Posted by
Alice Lammonds on Saturday, October 23, 2010 12:15:26 AM
Tonight, it is just a few general musings. Nothing about any particular event today.
I have have been drawn to happenings in current events ever since I was a child. When I was 7 years old, I remember watching, transfixed with the Nixon-Kennedy Debate. I didn't really know why, I just had the sense it was important. This fascination grew into a love of history, especially American History, as well.
But like so many others, normal, day to day demands moved those interests to the background. I still paid attention to current events, but not with any real thought. After making it through the Carter years, President Reagan reingnited my intererst, and my sense of patriotism. Then, came 9/11, and the events that have followed. Need I say more about that?
In 2004, I was struck for some reason, with the speech of a then relatively unknown Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. I told my husband that I had an errie feeling he was being grooomed for bigger things, and being intentionally introduced to the world. No, I was not enamored by his speech, or him. His kind of speeches do not move me, but clearly, the audience was. A quiet, disconcerting, inside voice told me we would hear more from him. Little did I realize, just how much more.
Once he made his next major appearance as a presidential candidate, I remembered that speech, and that feeling. My "antenna" began to rise, and the more I heard from him, and about him, I knew this would not be good, but it took a while to know why. Then, the pieces began falling into place.
In 2008, before the elections, I found a small, dusty, yellowed paperback book I had bought years before at a flea market. It was "None Dare Call It Treason," by John Storm. I began reading it. It brought back information I had picked up through the years, and added more details, unsettling patterns. I even went to the internet and did some research on names, events, and organizations written about in the book, and the author himself, trying to debunk the book. I couldn't. All my research did was prove to me that the informaton and the author were legitimate, making it more disturbing. I have been hooked on following up on this information, and learning more, ever since. I am also seriously into reading about American History, our Founders and our Constitution. The more I learn, the more in love I am with them.
Several things have become crystal clear. We have allowed simply living our lives and taking our freedoms and blessings for granted, to lull us into a much too comfortable zone, for many decades. We are beginning to reap the harmful results of the seeds our complacency and the behind the scenes work of others.
Barack Obama may be the public face of the "Transformation" of America he has spoken about, but he is not alone in that movement, and it did not begin with him. But he and his cohorts have now put the gearshift into overdrive, and are trying to boldly speed on to the finish line.
There is something they failed to take into consideration. Ever since our beginnings, "Americans" have been a unique, feisty, freedom-loving, mongrel mixed breed. We prefer to be allowed to make our way, helping each other along our travels, each having a purpose in the pack and abiding by the rules and framework of the pack order. But when our senses pick-up on an actual threat to our pack, we gather together, and fight back.
I think we have surprised them, but no matter what happens November 2, 2010, this battle is just beginning. I continue to cling to the knowledge that American principals, American values, and the strength of millions of American individuals walking with God, can prevail.
Alice Lammonds