Purge Of The Generals........Redux

        
         I want to preface the following post that I bring back often titled America...Free.....Free Fallin' with a quote taken from an article on WorldNetDaily titled Obama 'Gutting' Military By Purging Generals. The quote is from retired Army General Paul E. Vallely....."Obama is intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged." Yes, General Vallely has been a critic of Barack Obama but he is a respected military analyst who co-authored with Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror. Quoting the article itself by F. Michael Maloof..."President Obama this year alone has fired some nine generals and flag officers, on top of at least four similar dismissals during his first term, suggesting that a purge may be the real reason behind the removals, which are being described as cases of personal misbehavior."
          I remember a few of those firings and this has concerned me for quite a while now as it obviously has others.  I'm not insinuating that the new generals and fleet officers are involved in any conspiracy, rather that stronger generals are problematic to Barack Obama's plans for our military and our foreign policy. It has been my contention that our White House is occupied by a Manchurian President, who was prepared by those with an ideology that seeks to fundamentally change America. Using Barack Obama's own words here five days prior to his first election victory..."We are five days away form fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Five days should have been enough for a legitimate media to question this statement. Earlier in that year of 2008 Michele Obama was quoted as saying..."We are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation." They told us what they intended to do but we, as a people, either misinterpreted their statements or totally ignored them.

To read the full article go to www.wnd.com

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         Events with mind-numbing potential consequences are happening so fast in this world that it is time, maybe long past time, that Americans at least consider that their lives may be about to change....abruptly! America, the long established leader of the free world, is four and a half years into a suicide attempt and three and a half years away from any hope of even partial recover if that suicide is not a fait accompli.  I bring the following post back often. America's descent into the abyss has continued since it was first written. May God open our eyes to that descent that we might call out to Him, for the forces arraigned against the United States at this time, along with the gross ineptitude of this government that was once was a nation to be reckoned with, and coinciding with denials of the Gospel and of God's judgment upon an unbelieving world by whole 'Christian' denominations and institutions, is more than enough reason to literally fall on our knees and cry out for His mercy.

America....Free....Free Fallin'

 Dawn breaks and pull by pull the flag rises until its stars and stripes blend into the red sky. The 21st century America cold front collides with the warm heritage of American liberty. Dark clouds form above the eagle perched atop the pole and the flag snaps as the winds begin another day of adding to the tatters and waiting for the rain that month by month fades the blue and red hues that Americans have savored as the taste of freedom for so long.
             An icy chill settles in the bones of the one raising the flag for he knows that its stars and stripes will be indiscernible before long. He looks down to see if the cracks in the foundation supporting the pole have widened from the tremors that increasingly shake America...they have. He steps back, standing as erect as he can under the burden of seeing his nation collapse, and salutes; a tear forming as he knows that he may be the last to perform this duty. His mind wanders from, first... the drum and piper escorting the newly created flag, to the inspiration for Francis Scott Key's poem, to the charging Union soldier picking up the banner dropped by a fallen comrade in arms, to the lifting of the flagpole on Mt. Suribachi, to the camo flag on the fatigues of the grunt in Vietnam, to the brilliant contrast of red, white and blue with the gray mountain of fallen steel, brick and mortar of the World Trade Center, to the lone flag now raised in the Green Zone of Baghdad.
          In only a few hours cheers and shouts will be heard off in the distance, not for returning heroes, not as a President passes by, not as a war ends in victory but for the beginning of a football game. The Star Spangled Banner will play and be sung by the latest celebrity seeking a national spotlight but not a word of its lyrics will resonate with the power it had since Fort McHenry. We are not as the Roman Empire falling, we are as the Roman Empire beginning whose gods are numerous, whose Caesars consolidate powers given by a populace that only wants another day at the Coliseum. God's hand is being lifted and the exhilaration of choosing our own destiny emboldens us to stare into the eyes of Caesar and say not, "Give me liberty or give me death" but "Give me liberty to choose my own death." All the while the remaining Christians gather in their catacombs wondering if God's mercies on America are over; imploring of Him one more time for America to be a beacon to the nations, a people that not only openly proclaim Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind but evidence the beneficence, mercy, majesty, power and glory of Him who created the universe and without whom not one molecule would continue to exist.
         It was a marvel and a wonder while it existed in its original form....these United States of America, but now they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd (Zech 10:2.) They are a people once different as night and day in their habits and their speech that bonded together as a new entity...Americans, freed from the tyranny of kings, freed from serfdom and most importantly freed from the lie that man is the master of his fate, the captain of his soul, but that freedom, once defended, is now merely petted in the lap of luxury, "Free" as the famous rocker penned..."Free Fallin'." The American Creed, never spoken but always evident, is now but a liberal screed against God, against tradition, and against history itself.
          The sun, obscured throughout the day by clouds, sets in the West. The rain that would normally give life to the fields, runs off of the frozen, barren and lifeless ground. The flag is lowered and gently folded into the shape of a tri-cornered hat, one of the last vestiges that remain of the fight for independence. No Taps is heard, only the music of the night coming from wherever the revelers gather after the game. The winds die down, no longer needed, for the flag has been taken down, while angels sent by God prepare to blow their trumpets.