Georgia Patriot Files

I know many great patriots who are interested in helping to restore America to the ideals that guided our founding fathers almost 250 years ago.   Even so, the question I hear most often is, “What can I do?”   There is no perfect answer to that question because we all have abilities and tendencies we are born with.   No two patriots are the same.   Paul Revere was no skilled wordsmith; but he could ride a horse like the wind.   Thomas Jefferson was no soldier or saint; but he possessed an unrivaled capacity to grasp and formulate abstractions regarding the human condition and express them in a way that has since allowed his ponderings to pierce the hearts of generations, inspiring peoples throughout the world to act to better their socio-political conditions.   Noting the individuals who tasked themselves with declaring independence in Philadelphia in 1776, each brought something different to the table.   Jefferson largely disagreed with Americ...

Since his arrest last week, how many of you thought that Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange might be in big trouble?  Even so, didn’t you think the timing a little odd?  I mean, how long had Assange been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, almost 8 years?  And if the authorities arrested him last week, why didn’t they two weeks ago?  A year ago?  Five years ago?  What was different last week than any time previous, such that it made the Ecuadorian President Moreno decide to allow British law enforcement inside the embassy and snatch Assange from his safe place and arrest him?  Could it be the recently unsealed indictment of Assange by the US Department of Justice?  And if that might be the case, why was it unsealed just now, almost a decade after the offense it alleges?  According to the Ecuadorian President, Ecuadorians were simply tired of “aggressive behavior” on the part of the notably mild-mannered Assange.  Plausible explan...

It is my experience that when an individual is obviously guilty, and everyone knows it, the transgressor has two options, either admit guilt or bear down proclaiming innocence, and out of sheer insistence hope others will eventually believe.  Nobody is perfect, we all know that.  We all have done things we regret.  But most of us come to realize that a time to admit one’s failings eventually materializes.  That’s when we ‘fess up, take the consequences, learn from it and try to do better.  Adults do that.  But children are different.  They do not have enough experience in the world to yet grasp the certainty that truth will endure longer than they will.  Their understanding is so limited that many guilty of wrong-doing convince themselves that, though guilty, there must be a way out of a hole of their own digging.  Thus, children attempt to buy time, increasingly insisting innocence, hoping to outlast various adversaries to whom the real trut...