Let’s be frank. Who in his right mind would appeal to corporate CEOs on fundamental issues of ethics and freedom?
But this is 1776.
We’re at the crossroads.
Are
you going to order your employees to take the COVID vaccine? Are you
going to fire those who won’t? Are you going to take away their freedom,
for a vaccine that has already caused 700,000 injuries?
And
by the way, that number represents vast underreporting. The well-known
Harvard Pilgrim study concludes vaccine injuries should be multiplied by
100 to arrive at a true number.
Let’s
get real. There will be many lawsuits filed from many quarters, to stop
a vaccine mandate; but the outcome of these legal actions is vastly
uncertain. Therefore, you CEOs must…
Stand up and refuse. Stand up and say you will not impose a mandate on your employees, NO MATTER WHAT.
No mandates, no more lockdowns, no further destruction of the economy, no destruction of millions more lives.
Except
in a few states, governors can’t be relied on. You CEOs are a prime
line of defense, if you have the courage. If you don’t, if your
hard-charging reputations are built on a foundation of sand, if your
prime loyalty is to a federal government that offers you cash bailouts
in return for treachery against the system of free enterprise---what is
left of it---then you are lost in a darkness of your own making.
Do
you remember these words? “And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually
pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
This was the final thought expressed in the Declaration of Independence by the signers.
Do those words ring hollow for you now? Is that where we are?
Are you going to let a boot stamp on your face forever?
Are you going to grind your boot on the very freedom that allowed your company to grow and prosper?
Are the echoes of 1776 so faint in your minds, you can’t imagine how this dire 2021 has anything to do with you?
You
need to step forward and make bold uncompromising statements and
pledges: No mandates. No lockdowns. No destruction of the right to earn a
living. No federal dictatorship. No backing down.
You
and your fellow CEOs must leave your offices and travel across the
country and tell the people you’re on their side, and you must mean
it. This is not your usual public relations campaign. This is honesty
and honor and duty. If you have it in you.
First,
there was the story of a virus. Then a story of a test for the
virus. Then the story of case numbers. Then, the masks and lockdowns and
distancing and blasting of the economy. Then the vaccine. Then the
announced vaccine mandate. Hasn’t it occurred to you that this serial
story, with each succeeding phase, is really the pretext for tyranny and
dictatorship and takeover?
You
have to start forging new alliances that go far beyond your workaday
world; alliances with nurses, pilots, sheriffs, soldiers and others who
are refusing the vaccine. Alliances with unions who are pushing back
against the mandate.
It’s
not, strictly speaking, your “business,” but business in America is
heading toward the edge of a cliff, in case you hadn’t noticed.
Here’s
the story of one your own. Alfie Oakes. He has 3,200 employees. His
store is based in Florida. He owns 3,000 acres of farmland and a food
processing plant. Watch him speak in this video. He understands what’s
at stake. He knows this is 1776. He’s a good man who’s doing the right
thing. He’s a hero.
We are talking about values. We are not talking about political correctness or endlessly sucking on the teat of socialism.
I
realize many of you CEOs have embraced a form of socialism already---a
close collaboration with government---because you believe it is the best
guarantee for your survival. But you’re wrong. You’re wrong in
strategic terms, and wrong when it comes to values and principles.
You now have to revolutionize your thinking. You have to help overcome the forces you’ve been aligning yourself with.
You
have to find, embrace, and work with the people, wherever they are,
whoever they are, who stand for freedom. And the work you do must be
conceived along new lines.
“I’m
the CEO of XYZ. I stand here today talking to you, alongside sheriffs,
policemen, union workers, nurses, soldiers, business owners, parents,
state representatives; people who want freedom in America again. We’re
pledged to stand against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, closures, and all
the failed measures that have kept us in isolation. We’re taking back
what is ours. You’re going to hear from these people standing up
here. You’re going to understand how their stories of freedom denied are
your stories…”
This is an issue of character.
For
decades, you’ve thought of your relationship with the public as Public
Relations, with all the manipulations that profession entails.
This is 1776. You can’t travel that way anymore.
“THESE
are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and
woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this
consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the
triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is
dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a
proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so
celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
Do
you want to keep selling what you’ve always sold, until the people’s
money to buy your goods runs out? Because surely you realize this is the
Plan. One government restriction and interference after another, until
the only alternative is a structured and managed economy, from the top
down.
Are you willing to live with that?
Those
of us who are awake and have eyes to see can fight this war without
you. We’re not waiting to reclaim our freedom. I write this letter
because you can, if you will, become our allies.
Or you can sink into a pool of obscurity and never be heard from again.
Not even footnoted in the books of history.
What are you going to do now, in this crisis?
You
have a chance to be great. You have a chance to help save this
country. Somewhere inside you, haven’t you always wanted a battle worthy
of your deepest efforts?
You can form a line, beyond which the wolves in power cannot cross.
In this hour, the authentic spirit of America reaches out to you.
The spirit of freedom, which never dies, taps you on the shoulder.
Will you turn away, or will you come to the aid of your country?
Will
you try to maintain your customary position, with blinders on, only to
realize, soon, that your position is untenable; or will you forge a new
connection with The People and pledge your fortunes, your honor, and
your lives to a new Declaration of Independence from this latest version
of the Crown, which seeks to colonize us in a landscape of despair?
Whether
you choose to retreat or advance, you’re risking everything you’ve
earned. In the one case, you willingly surrender it, because as sure as
the sun comes up, the government is going to keep devising ways to take
it from you. In the other case, you risk it all for the right reason:
The dream of what America should stand for.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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