From Woodstock’s Richard Rostron:

Harsh alternatives to question of a citizen’s responsibility: Defend Liberty or Surrender

Wednesday, I posed the following question to others on Facebook:

“What is the most important responsibility of an American citizen?”

I had a pretty good idea of what I believe is the best answer to this question, but I wanted to see what other God-loving American Patriots think.

There were variations in the answers, but I think they generally all come down to the same thing:

DEFEND AMERICA!!!

Harsh alternatives to yesterday’s question: Defend Liberty or Surrender

I put it this way: DEFEND LIBERTY!!!, which is really the same thing.

It’s the same thing because America is the place where a government first embraced liberty as the most essential principle of its existence – its reason for being.

Ronald Reagan was absolutely correct when he said,

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

If America loses liberty while, somehow, China gained it, our job would be to fight with China to return liberty to America.

It’s all about liberty.

It’s not that America has perfectly applied liberty.

She hasn’t.

She’s taken shortcuts and diversions, some that came perilously close to cliffs hanging over deep ravines, but she has always come back to that principle of liberty.

The answers to the question included references to prayer and relying on God. I believe prayer and reliance on God are essential, but I also think God may expect us to do more than just pray.

Numerous people answered, “Vote.”

Some were more specific: “Don’t vote democratic.”

Voting is a battleground.

It’s a place where we have a chance to stem the socialist, Marxist flood that the Left and their lapdog media are helping to spread across the country.

If we are sufficiently successful voting, other means of defending liberty may not be required. But defending liberty we must.

We have been blessed to live in this country where liberty has been so pervasive that it is almost completely taken for granted today.

I asked a young girl recently, a girl who supports the BLM group, votes Democrat (I’m sure) and is essentially a Leftist, whether she knows it or not – I asked her, “What about liberty?”

“I really don’t do much anyhow.”

That was her answer.

She thinks that liberty only means anything in her life if she decides to turn off the television and come out of her house.

She obviously doesn’t understand liberty.

And so, I think that, just as voting is a crucial firewall we should employ in an attempt to hold back the anti-American forces within our borders, explaining the meaning of liberty to our young, who have not learned this in schools where they should have learned it, is an essential tool to employ in defense of America and of liberty.

If these, and other such measures fail, what then?

We send our young men and women off to war in defense of liberty abroad.

Don’t we have a responsibility to maintain liberty here?

It’s our job to guard the flank – the homeland where the heart of liberty beats and must continue to beat.

We expect those young men and women in uniform to risk their lives for America – for liberty.

How can we ask less of ourselves?

When it comes down to it, voting, informing on the principles of liberty and other such methods must succeed.

The alternatives are too terrible to contemplate.

Those alternatives include:

1. Surrender or

2. Taking up arms in defense of liberty.

If the Left keeps pushing us in this direction, a time WILL come when we all have to make a choice between one or the other of these alternatives.

Here are some of the answers I received from yesterday’s question:

To love God and country.

Raising their children right to love their country, respect themselves and others, defend our country from evil foriegn and domestic.

Vote.

Educate the youth on History, teach morals and ethics.

Defend against tyrannical takeover.

Defend the constitution and it’s principles.

To do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy GOD.

Don’t vote democratic.

Vote.

To protect and uphold the Constitution!

To protect and provide for their families and themselves.

Uphold the liberties of others that cannot.

Vote!

To defend the Rights of the people.

Protect the future of its children.

To stay vigilant and hopefully prevent the rise of a tyrannical government.

Self sufficiency.

Vote!

“…It needs to be the effectual…fervent PRAYERS of righteous Men/Women to the GOD in Heaven. That we would ALL humble ourselves, Pray and turn from our wicked ways….so GOD will hear our prayers from Heaven, forgive our Sins and Heal our land!!!!”

God not only hears our prayers, but He answers them as well!!! 

Question and watch government.

“PRAYER (God) CHANGES THINGS”