How many woke modern athletes would do something similar if the attacks happened today? How many would take a knee instead?

FLASHBACK: Sammy Sosa takes the field his first game after the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Where has this uplifting gratitude gone in professional sports?

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 11, 2022

A federal agency with both intelligence-gathering and law enforcement functions is dangerous enough to any free society, but one that openly views the spirit of 1776 as a threat to the Republic has lost any vestige of a more noble purpose to defend the country from its enemies.

Something is surely rotten at the Bureau when it is more than willing to “take a knee” in a Marxist show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter anti-American anthem protesters but denigrates pro-American emblems as evidence of violent extremism.  Independence Day celebrations each year must be grueling for federal agents trying to protect the nation from its own rebellious past.  Now that patriotic displays of affection for the country have been relabeled as potential signs of domestic terrorism, hot dogs and fireworks require a new national security threat assessment.

All agents, be on the lookout for Americans engaging in too much fun on the Fourth of July.  Be advised: children with patriotic face paint, persistent Liberty Bell ringing, and unexpected outbursts of support for freedom may warrant further investigation.  Should you encounter any reference to the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the modern Tea Party Movement, or strong distaste for tea, in general, immediately call for backup.  This much is clear: when the FBI honors America-haters and vilifies American patriots, love for America is perceived as not only suspect, but also dangerous to the Deep State.  That says a lot about our current predicament.

Chalk up the FBI’s hatred for Betsy Ross’s needlework as yet another instance of a federal institution subverting its own mission directives to safeguard the country by somehow turning ordinary Americans into the bad guys.  For those desperately trying to follow the feds’ new classification system and avoid arrest, Christians are now “patriarchal white supremacists,” America First voters are xenophobic “fascists,” free speech proponents are “threats to democracy,” and gun-owners brazen enough to believe in self-defense and the Second Amendment are straight-up “murderers.”

Basically, if you pray to God, cherish the Bill of Rights, despise communism, respect national borders, or would defend freedom at any cost, you’re a suspect.  Hide your copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and don’t get caught flying the Bunker Hill Flag on your lawn (It includes St. George’s Cross, for Heaven’s sake!).  Forget Paul Revere; you never knew the man, and he certainly never rode past your home in the middle of the night!  And if anyone asks, “Don’t Tread on Me” has something to do with a tire commercial.  This is how absurd America’s self-immolation has become.  Ridiculous!

Have you noticed that hating America is, more or less, a job requirement for high office these days?  Clueless Joe Biden and the commiecrats regularly disparage America as a racist, sexist, genocidal land of evil.  The “woke” military brass push Marxist Critical Race Theory, transgender drag shows, and climate change dogma down troops’ throats.  Obama spent his presidency traveling the world apologizing for all the Americans who lost their lives these last two and half centuries in defense of foreigners’ liberation.

The State Department seems to specialize in cozying up to the worst communist dictators and authoritarian hacks around the globe.  The Intelligence Community has decided that hunting down American patriots as domestic terrorists makes more sense than hunting down Islamic supremacists as foreign terrorists.  And when they’re not toppling historic statues and memorials, removing the names of Founding Fathers from public buildings, stamping “trigger warnings” on the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, or rewriting America’s story for their own nefarious Marxist purposes, the America-haters controlling the vast federal bureaucracy dedicate their time and taxpayer-funded resources to lecturing Americans about why they’ve always been so darn awful.

What absolute insanity!  Shouldn’t the people who “run” America actually, oh, I don’t know, like America?  Is that really too much to ask?  No nation dedicated to despising itself can long endure.  No government that treats its citizens as suspects can last.  No society that attacks patriotism as if it were a cancer while injecting multiculturalism as if it were some universal cure can expect to survive.  When common purpose and shared identity disintegrate, countries simply do not persist.  They fade away or perish.  Sheesh, it’s almost as if the Soviet Union actually won the Cold War, and we’re now suffering through the uncomfortable “re-education” period of a depressed and conquered state.  That says a lot, does it not?

All of this leads to a remarkable truth: when battling the “Great Reset” globalists working feverishly to demolish America and build a Davos slave state in its wake, defending America’s history is a strikingly effective way of fighting for America’s future.  Pride in America is like kryptonite to America’s communist class, so never forgo an opportunity to be patriotic.  How many times have you heard a celebrity mouth-breather express astonished annoyance at having traveled across the country only to see Old Glory waving prominently from every rural home and pickup truck throughout red-state America?

How many times have you endured the morally insipid and intellectually deficient musings of some professional athlete insisting that the National Anthem is a defense of racism or some such bollocks?  How many times have you heard some loony leftist politician or pundit claim that “freedom” is really code for “white supremacy” or that “individual rights” are “systemically racist”?  I hear that rubbish all the time, and two thoughts go through my head: (1) the lib-labs sure have taught the morons how to speak commie quite well, and (2) rejecting all of America’s great historical accomplishments to appeal to a hateful minority with daddy issues only makes America’s defenders stronger.

