The images were startling. I sat and watched in amazement as the video recounted the horror days of eastern Europe, first under the inhuman hands of Nazi Germany, and then the iron oppressive hand of the Soviet Union.
Equal demons and partners in soul destruction – socialism and communism, they both seek to devour the essence and individualism of the common man and force him to conform to another’s ideals and way of life. It is a blatant rape of human intellect and freedom.
Under the Nazi regime, millions of European Jews were literally scorched from the earth. What was their crime? They didn’t fit the mold of a madman’s vision of a superior race. They were different and dared to live and express themselves differently. They paid for their God-given right of free expression with their lives.
I learned that at Auschwitz, the number of Jews being herded into the gas chambers was so great that the incinerators could not keep up, burning between 3000-4000 bodies a day. As a result, another camp was built a couple of miles away to increase production. I learned that nine out of ten Jews who were not exterminated in the gas chambers died in the work camps, most within the first two months they were there.
It was socialism’s greatest hour!
Even the non-Jews, national Polls, Hungarians, Croatians, Slovakians, and other easterners were heavily oppressed. Under communism, only Roman Catholicism was allowed to be practiced and then only under heavy state-sponsored regulations. All art produced, no matter the form, had to glorify the State and promote the cause of communism. To vary from the approved art forms would mean certain imprisonment, banishment, and many times death.
It was communism’s greatest hour!
Seeing and learning more about these events, as recorded by history, it brings to my mind these words, more sacred now than any other time in American history, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Visit eastern Europe today. See first-hand the faces of the people who have been liberated from the freedom-haters. Ask them what they think about governments and people whose sole purpose is to extinguish the hopes and dreams of people who only want to live, be free, and be happy. Open your eyes and observe how their societies are flourishing under capitalism and democracy.
And then ask yourself, “Where is my country going? What do my leaders envision for my future and the futures of my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren?”
For democracy to survive in this still young experiment called America, each citizen will need to draw the line against big government. We constantly, even daily need to remind Washington D.C. that government is by the people and for the people – not the other way around. Stand firm against those who would rob even the smallest most minute particle of our freedoms.
Democracy is more than a small blessing, it should be the heart beat of every man, woman, boy, and girl who live under the graceful, waving banner of the red, white, and blue. Stand tall, stand proud, stand together, for freedom’s sake!
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