My Choice, My Pledge, My Vow

What follows is the first article for our new online feature, From the Hearts and Pens of Our Members. Our members are passionate and informed constitutionalists, who love liberty. We offer them this forum for the sharing of ideas and thoughts to encourage others to join us in our fight to preserve liberty.

Our first contributor, Michelle Hohmeier, is a patriot, who puts action to her words. Michelle and her husband, Bob lead the Arnold group in Jefferson County. Last year, Michelle came within 11 votes of unseating her incumbent opponent for a City Council seat in Arnold, Missouri. We appreciate the work and faithfulness of the Hohmeiers to the cause of liberty, and we believe, you will be inspired by Michelle’s heartfelt love and passion for liberty and our nation.

My Choice, My Pledge, My Vow

By Michelle Hohmeier
There are many instances in every person’s life when a choice must be made. Sometimes, it is as innocuous as do I turn left or right? Sometimes the choice to be made holds a much greater consequence. It is a choice between right and wrong; good and evil.

We, as a nation, have faced the choice between good and evil before, and we have always stood against evil. A time is approaching that will shape the very fabric of our nation’s history. Each American will be asked to make that choice once again, but this time it will not be against an enemy half a world away. Our enemy stands in the vestibule of liberty herself, desiring not our lives, but our way of life. We are engaged in a war over the very idea that made this country great. Our enemy is the very government that we, the people, instituted to protect us, and its goal is to strip us of every freedom and liberty, we hold dear.

Most of us don’t even recognize there are battles raging around us. For generations, we have been lulled into a slumber of contentment, unaware of the malicious and insidious schemes fashioned with such great seditious detail as to mask their true intent with the guise of benevolence. While using fear as a basis for their “protection”, our government has disrobed Lady Liberty right before our eyes, all the while convincing us the emperor is simply sporting new clothes.

They say these “new clothes of change” will enhance our liberties, make us stronger. We will no longer be ruled by the wickedness of capitalism. We will blur the lines of the individual, and therefore, abolish discrimination in order to love one another and work toward a common goal. That is the common goal of the ordinary folk providing for the wealthy elitists, who will rule over us with the compassion of Adolph Hitler or Slobodan Milosevic.

So I ask you, America, what will your choice be?

Will you stand for righteousness or will you kneel before evil?

It is a difficult decision for each choice holds many consequences.
It takes less effort to kneel before evil. As Edmund Burke has been quoted saying so often:“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

I hear the outcry from many of my countrymen begging our government to restore our freedoms, unshackle our liberties. Although many voices are heard, not many follow their words with actions. It is effortless to whine in harmony with our neighbors. It is comfortable to stand in one accord with like-minded people, but to express your opinion in a crowd of naysayers takes courage and commitment. To stand in the light of righteousness, arm in arm with patriots of the past, present and future is what it will take for the American people to crush evil and champion justice.

And that is where our struggles begin. Because to stand for righteousness means you could lose everything. But then, why should America expect any less from the current generation than she expected from those bygone. For when our Founders signed their death warrant, the Declaration of Independence, they stated:

“And for the support of the Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, or Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

The time has come for the American people to make a similar pledge. But a pledge is not to be taken lightly, for when spoken with truth, a pledge holds great responsibility.

When the Founders pledged their lives, they fully understood they could be killed at any time by British troops. There would be no bargaining for their mission to ensure liberty for the colonies was considered treason in the eyes of King George. Their fortunes would most certainly be lost as many of them were forced to leave their homes, sometimes with the Red Coats hot on their tails.

Their sacred honor was above all the most precious gift those men gave to one another. For honor in those days meant something greater than a mouthful of empty words. If you were not a man of honor and integrity, you were nothing. Others would not trust you and therefore, would not do business with you. Honor was not something a man could buy, and it had to be proven again and again.

I wonder, how many Americans today would give their live or their fortunes for a cause as worthy as freedom and liberty? Are there Americans, who have that same sense of sacred honor to a land they love so much?

I tend to believe there is still good in our society; that if push came to shove, the people, who merely talk a good game, would stand on their feet and push back. I have an optimistic nature, but my optimism for the rebirth of our county wanes. I think of the Founders: the mixture of anxiety and hope that lingered in those chambers when they sent forth a request, eager to make their desires clear to Britain, the darkness of crestfallen gloom filling the air when King George rejected their pleas. I believe the American people today are also disheartened with that same sense of dissuasion, as Washington politicians turn a deaf ear to their voices. The very ones chosen to represent us, now only represent themselves.

I remember pride swelling in my heart knowing I was an American. I lived as a free individual. My liberties were bought and paid for by the blood of those who had come before me to secure this magical place in the world. Tears would trickle down my cheeks, as a crowd would boldly stand and sing our national anthem or say the Pledge of Alliance. On Independence Day, as fireworks burst across the sky, I stood in awe and romanticized what it must have been like to be one of those colonists fighting for freedom.
Tears still linger at the edge of my vision, but it is no longer because of pride. My eyes have been opened to the travesties of freedom and liberty in the home of the free and the brave. I continue to stand in awe, but not because of the greatness of America, but because of what we have allowed to happen to our beloved homeland. I long for my grandchildren to know the great country, they should inherit. But, I know the America of their day will not be the America of my day, and I weep for their loss and mine.

But I refuse to give in. I still have faith. I know, if we fight the evil that reigns over us, that under the same guidance of Divine Providence as our Founders, we will prevail. So we must make a vow to one another to contest the onslaught of socialism that threatens to destroy the American spirit and way.

I believe the pen is mightier than the sword! That words can change hearts, and that an idea, as simple as liberty, can fuel a raging fire capable of sweeping truth and revival across this country. I believe in the American spirit. I believe that spirit is alive, albeit hidden deep within the fabric of our society, and I believe that spirit can reemerge with all the zeal and fervor of our Founders.
So in the spirit of a similar patriot for liberty, with full understanding of what I am promising, and a little humor, I present my choice, my pledge, my vow to my countrymen.

I will campaign for a defense of the true nature of liberty for the slaves of our current governmental regime, a populous held under a nefarious veil of sprawling and authoritative discourse designed to bewilder and bamboozle.
I will fight for the victims withdrawn to a sanctuary unable to watch the violations committed against liberty waiting for her emancipation.
I will be the guardian for those living under a thin veneer of servitude, worthy of deliverance from the virile drivel being heaped upon them.
I will resist the thought that our Republic is a fading image of what it once was.
I will be the voice for those unwilling to believe the noxious and debauch language being spewed by pompous, exasperating parasites operating the maniacal vehicle of our government.
I will be support for those vigilantly waiting to raucously vocalize the exoneration of liberty.