I think the conversation needs to begin about forming a new country. I am not saying we need to do anything drastic. I am saying we need to start the conversation to formulate a plan to create new guards for our future security. We have endured a long train of abuses and usurpations. The Arizona immigration law and ObamaCare Supreme Court rulings, a Congress that has ignored the People on universal health care, border security, domestic oil production, etc, and a President who refuses to enforce laws have evinced a design to reduce us under absolute despotism. We need to start talking and planning for how we are going to alter or abolish the federal government.
I believe the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written, but my loyalty is to liberty. Too many of our countrymen love the shackles of tyranny. They would rather live off the blood, sweat and tears of their neighbors than to live as free, moral and responsible men. They have manipulated the words of the Constitution to make it into a document our Founders would never have approved. They have used the force of government to oppress us with their entitlements. They have permeated our federal government that rooting them all out may be impossible. It may be a better choice to simply start over. That is the conversation we need to have.
This conversation must begin with one premise: There is no king but King Jesus.
I would have to sadly agree with you. Benjamin Franklin did tell us we were given “A Republic, if [we could] keep it.” Each day I ask the question, have we kept it? If one really cares for something, one seeks to keep track of it, protect it, and take care of it. If the American public truly cared for their liberty, they would have done a better job of securing those liberties.
I still have hope, but as my dad always says, “I’ve said for a couple years that America’s problems are not just economic or political, they’re moral. I furthermore believe America’s problems will not be solved absent repentance and I grieve that repentance is unlikely absent suffering and perhaps much suffering or more accurately the judgement of God.”
If we want our Republic back, it will not be absent suffering.
It has been mentioned before, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” (Thomas Jefferson).
If you haven’t already, I would encourage a viewing of this video on citizen militias: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bew_9GeuGA4.
Have confidence that you are not the only one having this conversation. There is no king but Jesus and He is whom we put our trust, hope, and strength in. Thank you for this post. I’m sure we will be communicating much more in the coming days. God Bless. 2 Chronicles 7:14