Friends and fellow Patriots; We have at our fingertips the most powerful voice imaginable. This is not by accident or whim. From the Founding of this Nation, the Hand of the Almighty has guided us when we listened, and we strayed when we did not. Current assessments are-WE ARE IN A WORLD OF HURT.
We can't blame Bush, Clinton, Carter, Wilson, Roosevelt, or Obama....woops...YES WE CAN.
We can also blame the American electorate for falling down face-first in a pool of politically-correct BS in an ill-advised attempt to mollify those who wish to KILL US.
The names may have changed, but the goals have not. Tyranny cannot abide freedom and liberty. Despotism is never altered by the meanderings of the human heart, or human nature. It is specifically the meanderings of the human heart and human nature that allow tyranny and despotism to flourish. When strict adherence to the Rule of Law exists, as in our Founding Documents, liberty, freedom and prosperity flourish. When that begins to change, as our Founding Fathers knew it would, we begin to lose those God-given rights.
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments or musty papers; They are written on the whole of human nature, as with a sunbeam, by the Hand of the Divinity Itself, and cannot be obscured by mortal power."---Alexander Hamilton.
Even the most basic exploration of the writings of the Founders illuminates the dangers inherent in any attempt at self-governance as witnessed by the corpses of past civilizations laying on the ash-heap of history.
James Madison wrote, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
Washington also wrote, "Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness or venality of their constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
There you have it-"...the supineness or venality of their constituents..."
"...aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals..."
Here is where we need to be going, IMHO...and I don't hear one damned "candidate" for POTUS speaking of this; restoration AND ADHERENCE to our ORIGINAL Constitution and Bill of Rights that would eliminate this over-reaching, over-spending, out-of-control central/behemoth government monstrosity WE WERE WARNED ABOUT!!! They nibble at the fringes, but are afraid to approach the TRUTH, because they are part-and-parcel born and fed by the Leviathon.
Thomas Jefferson: "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. ... To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ... The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. ... The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. ... On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. ... [C]onfidence is every where the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence; it is jealousy & not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
I know this may seem to some as getting long, so GET ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE WHILE YOU CAN AFFORD IT AND LISTEN UP:
Time is NOT ON OUR SIDE. But I believe that the "Hand of the Divinity" IS.
Alexander Hamilton: "[T]here is not a syllable in the [Constitution] which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State. ... The Judiciary ... has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force nor will. ... If it be asked, 'What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?' The answer would be, an inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. ... [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments."
Through the mists and fogs of history, through all the obfuscations and lies and corruption of the past and present, we still have that one, insurmountable thing: The yearning for liberty that resides in every human heart, and the MEANS WITH WHICH TO RETAIN IT---our Constitution. The only document ever written by man that asserts the God-given rights of mankind as never before. It is only going to be through a complete return to our Founding Principles, and an aggressive defense of them, that we will survive Barack Hussein Obama, Communism, Islam, and every other bogey-man wet-dream devised by the dark and devious minds of evil.
John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ... The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People. ... [T]hey may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. ... A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
Article VI of our Constitution proclaims: "This Constitution ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land."
This is our avenue of "hope and change"...we will NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT IT.
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