A while back I had lunch with my grandson and enjoyed it immensely. I asked him to do some research about the time of the 60s when I was his age, and to compare what is different from the 60’s to what is taking place today.
The first item we talked about was Woodstock. He told me that people from all over America came to this concert and they did not have any sanitation, water, nor places for people to stay overnight. I asked him, “couldn this be done today,” and he said probably not; the government would not allow it. Events require a proper permit, and a list of conditions to meet. I then told him that it was done then because we could, and yes it did have consequences, but the point is that we had the freedom do it.
Freedoms are being removed from him today by our government under the pretext of 'we need to protect you,' and the government is the only one who can do this, so they want us to believe.
We then went on to the marches and protests of the 60’s. He mentioned the marches for blacks led by Mr. King, and the protest in our colleges against the Vietnam War. I asked him if there are marches today, and he said yes. I then asked him to compare what is taking place today with protests and compare to the protest of the 60’s. He struggled with this.
I told him that today if you do not agree with the protestors, we have what is called "cancel culture." He did not know much about this, and I explained to him that today if you do not agree with the protestor’s stance, they begin to accuse you to silence you.
I then went on and asked if they can silence you with smear tactics what freedom did you lose? He said the freedom of speech. I told him that our freedom of speech was so important to our founding forefathers that they put it first on the amendments.
We then went on to what I call builders and managers. He did not understand what I was talking about, so I explained that builders our people who see what is coming and the needs of the future and they create and build for the future. These are people called entrepreneurs who see a need and build what is needed to fill that need. The baby boom generation was filled with these types of people. Look at all we have today of their inventions that came because of the vision these people had.
I then went on to ask him what a manager is. He said these are the top people of companies. I agreed with him. Then I asked him who it is that is able to fix a problem, is it the manager or the builder? He did understand, so I asked him the question differently. If you were going through the desert by yourself and your car broke down what kind of person would you want with you? A manager or a car builder?
Managers do not know how to fix anything that breaks down. Builders (entreprenuers) know how to fix things, and find solutions.
Today we do not have many entrepreneurs, but we have a lot of managers who do not know how to fix anything. They discuss the problem with other managers, and then their solution is to call the one who knows how to fix it.
I then told my grandson to notice what is taking place and see what people are needing practically to improve life, and build it, event it. You will be successful in life.
We ended our conversation by me asking him to look at everything that is taking place today with things that just don't work, and ask why? Not just cars and computers, etc., but things like 'policies and laws.' If you do not understand why, then like it's said, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
I then asked him what does it take to make free people slaves? Again, he did not have an answer. I told him that it only requires the government to keep giving things to the people till they become dependent on the government. Then your trapped because they can take it away if you do not do what they want. I then explained to him that to free slaves of the government will always be paid in blood; that all he has to do is look at history.
Look at what our government today is doing by producing so many social programs and stimulus checks for people. Bottom line: they want control of the people. This is not what America was founded for and founded on with our Constitution. The government works for us, not the other way around.
I then asked him how do you think your generation lost so much freedom, and did it happen overnight? He did not know. I told him, if your generation does not know the history of my generation then they will not know how much freedom they've lost in 40 years. Freedom is never removed suddenly but is removed slowly, progressively.
I went on to tell him, that someday, if the Lord tarries, you will sit down with your grandson to talk about the freedoms you still had that were removed from his grandchildren. I told my grandson, FREEDOM IS SACRED AND MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COST EVEN IF IT COST YOU EVERYTHING, SO THAT THE NEXT GENERATION CAN EXPERIENCE WHAT OUR FOREFATHERS WANTED FOR AMERICA. Tell your grandchildren this. And tell them that freedom comes from the LORD GOD, for those who love Him and do His will. This is who America's founders were. America's freedoms have been kept by the sacrifice of our soldiers and by our godly leaders that uphold our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Independence under God.