Cry for America

By  

       M. Richard Maxson

    As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776: "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..."

    Thomas Jefferson wrote,"we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." By acknowledging that our rights are inalienable, Jefferson’s words and the first federal statute recognize that our rights come from our humanity -- from within us -- and not from the government.

    Today we have the opposite of what the Framers gave us. Today we have a government that alone decides how much wealth we can retain, how much free expression we can exercise, how much privacy we can enjoy. In the past year, all branches of the federal government have combined to diminish personal freedoms, in obvious and in subtle ways.

   In the case of privacy, we now know that the federal government has the ability to read all of our texts and emails and listen to all of our telephone calls -- mobile and land line -- and can do so without complying with the Constitution’s requirements for a search warrant. Jefferson also wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." 

    As the Declaration also stated that "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." 

    The time for separation is upon us. Will the American people rise up and return us to the Constitutional Democratic Republic that we were meant to be? I think not. This populace has been "opiated" with games and technology to distract us from our obligations and responsibilities as Americans. We no longer look to the Constitution for guidance as we have been taught that it is old, outdated, and cumbersome. We are being taught that Democratic Socialism is a far superior form of government. Our media has been taken over by this philosophy that is, ever so slowly, dripped into our psyche day after day everywhere we turn.

    The litany of the loss of freedom is sad and unconstitutional and irreversible. Bitterly and ironically, the government Jefferson wrought is proving the accuracy of Jefferson’s prediction that in the long march of history, government grows and liberty shrinks.                                           

                

                                Somewhere Jefferson is weeping.