Words Are A Powerful Tool

February 10, 2021 | 1st Amendment, Founders, History

by Nicholas Testaccio

During his presidency, Ronald Reagan spoke words of encouragement, and determination that spanned the spectrum of history, law, foreign affairs, and the principles of this nation. Many of his speech’s came from writers who penned some of the most inspiring words to be delivered from the presidential podium.

The words I write here are my own coupled with quotes from our Founders and matters in law. I find that the history, the theory, and the rule of law make for a much more compelling method of conveying a point.

I am not sure that what I place on paper lives up to the standards of the orators who preceded my humble attempts at provoking or educating others. My desire is to reach those who care to learn, which is the basis for all progress. Statesmen, true statesmen, are both students of history and politics. While one study has its value in learning from the wisdom of the successes, pitfalls, and  failures of the past, the other seems to be an attempt at psychological aptitude.

History does repeat in a manner. There are those who rebuke that doctrine, but in some way the mistakes of the past keep presenting themselves in one form or another. Politics, as it is today, expresses itself in the form of propaganda, dystopian agenda, and powers that have no regard for the people who suffer under runaway insanity. It should be clear to those who have taken even a cursory look at the Constitution, that government has violated the tenets so clearly enumerated. The document that our servants swore an oath to protect and defend is desecrated at every clause and provision.

At one time we had men and women of steel in this nation. While men cast boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor, the women were securing their place in history. “Yonder, the destruction of the detestable weed, made so by cruel exaction, engages our attention. The virtuous and noble resolution of America’s sons, in defiance of threatened desolation and misery from arbitrary despots, demands our highest regard.”, wrote Hannah Winthrop.

John Adams asked his friend and clarion of liberty, Mercy Warren Otis to put her considerable talent to honor that band of patriots. In response she wrote “The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs”

BRIGHT Phaebus drove his rapid car amain,
And plung’d his steeds beyond the western plain,
Behind a golden skirted cloud to rest.
Ere ebon night had spread her sable vest,
And drawn her curtain o’er the fragrant vale,
Or Cynthia’s shadows dress’d the lonely dale,
The heroes of the Tuscararo tribe,
Who scorn’d alike a fetter or a bribe,
In order rang’d, and waited freedom’s nod,
To make an offering to the wat’ry god.

The poem goes on, but it was not the sum of Mercy’s contribution to the revolution. She wrote plays that helped to ignite the flames of insurrection. Yes, as all our Founder’s knew that the fight for liberty and the dissolution of the bond between Britain and the American Colonies was an act of insurgency worthy of a meeting with the gallows. By today’s standards of censorship, Mercy Warren Otis would have been banned long before the men of the revolution knew her name. She may very well have heard a loud banging on her door in the middle of the night by an agency acting in direct violation of the rule of law.

What a tragedy it would have been if we could not have the pleasure of her wisdom and skill with the pen. To be denied the words that expressed her hopes and fears would make us poorer by far. “I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; May nothing ever check that glorious spirit if freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

And what of today, the rhetoric, and propaganda that has been infused into the culture. Is there an honest voice that shouts of the impending tyranny that will be imposed on us all for the simple fact that we believe in individual freedom, property, and the means by which to protect those elements of our being?

To maintain what is essential to our liberty and the ability to prosper, earn, and enjoy those aspects of life, we must struggle on some level. Thomas Paine wrote, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” Tyranny presents itself, and yet we are wanting of the ability to recognize its talons and prepare ourselves for the conflict that must ensue.

We are now staring down the barrel of tyranny, and we refuse to acknowledge it is at point blank range. Mao Zedong coined the phrase “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”. While unconstitutional agencies are given more and more power to regulate and enforce the rules that they create, there are private organizations assisting the move toward complete government autocracy by demanding the disarmament of their fellow citizens. For their foolish aspirations I must remind these “useful idiots” that you will gain neither safety, nor security by taking the power of the Sword from those who could and would protect liberty.

It is now some Seventy-Five years since American Liberation Forces marched into concentration camps. There they found death, despair, and horror they could not have fathomed. Despite what you might believe, the Nazi’s left behind video evidence of what had been done in the camps. As told to me by one soldier who saw the malevolence; “We brought people from the town in to look at the films. They left in tears. They were all crying.” The story of one of our WWII veterans has never lost its effect on my desire to warn and educate. From those who turn a deaf ear I have learned that the awakening only comes at the hands of the experience. An experience that I fear I will leave to my children. It is a nightmare that plagues my heart and mind.

From the inspirational words of our forefathers to the eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the horrors of war, we become student of our past and the wisdom given to us. Some of those words encompass the fight for freedom, and others cast a warning against the dangers of tyranny and destruction. They are powerful tools to be used for the betterment of mankind.

As I write these words I must recall Barry Goldwater’s 1964 acceptance speech in which he advised, “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”.

Today, however, we cast aside the wisdom and the warnings of the past to a new use of words, propaganda. In today’s world Hitlers Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, would pale in comparison to the leftists, and their media allies.

It has been determined that words such as man or woman deny that what we have known, for eons, as a biological imperative are some how obsolete expressions of who we are, and how our body functions. Sexism and racism are all the rage. Women will now have to compete on a level playing field with transgender men, who still maintain the structure that makes them physically superior to a woman. Serena Williams, a tennis superstar, once noted that she had no business being on the same court as a man. Granted that she would probably wipe the court with most men, but most men do not rise to the level of someone like Novak Djokovic, or Rafael Nadal.

A star of the caliber of Serena Williams recognizes the difference so why is it that there is a considerable segment of the population, and now a man elected as president of this nation who cannot reconcile what is part of nature?

Perhaps an answer to such a question is beyond the scope of our “pay grade”. However, I believe the answer can simply be explained as indoctrination, perception, propaganda that is designed to achieve an outcome from the minds of the Fabians. An aspect of their agenda has always been eugenics, and perhaps the transgender movement will fulfill part of that goal. Aldous Huxley wrote “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”.

If we are conditioned to believe that men and women are equal without any differences at all, then the line between what is necessary for humanity to survive and thrive becomes a blur. There are biological imperatives that sustain humanity. Men and women are created in the manner necessary for procreation. Are we headed toward a future where children are genetically built from the ground up where we start our lives in a petri dish? Will the children of the future be engineered to accomplish a specific task designed by the elites?

As the questions bounce about in my mind, I wonder if those who come after us will even know what life is supposed to be? Will they have access to our history? It appears from the destruction by leftists using the race card that the past will not enter into the stream of consciousness for anyone other than the elite.

Margret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, wrote “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”. Planned Parenthood thrives on the patronage of the democrats, yet they are perceived as the party who cares for the Black community. This sort of twisting of reality is pervasive in leftist’s and media allies. On the one hand they condemn people who have conservative views, while they themselves are the true racists.

I am wanting to comprehend what appears so evident to me is lost on the general public. There are enough warnings and regrets that we should be on our guard whenever we hear of any attempt by “government officials” to suppress our speech or disarm us. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lamented in The Gulag Archipelago, “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?”

How simple is it to look at the pages of history and garner some understanding that throughout the decades and the centuries that tyrants employ the same methods that accrue the same outcome? “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” A methodology that is rudimentary, but none-the-less enslaves our minds for “We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.”. Patrick Henry chastised his fellow representatives with those words, and yet we sit here some Two-Hundred Forty Five years later as if that “song” had never been sung before, and never will again.

It is easy enough for the blind to go about unseeing, and for the deaf to go about unhearing for we would much rather deny the truth that will cause us discomfort now only to regret it later when sorrow and pain becomes reality.