Back to the Basics

After taking some time off from the blog due to burn out and generalized business, a wonderful vacation and the Fourth of July is bringing me back.  My beautiful wife and I had a week off and spent it in Cancun (yes, I legally immigrated to Mexico).  I spent a lot of my time at the pool and on the beach reading Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto and among other things it reminded me to get back to the basics.

We spend so much time debating whether a particular bill is good or bad for the country that we lose our grasp on the big picture.  We need to refocus our attention on what made this country the great country it has become.  We should be viewing governmental action, be it by the executive, legislative or judicial branch through constitution colored glasses.

When a nominee for the Supreme Court says this there is a major problem within our country:

Wrong!  There is a problem with banning books or pamphlets.  It is unconstitutional, and if a woman who is likely to serve as a Justice on our Supreme Court feels like, “oh it isn’t a big deal because it has never been enforced,” it really makes you wonder just how far we have fallen.

We are the richest and most fortunate nation on earth indebted forever to the founding fathers we had.  Such wisdom when founding a country had never been seen before.  Wisdom buried neck-deep in foresight evident in the plain and simple composition of the Constitution, followed by the Bill of Rights.  They had seen the dangerous of a powerful and ever more power-hungry government and had hence fled from it.  They previously fought a war vastly under prepared against the mighty British army and emerged victorious fueled largely by the love of liberty and equally by the hatred of tyranny.

Often I find myself wondering, at what point is liberty lost?  When has the United States of America become a socialist nation?  Or when exactly is the government no longer protecting our liberty but enforcing their tyranny?  I have come to the conclusion that we are already there.  The point has come and gone.  Certainly, I’m not comparing our government to those of China, Venezuela  or Russia.   However, if a small faction of China revolted and won a portion of the land and started their country on the same principles that America held to on September 17, 1787 would you not be more likely to contrast it with America of Present day than to compare it?

The Constitution is not irrelevant yet, but the popular notion that it is a living document to be interpreted with the time is a farce.  It is like saying “yes, I understand about the freedom of speech but I didn’t know that people would be saying that, so it needs to be done away with.”  I assure you that even as Reagan spoke of that shinning city on a hill, liberties flame had been diminishing for many years.  Now all that remains is a but a glimmer of what this country once was.  All is not lost but the time to wake up and restore the integrity of the Constitution and rebuild the freedom that fueled the patriots is here.

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