We’re Facing the Final Power Grab

This article is taken from a keynote speech to the St. Thomas More Society during an award banquet Wednesday in Palm Beach, Florida, honoring former President Donald Trump for his contributions to protecting the lives of unborn children.

Good evening to the St. Thomas More Society, your guests and other dignitaries who are present. I want to thank you for the honor of having me address you tonight.

St. Thomas More walked a narrow road that led to a fulfilled life. He described this and other principles that somehow found their way into our very own Constitution. In a letter before his execution in 1535, he wrote of life, liberty and friendship, and as he described, “the winning of Christ,” he was describing an eternal pursuit of happiness.

Trying to determine what to speak about this evening, I have chosen to speak about evil and the evils of communism.

What it means, where we are and what it requires to be defeated (again).

We are in the midst of a war; this is not politics as usual.

We live in trying perilous times.

The nation is living in Psalm 23: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” The only misnomer is many Americans have no clue what the short phrase “Thou Art” even means any longer.

I’ll begin with Ronald Reagan’s famous words about the former Soviet Union. He called it “the Evil Empire.”

President Reagan had clarity and discernment, and he understood the power of words.

And Russia was evil in Reagan’s time as it is now. More on that later.

What I want to do is expand on the meaning of the word “evil.”

It is a biblical word that more than any other word describes the polarity between heaven and earth.

“Evil” means willfully doing what is determined to be wrong in every moral society.

Its synonyms are “foul,” “corrupt,” “ungodly,” “unholy,” “wicked,” “degenerate” and so on.

Why, might you ask, am I putting such emphasis on this one word?

It is because as a nation, we currently stand on a precipice, high above a chasm so deep that it can swallow America whole.

I, among many in this country, am seriously worried that one more election, won or stolen, can be the step into the abyss, making America like Europe and the rest of the world.

From the reports I receive from many people around the world, Europe, specifically, is already engendered in the Marxist/communist philosophy and its controls and restrictions (and these restrictions on their liberties tighten more and more every day).

If America falls to the dictates of the left, this last bastion of freedom, the shining beacon of goodness and the next best expression of humanity, will be no more.

Remember, no country that lost its moral compass and character has ever kept its liberty.

As a Catholic and an intelligence officer and soldier who studied, stood against and was prepared to fight communism, we never associated Marxist communists with evil.

Yes, they reviled and banned any churches, God and the devil did not exist in the communist lexicon, and Marxist communism was supposedly a philosophy to benefit the poor and downtrodden.

But here is the nexus between God and Lucifer:

According to Marx, the abolition of religion is necessary so people can become their own God, but to place a finer point, the communist party can become their God.

And so began the reign of evil for anyone living in communist-ruled countries. One-third of their populations were coerced or bribed to report on the rest of the population. This broke the trust between all people and raised paranoia in the individual.

Does all this sound familiar?

Those who resisted, were and are, in communist countries, imprisoned, and savagely tortured by communists, whose religion is the party. They justify their horrifying, monstrous behavior by stating that the ends justify the means — that a dead man is better than an anti-communist man.

Families, then and now, were torn apart and used against each other in communist countries. Force was used then, and is used now, to yank possessions from the hands of those who work hard and earn a decent living, to be handed to those who sit idle and do nothing.

Worst of all, the communist devils whispered into young ears: If you report on your friends and coworkers, you will be rewarded with the job you wanted, the promotions you seek or even a home of your own.

Here in America, should we be worried about these sorts of actions?

Absolutely, you’re damn right we should be worried!

We have conversations with friends who laugh away our concerns and try to tell us these are small fringe groups (conspiracy theorists!), this is simply politics as usual, America goes through these cycles and this current crisis is just another “politics as usual” cycle.

Far from it!

Remember, Joseph Stalin, less than a hundred years ago, was only one of the dictators of the past century. Stalin had a policy called “inclusiveness.”

Well, his inclusive policies killed as many as 60 million of his own citizens and imprisoned many more.

Other familiar names are Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler. And remember, only 85 years ago (1938), Hitler was dubbed Time Magazine’s Man of the Year (he then proceeded to exterminate 6 million Jews and millions of others). Think about that for a second.

And keep in mind, during World War II alone, the U.S. military sacrificed over a million killed and wounded.

Evil exists, and it is not something that existed only during biblical times or when Christ walked on Earth. It is all around us. We should know better, and we should act smarter, but tragically, we do neither, and therefore we find ourselves at this historic moment of peril.

In today’s America, there are two very split camps. The reasons for this split are many, and I’ll speak to a few. But it began slowly and crept into our society with a vengeance.

We lost our moral compass, and no country in the history of the world that lost its character kept its liberty.

In fact, all nations that gave up their freedoms never got them back.

The progressive movement needed to destroy the very fabric that makes America and our people unique and exceptional in our own right.

For instance, the sexual revolution, with all its diversity and the push to equalize all sexual behaviors as the norm, together with the creation of a culture of drug dependency, transgenderism and immorality, created even more division, further isolating factions.

The hallmark of socialism or communism or evil is destruction. And so the destruction of the family was next.

We have seen the ridiculousness of families depicted on TV. These depictions are laughable but very serious.

They represent a blend of improbable characters thrown together to make the family unit one big joke.

This step was then followed by the indoctrination of young minds about their gender and about what’s right and wrong. The family unit was destroyed, and the rearing of children has been left to the progressives who infiltrate every aspect of our education system (from elementary school to college).

And, of course, churches were destroyed, primarily from the inside out. If you truly believe in God and the biblical tenets of Catholicism, these tenets cannot be successfully indoctrinated.

Those discerning (or questioning) among us noticed that instigators or agitators in our midst began telling us that we were all children of God and therefore we were responsible for all our brothers in the world and needed to take all of them into our care (vis-à-vis the very intentional southern invasion of America).

The institutions of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities of America and even Rome itself have become a bastion of liberalism and progressivism and push this notion. I speak of the institutions and those in charge and not the congregations. Although Catholics in America represent the largest voting bloc in our country, practically half still vote for this evil. Even the current occupant of the White House touts himself as a Catholic.

In the last few decades, we’ve seen the outright closure of churches, and even some destroyed through internal division.

Lastly, anyone speaking out or standing up against the woke, progressive ideology is viciously pursued in and out of the law. You can’t sit here tonight or at any time and still say, “I don’t know.”

The causes detailed here, with the onslaught of the never-ending ranting of progressive voices (especially in the fake news media), are about the destruction of anything philosophical and cultural that makes our nation great and exceptional.

I deplore the disappearance of what…