Today I received an impassioned email from a dear friend. She lost a nephew today. He was shot down in the street, murdered in cold blood by the Ukrainian police. He was an innocent pedestrian, leaving work to go home after his long day, and work happened to be in the vicinity of the riots happening throughout the last weeks. If his friends had not been with him, he would have likely been placed in an unmarked mass grave, his family never to know what happened to him. But why, you ask? Why would they do that?
The Ukrainian people have been at war with their government for some time, but things have escalated over the last few days to the point that the death count is rising, the iron fist of an oppressive government is being wielded against the civilians and they, in turn are doing everything they can to stand up and fight for what they believe in. So, what is it they believe in? It is FREEDOM! They want only to enjoy the very thing that WE enjoy! They want to make their own decisions, be able to come and go as they please, vote on the issues in a fair election, choose to live their lives. They do not want to be ruled in a dictatorship, which is exactly what they are doing right now. Their government is in control of absolutely everything, and everyone. If someone disagrees with the government, they are automatically labeled an enemy. Please take 2 minutes and watch this heartfelt video made a few days ago by a Ukrainian citizen, begging for the world to hear, to help, to come to their rescue . .
I am not going to sit here and pretend to know all the ins and outs of what is actually going on in the rest of the world. However I do watch the news here, the real news, not the spewed fairy tale nonsense that the MSM is telling you. I seek out the non-network news, even news from other countries since they tell things our media won't tell you. Did you know that our media, in our FREE country, fell to 46th most free? Seriously? When we have the 1st Amendment - FREEDOM OF SPEECH - we are the 46th on the list of having a free press? That should chill you to the bone! I listen to what is going on, I see things that are frightening, and do you know what frightens me most of all? The idiots in this country, well many of them anyway, take our freedoms for granted, to the point that they are willing and happy to just say good-bye to them. They are living in a la-la-land where the kool-aid is free and flowing non-stop, where they are told the government knows what is best for them, and where they don't have to work because the government will take care of them. They go along in a sense of bliss, not having to work because they can get "free" food stamps, not having to pay for anything, because the government will take care of them. (forgetting completely that they can only do this because people like you and me are working our backsides off day in and day out) The people of our country have so little appreciation for the freedoms that we have enjoyed for these last generations, that they are willing to throw it all away, so they can be told what to do, when to do it and what to think . . . after all, it is so much less work than thinking for themselves!
Look at the Ukrainian people PLEASE! See what they are going through! See how hard they are fighting to be FREE! Hear their voices cry out from the pools of blood on the ground as their government mercilessly murders them where they stand, their last breath given fighting for the right to be an individual, not a collective. In the path of these people fighting for their rights are innocent pedestrians, merely trying to go from home to work, and work to home. People being cut down in the prime of their lives because they happen to be in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Please, please, PLEASE . . . do not let this happen to us! We read about our own government agencies buying up millions of rounds of ammunition, daily they fight to take away our rights to keep and bear arms, daily they try to suppress our voices, daily they fight to make our great nation into a dictatorship, stripping us of everything we have been and turning us into a nation of people afraid to have a voice, a nation gagged by our own elected officials.
Support the right to freedom around the globe, and while doing so, stand up for the rights we already have, and help our country back to its feet. Do not let them break us, do not let them turn us into silent prisoners within our borders. We must stand up, we must fight, we must be unified as a people to uphold the Constitution that stands for everything the rest of the people of the world wish to be.
God help the people of the Ukraine. God help America!
