America on verge of extinction
Feb 24, 2010 6:31:32 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Feb 24, 2010 6:31:32 GMT -5
For those of you that have never heard of Jeremiah Denton, do a little reading, others may remember the movie about him put out in the late '70's
America on verge of extinction
Posted: February 17, 2010, 1:00 am Eastern
By Jeremiah Denton, © 2010
Editor's note: The following column is adapted from a speech by retired Admiral and U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton to an audience at the National Marine Corps Museum last Saturday upon the release of his newly updated classic autobiography, "When Hell Was in Session." Autographed copies are available in the WND Superstore from the company that published it.
We are in a struggle for our very survival in America.
This book presents my ideas of how we can win that struggle.
Although the plan is far from complete, I have already concluded that, though we are presently in a bad way, we can indeed come from behind and will win this cultural war.
This belief is based partly on the truism that he who is most hungry for victory has a tremendous advantage in any contest.
We are by far the hungrier contestant, because it is evident to us that if things continue the way they have been going, the United States of America will become extinct as so many other nations have done in cycles throughout world history.
Further, our enemies do not recognize the key issue at stake in this war, so they are doomed to employ a losing strategy. On the other hand, most of us can perceive that the key issue is simply that our government and a minority of our population are trying to disconnect our nation from its roots! And we know that no tree can stand without its roots.
They are ignorant of what our roots are, and blithely unaware of their indispensability. The enemy is not aware of the lessons of history. If they were, they would realize that the principles and policies they are making progress in installing have been proven to be unworkable in repetitive cycles throughout history. They ignore history, thinking that they can replace the founding principles of this nation in favor of their insane principles. They regard the Judeo-Christian rules about right and wrong to be outmoded, and are convinced that they can easily devise superior, more "progressive" and updated principles to replace those of our founders.
We, however, know that we simply cannot survive as a nation if we abandon those principles.
An abbreviated definition of the foundation of our set of principles can be postulated in this manner: Our principles comprise those which are necessary for us to reach our historic national goal of trying to earn the title of "one nation under God."
A few decades after our founding, our success was established sufficiently that the success was recognized worldwide as well as nationwide.
This recognition is perhaps best confirmed by quoting William Gladstone, prime minister of the U.K., who in the mid-1800s dubbed our form of government "the best form of government ever conceived by the minds of men."
Note that these words came from the mouth of a man in the mother country from which we seceded in the revolutionary war a few decades earlier.
I suggest in the book that a single sentence of the Declaration of Independence contains the most central key to comprehending the most fundamental reason our government is the best ever.
These key words are: "All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
In 1776, these words flashed upon the world scene like a cosmic explosion in the field of political science. All previous major nations had been effectively basing their governmental theses on the premise that citizens' rights were dictated by the government – by the emperor, the king or whatever combination of king and parliament, etc., which effectively had ultimate power. Even democracies effectively dismissed God and used the ruler or the government as the definer and arbiter of all human rights, and effectively were the arbiter and defining authority in established what is right and wrong. Henry VIII is a classic example.
True, some ancient governments such as the Incas, the Mayans and the Aztecs sincerely held their gods and their divine rituals as the authors and definers of the rights of the inhabitants of their empires. But their gods were not benign like Jesus Christ, like Jehovah, like Yahweh – the divinities of the Judeo-Christian belief. In those ancient empires, frequent and massive human sacrifices were routine in their ritualistic governmental policies, contrasting with the love-thy-neighbor spirit of the Christian faith.
None of our population at our founding had any doubt or disagreement with our founders on who or what was the source of human rights. Mark that our population, as we were founded, consisted of 98 percent Christians and 2 percent Jews.
God was recognized as the source of our rights for over 250 years, in which time our nation became the most powerful in world history.
But gradually the countercultural wave formed and has been developing to an ever-rising height, by now having become a virtual tsunami, still rising in its wave height, about to destroy everything in its path.
Our Founding Fathers knew and copiously warned that they knew that all governments have an almost irresistible temptation to exceed originally established bounds of power. Our founders voiced their fear that our nation's biggest danger was that it would eventually succumb to that temptation. The evidence is manifestly clear.
Our government decided in 1973 that a child in the womb can be by personal choice denied its right to live. Our government authorized killing over 49 million babies so far, and the toll is rising. Our population is diminishing as a result of a diminishing birth rate, and this would be even worse were it not for immigration from abroad.
Government has recently decided that a man uniting with another man in marriage or sexual partnership has equal rights with a marriage of man and woman and deserves the same assistance and governmental financial deference as a married couple.
Prior to these "progressive" days, abortion was considered an unspeakable crime and outlawed. Homosexual and lesbian partnerships were outlawed and regarded as an abomination.
Those two examples are just the tip of an iceberg, as government is not only usurping the authority of God – our government is also repealing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The government is doing away with the balance of powers among the three branches of government, and violating the intention of our founders that the federal government cannot effectively replace and override state government of the sovereign states.
It is also denying the people the power to govern in the manner Abraham Lincoln historically said: "This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people." It is now the opposite.
