(Allen
West) - Well, I’m back on terra firma and yesterday morning went for a run
on land where I could feel my legs getting used to being on solid ground. The
final sessions this past Saturday of the National Review post-election cruise
were very insightful. They dealt with the topics of PC, progressivism on
college campuses, and conservatism’s future. One of the key points consistent
throughout was the concept of language being redefined. And so I pondered that
point and as I did my four-mile run on Sunday many thoughts came to mind.
I immediately considered the quote often
(mis-)attributed to George Orwell, “in a universe of deceit, truth becomes a
revolutionary act.”
Think about what has been happening in our
America. We speak of liberalism but is it really the true definition of
liberalism as intended by John Locke? That of course is classical liberalism,
which promoted the rights of the individual — life, liberty, and property. It
was Locke’s theory of classical liberalism and the concept of natural law and
the social contract theory, which defined the relationship between the governed
and government. However, today’s post-modern liberalism is a complete
redefinition and does not advance the rights of the individual but rather
focuses on the manipulation of collective groups.
American author, Upton Sinclair, (best known
for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle) who twice (unsuccessfully) ran for
Congress on the Socialist ticket and (also unsuccessfully) ran for the
governorship of California as a Democrat in 1934 said “The American People will
take Socialism, but they won’t take the label…There is no use attacking it by a
front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.”
It is the careful covert redefinition of
language that can ensnare an entire nation and in turn affect the entire
political landscape.
Somewhere, tucked away behind closed doors,
there are those working on redefining America. Take for example constitutional
conservatism — closely aligned with classical liberalism – which is redefined
as extreme, and those who advocate those associated principles — limited
government, fiscal responsibility, individual sovereignty, free market/free
enterprise economy, and strong national defense — as extremists. It is the same
label given to Islamic terrorists, because for some reason we have redefined
Islamo-fascism, jihadism, and terrorism into something we can find more
accommodating to our sensibilities: extremists. We recently wrote about how it
seems the chosen remedy to defeat ISIS is to simply call it by a different
name. Then again, we don’t have wars or combat engagements any more — we have
overseas contingency operations. We don’t have Islamic jihadist or terrorist
attacks in America — we have “man-caused disasters.” An attacker can stand on a
table shouting “Allahu Akhbar” while gunning down American soldiers and
civilians and we redefine it as “workplace violence.”
Who are the folks in these hidden rooms who
are redefining America? They’re the ones feeding us acceptable adjectives –
with complete hypocrisy. They tell us what is inflammatory rhetoric or
incendiary speech, but for some odd reason the redefinition does not equally
apply.
Criticize the actions or policies of the
president and you’re referred to as “racist” – but no such labels are given to
those who criticize black conservatives, because we’ve been redefined as “not
really black.” And so it goes for other minority groups who don’t fit the new
redefinition — or as Greg Gutfeld calls them, the “Not Cool.”
But then again, what is cool? Once upon a time
the pursuit of happiness, a hard work ethic and striving to create a better
life for yourself and your family was cool. We now know the once indomitable
American entrepreneurial spirit has been redefined and dismissed, since “you
didn’t build that” is the new definition of American entrepreneurship.
Now it seems being a part of a redefined
American “dependency society” or a welfare nanny-state is cool. Then again,
even having a family is no longer cool and those folks in that far away room
have redefined what a family is — through their impact on culture and the
media. Family is no longer a female mother, a male father, and children — it’s
whatever those who have redefined America want it to be – as in California
where marriage licenses must by law now list Spouse 1 and Spouse 2 rather than
husband and wife. And if you don’t acquiesce to the redefinition of family —
indeed marriage – well, you’re not cool and will be viewed as archaic and
unacceptable to the “mainstream” — as redefined by the people in that far away
room.
As family, marriage and life itself are
redefined, so are individual rights. If as a business owner you have certain
beliefs contrary to the redefinition of America – whether you’re a photographer
in New Mexico or a baker in Oregon — the government will use force, coercion,
and intimidation to make you accept the redefinition. Even in the case of
respecting life, the issue of terminating life has been redefined as women’s
reproductive health rights — which we all would define as finding cures for
ovarian, cervical, uterine, and breast cancers or eradicating fibroid tumors.
But the people redefining America don’t want to talk about killing unborn
babies — they prefer a more “nuanced” redefinition.
The hypocrisy is blatantly obvious because an
innocent life has no voice — as redefined — but a criminal who has violated the
rules and laws of society has a voice, according to those who redefine America.
The same ones who say we cannot legislate morality — well, we have laws that
delineate right from wrong, a fundamental responsibility of government.
And what of that most fundamental governmental
responsibility — providing for our common defense? Well, it seems what is
honorable is being redefined as well. We imprison the men we deploy into combat
zones to defend us while we free the unlawful enemy combatants against whom
they fight — because we have redefined who is a greater threat.
It is honorable service to those redefining
America to desert your post in a combat zone while abandoning Americans to die
in a distant land and lying about it — well, “what difference at this point
does it make?” We deploy troops to fight a virus, but to those redefining
America, we cannot put “boots on the ground” to fight an enemy that has
declared war against America and is beheading Americans — but after all it is
just a man-caused workplace violence disaster. And now we send troops wearing
boots walking on the ground into combat zones in a non-combat role telling them
to not engage in combat — oops, sorry, “overseas contingency operations.”
Perhaps this is all a bit too deep but that’s
just what the folks in the far away room redefining America want from you. They
don’t want you to pay attention to what is happening. As a matter of fact,
they’re busy following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals number 12: “Pick the
target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network
and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions;
people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective.
Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”
These “redefiners” like to make people toxic
and cut them off from any alliances — their favorite ploy. Which is why we need
highly principled men and women who have no fear. We must embody the motto of
the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division — “Currahee” —
which in Cherokee means “stands alone.”
In World War II when those “Battling Bastards
of Bastogne” were asked by the Germans — isolated, freezing, cut off,
surrounded — to surrender, the response was “nuts.”
Don’t surrender to the redefinition of America
and its fundamental transformation. Tell the people in the far away room and
all of their followers, “nuts!”
http://allenbwest.com/2014/11/surrender-redefinition-america/
Source:http://www.teaparty.org/allen-west-surrender-redefinition-america-67801/
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