In the news today, there is a story of a democratically elected President receiving a raging endorsement by his propped up legislature and they are giving him further powers and getting rid of his term limits. It is almost like I have read this somewhere in the history books. I get the feeling that we are at a distinct moment in history, the question that fate lays before us is will we learn from the past? The answer I suspect is that some of us will. America is a nation of many great patriots and in our Nation's past there have always been great souls that are willing to stand up to the tortures of tyranny to continue freedom.

The news story is of course about Hugo Chavez. The historical parallel is of course Hitler. This moment is of course the moment where the light of freedom's embrace is trying to be squelched by tyranny's spurn. The question is how do we react? This of course is why I consider Ron Paul's candidacy a dangerous one. He is a man of principle, but in the principles of isolationism that stoke tyranny like oxygen to a flame. He ignores the large threats that face our world. He is an embodiment of a bygone era that led to Hitler's rise, human fires, and dictatorial reign. Of course, where would we be without the strong courage of a few great patriots who we are forever indebted to for the rights and freedoms we now experience? Unfortunately, the fight between good and evil is never over. Tyranny may escape to the shadows for a time, but the parasite quickly finds the dark host who is the antithesis of our hopes and dreams, who's personal ambition reigns in his mind while tyranny consumes his heart. It is in those moments that freedom's embrace must find the shining knight who daily sacrifices his own intentions on the alter of humanity's freedom. As we look at the world stage around us, who is that knight? Who is that fearless soul who's mind's eye envisions the world as it freely needs to be and catipults the vision to make it so? We must resolve in our own souls to listen carefully to the whispers in the long dark night. If it is freedom who calls you to stand, will you stand? If freedom knocks on your door, will you open? Or will we simply let freedom wander off into the night and watch the hope in our children's eyes turn black, watch the laughter in our nation's soul turn damp, and look out upon the shores of humanity and tell them that it was not tyranny who won in the end but it was ourselves who shut the door on freedom's embrace! Not me, not me, dear God let that never be me.