Government has unilaterally, without a constitutional amendment and without a congressional vote or a national referendum, effectively reversed the meaning of the First Amendment, which has been redefined as meaning only that freedom of speech is an unrestricted right, and that religion and its practice can be restricted according to government whim at any time. True, the First Amendment forbade the establishment of a particular Christian denomination as our state religion, but it also said the government could not interfere with the free practice of a citizen's religion.
In effect our governmental system has now dismissed God as having any standing as the authority for defining right and wrong. The Ten Commandments have been repealed. President Obama confirmed this to the world in Egypt, proclaiming the United States is not a Christian nation.
Government has taken positive action to remove God from our public schools, from our courtrooms, from our coins, and has restricted public prayer. If anyone mentions God or something religious publicly, and if anyone says it is offensive, the mention is shut down; but public blasphemy and indecent language such as use of the "F" word are OK.
Too many citizens are now "pursuing" their "happiness" in any way they choose. Now without government scolding you, you can covet and commit adultery with the wife of your neighbor, you can deny the right to life of a baby who is entitled by God to be born.
The present degree of corruption in both political parties, of individual bureaucrats and elected officials at every level in government, is immeasurable. All these will not be corrected by new laws of reform, which are mere Band-Aid solutions offered by commissions after lengthy hearings, all never addressing the root causes of the ills.
Neither will new laws eliminate our unprecedented rate of divorces, of sexually transmitted diseases, drug addictions especially among children and the youth, mental diseases, abuse and neglect of children, school dropout rates – and every other of the many symptoms of personal, familial, social and governmental dysfunction.
Our America the beautiful has become America the ugly, all because of the activism of a minority of bad guys.
Let's face it. Amoral government is simply not capable of providing naturally workable principles or policies. History has redundantly proved that. God is nature. God is omniscient. God is omnipotent. Amoral men are damn fools capable only of creating chaos.
At this point in our rate of social degradation, we are close to national suicide.
If our Founding Fathers were to be reborn today, they would not recognize the country they founded.
We simply cannot survive if we do not promptly restore our original founding principles in the government.
My book deals with actual specific situations and describes a number of the specific events by which this disastrous situation has evolved. It describes some of the skirmishes between the good and bad guys, the balance of which the bad guys have won. It includes some of my own personal confrontations with the enemy within, and the enemy without. These personal confrontations took place over many years as I served sequentially in my various roles as: a military participant in the Cold War and the Vietnam War, in the Cold War and culture war as a senator, and as founder and president of a foundation devoted to restoring us to being be one nation under God, and to restore our national security.
God bless you. God bless our effort to save America. She is worth saving not only for the sake of her citizens, but for the sake of the rest of the world, for which this country has done more than any other in history.
Semper fi!
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America on verge of extinction
Posted: February 17, 2010, 1:00 am Eastern
By Jeremiah Denton, © 2010
Editor's note: The following column is adapted from a speech by retired Admiral and U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton to an audience at the National Marine Corps Museum last Saturday upon the release of his newly updated classic autobiography, "When Hell Was in Session." Autographed copies are available in the WND Superstore from the company that published it.
We are in a struggle for our very survival in America.
This book presents my ideas of how we can win that struggle.
Although the plan is far from complete, I have already concluded that, though we are presently in a bad way, we can indeed come from behind and will win this cultural war.
This belief is based partly on the truism that he who is most hungry for victory has a tremendous advantage in any contest.
We are by far the hungrier contestant, because it is evident to us that if things continue the way they have been going, the United States of America will become extinct as so many other nations have done in cycles throughout world history.
Further, our enemies do not recognize the key issue at stake in this war, so they are doomed to employ a losing strategy. On the other hand, most of us can perceive that the key issue is simply that our government and a minority of our population are trying to disconnect our nation from its roots! And we know that no tree can stand without its roots.
They are ignorant of what our roots are, and blithely unaware of their indispensability. The enemy is not aware of the lessons of history. If they were, they would realize that the principles and policies they are making progress in installing have been proven to be unworkable in repetitive cycles throughout history. They ignore history, thinking that they can replace the founding principles of this nation in favor of their insane principles. They regard the Judeo-Christian rules about right and wrong to be outmoded, and are convinced that they can easily devise superior, more "progressive" and updated principles to replace those of our founders.
We, however, know that we simply cannot survive as a nation if we abandon those principles.
An abbreviated definition of the foundation of our set of principles can be postulated in this manner: Our principles comprise those which are necessary for us to reach our historic national goal of trying to earn the title of "one nation under God."
A few decades after our founding, our success was established sufficiently that the success was recognized worldwide as well as nationwide.
This recognition is perhaps best confirmed by quoting William Gladstone, prime minister of the U.K., who in the mid-1800s dubbed our form of government "the best form of government ever conceived by the minds of men."
Note that these words came from the mouth of a man in the mother country from which we seceded in the revolutionary war a few decades earlier.
I suggest in the book that a single sentence of the Declaration of Independence contains the most central key to comprehending the most fundamental reason our government is the best ever.
