Posted by
Tony Ritcherson on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:23:07 AM
President Calvin
Coolidge was perhaps one of the most intelligent, well-informed and perceptive
men that our country could have ever hoped for. Silent Cal
as they called him, knew when to fold them, but also when to hold them.
He spoke when it was time to speak, but sat with mouth closed
otherwise. He wasn't a very gregarious individual, kind of quiet in his
own friendly way, but when he spoke, everyone listened, because what he had to
say was powerful. How many politicians have you heard lately espousing
something like the following:
Whenever the state of the Treasure can permit, I believe in a reduction of
taxes. But I am not advocating tax reduction merely for the benefit of
the taxpayer; I am advocating it for the benefit of the country.
Calvin was visiting in Vermont, and it was 2:30 in the
morning on August 3, 1923,
when he received word that he had won the Presidency. His father,
who was a notary public, administered the oath of office to Calvin under the
dim light of a kerosene lamp, as Calvin placed his hand on the family Bible,
and became the 30th President of the United States of America.
A Democratic admirer,
Alfred E. Smith, said of the President. "His great task was to restore the
dignity and prestige of the Presidency when it had reached the lowest ebb in
our history ... in a time of extravagance and waste...."
My, my how we need
another Calvin in our day! I won’t attempt to elaborate here, but would
simply like to say that we need another President like this more than we need
another sun to rise. Politicians are ruining us, and they are ruining our
country. They think of nobody but themselves, and seek the service of
their constituents, instead of being servants to the constituents.
As a case in point, but
with a broad brush, take a good look at the mighty magistrates of the United
States Supreme Court. These people have all but destroyed this country,
and the Constitution that they swore to uphold. The Bible has been removed
from our school rooms, as have our prayers to a Holy God. More than 50
million babies in the United States have been slaughtered under the knives of the medical
profession since Roe vs. Wade in 1972. Today men are marrying men and
women are marrying women. And, to my uttermost amazement, every day the
children across this country are being indoctrinated and propagandized in the
secular humanistic religion of the theory of evolution.
So let me say, and say
as emphatically as I possibly can: We need a President, a Congress and a Court
that will once again stand for freedom and liberty, will once again stand
beside our founding fathers and the Constitution, will once again exclaim
without fear or intimidation: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness—that to secure these Rights,
governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the
consent of the governed.”
As President, Calvin
Coolidge was determined to preserve the old moral and economic directives that
had established our nation in the midst of the material prosperity which many
Americans were presently enjoying. But he did it under the confines of our
noble Constitution, the most wonderful document, beside the Bible, that has
ever been penned by the hand of man.
So I leave you with
this: Are we ready, as We the People, to stand up today, lay all fears and
trepidation aside, and speak with the Authority of the Ages in righting what
our unjust government has egregiously pulled down upon us? We the People
are the Town Halls of America. We are the Tea Parties who will not be
silent in this great country in which we live and move and have our
being. We are the Minute Men and the fathers and grandfathers, the mothers
and the grandmothers of those who have fought and died for us on the fields of
battle. We are brothers and sisters, assembled in this great country of
ours, as the melting pot, knowing that we have been truly blessed by God Almighty. We
say, as our forefathers said, “Give me liberty or give me death!” We ride
with Paul Revere, and shout with volume, “The British are coming! It’s
time to clean house!” It’s time to sign anew the Declaration of
Independence to the chagrin of the jerk-offs residing in the statehouses of our
Nation. Together we stand, or divided - we die.
Let us be the people who stand up for our country in
the midst of tribulation, and jerked these lands of ours out of the fire with a
Power, a Determination and a Love that could not be defeated.