Only Two Weeks Until Independence Day

It is just two weeks, more or less, until the Fourth of July, our independence day.  I was just thinking about the democratic republic that was born that day, over two hundred years ago.  Now, these two centuries later, we - the United States - are engaged in (non) war in several countries around the world, with the stated purpose of "bringing democracy" to those nations.  Regardless of whether or not "democracy" has taken root in even one of those nations, the thought, the intent, was noble.  Ironically, at this same time, here in the United States our own government is engaged in another war, if you will.  It is a war AGAINST the Rights granted to each of us by the Creator and enumerated in our Bill of Rights.  And let us be clear on this point: Our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence state this truth quite plainly.  Our rights, that is, man's rights, were bestowed on us by our Creator, not by any government, any nation, any ruler, or even any sacred document such as the Constitution of the United States.  This point is worth making again, and worth teaching yourself and your children:  The Creator bestowed upon humans the inalienable rights we enjoy today.  The Constitution of the United States only ENUMERATES (or LISTS) those rights.  The corresponding point, also worth making once again, is that since MAN or GOVERNMENT did not bestow those rights, then neither MAN nor GOVERNMENT may legally remove or even LIMIT those rights.

So now, in 2011, we are witness to a great and terrible irony in full sway.  On the one hand, the United States is engaged in conflicts around the world, the point of which conflicts is to allow the citizens of the respective nations to have a chance at creating a democratic nation or society.  On the other hand, that same United States is engaged in a conflict IN the United States, the point of which conflict is the curtailment of our civil rights (bestowed upon us by the Creator, not "the Government"), in the name of "the War on Terrorism," the "War on Drugs," and of course, in the name of "National Security."  While our soldiers are giving their lives daily in foreign lands so that those people may have "freedom," our own government is engaged in slowly unravelling OUR freedom.  Since September 11, 2001, we, as United States citizens, have sat idly by as one government agency or another has implemented "administrative procedures" that effectively curtail our liberties.  A former President signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law.  The current President, though claiming to be for change and openness, has not only failed to take action to restore liberty, but has in fact added his weight and influence to the process of unraveling our freedom.

I plan to blog over the next few days about topics dealing with the current trend of the federal government in which small actions are taken against civil liberty, the people are told the measures are needed for "national security," the small loss of liberty is tolerated by the masses, then the cycle repeats itself.  There is no one point at which a person can say the government has gone too far.  Instead, because freedom is eroded so gradually, most of the public will not realize that liberty has been robbed from us until we wake up one day and the Orwellian world predicted decades ago has "suddenly" come to pass.   I am afraid that only then will the masses be alarmed at the loss of liberty; only then will the masses realize the need to unite against the monster government; and, only then will we -the people - realize, but too late, that our freedom, paid for by the blood of our soldiers for generations, has been taken from us...and no one fired a single shot to do it.