INTRODUCTION
After rejecting human slavery, implanted here by European Kings[1], Americans remained sure of themselves, strong in faith, strong in spirit, strong in body and mind, and strong in accepting the unifying force of the American Declaration of Independence. Foreign enemies fell in defeat, our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness secured by two oceans, and by blood sweat and tears.
For many years America stood astride a corrupt international landscape as the beacon of human dignity and freedom, the land of the free and the home of the brave. To my dismay there has arisen an organized effort to corrupt our Judeo-Christian moral foundation, to denigrate our proud history, to enfeeble us with suicidal pacifism in the face of mortal dangers from overseas, to accustom many of us in government dependency, to crumble and transform the American Mind.
Those who would fundamentally transform the United States are embedded in our mass media, entertainment industry, universities and government. They appear to be strong and well organized. In order to prevail, in order to restore our nation to its moral and physical greatness, it will be necessary for American Patriots to engage in a long-term inter-generational rebuilding project, not just the rebuilding of bridges and buildings, but a reformation of our schools and institutions, our mass media and entertainment, our laws, and above all a reformation of our character and a restoration of the American Mind.
"In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them--they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Their's was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; 'tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform. How then shall we perform it? At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln
A slow motion, authoritarian, anti-American counter-revolution [2] has sprung up among us. Don’t be seduced, don’t be confused about its suicidal trajectory; stand firm for your country, for our American Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution; prepare for struggle and sacrifice if it becomes necessary. The statist enemies of our liberty and creative pursuit of happiness, and possibly our lives, are busy at their undermining work of collectivization, so let’s outwork them with our strong American hands and outsmart them with our sharp American Minds. As you will discover in this book, we can defeat the counter-revolution peacefully with a Constitutional amendment, but that will not happen without a restoration of the American Mind. I hope and pray this book will give you the moral and intellectual tools to fight the good fight in preservation of all we hold dear,so that the America we have known and loved does not perish from the earth.[3]
“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.” Thomas Jefferson
[1] https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html
[2] http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/cherry/150114
[3] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-011
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