Greetings, everyone, from the road in New England, Warwick, Rhode Island, to be exact. I am here to travel across several states to support veterans running for political office. The title of this missive comes from the movie about a downed U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, Scott O’Grady, portrayed by Owen Wilson. Scott is a very near and dear friend of mine, a Brother in Christ. What is interesting is that in my many trips to New England, this trip to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, folks have characterized it as being behind enemy lines.
I find it very interesting that as we prepare to honor, remember, and celebrate our 250th anniversary of American independence, these critical states, where our fight for independence began, more closely resemble British victory than that of the American patriots. New England is where our American Revolution began, but for some odd reason, it appears that the loyalists to Mother England are the ones triumphant.
As I was traveling through Massachusetts, it was quite entertaining to see all the “No Kings” banners, yard signs, and other displays. It would appear that these individuals have forgotten that we shook off the shackles of King George III, yet these delusional, mindless lemmings have embraced an ideology of individual subjugation. Over 250 years ago, the Sons of Liberty decried the onerous taxation imposed on them by England. Now, these chuckleheads rally around those who rant about “paying a fair share,” which, to me, is no different from the policy and rhetoric of King George. One has to ponder what exactly a fair share is. It means legal plunder of the resources of one group to redistribute to another for the sole purpose of power and control. Well, that is just what Karl Marx desired. It was Marx who asserted, “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
How interesting that a fella like Bernie Sanders, one who has never held a private-sector job, yet he possesses multiple properties and flies about in private jets as he rambles on about oligarchs and wealth redistribution. And we know how leftists feel about private property ownership. They tell us incessantly, right before they delete their social media posts when discovered.
Our Declaration of Independence is a codification of John Locke’s Natural Rights theory, which today’s American Marxists describe as extremist thought. Locke is known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, which is why we should never refer to these Marxists as “liberals.” They are anything but such. Life, liberty, and property are the unalienable rights endowed to the individual by natural right, which Jefferson quotes when he says, “the laws of Nature, and nature’s God,” in our Declaration of Independence.
Yet, last fall, Virginia Senator and former Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Tim Kaine (D), which today means Marxist, stated in a Senate hearing that our individual rights do not come from the Creator God of the Judeo-Christian faith heritage. Kaine said that our rights come from the government, meaning man, which refutes what Jefferson wrote to establish these United States of America and individual sovereignty. Yet, the “No Kings” acolytes here in New England seem to have missed his declaration of government sovereignty.
In Massachusetts, they have a ballot initiative to repeal insidious gun-control laws, Chapter 135. If you know our founding history, the Second Amendment was born on April 19, 1775, at Lexington and later Concord Bridge. The British were marching inland towards Concord to destroy a weapons and armaments factory that was supplying the Sons of Liberty. However, there, that early morning on the Lexington Green, a British regular army regiment of some 700 was met by 77 men, the local militia. On that day, there was not even an America, no Army, no Navy, no Marine Corps. There was just a “well-regulated (trained) militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” When the militia commander, Captain John Parker, was ordered by Major Pitcairn to surrender their arms, he refused and stated those immortal words: “Men do not fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it start here,” and it did.
But today, legal, law-abiding citizens in Massachusetts are fighting to maintain a constitutional right that was born in the state of Massachusetts. Governor Healey of Massachusetts set out to sign an “emergency order” to undermine the Chapter 135 ballot initiative repeal, no different from what King George III, the crown, and those British troops sought to do that day, 251 years ago. Hmm, no mention of “No Kings” from the useful idiots.
Even when the last presidential administration was doing all it could to restrict the free-speech rights of Americans, no mention of “No Kings.” When the Biden administration was violating our Constitution, Article IV, Section 4, the Guarantee Clause, and opening up our borders to millions of illegal immigrants, where were the cries of “No Kings?”
It is truly disconcerting that the place where our fight for independence began, New England, now finds individual liberty and freedom behind enemy lines. Sitting here in Rhode Island, I am reminded of the great Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene, the architect of the war’s Southern strategy. Greene is a hero in the South, and although born right here in Warwick, Rhode Island, he died in Mulberry Grove in my birth state of Georgia. He is remembered by having a county named after him in the Peach State. I wonder what MG Greene, the Green Mountain Boys, and the Sons of Liberty all think if they saw New England today, 250 years after their heroism in taking on the greatest power on earth at the time, England? I truly wonder what those in political power across New England would say to the ghosts of those men if confronted in their dreams one night? Or those who ramble on about “No Kings?”
As we prepare for America 250, think back to America 200. What has happened in our nation in a short 50 years is a cause for concern. I also see it as a call to service. I pray that it does not become a second call to arms, but as CPT Parker stated, if the Marxists and their Islamist allies, much the same as the British enlisted Hessian mercenaries, wish to have a war, let it once again begin in New England. Of course, the leftist lemmings will decry me as calling for uncivil actions, but if they were honest with themselves, they would realize that they have begun an ideological war for the soul of our constitutional republic.
I implore all of you reading this missive, and I pray you will share with others, to plan on reading the entire Declaration of Independence on the morning of July 4th. Read it to your family, your children, grandchildren, and pay close attention to the grievances listed by Thomas Jefferson, the usurpations of King George III, and ask yourself, who do those grievances most resemble?
Steadfast and Loyal.
