Who Is Behind It?

Have you been reading the Presidential debate discussion boards?  Did you watch the Presidential debate the other night?  The criticisms that are flying around out there right now about both candidates are many.

We can disagree with both candidates and their ideas for our future.  We can spar back and forth about their failed promises.  We can argue that both sides of the aisle are right or wrong.  We can challenge the idea that the mainstream of the American people are turned around, facing the wrong direction, if you will, from true principles of freedom and the proper role of government. 

If you haven't read the books out there that are written by Ezra Taft Benson as well as one of the books he recommended written by Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, you are arguing, challenging, and sparring back and forth about the wrong things.  You must read these books in order to understand what is going on behind the scenes and who it is that runs our government.  You will be deceived if you don't educate yourself about what is going on behind the scenes.

I love America.  I love and cherish my freedom.  If I could be any more persuasive in telling all freedom loving people to read these books, I would be. 

My father retired from the Army Reserves a number of years ago, in fact I want to say about 12ish years ago.  He last rank was Lieutenant Colonel.  You would think that I would know a lot about governments with how highly ranked my father was.  You might imagine that we had late night chats with my father around the kitchen table, or in the front room gathered around his knee being taught about how dangerous governments can be.  You would think I might be taught about what the qualities are that make a man a true and honest character, who loves freedom and what the principles are of freedom.

I was not taught one word of it.

What I was taught is that my Father went in to the Army for the benefits of working for the government.  Although we didn't sit around the kitchen table and discuss it, I heard my Father on several occasions speak about how the government had a great pension, lifetime healthcare priviledges, and absolute security if you retire from service to it.  Absolute security.  I felt encouraged to work for the government myself in order to obtain that security.

Think of it.  Government jobs being Absolute security. 

I was't told stories of people who were innovative.  I wasn't told stories of brave men and women who came out into the frontier to find piece from evil governments. 

If you aren't teaching your children or learning yourself about how wicked people can become, then I exhort you to become a little more sober, a little more concerned, a little less worried about money and the daily grind, and pull yourself to the table of learning.  I have been learning about governments and the proper role of government and I have learned that the idea that the government is who will grant you Absolute security is false.  Security comes from you knowing the true principles of freedom.  Your security is in God and following his laws.

I mean no harm to my Father.  I love him.  But I feel ashamed about the many, many missed opportunities that came my way because of the sense he had that he needed to look to someone else to provide him Absolute security.  In his case, he looked to our Federal Government.  I wish he would have talked to me about thrift and self reliance.  I wish he would have spoken of trusting in yourself to work hard, save money, and the true principles that govern a free society.

Alas, I am left with learning these lessons late in life.  I would say that I am late to the game.  But, I am learning as much as I can and hoping to instill in my own children the love for these principles everyday, and even their friends get a little now and then. 

And onward I go.