Subject: Fwd: Something to think about
I remember asking dad about Castro when I was
about
9 years old. I asked , "Is Castro a good guy
or
bad?"
Dad said he couldn't tell!! This was about
1955. We were living in Louisiana at the time .
Dad was in the army there.
Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans
were asking the same question! Ike was president.
This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a
summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba . Our
dinner
conversation was starkly different than most.
This refugee came to the United States as a
young boy in the early 1960s. His family was more
fortunate than most as they were able to bring a
suitcase
and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed
revolutionary
paradise.
Our dinner consisted of all-American fare:
hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of
sweet
corn. This is a menu shared with family and
friends
nationwide, while celebrating the birth of our beloved
America on the Fourth of July.
We began with a simple discussion about our country and
the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to
power. We shared the usual complaints about the
sour
economy and liberal social engineering emanating from
the
rulers in Washington .
But then he said it. The sentence came naturally.
I assume it was unplanned. But it carried the
weight
of a freight train. "You know when Castro took
power,
none of us knew he was a Communist."
We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought
he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the
revolution
he didn't sound like a radical."
The comparison at this point was easy, and I
interjected, "You mean just like Barack Obama?" He
responded, "Yes, just like Barack Obama."
He continued, "We were all shocked as the government
just continued to grab more power. First they said
the
revolution is over, so please turn in your guns.
We
all complied."
"I remember my uncle saying after it started, 'Castro
will only nationalize some of the big industries, he
will
never come and take our family hardware store. 'But that
is
exactly what happened, Castro started with the sugar
mills
and the large industries, but they eventually came and
knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My
family
had run this store for generations. They said we
now
own the hardware store, you work for us. And that
nice, large four-bedroom home you own, it is now our
property also, and you can move yourself and five children into two rooms
of the house because others are moving in with you."
The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson
most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders
can
lie about their agenda and once in office they can take
totally unexpected turns.
If you had asked us three years ago if we thought
General Motors would be nationalized, we would have
never
believed it. We could never contemplate a country
where the rule of law, the most fundamental building
block
of a justice society would be evaporating just like it did
in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960s.
But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black
Panthers are not charged with wrongdoing by the U.S.
Department of Justice because their crimes are against
whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their
assets
without due process by the government. Governmental leaders
are bribed in full daylight only to have all
investigation
of the crimes stifled by the Attorney General The
U.S.
borders are overrun with crime and illegal activity and
the
leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the
lawbreakers while the innocent are killed and overrun. When
local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are
ridiculed and threatened as racists and bigots. They are
sued by the very administration entrusted with
enforcing the law.
Without the rule of law the U.S. Constitution is
a sham. Without the rule of law our beloved
America is
swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected
and
politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle
Malkin
has so eloquently explained in her recent book, a
culture of
corruption has replaced honest government.
The only way this problem will be fixed is by
massive citizen action. All honest citizens that
want
to be treated equally must come together and demand that
the
favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law
end
now And yes, it can happen here.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW .... And may God
save the United States of America !
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