He Reached Into His Pocket, And Found A Little Less...

...of that most priceless of things dearest to him---His freedoms! This afternoon, my youngest grand son told me that, tomorrow, he would be taking a bus to the middle school nearby. I of course, asked him why, and his answer was revealing. "I am going to the Holliday Concert, Pop pop." I thought things over for a minute, and softly said,"You mean a Christmas concert, don't you?" The young man looked at me and said once again, "No! It is a Holliday Concert. You are not the boss of the school, they just call it a Holiday Concert, that's all."How I wished he might have told his teacher that he would just sit out this "Holiday" concert, and wait for the "Christmas" concert, and then he would go to that one instead.

At this point, I knew it was not a distinction I was going to be able to make with ease. The distinction between Christmas, and Holliday concerts.Several hours later, i was still agitated by what he had told me, and I got to thinking about something said by Charlton Heston, actor, and American Patriot a while back. It was in Washington DC, on December 6, 1997, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Free Congress Foundation.

During his remarks to the assembled guests, Mister Heston said the following:"A cultural war is raging across our land, storming our values, assaulting our freedoms, killing our self-confidence in who we are, and [in] what we believe." Mister Heston, then asked those who owned guns to raise their hands. "I wonder how many of you own guns, but chose not to raise your hands? How many of you considered revealing your conviction about a constitutional right, but then thought better of it?"If so, then you are the victim of the cultural war being waged against traditional American freedom of beliefs and ideas. You have been assaulted and robbed of the courage of your convictions. Your pride in who you are, and what you believe in has been ridiculed, ransacked, and plundered! It may be a war without a bullet, or bloodshed, but with as much LIBERTY, LOST. you, and your country are LESS FREE!

"Holliday concert, or Christmas concert? Which will it be?

In Holland, Geert Wilders, a Dutch Parlamentarian, wages a lone battle against what he views as an immigration policy that dooms the Dutch to eventual Islamification of the land of Peter and the dike. Of windmills, and colorful tulips dotting the countryside.In England, citizens worry that they too, are being overwhelmed, and sense their country is quite in the same mess as Holland. In these countries, there are ministries serving the needs of MULTICULTURALISTS. So too, in Canada, but mere hundreds of miles to the north, do these same denizens of the cold winter nights live and thrive, not at the will of, but at the expense of, the people they purportedly serve.

The year is 2008 AD, and not 2008 the common era, as the History Channel refers to it as being.

How better to illustrate this post than to accompany it with that calendar year 2008 shot of Sarah Palin, with her shotgun resting across those strong, and unyielding shoulders. This, my grand son shall see, and he will gain a greater appreciation for the freedoms remaining; for those freedoms yet to be taken back in the name of the PEOPLE of America.This young lad will forcefully exclaim, "Merry Christmas!" to his fellow students, and to his teachers also. In time he too, will come to understand that there are things very much worth fighting for;Things that other young Americans are both fighting for, and even dying for, all in our name.

What will it be for you? A Holliday Concert, or a Christmas Concert?

Merry Christmas everyone, and to all, a good night!