A17: A Word of Gold

It’s been a while since my last post, so I needed to get something out. Writing these global warming pieces is like eating at the Cheesecake Factory for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Gone are the days I could sit for a few hours, write, and then hit send. Here’s an article for you to enjoy in the meantime. If you ask my roommates, I did go into hibernation for this one.

Before the main piece, here’s some more juicy information connected to the last article.

There’s the man who drove the term climate change. We have this Darwinian view that society must change because change is natural. However, when we begin to see names and faces, then we can understand that these changes are not sporadic and random, but purposeful and driven. We are not on this endless march to atheistic and nihilistic national suicide. Just as they were altered once, so too can they be again by those who have the will to seize it.

Also, something should be mentioned about the Israel Project. It was a plan created in 2009 to shape the way this country speaks about Israel and therefore make that nation more palatable to the American taxpayer for their financial, emotional, and military support. Its talking points are eerily similar to mainstream discussions.

Makes you wonder if the ideas that dominate the political sphere are there because of the supposed marketplace of ideas, or because they were drilled into our heads thousands of times.

What does it mean to keep your word? Today promises are broken daily, and little care is placed on standing firm behind commitments. Such a view, however, was not always the case.

Let us go back to Rome during the First Punic War (264—241 BC). The story begins with the Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus. While marching on Carthage, his army was defeated and captured by the Spartan mercenary Xanthippus.

Held for five years, Regulus was then sent to Rome to sue for peace and a prisoner swap. If not, he must return to be tortured and die. To everyone’s great surprise, however, while in Rome, Regulus instead pleaded against peace, citing the weakness of Carthage and refused to be traded, as it was his duty to serve out his sentence.

All knew the price of these statements, yet undeterred, he returned to Carthage to his death. Staying and betraying his oath would be an act of cowardice which would stain his family’s honor and that of the great Roman Republic. His act of courage remained on the lips of the Romans for centuries to come.

When a vow is made to the Lord, was expected to be kept. Our word was expected to mean something. Yet unlike ancient times, not only must our oaths be true, but every word uttered from our lips must be as well.

Our Lord is a God of integrity. Every promise He made to His people, He fulfilled, and all the words He spoke were true. If we are to become Christ-like, then so too must we have such rigid character.

Another true tale of such rigid integrity is that of George Washington, and his father’s cherry tree.

At the age of six little Washington was gifted an ax and went around chopping down everything in his path. He often amused himself by hacking his mother’s pea-sticks. One day, he tested his blade on his father’s cherry tree mutilating it beyond repair.

When his father, the next morning, found out what had befallen his favorite tree, he demanded to know who had caused the incident, with the look of anger and punishment in his eyes. There, little Washington, terrified and almost faltering, bravely cried out:

His father looked at him and his heart melted. Before him stood his little boy, his brave little lion willing to tell the truth no matter the consequences. And so, he spoke:

Make no mistake about the seriousness of the offense. To allow one’s animals to bark a neighbor’s fruit trees was punishable with one hundred pounds of tobacco, and in England to cut down another’s fruit tree was punishable by death.

Yet there he was, tiny Washington, knowing the immense burden before him, faced it with courage. Such a moral lesson did not go unlearned for at the closing of the Revolution when many were prepared to pronounce him king, he turned down the scepter and kept his word by retiring back to private life mirroring the great Cincinnatus of old until he was needed once more.

Now some may expound: “This is Washington, but not I. I should not be held to the same standards”. Well then there is a different story for you, one from the opposite side of life, of a man who was held in bondage. While unknown by name, this tale comes from Booker T. Washington himself.

We love to espouse and demand rights and liberty in this nation as if we are deserving of everything without anything in return. Yet here is man who receives such a gift but duty-bound to his oath rejects it. He returned to Virginia and paid off his debts so as to not break his word. If a man in such a position holds his integrity in such a manner, what excuse do any of us have not to?

Liberty is not something we deserve by our mere birth, but is earned through the sweat of our brows, the work of our hands, and the courage in our hearts. By our service and dedication to the safety and security of this nation, and to the Lord God.

No example plasters itself more clearly in the mind, than that of the Founding Fathers. Fifty-six men signed that piece of paper (Declaration of Independence), pledging to each other “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.” While certainly a daring promise, the true question is, did they mean it?

History leaves no doubt, however, as to their bedrock character. Nineteen donned military uniforms and went to war, nine of whom died; five were prisoners of war; five incurred heavy debts personally financing the war; fourteen lost or were separated from their families; three lost wives; and seventeen lost their estates or fortunes. There is not a single instance of any breaking his word.

These were the type of men who built this nation. So great was their sense of honor that to face death would be a far lighter punishment than disgrace. What a nation we would be if a handshake meant more in securing a contract than all the lawyers, paperwork, and other bells and whistles of the modern era. We would be a mighty nation indeed. It was like this one, and so could it be again. Nothing is impossible for David’s Mighty Men.

Your Humble and Obedient Servant,

Francisco Pereira

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I should let it be known that yes, I am back in Bethlehem, this time as a simple laboring man. While here, if anyone wants to join me for a 6:00 a.m. run on Wednesdays and Saturdays my contact info is below. I will not hear any complaints that this is too early, for lions hunt in the morning while the prey is still weak. Are you a lion or are you a wildebeest?

Secondly, I am making this quite exclusive: White men only. Sorry ladies, not this time, but don’t believe I do not care 🥰. And no, I am not going to listen to any of those ridiculous claims of people calling this racist.

Every other racial group in this nation gets to organize and celebrate its heritage without harassment or name-calling, save the White race. This liberal garbage that the White man is the eternal oppressor and perpetrator of all evil and must be endlessly punished and discriminated against for his crimes is just nonsense (minority rights and minority benefits are nothing other than non-White rights and non-White benefits. Let’s call it as it is). If you believe everyone is allowed to organize except the White race then you are the real racist, not I.

If holding such a position makes me the Devil, then so be it. I have not come this far to throw in the towel now. Whatever happens, I am not quitting. I will take the blows. I will take the slanders, and if I fall, all that I will regret is that “I have but one life to give to my country”.

I may not be rich, powerful, or well-connected, but with a brave and honest heart I will sacrifice all that I can, even my very life, for my nation. So there, the offer to run is open for those who wish to accept it. And no, Jews are not White.

Works Cited:

Barton, David. The Founder’s Bible. Shiloh Road Publishers, 2017.

Norris, Walter B. “Historian of the Cherry Tree.” The National Magazine 31, no. 5 (Feb. 1910): 498-501.

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.