I have posted my WalkAway Story on the now-defunct National Walk-Away Facebook Pages. It is not my interest to post any more historical explanations for why I Walked Away from the Democrat Party. What I am concerned about is where I'm going rather than where I have been. With this context, I am sharing my personal manifesto of what it means to me to be a #WalkAwayAZ:
#WalkAwayAZ. - What it means to me
We are #Walkaway.
We are Patriots who love this country. We believe in the melting pot that made this country great. We pledge allegiance to the Flag and our hearts beat strongly for our national Anthem. We are either immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, but we are all Americans.
A) We do not condone racism, but neither do we divide the people of this country by the color or texture of their skin, their ancestry or their religion. We hold these truths self-evident that all human beings are created equal. This does not mean that they are equal in every way or even that they must be made to be equal. This equality is embodied in the core freedoms that our founding fathers prized:
1) Freedom of religion
2) Freedom of peaceful assembly
3) Freedom for the pursuit of happiness
4) Freedom from taxation without representation.
B) Because we love our country, we also love our planet. We are not ignorant of the threat that global warming represents, but we do not fear global warming. Rather we have faith in human ingenuity and we believe that through science and diplomacy we can achieve a global solution to this global problem; however, we do not buy into the doom and gloom notions that life on earth will cease to exist in 12 years.
We are not living in some fictional apocalyptic movie. We don't live our lives running from our fears and we do not allow fear to influence our decisions. We do what we can to reduce the damage that we do to the earth, and our conservation should be rewarded, not used as a whipping post to further erode our country and our society.
C) We hold dear the notion of the free-market economy. It's rules are rather simple and everyone has the opportunity to succeed within the free market if they participate. Those who take life seriously, and who utilize their God-given talents to earn a wage will benefit form their labors. We are objective and understand that Capitalism is not perfect, but it is the only system that provides any semblance of giving the workers control over the means of production. In fact it manages to do this far better than any form of socialism or Communism has ever achieved. Just ask Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg how Capitalism has worked out for them!
D) Despite it's challenges, The American experiment still stands as a shining gem and an example to the rest of the world of the importance of rugged individualism and free markets as a means of creating a high standard of living for all of our citizens. So much are we admired, that people from all over the world would gladly risk life and limb to live here!
E) We believe in securing our borders, because we learned on 9/11/2001 that there are those who wish to destroy our way of life. We also understand that it is wrong to syphon the talent from the nations in central and South America. It is far easier to develop policies that contribute to the economic development of those countries so that they may benefit from their own experience with capitalism. We also understand that the alternative is to push those countries towards communism which is not in the interest of a strong United States of America.
F) As proud #WalkAway Arizonans, we know that there is indeed a Crisis at the southern border. It is a humanitarian crisis, a public safety crisis and a public health crisis. It is a crisis that arises from the instability of the governments south of our border, and from reckless policies of the Biden/Harris administration which led to tens of thousands of migrants arriving at the border wearing "Joe Biden" T-Shirts! You simply cannot make this stuff up.
G) We recognize that China is a totalitarian regime and they are willing to attack their own citizens as they have done to the Uighurs, as they have done in Hong Kong, and as they have done in Tianamen square. We also recognize China as a dangerous regime that released a biological weapon from the Wuhan Institute of Virology killing nearly 3.5 million people throughout the world and more than 1/2 million fatalities in the USA. We also have legitimate concerns that this was done intentionally and we are distraught that the Biden Administration doesn't care to investigate the root cause of the pandemic or the ties that Dr. Anthony Fauci has to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the illegal funding of gain-of-function research, which likely is responsible for the extermination of millions of people throughout the World. We are baffled why the Woke party, with their abundance of outrage has no outrage over the global human toll of this virus, but is aghast at the mere 600,000 who died within our borders.
On a personal note, I have my own COVID-19 experience to share: On March 31, 2021, my youngest sister died - not from COVID, but from Cancer. I still remember when Denise called me to share her diagnosis On April 20th, 2020. I remember my emotions as I asked her how she would navigate cancer treatment during COVID, she just sighed and vowed to fight with all hear might. Although she didn't die from COVID, COVID was certainly culpable for her death. Denise was hospitalized at least 9 times during her battle with stage 4 cancer. The COVID restrictions in the hospitals were utterly ridiculous. Hospitals are thoroughly expert in reducing the transmissions of contagions within their facilities. They've been doing it for decades with nearly non-existant contagion transmission in hostpitals. But the COVID restrictions barred any visitors from being with my sister when she was recovering from Chemo-therapy or during the various emergency hospitalizations that she endured during the months prior to her passing.
Every opportunity that I had to speak with her by telephone, I took! I tried to distract her from her own struggles and steered her away from any topics that would cause her stress or sadness. My sister passed away at the far too young age of 48, leaving behind her loving siblings, her devoted husband and a 9-year old son, Dwayne. Through the experience with my sister, my family experienced a very profound relationship with COVID. There are two situations that highlight this:
1) COVID in my home. Unbeknownst to me, my wife, or my step-son , we all came down with COVID following a December trip to visit the second of my three younger sisters in Las Vegas. We each recovered from COVID in early January of 2020, long before anyone had ever heard of COVID we recovered at home without an emergency-room visit and without an urgent care visit. An antibody test conducted by my family Physician confirmed what I knew was true. This was a blessing, because we were able to visit my sister at her home when she was between hospitalizations. We visited nearly every weekend. We visited her with confidence that we would not place her at risk even with her weakened immune system, because there was no possibility of us exposing her to COVID in the months after we had recovered.
2) Denise's first Chemotherapy treatment. Denise went to the hospital on May 28th, 2020 for her first Chemotherapy. Denise had been upbeat prior to the treatment knowing that it was her best and perhaps only hope for a recovery. we spoke with her by telephone prior to the treatment and even for the first 12 hours of her treatment. During the course of her treatment, she became comatose - her body unable to handle the strong does of medicine that she had been prescribed. Further compounding the issue was the fact that it was the Memorial Day weekend and the hospital was short-staffed. Our calls to Denise and to the hospital went unanswered for 2 days. On the 3rd day we were informed that she was comatose and that the Doctors had decided to stop her treatment early hoping that she would revive from this inadvertantly medically induced coma. Fortunately, she did revive and recovered, but the heartache that we all experience not knowing was truly unbearable. Furthermore, my dear sister's isolation from family and friends made her hospitalizations most painful. I am angry about COVID, very angry and I want answers. I think that we are entitled to know:
1) Exactly how it escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
2) Why they were conducting gain-of-function research there, and
3) Why the CDC and NIAID were routing research funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology through a third-party firm on the authority of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The world deserves answers to these questions.
#WalkAway Arizona!!!
We Simply cannot let the Democratic party sabotage this country. They are insidious, but they are not invincible. We need to urge others to walk away as we have, but not only to walk away but to walk beside us towards a better future for our country.
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