What have I learned?

Tuesday – July 6, 2010

What have I learned?

This past weekend, I celebrated July 4th along with millions of others. We had our barbeque, we had our fireworks and we shared it with family and friends. It was also the one year anniversary of Pinecone Conservatives. I want to thank each of you for your contribution and thoughts throughout the year.

One year ago, I started on this journey, as a result of a conversation with a neighbor who said the Constitution does not mean anything to her. She has since moved from our neighborhood, due to a relocation of her husbands work. I learned then that there are people who are apathetic and who just don’t care about liberty, freedom and the importance of vigilance. I also learned that many of our neighbors and the people we meet during our day do not know a stitch about history. In fact, on this July 4th celebration many people were asked a question: who did we win our Independence from? The majority of respondents said China. No lie, China!

So, when we are confronted with apathy and a lack of fundamental knowledge of history our liberty and freedom is at stake. For some of us, liberty is not a blessing, but an enemy. For many, a utopia is impossible to achieve, if people are or individuals are free to go their own way. The liberal, the statist and the elitist say they want people to be free and enjoy the fruits of their labor. This is not true, because if they did, we would not have unions, we would not have over taxation and we would not have the burgeoning government step more and more into our lives.

Along with this, we would not have the absence of our history and the absence of the American dialog that is occurring now with the controlling party in Washington. This is evidenced by the Democrats who continually want to change the formula of liberty and freedom from what the conservatives would like to preserve. It is called self determination, self governance and the ability to acquire, attain and retain property that is created by our own labor. We also have the ability to be treated justly and impartially before a just legal system. This, too, is under assault with new definitions of free speech and the fairness doctrines to eliminate conservative talk radio and to even regulate the internet.

What I have learned this year, is the history that we all share as one is also under assault. It is made out to be irrelevant, because our Constitution is made out to be irrelevant, because of when it was written. More so, it is under assault because of who wrote it. The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are made out to be the villains. But, when you view history, with a truthful eye, you will realize that those who are made out to be the villains are the ones who gave us liberty, freedom and the utopia that many of us want and desire.

The difference between those who respect our history and the story of the founding can be found in the conversation’s by the elitist’s that disguise their intentions by the words they use. It is the Progressive Liberal, the elitist and the statist who wants to deliver liberty and freedom through a new formula that is delivered by government. What they are saying is this: all you need to do is take the gifts that our government is ready and willing to give and that will create our new and just liberty. Once you do that, you then lose the true liberty and freedom that our forefathers had intended for us to garner and fight for.

I have learned that everyday is a struggle in this fight. I have learned that there are people who would take the gift of liberty and freedom away, because of an agenda and because of an ideology of hatred of the symbols that represents liberty and freedom. The symbols I am talking about are not found in a flag or by what some individuals wear. It is in the speech by those who talk about liberty and freedom being special. It is found in those that readily speak about the Constitution, our history and the people who founded our history. It is found in those that believe in the greatness of country, greatness of spirit and make no apology about it.

I have learned about history this year, because I have viewed it through perspective and through the eyes of patriotism. Every morning I write about history and current events and the relationship between the two. History does not lie. Those who choose to tell a different story of history do. Some say the Statue of Liberty was awarded as a gift to the United States, because of immigration. But truth be told, it was a gift to celebrate our centennial of liberty for all those that assimilated and kept the torch of freedom alive and well. It is called being a citizen and being proud of the traditions and the history of this great land.

What I have learned is that freedom of speech and thought can not be hindered. In our early days, we had people like Paine, Franklin and Adams, Washington and Jefferson who wrote the pamphlets and who printed the pamphlets and who spoke of what liberty and freedom was all about. It was these early patriots who risked life and limb to tell a story and to fight for a story that if played out under the rules of Constitutional law will not perish.

“When in the course of human events,” “We the people” are all words that tell the story of liberty and freedom. It is up us to keep the story alive. It is up to us to insure that our posterity knows the story of this liberty and freedom that some talk about and that some actually are fighting for.

In the upcoming year, you can expect me to relate more history through telling the story of history. You can expect growth in Pinecone Conservatives and you can expect that the truth will be told!

Ronald Reagan said in the Reagan – Carter presidential debate, October 28, 1980: “The American Dream that we have nursed for so long in this country, and lately have neglected, is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”

And you can expect my gratitude!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: There are 120 days to tell the story. There are 120 days to be truthful with ourselves and to make history in this midterm election. This will be the story in the next 120 days.