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Bookworm posted a speech that Winston Churchill gave to the House of Commons on June 18, 1940. I have decided to post the three parts of that speech that resonated the most with me rather than post the speech in its entirety. I also want to thank Bookworm for her insights and her historical background. She sheds the light on many things of the past that apply to our future.

During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken. During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How are we going to win? and no one was able ever to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.

We do not yet know what will happen in France or whether the French resistance will be prolonged, both in France and in the French Empire overseas. The French Government will be throwing away great opportunities and casting adrift their future if they do not continue the war in accordance with their Treaty obligations, from which we have not felt able to release them. The House will have read the historic declaration in which, at the desire of many Frenchmen-and of our own hearts-we have proclaimed our willingness at the darkest hour in French history to conclude a union of common citizenship in this struggle. However matters may go in France or with the French Government, or other French Governments, we in this Island and in the British Empire will never lose our sense of comradeship with the French people. If we are now called upon to endure what they have been suffering, we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye, and freedom shall be restored to all. We abate nothing of our just demands; not one jot or tittle do we recede. Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians have joined their causes to our own. All these shall be restored.

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.

Indeed, we too are at a crossroad. We can take the road to failure which will inevitably take away our constitution and our freedoms both here and abroad, or we can take the road to success and defeat an enemy that in many respects is worse than Hitler. We will only be successful if free nations band together. I know that this sentiment may sound corny but it really is as simple as “United We Stand – Divided We Fall”.

Churchill knew that the enemy he faced was ruthless. Just as Churchill knew it then, I know it now. I realize that many think that the enemy we face isn’t formidable, they are wrong. Our enemy is gathering, in the United States, in Germany, in France, in Great Britain, and other nations across the globe, ready to launch an offensive while many Americans sit by on the sidelines having their morning coffee. Such complacency risks supplanting our freedoms with tyranny.

We need to launch our own offensive. We need to tell our politicians to take politics out of this war. We need to remind our politicians that they need to be truthful about our enemy because the enemy watches every move that they make and they use that information as propaganda. We need to stop government leaks and stop the media from writing about classified information because our enemy uses this information to their advantage. We need to close our borders because our enemy will use our open border policy to their advantage. That advantage is a very dangerous prospect.

Our forefathers would not tolerate the behavior that is currently going on in Washington and neither should we. We need to win this war and win it big. When you sit and think about this thing it is so huge that it is hard to wrap your head around it. Not only are we at war with terrorists, but we are at war with nations that support terrorists. We may not have troops in places such as Iran, but make no mistake about it, a country that calls for our demise and uses terrorists to help facilitate this is our enemy. Whether or not people choose to believe this isn’t the issue, it’s true regardless of personal opinion. This isn’t Vietnam. We aren’t fighting for someone else’s freedoms, we are fighting for our own. The stakes are high, way too high.

The time to rally is now. We need to crush our enemies. Some may think that I’m crazy, but I’m not. Some thought that Churchill was crazy, he wasn’t. Some reading this will say that I am a “Neocon” or an “Islamophobe“. I’m not. I’m an American citizen who sees the writing on the wall. I am an American citizen who wants our children to grow up in freedom, without tyranny, and without malls blowing up or twin towers collapsing due to an enemy that is so ruthless that they are known as head choppers. I am an American citizen first before I affiliate myself with any political party. I belong to the party of America and I want to see her succeed.

Other Reading:
Scottish Right,1913 Intel,Bald-Headed Geek