THE AVERAGE AMERICAN NOW FEARS HIS GOVERNMENT

 

In the progressive rush to undermine the Constitution and thereby escape its limitations on government authority, the unintended consequence has been a loss of our personal security. The dramatic recent attacks by the left on the first and fourth amendments coupled with the decades long assaults on the second and tenth amendments have caused most Americans to become concerned over their own safety. The statist’s argument for many years has been centered on the benefit and in fact the need for more centralized government control. The argument is not new; it was debated at length by the Constitutional framers and rejected in favor of a representative republic with its decentralized and state centered government control. The framers recognized that every society contains people who want to gain control over the rest of their peers. The Constitution specifically denies the legal authority to the federal government to make us its subjects. The first amendment guarantees us freedom of religion, speech, press, peaceable assembly, and to petition our government for redress of grievances. The headlines contain examples of groups being denied freedom to practice their religion every day and the IRS scandal showed that the administration was willing and able to use the revenue service to eliminate citizen’s legal right to decent. The executive branch through the Department of Justice has even sought to intimidate the press with indictments and persecution of whistle blowers. Any citizen who speaks out in a critical way about the Obama administration is risking federal investigations and intimidation. We no longer live with the knowledge that our Constitution will protect us from government wrongdoing. The same public figures and liberal press that have facilitated the undermining of the Constitution are now the one’s making the most noise in protest about the NSA trampling our fourth amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.

This is a classic example of what the legal profession calls a slippery slope. In their excitement over seeing the rights of conservatives citizens, with whom they disagree, withheld the liberal’s overlooked the dangerous precedent that was being set. The tech savvy young liberals are all of a sudden realizing that they are not safe in their persons and that the government can read and record anything they say on the internet. The lawless activity of the federal government is frightening because once the constitutional protections are bridged we could very well see private citizens jailed for voicing their decent. It could even come to pass that a u-tube video posting that the government finds offensive could get a person incarcerated. Political motives could be substituted for the rule of law and our decent into third world dictatorship status would be complete. If it were not so ironic watching the low information liberal’s panic over the realization that Pandora’s Box is open, I might be tempted to cry “we told you so”. Oddly the liberal press still hasn’t caught on to what is happening as they are still protecting the administration and denouncing vocal conservatives as racists.

The disaster called Obamacare is, in my opinion, going to be tipping point back towards decentralized government. Every one of the bad projections about this law is coming to pass in very personal and public ways. I hope it is enough to wake up the population and reverse the progressive agenda.