The Blue Ridge Patriots

INEPTOCRACY
(in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

An Important Message from a Valley Forge Soldier

Americans know so little about American history, especially in the early days. They don't know we almost lost the American Revolution.

At Valley Forge, our troops had not eaten for several days. They had few weapons, not enough ammunition, few medical supplies, standing barefooted in the snow.

When they died, their hopes and dreams died for their family.
There was no government welfare, no retirement for soldiers, when daddy died, every body back at home, their dreams died with him.

In the theater of my mind, I hear an echo coming from Valley Forge. I see a lone American patriot soldier in George Washington's continental army, standing barefoot in the snow. Shivering in rags, hungry, blood stained from the battle.

He holds his musket in his bandaged hand and there's fire in his eyes. Looking 200 years later into our generation, he addresses us saying.

"I gave to you a birth right of freedom, born in the constitution, and your children graduate from high school too illiterate to read it.

I fought barefoot in the snow, to give you the right to vote, and you stay home on election day because it rained.

I left my family destitute, so you could have freedom of speech, and you remain silent because it might be bad for business, to speak out for America.

I orphaned my children, to give you a government to serve you, and through neglect, you have permitted special interest to hijack democracy."

The voice from Valley Forge continues, saying....

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who gives you the freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given you the freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given you the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to rekindle the passion of patriotism in America. It's time to give the men and women in uniform the honor they are due.

LOSING IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE OPTION!

from the pulpit of Pastor John Hagee, Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, TX