Brush Fires for Freedom

By John W. Whitehead
BorderFire Report

All around us are signs of gloom and doom.

Perpetual war. A massive deficit and erratic economy. Shadowy enemies bent on terrorizing us and destroying our way of life. The Constitution—and in particular the Bill of Rights—undermined on virtually every front. Increasingly aggressive government agencies that threaten the very foundations of freedom. A literacy rate that is embarrassing. A populace lacking in any true moral standards and one that has little understanding of history or the Constitution.

As professor Morris Berman observed, “We have entered the Dark Ages in earnest, pursuing a short-sighted path that can only accelerate our decline. For what we are now seeing are the obvious characteristics of the West after the fall of Rome.â€