"Just those deserve both Liberty and Life,
Who're ready every day to fight for them and die." -
Johan Wolfgang Goethe
Militades (c.555-489)
Militades belonged to the old nobility, but he was loyal to Hippias' regime. In 520 he was sent to to the Hellespontine region, where he ruled as a tyrant in a small kingdom of his own. However, in 514, when his ally Hippias had been expelled, he switched his loyalty to the Persian king Darius I the Great, who conquered the region on his way to Thrace and Scythia. When the Greeks in the Persian empire unsuccessfully revolted, his position became untenable, and he returned to Athens, where he became one of the war leaders when the Persians wanted to reinstate Hippias in Athens. At Marathon, Miltiades defeated the Persians and secured the continued existence of Athens as an independent power and a democracy.
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Debate in ongoing battle with Terror
There is no doubt that free democratic debate is a vital and integral part of any civil society with established Democratic Institutions. Debate in America, for instance, is a manifestation of “freedom of speech“ sacredly honored by the First Amendments to the Constitution of the Unites States - the Supreme Law of the Land.
However, “democratic debate” and “life or death” battle against aggressor are not compatible by a given. Moreover, when “democratic debate” takes over, victory is in jeopardy. The most known realization of this simple and universal truth happened about 2500 thousand years ago in ancient Greece at a time of Battle of Marathon 490 BC.
At that time Attica and central Greece were in great danger of attack by Persians. According to Herodotus, “there was a delay of some days before the battle actually began“. Ten Athenian generals passionately debated whether the battle should be joined at all. Many generals were opposed the battle.
It had become self-evident for Miltiades that the endless “democratic debate” all the generals were ardently involved in became a danger for the existence of Athens. The paradox was that the “democratic debate” turned into an obstacle for a survival of a democracy facing invasion of totally foreign to democracy aggressor.
Militades finally “titled the balance in favor of battle“. Most importantly, he managed to convince all other generals to submit their military units under a command of the single Commander-in-Chief.
There will be no mistake to say that the victory in most famous in history Battle of Marathon was actually achieved by two totally “anti-democratic” measures. First one was dumping “democratic debate” at a time of a danger for democracy. Second one was imposing on a majority of free citizenry orders of ONE Commander.
Among many revelations coming with a slow pace unfolding modern terrorist warfare is that the War declared against the Nation by Islamic jihadists and “democratic debate” occurred in a middle of ongoing battle under no circ-umstances can coexist, either. Otherwise “democratic debate” turns into moral paralysis of the Nation and ugly ideological collaboration with aggressor.
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“Democracy” in America is currently consumed by predominant majority of the American people as all sorts of “people’s rights”, unalienable and granted by the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. In contrast, total War waged by Islamic jihadists against the Nation calls for an unprecedented responsibility of the People of the United States to “preserve, protect and defend” spiritual, cultural, and material values, including the Constitution of the United States itself.
For the first time in the History of the Nation the Constitution of the United States is under direct ideological attack by the aggressor intended to establish the Islamic Law, as the Supreme Law of the Land. Therefore, there is nothing to “debate” at a time of Battle with Terror! The free and sovereign Nation must follow the original order of the Constitution to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”, or it will perish, otherwise.
The Constitutional Responsibility of the People to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” ought to irreversibly replace any and all “democratic debates” at a time of global battle with Terror. It is the first and right step in forming U.S. Ideology of Anti-Terrorism “being necessary for a security of free State”, regardless of where battle with Terror occurs - on the American soil, or on battlefields far abroad.
Boris Tiraspolsky
Founding Member of