I define patriots as the Americans who “pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor,” and then made the sacrifices spelled out in that pledge, to establish this country.

I am one American issuing a challenge—even a desperate plea—to all the conservative leaders and Christian leaders (including all pastors) who have an audience.

Please analyze the historical factors that went into forming the foundation of this country.  We are there again.  Historical perspective calls for historical action.  Business as usual?  Democracy as usual?  Not so today.

I often cringe listening to people I admire for being outspoken, who get fired up and locked up in talking, while we are not stopping the enemies, simply because we are not doing what we had to do in the past.

The Tea Party Movement has its hands tied because they wouldn’t dare do another Boston Tea Party.  Arab Spring will translate into American Winter unless we take preemptive action.

Preachers are more concerned about playing it safe and keeping their respectable position than about speaking out against evils and leading action to change the evils.  Most don’t have a clue concerning the role preachers played in the American Revolution.

Most leaders who care about saving this country are proud of what their individual organizations are doing, while no one wants to call for anything drastic.  And all the individual organizations and individual audiences will surely all hang separately if they don’t find a way to hang together.

Missing in action—or missing action altogether.

Even talk show hosts want to keep their jobs, and they stop short of mentioning and encouraging average Americans to do what had to be done in the Revolutionary War.

I believe there are millions of Americans who know we have to do more than play it safe and follow the rules.  They are waiting for leadership into action.

In the absence of that leadership:

We wait for elections to make course corrections.

We wait for the military to stop our enemies.

We wait for disaster to get us to pray.

We wait for economic collapse to change our ways.

We have found that our enemies abroad are different than before, and our military has to adjust.  Yet we have wavered from the military mandate for victory in war.

And the uncertainty around the following statement places our country in peril:

We have found that our enemies within are different than anything we faced before, and we must adjust to defeat them.  (We are way behind on this!)

The War of 1812 was called the Second War for Independence.  The War of 2012 is the Third War for Independence.  In neither case is the country saved because it is an election year.