The Sound of Music

I went to a performance last night of The Sound of Music. It has been several years since I had last seen this production, and as I watched I realized how significant this performance was. I first saw the Sound of Music in a theater as a young boy, young enough that my parents had to explain to me what the Germans were doing and why these people had to leave their home and flee for their lives. It was at that time that playing war with my friends, or just playing war with my army men in the backyard gained a whole new light. I now despised the Germans and what they were and what they had stood for. I did like their helmets, but nothing else caught my eye. These were destructive self righteous people who were looking to exterminate everyone but themselves who they labeled as the "perfect race." As I sat and watched the production last night I wondered how many people sitting in the audience even remotely had a clue as to what was going on up there on stage. Even though this was only a play for the enjoyment of the crowd, not only was it a true story, but it was full of meaning and warnings to everyone watching that you are in as much danger now as those who were mascaraed by the Nazi regime. I here players on the stage comment that such a thing could never happen in their country, that the Nazis were willing to let Austria slide and not be harmed, that going along with the Nazis was the best thing they could do in order to protect themselves, all but Captain Von Trapp, who refused to become a part of a murderous machine that was there to eliminate and destroy everything in its path. He knew what these people were up to, and he was not going to become a part of it, he was willing to fight, to speak out against the Nazi's, to die for what he believed in if necessary. So, what about you??? Are you willing to just sit back and allow yourselves to become captive, and everything you have taken away from you, even murdered and destroyed? Are you willing to let the Nazi's of today take away your freedom, your family, life as you know it and order you to live under socialist law, or communist law, or worse not live at all, but be shot or hung. Are you ready to be overrun by those who seek to destroy you in the name of Allah? As I watched the players enter the stage wearing Nazi uniforms, and nasty, self righteous pompous attitudes, and then the Nazi flags that appeared from the ceiling, it made my skin crawl and the anger inside me started to surface. I must give the players of the performance an A+ for had they not been doing their job so well on stage, I would have left not hating their guts. I would recommend that you rent or buy the Sound of Music, Schindler's List, Cabaret and sit down in front of your TV and watch them and see if the presence of even as much as a Nazi flag doesn't send terror through your soul, and heighten your senses to what you could be facing. America is no longer safe, it is not safe from outside threats, nor is it safe from those who have snuck in and are waiting to pounce, or even the leaders with dreams of grandeur within. America, it is time to wake up and fight back. Time is of the essence, and it is quickly ticking away. We have taken America for granted and she has fallen to her knees. It is time we take her by the hand, lift her up and help her to stand tall against the political and judicial corruption, the lust for power and money, and against those who would plot to overtake her. America has always been the greatest place in the world, and I for one, do not want that to change.... how about you?????