The Bull Elephant
  • Home
  • About The Bull Elephant
  • Fun Stuff
  • Contact The Bull Elephant
Latest Posts
Accountability
The World is Not Ending
We’re on the eve of Socialism
Why I supported a convention and why we...
Letter to the General Assembly
Vague, confusing ‘workplace harassment’ bill is back in...
Kenneth McDuff

The Bull Elephant

  • Home
  • About The Bull Elephant
  • Fun Stuff
  • Contact The Bull Elephant

You cannot go home again

written by Guest Contributor Dr. Ileana Johnson August 29, 2018

Untold numbers of people and families have escaped totalitarian and oppressive regimes with just the clothes on their backs. Some swam across treacherous rivers; some cut through barbed wire; some hid on the floorboard of a car, some fit into the carved out car seats; some walked across the desert, through dense forests, climbed mountainous terrain, or hiked into steep valleys.

Once they escaped dangerous territories, the surviving defectors trekked to the west, to freedom, to America, the shining city on the hill that held the promise of freedom and the opportunity to succeed, if they were willing to work hard and integrate into society peacefully and productively.

Things have changed in the last twenty years, borders are being erased by the liberal elites, countries are succumbing to multiculturalism and the invasion of the third world interested solely in redistribution of wealth or as the leftist PC police have told us repeatedly, social justice – code word for communist taking from the productive and redistribution to the unproductive as reparations for perceived grievances and injustices of the past.

The latest leftist euphemism, agrarian or land reform, hides the true goal of confiscation of land from white farmers in South Africa who must agree to a ten percent purchase price or else. Black South Africans have already been encouraged by their president to “cut the throat of whiteness.”

And so the white farmers must leave everything they’ve ever known behind, their homes and the rich farm land their families have turned productive from wilderness areas, and must flee to escape with their lives.

How long will it be before the productive farm land will become a wasteland and the formerly agricultural rich South Africa will turn to the World Bank for food handouts and imports like the former Rhodesia did when it became the bankrupt Zimbabwe?

Millions have escaped from communist regimes; sadly, many did not make it, shot at the border during their attempted escapes. Those who fled made it to the free west and were eventually able to return to their homelands for brief visits or even come back for good after the fall of communism in 1989.

A successful family now living and thriving in California, brother, sister, and mother had escaped from Iran. As defectors, they could no longer visit the country of their birth, the place where their dad had been buried. The closest they could get on a recent trip was the border between Turkey and Iran.

After a long drive and a difficult trek on rocky cliffs, the shining sun over the valleys miles away brought into view their former homeland where a religious Ayatollah rules with an iron fist and harsh prisons, where religion oppression and the threat of overt nuclear holocaust defines every facet of Iranian life. A once thriving civilization, Iran has fallen back into oppression in 1979 and religious domination by a few well-armed zealots.

The family trio were overcome with grief and emotion, so close to the country of their birth calling them back for a visit, yet so far away, kept at the border by an intolerant regime who dominates the entire population with one book.

Spreading like snow angels on the ground, their hands touched dirt and rocks, in an effort to melt back into the ancestral lands. By being there, the brother and sister felt that huge rocks had been lifted off their chests. It was only fitting that each carried home a small stone from the land bordering Iran.

Like millions of humans before them, they finally came to the realization that they could not go home again, literally and figuratively, no matter how badly they wished to go.

But if they could return, if their house they left long ago was still there, if they were allowed to retrace their steps from childhood or youth, they would not find what they were looking for because it is no longer there. People and life have moved on.

They would find out that they were just strangers in their own land, looking for the essence of their being, of their existence, that Je ne sais quoi, something intangible which resides only in a person’s soul and in his/her fleeting memories.

You cannot go home again was last modified: August 29th, 2018 by Guest Contributor Dr. Ileana Johnson
White Farmers killed in Africa
7 comments
Guest Contributor Dr. Ileana Johnson

Dr. Ileana Johnson, a retired teacher, is a prolific writer, author of five books and more than 1,000 articles, a frequent speaker on the topics of communism, U.N. Agenda 21, economics, education, and a radio commentator on many shows.

Your life will be better if you click one of these

Accountability

January 20, 2021

The World is Not Ending

January 20, 2021

We’re on the eve of Socialism

January 19, 2021

Why I supported a convention and why...

January 19, 2021

Letter to the General Assembly

January 19, 2021

Vague, confusing ‘workplace harassment’ bill is back...

January 19, 2021

Kenneth McDuff

January 18, 2021

State Central Committee to vote AGAIN for...

January 18, 2021

Chuck Smith for Attorney General announces fundraising...

January 18, 2021

At the current rate it will take...

January 18, 2021

Fun Stuff

  • We’re on the eve of Socialism

  • This week’s memes, Buffalo Man edition

  • This week in Memes–Happy New Year edition

  • Sunday Memes–Stimulus edition

  • Sunday Memes, Dr. Who?

Advertisement

Advertisement

Sign Up for Email Alerts

Select list(s):

Advertisement

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

@2017 Bull Elephant Media LLC.


Back To Top