We can still remain faithful to the principles of our Founding Fathers and to our Judeo/Christian values
I AM ONE
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman in the 19th. Century. Mr. Hale advanced a number of social reforms including religious tolerance, abolition of slavery and education reforms (See Wikipedia). His most famous quote was: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."
Even as President Obama continues his relentless pursuit of the transformation of our country into a socialist dictatorship with the consent of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, we can still remain faithful to the principles of our Founding Fathers and to our Judeo/Christian values by applying the meaning of this simple sentence: "I am only one, but I am one." This is exactly the principle Senator Rand Paul utilized on March 6th, 2013, during his filibuster in the well of the Senate. Rand Paul probably does not know of this quote by Everett Hale, but he sure knew its meaning. Rand Paul was only one man, a two-year first term Senator from Kentucky, a patriotic American who decided to stand up for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This young Senator began to speak ("until I can no longer speak") as "only one" but soon other Senators began to arrive to support him, and then House Representatives until there were over thirty patriots supporting the one man who had dared to question the possibility of the use of drones on American citizens in their country by the government.
By this act of "only one" millions of Americans have become informed that their government, whose role is to defend them, had the Attorney General Eric Holder parsing words when it came to declare whether or not a President has the constitutional right to kill an American citizen without trial on American soil (“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws ... for the president to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.”). After 13 hours of Senator Paul's display of physical and mental endurance in defense of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, the administration finally had to declare that the answer to the Senator's question was NO.
About fifty percent of Americans did not vote for Obama in 2012. We have been frustrated, depressed, and powerless. We are witnessing a President who frequently trashes our constitution, divides the people and lies, and yet seems to always get away with it. What can one person do? Senator Rand Paul has provided us with a much needed inspiration. We can stand up as ONE for our rights and our freedoms any time we get a chance.
We can and we should:
- Stop listening to the main stream media (TV news and newspapers).
- Stop buying our products from companies that support Obama and rely on crony capitalism (goodguide.com)
- Stop watching TV programs that are offensive to our conservative principles.
- Send letters to newspaper editors and TV programming.
- Encourage or donate conservative books to our libraries.
- Contact our elected officials to express our opinions.
- Use the social media to inform our young people.
- Say no to political correctness.
- Boycott Hollywood movies, TV shows, and the entertainment industry.
- Stop sending our children to elitist Universities that indoctrinate them into Marxist thought.
- Be watchful of what our children are being taught by liberal teachers in the public schools.
- Support and help elect conservative candidates for higher office.
- Set up voter registration drives in our conservative areas.
- Reach out to uninformed minorities.
And last, but most important: We can pray and ask the Lord to guard our steps, our words, and our deeds daily to help restore our Judeo/Christian values, the rule of law, and respect for our Constitution.
Elvira Fernandez Hasty -- Bio and
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Elvira Fernandez Hasty was born in La Habana, Cuba, to immigrants from Spain. She attended a private Catholic school for women, French Dominicans School, until the age of fifteen. At that time, the Castro regime militia invaded her home one night in order to question her 20 year old sister, Rose, about her involvement in “counter-revolution” at the University. After some months of anguish, my father arranged for Rose to obtain diplomatic protection from the country of Honduras, and the decision was also made to send me away before confiscation of private schools by the communist government. My sister flew to Honduras under the protection of the Ambassador on January 24, 1961, while I left the country for Florida the next day via the Pedro Pan organization that was formed to protect Cuban children from Marxist indoctrination.
After finishing high school in Florida and working at an electric company billing department, Elvira continued her studies at St. Mary College in Kansas. She graduated cum laude with a BS in Chemistry and later received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana, IL. Dr. Hasty spent twenty years in college teaching and research, becoming Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chairperson at Mundelein College in Chicago.
In 1997, Elvira and her husband James, moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where she currently resides. She has been politically active since then, first in the Republican Party and lately in her own conservative organization, Ponte Vedra Conservative Women, a group of conservative women concerned about the future of our country. We are united by our common desire to preserve our Constitution, the principles of our Founding Fathers, and our Judeo/Christian values.
