Cassie Craven: Without Virtue There Will Be No Liberty

Columnist Cassie Craven writes, "Columns have come out kicking and screaming about ways to not let the Freedom Caucus get 'their way.' You aren’t attacking the Freedom Caucus when you say that. Instead, you are attacking the majority of voters who voted for them."

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Cassie Craven

February 09, 20264 min read

Laramie County
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What will history say about us? A country led by powerful elite, doing the unimaginable. But we can’t wait to turn on the Olympics and Super Bowl – yippee. The propaganda and consumerism, not to mention subliminal messaging that’s not even subliminal anymore hurts my eyes.  

History doesn’t record our intentions, only our actions. The Epstein file release should awaken you, if somehow you were still sleeping.

The redaction of names, while other documents indicate they are celebrities and public officials shouldn’t really shock you. But it should. You’re only human; you weren’t meant to consume evil at this level.

You already kind of felt that right? If you’re from my generation, we began our childhood with 9/11. We’ve never known a time when there wasn’t war, financial crisis, or both. While it wasn’t the draft days of Vietnam, our grandpas described, it was still war. We didn’t really understand it, other than to know it was expected self-defense, turned into tales of weapons of mass destruction.

If you were a 90s kid, you remember when the world just changed. The nostalgic memories of ole faded, and became somehow different. Distant. Like a bike ride down the street to grandmas that would never be paved again.

Cell phones. Chaos. Depression, detachment, demoralization and distrust in our government. Evolving conspiracy theories, proven true. More money in politics. Politicians who are out for themselves.

But history is pretty predictable about what happens next. Once we reach the level of elites engaging in satanic ritual, we’ve turned a corner in humanity’s awareness. If evil captures culture, institutions, and enforcement – protection of that corruption is the only goal. The problem with awareness, is that it’s aware. The devil always announces himself.

In Wyoming the last couple of weeks, opinion columns came out across all platforms and sides of the aisle; kicking and screaming about ways to not let the Freedom Caucus get “their way” and how to extinguish them and their “culture war.”

But, remember – you aren’t attacking the Freedom Caucus when you say that. Instead, you are attacking the majority of voters who voted for them. Silence and fear don’t live where freedom do.

Of course, Wyoming will pass a budget. The sky won’t fall. The institutions won’t close. But what are those institutions doing? Do individuals profit off of them at the expense of the taxpayer? Is there a bigger game unseen? Many think yes. Conservatives ask why.

Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively on the separation of church and state. His declaration to Benjamin Rush that “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man,” was made in the context of religious freedom, that any government effort to control religious beliefs was “tyranny over the mind of man.”

Conservative principles are worth listening to, budget year or not. Protection the integrity of our system and its institutions, standing watch over spiritual warfare harming our children, and fighting Satan’s lies wreaking tyranny and havoc over the mind. This matters very much to Wyoming voters.

Protecting the unborn, asking fundamental questions about government, and considering the taxpayer first, are worth taking up.

Administrative warrants, annexation, and utility costs. These things matter to normal people who aren’t making millions on a broadband initiative or a data center. They came to Wyoming for peace, views, and low government interference. They care about fairness and safety for their grandkids.

Protecting children is not optional. It is spiritual. It comes from duty. Not cultural trend.

If the kingdom of heaven is truly within us, it is impossible to eat ourselves alive. If we don’t root out the darkness and renew ourselves, it will be cleansed one way or another.

If you’ve read the old testament, you understand that it is the same God. New Covenant, same God. Just because we haven’t felt wrath in a while doesn’t mean it is not coming. Instead of burning it down, what if we rebuild it brick by brick? With great precision, understanding, and common sense.

Without virtue, there can be no liberty.

As I see fundamental untruths plague society in psychological operations to convince us that moral turpitude is freedom, I’m reminded of Patrick Henry’s quote:

“A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.” Our Founding Fathers knew, what we seem to have forgotten. The Revolutionary War was just as much about a battle against high society elites as it was taxes; the protection of religious freedom, allowed the preservation of the God-given right to individual conscience."

Cassie Craven can be reached at: LonghornWritingLLC@gmail.com

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