In Franklin Sanders’ Thursday commentary, he commemorated the heroism of the defenders of the Alamo, and related the cause for which they stood and fought so valiantly for us today.
“On 6 March 1836 after 13 days of fighting, the siege of the Alamo ended when Santa Anna’s Mexican army of 3,000 defeated, overran, and killed the 189 Texas volunteers. But in one of history’s oft- repeated turnarounds, 46 days later the victors became the vanquished when General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna in an 18 minute battle at San Jacinto. About 630 Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, but only 9 Texans died. The Alamo defenders managed to delay Santa Anna long enough to enable militia to gather under Sam Houston.
My favorite flag of the Texas War for Independence is called the Gonzalez Flag. Under a lone star it pictures a cannon over the motto, ‘Come and take it.’ It was the Texans’ response to the Mexican commander’s demand for the surrender of the weapon. The ensuing fight was the first of the war. The motto directly translates the response of Spartan King Leonidas to the Persian army’s demand they surrender their weapons: ‘Molon labe — Come and take ’em.’ It’s the same response free men always make.”
Those who desire to control the last detail of your life have likewise come – to take your property, your children, your very freedom – even if it’s not apparent at this moment. If you do not seek to regain your facilities as a free man, they will some day demand the same of you as the Persian and Mexican tyrants did.
Rather than wait until they’re at your gate, shouldn’t you be building an alternative to their collapsing system, so you’re in a position of strength when the emergency they created comes, and not one of the ill-prepared who have no choice but to accept their “solution” of further enslavement?
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