THE PROPER RESPONSE TO TYRANNY

Via Cousin John

The proper response to tyranny is to oppose it with every resource at your command. After all, its design is to destroy you. But if you're an average Southerner with a job and family, how do you oppose tyranny? That's what we will explore. But first, let me give you an inspiring example of opposing tyranny when you are young and free of the responsibilities of job and family.

Once upon a time, young men of the West courageously went off to fight real tyranny—communism--in foreign lands. Let me give you an example that's close to my heart—the once beautiful and fruitful country of Rhodesia.

AN HISTORIC EXAMPLE

In 1979, the British government, supported by the United States and the Western world in general, forced the conservative, pro-western administration of Prime Minister Ian Smith to cede control of Rhodesia to the forces of communist tyranny. White controlled Rhodesia thus became black communist controlled Zimbabwe in the following year. The infamous Lancaster House Agreement, which included as signatories the Soviet- and Chinese communist-backed Patriotic Front leaders Robert Mugabe (first and only President of Zimbabwe), head of ZANU—Zimbabwe African National Union--and Joshua Nkomo, head of ZAPU—Zimbabwe African Peoples Union—literally was a death warrant for the "Breadbasket of Africa" and eventually for thousands of white farm families who were unable to leave the country. What once had been a stable and productive civilized Western country in the middle of Africa became a leftist hell hole unable to sustain its own economic needs. 

Though their respective governments stood as enemies to white Rhodesia (and to white South Africa as well), many a young man from the West answered the call and shouldered a FN-FAL in the 1970s to fight tyranny in the dark heart of Africa. And so it remains to this day. 

IN OUR OWN DAY

"Wait," you say. "The Bush War in Southern Africa was over more than three decades ago. Why do you say 'so it remains to this day'?" My answer is simply this: Our western young men answered the clarion call then to defend their civilization in that far-flung land. If we are to indeed preserve the core—the very heart of the West—then they are going to have to answer that call for volunteers once again in our own day. Remember: the proper response to tyranny is to oppose it.

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