Hello to my friends, and in Westfield, especially in Ward 3…a quick follow up to the McCain funeral. I hope that many of you watched it. Repub’s, Dems, and Inde’s; all carrying the same Americanist message: our country over our personal self interests, our Party, and our Ideologies. That, there are certain things that make up what is an American, and John McCain had most of them, if not all of them. Mutual respect even in the conflict of competition. That, we have a Right, and even a responsibility to conflict, but not to slander or engage in defamation of character to win ok, nor to tear down our foundational institutions, and discredit our founding Principles in the process.
I just hope this is a rallying call for all the versions and variations of Real Americans for a Re-United States of America. Too long have Old World thinking, or purely mercenary thinking been able to con their way into New World American life. Depending on Americans, too long kept uneducated and others repressed from the opportunities called for in our originating declarations. I accept that some of the original states strayed from our primary principles to retain a class based, “Well Born” and rich to in control, and that the lower classes were incapable of real decision making. Whereas the merit based, if you earn it, it is yours regardless of Old World class origins. While this was a funeral, it was orchestrated from the grave down to who would speak, and even who would be the pallbearers; and that included a Russian dissident who twice was almost poisoned to death for opposing Putin. John McCain knew what he was doing, a smart and cleaver man, who wanted his demise to be a rallying call to the real Americans to stop the infighting, stop the attacks on the fundamental institutions that made America unique and successful for 240 years. Not perfect, and not always right in what we did, or how we did it. But, we were not like our Old World origins. For we struggled to create a future, and not to preserve living in the past; where only a select few had Rights, or allowed the opportunities to develop and apply their potential.
How many of you have actually read the Declaration of Independence or the statement of purpose, Preamble for our Constitution? Please note the words used as: the people shall, of the governed (us) etc. It was not for the few, but for the many. Yes, times were different, put the Principles transcend time, as reiterated by Lincoln, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. It was only when we were experiencing our own Enlightenment, and Age of Reason where the many were able to be educated, and mass media presented a different set of facts than those in control of the message. Their bribe: cheap taxes, and not your responsibility, be popular, and not an activist. That forged a new divide. But, as I said: I hope this is a rallying call to the real Americans to step forward. Hear what John McCain said, and all those whom he chose to eulogize him said. For John McCain knew what their message would be, and both would be the same: restore dignity, integrity and responsibility to being an American and especially to those we hire to represent us.
One last point, and I am asking for your help to make this happen. Contact the people you hired to represent you to make a day to memorialize John McCain. Not a holiday, but a day as Sept. 11th, a day to reflect and remember and to honor those who rushed in to help and to preserve the real America. Perhaps the day he was released from being a POW; and the day we began to be released from being a POF, Prisoners of Factionalism. Brian Hoose
