Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Liberty Requires Self Discipline


This country was born, July 4th 1776 being the celebrated first breath. The thoughts of many gifted thinkers, dreamers and writers all came together and established the fabric which would permit so many varied people to individually accomplish to their fullest while establishing limits to the structure of government that might seek to contain such freedoms.

We are optimists, those who plan families and intend to bring forth children to this environment of hope. No where else on the face of this planet can an individual have so many opportunities to express the ideas, attempt to carry out those ideas and remain within the working framework of an orderly society. I say that we are optimists because a good portion of the world does not believe that so much freedom is a good thing and at each and every opportunity there are those who would remove our way of life, our freedoms and our ability to express thoughts and actions. There are many who live among us, driven to extreme by greed, lust for power or simply lack of self discipline. They are willing to accept the freedom and liberties created for all to extend themselves and accomplish their greatest goals and achievements; but would do so at the expense of their fellow countrymen, discounting other's feeble attempts and dreams as inferior and therefore not deserving of the same level of freedom or liberty.

In some countries they are called Monarchies; Kings, Emperors, Mullahs and the list of self proclaimed elitists is as varied as there are languages. In any case they are strong willed individuals who saw the opportunity to seize power and acted without hesitation to obtain and hold that power. Here in the United States of America, although the use of “United” and “States” might be quite a stretch now that we have Blue and Red splotches all over the map, we have no such comparative position; or at least it should not be considered as such. The difference is that our leaders are elected for and by the people as servants to those people instead of grabbing that power by virtue of force or coercion. Some of you might wonder if I fell of the turnip truck yesterday and hit my head when I landed on the pavement with such a remarkably naive statement. If it turns out that we made a poor choice then there is a mechanism whereby that damage is limited to the term of office and we can elect a different person to fill that position of authority; at least that’s the way it was set up.

We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition
of
almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.”

(Doctrine and Covenants 121:39)


The “Great Experiment” which is the self administration of affairs by a group of individuals, has built into its fabric the visible flaws which are capable of destroying itself. While these flaws have been there from our inception, they have, for the most part been overlooked, not because they are not flawed; but because we respected our individuality, our common desire to exist with each other under the umbrella of such a flawed set of rules and laws and not to take advantage of such flaws so as to preserve the union and that fabric which permits our individual freedoms and liberties.

In the first house that I owned we had a back bedroom with one of the smaller window panes broken. It was only a corner that was broken, a clean brake that we could have fixed easily for about $ 5. We left it broken because our cats had discovered that they no longer had to howl and scratch at the door for attention when they wanted in or out. The hole was just barely large enough for them to squeeze through and so it made our lives that much easier. We accepted the flaw; realizing that some of our air conditioned comfort was escaping, that there were other ways to accomplish the same ends and yet we were content to leave it alone. Eventually there was one heck of a cat fight that started in our back yard and a chase that took out the remainder of that same window when the offending beast followed without regard for the fact that his head was larger than the opening. We then installed a Lucite replacement window expressly designed for cats to take its place.

The Constitution along with the corrective measures taken by the inclusion of the Bill of Rights is the fabric of our freedoms and liberties. Its not that they define our rights, for their intent is to limit government’s ability to infringe on the individual; something that has been overlooked. Those who came to America were aware of the extreme nature of government and how specific issues made life unbearable and went about the process of articulating the method and means of a totally new form of self governed people; The Great Experiment.

It has taken a little over 200 years for some of our more aggressive power seekers to “find”, change that to “seek out” the flaws in the fabric which holds our liberties together. There has been a concerted effort from within our own to dismantle the safe guards of individual liberty so as to dissolve and destroy them. This is no accident, no coincidence of nature; it follows an agenda and therefore can be identified. In 1958, Cleon Skoussen, former FBI agent, revealed in his book, The Naked Communist, the long term goals of the communist agenda. This information is also contained not only in the Congressional Record (August 1963), but also in the Communist Manifesto itself. Without going into a long list of the itemized issues presented as the agenda, I would present the idea that nothing short of a total collapse of our form of government is their goal and expect that the link provided will be sufficient to support my statement.

It is logical and appropriate to then proceed with the notion, avoiding the word “assumption” and the baggage that is associated with that particular word, that there are powers working at nearly every level of our society that have taken a silent oath in support of advancing the agenda of destruction. It is time to expose these traitors of liberty for what they are. We need not call them “the Liberal Left”, “Progressives” or any number of filtered down, less incendiary titles; they are Communists intent on our demise. It’s time to stand up on one side of the ledger or the other, define our intentions to either support furthering the Great Experiment or declare our inclination to destroy it.


A special Hat Tip goes to “Wally” for his comment regarding Cleon Skoussen’s book, The Naked Communist, when he visited Hold the Mayo’s Blog article, “Open Source Amendment Project - Revision 2”

Here is the URL permalink to Hold the Mayo because the tool to hide URL's is not permitting me to do that now. (my shoulders come together and my hands are held palms up at this time)

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/096475.php

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