Freedom: Who Cares?

In recent months, those that chaff against the very principles of American society have behaved like Walmart shoppers on black Friday. The number of incidents aimed at sanitizing America of her historical laws and social mores are alarming. The system of government created by our founders was based on an understanding of human nature and natural laws: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Men such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and James Madison knew that only a people free to enjoy the fruits of their labor with protection from a just government could thrive. They knew that the Republic which rested as close to the edge of no government (anarchy) would always be vulnerable, yet they rested in the knowledge that the architecture for “a more perfect union” based on the ideas, principles and lessons taken primarily from the Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians was sound. Those who gathered in 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence and later attended the Continental Convention to create the Constitution were well versed in history, science, and reason. They were “enlightened” yet clearly understood the role of a Creator and natural law.

Mark Levin, author of Liberty and Tyranny and Constitutional lawyer, explains that those who want to “progress past” our foundations argue that man can know moral order and unalienable rights from reasoning. With this philosophy, people could arbitrarily decide right and wrong; just and unjust. “Those in power could decide that rights do not belong to the individual but of amorphous groups: the poor, the illegal immigrant, the minority, the Muslim, etc. Leaders could decide who is deserving of rights and who is not. Examples of this approach can be found around the world today and throughout history e.g. Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, North Korea.”

President Barak Obama is unabashedly at the helm of an agenda to rewrite American history and redefine our society on the whole. He eloquently confuses the well meaning American with words like equality, hope, and fairness. Those who consider themselves socially liberal and not “religious” might not worry over the statement below repeated many times now in Europe and at home:

"I think that the right might worry a bit more about the dangers of sectarianism. Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
-Barak Obama
Why does it matter that our President would make such proclamations?
It matters because we are not bound by values. A band of thieves can be bound by values. We are bound by natural law; a belief in an unalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. These are not constructs of reason. They are not ideals or values. They are principles issuing from a single creator – God. Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu based nations are not bound by unalienable rights. Their beliefs and values about governance are quite contrary to ours. We welcome them as legal immigrants who want to contribute to our society and abide by our laws, customs, and culture.
America was created and has prospered because our governing documents and the intent of our founders were based on “true North” principles. Our system of laws is based in large part on the old testament of the Bible, the Torah to Jews. Yet, for the last forty years those that seek to redefine America into something that more closely resembles an oligarchy based on socialist ideals have chipped away right under our noses. Today, we see those disciples openly working with sledge hammers. The examples are many ranging from Lyndon B. Johnson’s redefining of the black family under the “Great Society” to Clinton’s push for the equivalent of a communist China “Marshall Plan.” It was 1962 when the Supreme Court in Engel vs. Vitale ruled prayer in schools unconstitutional leading to the removal of the Ten Commandments from schools, court rooms or any other public building. Since then a host of cases have set about misinterpreting the First Amendment to the Constitution based on a phrase penned by Thomas Jefferson not within the amendment but in a letter taken out of context: “separation of church and state.” The amendment actually reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
The founders were leery of monarchies and the various forms of tyranny that oppressed people and forced them into worship dictated by the state. What they wanted to avoid was a government created and sanctioned religion. They were not worried about God and his principles influencing government and the people. In fact they urged just that. In his famous farewell address, George Washington said, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness… The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?”
What part of don’t kill, don’t steal, be respectful to your parents, etc. do we not like in our society? Why would our leaders seek to take away our freedom; the very goose that has laid the golden eggs? Every act thus far by the Obama Administration and Democratic led Congress has at its root one or all of a three pronged strategy: increase dependence on government, remove freedom, breakdown the social fabric: government run health care, cap and trade, fairness doctrine, gay marriage (not civil unions by marriage redefined), more restrictive gun ownership laws, micromanage of banks and auto industry, 9 trillion and counting in debt, printing one trillion US dollars without backing, taking census away from Commerce, and the list goes on. Now is the time to begin reading history; ask questions; and get involved. The issues at hand defy party, beliefs, or values. At stake is our blessed freedom. Not many of us alive today know the hell of tyranny. Ask a veteran; ask an immigrant; ask a Holocaust survivor.