Creating a Culture of Involvement

We conservatives have been fighting for ten years to change the face of a corrupt and overreaching government.  For us it took almost having our nation and our freedoms torn away from us.  We would never have gotten to that point had we been vigilant as citizens over the last several decades.  A pound of prevention, so to speak, could have saved us a decade of serious hard work, fighting tooth and nail for our rights, witnessing the near destruction of our nation at every level. 

We now have a president who is actively working to bring America back to a true Republic, shrink overreaching government, reduce thousands upon thousands of burdensome/useless regulations, and take down a corrupt bureaucracy.  We have a Congress that is Republican controlled, a judiciary that is slowly being replaced with actual judges, not corrupted political/leftists and new rules being created that actually favor the citizen, not the government

We have achieved the goal of defeating the immediate threat but we don’t yet have our nation back.  Our work is only just begun.  We MUST NOT repeat the mistake we made over the twentieth century while we pursued our personal goals, ignored/trusted government and allowed socialists to slowly take over our lives.  We must go beyond the assumption that we have fixed or are on our way to fixing the problem….we must create a culture of involvement.

If we are to keep the Republic we are slowly recreating, we must become involved and stay involved.  We must teach our children and grandchildren to get involved and stay involved and pass that tradition down through generations from this point forward.  

If we fail to become and stay actively involved we will soon find ourselves in the same boat we were in 2009 with a Socialist President bent on destroying the Constitution a Democrat/socialist controlled Congress that is taken over by radicals who have the same goal and our freedoms being eroded away while we work, pay our bills and live our lives.

Ongoing activism is the BEST defense against allowing socialists to begin to gain ground again.  A free capitalistic/ economic society is one of the many blessing we have as Americans but we cannot make prosperity our first priority.  God must be first, taking care of our families is of course second and defending the nation is third.  The fact that we are not military doesn’t mean we mustn’t always be actively engaged in defending our nation and our way of life. Prosperity will come as a natural consequence when we keep our priorities in their proper places. 

If we fail to put God in His proper place and honor Him we will soon find our nation where it was 10 years ago.  If we fail to actively engage on a consistent basis in our government and keep it in check, we will soon find our nation where it was 10 years ago.  We have complained, talked and worked for change and we have achieved change.

We were well on the way to being completely kicked out of our participatory status in our unique government.  Because of our efforts over the last decade, we are once again becoming an active part of the government as we were meant to be.  We must not waste this opportunity.  It is time now for us to recreate America as she was meant to be…citizens managing the government, not vice versa.  We can finish the work of turning our government around and reclaiming our nation by getting actively involved, staying actively involved and creating a culture of involvement.

Children from an early age must be taught first to love and honor God, second the importance of family and third how our government works, our true history and a great pride in being American.  

With that pride must come active involvement from a young age and a life built on actively engaging with our government at every level.  A lifetime of guardians of the nation should become a way of life.  I believe our founding fathers assumed this would be the case.

If we fail to become involved we will not win this war….if future generations are to take on the fight we are now fighting we must pave the way for them and teach them not only to prosper but to be involved at every level from a young age until they day they die.  America is unique.  By becoming involved and managing our government we can once again spread the uniquely American brand of freedom around the world. 

It’s time to do more than talk/complain.  It is time to get and stay active if we are to finish the work of taking our nation back.  Volunteerism can involve as little or as much time as you wish to put into it and does not have to take over your life.  If you are not actively engaged with volunteerism at this time I urge you to choose a cause and get busy. There are opportunities everywhere we turn.  The time is upon us and I urge all who see this to get involved. 

For info on any number of activist opportunities across a wide spectrum of interests, please contact me. There are dozens of well established conservative, God Loving, Patriotic organizations available and all of them need your help and involvement.  

The ABJECT Stupidity of so called Red Flag Laws (aka Government Gun Grab)

I copied below the highlighted portion of a response to Lt Col Brown from the office of Senator Rubio regarding a proposal that the Senator is actually encouraging inspired by the recently passed School Safety Act (SB7026) in Florida.  I would like to know how the senator plans to protect due process rights of people if such a law is enacted.  We all know there is no such plan in place.  This law in Florida certainly makes it too easy to have some rogue judge order removal of weapons from a law abiding owner solely on the word of someone who states the gun owner is acting in a bizarre manner.  Given the current goings on in the DOJ/FBI/CIA and the allowance of the Republicans to let it go on....is that so hard to believe?  I don't just believe it, I KNOW it will happen if a Red Flag law is passed.

Another question for the Senator.....why do we have to have grants sent to the states to enact such a law other than a way to try and bribe states into creating unconstitutional law that the federal government can use later to overrule states and go after the weapons of law abiding citizens?  This idea is stupid upon stupid upon stupid....

All it has to be is someone who doesn't like the person, a political enemy (how long will it take lib bureaucrats and politicians to start using this tactic? about 5 minutes?), a ticked off spouse, an upset neighbor.....no other reason than that they are mad, and let's be realistic.....a person who makes a false claim will not be held legally accountable in any way, but the gun owner WILL have his/her guns taken away with no formal investigation into the claim made by his/her enemy and kept for who knows how long? It will be the gun owner who has to pay for mental health evaluations, lawyers, filings, missed time at work, and the whole nine yards.

Can we believe that law enforcement will care for those guns?  When the owner finally does get his/her guns back will he/she receive them in the same condition as they were taken?  Does anyone believe that a citizen will be recompensed for damages, while in police custody, to weapons that have cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars?  I DON'T and anyone who does is a fool.

I do not trust the government, law enforcement or libs to use this law wisely.  Veterans who have gone to the VA to get mental health assistance have had their weapons removed to the tune of over 250,000 so far....I don't even have a recent count....the cited count I just made is from 2015.

This proposed law is a thinly veiled avenue to get guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens.

Senators could do their jobs if they worked more than 30 hours a week and could actually put some time into finding REAL answers to the problem of mentally ill people who are using their weapons in a dangerous way.  Need I mention that more of the president's appointments would be completed as well?

The Red Flag law is wrong, it's unconstitutional and it's not the answer.....Sometimes I think Mr. Rubio seems bound and determined to work himself out of a job....

 An excerpt from a response from Marco Rubio to Retired Lt Col Royal Brown re: the School Safety Act recently passed in Florida:

 "We currently lack tools for law enforcement or families to take away guns from someone in their community they know is a danger to themselves or others. I am working to change this by incentivizing states to enact extreme violence protection orders, or sometimes referred to as “red flag laws.” Under my proposed law, the Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act (S. 2607), introduced on March 22, 2018, grants would go to states that enact policies that seek to empower families or law enforcement to prevent dangerous individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms, with due process protections. This is modeled after Florida’s recently enacted risk protection order law. Florida became the sixth state to enact such laws, with hopefully more to follow. The bill has been referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary."