SUMMARY:
One of the fundamental concerns with every nation, with every People, is its ability to defend itself from foreign attack, invasion, and conquest. This is one of the principal reasons that the states formed the American Union. The founders believed that the United States should be friends with all nations, but form alliances with none of them. That we should trade with them, consult with them, interact with them, but never into agreements with some that would create adversity with others. Additionally, alliances create restrictions, obligations, and other infringements upon our ability to act freely. Strength does not necessarily mean might. It can also mean preparedness, prevention, deterrence, negotiation, or advantage. It can refer to the body, or to the mind, or to the spirit. Besides military strength, peace through strength can refer to economic strength, technological strength, or the resolve of the people. Whatever this expression may imply, our protection and safety relies on our ability to maintain peace among ourselves and with the nations of the world. The American Union was established to promote peace from within and deter adversity from without. A strong nation built by a strong people upon a foundation of strong principles cannot be conquered if the people remain faithful to each other and vigilant over their government.
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Undoubtedly, to protect ourselves from conquest, we need a strong military force. To protect our global interests, is a strong military force required? What are our global interests? Is it oil or land or foreign relationships? To determine what strengths we need to protect America, it is first necessary to determine what our interests are and what rights we possess with respect to those interests.
Since World War I, the United States has been recognized as a dominant super-power among the nations of the world. This is not because we have the strongest men, are more talented in battle, or that we have the greatest numbers. I believe it is the result of many factors.
As America entered the industrial age, our ability to produce machinery and to advance, technologically, has been one of our advantages. The American industrial base provided the skills necessary to build a substantial arsenal of weapons for our defense, and if necessary, to carry out an offensive campaign. Without the ability to produce the instruments of war, America could not maintain its military strength.
America is a land a great proportion, and as such, has at its disposal vast natural resources for the production of materials necessary for manufacturing a strong and diverse arsenal. We did not have to rely upon foreign importation for much of those resources required for satisfying our military needs. And, our infrastructure of rail systems, highways, and waterways has allowed us to easily deliver those resources where needed.
America had a strong education system that produced men and women of science who developed the technologies necessary for us to maintain a technological advantage over other nations.
America had a strong agricultural system and rich lands, so that farmers could be more productive, which allows greater numbers of the general populace to pursue other careers in science, technology, construction, and more, as opposed to producing food.
America had a strong and growing economy, one where the people were responsible and self-reliant. And for those who were unable to provide for themselves, churches and other private groups and individuals helped in providing care to the needy. Government could focus its financial resources on building American infrastructure, commerce, and the military. A family could easily survive on the earnings from a single job or occupation.
America was building relationships and establishing opportunities for trade and commerce for the export of American goods and services. Imports and exports, alike, provided additional markets and products for businesses and consumers.
The American people were closer to God, having a strong bond for family and moral responsibility and a strong sense of community. The people interacted – they worked together, played together, fought and cried together. The people had a strong allegiance to God, family, and country.
America had programs that prepared the people for disaster. Most of us can remember, from when we were children, reciting the pledge of allegiance, having school prayer, and being taught what to do and where to go in the event of an emergency. Local communities has armories, volunteer militias, stored provisions, and disaster preparedness programs.
America had heroes – men of stature, strong moral conviction, a sense of duty, and loyalty to the American way of life. Women raised their families, gave support to their husbands, cooked and sewed, maintained the home, and made sure everyone got to church on time. Grandparents remained an integral part of the family and left an inheritance to their children. Children played outside, using their imaginations. And a bad day of fishing was better than a good day at work.
How has America transformed over the past 100 years?
America retains its place, narrowly, as a dominant super-power, losing ground quickly to other developing nations, such as China. We have closed our military bases, restricted our military production, and destroyed our industrial and manufacturing base.
