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My
Answer to the Division of the People
Or
Harry Felker's
One Value
By Harry Felker
I cannot help but hear all the talk about how the people
are so divided, how will we ever succeed without being
united, and my favorite the politicians keep us
polarized…
Well my friends, it is time for a personal address from
your truly to tell you why you are all wrong, how we can
all be united, under one banner, to know that our banner
is just and all those who refuse to unite are truly the
enemy of the people of the United States of America.
Harry Felker Presents The One Value
I have drawn a line in the sand on many things, this is
a little different, for this I am carving a canyon, this
is the one value I will never compromise, this is the
one value that I will lose my life over if need be.
Unlike the 9/12 plan, there is no multiple choice
answer, you can only agree or disagree with my one
value, this represents you as friend or foe, there is no
middle, there is only a no man’s land between those that
agree or disagree with this one value. I had one major
contention with Glenn Beck’s 9/12, and that it sought to
unite the people like they were the day after 9/11, I am
sorry if you are insulted, but this is masquerading
nationalism as patriotism, and this does not produce the
results that I wish to seek.
The one value is Liberty, or the positive enjoyment of
various social, political, or economic rights, these
rights are granted to us, just for being human, they are
not privileges that can be given or taken away. In
Liberty, we see what the best man can offer, as he can
offer it only by volition, it does not impede his right
to property. In Liberty, the effort of the mind can be
freely shared without social or political reprisal
against the profit gained, as it is profit earned. In
Liberty, trade is done on an equal value basis,
regulated only by those involved in the act of trading
at the time, the voluntary action of each trader
dictates that the trade was well regulated by itself.
So, I ask you, is Liberty what you really want, is
Liberty the least you will accept, are you willing to
allow Liberty to all people, are you willing to let go
of your dogmatic claims that others are not free to do
as they choose simply because you do not like it? What
side of the canyon do you wish to be on, one side has
what we have now, and far worse, the other side has me,
the Ideal of Liberty, the right to live your life as you
see fit, so long as you do not restrict the life or
Liberty of another?
Can we keep the Republic?
As Benjamin Franklin
left the Constitutional Convention, on September 18,
1787, a certain Mrs. Powel shouted out to him: “Well,
doctor, what have we got?” and Franklin responded:
“A Republic, if you can
keep it.”
The question is can we keep the Republic, or is it a
wasted experiment, was the blood spilled in the
revolution for naught, or will that blood debt be the
impetus to bring forth a second revolution, to breathe
life back to the representative Republic of our
founding? Are we to believe that we are to lay down our
Liberty to the majority rule; are we to believe that the
Republic is justly falling to social tyranny and that it
is patriotic to accept it? I am sorry I cannot, I will
not, and I am wagering that if you have any
predisposition to Liberty, the slightest notion to this
is not only an insult to your reason, but to your moral
character.
I made the comparison to Beck’s 9/12 before, and there
is good reason as to why, I feel that scrolling back to
9/12, when we were prone to making emotional responses
due to the vulnerability of the moment is not good at
all. I think that this was a moment of weakness in the
character of America; it was a moment that we would
trade all liberty for any measure of safety, a wholly
unacceptable state of being, the state of fear. I intend
to scroll us back to September 18, 1787, Day One, a time
when America was strong and true to her character, a
time when this was the Land of Liberty, this was the
land of the free and home of the brave. Individually
each of us is a force to be reckoned with, united we are
an irresistible force.
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