Prepper Recon

America after 9/11

11 years ago our country was thrown into a state of disbelief as we tried to process the images that we witnessed on our television screens. Many of our fellow citizens lost their lives that day. Many more lost loved ones who would never return home. Each and everyone of us lost our false sense of security. Our country came to a screeching halt. The stock market stopped trading. Airports were shut down for days. It was truly the end of the world as we knew it.

In the days and weeks following 9/11, American returned to God and church attendance soared. We quickly adapted to our new normal. Folks gradually lost their perceived need for an Almighty Being to protect them. America soon returned to her routine and was free to go back to her objects of worship from before. Sunday once again meant going to the lake, watching the game and cooking out. Maybe God will use a little louder alarm clock next time and America won’t be so quick to roll over and hit “snooze”.

We are still suffering today. Every time we get on a plane, we are reminded of the tragedy as we now must go through ever more invasive security screenings. Every citizen is now treated as a potential enemy.  In the name of safety, we have willingly given up our 4th amendment rights. Thomas Jefferson said ” I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”  I wonder if he would still recognize the America for which he and so many others risked all to form.

In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson said “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations- entangling alliances with none.” How disappointed he would be with our foreign policies. These foreign entanglements have cost us much in blood and treasure in the 11 years since 9/11. I understand and agree with the need to vindicate those who lost their lives in 9/11.  What I do not agree with is the nation building efforts that accompany our present concept of war. War used to be a process of dealing with a country who had brought some grievous crime upon our nation. Now it has become an opportunity to buy friendship from our sworn enemies. An opportunity to force democracy upon a people who have little interest in it and no appreciation for it. And why should they look up to us? Are we the shining moral example to the world that we think we are? One of  our biggest exports to the rest of the world is pornography. Our national divorce rate is 46%, second only to Sweden at 55%. Our mainstream film industry glorifies adultery, drugs and violence. We use the name of our God as swear word on regular prime time television and we consume as much drugs as the Taliban can produce.Why should they want to be more like us?

America borrows money she can never repay from one enemy (like China). We use that money to take to other enemies (like Pakistan and Afghanistan) and build roads, bridges, schools and hospitals while ours are crumbling to the ground. I am not naive. I realize the need for stability in those regions to maintain cheap oil prices. But if that is the reason, shouldn’t we be a little more transparent as to what it is all about?  The price tag for our “cheap” oil is estimated to reach $4 trillion dollars and will have claimed more than 250,000 lives. These numbers do not take into account for lost limbs, broken homes, drug addictions and PTSD cases for our soldiers.

I hate to enumerate problems without giving a solution. So what can we do? We can pray. We can ask God to guide us back to being an America that He can bless. We can pray for the safety and protection of  our troops that are still serving. Pray for comfort for the wives, children and mothers of those troops who have sacrificed everything.

We have missed the opportunity to elect a leader that can lead us out of our destructive behavior this time around, but I still encourage people to pick up a copy of Ron Paul’s The Revolution. Read it and pass it on. This election is about defusing the economic time bomb known as Obama Care. It is the only thing that matters in this election. As the law stands, in 2014 small business of  50 or more employees will be  forced to provide health care for all workers, many will chose to lay off  workers to get beneath the 50 employee threshold. Hiring will freeze and the unemployment rate will skyrocket. We will enter a depression that will dwarf the one we had in the 1930’s.

If we can make the right choice this November,we can possibly tread water for the next 4 years. Perhaps in 2016 someone like Rand Paul will pick up the torch of his father and run to restore America. Perhaps it will be someone who can restore our liberty and restore sound fiscal responsibility. Pray that God will provide a great leader and that the American people will wake up and elect such a person. Don’t loose hope.

Happy Prepping!