Apathy And Death

Clear and distant call for leaders.

Today we’ll examine another essay from more than two decades ago, a time when my writing and speaking was focused on simply reaching the patriot audience in the United States, rather than the wider international Hard Right militant audience today.

Interestingly, perhaps ironically and unsurprisingly, this call for leadership in long days ago is today fulfilled with Throne Dynamics and my work as the Founder.

There’s something to be said for finally deciding to do what others haven’t.

Apathy And Death was originally written in April of 2003.

Read on:

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American voters no longer participate. Politicians no longer respond. Where is this taking our nation, and what dangers does it breed for our future?

It's been said that if you give an American a cheeseburger and a sitcom, that he will lose all interest in everything else.

This is an incredibly cynical attitude - and unfortunately, for many of us, an accurate one.

I think of the America that I was educated about as a small child. The names of Washington, Jefferson, Hancock, and their compatriots was always associated with the bursting imperative of human conscience.

I was always taught that rights were never negotiable... and that to fail to participate in your own governance was to assume by default the shackles of the slave; to accept the whip, and the burden of unrewarded labor, as your enforced role at the hands of cruel and unwanted masters.

Is America a failed experiment? Can we, as a People, sustain and breathe new life into the precious and unique understandings that have separated us from the rest of the struggling world? Is it a fallacy to expect - and demand - that our fellow citizens take up their own responsibilities to participate, and to move our nation forward together?

There seems to be evidence of this. Displayed daily in those who cry out for more safety, for ever-widening social nets that trump a dedication to personal success. For a philosophy of unquestioning acceptance of oath-breaking, of lying, and of expedient principles as "merely human" and thus not worthy of either resentment or shock.

We're focused on outdated and irrelevant principles, we're told. It's not about character and integrity, but rather about a sexual enjoyment that anyone would have sought. It's not about freedom, and immovable recognition of inherent rights - it's about "liquid documents" such as the Constitution that we must "force" relevance into.

I utterly reject these ideas.

Is lying acceptable?

Is the casual discarding of the sacrifices of generations acceptable?

Is a cheeseburger more important than the principles and freedoms that more than half a million Americans died violently to preserve?

Omaha Beach was not about Jerry Seinfeld.

The raising of the flag at Mount Suribachi was not in approval of a terrific Nielsen rating.

The word "is" has not changed its definition.

Is there any hope left?

I feel, indeed, that there is more hope than we may realize. I see evidence of this in many places.

I see it in the swelling ranks of the National Rifle Association, which has added nearly a million new members over the last year. I see it in the enormous and ever-present protests by our young people in Seattle, in Los Angeles and in Philadelphia.

There is an undercurrent of awareness in our nation that is beginning to arise - again.

What we need, I believe, is not more awareness - but leadership.

Someone who can stand before the encrusted and incestuous organs of our political process and refuse to accept it as right. Who can meet our People half-way, and recognize that amongst our differences and passions and fears and hopes lies a common appreciation for the rights of Men, and the essential and ever-present dangers of a Government that is out of control. That is purchased, wrapped, and shipped to the doorsteps of corporations who care not for human beings, but for the perception of shareholders and the approval of market mystics.

Someone who can move forward unbowed, without petulant and artificial remorse at his denied failings of character. Someone who knows the grave and uncertain dangers that face our people; and who demonstrates a burning commitment to the liberty and freedom that define America.

Someone who knows what is at stake.

That person is out there. We only need cultivate these things in ourselves, and in the children that we leave our nation to. That will enable us to come together, to reclaim the spirit of America and restore the shining city on a hill we love so dearly.

We can afford nothing else.

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Leadership today on the Hard Right has its problems.

Today the Company tackles those with our severe, militant, and focused work with the Executive Cadre, our emplaced Hagakure Kan assets, and most recently the work of Project Silver Talent in the economic sphere of critical continuity industries.

When one bears duty of the State, one must fulfill it.

Each of us bears that duty, and we invite you to fulfill yours in the Movement.

I have been consistent for more than twenty years.

I learned to get up and walk more than half a century ago.

Today I invite you to join me on this march.

Build, fight, and lead with us!

Grand rising!