Americans have often heard the
assertion that we should adopt the so-called Metric System and that
failure to do so is old fashioned and will hurt our competitiveness
in the world market. I believe these advocates are disingenuous and are hiding their real reasons, that in fact they are
part of a conspiracy to destroy America by pushing it down a path of
radical reform that will inevitably lead to chaos, atheism and poetic
inelegance.
Advocates of the metric system
generally fail to reveal where it came from and for good reason. The
Metric System was created during the French Revolution as part of a
comprehensive effort to do away with the ancien regime in all
its forms. Of course advocates of this radical system never tell
you that. But one thing will lead to another.
What comes next after the Metric
System? Inevitably it will lead to calls to adopt the
Revolutionary Calendar. If you thought that going between Daylight
Savings Time and Standard Time was disruptive, just wait until you
experience 10 hours per day, 100 minutes an hour, each minute some
ridiculous commune-inspired number of seconds! The months will be
named for the seasons of Paris: Vendemiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire,
Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, Floreal, Prairial, Messidor,
Thermidor, Fructidor. Or will we use the British versions,
Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous,
Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor? What
will good American holidays become in this new system? Will
Mother's Day be in Germinal or what? How about the 4th of July?
And everything will have to be dated from 22 September 1792, of
course.
From there it is only a short step to
striking at the very heart of America, our devotion to spiritual
values. You can be sure of attacks on the church and calls to
require people to worship at the Cult of Reason or the Cult of the
Supreme Being. No doubt, all preachers and pastors will be arrested
and sent to re-education camps.
Inevitably, these so-called reformers
of society will insist that we rewrite all literature to conform to
their radical notions. Take for example the opening of the
following well-known poem:
Half a league, half a league, half a
league onward,
All in the valley of Death rode the
six hundred.
No doubt this will be outlawed and
children will be forced to memorize:
2.778 kilometers, 2.778 kilometers,
2.778 kilometers,
All in the valley of Death rode the
six hundred.
That is the kind of wickedness that
these advocates of a so-called more logical system will promote.
Chaos will reign, good Americans will never stand for it, there will
be violence in the streets as these radicals use force to impose
their revolutionary vision.
I urge all true Americans to resist
this evil and oppose the Metric System.
Thank you.
