By Pastor Roger Anghis
April 2, 2023
When I was a kid the threat from communist Russia, USSR, was real. We had drills in school in case of a nuclear explosion. I remember hearing that Nakita Khrushchev warned that America would fall from the inside and not buy an outside enemy. The enemy would come from the inside. When I listen to all of our college ‘educated’ fools today I can see how that can happen. They are not educated, they have been indoctrinated into a socialist mindset. When I was in school, we had patriotism. We said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. There was even a copy of the Ten Commandments hanging in the classroom for all to read. We even said a very short non-denominational prayer every day asking to bless the teachers and the nation.
But liberals ‘decided’ that God didn’t belong in schools. Separation of Church and State the courts said, even though if you read the Bill of Rights, there was no separation. We have to remember that the Constitution defined was the government was allowed to do not what the government could force us to do. But we have forgotten that our government is a representative government in that our elected officials can only do what the Constitution allows them to do. They have gone way beyond those bounds and seem to demand more and more control over us daily. Both political parties are at fault but the democrats have gone way overboard. I remember Khrushchev saying, “Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.” Some sources say he never said that but either way, that statement is right. One little bit at a time until it’s too late to stop.
In 1945 we defeated fascism in Germany but since then we have seen the rise of socialistic policies become prominent in American societies and we haven’t even blinked an eye. One of the things that are not allowed in communism is private property. Our Founders believed that the only true form of freedom must include the ability to own property and the right to pass that property on to our offspring. We are seeing that slowly be opposed. Remember the little situation in Nevada when the government tried to take land from Cliven Bundy? The feds will try anything to get their way and use any excuse. In this case, it was a turtle. Militiamen squatted among the sagebrush and crouched on a highway overpass, cradling guns and issuing barely veiled threats at the government officials massed behind makeshift barricades. The specter of a violent standoff hung over the high desert.
The hair-trigger tension seemed at odds with the arcane origins of the dispute. Twenty years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decided to clear privately owned cattle off this patch of public land to protect the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise. Dozens of ranchers left. Cliven Bundy stayed.
Jim Urquhart—Reuters
Bundy, 68, has refused to recognize federal authority over the land, or to pay the feds for allowing his cattle to graze there. Those accumulated fees and fines now total more than $1 million, according to the government. Armed with fresh court orders, the government moved last week to impound a few hundred of the rancher’s cows.
Bundy balked, and the far right-wing media sounded a clarion call for his cause, casting the standoff as a flashpoint in a broader struggle against federal oppression. A cavalry of patriots arrived, bearing weapons and a seemingly bottomless grudge against the government.
On April 12, BLM retreated, abandoning the round-up amid “serious concerns” over the safety of federal employees. The cattle “gather is over,” BLM spokesman Craig Leff says. No shots were fired; no blood was spilled. Bundy declared victory in the Battle of Bunkerville.[1]
They use other means as well. Imminent domain is their most common tool. It is only to be used for schools, roadways, and public buildings like libraries and city council buildings but I have seen them take property for pennies on the dollar and sell the property to large corporations at full value. The owner of the property is supposed to receive ‘fair market value’ but rarely do.
We also have to keep in mind that Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum has stated that by 2030 you will own nothing and be happy. Where this man believes he has the right to take over a sovereign nation and play dictator is beyond me. We have over seventy million people that own guns and will not just stand by and have their property taken from them. I was listening to Dutch sheets the other day on his podcast GiveHim15.com and he brought up a statement by Ronald Reagan that I thought was very appropriate for this column because it opens our eyes to the reality of the situation we are facing. “Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, ‘We don’t know how lucky we are.’ And the Cuban stopped and said, ‘How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.’ And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth…
“…If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand—the ultimatum. And what then—when Nikita Khrushchev [Leader of the Soviet Union at the time] has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we’re retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time, we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side, he’s heard voices pleading for ‘peace at any price’ or ‘better Red than dead,’ or as one commentator put it, he’d rather ‘live on his knees than die on his feet.’
“…those voices don’t speak for the rest of us,” Reagan stated.
“We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”[2]
I do not accept the idea that we will capitulate to the liberal ideology of socialism/communism that is being shoved down the throats of our college students today. We must take a stand to reverse the path that we are on. We must have God’s help to do this because we have let it go too far to stop it ourselves. We have a praying church, not all the church but the remnant that God needs to get the job done.
The foundation America was built on is what we must get back to. We need to teach our kids our Constitution and the history of this great country. Each generation must be taught how to be free and stay free. John Jay, our first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States commented: Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the constitution of his country, and teach the rising generation to be free. By knowing their rights, they will sooner perceive when they are violated, and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.[3]
We must preserve this nation, the greatest nation to ever exist, for our children and our grandchildren and teach them how to do the same.
© 2023 Roger Anghis – All Rights Reserved
E-Mail Roger Anghis: roger@buildingthetruth.org
Foot Notes
- The armed rebellion on a Nevada cattle ranch could be just the start/
- https://www.givehim15.com/post/march-24-2023
- “The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay”, Henry P. Johnson, editor, (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890), Vol.I, pp. 163-164, from his “Charge to the Grand Jury of Ulster County”, September 9, 1777
Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the constitution of his country, and teach the rising generation to be free. By knowing their rights, they will sooner perceive when they are violated, and be the better prepared to defend and assert them. – John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, “The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay”, Henry P. Johnson, editor, (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890), Vol.I, pp. 163-164, from his “Charge to the Grand Jury of Ulster County”, September 9, 1777
