The crusade for socialism

France was the first country to find inspiration for a Crusade in 1095 to liberate Christendom from the Moslem infidels. 8 Crusades originating from Western Europe from 1095 to 1291 followed. France has moved, however, from Christian feudalism in the Middle Ages to socialism in the 21st century.

John Milton’s "Areopagitica" of 1644 instigated a different kind of crusade, against censorship. His work remains the classic statement of the arguments against censorship. He asked for truth "in a free and open encounter," which would overcome error. He believed it is a positive good for mankind to be exposed to error; only in this way may virtue be tested, strengthened, and made adequate to the trials of earthly life. All this rests upon a Christian view of the world in which truth may indeed win out in its encounter with error. Man must not only act virtuously, but he must also personally choose to do so; he must be prepared to be exposed to alternatives, as inevitably he will be, and he must choose rightly if he is to merit and secure eternal salvation. Milton also stressed a reliance upon due process of law as the vital concession that the community makes to reason. "Due process provides the ground rules for that free and open encounter in which truth may indeed prevail over error. The liberty of the press consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published." A major step in the Anglo-American response to censorship problems may be seen the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

After last night’s final debate between truth and error, we must admit that another crusade, to establish socialism in the United States has already begun. It has been inspired by liberalism and is led by aristocrat, King Obama The royal knight sits astride a shiny black horse, caparisoned in trappings as golden as his rider’s eloquent speech, prancing around questionable, unethical issues and spurs his mount to gallop over the rights and freedoms of the rich from whom he will steal in order to give to the middle class. The poor already possess benefits from government’s kingly largess.

Virtue won’t triumph on the battlefields of this present crusade. The free press will only report King Obama’s victories. Americans will not win their salvation; instead our country gradually will slink elsewhere carried in a handbasket. Due process will be handled by liberal judges who legislate from the bench. The Christian view of the world will be tolerated only if it accepts a socialist agenda. Most Kings of history felt they ruled by divine right. King Obama will be no exception.