Chairman Allen West's Monday Message for 6.14.21






















This We'll Defend
Good Monday, everyone!
It is Flag Day. Yes, it is quite certain to
be a day that the progressive socialist left despises. It is a
meaningful day to those who believe in and honor our America, and
its symbol, the Stars and Stripes. Those of us who have lived a
life of service and sacrifice to our nation know that one day,
that American Flag will drape over our coffin as we pass from
this life to another. It was the American flag that was draped
over my dad's casket, and my mom's, for her civilian service to
the United States Marine Corps. It also covered my
father-in-law's coffin as he was laid to rest. It will be that
flag that will be there at my older brother's going home, my very
own, and that of my nephew, when it is our time.
That is why Flag Day is memorable in the West
family, as it is for many other patriotic families. But Flag Day
also has a deeper, greater meaning for those of us who are
American soldiers.
It was on this day, June 14, 1775, that our
United States Army was founded. Yes, today is the 246th
anniversary, the birthday of our American Army. It is an
impeccable history, full of grand traditions and stories of
bravery and heroism that will live on through the ages . . .
unless we allow the nefarious cancel culture cretins to prevail.
And, yes, if you noticed the date, there was an American Army
before there was an America . . . same with our Navy and Marine
Corps which came later in the very same year, 1775.
But, it is the motto of the US Army, the
title of this missive, which is our focal point for this message.
Before there was a nation - which would later be formed - there
was something to defend, an ideal, individual rights, freedoms,
and liberty. This is why we must join the battle against the
acolytes of cancel culture and their deranged pursuit to not
revise American history but eliminate it completely. A soldier,
such as myself, asks a simple question: if, according to the
progressive socialist leftists, America was founded in 1619, why
did it take so long to create its Army, Navy, and Marine Corps?
What is the value of the Army's motto, "This We'll Defend," if it
is not tied to the true founding and establishment of America, on
July 4, 1776?
We cannot allow this delusion to proliferate
into our schools and culture. This is a great endeavor, one for
which we must engage, and win.
But, it is not just the motto of the Army
that applies to America as a whole. The words "This We'll Defend"
have a very important meaning for us here in Texas. Just recently
a book was released, titled, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall
of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason
Stanford. The following day, the authors of this book wrote an
article for Time magazine, on June 9th titled, "We've Been
Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It's Time
to Correct the Record." Every true Texan should be highly
offended by this, regardless of being Black, White, Hispanic,
Asian . . . it does not matter. It is disconcerting, to say the
least, for these gentlemen to question "heroism" associated with
the defenders of The Alamo. I did find it interesting that the
article made no mention of Juan Seguin and the other "Texicans"
who bravely fought, and lost their lives, defending The Alamo.
Yes, "This We'll Defend!" It is time for us
to defend the Texas Republic against this leftist onslaught. This
assault against The Alamo by these three individuals is exactly
why we need monument and historical marker protection in Texas.
When these writers elevate a brutal dictator over those who
fought for a free Texas, well, "Houston, we have a problem." That
means we must defend the Texas Republic, and our schools, from
the critical race theorists and revisionist historians who have
no issue celebrating dictators.
We must defend the sovereignty of Texas as a
free and independent state. It is not just about building a
fence, but we must review and update our laws on illegal
immigration and crossing. We must utilize our Texas National
Guard and Texas State Guard, perhaps revising their mission
statements.
We must defend our Texas election laws to
ensure we do not enable the leftist, Marxist, exploitation of
gaps in order to undermine honest and fair elections in the Lone
Star State. We must defend the issue of individual private
property rights and not have a system of taxation in Texas that
is aligned with Marxist principles, such as a progressive tax and
elimination of private property. Texans should be able to own
their own homes, not continually see rising taxes against their
property which preclude them ever achieving such.
We must defend our essential liberty and
never again allow anyone to rule over Texas by orders, decrees,
mandates, and edicts. Never again must Texans be told that they
are or are not essential, and watch our small businesses, the
real economic engine, be crushed.
We must defend the children of the Texas
Republic from being brutally murdered within the womb, or
chemically and surgically deformed. Life, unborn and born, is the
very first unalienable right and must be defended. We must end
the practice of promoting the mental condition of gender
dysphoria to our children, and then tragically altering their
bodies. This is something from which an organization founded by a
white supremacist and racist, Planned Parenthood, now seeks
financial profit. We must defend our Texas girls who seek to
participate in sports from having those who are biological males
competing against them in competitions. This abhorrence will be
the end of Title IX and the opportunities for young Texas girls
to achieve scholarships and go on to greater athletic
achievement.
Yes, today is Flag Day, and when you gaze
upon the American flag, always remember that it is the Lone Star
of the Texas flag that illuminates the other 49. But, there is a
grand decision that we must all make, shall we honor our flag,
and shall we live by the motto, "This We'll Defend?"
Texas is not about where you came from, or
where you were born. It is about a spirit, an indomitable rugged
individualism that was not birthed from a myth. If we are to
preserve the Constitutional Republic we call America and its flag
for generations, we must first answer the call of defending the
Texas Republic, and its Lone Star.
Join with me, be a soldier for Texas, and
live by the words, "This We'll Defend."
Steadfast and Loyal,

LTC Allen B. West (Ret.)
Chairman
Republican Party of Texas


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