Understanding the events in Orlando this past weekend is something which will require much time and prayer to be sure. The loss of so much humanity in one horrific action can stun the mind into utter disbelief. In these moments of tragedy however, it’s important we first rally around those whose lives have been violently and forever changed, and who will truly be in need for some time to come. With that said, I cannot help but be distracted by the inevitable infusion of political rhetoric at a time when our voices should be as one to the world.

 
Living in the age of modern media does make for a stew of pundit-talk and micro-analysis, making any collaborative dialogue and/or meaningful solutions difficult, thus having the effect of dividing “We the People” instead of uniting us. This is further complicated when a man with the ultimate bully pulpit allows his personal ideology to warp his natural common sense, and what’s more ignore his Constitutional responsibility to his country. To be clear my fellow Americans, this was not an attack on a gay nightclub resulting in the deaths of 49 gay people. It was not an attack on a separate “community” or group defined by mere letters in the alphabet. And it was not the inanimate object carried by the terrorist which did the killing. This was plainly and without ambiguity, a terrorist attack on the very liberty which allowed those innocents inside “The Pulse” nightclub to live as they chose, in a country whose founding principles celebrate the human freedom given unto all of us by God. It was an attack on the United States of America. It was an attack on all of us.

 
So as I look on the carnage and seek answers, I’m also compelled to acknowledge the obvious, not run from it for the sake of political correctness, or because some disingenuous politician tells me I’m not seeing what I know I’m seeing. There is an enemy lurking, an enemy who sees our freedom as an impediment to his heinous perversions and criminal intent, an evil which thrives and grows incessantly in an atmosphere of apathy and complacency such as we are experiencing in the U.S. today.

 
I beg all of you patriotic Americans today, do not fall victim to this mischaracterization of our current posture as dictated to us by politicians and the news media. We are all Americans first. Our “diversity” should make us one, in that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” applies to all of any color, creed, or sexual orientation. And furthermore, when we finally rid ourselves of the political panderer, and others who would use their platforms and podiums to emphasize that which makes us different rather than that which makes us the same, then and only then will we realize the full measure of “equality” under the law. That is “E Pluribus Unum” Mrs. Clinton. And that my friends is freedom.