A Personal Letter from Patriot Academy’s Founder, Rick Green

I suppose only the Lord of Rings fans will get the title. Perhaps I should have simply pointed readers to the 2nd Chapter of Nehemiah where Sanballat and the other enemies of Nehemiah tried slander and threats to stop the rebuilding of the walls.

As Patriot Academy is experiencing so much impact and results in our efforts to Rebuild Liberty just in time for America’s 250th, opposition is expected and even welcomed as a sign we are certainly over the target.

But I honestly never thought I would see people publicly calling for the murder of our young Patriots and the bombing and burning down of the Patriot Academy Campus.

In the wake of the betrayal of the Kendall County Judge completely reversing his vote and promise to support Constitution City, a firestorm of opposition has been stirred up against Patriot Academy and our efforts to teach the Constitution to citizens of all ages.

“Burn it down.”

“Better drop a bomb on them now.”

“We’ll re-enact the Waco incident.”

“Maybe they’ll all kill each other and do the rest of us a favor.”

“Nuke it.”

“Murderable. Let them die by their bigotry.”

“Build a wall around them and light it up.”

“This needs to be destroyed.”

That is just a small sampling of over 1,300 comments from just the last few days.

And just a few days before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the same kind of hate was hurled our way with the following labels that invite violence:

“More like Fascist Academy. Goebbels would be proud!”

“We need to close Nazi training camps.”

“Nazi youth.” “The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.”

Patriot Academy faces an existential threat from the anti-American enemies of freedom who hate the idea of teaching the principles of liberty. While the physical threats are concerning and must be taken seriously, the real battle is the slanderous defamation of Patriot Academy combined with the lawfare and regulatory quagmire being used to stop our momentum.

What began as a few naysayers against the incorporation of Constitution City (the elites may have delayed us, but we are undeterred), is quickly snowballing into an avalanche of opposition from both the marxists and the country club elites who love to oppose anything that was not their idea. Thanks to the wisdom in the book of Nehemiah, and our thirty years in the political trenches, we know how to properly launch a counter-offensive and ultimately win this war for the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans. 

Unfortunately, this new battlefield takes time, attention, and significant resources away from the actual civics education in the classroom, but it will be an education in civics in so many other ways. The Citizens of Constitution City will be able to learn a lot as we deal with these Sanballats, Tobiahs, and Geshems (see Nehemiah 2).

We will continue to “arise and build” and we’ll be happy warriors just as Ronald Reagan said nearly forty years ago.

But we need your help.

My family is all in. We have moved from our beautiful family compound of 30 years into a 600 square foot cottage on campus, I am driving a 2011 truck with 325K miles on it, Kara has the nice truck at only 200K miles on a 2017. 🙂 Our kids and their spouses are all in, our staff is all in, and we are doing everything we can to restore the Constitution and Rebuild Liberty. And we are loving every minute of it! It is our great joy to be right where God wants us and much like the Olympian Eric Liddell saying, “God made me fast and when I run, I feel His pleasure.” We are doing what God made us to do and feeling His pleasure even in the midst of the fight.  Like in the 2nd Chapter of Nehemiah, we are facing massive resistance.

Nehemiah had King Artaxerxes writing a blank check to get the walls built. We’re not asking anyone to write a blank check, but we most certainly need a lot of people to write a specific check for the best donation you possibly can. We absolutely cannot win this battle without the fuel in the tank to stay in the fight. There are too many specific needs to mention them all, but the particular strategies and tactics necessary at this point require additional lawyers, engineers, outreach ambassadors, student scholarships, additional staff, and much, much more.

Please consider responding to this call for help by being the Rohan to Patriot Academy’s Gondor and answering our call with a significant donation as soon as you can. Whatever value Patriot Academy has been to you at any time in the past, give that amount if you can. It is different for everyone, and we need everyone that can to step up at this moment. Make your best Constitution Day (September 17th) donation ever. If we have an outstanding week of donations for Constitution Day, I’ll be able to charge into this battle focused and confident that the entire Patriot Academy family has my back.

If you have questions about perhaps sponsoring an item at the campus with your name on it (Legislative Hall desks or paintings, a student cottage, or bench, or range), please reach out to Ashley Alexander ([email protected]) and if you have questions for me before sponsoring a campus item, please let her know and I’ll gladly jump on the phone with you as soon as possible.

Thank you so much for your past support of Patriot Academy and whatever aid you can provide at this critical juncture.

With an Appeal to Heaven,