OBAMA AND The Obsolete Man: Refusing To Let The Soul Of America Die

No Sheeples Here: The Obsolete Man: Refusing To Let The Soul Of America Die

We are witnessing a transformation—an insidious alteration of the greatest nation on Earth—the United States of America. President Obama and his minions seek to change the political landscape of our beloved country and take our hard-fought freedoms away from us all. I need not enumerate his radical ideas here—you are already familiar with them.

The demagoguery of the left in recent days reminded me of a portentous parable by Rod Sterling called The Obsolete Man.

The story begins:

“You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace.”
America was founded by brave men and women who sought freedom from the oppression of tyranny and were willing to die for that freedom. Their refusal to yield to tyranny launched the American War for Independence in 1775. Thirteen tiny colonies waged war against a mighty enemy and Patrick Henry dared to proclaim:


"They tell us Sir, that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power.”
Thomas Paine sounded the call to arms with, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

Elie Wiesel, who survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz and dedicated his life to ensuring that none of us forget what happened to the Jews during Hitler’s reign of terror, gives notice that,


“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is not an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.”
In town hall meetings all across this great nation, Americans have begun challenging their Senators and Congressmen on ObamaCare. Evocative of history’s failed dictators, the White House, the Democratic Party and their union hoods have locked citizens out of public meetings because logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

The American citizenry is not stupid. It is not comprised of extremists and it is not Nazi-like. Mock us at your peril.

Looming in the not too distant future are the elections of 2010. The left’s belief that they are “better than us” will come with a heavy price at the ballot box. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.

The Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith playing a character who defies a totalitarian government.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau