President Trump’s televised addressed to the nation on January 8, 2019 was an act of impeccable statesmanship. He said what was needed, in the way it needed to be said. He addressed the cost – in human lives, seething disorder and money – of the dereliction of duty characteristic of his immediate predecessors (Democrats Obama and Clinton, and Republicans George H.W. and George W. Bush). They neglected or refused to carry out the Constitution’s mandate to see that our nation’s immigration laws are faithfully executed.

President Trump is adamantly insisting that Congress provide all the resources needed to match his determination to do what they all failed to do. In his address he forthrightly explained why doing so must be the top priority of the U.S. government, and why it must be pursued at the cost of sacrificing other priorities less immediately vital to the continued existence and sovereignty of the of the United States and its citizens. The president did not neglect to highlight the tragic destruction of individual lives the defect of effective action has already cost us. However, he emphasized, above all, the irretrievable loss of our nation as a whole, which we must and will suffer if the Congress does not immediately respond to his call.

Common sense affirms the president’s judgment that it is better to shut down some activities of our national government for a while than to neglect the actions required to preserve the existence of our nation as a whole. This common sense infuriates the self-serving elitist faction politicians in both parties. They want Americans to focus narrowly on what we get or suffer from the government as individuals. They never want us to rise to the challenge of our status as a sovereign people, entrusted by our Constitution to make the choices and judgments once reserved to monarchs or despotic oligarchs.

Good sovereigns never lose sight of the good of the whole. They care for people the way God cares for His Creation, with a will to make sure that all things work together for the good of all. This wholesome perspective of sovereignty requires that, at critical moments, individuals stand ready to make sacrifices, up to and including their individual lives, fortunes and selfish, comfortable pride, so that the whole they form together may endure.

President Trump’s address confirmed the fact that he sees our nation’s failure to secure our borders as a clear instance of this sovereign responsibility. He understands that the slogan “Nations without Borders” implies erasing the existence of the sovereign people of the United States. It implies surrendering our sovereignty to elitist faction globalists, like George Soros. For several years they have been organizing columns of unarmed people to move against the constitutional republics the United States helped to establish or preserve in Europe after World War II. They have most recently directed the same strategy against the United States, the citadel of constitutional, democratic republicanism.

President Trump rightly identifies this as an invasion strategy. It is shrewdly conceived to exploit the compassion of the people. That fellow-feeling is a resource of union and solidarity indispensable to a people’s strength. But it is also a target of opportunity that makes people vulnerable to shrewdly treacherous appeals, which rouse and exploit individual passions in ways that turn people against one another, until the whole people turns into an instrument of self-destruction.

With the stance they took in their reaction against Trump’s speech, Democrats Pelosi and Schumer showed themselves to be agents of this strategy, intended to induce the sovereign people of the United States to self-destruct. They echoed the chorus of elitist faction minions parroting the silly notion that American people only seek to defend their borders because they hate people and want to keep them out. With a simple question President Trump aptly turns this assumption against the arrogant snobs who make it:

Then why do wealthy politicians build walls, fences and gates around their homes? They don’t build walls because they hate the people on the outside, but because they love the people on the inside.

Most Americans don’t live in gated estates or communities. The only mansion they have any share in is the presidential mansion in Washington. The only ground we can all claim as our own is the territory of the nation in which we live – purchased by the “blood, sweat, toil and tears” of our ancestors and fortified by the goodwill that maintains us armed, in heart and conscience, to fortify and defend it. Snarky elitists in the media and the Congress know that love drives them to protect the estates they have developed for themselves. Yet when we seek to defend the whole we have in common, made fertile by our spirit and mortal sacrifice, they call us haters and pretend we should desist.

Since this logic makes no sense, we have to wonder what motivates intelligent people have to keep browbeating us with it? Since it lets them hold on to their fortified homes and gated estates while the home we have in common suffers destruction, doesn’t it make sense to assume that its destruction is their aim? They want us to surrender the ground upon which, by the grace of God, we may claim to govern ourselves. This would leave them firmly secure in the possessions governed by their private whims. But when they alone are able to protect their wealth, and as a people we are reduced to nothing but the memories of our once-great nation, who among us is stupid enough to believe we will live in their world as anything but subjects or slaves?

Think this through and you realize that those who refuse to support President Trump’s urgent effort to do all that we must to fortify our borders are the enemies of our self-government. They are the enemies of our Constitution. They are the enemies of the sovereign equality of responsibility and hope we are supposed to represent to our posterity and the world. Regardless of party, if any of our so-called representatives in either house of Congress prove to be such enemies, they should be voted out in 2020, without exception. But before that opportunity comes, all of us must combine our voices and actions to support the president’s demand: “BUILD THE WALL. PROTECT US ALL.”

via WND

Dr. Alan Keyes
Alan Lee Keyes is an American conservative political activist, pundit, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Bombay, India, and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe.

One Comment to: Build The Wall, Protect Us All

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    Mary

    January 14th, 2019

    I live 5 minutes from the Mexico-Texas border (1-2 miles away) and I don’t understand what you all politicians are talking about regarding the border. One thing is what you think the border is and another very different what actually happens here. I don’t have a fence around my house and I actually feel safer here than in other places I have lived, even when I use to live close to DC. I cross the border at least once a week. I have never see people invade our border, yes some immirants try to cross but I can say border patrols and All the technology they have are doing a great job. I personally know a man that used to work maintaining one of those technologies used by the government and he said the technology is so advanced and they know all the time who is crossing the border. Our border cities co-exist and codepend economically. It really upsets me to see people talking about an area that they don’t even know. If I who live 1-2 miles away from the border is not scare then why you or other politicians living many miles away are??

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