Letter: America: Upside down
In 1942, Henry Fonda, an actor that was known as a Hollywood liberal along with many other film stars, played the lead in the film "The Male Animal." One of his lines is as follows: "You can’t suppress ideas because you don’t like them. Not in this country. Not yet. We’re holding the last fortress of free thought, and if we surrender to prejudice and dictatorship, we’re cowards."
He was referring to men (anarchists) who were given the death sentence for killing a paymaster—a story based on a Broadway play by James Thurber. These lines Fonda spoke are good ones, and reflect the beliefs of the Founders; but then, he was speaking out for rights for anarchists and others who wanted to change America, to make it more like Russia and its government.
Of course, not too many years later, Hollywood saw the reality of Russian rule and began to back away from their support. But, those words are still good and still represent what is special about our country, only now they need to be used to support those who believe that God is important to all of us because His words inspired the Founders to give us such liberty. Today, we have street preachers attacked by those who don’t like what they said and silence them by beating them into the ground. (This happened to be done by people marching with homosexuals who didn’t like their signs about God.)
Children in many public schools are forbidden to talk about Jesus, or write about Him and forbidden to wear a cross that can be seen, following the politically correct demands to not offend others—unless the others happen to be Christians!
This is just a small sample of what is happening to our people, but I hope anyone who reads this will remember Fonda’s line: "You can’t suppress ideas because you don’t like them. Not in this country. Not yet."