Saturday, September 4, 2010

Conversation over dinner...

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
This week we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee
from Cuba. Our dinner conversation was starkly different than most.
This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960s.
His family was more fortunate than most as they were able to bring a
suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary
paradise.
Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, and
fresh ears of sweet corn, apple pie and ice cream. All of which is very
acidic.. No wonder obesity and people with degenerative diseases are in
extremely high numbers in this country. Sadly, this is a menu (or very
similar) shared with family and friends nationwide while celebrating the
birth of our beloved America on the fourth of July.*
*We began with a simple discussion about our country and the direction it
has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints
about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the
rulers in Washington.
But then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was unplanned.
But it carried the weight of a freight train.
"You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist."
We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a
nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical."
The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, "You mean just
like Barack Obama?"
He responded, "Yes, just like Barack Obama."
He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab
more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your
guns. We all complied."
"I remember my uncle saying after it started, `Castro will only nationalize
some of the big industries, he will never come and take our family hardware
store.' But that is exactly what happened, Castro started with the sugar
mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the
door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for
generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And
that nice, large four-bedroom home you own, it is now our property also, and
you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house because
others are moving in with you."
The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson most Americans refuse to
hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office they
can take totally unexpected turns.
If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors would be
nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a
country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a
justice society would be evaporating just like it did in Castro's Cuba in
the early 1960s.
But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers are not charged
with wrongdoing by the U. S. Department of Justice because their crimes are
against whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their assets without
due process by the government. Governmental leaders are bribed in full
daylight only to have all investigation of the crimes stifled by the
Attorney General. The U. S. borders are overrun with crime and illegal
activity and the leaders in *D. C. act as if it is important to protect the
lawbreakers while the innocent are killed and overrun. When local
communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed and threatened as
racists and bigots. They are sued by the very administration entrusted with
enforcing the law.
Without the rule of law the U. S. Constitution is a sham. Without the rule of
law our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well
connected and politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle Malkin has so
eloquently explained in her recent book, a culture of corruption has
replaced honest government.
The only way this problem will be fixed is by massive citizen action. All
honest citizens that want to be treated equally must come together and
demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law end
now. And yes, it can happen here. *
*District of Criminals

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