In the December 15 edition of The Washington Times Op-Ed Mr. Peter J. Riga of Houston, Texas wrote:

Why we are going to lose in the end

The real danger facing Americans is not radical Islam per se; its danger is only indirect. What Americans today suffer from is a deep dowse of relativism where there is no objective truth and if there is, we have no way of finding it. Each person is therefore left to find his or her truth and one truth is as good as another.

Consequently, there is nothing valuable in America to struggle or fight for, since you do not fight and die for something that could be wrong. You fight for values that are true and solid.

This is where the danger of Islam enters the picture. Islam believes in itself as true – in fact, as the only truth. Muslims are willing to die for this truth. Americans no longer are. Infected by relativism, Americans are unsure of the objective truth of America and its values and therefore are really unwilling to sacrifice and die for it. It is multiculturalism gone wild where everything is challenged. Having lost confidence in the truth of what America stands for, it is already defeated. The stronger culture of Islam will sooner or later replace the weaker American one.

I personally do not know any way back from this dilemma.

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The Liberty Tree Lantern certainly agrees and supports the entire perspicuous insightful premise outlined in Mr. Riga’s writing.  We would also add, however, what about our fellow countrymen’s 2^nd enemy of which we find ourselves pray to economically today and in the gun sights of raiding our homes and businesses tomorrow?  Are we Americans so mired in relativism that we have lost the truth as to the meaning, purpose and the individual prosperity producing results of true freedom and The Constitution that protects it? 

Are we are unwilling to fight for freedom, individual property rights, the protection of individual prosperity, and The Constitution against its dire enemy that is the direct and, ultimately, the sole cause of our financial and economic catastrophe through mass behavior modification of the American mind, the beguilement of “The Matrix” like world, we find collapsing all around ourselves in today?  That second enemy and battlefront, that has and is causing the collapse of our freedom and prosperity is the U.S. Government.  Are we so mired in such relativism that we are not willing to fight for whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves?

Did our patriots of the Revolutionary War, who fired the first shot against our government’s “peace” officers at the Concord Bridge at Lexington, heard around the world and all the wars since die in vain?  Are we next going to hear “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters, the Big Bankers who own The Federal Reserve company who control the U.S. Government.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer–not an easy answer–but simple.

If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom, or our individual prosperity from the threat of economic collapse or Government oppression and tyranny by committing an immorality so great as saying to 300 million Americans now in slavery, prison of the mind and taxation in “The Matrix”, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.

Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face–that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand–the ultimatum. And what then?

When Barack Obama has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the financial crisis, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he would rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery in a Socialist world where all that is left is the equal distribution of misery and no hope of The American Dream. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits–not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

You and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own destiny.

Have we been so programmed by “The Matrix” and its relativism that we are unwilling to fight and die for Freedom? 

What will you do without freedom?  To live without freedom is to live without any measure of individual prosperity, dismal health and no life worth the aggravation. Accommodate and appease and you’ll live, at least for awhile. But lying in your beds, many years from now, when you see your children slaving away while the vast majority of their paychecks go to “the masses” with barely enough for food and shelter left, for them and their little children, after “withholding” from their earnings to survive on, would you be will’n to give all the days from this day to that, to come back here and tell are enemies, they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!

If you think that Big Government isn’t going to tax you and your children and your children’s children, in the near future for all the Trillions of “taxpayer” dollars they are giving to their Big Banker friends of The Federal Reserve company, or Big Business like AIG and The Automakers, you are nothing more than a complete imbecile.  Whose side do you think the Federal Government is on, the Banks and Big Corporations or yours?  All you have to do is ask who the tax money is coming from and to whom it is going.

And those Trillions of your money that Big Government is taking away from you and your family for the bailouts is nothing but chump change compared to NINTY TRILLION DOLLARS of UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon as reported by The Washington Times and The Comptroller General of The United States, David Walker, who quit the position so that he could warn the American public of the plans of the U.S. Government to take your paycheck away from you to pay for these “entitlement” obligations.  Where the heck do you think that money is going to come from people?  The only question is, what are you going to do about it?

Relativism isn’t going to put anything but gruel on the table from the Socialist soup lines and your family either sitting out on the curb or in some massive “public” apartment complex that would give you the same feel to it as the huge edifice that holds millions of human beings in vats of slime in “The Matrix”, where they suck out taxes, through the IRS (Agents) umbilical cords and feed our minds with programming and propaganda.  Resistance will be futile then, when it’s too late, because they will send IRS “Agents” with dark sunglasses and guns to get you.  And nobody beats an Agent.  If you see one, do what we do, RUN!

As we have been telling you readers for a very long time, buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye, bye.  If you can’t see that now, after this economic and financial collapse that this blog has been warning you about since its inception, you might as well start walking to your nearest “Matrix” vat and jump in.  You’re a Government / Federal Reserve company taxation slave, your brain is hopelessly lost in its own prison, and you are history and destined for perpetual poverty and misery; unless enough of us brave and “free” pick up your sorry victimhood, give-me – give-me “free stuff” from Government, “what can we do about it anyway” whining butts and pull them out of the vats so that you can enjoy the individual prosperity and freedom that we, the free and the brave, fight for.

Mark my words, people; everything is going to change, in the near future, in ways that you are going to say you never would have believed.  We here at The Liberty Tree Lantern have been writing about this for years now, if not on this blog in forums and sites all around the Internet.  The Matrix is collapsing and the Agents are coming.  Socialism and/or Communism is coming to greet us at our doors at the end of a gun.  And some are foolish enough to think that is what they want.

If you want to stop the U.S. Government, the owners of The Federal Reserve and “The Matrix” itself from keeping you in the equal distribution of poverty and misery through Socialism, Communism, taxation, oppression, tyranny and despotism, you have to read and understand The Constitution.  And you must FIGHT for it, to the very word, word for word, to its very meaning, spirit and intent as it was meant on the day it was drafted, Amendments included. NO Changes.  Everything in The Constitution is in there to protect us from the Federal Government and the Bankers that control them, causing the economic and financial crisis we have today, for only freedom can generate the prosperity that we “thought” we had and would have had if The Federal Government, particularly both houses of Congress, would have obeyed the law, the entire law.