A Letter To My College Bound Grandson

Dear son of my son,

You are about to enter the world of wonderful academic challenge. You will be presented with the tools, ideas and concepts that will enable you to progress through your life in a career that will give you the simultaneous gifts of achievement and enjoyment. You will also be presented with ideas that are not so noble, ideas that have the potential to contaminate not only your achievement and enjoyment but your freedom to realize those gifts.

The world of academia is fraught with powerful intellectual capacity as well as foolishness. It will be hard for you to discern the difference between the two because you have not much life experience.

I too faced the problems and consequences of not knowing how to differentiate between fact and distortion when I attended a fine university so many years ago now. Much as I would like to change that because my later life’s actions impacted others, I cannot. But perhaps I can give you some things to keep in mind as these next few years move along.

Here are a few things to consider as you encounter ideas that may sound good initially but in your gut you feel a distinct discomfort with them.

First, America was founded on Godly principles. The founders were men of faith. Only a few generations after the founding of America Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and other world leaders with profound intellectual capacity came to fear the people’s faith in God above all. At first, they did their best to eliminate God and faith from any non-controlled public discourse and later took actions of extreme violence in their war on faith and the faithful. You may not see physical violence but you may well experience spiritual violence aimed at you should you speak of your faith in public. Do not fear this. Such attacks are perpetrated by cowards. Arguing with them will not change them. Faith and logic simply cannot mix in the insulated world of the pure intellect. Change is theirs to freely choose. Use your faith and your intellect to step above such things. That is the very definition of wisdom.

Next, there are many great and noble organizations in America devoted to preserving your freedom and honoring your God given talents by protecting your freedom to use them. They continue the daily battle in defense of presenting freedom as the first priority of American government. At the same time there are many who should do this but now do not. Sadly, one of the latter is the United States Congress. It too is a House of intellect and foolishness. Many in our Congress feel that they alone are in sole possession of information the rest of us are not suitably prepared for from an intellectual standpoint to understand. There are dozens in the Congress now who are avowed socialists and who revere this level of arrogance.

You may well ask, “Is socialism such a bad thing?” Some of your professors may present the idea the Marx was not such a bad guy after all and that socialism isn’t as bad as you might think.

I can say with certainty that socialism is evil based not only on what I experienced as a veteran and other life experiences in the world but also on what I read in the words of Marx himself. Marx was the champion of communism and socialism is the primary stepping stone to communism. Here are some quotes from Marx:

“By abolishing private property, communism [socialism] will abolish all desire that people now have to possess things of their own to the exclusion of others.”

“The family too, with private spouses and private children, will be abolished.”

“Even bodily senses which we might have thought were irreducibly private will change their character.”

Marx believed that man must be relieved of his dependence on God and that atheism is absolutely essential for communism [socialism] to succeed.

The Marx quotes from above reflect the objectives of much of the legislation passed by Congress; regulation promulgated by cabinet members in the Executive branch and supported by the Judicial branch which now practices opinion law instead of Constitutional law.

Do you see the parallels in your life today? Consider taxation and property rights legislation and the imposition of amoral regulations on education and on Christian organizations. Do you know that it is illegal to say “God Bless you” in public schools in New York? Yes, freedom’s foundations and its attendant moral values are under attack in America and the attack is led by socialists in our Congress as well as the other two branches of government.

I cannot leave you with these rather grim thoughts without giving you more than just a moment of hope. As I said before there are many great organizations working hard every day to preserve freedom in America. One such is Get Out Of Our House (GOOOH.) Look them up on the internet and take a moment to study what they stand for. You may wish to join them. I would be much pleased, if you did.

If after you do this, you come to believe as I do that many in Congress are leading America to socialism and the eventual failure that is communism, examine other similar organizations. Then vote your conscience but by all means vote.

You as the American voter cannot be complacent now. Never in our history has freedom been more at risk.

A Few Good Reasons To Support The GOOOH Mission

The concept of servant leadership must be restored to the Congress, if America is to survive as a nation free of and dependent upon thoughtless bureaucracies created by a Congress inhabited by those who manipulate public feelings in order to distort facts for the selfish purpose of their own reelection.

Even a cursory review of the consequences of Congressional actions based largely on the perceived emotions of the electorate in order to be reelected reveals the need to support the GOOOH mission.

