Rise and Fight

The nation is more vulnerable than it has ever been. The hour is too late for a national revival of the strength, spirit, and humility that built the nation. Our People are divided. We have forgotten what we once knew, what once bound us as a nation and individuals. We have forgotten that our Liberty only was defended by us as a People, confident that though circumstances divided us, our humanity bound us to inalienable God-given rights. We sap our strength in wars of self-aggrandized hubris falsely confident of our military invulnerability to foreign powers feigning friendship and peace.

Our best rest on the laurels of their fortune, content to wallow in unearned riches. Our worst seek to aggrandize themselves by playing to the envy of the frightened majority cowering in fear of economic collapse. Our corruption blinds us to the urgency of the hour and temptation leads us into the forest of blindness. Our enemies from the East and South, despotic all, salivate at the sight of our wounds, confident in their ultimate victory. We are valueless, leaderless and rudderless.

We as a nation are all these things. But you, all of you as people are not. National revival begins with personal revival. Self-government depends in the first instance on the governance of oneself, self-discipline and self-control. Elevate again your soul and your mind. Resist the mindlessness that surrounds us. Gird yourself for that coming and now present storm that inflicts us from within and is soon to descend upon us from without. Remember again those mystic chords of memory that once bound us, were torn asunder, but can bind us again in the recognition that we are not class, we are not race, we are not creed. We are Free because we are human beings with a spirit that chafes and wails at the hint of despotic tyranny and slavery of our minds and bodies. That spirit is what makes you an American. That spirit, when it is offended will remind you of your duties to yourself and therefore to your nation. It is that Spirit of defiant justice that will again reunify our nation.These are Truths and Truths must be defended if they are to survive.

I expect that every American will do their duty when the time comes. The time has come. Rise and remember. Rise in the bitter tears of your old enemies expected victory. Rise and fight!

When that is done you will have honored yourselves and earned a victory that will ring and shout in the annals of time as a reminder of what is the destiny of all free people in the past, now, and throughout the tapestry of time.