Growing up we listened to the radio, 8-track player and later on cassettes as we drove around with no particular place to go after working a full shift. The music was special with Seals & Crofts, Chicago, Thin Lizzy and a host of others rivaling for your hard earned dollars to purchase one of their albums, vinyl. On the radio we had static as we listened to mostly AM as FM was in it’s infancy with few cars having both the AM-FM option. I remember certain times of the day we would hear a voice, rich with a deep conviction for the words he was about to speak. His voice resonated through those factory speakers “Hello Americans! This is Paul Harvey” as he started into his monologue each and every segment on ABC radio after he found his true voice on the airwaves to speak to each and every American listening.
Listening to Paul Harvey on the radio back in the bay
I looked forward to listening to the commentary each day when I could as he spoke for many red blooded Americans discussing the news he found to be worthy of commenting on. His inflections, pauses between certain words had the audience hooked awaiting the next verse of reality he was instilling into those listening. “And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need a caretaker, (long pause) so God made a farmer. God said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn milk cows work all day in the fields milk cows again eat supper then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting at the school board so God made a farmer”
Many of his commentaries were thought provoking to wake up the common man to what he felt was transpiring within our countries boundaries. He told stories each day about our nation. Inflections were used to bring the listener closer to the subject wanting to hear “the rest of the story”. Paul Harvey would embed history into many of his commentaries. In 1965 he spoke of American’s giving up their property rights as the 16th Amendment was ratified allowing government to tax our income in his segment called “Freedom to Chains”
Paul talked about how each country who over taxed it’s citizens only lasted “about 150 years at it’s zenith”, “each decayed away, not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else’s marching legions each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously.” This commentary described how governments steal the citizens hard earned tax dollars only to destroy the very fabric of our nation and the original intent of our Founding Fathers to be a free nation from government tyranny. He had a profound vision for all the world to see. Looking at the present through the past to elevate the crimes and corruption that eroded past societies from China to Rome and the others in between all failed because of government taxation beyond the means of it’s citizens.
His voice resonated through those factory speakers Hello Americans! This is Paul Harvey”as he started into his monologue each and every segment on ABC radio after he found his true voice on the airwaves to speak to each and every American listening.”
the final paragraph or verse summed up where he felt we were heading pro vs con. “Twenty years from today, half of the products you will be using in your everyday living aren’t even in the dictionary yet. We’ve got it made. If we just keep on keeping on. We’ve got it made – and if we don’t? We will follow those other great nation-states of history into the graveyard of ignominious oblivion. History promises only this for certain – We Will Get Exactly What We Deserve.” Wanting security over freedom. Politicians offering false promises to bring change from opportunity to security. How little we can get by with verses how much we can accomplish.
Finally we listened to Paul talk about “If I was the Devil” one of his finest writings in my opinion. This commentary is prophetic as we traveled from 1965 when first heard on air to today. “If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of its real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first — I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: ‘Do as you please.”
As in “Freedom to Chains” this writing tells of the eradication of a nation as it loses the values, morals, ethics and belief in God stating, “If I were the devil I’d take from those who have, and give to those who want until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious.” Politicians eroding the quality of life for all who are not in that elite circle of thieves, liars and traitors to our Constitution offering as much in bribes to enact powers over the masses to destroy our nation from within.
Growing up we listened to the radio, 8-track player and later on cassettes as we drove around with no particular place to go after working a full shift. The music was special with Seals & Crofts, Chicago, Thin Lizzy and a host of others rivaling for your hard earned dollars to purchase one of their albums, vinyl. On the radio we had static as we listened to mostly AM as FM was in it’s infancy with few cars having both the AM-FM option. I remember certain times of the day we would hear a voice, rich with a deep conviction for the words he was about to speak. His voice resonated through those factory speakers “Hello Americans! This is Paul Harvey” as he started into his monologue each and every segment on ABC radio after he found his true voice on the airwaves to speak to each and every American listening.
I looked forward to listening to the commentary each day when I could as he spoke for many red blooded Americans discussing the news he found to be worthy of commenting on. His inflections, pauses between certain words had the audience hooked awaiting the next verse of reality he was instilling into those listening. “And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need a caretaker, (long pause) so God made a farmer. God said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn milk cows work all day in the fields milk cows again eat supper then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting at the school board so God made a farmer”
Many of his commentaries were thought provoking to wake up the common man to what he felt was transpiring within our countries boundaries. He told stories each day about our nation. Inflections were used to bring the listener closer to the subject wanting to hear “the rest of the story”. Paul Harvey would embed history into many of his commentaries. In 1965 he spoke of American’s giving up their property rights as the 16th Amendment was ratified allowing government to tax our income in his segment called “Freedom to Chains”
Paul talked about how each country who over taxed it’s citizens only lasted “about 150 years at it’s zenith”, “each decayed away, not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else’s marching legions each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously.” This commentary described how governments steal the citizens hard earned tax dollars only to destroy the very fabric of our nation and the original intent of our Founding Fathers to be a free nation from government tyranny. He had a profound vision for all the world to see. Looking at the present through the past to elevate the crimes and corruption that eroded past societies from China to Rome and the others in between all failed because of government taxation beyond the means of it’s citizens.
the final paragraph or verse summed up where he felt we were heading pro vs con. “Twenty years from today, half of the products you will be using in your everyday living aren’t even in the dictionary yet. We’ve got it made. If we just keep on keeping on. We’ve got it made – and if we don’t? We will follow those other great nation-states of history into the graveyard of ignominious oblivion. History promises only this for certain – We Will Get Exactly What We Deserve.” Wanting security over freedom. Politicians offering false promises to bring change from opportunity to security. How little we can get by with verses how much we can accomplish.
Finally we listened to Paul talk about “If I was the Devil” one of his finest writings in my opinion. This commentary is prophetic as we traveled from 1965 when first heard on air to today. “If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of its real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first — I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: ‘Do as you please.”
As in “Freedom to Chains” this writing tells of the eradication of a nation as it loses the values, morals, ethics and belief in God stating, “If I were the devil I’d take from those who have, and give to those who want until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious.” Politicians eroding the quality of life for all who are not in that elite circle of thieves, liars and traitors to our Constitution offering as much in bribes to enact powers over the masses to destroy our nation from within.
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