I am a freeborn American with God-given rights. This means I submit voluntarily, or I don’t submit at all. As an American, my government is my servant, not my master. As a freeborn American, according to the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, I have the God-given right to:
– Exercise my religion without interference from the government. Therefore I cannot be forced by government to fund something that violates my religious conscience, and I cannot be forced to purchase something that forces me to violate my religious convictions. Any government forcing citizens to violate conscience violates God-given rights. Such government renders itself illegitimate, unworthy of citizen cooperation.
In this light Obamacare is an abomination because it forces citizens to pay for abortion drugs and services and contraception, in the view of many, immoral measures representing government infringement on the free exercise clause, Amendment 1, Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. government is also found infringing on the free exercise of pastors addressing moral and social issues, using the tax code to silence pastors, and using zoning regulations to prevent churches from operating. These too are violations of God-given rights, infringements we demand government halt or be found in contempt by The People.
– Freedom of speech, a right and a responsibility. I have the right to speak out without fear of reprisal, and I have a responsibility to speak the truth so far as God grants the ability to determine truth. Hate crimes laws are specifically designed to stifle speech, to silence any traditionalist speaking on the moral issues of the day. These laws are a violation of my God-given rights, and a violation of my Constitutional right to free speech. They are therefore unlawful and will not be obeyed.
The People have a right to organize political and educational groups to participate in and improve society — all part of exercising free speech. When government uses the IRS and other agencies to silence such groups, government acts illegally, becoming unfit to govern. Any government abridging freedom of speech has lost all right to govern, having lost the consent of the governed.
– Freedom of the press. The U.S. government is actively engaged in spying on reporters, intimidating journalists, and threatening them in attempts to control the flow of information needed by citizens to make good decisions in selecting representatives. Persecuting the Associated Press and Fox News, this government commits crimes against its own citizens. In all this the U.S. government has become tyrannical, violating of the U.S Constitution. Freeborn Americans must confront such tyranny or forfeit liberty.
Obamacare is beyond an abomination, it is tyranny. And our Founding Fathers had this to say about despots in government:
From Federalist 48:
An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
...the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Quote: nicmarlo wrote in post #2If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Quote: Rev wrote in post #3Thanks for posting that, nic.
Indeed how insightful were our founding fathers on the difficulty of the task.
How blind have we become. Thinking ourselves wise we have become foolish and revealed our lostness.
Quote: nicmarlo wrote in post #2If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Quote: Rev wrote in post #3Thanks for posting that, nic.
Indeed how insightful were our founding fathers on the difficulty of the task.
How blind have we become. Thinking ourselves wise we have become foolish and revealed our lostness.