LET FREEDOM RING THIS 4TH OF JULY 2009 (Issue 230)

Another 4th of July is here to celebrate. What will you be doing on this 4th? Will you stop and think about how much Freedom you have left?

Like some starving ravaged animal, the centralized government in Washington, both congressional and executive branch, are devouring the small semblance of individual freedom and property Rights we have left.

Many are saying this once great country is bankrupt. Others are saying we are already a Socialist country. Some think we are on a fast track down the road of Marxism. Some think all that is happening with bailouts and belly-ups, the lengthy detailed laws being passed almost daily, is just what this country needs.

Some think, some speak, some act, some pray, while some play. Actually three kinds of people, those who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who do not know what the heck is going on.

So what are your plans for this 4th of July? Are you going to the beach? Having a cook-out? Planning a boating trip? Watching fire-works? Staying home watching TV?

Supposedly, it should be all about celebrating The Declaration of Independence. That great document which declares individual Freedom. Actually the greatest document human beings have ever created. A document which declares the greatest asset any human can have and that is Freedom.

Individual Rights of Freedom, spelled out in the “Bill of Rights.” Rights so eloquently spelled out by the great Libertarian, Harry Browne, who stated, “The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn’t say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a compelling interest in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn’t say you have a Right to keep and bear arms, until some madman plants a bomb. The fourth Amendment doesn’t say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.”

And yet all our declared rights have been violated by a centralized political government in one form or another.

Many flock to the polls to elect representatives from their respective States, who move to Washington and pass laws restricting individual Freedom and property Rights, without even reading the laws they pass. They have assumed a la carte authority to pass laws so profoundly affecting the citizens who pay for whatever their laws pass, without even reading them. Carelessly, and irresponsibly, without remorse or compunction, elected officials are passing laws they do not bother to read. This is reported in the news regularly.

How can we in all good conscience celebrate Freedom and the Declaration of Independence, while tolerating and ignoring what is happening, and advertised on the news while it takes place?

Aside from that, much is the news about the next election. Searching for a new batch of candidates to run for the same offices, to replace the current batch with a new batch. Who will say anything, but do the same thing as the current office holders. When the average person knows insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.

All politicians are dedicated to the same two things, i.e., getting into office and staying in office.

Many are asking, “What are we to do?” In my opinion, it’s the wrong question. Instead it should be, “What are we to stop doing?” to change things. To quote Dr. Phil with reference to what one is doing, “How’s that working for you?”

This Country is filled with so many different organizations, a center for this, an institute for that, hundreds of groups and organizations representing all kinds of notions of what to do and how to do. Most are pitching the line: write, call or e-mail your congressman. It’s the weirdest thing to me, this has been going on for so long, while conditions go from bad to worse. This notion of  joining some organization, contacting your congressman and send a contribution to the organization, is so old-hat stuff, with the same results of things going from bad to worse in this country.  More and more loss of individual freedom and Property Rights.

Is it so unreasonable and far-fetched to suggest that we could change things by simply stopping the doing of what we’ve been doing?  Have we not become enablers of the downward spiral, contributing to the conditions of crisis we face?  Are we on a merry-go-round of denial?

Suppose we stopped doing anything, got off the merry-go round of denial, got off each others’ backs, stopped feeding the hand that is destroying individual Freedom and personal Property Rights and just “shrugged it,” what then?

In actuality, what is now taking place is working. It is working to destroy life in this United States as we once knew it. It is working to destroy individual Freedom and property Rights. It is working to establish a socialist, marxist State or a socialist fascist State. It is working to place all of us and our children and grandchildren in bondage.

What would happen if the decision was made for everyone to get off the backs of others and do nothing? Except one thing, and that is to learn the true meaning of Freedom.

My next article will be about learning the real meaning of Freedom.

Let Freedom Ring

Just Me, AC

Email: annecleveland@bellsouth.net