GOOOH will develop and support Congressional candidates who will:

1. Understand that domestic agricultural, mineral and energy resource development, production and transportation are critical to not only economic security but the physical security of America as well.
2. Demand a return to Constitutional values and the foundation principles of the document itself when presenting legislation for consideration by the Congress.
3. Act independently and not be swayed by the power that large “campaign contributions” can yield.
4. Act on fact after honest and exhaustive examination no matter how inconvenient or damaging to their political careers.
5. Honor individuality not collectivist diversity.
6. Defend the morality presented in America’s founding documents and their intent and dismiss overt and damaging political correctness which targets those values for failure.
7. Support the elimination of frivolous and unnecessary regulations and control or even eliminate those agencies known to habitually promote such regulations.
8. Actively promote the concept of nonintrusive government at all levels.
9. Willingly defend America from all enemies domestic and foreign and in the process of engaging those enemies work diligently to guarantee their total defeat.
10. See no threat to society in the faith based concepts presented in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

These are the core values of GOOOH. Examine their web site and see for yourself. This group of involved citizens represents and defends the above 10 ideals. It is their passion and reflects true patriotism.

Is Your God Based Vote Important

During the last three election cycles 100 million votes were not cast by an important element of American society. This was the total number of Godly men and women who did not vote in the 2006, 2008 and 2010 elections.

Consider the words of Benjamin Franklin: “He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, shall revolutionize the world.” And so he and the founders did exactly that when they established the United States of America on Godly principles and declared with monumental courage and defiance that Americans can indeed govern themselves exclusive of the heavy hand of an intrusive and controlling government.

We find ourselves today succumbed to a Congress far too driven by the desire to be reelected rather than to serve. The principle of servant leadership which demands unpopular but courageous decisions was abandoned in a two of the last three elections to the House of Representatives, a body which still has 70 or so members who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America.

So, it is no surprise then that these recent Congresses have stood silent in the face of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment. Consider the following brief list (a complete list would require a book of its own):

• In 2002 it became illegal to say, “God Bless you” in public schools in New York.
• A Pastor in Phoenix, Arizona was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 3 years probation for ringing his church bells for more than 2 minutes on Sundays.
• And in Philadelphia a great grandmother and 10 other Christians were jailed for exercising their First Amendment rights by presenting the message of salvation at a gay pride parade.
• A man in Salem, Massachusetts was arrested for presenting the gospel to a crowd of raucous Halloween celebrants.

The tragedy of these and many other examples is that the absence of Congressional action is equal to the failure of its members to uphold their sworn oath of office, most especially the part where they swear to uphold the Constitution.

The above are only a few of the thousands of examples of our Constitution being assailed by courts which have dismissed the Constitution as the law of the land in favor of perceived cultural changes. These examples reflect a grievous diminishing of the Constitutional values which form the support of its principles. They show that an entire suite of elected officials from judges to Representatives have simply cast aside the First Amendment and the rights claimed therein. It is Congress’s obligation to protect America from such blatant attacks on our inalienable freedoms. The last three Congresses have been largely derelict in their duty to America.
History clearly reveals that the founders knew the supreme place of God in the government of the United States of America. In today’s House far too many readily dismiss historical fact along with Constitutional law and consider both as inconvenient impositions on their seriously compromised concept of American government. It is time to remove these influences.

Do Americans want to support and grow secular socialism in America? Should we just accept the compromise of our most enduring Constitutional values of all stripes as simply an inevitable and acceptable change? Should God be expelled from the Constitution as well as our schools?

If the answer to these questions is “no,” then we must support movements like GOOOH where courage, morality and Constitution form its ideals and men and women sharing those standards are encouraged to seek public office.

Finally, our individual vote is important. It counts. Our carefully considered vote is critical in overturning and reversing amoral laws and government policies developed by those in the House of Representatives and other elements of government who have said “yes” to the above questions.

Those who can vote but do not must look beyond the excuses to the current consequences of not voting. It would be good to recall the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil, is itself evil.” Bonhoeffer was addressing Adolf Hitler.

Everyone votes, especially those who don’t, it is to be silent.
Examine the ideas presented by GOOOH and you will find an effective method to restore America to its noble foundations, a method worth sharing with your friends, acquaintances and elected officials as well.