Our Endangered Freedoms (or What Would You Do If You Couldn't Speak Your Mind?)

     With all the controversy over the present administration wanting to bastardize the Second Amendment, you know the one, it says that we have the right to keep and bear arms, I think a lot of people on both sides really don’t understand the implications if Barack Hussein Obama and his minions actually get it done. I mean, think about it, if the President signs an executive order changing ANY part of ANY amendment, especially the first ten we call the Bill of Rights, what will keep him from doing it to the rest of them?

     First of all, the president does not have the power to change the Constitution in any way, shape or form without the consent of Congress. Congress does not have that power without the consent of the people as this government was originally set up. The people that compose the House of Representatives and the Senate are supposed to be there representing their constituents, not themselves, not lobbyists and certainly not any foreign power. Unfortunately, that has not been the case for some time. Congress has done what it damn well pleases whether the people they represent want it or not.

     If you look at all the laws that have been passed over the last, I don’t know, fifty years, you will notice that slowly, but surely, our rights have been taken away from us. Now, I realize that it may not seem like it but if you think about it, it’s true. Over the last fifty years, we have gone from being a totally free nation, enjoying life without restraint as long as we didn’t harm anyone else, to a nation with a government that tells us what is best for us. We now are required, by law, to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle; to wear seatbelts while in a moving motor vehicle; instead of dealing with problems ourselves to call the law or go to court, and a myriad of other regulations that should be the choice of the people not the requirement by law. (Note: I am writing this trying to think of all the things that have changed in my lifetime but most have been so ingrained into my thinking now that they seem to have been there all along, which is what the government really likes, makes it easier to control us.)

     I remember a time when it was something to be ashamed of to be on welfare, to get charity from the government. I remember when parents had control of their kids, not DHS. I remember when you could go get into a fight at the bar, kick the shit out of each other, then go have a beer together without interference from anyone, much less the law. I remember when kids could congregate on the square to talk, hang out, throw a football or baseball without being harassed by the coppers. All this has changed thanks to governmental interference and regulation.

     I know that some of you will say that all this is for the better; that society has changed and we are more civilized than that; that life is more complicated and these new regulations are necessary for the safety of the people. I say that it’s all governmental control over our lives. When we allow the government to tell us what is best for us, what is right or wrong for us or that we need to report to them some ‘suspicious activity’ of a neighbor that might be illegal, immoral or threatening, we become another Nazi state. Isn’t that what Hitler did in Germany? It isn’t my responsibility to call 911 or DHS when I see a parent try to control their unruly child. If I threw a fit in a store as a child my mother would grab my arm, take me to the nearest secluded spot, if available, and whoop my delicate derriere. No problem as it was taken care of. Now, if a parent does that they get a visit from the worst Child Protection agent and the kid is taken out of the home for their ‘protection.’ Protection from what? Discipline? That’s what is wrong with kids today, they have no discipline, therefore, they have no respect for their parents or anything else. I’m not saying that there isn’t child abuse. There is. It seems to me, though, that the real abusers are left alone while the parents that are just trying to keep their kids in line are the ones that lose those kids.

     Now, as far as those bar-fights; there was a time when you got into an argument in a bar, took it outside, beat the crap out of each other then went back in and drank another beer, together. Fight over, no foul. Try that today and see what happens. Johnny Law is there in a heartbeat to arrest both of you for public fighting. If you’re lucky you won’t get tased in the process. Why? Why does the law have to get involved in everything we do? Why does the government have to get involved? They don’t. They just want to just to prove they can.

     What is the cause of all this governmental control? Liberalism. As Michael Savage would say, “Liberalism is a mental illness.” The far left-wing liberals that enjoy the same rights and privileges that conservatives fight for are trying their damnedest to do away with those rights and privileges. Liberals want government control over the lives of everyone because that way they don’t have to make any decisions on their own. With total government control, there comes total government dependency and that is what they want: a government with a country, not a country with a government. This is what is commonly called communism, fascism, Nazism or totalitarianism. It is something that the colonists rebelled against 237 years ago. It is something that 237 years ago thousands of people died to get away from and people put their, and their family’s lives and fortunes at stake to fight against. Today, the far left-wing liberals would take us back to that tyrannical rule that those people fought against.

