The
Baron has spoken and has said it well.
Re-posting every word of this and do you get it? Do you understand? They will take everything from you, even the ground beneath your own two feet.
For Marty, Andrea, Nick, Bill, Findalis, HermitLion, and so many others. You know who you are.
Failure is not an option!
From Gates Of Vienna
PatriotUSA
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Bearing True Faith and Allegiance
By Baron Bodissey
The above scene was painted by Norman Rockwell in late 1945, just
after the end of World War Two. It depicts the homecoming of a U.S.
Marine, who has returned from the Pacific with a captured Japanese flag
and now commands the rapt attention of his listeners in a local garage.
The painting represents a time — within living memory, although just
barely — when there was still a commonly understood ideal of what it
meant to be an American. More honored in the breach than in the
observance, perhaps, but nevertheless a generally accepted cultural norm
of civic obligation.
The moment was before my time, but only by a decade or so. In my
early childhood that view of America remained predominant. Those little
boys in the picture were the young men of my time, and the returning
servicemen were the fathers of kids like me. What Norman Rockwell
presented in that painting and innumerable others was American normalcy,
as we all understood it. Yet it might as well have been the time of the
Peloponnesian War, for all the relevance it holds in what passes for
today’s civic culture.
By the 1970s Norman Rockwell was discredited in the eyes of cultural
arbiters in the media and academia. He was dismissed as a hackneyed,
jingoistic nostalgia-peddler, an archaic throwback in a time when the
most respected artists included Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.
Centuries from now, when the foolish political and social fads of our
time are long forgotten, Mr. Rockwell will be regarded with the respect
he deserves. Like Rembrandt, he had an uncanny genius for depicting the
human form and face in a way that conveyed a reality that the camera
could not capture. He will be recognized as one of the great painters of
our age — assuming, of course, that we have not by then become an
American Emirate in the new Universal Caliphate, with all the graven
images of our wretched
jahiliyyah faithfully destroyed.
The cultural norms and ideals represented in Mr. Rockwell’s paintings
were discarded along with his art. But this was true only within the
lofty eyries of our cultural mandarins — he remains perennially popular
among ordinary Americans, who revere his work as a reminder of what once
was, but is now gone. The memory of the old culture still lingers in
flyover country, even as it is deprecated, despised, and destroyed by
the post-modern managers of the country formerly known as the United
States of America.
For decades after most of the rest of the culture fell, the U.S.
military remained a staunch bastion of the old ways. As the battering
rams and siege engines of the long march broke down the walls of
successive institutions — the media, academia, the public schools,
commercial enterprises, the government — the military retained the
spirit that was so lovingly chronicled by Norman Rockwell fifty years
previously. The armed services functioned as a repository for our civic
virtues.
All that has changed, thanks to deliberate, cynical policies
implemented by the Obama administration. The top brass in all three
services are now more concerned with putting women into combat and
salving the feelings of their Muslim enemies than they are with their
country’s ability to win a war.
The last walls of the citadel have been breached, and the barbarians
are busily looting the storehouses and armories of the inner courtyard.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Article VI Section 3 of the United States Constitution
requires the following of citizens who hold elected or appointed office:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of
the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial
Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be
bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no
religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office
or public Trust under the United States.
The wording of the required oath is specified under
Title V § 3331 of the United States Code:
An individual, except the President, elected or appointed
to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed
services, shall take the following oath:
“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I
take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose
of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of
the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Every officer in the United States Military took that oath. The time
will soon arrive when a serving officer will have to choose between
keeping his oath and pursuing a comfortable career track in his chosen
service.
I don’t envy the lot of a dedicated soldier right now. Maybe that’s
why the attrition rate in the armed services is so high — honorable
people are making the decision not to re-enlist rather than be a party
to the unfolding travesty. Their collective departure leaves the field
to ambitious cynics and opportunists.
Things were bad enough when the Pentagon decided that soldiers in
Afghanistan had to treat the Koran with greater reverence than they
treated the Bible. The situation deteriorated further when the brass
ordered officers in the field to be more concerned with maintaining good
community relations with the locals — some of whom were actively aiding
the enemy — than with the lives of their own men.
Our government reached a new low, however, when it began to
collaborate with Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Libya and Syria. The
current president’s predecessor identified Al Qaeda as the enemy, but
Barack Hussein Obama appears to have different ideas. Unfortunately,
even if he doesn’t consider them to be our enemy, the mujahideen in the
Maghreb have no doubt they are at war with
us. They are
manifestly enemies both foreign and domestic — the latter in a more
subtle, suave, and dangerous form as infiltrators working for the Muslim
Brotherhood. Aiding and abetting these enemies does not support and
defend the Constitution of the United States.
Under such circumstances, how can a conscientious soldier both honor his oath and obey his superiors?
This
is hardly first time in our history that patriotic soldiers have faced
such a dilemma. In 1776 George Washington had to decide which he loved
more: his homeland and his ancient liberties as an Englishman on the one
hand, or his duty to his sovereign on the other. If events had gone
differently at Yorktown, he would have been hanged for his treason to
the Crown. During those same years many other principled men made the
opposite choice and remained loyal to the king. As a result our young
nation was riven by deep internal conflicts for decades afterwards.
Or consider Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, who in 1861 had to
choose between loyalty to his homeland — the Sovereign Commonwealth of
Virginia — and loyalty to a federal government that had ceased to
respect the sovereignty of his State. He chose the former. Like many
others at the time, his choice divided his family, since his sister was a
staunch Unionist. Ironically, the county where he was born and grew up
ceased to be part of Virginia during the war, opting instead to secede
and join the new state of West Virginia.
Another such hinge of history seems to be at hand. Difficult times lie ahead.
If some form of economic collapse occurs — which hardly seems
avoidable at this point — serving members of the military may be called
upon to quell the resulting civil unrest. How can a soldier honor his
oath when ordered to fire upon his fellow citizens?
Our public institutions have been so corrupted and degraded that we
can hardly depend on them to make the right decisions about the
constitutionality of such actions. Over the past twenty or thirty years
all three institutional guardians — the Executive, the Congress, and the
Supreme Court — have displayed a blatant disregard for the clear
requirements of the United States Constitution.
An honorable soldier will simply have to follow his own conscience to make the choices necessary to fulfill his oath.
I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes when the time comes. God help us all.
Source is here.
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