Reply to "My Pledge
to the Constitution" (1987)
[Regarding a mass-mailed solicitation from Beverly LaHaye
regarding the Constitution's bicentennial]
Dear Mrs. LaHaye:
Enclosed are the signed petitions "A Pledge to Pray," and "My Pledge to the Constitution." I signed the latter, but please note and consider my reservations to some of your reasoning for this pledge, as follows:
MY PLEDGE TO THE CONSTITUTION
1. Because I am thankful to be an American.
I was always a proud Pole. Mr. Roosevelt committed Poland and half of Europe into Soviet slavery. Can I be thankful for this?
2. Because I am grateful for the freedom I have to worship God and practice Biblical faith in a free nation.
Of course, I am grateful for the freedom to worship God in a free nation. But is this really a Free Nation since the Supreme Court miscarried the law against the Constitution? And how about the killing of the unborn? And how about the funding of Communists? And how about prayers in school in this Free Nation?
3. Because I believe that America is the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I agree ... America was the greatest nation! But ... Mr. Roosevelt changed that when he saw in Stalin the Master, and told him that being with him was like being with the family. (I strongly recommend that you read Roosevelt's Road to Russia by George M. Crocker.)
4. Because I believe that there are those who are departing from the precepts laid down by our valiant forefathers.
I agree. There are not only some, but too many of them. There were Presidents who betrayed this country; Senators and Congressmen who signed the "Declaration of Interdependence" with Russia, and the Supreme Court which created laws which are plainly against the Constitution.
5. Because of all these things, I pledge to read the Constitution in 1987 — the year of its 200th anniversary — and I further pledge to rededicate myself to the fight to preserve our Constitutional rights.
You asked for the promise to read the Constitution this year. I have read and re-read it long before you asked me to do it. I do not need to rededicate myself to the fight to preserve our Constitutional rights. I have been doing this since coming to the U.S.A. in 1952. The saddest thing is that it is mostly Americans whom I have to fight in this preservation of Constitutional rights! Please contact ... the director of the Committee to Restore the Constitution [there follows an address]; he will probably be able to give you additional fighting material in this matter.
Dear Madame, you are doing a fine job. Please keep it up.
For Our Freedom and Yours,
Brig. Gen. Waclaw Bakierowski, W.E., V.M., P.R.