by Wes Rhinier
Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us. They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people. But today the United States has become an empire, fast decaying into tyranny; and we their children have become strangers and subjects in the land our fathers won. Instead of a free and just social and political order, today we are threatened by a Godless national culture and a corrupt, despotic federal government that knows no limits to its power.
Our Founders were willing to die for the rights espoused in the Declaration they crafted and signed at their own Peril. Their document boldly proclaimed our Right to Live in Freedom, freedom to be protected, not threatened, by the rule of the government. The fundamental rights and freedoms enumerated in the Declaration of Independence included the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. These rights were God-given and could not be eliminated even by a king or a government! It is startling to many people today that the same types of injustices that led to the Revolution are re-occurring in America today! It was heavy-handed authoritarian control and unfair laws our founders were against! There are many similarities between today’s issues in the United States and the issues the Colonies experienced leading up to the Declaration. Our founders were called “Traitors and Radicals” and then the people Rebelled!
Comment below is directed toward the image used in this post:
Liberty is not about citizenship, service or sacrifice.
Rightful Liberty is about leaving others alone to conduct their affairs in a peaceful fashion.
Nothing more … and nothing less.
I agree. Since I put the image in (not the author), I removed it pending suggestions for a better image. I liked the graphic but missed the words. Maybe an article about what Liberty is since most people do not seem to know? Or care.
I was gonna post something about the image but you beat me to it.
The problem with America today is that very few American citizens even know the Constitution, and some only know the first two or three Amendments listed in the “Bill of Rights”, and, I will venture to say, that goes for many of the ‘Oath Keepers’ and Constitutional Defenders. How can one claim to uphold and defend the Constitution when they don’t even know what it says?
If the majority of Americans knew and understood the Constitution, they never would have voted for Obama who is constitutionally ineligible, nor would Cruz and Rubio even be allowed to run for the office of President or Vice-President because neither of them is constitutionally eligible. But it is happening because American citizens today are under the false impression that being born in the US automatically makes you a “natural born” citizen, which it does not. There is a difference.
If the American people knew the Constitution, they would know, despite what the US Supreme Court says, that Obama Care is unconstitutional, they would know, that since we are all EQUAL under the law, that all special victims laws are unconstitutional. They would know that the federal government’s involvement in our public education system is unconstitutional, they would know that the federal governments control and ownership over millions of acres of land is unconstitutional, the people would know that the Federal Reserve Banking System is unconstitutional. They would know and realize that every federal gun control law is unconstitutional. The people would know that just about all of Obama’s and other presidents’ executive orders are unconstitutional and that Congress has no constitutional right to cede any of their Constitutional powers to the Executive Branch (President) or to any private non-governmental agency, group or individual. I could go on, but I think everyone gets the picture.
Our government has grown corrupt and tyrannical due to ignorance and apathy on the part of WE THE PEOPLE!
“Maybe an article about what Liberty is since most people do not seem to know? Or care.”
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Liberty? Liberty is buying beer and chips and the convenient store in preparation for this Sunday’s worship service at the church of the ‘Big Screen’ to watch thugs play ball.
LaVoy who?
I fear the Almighty is bringing down His wrath upon our country for apathy, complicity, and the ongoing arrogance that has become the United States. My dear gentlemen we, as in the majority of the population, have been given over to a reprobate mind. From the wholesale slaughter of our young to the legal recognition and protection of abomination the weight of the evidence is clear.
“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”
If the above is true then will it not also be true as an empire is destroyed?
Should we stay in Sodom and Gomorrah or found a God fearing land as did the pilgrims?
Sheriff David Clarke gives an astounding analysis of the standoff in Oregon.
https://soundcloud.com/peoplessheriff/the-siege-in-burns-oregon-the-peoples-sheriff-010916
@Archbishop Gregori, you go as far as to say, if most Americans knew the founding principles in 1861, there would have been no Civil War.
@ Average Joe, “reprobate mind” now you do not hear that term used anymore.
Maybe the Virginia state flag?
@ David
For an image, I enthusiastically endorse The Bonnie Blue:
See Wikipedia
For a definition, I suggest Websters Dictionary 1828 … particularly (1) and (2). Please read with careful attention, as (3) and (4) are the source from which all government abuse springs.
Liberty
LIB’ERTY, noun [Latin libertas, from liber, free.]
1. Freedom from restraint, in a general sense, and applicable to the body, or to the will or mind. The body is at liberty when not confined; the will or mind is at liberty when not checked or controlled. A man enjoys liberty when no physical force operates to restrain his actions or volitions.
2. Natural liberty consists in the power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. It is a state of exemption from the control of others, and from positive laws and the institutions of social life. This liberty is abridged by the establishment of government.
3. Civil liberty is the liberty of men in a state of society, or natural liberty so far only abridged and restrained, as is necessary and expedient for the safety and interest of the society, state or nation. A restraint of natural liberty not necessary or expedient for the public, is tyranny or oppression. civil liberty is an exemption from the arbitrary will of others, which exemption is secured by established laws, which restrain every man from injuring or controlling another. Hence the restraints of law are essential to civil liberty
The liberty of one depends not so much on the removal of all restraint from him, as on the due restraint upon the liberty of others.
In this sentence, the latter word liberty denotes natural liberty
4. Political liberty is sometimes used as synonymous with civil liberty But it more properly designates the liberty of a nation, the freedom of a nation or state from all unjust abridgment of its rights and independence by another nation. Hence we often speak of the political liberties of Europe, or the nations of Europe.
5. Religious liberty is the free right of adopting and enjoying opinions on religious subjects, and of worshiping the Supreme Being according to the dictates of conscience, without external control.
6. liberty in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, by which either is preferred to the other.
Freedom of the will; exemption from compulsion or restraint in willing or volition.
7. Privilege; exemption; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; with a plural. Thus we speak of the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.
8. Leave; permission granted. The witness obtained liberty to leave the court.
9. A space in which one is permitted to pass without restraint, and beyond which he may not lawfully pass; with a plural; as the liberties of a prison.
10. Freedom of action or speech beyond the ordinary bounds of civility or decorum. Females should repel all improper liberties.
To take the liberty to do or say any thing, to use freedom not specially granted.
To set at liberty to deliver from confinement; to release from restraint.
To be at liberty to be free from restraint.
Liberty of the press, is freedom from any restriction on the power to publish books; the free power of publishing what one pleases, subject only to punishment for abusing the privilege, or publishing what is mischievous to the public or injurious to individuals.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Leviticus 25:10
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