THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE: THE GIFT OF ROBERT MUELLER
One hundred years ago at the Treaty of Versailles on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1919, the sovereignty of the ordinary person was recognized as the warring nations ended the Great War, the War to End All Wars.
It could have been prevented.
The Russia Revolution was yet to come in 1917 and the 1920s were generally hopeful years. But punishment in terms of reparations for the losers brought great despair and discontent and in a short 20 year period, in 1939 World War II began. Not only did so many people lose their freedom but great numbers also lost their lives in the mass destruction of the fruits of so-called civilizations’ art and government as well the holocaust. However, the free citizens of the world sent out so many valiant individual soldiers with liberty engraved on their hearts to once again liberate the sovereignty, the individual freedom of ordinary people. More progress was made at the Nuremberg Trials following that war.
It could have been prevented.
On August 7 of that year 1944, someone was born in America whose destiny was carved out to be a siren for freedom so many years later when vigilance as the price of liberty would again be tested. That child, Robert Swan Muller, joined the Marines in 1968 when the liberty of ordinary people in a far away country, Vietnam was being torched to the ground. Courage under fire had already been instilled in many sovereign hearts which had already survived two world wars in 50 years. Robert Mueller as many others, like John McCain and John Kerry had also passed the test of Vietnam.
It could have been prevented.
Mueller’s next trial began on September 4, 2001, one week before what became known forever as Nine Eleven when he became the Director of the FBI. His task turned out to become weathering the trauma of one of the very free countries isolated by oceans in the past, now attacked with great skill and ferocity from the SKY.
It could have been prevented.
Fast forward to 2014, the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the War to End All Wars. In 1914 there were few planes in the sky. In 1939 there were planes, giant vessels on the ocean, and before it ended, two atomic bombs detonated.
It all could have been prevented.
In 2014 there was the INTERNET, beginning like a sailboat in a harbor, a joyful facebook connection with friends and family in far away places on the now totally encircled planet we call earth.
The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance
What do we do now to preserve the hard-won sovereign integrity of people taking for granted, the freedom that so many in the past century have given their lives to protect. It is not an attack in a far off land as in WWI. It is not an attack from the sea as in WWII. It is not an attack from the sky as in 911. It is now a CYBER attack, an attack from the new kid on the block, our beloved INTERNET. Our freedom to decide who we want to represent us in our government, our freedom to tell the truth knowing that the truth guards our sovereignty, our love of our neighbor whatever size, shape or color – all of these things are now under attack.
We can prevent it.
The siren call has been sent out to us by the tried and true marine under fire, clean up supervisor after 911 and now reporter as well as guide through our legal system of government where responsibility for action rests with those immediately elected by their own kinspeople and close friends and local citizens, the Congress of the United States.
The siren call – There were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. That allegation deserves the attention of every American.
The call to action – by the already proven best legal guide in the land – Any potential wrongdoing by a president must be addressed by a process other than the criminal justice system
May God bless Robert Swan Mueller and the United States of America.
Rev. Mary A. Mann, Ph.D., was born in Australia and is descended from early Queensland pioneers. Her father was an original ANZAC, a member of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps who fought on the Gallipoli Peninsular in 1915. Mary is a graduate of the University of Sydney, the University of California in Berkeley and the University of Southern California where she secured her Ph.D. in Communications and Theatre.
Her working career was in accounting where she became a Qualified Accountant in Australia and was the first Controller of the Pacifica Foundation in the 1970s.
Her academic career centered around her passion for finding out ‘why war’. Her first book on this topic, Anzac to Understanding included her father’s war letters and a social commentary on the global situation from the beginning of the First World War through the 20th century and it included the epic play ANZAC. The philosophy culminated in the book There Are No Enemies, a practical philosophy of life, which includes The Right of the Womb. Her theatre studies culminated in The Construction of Tragedy, Aristotle today in the theatre and she edited two editions of The Los Angeles Theatre Book, 1978 and 1984.
Mary has been a member of Unity- and- Diversity since 1989 where she is now the Board Chair and co-edited the book Science and Spirituality with the founder of that organization. Rev. Leland Stewart.
She joined the Synthaxis Theatre Company in 1979. Her creative work includes Poems of Woman, editor of Mentoring Poems, four centuries of selected poetry, Tortoise Shell, taken from a journal of her great-grandfather documenting life in the early days of the State of Queensland, Australia, and under the aegis of Synthaxis, plays for youth and family audiences, Maria and the Comet and The Round Table, published as TWO FAMILY PLAYSand ThuGun and Natasha, a drama with rap, moving beyond guns and violence .
In North Hollywood, she is the co-host of Unbuckled No-Ho Poetry, a monthly poetry reading series since 2010, which you can view here:youtube.com/unbucklednohopoetry
Mary has been presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who
