A Fourth of July message to my fellow Groksters - and to our readers. And especially to those that just might be stopping by. - Granite Grok

A Fourth of July message to my fellow Groksters – and to our readers. And especially to those that just might be stopping by.

“I also wanted to mention the strange feeling that I awoke with today….and I share your sense of – not unease necessarily, but maybe  – resolve..?

Words from my fellow Groksters that stirred me to write a message back:

My fellow Groksters,

There was a reason why each and everyone of you was chosen and asked to write for GraniteGrok.  I also believe that there was a reason why each and everyone of you said yes – you all realized that we ARE in a Cold Civil War, that “the strange feeling that I awoke with today” one that is “instinctive” and “palpable” are real.  I started this blogging schtick with Doug back in 2005 when it was just a novel way to get our rather opinionated opinions out there.  Now, I see that there was a Higher Purpose that yanked us into this place, and what we do now as the ‘Grok is probably far more important than what I ever thought.  Liberty and Freedom.

This July Fourth, we realize we are at a tipping point – a very important one.  We are in a fight for our Country’s future; the line has been drawn, and we either are those that just drift along or we respond that that “instinctive” and internal sense that something is awry.  If not us, then who?  Who will run to the ramparts to defend our Shining City on a Hill?  Who will stir themselves from the easy life and the easy way?  Who will say “I will put away the couch, the tv, the toys, and my family” and look deeper into their core to say “There is more; I am a descendent of our Minutemen – if not by blood but by that same love of country and Ideals”.  I will stand, not for the Old World based failed reasons that motivated my ancestors to leave the Old Country, but for the Rights given to me by my Creator.  I am that new Minuteman that refuses to give in to the Progressives that not only defend the Statism of that Old World but wish to entrench it here.  Millions have died to defend the philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence – yet, Progressives are fighting to redefine those words and ideas, turn them upside down, and say that they are the Patriots and we are the extremists.   They are the Fifth Column, the Trojan Horse, spreading rot within all of our institutions and Society.

But all of you Groksters and others that join with us in spirit (TEA Party, 9-12, constitutionally aware), are now are saying “You have gone far enough – and we will stop you”.  Some of you have already done your part; you took the oath, did the training, did the hard work, and literally fought for us.  We who stayed home did other things, vaguely aware that you were on the parapets standing guard and keeping us safe.  Yet, even with your tours long over, have come back to the fight once more.  Not with a gun (though you have such at the ready, with the spirit to lift it) but with keyboards, voices, and heart.  We who did not wear the uniform now join you in this different fight, side by side with you, ready to now do our part.

We are in a Cold Civil War – one that will determine the future of our country for our kids, our grand-kids, and our greatgrand-kids.  Will they continue to enjoy the Blessings of Liberty as we have?  As independent and sovereign citizens in their country, or as mere subjects of a Collective / Communitarian society?  One that allows the full range of freedom of choices as envisioned by our Founders, or merely the choices that an ever-increasingly limiting, Progressive desired, Administrative State allows to you?  Will you choose the path that will lead us back to Society of fuller Freedoms, including that Freedom to fail?  Or the soft, Liberalist’s cocoon that completely envelopes you – safe and secure, but with a cloying set of boundaries?

Freedom vs Safety and Security.  Rugged Individualism and chance to succeed to the best of your ability vs just being a member of a crowd.  Earning your keep vs handouts from the Progressive Welfare State.  Willing to provide for yourself vs demanding others take care of you.  Realizing that you earn what you get vs fighting to get the leftovers from a Selfish State.  Pride vs nihilism.

We support this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, mutually pledging to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”  We MUST succeed – we will have success.  We will also have failures.  We will take casualties – more than we want.  But others, I pray, will also rise in because they believe in the Original version of American Exceptionalism – and hopefully, with a glinty eye looking to destroy the faux utopian future that Progressives present and with which to lure us all into what will turn out to be nothing more than an Old World totalitarian state.

As we go through this day with families and friends, I concur with Steve and the other Groksters – when you lift a cup, light off some fireworks (yes, we have the freedom here in NH to do so), and talk with your friends, Remember What This Day Is All About.  It is not just a holiday to sleep in, go to a parade, do a BBQ, gather with friends; WHY do we have this Day?

Will it always have the meaning it should?  Will YOU, dear reader, decide this day what you will do?  The easy way?  Or the Freedom path?

Continue to saddle up, ammo up, read up, speak up, and write well, my friends.

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