinced many to mutilate their bodies and pervert their minds with various elements of what used to be cause for civil action—witchcraft and sorcery.
This is being done at taxpayer funded public schools, and pushed by local, town, county, state, and federal government levels, and many other places.
If citizens will once again speak up and take action we might see victory. But, regardless whether we see victory or not we must do it. Because the enemy is in the gate.
20th century British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said “…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
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