TRAGEDY, HOPE AND AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

By Michael LeMieux
January 27, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

In response to an article I wrote for NewsWithViews. I received the following email followed by my response. (The emails are verbatim with only formatting and minor grammatical changes.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Trudy
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 1:10 PM
To: author@constitutiondenied.com
Subject: constitutiondenied.com-Form Submission

Email: OMITTED
Message: I am 80 yrs old...my parents newly wed fled Europe in 1928 and my good fortune was for me to be born in the USA, a country and people I have fastened to and been proud to be a part of my entire life. Nothing has meant more to me than putting my hand on my heart or brow in salute and singing GOD BLESS AMERICA!! AND I KNEW THIS WAS TRUE.... My parents saw and described to me what was developing in Europe and all evil that occurred had been demonstrated by the time I was ten...it was not much later that my dad solemnly took me to the military newsreel films shown in the U.S.A. and taken by the American military of the newly rescued holocaust survivors, the cast off piles of clothing, the huge piles of skeletal bodies, the claw-marked walls of the gas chambers, uncut, unedited and probably more than any youngster my age should learn of, but my parents had raised me and guided me carefully to feel safe as a child belonging to the Creator GOD and that HE would take care of me always if I followed HIS Guidance, and so I have lived and believed.

My comment today, this day especially, is that after reading the commentaries sent from www.NewsWithViews.com, your own, plus those by Jonathan Edmond and Frosty Wooldridge MUST BE REITERATED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN....MORE VISUAL EVIDENCE SHOWN OF THE INFILTRATON OF EVIL AND DICTATORIAL CONTROL OF THE U.S. POPULATION AS WELL AS THE WRITTEN WORDS YOU AND OTHERS CAN PUBLISH AND POST FOR ALL THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO 'BACK OFF' TO THE EVIL PRESENCE IN THE WORLD, AMONG THE PEOPLES, OR IN OUR GOVERNMENT ! WHILE YOU CAN. POST VIDEOS OF THE HORRORS IN DETROIT...PUBLISH GEERT WILDER'S COMPLETE SPEECH AT NEW YORK...SEND IT AROUND THE INTERNET WHILE THERE IS TIME AND THEN PRAY BOYS, PRAY! GOD BLESS YOUR WORDS!
Name: Trudy

The following was my response:

Trudy,

Thank you so much for taking time to write and your wonderful heartfelt words. I wish more people today had your vision and spirit for the freedoms America stands for. America is great not because of our forests or plains, other countries have such. It is not great because of its natural resources, other countries have such. It is not great because of the people that inhabit its shores, most all have come from other nations. It is great because it was founded on the belief of individual freedom and responsibility. That a person could come to these shores and work hard at what ever they chose to do and reap the benefits thereof without fear of reprisal or subjugation from the government.

I know of what you speak in the contrast of times past and the hope of America. I lived a great deal of my life in other nations where poverty and death was the norm. Where you could only become as great as you were allowed to be by the powers that governed over you whether warlord or government.

America is that shinning beacon of light that all the world looks to as the model of freedom and hope for mankind. Yet, in these days of global strife, I see the government looking to rid America of its most sacred virtues to pattern it after the failed European and socialistic systems.

I will not rest while this looms above the heads of the American people and I will continue to bring to light what I find in the dark corners of our nation.

I thank you again for your words and the passion that you so obviously feel for our great nation and I salute you.

Thank you and may I ask your permission to share your thoughts with others?

V/R

Michael LeMieux
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I present this exchange not only for what it says but for the implications of hope in our future and the very real possibility of tragic outcome if we are not careful.

In this correspondence we have the first hand experience and wisdom of our senior generation with direct remembrances of the horrors of oppressive governments and the toll they reap on society. We have the expression of what freedom and liberty mean and the personal responsibility that so many of us feel is a requirement that MUST be ingrained in each and every American heart, if we are to survive.

As with past generations there comes a time that truly tests the metal of the convictions of that generation. In this generation and at this time we are facing what is probably going to be recorded in history as America’s most important test – whether we can keep the last vestige of freedom in the world alive.

We honor the generations past for bringing liberty to this great land and I believe the hand of providence was very much a part of that founding. But since that time I have come to the conclusion that the wisdom of our founders seems to have been lost; at least by those that “leadâ€