DEATH: THE NEW POLITICS OF HOPE

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If there is one thing you can count on in this world, it’s that things will change. We don’t need a President to do this – nope! – change comes about all on its own. But change in and of itself is not necessarily a good thing. The death of a loved one is change. Finding out your home is going into foreclosure is change. Taking an unborn life and murdering it senselessly and without mercy is change. Telling the old and infirm they should do the government a favor and die is change.

The President’s unbending stance on abortion has been made clear: after serving only three days as President of the United States, he ignored the pressing issues at hand and instead reversed legislation banning the use of federal monies to fund overseas abortions. In that stroke of the pen, he paid his fealty to pro-choice groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood – which is the only true politic of President Obama’s “hope and change.” It has been made clear that new life is unimportant to this administration, perhaps because unborn children are not voters, and they cannot say: “Get your laws off my body.”

Now with that complete for the moment, the President has moved from legislation to kill babies to legislation that will kill Americans, many of whom will be the elderly and infirm. This madness is in the form of government sponsored health care, something he disavowed during his campaign.

Government health care for the President is no more than paying fealty to another voter group he needs for re-election: illegal aliens. But this will be accomplished at the expense of our elderly and our infirm. Shockingly, the President has even hinted that euthanasia is an option for the elderly under his government health care. This horrific announcement is no surprise for those who have been watching his culture of death.

And we have only to look to Canada, Great Britain, or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to see that government run health care is and will be an unmitigated failure. In 2006, for example, Massachusetts passed a bi-partisan effort for mandatory health care. By 2008, health insurance costs in the Commonwealth had soared – in some cases by over 50%. (The rise is mainly a result of special interests being allowed to bundle their service with “approved” health insurance packages, forcing people to buy services they don’t need and won’t use). Now, the Commonwealth must subsidize a much higher percentage of care due to the exploding costs.

Even worse, doctors and hospitals in the Bay State are now being reimbursed at a subsidized rate from the Commonwealth, meaning they are losing money on every patient. As a result, many doctors have stopped accepting new patients, and residents must call dozens of doctors’ offices to obtain even routine health care.

The citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts now have health insurance, but not health care. It seems liberals are forever losing sight of the forest for the trees.

The extreme danger in government sponsored health care is the response to the inevitable shortage of services. The elderly will be told to live with pain and be denied treatment because they are too close to death. Smokers and ex-smokers will be denied cancer treatment because they contributed to their own sickness. Even healthy people will suffer as preventative treatment is denied to them as a cost savings measure. In one swift stroke of the pen, the President will change us from a country that spares no effort or cost to extend human life to one that chooses who gets to live and who gets to die, all based on dollars. This is the real cancer - the contempt for the sanctity of life. As abortion, stem-cell research and even infanticide have become acceptable, so also could euthanasia. It will be hidden, of course, behind rights of “dignity,” but it will be nothing but murder of our precious elderly and the chronically ill.

Welcome to the administration of death.

Not Peace, but a Sword

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I recently lost two good friends. They didn’t die. They didn’t get sick or move away. They “defriended” me on Facebook. One was the best man at my wedding.

They were my friends for over 20 years, and neither provided any warning or explanation. I’m sure they didn’t feel the need to. They were liberal, and probably have grown tired of my Christian and conservative postings.

This is surprising considering the fanatic worship liberals give to the principle of “tolerance.” For those of you who don’t know, liberals define tolerance thusly: "whatever a liberal thinks to be right at any given time and regardless of how much fact exists to disprove it." For example, it was intolerant of Carrie Prejean to state, when asked the question by Perez Hilton, that she defined marriage as between a man and a woman. How dare she say she believes in a practice that has gone on for 5,000 years! However, it was perfectly tolerant for Perez Hilton to call her a b*tch on video, and for the main stream media to mercilessly dig up anything to discredit her. If she’s not careful, pretty soon liberals will be putting her in the same bucket as pro-lifers!

And, (according to tolerant liberals), you can forget any stupid little facts you have that shows homosexuality is wrong. The only tolerant position is that gay men and women have the God-given right to love the way they want to love! And (says the liberal), while we are on the subject, tolerant people know that homosexuals are born gay! (Even though almost every gay man and woman has the same personality of mother!) It is still something you are born with! To say anything else makes you an intolerant, hate-mongering jerk deserving only death! And a bad one, too! And it serves you right.

Is it possible for conservatives to be intolerant? Of course. The U.S. is a big place, and everyone falls short of the glory. But the "tolerance" of liberals is really just their own arrogance. They are infused with the belief that they are carrying a torch of justice, and they will not let any inconvenient facts get in their way. They haughtily and blindly turn their eyes away from God's truth in favor of one they have created themselves - one filled with duplicity, falsehood and nepotism. And, there is of course the added benefit of fanatic support of liberal causes obtains the full support of the classicly liberal population (who are allowed to vote many times)! Benedict Arlen Specter proved to be the perfect example of a politician who will wave in the wind any way you want him to (and regardless of what is right) in exchange for votes.

But freakish politicians aren’t the only problem. Also at fault are the countless voters, like my former friends, who voted for President Obama. The people who saw “95% of the population will get a reduction in taxes” and were sold! Or the people who believed the whole snake oil pitch about “hope and change.” Why aren’t these people furious with the President for his campaign lies on Iraq, health care, earmarks and lobbyists in the cabinet? Instead, they proudly wear their Obama t-shirts or bumper stickers as if he has brought something great to the country by being the 1^st black President (born in Kenya).

Aristotle is quoted with the saying that “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” And we are dying. Tolerance, in the form of crazy liberal demagoguery and political correctness which defies logic has prevented any intelligent discussion of any topic. And we, as a country, have grown lazy and dull-witted, too interested with reality television to take the time to understand the issues (and the lies).