These key words are: "All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
In 1776, these words flashed upon the world scene like a cosmic explosion in the field of political science. All previous major nations had been effectively basing their governmental theses on the premise that citizens' rights were dictated by the government – by the emperor, the king or whatever combination of king and parliament, etc., which effectively had ultimate power. Even democracies effectively dismissed God and used the ruler or the government as the definer and arbiter of all human rights, and effectively were the arbiter and defining authority in established what is right and wrong. Henry VIII is a classic example.
True, some ancient governments such as the Incas, the Mayans and the Aztecs sincerely held their gods and their divine rituals as the authors and definers of the rights of the inhabitants of their empires. But their gods were not benign like Jesus Christ, like Jehovah, like Yahweh – the divinities of the Judeo-Christian belief. In those ancient empires, frequent and massive human sacrifices were routine in their ritualistic governmental policies, contrasting with the love-thy-neighbor spirit of the Christian faith.
None of our population at our founding had any doubt or disagreement with our founders on who or what was the source of human rights. Mark that our population, as we were founded, consisted of 98 percent Christians and 2 percent Jews.
God was recognized as the source of our rights for over 250 years, in which time our nation became the most powerful in world history.
But gradually the countercultural wave formed and has been developing to an ever-rising height, by now having become a virtual tsunami, still rising in its wave height, about to destroy everything in its path.
Our Founding Fathers knew and copiously warned that they knew that all governments have an almost irresistible temptation to exceed originally established bounds of power. Our founders voiced their fear that our nation's biggest danger was that it would eventually succumb to that temptation. The evidence is manifestly clear.
Our government decided in 1973 that a child in the womb can be by personal choice denied its right to live. Our government authorized killing over 49 million babies so far, and the toll is rising. Our population is diminishing as a result of a diminishing birth rate, and this would be even worse were it not for immigration from abroad.
Government has recently decided that a man uniting with another man in marriage or sexual partnership has equal rights with a marriage of man and woman and deserves the same assistance and governmental financial deference as a married couple.
Prior to these "progressive" days, abortion was considered an unspeakable crime and outlawed. Homosexual and lesbian partnerships were outlawed and regarded as an abomination.
Those two examples are just the tip of an iceberg, as government is not only usurping the authority of God – our government is also repealing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The government is doing away with the balance of powers among the three branches of government, and violating the intention of our founders that the federal government cannot effectively replace and override state government of the sovereign states.
It is also denying the people the power to govern in the manner Abraham Lincoln historically said: "This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people." It is now the opposite.
Government has unilaterally, without a constitutional amendment and without a congressional vote or a national referendum, effectively reversed the meaning of the First Amendment, which has been redefined as meaning only that freedom of speech is an unrestricted right, and that religion and its practice can be restricted according to government whim at any time. True, the First Amendment forbade the establishment of a particular Christian denomination as our state religion, but it also said the government could not interfere with the free practice of a citizen's religion.
In effect our governmental system has now dismissed God as having any standing as the authority for defining right and wrong. The Ten Commandments have been repealed. President Obama confirmed this to the world in Egypt, proclaiming the United States is not a Christian nation.
Government has taken positive action to remove God from our public schools, from our courtrooms, from our coins, and has restricted public prayer. If anyone mentions God or something religious publicly, and if anyone says it is offensive, the mention is shut down; but public blasphemy and indecent language such as use of the "F" word are OK.
Too many citizens are now "pursuing" their "happiness" in any way they choose. Now without government scolding you, you can covet and commit adultery with the wife of your neighbor, you can deny the right to life of a baby who is entitled by God to be born.
The present degree of corruption in both political parties, of individual bureaucrats and elected officials at every level in government, is immeasurable. All these will not be corrected by new laws of reform, which are mere Band-Aid solutions offered by commissions after lengthy hearings, all never addressing the root causes of the ills.
Neither will new laws eliminate our unprecedented rate of divorces, of sexually transmitted diseases, drug addictions especially among children and the youth, mental diseases, abuse and neglect of children, school dropout rates – and every other of the many symptoms of personal, familial, social and governmental dysfunction.
Our America the beautiful has become America the ugly, all because of the activism of a minority of bad guys.
Let's face it. Amoral government is simply not capable of providing naturally workable principles or policies. History has redundantly proved that. God is nature. God is omniscient. God is omnipotent. Amoral men are damn fools capable only of creating chaos.
At this point in our rate of social degradation, we are close to national suicide.
If our Founding Fathers were to be reborn today, they would not recognize the country they founded.
We simply cannot survive if we do not promptly restore our original founding principles in the government.
My book deals with actual specific situations and describes a number of the specific events by which this disastrous situation has evolved. It describes some of the skirmishes between the good and bad guys, the balance of which the bad guys have won. It includes some of my own personal confrontations with the enemy within, and the enemy without. These personal confrontations took place over many years as I served sequentially in my various roles as: a military participant in the Cold War and the Vietnam War, in the Cold War and culture war as a senator, and as founder and president of a foundation devoted to restoring us to being be one nation under God, and to restore our national security.
God bless you. God bless our effort to save America. She is worth saving not only for the sake of her citizens, but for the sake of the rest of the world, for which this country has done more than any other in history.
Semper fi!
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