Anger?

Today I heard a clip from a columnist from the Cleveland Plain Dealer  as she was being interviewed on C-Span.  Her name is Connie Schulz and this is what she said, "There's so much hate there, and it -- and it fuels people who want to be angry, who just want to hate. And certainly right now, in our country there's so little product -- productive, umm, outcome from that. We could talk about this as human beings. When I'm angry, what I'm all worked up, I am not my best self. Heh! I... My vision is affected in terms of how I see things; my opinions are distorted by my rage. Um, I -- I -- I don't think it's ever a good idea to try to just fuel rage in people."  She was speaking of those of us on the "right" being angry about the changing of America right before our eyes.  She mentioned Rush Limbaugh and those that agree with him.  

I would like to say to Ms. Schulz, I am angry, and to tell you the truth, I think that my anger actually brings out my "best" self in this situation.  Anger directed at those who thwart Justice is anger that is well worth it.  I do not think that when Patrick Henry said, "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death," he was speaking in flowery tones of "let's tiptoe through the tulips."   When Ronaldo Maximus Reagan told Gorbachov to "Tear down this wall,"  he had in mind the 100 million people that lost their lives under Lenin, Stalin, and the other Communist regimes that strip their citizens of freedom, dignity, and ultimately their lives.  Do you really think that anger has no place?  In our society we have seen the total reversal of virtue.  The Miss California incident recently illustrates this.  This young woman is being reviled for her virtue, and the people that truly are speaking "hate speech" are looked at as the heros in some circles, and not called to task as a general whole.  I heard that some of the Republican leadership is trying to disavow or distance themselves from the principles of Ronald Reagan, which really means, "let's just forget about this abortion thing, it's just a 'fringe' issue."  Life is not a fringe issue!  Period.  When the most helpless and vulnerable among us are thrown out with the garbage, literally, then it will not be long when we will throw out "Grandma and Grandpa" too.  When life is not an issue it won't be long until those that stand for virtue will also be expendable.  It was not too many years ago when people that did not see eye to eye with the German leadership were herded into cattle cars, and whisked off to "re-education camps," when those that opposed collectivism in the USSR were systematically starved to death, by the millions.  When life is not a high priority, when the state becomes "god," then anything is possible.  I am angry at the new change agents in Washington that want to thumb their noses at one of the most perfect documents ever to have been written, our Constitution.  They are making a mockery of it as I write.  The Federal government does not have the right to run every aspect of our lives, from bailouts to tarp funds, from healthcare to automobiles. We are told to  tow the line.  Wall Street is being diminished, government is growing, and you and I will pay the price in more ways than just monetary.  We will become poorer as a nation, and in order for conservative principles not ever to make a comeback, because that would take the power away from the elite statists that are now running our lives, there will have to be control.  How.... I can only imagine.  Oh, how I wish that I could shout this from sea to shinning sea, but alas....  

Call me an alarmist if you want to, but DAILY it is some new regulation or control from the politicians.  Too bad there is not an new world to go to.  But, maybe that is what is happening.  Maybe those of us that know Him, will soon have our place in the ship that will only lead to an eternal utopia, the only utopia there is.  

Tearful and angry; and waiting for Him alone..............Lynn