Duty, Citizenship and Patriotism

by Richard A. Cheatham, Press Media Group, LLC

You’ve been scammed big time. The price for not understanding this is greater than you can imagine.

Most Americans feel a patriotic inclination to do their duty for their country, some much more intensely than others. Many thousands have literally put their lives on the line in order to do that duty.

The problem is that the “duty” they feel obligated to serve, they typically allow some employee-servant to define for them. In fact, duty can be defined in innumerable ways. There’s an old saying that, “the devil’s in the details.” He who defines duty for himself is his own master.

The lives and fortunes of many good Americans have been squandered over the decades in service to the flawed and often self-benefiting visions of American servant-employees, otherwise known as bold and brilliant political leaders. In fact, citizens in a free society must rule or they will be ruled. Either citizens are sovereign and rule, or another sovereign will rule them. There is no middle ground.

The American republic was originally envisioned by brilliant, though not perfect, minds to be a new type of society where citizens ruled, not Kings, by one name or another, as had been the case for most humans since the beginning of recorded history. Power and sovereignty were acknowledged to be naturally in the hands of individual citizens, not monarchs. Political officeholders were not to “lead.” They were to simply be employee-caretakers of a small government meant only to protect the sovereignty of the real masters. “Duty” was defined by citizens themselves.

No more, for today masters and servants have switched places, due to the ignorance and intellectual indolence of most citizens. Now we fight the battles and support the crusades of our political servants. The world has turned upside down. Kings (by other names) are back in power.

America’s greatest failing is that its citizens have found they prefer following to leading. American titles, symbols and cliches may be the same as those representing the original American vision, but the reality is that today’s America is a patchwork quilt of inferior visions imposed upon America by illusionists who’ve convinced their masters that they are the real leaders defining “duty.”

My friends, you do have a duty. That duty is to know yourself and your values, to know your classic American rights and the virtues inherent within the original American dream of individual liberty and to fight for those treasures, taking whatever punishment the servants now in control throw at you. You have a duty to think, to investigate and not to march blindly into someone else’s battles, shouting boldly and blindly that you can’t handle the job of defining duty for yourself.

Don’t renege upon your sacred responsibilities as a citizen. Be sovereign! Know and defend your unalienable rights rather than casually alienating them. Define duty for yourself!

©2005 by Richard A. Cheatham. All rights reserved. Mr.Cheatham is a professional speaker/writer and is syndicated through Press Media Group, LLC. Contact him through, Living History Assoc., Ltd., at www.LHALtd.com or DrawBackVeil@aol.com.