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On p. 105 of GR, Sarah commences the third chapter of the book, "Drill, Baby, Drill." She opens with a quotation from Coach John Wooden:
"Our land is everything to us.… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it---with their lives."
What a concise and powerful statement!!
I think that we shall find that it is even more powerful if we extend the sense of "land" from the physical basis and foundation of our lives and homes, and apply it to the philosophical underpinnings upon which the security of those same lives and homes depends.
This is most right and just. Man/woman has a dual nature, physical and mental/spiritual. Correspondingly, our lives, if they are to be stable and secure, must rest on a dual basis, one aspect of which is tangible, the other, intangible.
Let us first consider two concrete examples of this truth, both drawn from American classics.
Most or all of you are familiar, I would imagine, with the long-running television series "Bonanza." What was the legacy of Ben Cartwright to his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe? Certainly, it was the splendid and magnificent ranch, the "Ponderosa"!!!
However, along with this wonderful land, Ben transmitted to his sons the foundation, the "land" if you will, of traditions and principles by which to live. Courage, self-reliance, justice, generosity, magnanimity, cojones, standing up to bullies, protecting the weak and helpless …how often we witness these eternal virtues exercised by the Cartwrights in the great TV series!!
Ben's legacy to his boys was LAND, a FOUNDATION, in the deepest and most human sense: Physical land and those principles without which no land can be safe and secure.
Let us next consider Margaret Mitchell's classic of the old South, "Gone with the Wind."
As you probably know, the name of the O'Hara estate in Mitchell's novel is "Tara." I do not think that it is a coincidence that "Tara" sounds just like the Latin word for land, "terra" (cf. our English word "terrestrial").
Can anyone who has read the book or seen the movie forget Gerald O'Hara's magnificent encomium to his daughter, Scarlett, on the precious value of LAND?!?
However, it was more than just the physical property that Mr. O'Hara left to his family. Remember, for example, how Scarlett, after the Civil War/War between the States, shoots and kills a Yankee deserter who invades their home and is threatening vile actions!!
Scarlett is acting on eternal and American principles of the Second Amendment and the right of self-defense when she guns down the intruder--justifiable homicide!!
The examples could be multiplied, but it is clear that, along with the physical land, along with "Tara," an intangible legacy too descended to Gerald's family.
(Of course, it goes without saying that slavery was a grave evil, and had to be ended. No society is perfect. This is why the Founders built the AMENDMENT process into our Constitution!)
Now let us proceed from fiction to history.
Behold the magnificent legacy of our Founders!!
Not only did they pledge "their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor" to transform thirteen British Colonies into the original thirteen United States of America, but they handed on timeless traditions and principles too, intellectual and intangible foundation stones without which the States, once thirteen now fifty, cannot sit secure!!
They transmitted to us LAND, in the deepest and finest sense of the term!!
Next, let us observe and reflect upon the aims and actions of the COMMUNISTS who would destroy the Res Publica Americana.
They seek the annihilation of our "LAND" in all senses of the term.
First, they want to confiscate and redistribute wealth, unjustly taking it from those who hold it in JUSTICE because they have earned it, and give it to others, in order to create a helpless class of government dependents. Note well how ALL WEALTH may be understood under the term "LAND"!!
However, beyond unjustly seizing our land and wealth and possessions, these Marxists, of whom barack hussein obama and his vicious Chicago thugs are a prime and pestiferous example, want to overturn the TRADITIONS AND PRINCIPLES upon which our society is founded.
Out with our Constitution, especially the First, Second, and Tenth Amendments;
Out with religion;
Out with the traditional definition of marriage.
It has been a characteristic of Communist tyrants everywhere to attempt to separate a people from their national heroes, from their history, from their traditions--and we witness this vile effort operating at full speed right now in America--just look at the hideous attacks on Chick-Fil-A.
These fiends would fain wreck and destroy our institutions and traditions, that is, the "LAND," in the broader sense of the term, the SOLID "TERRA" upon which our society resides and sits and rests!!!
They want to take our "land' in every way!!
Therefore, we must DEFEND our "TARA," our "TERRA," in THREE senses:
Our private property, as comprehended under the term "land";
Our Republic, as comprehended under the term "Land";
Our Constitutional and foundational principles, as comprehended under "LAND," in the broadest sense.
And who better to lead America in this war to preserve our land, our Land, and our LAND than …
The great patriot from the Country of the Northern Lights … who
Loves her home;
Loves her country;
Loves her and our Constitution and founding principles!!!
LONG LIVE SARAHAMERICA!!!
