“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” quote, Samuel Adams.
Words have meaning… but never so clear, that a tyrant can not subvert and convert them to his purpose. Hence, for justice to prevail… a MORAL people must hold the heads of justice accountable for their words.
’Tis but the sound of fury, unleashed in the souls of tyrants, that corrupt words destroy the community of man; with the tongue men set afire civilization and bring captive millions.' Nelson
Words, steeped with ill will... sooner beget terror in the hearts of men than a sword. For with steel, men are dispatched and soon are forgotten, but with words history is written and rewritten, defining the very soul of men and nations.
Our judicial system has become the harbinger of illiteracy… spurning common sense and the direct meaning of WORDS. At will the judicial tyrant rages, his words to twist the souls of men; bantering about the meaning of words, these despots do spin a web of deceit, trapping the common good with gobbledygook.
The wicked restrain justice and impale the righteous with words. It is time to restore common sense to the rhetoric of men. Justice is best served when the lexicon of man is firmly established and honored by all. Justices and men of high rank need to be clear in the use of their language; so that, none will misunderstand their point. However, it is the despot who thinks to deceive with words and his entendre, keeping the very root of his purpose and meaning hidden, from the public and common speech.
Let the lawyers be chastened and the twisted metaphor be made clear… words have meaning and they dare not change, that history may remain true to the facts and the laws of men stable in there application. Words have in them the eternal power of creation; they are the window of the soul. If only the powerful would listen, they may discover that they are naked and bereft of their mantle of moral authority. They have become so estranged from the common man that they rarely interpret his needs and desires properly… they now dangerously toy with the very essence of our nation's soul and wonder why the masses appear in open revolt… to the old guard.
Propaganda works… for a while and only a while.. but once it is exposed, like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put back together again... No matter how hard all the Kings men and all the Kings Horses try. America, the dream … is so fragile I fear it won’t see the spring. So fragile, is our Republic now, that it can barely be whispered for fear that it may shatter. Yet, our leaders feed themselves with great regalia, clothe themselves with all the pomp and power that once held hope for a better world and spoke peace to the nations.
No more… Nay… no more! For the wicked have toppled the righteous and up is now down and down… up. Our leaders are more interested in securing their own power, than lifting the hopeless from their burden, or leading the lost to new found enterprise. No, the American dream is fading fast, and in its twilight, we can yet hear our forefather’s calling us to stay the course, to hold fast to our past and live righteously under the hand of God.
But alas.. the prophets are dying... and the Word of God no more breaches the walls of our enemies, or parts the seas, leading us into the promised land. We are but wandering vagrants, seeking shelter from the abyss…empty cisterns... whose water has long dissipated, leaving us broken vessels without hope.
There is great meaning to be taken from the above prophetic discourse on words... for those with an eye to see and an ear to hear... let them hear and be guided accordingly. For others, it is all gobblygook.
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“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” quote, Samuel Adams.
Words have meaning… but never so clear, that a tyrant can not subvert and convert them to his purpose. Hence, for justice to prevail… a MORAL people must hold the heads of justice accountable for their words.
’Tis but the sound of fury, unleashed in the souls of tyrants, that corrupt words destroy the community of man; with the tongue men set afire civilization and bring captive millions.' Nelson
Words, steeped with ill will... sooner beget terror in the hearts of men than a sword. For with steel, men are dispatched and soon are forgotten, but with words history is written and rewritten, defining the very soul of men and nations.
Our judicial system has become the harbinger of illiteracy… spurning common sense and the direct meaning of WORDS. At will the judicial tyrant rages, his words to twist the souls of men; bantering about the meaning of words, these despots do spin a web of deceit, trapping the common good with gobbledygook.
The wicked restrain justice and impale the righteous with words. It is time to restore common sense to the rhetoric of men. Justice is best served when the lexicon of man is firmly established and honored by all. Justices and men of high rank need to be clear in the use of their language; so that, none will misunderstand their point. However, it is the despot who thinks to deceive with words and his entendre, keeping the very root of his purpose and meaning hidden, from the public and common speech.
Let the lawyers be chastened and the twisted metaphor be made clear… words have meaning and they dare not change, that history may remain true to the facts and the laws of men stable in there application. Words have in them the eternal power of creation; they are the window of the soul. If only the powerful would listen, they may discover that they are naked and bereft of their mantle of moral authority.
They have become so estranged from the common man that they rarely interpret his needs and desires properly… they now dangerously toy with the very essence of our nation's soul and wonder why the masses appear in open revolt… to the old guard.
Propaganda works… for a while and only a while.. but once it is exposed, like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put back together again... No matter how hard all the Kings men and all the Kings Horses try.
America, the dream … is so fragile I fear it won’t see the spring. So fragile, is our Republic now, that it can barely be whispered for fear that it may shatter. Yet, our leaders feed themselves with great regalia, clothe themselves with all the pomp and power that once held hope for a better world and spoke peace to the nations.
No more… Nay… no more! For the wicked have toppled the righteous and up is now down and down… up. Our leaders are more interested in securing their own power, than lifting the hopeless from their burden, or leading the lost to new found enterprise. No, the American dream is fading fast, and in its twilight, we can yet hear our forefather’s calling us to stay the course, to hold fast to our past and live righteously under the hand of God.
But alas.. the prophets are dying... and the Word of God no more breaches the walls of our enemies, or parts the seas, leading us into the promised land. We are but wandering vagrants, seeking shelter from the abyss…empty cisterns... whose water has long dissipated, leaving us broken vessels without hope.
By:
Ronald A. Nelson
COL. US Army (ret.)
There is great meaning to be taken from the above prophetic discourse on words... for those with an eye to see and an ear to hear... let them hear and be guided accordingly. For others, it is all gobblygook.