The only question now is what Phoenix will arise from the ashes of our dying society. Will it be a socialistic Europe? Another rise of a despot like Hitler? Or will we as a country band together and insist on our freedoms?

In the Bible, Jesus says (Matthew 10:34) that He did not come to bring peace, but a sword. He will separate mother from daughter, husband from wife, and (I believe) friend from friend. Perhaps the distance between my former friends and I, politically and religiously, became too wide a chasm for them to cross. That is sad. But I know in my heart that I cannot compromise. (This is why I am somewhat suspicious of efforts to “reach across the aisle,” whether it be in politics or christian churches). That is why I stand hurt, I stand afflicted, but I stand unapologetic for what I know to be true.

The birth of a conservative

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Hello bloggers! Thank you for checking out my blog, Let Freedom Ring! I'm incredibly excited to write, debate, and share ideas on this site. I hope you will "follow" this blog in the future if you are on Facebook! Below, I've added something I wrote recently about my transition from liberal to conservative. Enjoy!

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Recently, I marked my 40th anniversary on planet Earth.

Turning 40 makes a girl contemplative, and I've been finding myself comparing the 40 year old Lynn to her younger, less mature and far less educated self of youth. The young Lynn was liberal. Pro-choice. Anti-death penalty. She was living in a liberal world (and she was a liberal girl). That world was Massachusetts and the public education system. I hope some here will find my personal journey from liberal to conservative food for thought...

For 18 some odd years, I had been distinctly non-political. I remembered only vaguely the Vietnam War, the Carter administration, the gas crisis. But as this young and naive girl went off to college in central Massachusetts, my budding interest in the world was introduced to one side and one perspective: the liberal one. As with many of our youth today, (and without ever truly understanding the full scope of the issues) I was pro-choice. Against the death penalty. (Had it been around at the time, I'd have been pro gay marriage). I even (gasp!) campaigned for Dukakis. It was easy - we were encouraged by a liberal Commonwealth, by our professors and friends and fellow students to fight the good fight against evil (i.e., Republicans). We passionately believed that conservatives were evil, money loving, selfish and self centered, interested only in business and money, and not necessarily in that order. And, If you were horrid enough to openly profess to conservatism - you were ostracized without remorse, distanced from our liberal elite-ness, and treated as lepers. Worse than lepers – in fact, I can still hear the whispers: “He’s a Republican,” says one. “Ewww!,” says the other. Those were fightin' words.

It was the perfect bubble, really. Created and massaged by the instruments of the left: college professors, liberal government, and soldiers like myself who had been trained to speak and not think. We didn't need to know the other side of the story. It was EVIL. That should be enough. Next question. But there was one thing the bubble couldn't stand: my dad.

I will be forever grateful to him. I would take home the half-truths, the issues I only passingly understood, and I would try to convince my father to mend his evil, conservative ways! But I was no match for the truly informed. I would rage about capitalism, Reagan, "trickle down economics," and Star Wars. He always listened and corrected. He would explain the other side and "unspin" the spin that I believed to be true. And he would refuse to argue with me about it, when I thought that If I couldn't beat him with fact, antagonize! I remember being ashamed when he said (something like, because I don't remember the exact quote), "Lynn, you defeat your argument when you allow it to become personal. Any debate should only be about the issues." It was the first solid blow to the bubble, and the air inside began to leak. It was then that I began to realize that people (the liberal left) will lie and manipulate innocents to advance their own agenda.

Problem was, to acknowledge any weakness in "the fight for good" was to risk being alienated from my friends. I would be...a loser....and...alone, with my principles. The young, naive girl chose instead to keep up the front. For years I continued to try and argue against the "evil conservatives," for years to come.

But thanks to my dad, the seeds had been sown. Then, I accepted my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the year 2000, and the seeds grew. (Christianity and the principles of pro-life, personal responsibility and justice go hand in hand!) I am now a committed evangelical christian and member of the workforce for over 20 years. Christ has shown me that certain things are wrong under any circumstances. Abortion, for example. And my dad has shown me that complete knowledge of the issue allows you the freedom to make an informed decision that you will espouse and carry the consequences for.

I grieve as I watch our country stray from its faith in God. Certainly it is this that has allowed us to venture into socialism, where government becomes God. Instead of the wealthy and the poor, now there will be only poor, except for the upper elite of our government that is already showing it feels exempt from its own rules. The rules it has set out for the common folk. We have become the sheep in Animal Farm, stupidly bleating: "Four legs bad, two legs better!"

I grieve as I plead with women that even faith aside, any country that will willingly kill its unborn in the name of any woman's right is inherently evil. Pro-choice advocates passionately argue for the rights of the woman to make this choice, but the baby's rights are undetermined, "above our pay grades" to decide, or not important because they cannot sustain themselves without the mother's assistance. And what is ever said about the trauma these women will almost certainly suffer? The depression (often times suicidal), the inability to look at other children, the inner conviction that murdering an innocent life is heinous in God's eyes? They are never addressed by the pro-choice crowd. And the women are left to flounder on their own as best they can.

And, I grieve that this administration is re-instituting slavery through reliance on government programs. This is perhaps the biggest and saddest of ironies in having our first black President. Those who have been programmed into believing that they can never stand on their own and have become used to the idea of government handouts will step forth and receive them, never realizing that true freedom, Constitutional freedom, lies in the ability of man to choose his own road to success or failure and living with the consequences. The freedom that guarantees you will be treated equally as a man, but that your drive and opportunity will determine your future. If a man works honestly and does the job laid out for him, whether it be for $100,000 or $20,000, can he not be proud?

**Until next time!**