How to Defend Freedom Using TRUE PRINCIPLES!
We are in CIVIL WAR and it’s a different kind of war. At this time, thankfully, we are not shooting muskets in the streets, for the most part. That being said, the conflict is just as real and to win and preserve FREEDOM the conflict must be:
PRINCIPLES in this case do not refer to good or bad ways of being. PRINCIPLES have to do with winning. Because in the end, PRINCIPLES win! Conflict and the PRINCIPLES of dealing with conflict never change. They just are.
We have a saying, “Rules were meant to be broken, and PRINCIPLES never change.” You might say, “Allen, how can you say that?” My PRINCIPLES might be different than yours, and nothing is 100% effective, and we must always follow rules, and obey the law!”
My answer is a simple story, I have a friend. His wife was 9 months pregnant and she went into labor. As they drove off from their house to the hospital she informed my friend that she wouldn’t make it to the hospital and the baby was coming NOW! They live in a mountainous area in Utah and my friend put pedal to metal and sped his way to the hospital. The baby was derived in the parking lot and all was well.
Analysis: My friend broke the law speeding his wife to the hospital, and the PRINCIPLE was to PRESERVE the LIFE of his wife and unborn child. PRINCIPLES just are, rules were meant to be broken. PRESERVING LIFE is a basic PRINCIPLE of life!
Since we have some who will give odd, outlying examples of how PRINCIPLES don’t work we will use this simple rule, It’s called the 90% RULE: “PRINCIPLES are things that apply and work 90% of the time, in 90% of circumstances, for 90% of the people, when applied to 90% of conflicts.” Simple.
All Life Defense PRINCIPLES are based on PRINCIPLES of conflict as practiced, and proven in self-defense. The following is an example:
If a 390 pound MMA fighter is running straight toward you, and you brace all 165 pounds of your full frame against his impact by standing your ground. What will happen? You will be knocked to the ground, your head will bounce off the sidewalk and if you are still conscious, he will jump on top of you, in full mount position, and precede to ground and pound your face until you do lose consciousness.
In this example the PRINCIPLE of OFF-LINING becomes very useful. What if instead of bracing and hoping for the best as this highly trained, powerful force of nature is charging like a freight train toward you. Why not step back, circling OFF-LINE and allow the 390 pound MMA fighter to pass on by? For the moment, you’re safe. All his force and mass pass on by by simply “stepping OFF-LINE.
You may say, “Allen, that doesn’t work, prove it!” If you miss the significance of this PRINCIPLE picture instead a matador and a 2000 pound bull with 3 ft horns instead. I was recently in Spain and it looked as though the bull fights were not being held. However, in the days of active bull fighting this maneuver happened all the time and in the end most of the time the poor bull’s life was ended. The scene was an unscathed matador and a frustrated, exhausted, foam soaked, powerful beast being ended by the matador, after all matador translated means “killer.” The scene was the same almost every time as the matador got OFF-LINE over and over again with each charge weakening the powerful beast until he couldn’t go on…
We must learn, and employ these PRINCIPLES of conflict, or Life Defense to win, and winning this CIVIL WAR for FREEDOM is essential. Because without FREEDOM there is no America, and frankly there is no other place to go. America is the FREE world.
Allen Hughes Life Defense Evangelist
