In a recent post I talked about a note of despair from a reader, Reader: “It is so overwhelming, I am getting too depressed about where our country is heading”:
“I need to step away for a bit. It is so overwhelming, I am getting too depressed about where our country is heading.”
My post generated a lot of reaction:
That’s a feeling I have almost daily. It’s a feeling others have expressed to me apart from that reader.The swiftness and efficiency with which the Biden administration has damaged the country is something to behold, and it’s built on a generation of institutional capture. I could run a list, but you know already. The current trajectory cannot be sustained, something has to give.I wish I had an easy answer. But I don’t.I do know that there is no choice but to keep fighting back. It’s our nature.
I should have mentioned in the post that readers need to read again the post sent to me in June 2020 when I was under attack at Cornell Law School for (accurately) criticizing the fabricated “hands up, don’t shoot” Michael Brown BLM narrative and the nature and goals of the activist leaders of the movement.
The 2020 post was “The spines of thousands are being strengthened by hearing of your fight” – A Supporter’s Message.
Here is his email to me (personally identifying information removed).
Combat Theology – a Combat Pilot’s perspective during trying times
Don’t cave to them.You are not alone.You can make a profound difference.Sir,When you are in Combat; far from the target; there is rarely a shot fired against you.When you are (Air Force term ) “on the Run In, to the OA” (Objective Area) that is when you know you are in the right area… SAM shots, AAA gunfire…everything the Adversary has, comes at you. Not solely to destroy, but often, simply attempt to distract you off target.Distraction can lead to mission failure, as much as Destruction.But, you are a warrior, you have trained your whole life for this moment, and you are on the Run In.You are on the Run In, and you have Top Cover. People, Prayers, Angels, the Earth itself is a witness to your Courage. You will not die 1000 deaths; you will taste of death but once. The Top Cover overhead are like F15 Strike Eagles. You can’t see them, can’t hear them at 45,000ft; but the Eagles are there, and they will “Cry ‘Havok’ and loose the Dogs of War;” not now, but at the right time. To defeat the adversary when their tools, at their disposal, are the most effective. Not on your desires, not on your timing; but on moment when they know their weapons are the most effective; to protect you. ‘For the weapons of our warfare are divinely powered, for the destruction of fortresses.’The spines of thousands are being strengthened, by hearing of your fight.You are NOT ALONE.Before tonight, I never heard of you. If you had equivocated prior to this point, you would have still been destroyed by the people who want you to pander to them; and you would have dissolved into obscurity.But, you fought for righteousness. The rule of law, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. For the Ethos of Dr Martin L King, … you fight for Content of Character.You stood, seemingly alone, in the breach.But you are not alone. We are with you.I am with you – Fangs Out and Full Speed, I am coming; and with you even now.Bow, kneel, grovel… you will dissolve into obscurity.Make them seemingly kill you; and the eggs and smears and brutality they throw at you, will be a mantle of Honor you wear into eternity.Use their leaders and their words to defeat them. Fight like Sun Tzu, fight with asymmetric warfare; expose the rot they expound, with Frédéric Bastiat – the Law…. show their decayed ideas and words are NOT NEW: decaying and failing for the last 200 years; and being renamed, rehashed and repacked: Orwellian; Gestapo; Tribal and Animal Farm-brutal.You stand, seemingly alone, in the breach. But you are not alone.I am with you – Fangs Out and Full Speed. Dropping my external tanks; so I can gain extra speed, extra maneuverability; unguarding the Weapons Release switches. I am coming, a Warrior Poet, with an army of angels and prayers. Reaching Mach1, and the turbine blades in my engines glow cherry red, while the Tach gauge red-lines at 103%I am coming. I am the prayers of strangers. I am the Almighty; who sees all and judges the Heart.I put Daniel’s heart in the scales, to see if he would kneel to images of gold; but he chose lions; and therefore I was with him. I put David’s heart in the scales; to see if he would kneel to a giant. Three small stones. Smooth and round. Symmetric, and elegant in their simplicity. The sword was too heavy, the armor too clumsy. David fought his fight, he won because he fought on his terms and didn’t fight the way the others wanted him to: friends and foe alike. I was with him. Three smooth stones. He didn’t kneel; so I was with him. I Am with you.…and I’m with you as well.Fangs Out and Full Speed,LtCol X.
He followed up with this note:
Only today did I realize you are “THAT” William Jacobson, “That” Legal Insurrection. I listen to Mark Levin (my hero) when driving home from work. Mark Levin has mentioned you a few times in the past. Didn’t make the connection until today, I simply thought you were a fellow Instructor; being attacked and on the ropes, and hoped to encourage you.
I’ve read those messages multiple times in the past two years, and also provided them to others under attack.
I think the message relates to all of us standing up against seemingly insurmountable forces.
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