Obama Care, illegal aliens getting amnesty, Cap and Trade, the one-world-order, radical environmentalism, the brainwashing of our kids, trashing the Constitution
The Approaching Crown Fire
 “When a ‘forest fire’ is lit, there is no telling which way it will go. It depends on the ‘wind’, the ‘fuel load’ and the ‘humidity’. The ‘wind’ is about to blow real hard, the “fuel load” is huge and the humidity is dropping rapidly. It just takes the right ‘match’, a lightning strike, or spontaneous combustion. The question is, what (or who) will set it off? Could it be Obama Care, illegal aliens getting amnesty, Cap and Trade, the one-world-order, radical environmentalism, the brainwashing of our kids, or trashing the Constitution by politicians? Was Jefferson right? Does a society need a revolution every hundred years? Messy, but could it be necessary if freedom is to be defended and maintained?” Ron Ewart
If you have not witnessed a crown fire before, you have not seen how explosive an out-of-control forest fire can get. It is but yet another powerful example of nature’s raw fury. On a hot dry day in mid summer, the ground cover in an evergreen forest can get tinder dry, especially in a condition of low humidity. It takes almost nothing to ignite it. A careless campfire, a thrown cigarette, a backfire from a car, truck or tractor, magnification of the sun’s rays through a broken piece of glass, spontaneous combustion and lightning, can all trigger a forest fire.
The fire starts small but grows rapidly, especially if the wind is blowing. The dry grass and bushes are consumed in minutes and can spread to the trees in the forest. As the fire grows, the heat rises quickly. As the heat rises the need for oxygen to keep the fire going increases to the point that the fire creates its own wind, as the air rushes in from all around to feed the fire its roaring blood of life, oxygen.
A dome of ever-rising heat surrounds the fire and raises higher and higher into the tops of the trees. Reaching temperatures of 2,000 degrees, enough to melt steel, the top of one of the trees explodes in a ball of flame. The flame from the explosion reaches out to the tops of other trees and the fire races on the wind through the tops of the trees, in explosion after explosion. That is a crown fire.
As a massive fire can be triggered by a small event, so too can a sudden shift in a culture or a nation take place. Most all major changes that occur to humans is the result of a catalyst. The catalyst that triggers a major change can be social upheaval, famine and hunger, scientific discoveries, excessive regulation by government and war. We call these catalysts, flash points, similar to the crown fire that suddenly explodes when the temperature reaches a certain threshold.
Flash points can come in many forms. Taxation that led to the Boston Tea Party. The shot at Concord, heard ‘round the world, that led to the American Revolution. The secession of southern states that led to the Civil War. The sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine, off the coast of England that led to World War I. The attack on Pearl Harbor that led to America entering World War II. The Vietnam war that led to massive unrest in America. A financially broke government forced to cut back on services, that leads to civil unrest, as is now happening in Greece. And now we have an American government hellbent on putting the American people in chains. Could a flash point be near?
In learning to fly an airplane, the instructor always cautioned us that the first little event might not kill you and even the second event might not lead to your death. But a couple of little events can cascade into a major event from which there is no recovery, because the pilot negligently ignored the first few events. A small unrecognizable noise coming from the engine is ignored and later the engine comes apart in the air. An instrument quits working and then conditions are encountered where those instruments were vital.
In fact this happened to us. Two instruments quit working in our airplane while flying from Palm Springs back to Seattle, several years ago. Had we encountered clouds on that trip, we could have lost control of the airplane without those instruments. Our co-pilot on that trip and his wife, were killed in an airplane crash because his engine came apart in the air. We often wondered if he had ignored one or more little events that led to that engine coming apart.
The people of a nation are not unlike the pilot of an airplane. They can start out with the best of intentions and even an almost fool proof blue print for liberty, but the blue print is of no value if the people do not pay attention to the little events that come along, as some in the nation try to alter the blue print for their own ends.
In our book, “The Dimming Light of Freedom”, we wrote in the opening paragraph:
“Any government, even ours, no matter how all-encompassing are its constitutional safeguards for individual rights, will eventually, on the guise of making a more perfect society or protect us from ourselves, exert more and more control over the individual lives of its citizens, if those same citizens abdicate their right and duty to hold their government accountable. The increasing and pervasive nature of that control will arrive slowly, bit by bit, so that it is hardly noticeable. Each succeeding generation will succumb to wider and deeper restrictions on their freedoms and will lack the capacity or the will to resist in any meaningful way.”
Today, we find ourselves having ignored the little events for the last 100 years that have led to the potential calamities we now face, as individuals and as a nation. We are being forced to face the reality of unprecedented government corruption and gross negligence.
Our future holds for us imminent national financial collapse and run-away inflation, in major part due to government corruption and negligence. We are witnessing the dismantling of our freedoms and the dragging of our people, kicking and screaming, into the jaws of socialism and even Marxism, by those who have risen to power because the people of the nation did not pay attention to the little events that were undermining their very liberty. Our national “airplane” is in a death spiral towards a fiery crash if we as a nation don’t do something drastic to pull us out of that death spiral.
All this is on our plate, while a rising religious hatred of the West is manifesting itself in foreign acts of violence and terror.
Nevertheless, we find comfort in the fact that there is an awakening going on in America that is akin to the spirit of 1776. Because of Americans living under the umbrella of freedom for over 230 years, the pilot light of liberty burns in the hearts of most of us. Although slow to ignite after years of inattention, freedom’s flame is rising out of the ashes of neglect and apathy. Spot fires of freedom are erupting all over the nation. America is coming alive like never before. It would be wise for the forces of evil who would attempt to drag us where we don’t want to go, to take a step back before the raw fury of American power is unleashed on those without honor, who have betrayed our trust, ripped up our blueprint of liberty and are working to tear our institutions of freedom asunder.
The forest fire has been lit, but its speed, direction and power are in the hands of the wind, the fuel load and the humidity. Whether it reaches the full force of a crown fire is up to those who have struck the match and ignited the blazing fire of freedom.
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