What happened to my freedoms?

Ronald Reagan in a presidential address to the nation from the Oval Office in the White House mentioned that many constitutions in other countries around the world, such as third world countries, tell people what their rights are and restricts what people can do. But in this country, he told the audience that the United States constitution is a restriction on what government can do. Reagan was absolutely right. The United States Constitution does restrict government power. This statement came from Patrick Henry’s saying “The constitution is not a restraint on the people; it is a restraint on government.”

                   In this modern society we have seen the erosion of liberty by a thousand cuts. This gradual erosion of liberty has been caused by career politicians, activist judges, bureaucrats, corrupt law enforcement, and an executive branch who chooses to exercise power not delegated to them. They all have one thing in common. They will not listen to reason and will do what pleases them in order to save their political careers and earn a lot of taxpayer money. Congress does not draw those who love liberty but rather draws those who love power. We are living with this craziness today as we have ever since the founding of this great nation. After 200 years of eroding the plain meaning of the words in the constitution, we now have a congress which writes whatever laws pleases their agenda, regulate any human activity, and tax anything no matter what our constitution says. Everybody should know that our constitution defines the federal government to specific enumerated powers and not to right every wrong. Governments at all levels will follow the tyrannical leads of congress.

The rule of law and justice are the essential jewel of our civilized constitutional republic and as a society we must uphold those principles.

However we have heard the false assertion that the rule of law means having to obey any law that the government throws at us, even if tyrannical and that justice means punishment for committing a crime, even if it involves no victim. In America, these definitions are partially false. The rule of law in America means that laws are applied to everyone, regardless of status in society. Justice in America means that people are held accountable for their actions if they are found guilty by a jury of peers of violating someone else’s rights.

Often government violates the rule of law by exempting government from its own laws it enacted. They also often violate the principle of justice by prosecuting someone for exercising their fundamental right to defend themselves and also imprison one for violating nobody’s rights. Under the American system of the rule of law and justice, prosecuting and jailing someone for exercising their right to inform the public of government corruption, exercising their right to serve whoever they please and to make an honest living, defending one’s self from aggression when they have not harmed anyone, exercising one’s right to be left alone in one’s house and only be searched if police have a written search warrant with a magistrate’s permission upon proving probable cause, exercising one’s right to put in our bodies what we wish, demanding a fair trial, notifying and educating the jury during a criminal trial of government abuses of liberty are unacceptable in a free society of rule of law. Federal and even state and local law enforcement in states with high political corruption act like a villainous crime organization and when they do so they do not serve American justice, but harass, intimidate, and coerce people into reducing their standard of living and living the way that the government tells them to.

The progressives in America have argued that we must trade our freedom for security. That is preposterous! America’s the only country in the world that permanently acknowledges that rights come from our humanity. What is the point of being safe if we don’t have liberty? Did our founding fathers fight to break away from the British and start their own country in order to be safe?! Did Patrick Henry say ‘Give me safety or give me death’?! Absolutely not! The fans and crusaders of big government want to force we the people to balance liberty and safety. The fact of the matter is in a de jure and de facto free society the balancing of liberty and safety by force is immoral, unacceptable, and criminal. 

          In this post 9/11 era America, government has assaulted our liberties both personal and economic under the disastrous presidencies of George W. Bush and incumbent president as of 2010 Barack Obama. I understand my views may seem radical but they are really not once they’re explained. A better solution to our problems is the private sector which must never be taken for granted. We the people of this great nation must be ever so vigilant and learn how to appropriately stand up to the government at all levels when it becomes tyrannical and look to the best solutions to today’s issues.