Freedom is the key word

Freedom is the key word. In Thomas Paine’s "Common Sense" in 1776 he observed that "Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe....Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! Receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind." Then along came our American Revolution.

Freedom is the key word. Straight-talking President Herbert Hoover in 1940, when two thirds of the world was at war, said that the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( war, famine, death and pestilence ) were joined by imperialism, intolerance, state-ism, atheism and hate. Their camp follower was revolution. Hoover also said that "Only the Western Hemisphere is free of the full violence of these Horsemen.... Reason and hope for the world call for the restoration of those nations who have lost their freedom." So along came our involvement in World War II.

Freedom is the key word. 2009 is planting time for the biggest budget deficit in American history, almost a trillion dollars as a result of the present stimulus (porkulus) package of our new President, Obama and his Cabinet. Obama has enough votes for passage thanks to a Democrat majority in both the House and Senate. Now is the time to remember the words of Paine in 1775. "Now is the seed-time of continental union, faith and honour." Along must come again a moral revolution against the usurpation of our foremost, fought-for freedom of self-determination.