the Pragmatist’s Parade
With preparations
Long since begun,
Your routes are set,
Your engines hum,
And crowds of waving watchers come.
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The bagpipes play
The flags all wave
The Citizens you said you’d save
Have lined the streets for your parade.
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You’ve cultivated long, this seed
“It’s grown,” you think, “it’s time to lead!”
But scales fall off, at last you see
This night thy soul’s required of thee.
Behind you’ve left your wealth and pride.
You’ve lost the place your hope resides,
The council where your group confides.
A casket in the front car rides.
The death of all you thought to build:
The “Winning Team,” the liar’s guild,
The death of this infernal place,
This blight upon the human race,
This scam that ruined freedom’s chance,
This killer’s hedge, this pervert’s dance.
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And for the first time now you view
The spirit that empowered you,
The facts it made your mind eschew,
The righteousness your lust outgrew,
Your ridicule of all that’s true,
And motivated all you do,
The good attempts your faction slew,
The monster that your foes all knew:
The demon that possesses you.
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You stood at the eternal door
With one last chance to end the war
The truth your mind could not explore
But that has failed, there’s one thing more.
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You can’t escape, you must preview
The torture that will now ensue.
The harshest light that hurt your eyes
Will now grow dim to your surprise.
Realities that you despised
Will fade away, not be “disguised.”
And all that, “hard” or “sharp,” intrudes
Into your will He now excludes.
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No rivals will assault your pride.
No hitch-hikers try to join your ride.
No day will be bright or filled with pain,
You won’t contend with wind or rain.
You’ll reign, supreme, o’er all you see
No one will ever disagree.
No children will invade your day
Or interrupt the things you say
No real lover comes to lay
And those imagined will not stay.
The things you cursed have gone away
They’re all now gone, they’re far away.
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You’ll travel wide past plain and hill
And nothing will resist your will
There’s no restraint on what you do.
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There’s nothing left… except for you.
Wow … depressing but I like it. Courage says I, this is a new day and opportunities abound! We take our skills, philosophy/theology and push forward for God has placed us upon our paths and only he know to where we go.
Courage!
Except God my dear friend…except God. Lean not on your own understanding…..a crowd has stampeded, pushing aside others to get on the Titanic….be glad you are not one of them…….CZ
It takes courage to re-enter the fight. Get back in the game! The winners are…….those who have determination and stamina! Not the answer most people want to hear, but the stark reality is whoever is committed will win. It has nothing to do with the moral high ground.
It’s easy to be discouraged. But keep in mind that what we believe is not –and never was– an ideology; it’s natural law. The good thing about natural law is that it laughs at man’s utopian attempts to change it. The Left may try to bend nature (and God) to their will, but they will eventually fail. They make their plans, but the principals that propel and guide the universe are unchanged. The Left can no more prevent natural law than they can prevent the sun from setting. The principals are stronger than all the money that the Fed can print. Their bubble will burst, and God will laugh. And God-fearing, principled families will inherit the Kingdom.
Well, if you can believe the saying, “Where there is tragedy, there is comedy”, there was a WHOLE LOT of comedy!
I don’t mean to take away from the meaningful things that were accomplished. We came closer than ever to reform, and the path has become only clearer. We will always suffer more defeats than victories in life, however, the victories are what keep us driving on through the defeats.
We came within 10% of the votes necessary to amend the bylaws to elect District PCO Chiefs, thanks to the hard work of the grass roots.
Well done to everyone who protested and paid, protested and didn’t pay, and protested the banning of the ten that didn’t pay.
Remember, at least one third of those who paid were in support of those who did not.
Special recognition to the gentleman who handed his credentials to Lori and proclaimed he was done with such an organization. Priceless was Lori’s whimpering, “So much for unity.”
Yes Lori, look at the unity you have brought to your organization.
“Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi”
Was it tragedy, or comedy that so many ‘Liberty’ PCOs were ‘no-shows’!? A great percentage of those who would be patriots failed to show up at the most critical fight for liberty in two years.
The irony is that Congressman Paul always showed up, most noticeably so when he stood alone, and stood to vote so singularly when all the world knew he would be alone!
That principle alone should have driven 335 PCOs to attend. Yet only approximately half of those patriots attended!
The reasons to be absent should be of great concern. The consequences of being absent should have shocked all those who hold those principles of liberty dear!
The results if such patriots had attended the fight would have shaken all of Washington, and no doubt the nation! It would have brought thanks to the lips of all those, including Congressman Paul, who love liberty and the rule of constitutional law!
It is an awesome, fearful truth that so many did not show up for life and liberty! Truth and liberty has no room for either such ‘mistakes’, or such ‘friends’.
Secondly, you state, “We came within 10% of the votes necessary to amend the bylaws to elect District PCO Chiefs…”.
Are you referring to Legislative District Chairs?
If you are, then you should read the following excerpt from the RCW:
‘RCW: 29A.80.061
Legislative district chair — Election — Term — Removal.
Within forty-five days after the statewide general election in even-numbered years, the county chair of each major political party shall call separate meetings of all elected precinct committee officers in each legislative district for the purpose of electing a legislative district chair in such district. The district chair shall hold office until the next legislative district reorganizational meeting two years later, or until a successor is elected.
The legislative district chair may be removed only by the majority vote of the elected precinct committee officers in the chair’s district.”
If your bylaws were passed to take over this function, they are ‘ultra viras’… ‘without the power’. State law mandates the election of those positions!
I am under no illusion that your present ‘usurper chair’, elected by a body in violation of state law, is concerned over any of the above. The chair is such a case usually rises far into the thin air of self importance, far beyond the earshot of the rule of law!
It remains for those who hate serfdom and love liberty to grasp the means for bringing justice to bear, and soon!
And so she sits, askance but grand,
alone atop her paper stand,
of which, t’was said it to must fold
into it’s print of weathered land.
Yet gasping from the mirrors scan,
Peter’s Lori, an asteroid, old,
packed in vacuum by conniving lambs,
propped by serfs… but not one free man.
There was the serf, there was the lamb…
Would there were more of thee, free man.
Eloquent and to the point! Few words, only those necessary! Chocolate soldiers in battle fail to stand when the fight is on and the heat is grand.