Our country now has over 300 million people and my guess nearly that many opinions. But we all can be heard RESPECTFULLY, and the more discerning amongst us can sort out the drivel and lead. We can voice our opinions and be heard (after letters to congress and other peaceful measures go unheard). Allow me to give two examples of how peaceful protests work instead of this evil mess of noble causes being hijacked and usurped by the same forces that our founders tried to protect us from. First is one I didn’t participate in the second I did. The first is the Million Man March in Washington DC on October 16, 1995. One of the primary motivating factors for the march was to place black issues back on the nation’s political agenda. An event that The second I attended in 2010 at the Lincoln Memorial called Restoring Honor. (a large tea party like event sponsored by Glenn Beck) hundreds of thousands of people of all stripes showed up to honor America, but also protest the tearing down of America and demand incorruptible leadership of our republic.
As a sidebar here is this is unlike the disgusting display of hate, looting, and vandalism, overpowering the news today. In a proper setting, a message of equal import, when the rally was done, everyone nearly without exception picked up their blankets and trash and patrolled the whole Lincoln Memorial site and cleaned up better than when they arrived drawing amazement from the park police and staff.
My wife usually gets skittish in large crowds, but not here. It was like one huge picnic and family reunion of the American family. Myself, my wife, and my youngest 7-year-old son never feared for anything and spent the rest of the weekend touring the sites, museums, and monuments of DC, that thugs and paid anarchists desecrate today. What changed from a mere ten years ago, Where is the leadership that responds to the people’s voice, where is the leadership of law and protection of the innocent? As you may know, I grew up in the ’60s, and 70’s I didn’t get into the drug or protest thing I was part of a fledgling “Silent Majority”. This was Richard Nixon’s battle cry and it took him into the White house. Don’t get me wrong, he was flawed and he was what he was but the great silent, hardworking, raise families, coach little league, hospital candy stripper. America didn’t want Vietnam, Free love, or thugs burning their businesses and communities cloaking the thuggery under a banner of justice and taking out “the man”.
History repeats itself. Sadly, only having been through the sixties I wonder if this time we can recover. Have we gone so far from those original founding principles of freedom with accountability that we have forever lost our way? This is a helluva time to try and recover from my depression, stroke, and business struggles, and of course this panic-driven virus mentality. I have my wife, my kids, and a roof over my head. Daily provision, my local church, and my bible. While that doesn’t sound like much its enough for me for now and maybe God will yet again let me run one more race, do one more unnoticed good deed, and if need be see my kids surpass my dreams and aspirations for your Glory oh Lord.
Tales from Depression and Dealing with it. 