We the People (again)

I recently watched an on-line video that I thought was quite impressive, certainly patriotic, and definitely to the point. I also understand that it has leftists, or at least a large number of them, literally foaming at the mouth. For anyone with a computer and who might be interested it can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE, but I’d suggest that hard core believers in Mr. Obama’s vision for America give it a pass. Presented in the form of an open letter to “President Obama”, it starts with;

“We the People” have stated resolutely we reject your vision for our country. You claim you have not heard us.

“We the People” have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us.

“We the People”… While the left endlessly belabors the point in claiming to represent the majority of Americans, it is “we the people”, as in American citizens in large numbers, who oppose the “change” being forced upon us. If you follow the polls, something like 63.4%, or two thirds of the American people, do oppose Mr. Obama’s version of America, some quietly, and others quiet vocally. Granted that he did receive a majority of the vote in 2008, something like 52.9% to Sen. McCain’s 45%, we really should keep in mind that of an estimated 208 million eligible voters in this country, only 131 million voted in the last election. Then, considering how worked up the liberal left was over Mr. Obama’s candidacy, I rather think that the percentage of liberals who turned out to vote far exceeded the percentage of conservatives, skewing the numbers in their favor. This of course does not reflect well on the Conservatives who did not bother to vote for whatever reason. Certainly anyone who did not cast their ballot in the last election has no grounds for complaint if things aren’t going the way they’d like, or if the world seems to be falling apart around their ears!

“We the People” goes on to say: “Our greatest treasure is freedom -- the absence of restraints on our ability to think and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual.” I can hardly argue that point! Every dictator, every tyrant in history, has engaged in a massive effort to control what subjugated people say, what they think, and how they act. But the ability to think for oneself, and hopefully act accordingly, is the single God Given right that no man can ever take away from us. It might become dulled through endlessly repeated lies and political propaganda, it might become misguided in those people who willingly believe everything they’re told, but the right to think for oneself can be ended only by death. With that ability to think goes individual responsibility. We are after all, individually responsible for our actions. (“The ‘debble made me do it” isn’t acceptable.) We might use the age old excuse of “but I didn’t think…” which seems to be getting more popular every day, but it makes no difference if an individual thinks or just follows the herd, he does have the ability to think, and is thus solely responsible for his action or inaction.

A few years ago President Bush said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” Quite so… quite so… How many people through the centuries have risked all, even their lives, to escape tyranny? Remember the people trying to cross the Berlin wall? Strangely enough, many of those people escaped to this country, the United States of America! How ironic it is that many of their descendants now toy with the idea of rejecting freedom, in favor of liberal socialism, while so many others are “to busy” to defend that freedom!

Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the heart of our actions. When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, “It is for us the living . . . to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced.”

Abe was right of course, the cause of freedom is… and will always be… an unfinished work. No matter how long and hard we fight in the cause of liberty, there will always be those who would enslave us. And today we’re doing little more than muttering and grumbling, allowing the loony left to “… have expanded government, violated our constitution, confounded laws, seized private industry, destroyed jobs, perverted our economy, curtailed free speech, corrupted our currency, weakened our national security and endangered our sovereignty.

By compromising our nation’s cultural, legal and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft you are robbing the unborn of opportunity. This is not acceptable. Not in America.

I for one refuse to believe that America’s “golden age” of liberty is behind us, and all that’s left for us is nothing more than a miserable existence as just another third world country. We are an exceptional nation and exceptional people that should be leading the world into an era of peace and prosperity, not just “sharing” the limited wealth we presently have, and with that leading the way down the slippery slope to misery, want, communism and hopelessness.

If you have a problem with how the country is being run, don't just whimper and whine about it, GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Do you really think politicians are interested in our arguments with each other?! We all gripe and moan about left wing - right wing politics, but when the truth of the matter is examined, they all play for the same team and they don’t care about anything but their assumed power and authority. Regardless of who's right and who’s wrong, it's not the government that will be our downfall, it's the division among American conservatives that will allow a runaway liberal government to destroy our freedom. Does anyone remember hearing the phrase "United We Stand, Divided We Fall"?

“NO WE WON’T” in 2012!! I can see November from my house, and if we act together, it’s all over for Obama.