If the Constitution does not matter, then nothing matters. Whatever concept that exists of “Constitutional rights” means nothing at all. The oath sworn by many tens-of-millions to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic seems pointless and melodramatic. The men that fought and died to create and defend it look like fools and worse for having risked and given everything for something that means nothing. If the Constitution does not define the relationship between the states and the federal government, then what document does? If the limits on the federal government mean nothing, then what protection does any state have from groups of other states that force their will upon them through federal dictates? Why even have a Constitution? Why not call ourselves counties and finally give up our remaining sovereignty? What I am certain of is that the Constitution is the only protection that I have from the tyranny of one or of many. My rights come from God, but the Constitution is the written law that clarifies and protects those rights. The Constitution is the most brilliant document written by man, but it pales in comparison to the principles that created it. If the Constitution is a “growing document,” as some with a very specific Leftist political ideology claim, then it means nothing. It means what the masses say it means on any given day, according to their whims. It means what people that manipulate the system or the “message” say it means. Despite what is happening, as the federal government breaks its chains and my state refuses to protect me, I do not lose my rights. They are still mine. If Liberals feel free to redefine our country as one of Socialism and not of freedom, then I likewise feel free to resist and to redefine it back. Freedom and Socialism cannot exist together. Free people cannot live shoulder-to-shoulder with people determined to enslave not just themselves but everyone around them as well. The federal government has no Constitutional authority over my retirement, my unemployment, my healthcare, my business, my schools, “legalizing” the murdering of unborn children, the redistribution of my property for their political gain by subsidizing immoral and self-destructive behavior, or an infinite list of other things in my life. The state that I choose to live in has the right to regulate and legislate in those areas if we choose to let them. If every American once again understood this simple right, this simple concept, of a federal government that is forced to obey the Constitution so that we can be free to live as we please in the states that we choose, then there might be peace in America. Under our Constitution, Conservatives get what we want in our states, and Leftist Democrats get what they want in their states. Liberals are be free to keep all of the money that they send to Washington so that they may fund whatever Socialist programs that they desire in their own states. They are free to go as hard Left as they please. All that would be required is that they reciprocate and extend the same courtesy to us. One would think that that would be enough for anyone, especially for a citizen of the United States of America that desires to be free and is required to desire that others be free from them as well. But it is not. It is not for the Liberals that have clearly shown us that there is one thing that they want and that defines them: Power over people’s lives in the name of the collective. Our rights are individual rights, not collective, and power, regardless of the justification, is still power. The Left has made it abundantly clear that freedom is not for everyone. There is one essential trait that defines a true-American, and that is freedom for all, including from themselves. The desire to be free and the ability to live a disciplined and moral enough life to be free is critically essential, but not enough. Of course a true-American “combines the notions of Christianity and liberty so intimately that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.” - Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1832. That has never been true of the un- and anti-American politico-religious ideologies of Liberalism and Islam. I am not a slave, and Obama is not my master, however much he desires to be. The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. - Patrick Henry I am an American and I am free. Socialism has no legal or moral authority over me. It cannot manipulate nor bind me. I have a right to a state and a federal government limited and defined by the Constitution, as well as to a State that protects me from federal tyranny. Either the Constitution matters or it does not, and if not then let us at least say so. Let us end this ridiculous game of pretending that it is sacred in some parts to some people at certain times. It either matters entirely, or not at all. We know what it says. We know what our Founders intended. We know the principles that inspired it. We have rights, but only if we claim them. It is clear that no one else will do this for us. But it has never been their job. It is and always has been ours. Only to those that desire power are freedom and our Constitution considered extreme and radical. Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. - Thomas Jefferson I refuse to go to jail for obeying the law and for forcing obedience to it. I refuse to allow our legal system and our courts to be used to intimidate, harass, bankrupt, and imprison me for forcing obedience to the Constitution that they have all sworn an oath to obey, protect, and defend. Either the Constitution matters or it does not. Pick a side. I have. Joe Bennett OAS - PA Leader
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 16:20:42 +0000
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