We have placed significant restrictions on the ability to produce and harvest our own resources, relying more and more on foreign imports. This is probably most evidence in our over-reliance on foreign oil, steel, coal and a wide range of consumer goods. We have restricted our own productivity in favor of importation of foreign products.
Our infrastructure is aging and deteriorating. America has not kept sufficient pace with maintenance of our roads, bridges, sewers, energy conduits, buildings, ports, etc. We tend to discard the old and build new. Yes, the American infrastructure is among the best in the world, but we should not continue our expansion without an adequate program of preserving what we have already built.
American children continue to decline in their education and academic achievements as compared with other nations. Our schools are failing in teaching the fundamentals about our system of society and government, the sciences, basic requirements for reading and writing. Rather than teaching independence and promoting individual achievement, our public education system teaches our children to be dependent, to conform, and to replace their imagination and free thinking with the notions of servitude.
Our farmers have been overrun and displaced by large commercialized agricultural corporations, some of which have perverted and genetically altered and laid commercial claims on our fundamental food supplies, such as corn. Restrictions have been placed upon small farmers to limit their production and manipulate market prices. And our farm lands are being consumed by the expansion of communities.
Our economy is in shambles. The dollar has lost 96% of its value since 1913, and our system of commerce has become an abused servant of a fiat monetary system controlled by a consortium of banks, governments, and large corporations operating for their own interests. Plans are being made to establish a one-world currency, effectively usurping the sovereign power of the American people to control their own prosperity.
Government has effectively destroyed the family unit. It has removed God from our institutions of government, from our churches, and from our public assemblies and replaced Him with government, itself. The moral integrity of the people has declined. We kill unborn babies as a means of contraception. We refuse to be responsible for our own actions, transferring our risks to various government or insurance programs. And we honor our elderly by stowing them away in nursing homes. And few people go fishing, anymore.
If we analyze what makes America great, what makes us strong, then we should quickly realize that we are losing everything, including our freedom. The communist manifesto has been fully executed in the United States, and we are quickly falling from our position of security as a free society. We cannot hope to preserve peace without the strength to defend our borders, protect our citizens, preserve our heritage, create our own prosperity, feed our own people, or advance in our education and leadership. America is losing ground, falling from a position of strength and self-reliance, to that of dependency and irresponsibility. A weak People cannot preserve itself.
To restore our strength and regain our position as a strong and prosperous People, we must first decide whether we will live as slaves dependent on government to take care of us, or as a free and independent People who resolve to create their own prosperity and take care of themselves. Are we to comply with every whim of government, good or bad, or are we to control our government to ensure that it operates according to the dictates of the people in accordance with our Constitutions. Are we to allow our public officeholders to violate our rights and liberties without discretion, or will we hold them accountable for violating the trust of the people. Will we stand up and take charge of the situation at hand, or will we allow those who have perverted our society to continue their assaults on the people.
If we are to preserve peace, then we must find the strength within ourselves to create and maintain our society in a way that builds strength in all areas of our development. It begins with us, individually, and then we must see to it that it is applied by our government.
In keeping with the intent of our Constitutions and to maintain peace through strength, we deem the following measures to be necessary:
1) Keep our military at home, except as absolutely necessary, protecting our own borders;
2) Promotion and support of the family unit;
3) Quality education founded on moral principles, integrity, and excellence;
4) Free production of our own agriculture and natural resources;
5) Establishment of a sound monetary system impervious to inflation and diabolical manipulation;
6) Adequate maintenance and development of our infrastructure;
7) Development of self-reliance and substantial reduction in social welfare programs;
8) Protection of our Christian heritage from perversion or infiltration by incompatible belief systems;
9) Recognition by our governmental institutions in the supremacy of God in our society;
10) Free market system with minimal governmental interference;
11) Protection of the people’s fundamental Rights and Liberties from governmental encroachment;
12) Governmental compliance with and accountability to our state and federal Constitutions.
There are other important actions that we can take to restore our strength and security. But, to achieve it, we must begin.
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