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posted ago by XlntOldBowler ago by XlntOldBowler +33 / -0

Ok, so when I was a young boy, my parents decided that we needed a garden in our .1 acre backyard in the late 60s. Dad and I went out with manual tools and our backs. As we progress with de-weeding I am learning that most of the trees in the yard are of an invasive nature. The type plant that spreads via roots to any area where they can sprout up another tree ad infinitum. My Dad was a farm boy in the 30's before escaping that life by joining the USAF in the late 40's, so he knew a bit about field prep. We dug and tugged the roughly 60' x 80' area between the alley and house as well as some along the sidewalk of the last house of a dead end street next to an interstate highway. The roots of some of the more well established of these trees stretched beyond the area we worked on clearing. The were tangled up with others trees all across the yard. I see what we did as a minuscule metaphor for what WE THE PEOPLE are facing worldwide. The bad actors and their puppeteers are like the various plants that infested my childhood backyard and had me sweating and bleeding into. I would guess those plants had worked for a few decades to gain their "foothold" on the land we were homesteaded upon.

If the end goal of the "PLAN" is to rid the "swamp" of the true "useless feeders" of this realm, then I can assure you it will need to be an ongoing operation. No matters how deep and far you dig there will be pieces missed which will in turn sprout up to begin their war on humanity anew. It just takes a small piece of that sort of life to fight for its right to exist. Short of the Creator deciding to eradicate them for all eternity. Said Creator has thus far chosen to allow their continued existence and I will have to defer to that choice for whatever reasons there might be for it to be so.

Many wise folks have expressed this need far better than I could ever hope to relay to anyone I might interact with.

"The price of freedom..." "The price of peace..." "The price of...''

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." John Philpot Curran 1790 A.D.

For the record those same types of plants are still waging their war on my pathetic attempts at "gardening". The lines are drawn along a border that is shared with my neighbors. The struggle is real and ultimately eternal. Likely UNIVERSAL.