Yes They Can And Are Taking That Freedom Away! By
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson
All fourth graders at my son’s elementary school presented a musical performance for family and friends about the history of California. It ended with the patriotic Lee Greenwood song, God Bless the U.S.A.
I cannot help it but I am sentimental and very proud and honored to be a citizen of this great, great country. Yet while I listened to the inspiring words, I had a bittersweet feeling come over me. Read carefully some of the key lyrics from this song as follows:
“If tomorrow all the things were gone I’d worked for all my life
And I had to start again with just my children and my wife
I’d thank my lucky stars to be livin’ here today
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the USA”
Well today ladies and gentlemen almost everywhere you turn you see our freedoms being taken away from us. From the NSA collecting all of our phone records and storing them at our expense and potential peril. From local police departments using Stingray devices to not only track phone messages of suspected criminals but also all other people within a mile radius of the so-called target.
Go to a city council meeting and speak before the council members during public comments. The normal response no matter how serious your issue is usually complete silence to your concerns. However, if a political ally speaks glowingly about the council members, you can expect much banter back and forth. Yet we the public allow those council members who are our representatives to get away with their apparent disdain for our opinions and us.
Now we have a proposed bill California SB 277 that wants to make all vaccines mandatory taking away the personal beliefs and religious exemptions.
Many of you know the City of Fullerton’s attempt to take my freedom away. Why did they attempt to do this? I believe it was because I had the audacity to speak out against a policy supported by a majority of our city leaders. This is not the time for meekness nor apathy or complacency. We are at a crossroads today. Without a ground swell of opposition to this concerted effort by the political elites to take more and more freedom away and place it in the hands of those who many times have hidden agendas that are not in our best interests.
I implore each and every one of you who reads this message to get involved in you local government. Learn what is going on and speak out when it is at cross-purposes of our freedom and our United States Constitution.
I report, you decide!
Barry Levinson
#1 by Barry Levinson on March 30, 2015 - 10:15 am
Thank you Roger.
We have heard over and over again that the U.S. Administration does not negotiate with terrorists vis a vis’ the release of hostages.
Yet we are negotiating right now with the nation that exports the most terrorism in the world Iran. The military, security and financial stakes are enormous.
Why does the actions of this administration seem far too often to go against our allies and for our enemies?
I submit that the 2016 national elections will be one of the most important elections for the American people in our entire history. Our nation has never been in more peril with the exception of our Civil War and the war against Imperialist Japan and Nazi Germany.
There certainly has never been a more dangerous and pivotal point in our history in my lifetime.
Wake up America. Will the nation of Iran with its current leaders ever have the backs of the American people. Obviously not!
#2 by Joe Imbriano on March 31, 2015 - 11:32 pm
I remember back in 1989 at UCI when I was taking a nuclear chemistry class, the class was full of Iranian students. I would spend time in the physical science library studying and doing homework. These Iranian students spent an inordinate amount of time combing through the materials and research. We trained them well Barry.
#3 by middle earth on April 2, 2015 - 9:03 am
You went to UCI? So did I. Lived on campus for 2 years and got to know the place well. What about the Hitachi building? Do you remember that? I graduated in 1991. I was an engineering major. What do you think was going on with that building? Is it still there?