     I know, all you liberals will tell me that I have been brainwashed by the conservative propaganda put out by the Republican Party. I tell you that this is NOT the case. I don’t listen to propaganda and insert it into my brain as truth. I research anything that someone is putting out there as truth. It’s like during a presidential campaign when the liberals will accuse the conservatives of being racist. Really? Five years ago, way back in the good old days of 2008, the Democrats kept calling the Republicans racist, that they were just against a black man in the White House. Who kept pulling the race card? The Democrats. I really didn’t care whether the Democratic nominee was black or white, male or female, pink, polka-dotted or bi-sexual. I didn’t like the man’s viewpoint on anything; if he actually had a viewpoint. I would have voted for Colin Powell in a heartbeat. Why? Because I liked him and I liked his political views until he turned his color to liberal.

Contrary to popular belief, there are more than two parties in this country. The Republicans and the Democrats are basically the same now. What happened to the Constitution loving candidates that we had years ago? When did politics become only about getting more and more power regardless of what it did to the country? What happened to the Jack Kennedys, Richard Nixons, and Ronald Reagans? When did the patriotism of Eisenhower and Truman disappear? More importantly, WHY did it disappear?

     In 1960 this great nation did something that it had never done before; it elected a Catholic to the highest office. A lot of people thought that Kennedy would take orders from the Vatican. He didn’t. He loved his country and wanted the best for it. A week before he was assassinated he made a speech where he indicated that “something is wrong here and I will find out what it is.” Not a direct quote, but close enough. Kennedy died because he loved his country and wouldn’t cave to anyone. ANYONE! That was a true American hero; a true American President. He was a socialist Democrat to boot. His liberalism was so far to the right of what the conservatives are today that it’s scary.

     Since the time of Kennedy, each successive administration has done its’ part in taking away our freedoms, a little at a time. I don’t know about before that, I was born in 1960 and my earliest memory was watching John F. Kennedy’s funeral on the telly. I remember seeing John, Jr. salute his father’s casket and that is about as early as I recall anything. So, I am, and will, talk about the last fifty years. That is where most of the changes have been made anyway, especially in the last twenty years, since William Jefferson Clinton took office.

     Here is an example of how this nation has changed its’ attitude toward government. In 1972 Richard Nixon was impeached because of Watergate. For those that don’t know what Watergate is I will explain. The Nixon campaign decided that it would break into the Watergate hotel and find out what the Democrats were up to during the said campaign. Needless to say, they got caught, Nixon lied and was impeached. He left the office. Fast forward to the Clinton administration. Slick Willy lied to the American people, during impeachment proceedings and stayed in office even though he was found guilty. The Constitution states that any president that is impeached and convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors must be removed from office. Why wasn’t Clinton? Was it because it was just over whether he had sex (“Define the word sex”) with Monica Lewinsky or not? He lied just as Nixon did. I think the answer to that question is this:  the American people’s morals and judgment have been so impaired by liberalism that they just don’t care what the government does as long as it doesn’t immediately affect them. Clinton’s immorality didn’t matter mostly because that is the morality of the people. Leave him in office, he’s doin’ a good job of giving us what we want.

     The more government gives the people, the more the government takes away. Everything has a price. This is the ‘Gimme Generation.” This generation actually believes that it is entitled to everything whether it works for it or not. They want more and more entitlements (hmmm, wonder why they call them ‘entitlements?’) from the government because they don’t want to go out and work for what they get. They all want it handed to them. What they don’t understand is that when the nation becomes that dependent on the government, they give up all rights and freedoms to that government. And the government is loving it! The liberals in Washington, D.C. are having a field day with this. “Oh, look! They want more from us. Good. That means we have more power over them and more control of their lives.”

