The Path to 2012
In Cornelius Ryan’s classic book, “The Longest Day,” detailing the massive D-Day Invasion of June 6, 1944, the author begins by describing the tiny French village of La Roche-Guyon. A sleepy village on the Seine between Normandy and Paris, it is dominated by an imposing castle on a hill, Chateau de La Rochefoucauld.
Historians believe the present castle, built in the 12th Century, was the site of a former castle built in the 9th Century to fight off marauding Vikings who used the river as a pathway to Paris (Le Ménestrel du Vexin). On D-Day, La Roche-Guyon had already been occupied by a different marauder for some 1,453 days. Almost four years. According to Ryan, there were at least three soldiers for every one of the 543 villagers. The bells of St. Samson Church (Samson was one of the founding saints of Brittany) that once tolled the hour for private prayer, now rang at dawn to announce the end of the night’s curfew.
The Germans, awaiting the inevitable Anglo-American invasion, built an 800-mile long fortress of mine-fields and barriers along the French coast from the border of Holland to the Brittany peninsula. 500,000 troops built the Atlantic Wall and awaited the Allies, some ready to fight, others hoping time and the weather would discourage their enemy.
We Americans are prisoners of political war. We can see the regulatory minefields and barriers being constructed around us, barriers of iron for which there is no democratic redress. What is being built is the fortress of an impenetrable tyranny, the product of decade’s of foundation-laying.
Obama, finding his environmental legislation defeated, has turned to a bureaucratic agency to see that the regulations are passed. It’s an agency that answers to no one but the president himself. The people have nothing to say about it. That is the mark of tyranny.
The people have been rendered sufficiently docile either through bribery, intimidation, education, or drugs. Only a small handful of rebels – the Tea Parties – are willing to resist this invasion of our liberty. Caesar “seized” power in such a manner. “The Stars Wars” trilogies illustrated such machinations for a young generation unacquainted with actual war.
Adam Smith (“Wealth of Nations”) deplored war as an extravagant waste of men and money. What would he say of this economic war being waged upon Americans, who used, at least, to venerate freedom? As June 6th was titled “The Longest Day,” 2011 will be the longest year, the lead-up to the fabled 2012, when some say the world will come to end, and others say freedom will come to an end. We have one last chance to turn the tide in favor of liberty. Let us not waste it.
Historians believe the present castle, built in the 12th Century, was the site of a former castle built in the 9th Century to fight off marauding Vikings who used the river as a pathway to Paris (Le Ménestrel du Vexin). On D-Day, La Roche-Guyon had already been occupied by a different marauder for some 1,453 days. Almost four years. According to Ryan, there were at least three soldiers for every one of the 543 villagers. The bells of St. Samson Church (Samson was one of the founding saints of Brittany) that once tolled the hour for private prayer, now rang at dawn to announce the end of the night’s curfew.
The Germans, awaiting the inevitable Anglo-American invasion, built an 800-mile long fortress of mine-fields and barriers along the French coast from the border of Holland to the Brittany peninsula. 500,000 troops built the Atlantic Wall and awaited the Allies, some ready to fight, others hoping time and the weather would discourage their enemy.
We Americans are prisoners of political war. We can see the regulatory minefields and barriers being constructed around us, barriers of iron for which there is no democratic redress. What is being built is the fortress of an impenetrable tyranny, the product of decade’s of foundation-laying.
Obama, finding his environmental legislation defeated, has turned to a bureaucratic agency to see that the regulations are passed. It’s an agency that answers to no one but the president himself. The people have nothing to say about it. That is the mark of tyranny.
The people have been rendered sufficiently docile either through bribery, intimidation, education, or drugs. Only a small handful of rebels – the Tea Parties – are willing to resist this invasion of our liberty. Caesar “seized” power in such a manner. “The Stars Wars” trilogies illustrated such machinations for a young generation unacquainted with actual war.
Adam Smith (“Wealth of Nations”) deplored war as an extravagant waste of men and money. What would he say of this economic war being waged upon Americans, who used, at least, to venerate freedom? As June 6th was titled “The Longest Day,” 2011 will be the longest year, the lead-up to the fabled 2012, when some say the world will come to end, and others say freedom will come to an end. We have one last chance to turn the tide in favor of liberty. Let us not waste it.
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