As I watch President Obama and his administration succeeding in systematically setting up the destruction of this country (no mean feat considering he’s been in office for only 41 days) and so little being done to stop it, my thoughts return again and again to the story of the Pied Piper.
Most people know this as a children’s story. As it goes in the most simple of picture books, a small village found itself with a terrible infestation of rats and its elders were at a loss as to what to do. One day a piper came ’round, claiming he could rid them of the rats. The elders agreed to pay the pay the piper a handsome sum and so it was a deal was struck. The piper pulled a fife from his pocket and began to play a tune. As if by magic, the rats came out of all their hiding places, swarms and swarms of them, and all the while continuing to play his tune, the piper slowly led them into the river where the rats all drowned.
And the village rejoiced.
This, then, is rather like the coming of Barack Hussein Obama. A small village called America, having a serious rat problem, finds the man who claims he can play a tune to rid them of the rats. Full of hope, they have agreed to pay him a very high price.
But, as the late Paul Harvey liked to say, here’s the rest of the story.
Once the problem with the rats had been resolved, the people of the village began to regret the high price they’d agree to pay the piper. They hedged and they stalled until finally the piper left in anger. The people of the village heaved a guilty sigh of relief but their relief was short-lived. The piper returned, but now dressed for hunting. He began to play his fife again, but this time it wasn’t rats who were entranced and so called out, but instead it was the children of the village. All of those over the age of 4, including the mayor’s grown daughter.
The piper played and the piper led the children away into a cave in the side of a nearby mountain, and none were ever seen again.
This, then, I believe, is the future for those who still believe in the audacity of the President’s hope. Those who already regret having hired this piper and are speaking out find themselves facing the administration’s anger towards their criticisms when continuing blind adulation was the anticipated payment. The campaign rhetoric continues like some mad, enchanting tune, and it is our children, in the guise of our Constitutional freedoms, that are being spirited away.