Welcome, and Embrace Freedom

I was looking at my all-time stats, and I was marvalling at the number of different countries and nationalities that are visiting.  This world is truly interconnected, and it is nice that someone that lives in the United States can interact and share information with people all over the world.  As a student of history, I am totally in awe of the fact that even 20 years ago, in 1990, the Internet was in its infancy, and blogs and websites were unheard of.  There were parts of the world that were still dominated by Communist thought, and communication and news was tightly restricted by various governments from around the world.  It is hard to believe that in 1989, in China, students were fighting for freedom from a government they felt was repressing their rights to speech and assembly.  Some paid with their lives.  For the record, I remember that night well.  Where I was living, it was a Friday night, and I can remember watching the events unfold on TV in the living room of my house with my father.

In 1991, in what was the Soviet Union, a brave group of "freedom fighters" stood up to a hard-line Communist regime to tell them that they no longer wanted to be dictated to; that they wanted to determine their own destiny.  They won, and the hardliners failed.  By Christmas 1991, there was no more Soviet Union.  The world gave a collective sigh of relief.  The dreaded Cold War that Winston Churchill had talked about in Missouri in 1945 was over, for all intents and puposes.

Now, while many countries in the world are rejecting socialist and communist values and ideas, the United States, unfortunately is embracing them.  Our president, Barack Obama, has embarked on a tirade of spending and legislation-creation that has mired this country in so much debt that my great-great-grandchildren will be paying it off.  Mr. Obama is intent on intruding government into every aspect of our lives, and as Americans, we must stand up to him and say "NO MORE!"  We as a country need to tell him with our votes that we do not embrace his values and his agenda.  We need to remember the words of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and reclaim our freedom.