     The right to keep and bear arms is one of the most important amendments to the Constitution. Why you ask? Because that amendment guarantees us that we can protect ourselves from anything from a thief breaking down our door to a tyrannical government trying to control us. The Founding Fathers knew this and that is why they put that in the Constitution. The Constitution is the Law of the Land, not to be messed with. The right to free speech, religion and peaceful assembly will be the next to go. Hang on, I believe the peaceful assembly part of that is already been screwed with since teenagers cannot assemble to just hang out without harassment and being disbanded. What happens when we no longer have protection against illegal search and seizure? That’s already being compromised by the law with the statement, “Probable Cause.” What, exactly, is ‘probable cause?’ It can be anything that lawman wants it to be, even if it’s just the fact that he/she doesn’t like you.

     See how giving up one freedom will lead to losing others? I hope so. King Obama will rule supreme if this country doesn’t open its’ eyes and see what his agenda is. I saw it the first time around. He said he wanted to change the face of this country and he is; every day. He started during his first term with his “Apology Tour” and he is continuing it with his attacks on the Bill of Rights. It is you, the liberal left that has put the entire country at risk. It is you, the liberal left, that is destroying this country with your anti-everything attitude. You are anti-gun, anti-oil, anti-white, anti-religion and anti-American. What you want is somewhere else. Someplace like China, Korea, Cuba or Venezuela. Go live there if you want government handouts and government control of your lives. If you think that King Obama will let you keep your freedoms when he gets done, you’re wrong. You want to take the freedoms away from the conservatives because you hate them but, what you don’t realize is that if you take them from the conservatives you take them from yourselves, also.

     Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our Declaration of Independence is unique to this world. They are totally ours, totally American. Even our republic is unique as it was a grand experiment in government. The world had been ruled by kings and czars and dictators and here we are, a republic that will elect a different leader every four years because we know that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Constitution and the Constitutional Amendments guarantee our rights and freedoms against the tyranny of that corruption and here the liberal left is doing its’ very best to do away with that guarantee.

     I am not, obviously, a liberal in any way, shape or form. I am not a conservative. I am an American. I believe in the Constitution of this great nation. I believe in the idea that everyone has the God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that everyone has the God-given right to think and do as they see fit as long as it does not infringe on that same right of someone else. Voltaire said, “I may not agree with what you say but, I will fight to my last breath for your right to say it.”

     You don’t have to agree with me. You don’t even have to listen to me. All I ask is that you be tolerant, accepting and respectful of my beliefs. I don’t condemn you for your beliefs nor do I hate you for them. I listen to what you say. I hear every last word. That I don’t agree with you has no bearing on whether we get along or not. I have good friends that hate the way I think but are respectful and tolerant and accepting enough to listen and comment and correct me where I am wrong. We co-exist on the same planet, in the same solar system, in the same galaxy, in the same universe. We all bleed red and we are all human so why do we have to hate each other so much?

     I have been accused of being racist many times. I am. I hate everyone equally. I am so racist that I have very close friends, friends that I trust and love, that are Mexican, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Pagan, Wiccan, black and, god-forbid, white English. Some are immigrants, others are second, third or fourth generation American but, they all have their heritage. Yes, I am racist. I also have friends that are gay, bisexual and heterosexual. I have married friends and single friends. I have poor friends and rich friends. I really don’t care who, or what you are. You come to me with respect and tolerance and that is what you get back. You come to me with disrespect, hatred, and intolerance and that is what you will get. I have the freedom and the right to choose. No governmental law will ever change that.

     This is the United States of America, not Nazi Germany, nor Fascist Italy, nor Communist China (at least not yet). We have our rights and freedoms guaranteed by a 237-year-old document that has survived, relatively, unscathed. Let’s not let a corrupt, tyrannical government take that away from us. It is up to us, as a nation, to protect that document and its’ contents. The government would take it all away if we continue to allow it. Don’t be one of the sheeple and follow blindly the tyrants that rule us. The Declaration states that it is the ‘right of the people to throw off such government.’ Let’s do it, let’s vote the tyrants out and put in real Americans that love their country and what she stands for. Open your eyes and see what is going on, research what they tell you. Believe in what this country has stood for all these decades and centuries. Believe in yourself.