In the mid 1700s or so, a heated debate was raging between two primary factions. The factions were those loyal to the home country and those who wanted independence.
As Americans 200 years later, we look back at those who wanted independence as Patriots.
However, at the time they truly were traitors. They had turned on their country and actively sought its destruction, at least in their area. That they were eventually victorious in their fight and founded a new nation – our nation – from its ashes does not change that basic fact.
90 years or so after that first fight, America again faced Patriots and Traitors. A group of citizens, primarily in the South, decided to turn against their country and fight for a new one.
This time, they were defeated.
However, some to this day remain loyal to their cause. These people actively seek the destruction of the United States of America, at least in the South, to be replaced once again with an “independent Southern republic”.
Many of these call themselves Georgians, yet they seem to forget that Georgia fared worse than any State in the Confederate States of America with the possible exception of Virginia. It was Georgia who bears the scars – even to this day – of a scorched earth march literally from one end of the State all the way to the other.
The United States of America has its problems. It had them in 1770, it had them in 1860, and it had them in 1940, and it will continue to have them in 2030. But true Patriots don’t give up on America just because she has some problems. They work as a nation to make those problems better. American Patriots never give up hope that one day, America will overcome her problems and be the very beacon we want her to be.
Traitors have no hope. They are a pessimistic breed who sees the problems in their nation as too hard to solve, and they quit trying to solve them. Sometimes they are truly in the right, but only history can judge that.
I haven’t given up that hope. The same hope that group of British traitors we call our Founding Fathers had, that America could be a beacon of Liberty and opportunity. That same hope that fueled the soldiers at Fort McHenry who faced British bombardment all night long, but “by dawn’s early light” whose Star Spangled Banner still wove. That same hope that Martin Luther King Jr called a “Dream”.
America has problems. Our Congress and our President – for several decades now – have given lip service, at best, to our Constitution. The amount of debt we owe (literally, as in cash debt) will take several lifetimes to repay, and that is if our Federal government does NOTHING but repay the debt. This is quite literally a threat to our Freedom, yet our President and Congress ignore this threat, instead voting to raise the debt limit and add even more debt to that we already owe.
But just because America has problems does NOT mean we seek to leave it. Instead, we seek to fix it and we align ourselves with like minded individuals. If one group shows it has no desire to fix the problems, true Patriots will leave that group and find another group who WILL fix the problems.
Now is the time for Patriots to rise. Men and women who will work to restore America to the beacon of Liberty and opportunity envisioned by our Founding Fathers – and who will NOT seek its destruction.
There are men and women out there claiming to be Patriots but who are genuinely Traitors, and their actions have already shown this.
They are wolves in sheep’s clothing, and they must be exposed.
The League of the South is just one such group of Traitors trying to pose as Patriots, and Ray McBerry, the self-proclaimed “constitutionalist” who is the Georgia Chairman of the League of the South, is their Traitor in Chief.
Ray won’t answer questions about his involvement with the League though, and says he refuses to salute the flag because it “represents the present unconstitutional leviathan in Washington”. Never mind the fact that, no matter their actions once there, every single elected official in Washington DC has been duly elected as prescribed in the Constitution of the United States and of the various States which they represent.
No one can predict the future, meaning that all things are certainly possibilities. Therefore, history may yet prove -at some DISTANT point in the future- that Ray McBerry was a minor patriot of some future nation.
For now, however, he remains nothing more than a Traitor to the United States of America.
