When the founders of this nation wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, they had two thousand years of history and many philosophers to draw upon.
They built the republic on natural law, something English lawyers had been playing with for a while. Natural law is not the law of the jungle but rather the law of God, created by God. Many of the founders believed in this law and that it was ever lasting and could not be overturned by man, or state.
Part of Natural Law was inalienable rights. Here to, just as Natural Law was handed down from God, so to were these rights. Of these rights were life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Equal rights were included in this, but not equal rights to things.
Combining the two statements, equal rights with the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness means simply put, every person has the same right to pursue that which they feel will make them happy. As well, each person has the right to liberty or freedom. Freedom from what one might ask. The answer is of course, the freedom from oppressive governments. In addition, people have the right to life. People have the right to live, and to live life as they see fit.
Equality is a slippery slope and has two meanings. The first is equality under the law that is to be treated the same. However, the second is different, none of us are equal. We all have various talents and gifts, and range in intellect. This type of equality is equality of possessions, or earnings perhaps, or a right to purse same. A mentally disable person with an IQ of 70 will never possess the talents and or intelligence to be the CEO of a major corporation. He has no rights to millions of dollars, mansions, and limousines, but he does have the right to try to obtain them. None of us has the right to just have because we want. We must work hard and earn it using our talents, abilities, and intelligences.
Unfortunately, there has been a slow and steady drumbeat to “Level the playing field.” Equal rights to these people mean equal possessions. In order to create such a playing field, those who have more must be brought down, forced at the point of a gun to give it up. This is reverse logic to what the founders created. The created a country where, through hard work and effort, one could lift themselves up and climb the ladder.
Our current leader and his people in congress, no names need be mentioned, see the world upside down to what the founders saw it. They envision an America where the haves are made to give it up, to the have not’s, or have less. The founders saw a nation of prosperity for those who work hard but modern people see it as a nation of greed whose possessions need to be stripped away and given to those that have less. They suffer from the Robin Hood syndrome, or another name is socialism.
Socialism is four square opposite of what the founders of this nation created. Do you realize that one nation has rocketed this world into the future farther and faster in just 200 years than the whole world did in 5000 years? This was not done thanks to socialism, communism, fascism, or monarchies, but because of two things, freedom, and capitalism. Now we sit on the brink of destruction. We sit and watch as our government takes over banks, begins to pass laws to control the salaries of people working in privately owned business, as they pass laws that will allow the government to confiscate businesses if they are major players and are about to faultier. Our government is creating the equivalent of Hitler’s youth movements, and the Nazi SS in the form of forced volunteerism and the so-called Civilian Action Corps and someday soon, the energy police or green shirts. New Gun bans are in the making, and the current Attorney General says that he doesn’t believe in the 2nd amendment.
With each new law congress passes, or the president signs into law using executive powers, and with each new Czar he creates, we are losing rights, and freedoms and capitalism. Friends, this president, and the leadership of the democrat party are the real deal; they are socialist hell bent on turning our country into a socialist fascist nation.
I urge you to do one of or all three of the following. Join a “We Surround Them,” group, first go to http://www.the912project.com/ and see what this is, then go to http://www.meetup.com/ and put in “We surround them” in the topic or interest box and find the group meeting near you. Secondly, go to http://newamericanteaparty.org/ and find a tea party near you, or start one if one does not exist. Finally, write or call your congressperson. Most importantly don’t just do nothing.
