This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land

How often my mind wanders to the subject of our nation, its future, and our future as her people. I have been reading the writings of Thomas Jefferson and getting new insight to the problems of our country and why its happening. It’s no secret that I was an avid supporter of the Ron Paul presidential campaign. I donated, I met at meetup groups, and I worked for the campaign; all of this was done as people insisted that I was “wasting my time”. They adamantly endeavored to show my folly in that my vote would be wasted. “Go vote for the preacher”, they advised. “You’re a Christian, aren’t you?”, as if my friends jumped off a bridge I should do the same thing (and besides he’s more electable, right?).

The fallacy of a remark such as this shows how well our government run schools have been indoctrinating young minds for generations. In other words, we pick who we vote for based on emotions and those emotions are from a lack of education. We don’t look at the platform of the potential candidate in comparison to the Constitution. A president is not the Dictator of the country, he cannot make laws, and he cannot go to war without Congress declaring war-that is according to the constitution. But somehow we have begun to think of the office of President of the USA as the leader of the country, who can change the course of the country. Long ago has it been forgotten that we are the government and that the direction we choose is the direction government goes. So now we busily follow the leader like sheep to the slaughter. All the while playing government with our frivolous votes and we go on thinking we will be able to get up and have that moca Java every morning and that our existence, while uncertain, will still be safe because we live in the Greatest Country on earth…right?

While it is true I am a Christian, and as such, put my faith in Jesus Christ to preserve me even unto death; I also am an American. As an American, I (currently) have the freedom to worship however I choose. It is the dictation of my conscience that I put my faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But my consciences also demands that as Christ died to free us from the bondage of the Law, so also have thousands of men died to give us freedom from laws that force a religion on us. They died to give us a land of Liberty, and Liberty is more important than anything else which government can provide.

While our founding father, James Madison, was or claimed to be, Christian, he, as the rest of the members (Jefferson, Adams, etc.) held that even though the incorporation of Christian morals into this new government was a well meaning plight, it could just as easily be reversed to that which Jerusalem suffered under the hands of the power hungry scribes and farcies during the time of the crucifixion. Madison said: “The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil policy, neither could be supported. A mutual Independence is found most friendly to practical religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity”.

America is being “dumbed down” in order to advance Socialism. Look at both, Republicans and Democrats-or the establishment of- and you will find blatant disregard for The Constitution and contempt towards its power to restrain government abuse. The Constitution is there to restrain the government and prevent it from overstretching its powers, but this only works if the people act as a check and balance to the system. This is a system of self government but only if we govern ourselves but if we take a back seat and say “there is nothing I can do” or “I am too busy right now to worry about that stuff”, we will soon wake up and find ourselves homeless on the land our fathers conquered and unable to change its course.

On one hand you hear the Republicans complain about “Earmarks” but they neglect the fact that the size of government (with regard to bureaucracy, debt, welfare state, warfare state…) all of it, has tripled since 2000. What do we have to show for it? Nothing, a system that is going bankrupt, puts our nation at risk, and prints fiat money which at this point is worth about 4 pennies per dollar only if you compare it to the rest of the world.

On the other hand you hear Democrats complain that the rights of individuals are being taken away, then they nominate the most Socialist individual they could. One thing that we have learned from Hitler and Stalin is that Socialism strips all rights of the individual and the individual is the “Cash Cow” for the State.

I just learned that California has mad it illegal to home school your kids, thereby removing any rights a parent may have over the minds of their children. What’s worse is that is that it wasn’t even voted for by the people of the state, but mandated by a judge. The Judge said: “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children”. With a stroke of a judicial pen, homeschooling parents in California became common criminals that could be prosecuted and jailed. This then makes the children of that state a “Ward of State” and striping the rights of parents to prevent indoctrination of the pliable minds of children. Both the Republican and Democratic Establishments are working for a Socialist state no matter what their talking head on Fox, or on the Talk radio tells you. Once your eyes are open you can see the propaganda both sides use. Once they strip us of OUR CONSTITUTION, they will begin to burden us to pay for the “Privilege to Live”.

While I must maintain my trust in the Almighty, I also must maintain that we should not assume we Christians have it all figured out. By this I mean that people assume the rapture is going to happen so soon that they stop fighting for freedom because its easier and when they are raptured they don’t have to worry about it. When Jesus first came the going consensus was that he would establish a kingdom and everything would be perfect from then on. This however was a miss interpretation of scripture and they believe it would be a literal kingdom with buildings and such, and never thought about the fact that it could be a kingdom of our hearts. Therefore, it is not wise to sit back and do nothing about the state of our country.

Read the declaration of Independence and you will see that the only purpose of government is to preserve liberty, that’s it. How they do that is up to the people. But liberty cannot be removed in order to preserve it. You will also se that government can only get its power from the governed.
Because the Republican Establishment has forgotten what conservatism really is (Conserving maybe!? Non-interventionist foreign policy –like Jefferson advocated, Small government –so we can control it, personal responsibility –so we don’t have to pay for others to sit on their behinds) I have decided that unless Ron Paul comes back as a Republican candidate, I am changing parties, most likely for good.

As a matter of principle, and so far, the only act I can do for my country, I will be voting Libertarian from now on. Liberty must be preserved; security and prosperity will come once it is preserved.
Many will say again that I am throwing my vote away, I say I am preserving Democracy by not sheepishly falling in line and following the leader and doing what everyone else is doing. So many people voted for particular candidates during the primary for no other reason then, they perceived this candidate would win. Now look none of them won and we are left with a candidate that stands against everything I believe is uniquely American. Now we have two Socialists running for office. We have an apparent racist, welfare loving Socialist, and a war monger who wishes to be in Iraq for another hundred years, further taxing American Citizens so he and the companies involved can become wealthy off our backs. Now Iran is looming and with our $9 Trillion national debt and the fed dropping the interest rates at the drop of a hat (and by the way that’s a bad thing…that’s another post), can we afford another war. How will we find enough people to fight a pre-emptive war designed to create fear that Americans wont be safe unless this happens. This actually does the opposite, by making enemies of not only Iran but also the rest of the world as they watch us impose our will on nations around them, they will fear our coming to them.

People, please wake up! Educate yourselves to what Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, James Madison and others said about this new country and how it should operate and how the people should hold government and its officials with distrust in order to preserve Liberty for all.
I hope someday I can make a difference for Liberty in our country. I am afraid that because people have been indoctrinated with “I’ll get you before you get me” and they think it is a noble principle because we will impose Liberty on the rest of the world…and as a result they removed it.

It may be too late for our country.