A month following the national elections, the final outcomes are still very much in question. Despite the Main Stream media coronating Joe Biden as President-elect, President Trump has a number of lawsuits in process challenging the result on the basis of voter fraud from tampering with voting machines to introducing thousands of fictitious mail-in ballots. Hearings are ongoing in a number of still contested states. House and Senate races are still being counted including a runoff scheduled in Georgia. We will be witness to a full exercise of our founding father’s constitutional provisions for ensuring legitimate elections or we will be subject to a disputed electorate. Our Alabama House Representative Mo Brooks has indicated he will be challenging some states’ electoral college results as illegitimate because of the rampant fraud and "flawed election systems". And again the COVID pandemic has escalated with larger numbers of infected and hospitalized than the initial wave earlier this spring as flu season comes upon us. Now again, cities and states are locking down despite the “science” that is proving that we have developed better insight into the targeted population this virus affects and have developed and have at our disposal better prevention protocols and treatments for the virus.
We read about
it and watch news stories of these lockdowns across the country. A New York restaurant proprietor was arrested
for daring to violate an order issued by Mayor Deblasio prohibiting eateries from
opening, declaring his establishment an “autonomous zone”. But similar draconian restrictions have
happened right here in Alabama, in Montgomery and even Prattville. Montgomery has implemented curfews and locked
down restaurants, clubs and churches.
Prattville just announced they would have a Christmas parade (after the
cancellation of their Independence Day parade in July) and then reversed the
decision and cancelled it. I took the
opportunity to write the mayor and the event coordinator noting our disappointment
with the cancellation saying, “That is the troubling aspect to the reactions to
this COVID thing, that local and state governments feel the need to tell their
citizenry how they must handle the situation instead of giving them the
information and letting them make the decision for themselves. That is kinda the basis of our liberty and
freedom.”
I’ll give the
mayor props that he did call me in
response to my email saying that they were concerned about the thousands
of people who come from the tricounty area to the parade and apparently them
being concerned of a (potential) super-spreader event. I granted my appreciation that he feels like
he needs to guide those who are either unwilling or uneducated enough to not be
able to make a good decision for themselves and their families. Therein lies
the crux. Our nation’s founders
believed in an educated informed electorate who could responsibly exercise
their freedoms and liberty. They
believed in moral values based on Judeo-Christian principles. I am not sure if they could foresee a world
brought so close together by technology enabling a pandemic spread like we have
witnessed. I am not sure if they could
foresee an election process utilizing technology and systems which could be
compromised and/or an epidemic used as an excuse for altering voting processes
and verifications which could enable fraudulent vote tabulations.
It is time for
those who love their liberty and freedom to stand in the gap to defend these God-given
rights and proclaim that they demand personal accountability and responsibility
of ourselves and our elected and appointed leaders. General Robert E. Lee said, “Duty is the
sublimest word in the English language.
You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should
never wish to do less.” Our SCV Charge implores us to emulate the virtues of
our Confederate forebearers, heroes and “the perpetuation of those principles
which he loved and which made him glorious, and which you also cherish.” Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas,
continued health and safety and, a prosperous and Happy New Year.
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