Open Letter to Patriots.

Aug 28, 2010

An open letter to Patriots.

I am writing to you, fellow liberty lovers, disheartened and well, quite saddened. I read the news everyday, news of people being told to remove their American flag from their property. Schools telling children to not wear shirts with the American flag on them. The director of the supposed “Homeland Security” praising a mayor of a major city in the U.S. for his “Big Brother” like video surveillance grid, the federal government suing a County Sheriff.

What happened to America? The land of the free and the home of the brave? We are not free any longer. We are watched, monitored, tracked, micro managed by the very government “We the People” elected to uphold the Constitution and protect our freedoms. The brave, the few and far between it seems, are doing their best while the majority of Americans are waiting to be told what to do by the talking head on their favorite Main Stream Media television news.

We are pacified with news stories of the “BP oil spill,” and the latest celebrity gossip or foible. “Reality” shows litter the airwaves on primetime television, when they are the farthest things from it.

Reality? Mexican drug cartels crossing our southern border illegally, killing Americans, threatening American law enforcement officials. Illegal immigrants are demanding equal protection under the law, the law that they are breaking to stay here.

Reality? A “president” of the United States who has yet to stop campaigning, who bows to foreign leaders, who can’t seem to stop apologizing around the world for something the U.S. supposedly did. A “president” and first “lady” that seem ashamed of the great Nation that they are supposed to represent.

Reality? The federal government taking over more and more of the private sector; the auto industry, the mortgage industry, the healthcare industry and so on.

Reality? American citizens are willing to sacrifice their liberties for convenience. The ridiculous measures and privacy invasion of airport “security.” The reactive airport “security.” Not to mention the violation of one’s fourth amendment rights. All of this protects us from nothing. Someone intent on causing harm on an airplane will find a way regardless of what “security” measures are in place.

Reality? You are no longer free. You are watched, tracked, monitored, listened to, searched. Is this paranoia? No! It’s all over the news! We are prisoners in our own country. If you don’t see that by now, you are blind.

Remember when you would see your friendly neighborhood police officer and he would greet you by name? I barely do. Now you have to wonder if they are going to beat you for “resisting arrest” or something else just as false and made up by the mob mentality of 2 or more “peace” officers. I personally had my foot intentionally broken in one such incident.

In the past year or so, I have seen things I thought I would never see in the United States. Military “non-lethal/less-than-lethal” weapons being used on American Civilians. Mobile “backscatter” x-ray vans that can search for whatever they want, without a warrant. Cameras EVERYWHERE. “Naked body scanners” at American airports and courthouses. “Pain Beams” being used in civilian prisons (something akin to being micro-waved). I’d rather be bruised that “cooked” on a molecular level.

Do you remember as a child or perhaps your own children, when they could go out and play in the neighborhood and you wouldn’t worry too much about them, they would be home for dinner, if not, you knew the numbers of the friends to call to get them to come home and go to bed early? The thought of a “school shooting” never even crossed your mind. When you wouldn’t even hear the word “ass” on TV? When the traditional family was something noteworthy and to be praised on sitcom television?

You wonder why children are having their own children at 12 years old? Perhaps because the moral erosion that has taken place over the last 15 or so years has hyper-sexualized everything? Do you remember?

Have you ever asked yourself why this is happening to the children of the United States now? I can tell you. We are no longer “allowed” to be parents. Some parents have just given up and let the TV raise their children. You spank your child and you could be charged with child abuse. This teaches the child no concept for consequences. The answer to that is, medicate them into submission! Send them on a “time out” to think about what they have done. Send them to their room with their computer, TV, Nintendo, cell phone, etc. Whatever it takes not to hurt their “fragile sense of self” and thereby teaching them that there are no real consequences. Don’t believe that? Look at the face of any child criminal killer when reality strikes that they are being charged as an adult and are in fact going to jail for a long time. No do over, no “second life,” no “time out.” Surprise!

What’s the point of all this? Why am I saying all this? To hopefully help you remember what used to be. As an American. As a parent. Too many have surrendered their liberties, their rights as parents to let government take care of them and their children. No hard work required. Cradle to grave. Look at the result. A mindless population of sheep and children of sheep. Tune into the TV and everything will be “ok” the government is looking out for you.

Wake up! Take your country back! Awaken from your slumber America! Take your children back! Stop playing this game! Enough is enough!

May God bless America once again. Be proud of the nation you live in! Don’t be ashamed to say “I’m an American! This is my flag and my land!” Don’t be afraid to say “These are my children and I will raise them! I will teach them right and wrong! I will instill morality! Not just ‘whatever feels good.’”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is in your hands not the governments!

Your children’s future is your hands as parents, be parents again!

This can be America once again! Land of the free, home of the brave.

The only thing standing in your way is you. What will you do?

-Josh “JD” Hendrickson
True Patriots Network