The American Fight for Freedom from Tyranny
In his first inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan told the American people:
"If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
The question every American must ask oneself right now is if they want to be part of a socialist society or if they want to be truly free. Secondly, individuals need to be proactive, because the passive are doomed to the decisions of everyone else. Those willing to fight for freedom need to study the problem in depth to understand it completely. You cannot fix what you do not understand and you cannot win a war that you will fight with all of your heart. All champions have heart. Find your purpose, your mission, and if necessary, chase it to the end of the earth. If freedom is what you really want, you must do whatever you can to protect it, sacrificing all if necessary. A war cannot be fought alone either, so do whatever you can do to enlist others. You might want to blog, join or start a group, comment, call in, write your legislators, or something else, but the important thing is to do something.
As Mark Levine states in his book Ameritopia1, “The Tea Party movement is a hopeful sign. Its members come from all walks of life and every corner of the country. These citizens have the spirit and enthusiasm of the Founding Fathers, proclaim the principles of individual liberty and rights in the Declaration, and insist on the federal government’s compliance with the Constitution’s limits.”
The illusion of “social justice” is just that, an illusion. Wiser people than us have seen socialism for what it truly is.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
"Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean --- power over people, power to the State.” Margaret Thatcher.
“All socialism involves slavery” – Herbert Spencer
“I’ve always doubted that the socialists had a leg to stand on intellectually” – Friedrich Hayek.
“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy” – L. Neil Smith.
Socialism creates dependency and is used by those lusting power. Capitalism must be destroyed so the profit motive is removed, leaving otherwise independent and proactive people to be controlled.
Utopian believers attempt to convince the American public that the Constitution is outdated and in need of changes. This propaganda is used to convince people of the need for more and more centralized government. The truth is that the Constitution will stand as is forever, and is needed as is, to ensure our individual rights and country’s exceptionalism. The Constitution was not created by the founders for a specific age or set of circumstances, but was the structuring of a framework of government to fit the requirements of human nature. This is what made the United States great and the only thing that will keep it great.
The bigger the government, the greater the risk of tyranny and the greater loss of individual freedoms. Government is now growing at a brisk rate and intruding farther and farther into the personal lives of individuals.
Medicare (2010: 38.7 million people over 65 and 7.6 million people with disabilities)2
Medicaid
Social Security (2010: 54 million individuals)3
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (March 22, 2010: affects every single American). This is the landmark case of excessive government intrusion upon the rights entrusted to states and individuals. This Act comprises 3,000 pages in length, and is understood by very few. This legislation was simply shoved down the throat of every American as shown by poll after poll. It’s passing was an egregious act defying the very foundations of the U.S. Constitution – the rights of the individual.
Welfare
Every one of these programs has the effect of redistributing the wealth from the richer to the poorer. A government of economic socialistic principles tend to highlight unmerited equality among citizens. Through the extension of socialistic welfare policies, it provides unmerited equality of income between the chronically employed and chronically unemployed. This policy enables people otherwise healthy to not seek gainful employment because they will receive income no matter their actions, thus provided no incentive to produce.
As an economic theory, a welfare state is created through calls for equalization of incomes through taxation of private wealth coupled with welfare state spending. The government sponsored universal health care plan is a welfare state idea. The state control of key industries is another welfare state idea. The state has taken control by over-regulation, bailouts, and propaganda campaigns.
Both Testaments of the Bible state that capitalism is clearly supported, 4 and indolence [laziness] is not subsidized, but penalized by poverty, while diligence in work is rewarded by its fruits. (Proverbs 6:6-11; 13:4; 20:4; 2 Thessolonians 3:10-12; 1 Timothy 5:17-18)
Do not take lightly the freedom that came from struggle and death of so many Americans. Every American must be ready to engage all threats to their inalienable rights and freedoms, whether it is as a soldier, writer, speaker, man, woman, or voter. This fight must never end because tyranny is always in the waiting. Fight every instance of unconstitutional government intrusion and injustice. A dormant man becomes the slave, while a free man remains free as long as he fights for it. Do not mistake incremental changes as petty, because each step, however small, will be one that will have to be fought for when the tyrant(s) has reached his goal of making you a servant of the government.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Chas. Yancey in 1816, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
“The choice before us is plain, Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come, it now is, when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America’s future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God’s government.” (Peter Marshall, The Rebirth of America, page 205, Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation.)
The Enemies of Freedom
The enemies of our freedom lie within our borders. They are the liberals, communists, atheists, and socialists. They are the ACLU, ACORN, Obama, Soros, and Pelosi. They are the judges that invoke personal ideologies in place of law, justices that fail to uphold the Constitution, and representatives that fail to represent the individual. The enemies include Presidents that grow government and minimize the individual, grow dependence rather than individualism, and demand agreement rather than respect differences. They are those that exceed the powers granted to them by the people, those believing in entitlements, and those demanding that the successful sacrifice what they have so all are equal. They are those that do not believe that the principles of the U.S. Constitution, like the bible, are infinitely required to maintain the freedom of the individual.
Our country is under attack by the media and organizations spreading propaganda selling the idea of socialism. They would have everyone believe socialism was social justice and the best policy for all human beings. You can see how well it is doing in the current socialist countries of Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
Instead of facts or experience, propaganda won the election for Obama. No one seemed to care that he was a friend of William Ayers, a community organizer for ACORN, had no executive experience, no business experience, and was a junior legislator who skipped as many sessions as he attended. In no way did he believe in the U.S. Constitution or the exceptionalism of our great country. Like ACORN, he devised the plan to cause the country to implode so he could instill his ideologies. As a puppet of George Soros, he also became the puppet master of many ill-informed American’s disillusioned with the state of the country. Obama sold a message of hope he never intended to pursue. His goals were not what he sold to the young, uninformed, strict Democrats, liberal, entitled, minorities, and racist.
With a majority of Democrats in the House and Senate, President Obama wasted little time instituting his plan. This country began printing so much money that one wondered if there would be a tree left to make more paper by the time his first year was over. The reason given was that it was needed to boost the economy.
Since the Great Depression studies have proven that government spending does not boost the economy, it merely extends the recession. The Troubled Assets Recovery Program (TARP) has not led to any “true” unemployment drops, higher consumer confidence, or home sales. Like true propagandists, this Administration claims the recession is over and things are improving. The question is where? The truth is that the government is now responsible for 24% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the total value of this country’s services and goods. This administration has now driven the national debt to nearly $14 trillion dollars and steadily rising. This equates to 100% of GDP and places the U.S. as the largest country in the world with a national debt of 100% or more to GDP. Greece, with all its troubles, and much smaller economy, sits at 166% of debt to GDP. There are now roughly 42 million Americans dependent on food stamps and yet this president says things are getting better.
Obama incited class and racial warfare, backed Occupy Wall Street (OWS), and used “executive privilege” as he saw fit. Obama was quick to apologize to foreign countries for the aggressiveness of the U.S., even when dealing with ruthless, autocratic regimes, such as Saudi Arabia. Our advocacy of freedom and democracy should not be apologized for, it should be promoted. Obama mocked the unemployed by saying “shovel ready jobs were not as shovel ready as we first thought” laughing. We cannot afford another day of President Obama or politicians with his same beliefs let alone another term.
1Levine, Mark, Ameritopia, Threshold Editions, 2012, p. 247
2The 2011 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 2011), 4.
3The 2011 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees, Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Trust Funds (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 2011), 2.
4North, Gary, Capitalism and the Bible