I know I’m biased because — unlike the FBI — I actually love America, but when we “own” all the pro-America ideological battleground because Chuck Schumer’s commie friends can’t stomach “land of the free” language, then we get all the valuable real estate in America’s glorious past by default.  The battles ahead of us will be fought tooth and nail for the hearts and minds of Westerners everywhere.  The war is between freedom and control.  It is a contest pitting State authority against enduring personal liberty.  It is the latest attempt to drop a new totalitarian Iron Curtain (now in Great Reset form) down around us all.  And it is for all the marbles.

We choose American freedom; they choose Stalinist slavery.  We choose the Declaration of Independence; they choose the Communist Manifesto.  We seek expansive liberty; they seek total compliance.  In essence, we wholly embrace America’s history, while our enemies reject it.

I like those dividing lines.  They’re firm and easy to understand.  People will know exactly why they’re fighting.  For all of these reasons, I suspect that’s why our compromised FBI decided to turn Betsy Ross into a terrorist.  After all, communism can’t take hold without first purging inconvenient history.  And America’s historical fight for freedom is entirely inconvenient.

How do we fight back against those who hate America?  Two words: be patriots.

Image via Max Pixel.

Everyone within hearing distance of any news outlet collectively held their breath in a brief but excruciating period of silence that had followed a laconic exchange of technical data, relaying positions, speeds, and the operating condition of equipment that was highly advanced for its time. And then, at 4:53 pm Eastern, a message resounded across the globe “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed!” And life on this planet would never be the same.

For the first time in history, human beings had landed a spacecraft on another world. Within hours, human footprints would be present on the surface of the Moon, as Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong stepped down the ladder of the Lunar Module and walked on a truly unearthly landscape. The event was the culmination of a National effort spanning the decade of the 1960s, beginning in May of ’61 when President John F. Kennedy challenged the Nation to reach the Moon “before this decade is out.”

Through the turmoil of the era, and despite a major setback in January of 1967 when three Apollo astronauts died in the launchpad fire of Apollo 1, Americans rallied and persevered, which in former days had been their way.

Apollo 11 achieved President Kennedy’s milestone with barely four months to spare. Yet during that remaining four months of the decade, another Apollo mission again succeeded in landing on the Moon and returning safely to Earth. With the December 1972 voyage of Apollo 17, the last Moon mission, a total of twelve Americans had actually visited the lunar surface, six of whom rode in vehicles designed for traversing Earth’s planetary neighbor. In typical American fashion of the day, Kennedy’s goal had not merely been met, it was vastly exceeded.

Of course the same forces were at work to undermine that great effort which are now wreaking havoc on our Nation. Thankfully, until recent times, the inherent decency and moral certitude of Americans had not been sufficiently eroded to allow such a malignancy to prevail. Still, the era was not without its disinformation and controversy.

The single biggest instigator of discord over America’s Moon program was the Soviet Union. Having launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit in October of 1957, and having put a human being into orbit nearly a year before America was able to do so, the Soviets and their media propagandists (many of whom were already infiltrating American “news” organizations) gleefully trumpeted the “superiority” of collectivism for ostensibly advancing the human condition through technology. Yet Kennedy’s challenge, and America’s response to it, proved that a free society could indeed advance further and faster, when given the incentive to do so.

Not willing to simply accept defeat, the Soviets initiated a two pronged strategy, in hopes of demoralizing the Americans. First, upon realizing that their own efforts to beat us to the Moon were doomed, they attempted several unmanned missions by which they had hoped to land there and return a tiny sample of Moon rock back to Earth ahead of Apollo. At that point they would have claimed victory, with their dutiful minions happily echoing.

Here again, their technology was simply not up to the task. So as those hopes faded, they unleashed their backup plan. Sadly, they had much greater success with this one, since it didn’t involve technology, but instead relied on their ability to spread propaganda among a sometimes gullible, sometimes willingly complicit leftist American press.

Suddenly, in the final months before the triumphal mission of Apollo 11, disparaging claims began to be leveled by Americans who not coincidentally happened to be Soviet sympathizers, to the effect that the money allocated to the Space Race was being misused. The narrative was that it could do “more good” if it was passed out in welfare and other social programs here on Earth.

And not surprisingly, the “usual suspects” were happy to grandstand on that basis, ultimately carrying the water for the Soviets and other anti-Americans everywhere. By the time of Armstrong and Aldrin’s walk, the leftists had made enough noise to be able to claim the mission, a triumph of American engineering and American resolve, as “controversial.”

Since then, the overwhelming media silence on the event as a victorious milestone in the annals of our Nation has caused many to virtually forget all about it, while sadly allowing others of appallingly deficient scientific background to make absurd claims that it never happened. Like the Nazi Holocaust, those who actually beheld the Moon Program as it transpired are fewer in number with the passage of years. Eventually, not enough people will remain to bear personal witness to it, and if the powers that be want it to be forgotten or swallowed up in conspiracy theories, that will be its fate.

But American Patriots need not allow such a scenario to befall us just yet. Enough remember the struggle, the achievements, the failures, and ultimately the successes to celebrate that great moment for humanity, and for our Nation. On the front leg of that first lunar lander was a plaque which read “HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON, JULY, 1969 A.D. WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.” Americans should shun the critics and the skeptics, and once again fly our flags in commemoration and celebration, this July 20.

Bio

Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for many years, seeking to restore and uphold the Judeo-Christian principles on which our Nation was founded. His book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” is the “Go To” guide for effectively confronting and overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.