When America Is Not America Anymore

My wife and I were recently listening to a discussion on the radio regarding the sovereignty of America being threatened on several fronts. We like most citizens who cherish our country felt a deep concern rise up in our hearts. Several guests drove that fear in deeper as they discussed topics ranging from the illegal alien invasion and re-conquest of the southwestern US to the North American Union and Treaty of the Seas and renegade liberal judges usurping the democratic will of our people. Eventually the conversations led to discussing the assault against the spiritual and moral fiber of this country.

My wife turned to me as our four year old granddaughter skipped naively into the room. “What will it be like for her when America is not America anymore?” she asked.

I was stunned! Could that actually happen? It almost seems impossible that America as we know it could cease to exist. America is a world superpower, a leader in technology, a beacon of light and freedom to so many peoples of the earth.

But then I thought of the mighty Roman Empire, which collapsed after over eleven hundred years of rule. Our Republic has only formally been around a little over two hundred years.

I’ve never involved myself much in politics other than using the Vietnam War protests as an excuse to skip school back in the early seventies. I grew up inside the Washington DC beltway and everything was so political it all became one huge blur to me. Most of my friend’s parents worked for the government, some of them congressmen and senators. I once met President Lyndon B. Johnson. But being very young the political world really didn’t impress me.

Later as a young Christian I had another mission that super-ceded any political cause. My call has always been a “Kingdom Call”.  America was just where I happened to live. But as I’ve grown in my faith and re-read through our history I have realized that it is my God given duty and privilege to be involved in the political process of my country. The country I love.

God has ordained the institution of the Government along with the institutions of the Church and the Family. In Romans 13:4-5, Paul states that the primary role of Government is to restrain evil and do it’s citizens no harm. In following, God ordained the making and enforcing of laws and the court system. God even instituted an early form of democracy by representational government in the book of Deuteronomy.

While not idolizing the flag or worshiping America, we should have a healthy and respectful patriotic love for our flag and our country. Bill Bennett, former Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan, authored the book “America, The Last Best Hope” which reinvigorates hope in the true vision of America over the politically manipulated history books now read in much of today’s education system.

Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”

America’s great vision and legacy deserves to be protected and defended. While many other countries offer great gifts to the world community, America has always championed the cause of freedom and liberty and sought to do good among the peoples of the earth.

French historian Alexis de Tocqueville once said “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

America is good because of the Godly pillars on which she was founded. The US Constitution and Bill Of Rights bear witness to this.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

“A more perfect union” than what? Than one of tyranny, either by a government, a group of people or an individual.  When certain ethnic groups refuse to assimilate, refuse to speak our common language and threaten to take over geographical areas of the United States this is tyranny. To fly any other flag than the American flag is tyranny. To leave our borders unprotected and to sell out the American citizens to the deception of “globalism” is tyranny!

When members of The American Legion meet together they recite a creed                                             “To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; 

to maintain law and order and to foster and perpetuate a 100 percent Americanism.”

This is not to say that America is perfect, but this should be the creed of all Americans. The potential of America’s greatness is found in the motto “E Pluribus Unum” which means “out of many, One”.

The great diversity of this country has enhanced the fabric of her society. My family legally immigrated here just two generations ago from Italy and earlier from Scotland. I’m proud of this heritage and of my relatives who gave themselves to the American vision. We have all been blessed by the great contributions of many cultures that have come to our shores to contribute and not to take away. But this is being threatened on several levels.

America is standing at a crossroads of one of the darkest times in her history. My prayer is that the Lord will use this song “When America Is Not America Anymore” as another wakeup call for Christians and patriots to exercise their rights in calling for the preservation of America’s sovereignty and liberty!

As Teddy Roosevelt once said “There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” 

I pledge allegiance!

When America Is Not America Anymore

Baby when you’re all grow up

And I am dead and gone

The things my father fought for

To make this country strong

Will just be faded memories

Like the lines of some old song

From a time when right was right

And wrong was wrong

Baby when you’re all grown up   

And our colors have been blurred

The stars and stripes forgotten  

And our language seldom heard

Oh I can see the signs now

And hear the voices to my left

The wisdom of our founders

They have chosen to reject

But baby please remember

What this country’s really for

When America is not America anymore…….

Baby when you’re all grown up

And the history has been changed

Rewritten by the tyrants

Who say we’re the ones to blame

For believing in a vision

That all men were created free

And for trusting in a God

Who sheds His grace on thee

Baby when you’re all grown up

I pray you’ll understand

The dream that heroes died to keep

Was once a sovereign land

But I can see the signs now

And hear the voices to my left

The wisdom of our founders

They have chosen to reject

But baby please remember

What this country’s really for

When America is not America anymore…..

Written by Scott Wesley Brown on Nov. 5^th, 2007 for my granddaughter, Isabella, 4 years old