A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES
By Brent Johnson
www.freedomradio.us
W hat is important to you? Is it your job or edu-
cation? Maybe it’s that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a performing artist or professional musician? How about the current year’s crop yields? Or
your investment portfolio? Could it be your family? Your children? What is really important to you?
What is the most important person or thing to you,
and what would you do to protect and defend that
person or thing? What wouldn’t you do?
The character of a society is determined by the way
in which its citizens prioritize their lives. What a
people consider valuable directly reflects the type of
society that grows up around them.
We protect and preserve with the greatest passion
that which we hold dearest. What we cherish, we
are willing to defend. Conversely, we do not fight
for that which we do not value.
THE LOVE OF MONEY
In America today and to a degree throughout
modern western civilization, economics and more
specifically, making money and having power and
material wealth have become the driving forces
that define societies. Countries that share these
priorities tend to attract the greedy, self-interested,
unprincipled kind of people who have infested the
united States of America and especially the United
States government.
In a Republic whose laws and social system are
based on clear moral principles, it is somewhat
amazing how far our society has fallen from her
original lofty goals.
convenience, ease and cheapness than they are with
honesty, integrity and truthfulness. They are more
concerned with what each can get for him- or herself than living a life of righteousness in a country
devoted to justice for all.
I regularly deal with people who, upon learning
that they have waived their rights to life, liberty and
property in order to become eligible for a government benefit program, still refuse to reclaim those
same rights if it means giving up their benefits
and privileges. In other words, these people have
set their respective priorities: money, benefits and
privileges before liberty.
As a result of this prioritization of money, power
and possessions, both the United States government
and the American people (and much of the rest of
the world) have displayed a tendency to justify any
behavior if it benefits the economy. Murder, rape,
theft and fraud have all been made acceptable, as
long as enough money is involved.
This degenerate attitude showed itself in no more
precise way than with the bogus “war” with Iraq, or
Afghanistan, or Syria, or any of the numerous wars
in which the United States government executed a
precise scheme designed to undermine the stability
of that region, then sent invading troops to “help
bring order” back to a destabilized country, all in
order to gain control of that country’s substantial
oil resources and establish footholds in that section of the world. Meanwhile, a sizable percentage
of the American people continue to approve of and
defend the president’s illegal and unconst itutional
actions.
Modern American people are more concerned with
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