Like always, I will get to your right to be right shortly. Some one asked me about my writing process. Remember my TCV article “Billy’s Mark”? That effort required several days of research and a couple of hours of writing.
My last theconservativevoice.com exercise “Mirror Check” took a couple hours of research and several days of writing. Words for that article never did flow.
Shortly after submitting my last effort to theconservativevoice.com I remembered an incident that happened between myself and my father four and a half decades ago.
Guess by now some of you know that I was raised on a farm. I forget what farm chore I was doing when my father walked up shook his head and said, “Boy your life will be a lot easier when you learn not to work against yourself.”
Imagine how I felt, I was with my father when he went home five plus years ago, and I am still learning lessons he taught me over forty years ago.
For some unknown reason I just had to see if that long past advice would apply to my writing which I have devoted myself too since early 1970’s. Results are in: research for “Right To Be Right” less than an hour research, and writing time less than two hours.
Following was written by Edward Everett Hale and published in 1917. Young Hale entered Yale College at fourteen, having, ultimately the ministry in view. Just after the battle of Lexington, at a town meeting, with the audacity of boyhood, he cried out, “Let us never lay down our arms till we have achieved independence!”
Where had he learned that new word, not to be found in Shakespeare, or in Spenser, and in Bacon, only as applied to the “Independents” of England? Is there on record any earlier demand for independence than this bold utterance of the boy in April 1775? One later sentence made the young Nathan Hale’s name immortal: “I only regret that I have but one life to give to my country.”
Following comments were delivered in St. John’s Church, Richmond Virginia, in 1775. … It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men to engage in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not the things, which so nearly concern temporal salvation? For my part, what ever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and provide for it.
… Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased with the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what course others will take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry
Following is part of a letter from: “Commandancy of the Alamo, Feb’y 24th, 1836.
… I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his own honor and that of his country. Victory or Death.
William Barrett Travis, Lt. Col. Comdt.
PS: The Lord is on our side. When the enemy first appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or thirty head of beeves. Travis
On March 3 Travis wrote: “A blood-red banner waves from the church at Bexar, and in the camp above us, in token that the war is one of vengeance against rebels … Their threats have no influence on me or my men, but to make all fight with desperation, and with that high-souled courage which characterizes the patriot who is willing to die in defense of his country’s liberty and his own honor.” But the end was near (March 6). Cited from a School History of Texas by Barker, Potts, and Ramsdell Copyright 1913.
I heard a comment one time, give your team member a break, he is stressed out by the burden of his responsibilities.
Next time you encounter someone complaining about burden of their responsibilities, politely remind them of Col. Travis’s responsibilities:
1. Depending on how much time he could buy General Houston, at this point in Texas War for Independence, Travis was solely responsibly for the Republic’s future,
2. Travis was responsible for insuring that deaths of 183 of his fellow patriots were not in vain, and
3. Travis knew he was leaving his son without guidance through life only a loving father can provide.
All these responsibilities (remember there were no CNN or Fox News crews around), and what was Col Travis most grateful for, 80 or 90 bushels of corn and 20 or thirty head of cattle.
I implore your persistence through two more citations and one good point and we will arrive at your right to be right.
Are not the first words of Amendment I.: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof?
Not being a religious scholar is not the first Commandment about; Thou shall have no other Gods before me?
Translation, Heaven gave us free will so we might accept the greatest gift because we voluntarily wanted too, not forced too as slaves. Is not a prerequisite of free will liberty from government tyranny?
Could the reason internationalist moneylender Republicans, socialist Democrats, and most judges are people of principal not principle is because they do not like competition from, or respect inherent freedom of a religious belief system based on free will and individual liberty?
Just as you have a right to be right; internationalist Republicans, socialist Democrats, and judges have a right to be wrong and compromise (betray) their oaths to God and America to uphold protect and defend America’s Constitution.
There are two problems with compromising principles: compromise half today, half tomorrow, and half next day; before you know it, you have nothing left to compromise. Also consequences of compromising principles may be unpleasant.
Bill of Rights guarantees all American governments not infringing on Heaven’s inalienable right to choose to be right. If not exercised by conservatives, then by who?
It is my sincerest wish, if you forget everything I have written before or ignore every word I write in the future, that you never ever forget no matter what anybody says or any American government does, you have the right to not compromise and choose principle over principal. America would have a brighter future if more citizens exercised their right to be right.