My cousin sent me this animated flick via You Tube, and watching it one begins to understand that the threat to freedom and liberty that's occurring in this country today is not something unique to our own time. It may seem that way as statists push an agenda that fosters no real learning in schools about our history as a free nation, or a belief in God as the source of our inalienable rights. The 'mind if I read it first?' line from John Q. Public has direct relevance to the formation of a national health care bill that 'we have to pass before we can know what's in it'.
What the short reinforces for me is that these things go around in cycles, and that freedom loving people need a nudge every few election cycles to stand up for what's right about the country, and not be embarrassed by it as many elitists would have us believe. The warning against class warfare, race hatred and religious intolerance are being sounded today by a small but growing voice of opposition to big government and their big solutions to what they see as America's 'problem' in the world.
The animated style of the picture will be familiar to anyone who grew up in the Forties and Fifties, indeed the Hanna-Barbera team gave us a wonderful legacy of animated cartoons and films that are ageless. Their warning in this picture against trading in everything you have for a promise to be taken care of forever is done in a humorous way stylistically, but the message is as serious and powerful as ever. Eternal vigilance is the price that must be paid to insure against no more private property, no more worries, no more fears, and worst of all, no more you.
What the short reinforces for me is that these things go around in cycles, and that freedom loving people need a nudge every few election cycles to stand up for what's right about the country, and not be embarrassed by it as many elitists would have us believe. The warning against class warfare, race hatred and religious intolerance are being sounded today by a small but growing voice of opposition to big government and their big solutions to what they see as America's 'problem' in the world.
The animated style of the picture will be familiar to anyone who grew up in the Forties and Fifties, indeed the Hanna-Barbera team gave us a wonderful legacy of animated cartoons and films that are ageless. Their warning in this picture against trading in everything you have for a promise to be taken care of forever is done in a humorous way stylistically, but the message is as serious and powerful as ever. Eternal vigilance is the price that must be paid to insure against no more private property, no more worries, no more fears, and worst of all, no more you.