“Let Us Prey”
Can a bureaucracy become such a beast?
Freedom feeds variety and variety feeds progress. If you allow freedom to be circumscribed, you die as a people; your children choke on the ashes of your lost resolve.
Should we back off in our struggle for individual freedom? If out cause is the right one, shouldn’t it be natural for it to evolve on its own merits? Why shouldn’t we leave it to the natural process? The reason, people, is this: How you think and act “is the process!” How you think is the mill that grinds out the future. And if you don’t act, you and your ideas will be quietly crushed by those who do.
On too many occasions in the history of civilization, people have accepted authority without subjecting that authority to rational examination! A complacent population leaves itself wide open to control. Eventually the abusive bureaucracy demands too much. The end is either revolt or subjugation. Perhaps the problem is not with the power of the abuser; perhaps the problem is with the individual who is willing to submit. Free men and women need not apologize for being enraged by arrogance in government.
Look at your soul. Corner apathy. Root it out. The darkest hours of human history are marked by muted minutes of indifference. The choice is coming. We either build something better, build it on the stone of constitution, honesty, and self-reliance that stands strong under federal weed and legal trash. Or, through public inertia, let cynicism boil until the people trust no one, trust no one from the president on down to the county judge. Maybe until people don’t even trust one another. That is when unity dies, the might of a people is done.
I think I know what real courage is. Real courage is to leave that nice chair and walk into the flame of history. Real courage is to fight when there are so many places to hide, so many excuses. The halls of forever are long. Somewhere, far from this time, you may have to look into the eyes of patriots. Somewhere, far from this time, you may have to look into the eyes of the young soldier who never got to hold the tiny hand of his firstborn; who took the hit for you because he knew that somewhere, somehow, in all the confusion of his youth freedom mattered!!!
Helt 91 D.
a.k.a. General
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Allocution Statement
The Allocution Statement of Helt a.k.a. General*
*An allocution statement is a statment made by a defendant before sentencing in a court of law.
I stand convicted of a great offense. I have had much time to consider what I believe to be my primary error in thinking in this matter. There have been many times in my life when I have been caused to face intense dilemmas in my judgments, my mistakes defy explanation. I address myself to that which I fail to understand.
I have witnessed a lack of trust in this country between the governed and their government. As I grew older, I became aware that the overwhelming majority of people my age placed little or no faith in our established institutions. I was not that we failed in our commitment to democratic principles; it was that we were no longer confidant in the direction our government had taken. What I failed to understand is that it did not matter if the President was a criminal; it did not matter if the land was filled with prejudice and bias; it did not matter if law enforcement could be lawless or that we could kill in Nicaragua for ten years. It did not matter if we could assassinate and topple other elected governments.
Another thing I failed to grasp was that while these and other things disgusted me, none of them individually or even in their sum total were the central issue. What was virtually indispensably important was that we had ideals. That we based our society on law…no matter that our history was flawed…there are those who strive to be correct; to heal; to persevere toward those goals upon which we base our government. And when the time arrived, in the face of pressure, my decision was colored in the back of my mind with the thought that I had been betrayed all along by my government. And that what we were and the place we had arrived were irreconcilable. I was wrong to believe that my ideals no longer counted. I believed the nation to have abandoned those commitments toward principle- which have made this country unique. And when I was coerced, it left me with little strength to fall back on.
Mine was a position I did not seek. My primary failure was appreciating that my country is anchored in principle no matter what the practices of its government. I appreciate the court’s position. I would hope that at some reasonable time I would be allowed to contribute once again to this society.
There is no possible recurrence of this matter. I have never been involved in criminality. I am emotionally exhausted, but I am not beaten. I have one goal in my life and that is to recover my reputation. I am resolved to accomplish this. I appreciate the conscientious defense my attorneys provided. I apologize to my Mother. I express profound regrets to the American people and their principles.
County Jail KS 7-86
Helt a.k.a General
*An allocution statement is a statment made by a defendant before sentencing in a court of law.
I stand convicted of a great offense. I have had much time to consider what I believe to be my primary error in thinking in this matter. There have been many times in my life when I have been caused to face intense dilemmas in my judgments, my mistakes defy explanation. I address myself to that which I fail to understand.
I have witnessed a lack of trust in this country between the governed and their government. As I grew older, I became aware that the overwhelming majority of people my age placed little or no faith in our established institutions. I was not that we failed in our commitment to democratic principles; it was that we were no longer confidant in the direction our government had taken. What I failed to understand is that it did not matter if the President was a criminal; it did not matter if the land was filled with prejudice and bias; it did not matter if law enforcement could be lawless or that we could kill in Nicaragua for ten years. It did not matter if we could assassinate and topple other elected governments.
Another thing I failed to grasp was that while these and other things disgusted me, none of them individually or even in their sum total were the central issue. What was virtually indispensably important was that we had ideals. That we based our society on law…no matter that our history was flawed…there are those who strive to be correct; to heal; to persevere toward those goals upon which we base our government. And when the time arrived, in the face of pressure, my decision was colored in the back of my mind with the thought that I had been betrayed all along by my government. And that what we were and the place we had arrived were irreconcilable. I was wrong to believe that my ideals no longer counted. I believed the nation to have abandoned those commitments toward principle- which have made this country unique. And when I was coerced, it left me with little strength to fall back on.
Mine was a position I did not seek. My primary failure was appreciating that my country is anchored in principle no matter what the practices of its government. I appreciate the court’s position. I would hope that at some reasonable time I would be allowed to contribute once again to this society.
There is no possible recurrence of this matter. I have never been involved in criminality. I am emotionally exhausted, but I am not beaten. I have one goal in my life and that is to recover my reputation. I am resolved to accomplish this. I appreciate the conscientious defense my attorneys provided. I apologize to my Mother. I express profound regrets to the American people and their principles.
County Jail KS 7-86
Helt a.k.a General
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