Get involved
Andy Stevens

 

People, we need to get involved and be involved in preserving our freedoms and rights as provided for under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, God given and handed down to us by our Forefathers after much painstaking soul searching and forethought.  Every word, every sentence and every paragraph in those documents was labored over, analyzed and designed to preserve our individual freedoms and protect each of us,(that’s you and that’s me) from tyranny, anarchy, communism and socialism.  By design they provided for us a Republic, built on the rule of law designed to protect all of the people, all of the time.    

 

Many are under misguided concept that we live in a Democracy.  A Democracy is based on the premise that the “Majority Rules” and would seemingly be idealistic.  In reality, however, a government under Democracy is flawed and unrealistic in that it is mob rule under constant flux and change and does nothing to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual.

 

Also chosen for us under the Constitution is a structured government, ‘for the people’ and ‘by the people’ for the purpose of collective defense of our God given freedoms and rights.  The duties of the government are articulately described therein, limiting and specifically defining what the government “Shall” or “Shall Not Do.”

 

In a nutshell, it does not allow the government to provide a service or a benefit to one individual at the expense of another individual. This is described and articulated in the next three paragraphs taken from the book published by Frederick Bastiat, entitled “The Law”.

 

What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

 

 Each of us has a natural right—from God—to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?  

 

If every person has the right to defend—even by force—his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right—its reason for existing, its lawfulness—is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force—for the same reason—cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

 

The entire book, “The Law” can be downloaded from my Website.  I would suggest downloading it and making it available to all. The entire book is a mere 85 pages and worth the study.

 

Unfortunately, over time and at an exceedingly rapid rate the politicians we’ve elected to do the bidding of the people have found ways to circumvent these limits and restrictions via political promises, cronyism and executive order.  

 

It’s  a brand new year and it’s incumbent on each of us, (again, that’s you and I) to involve ourselves as we never have before in preserving the rights we do have left as well as making an effort to roll back the government control over the rights and privileges that have been lost.  This has to be more than a token effort or we all lose, big time.  Take every opportunity to express your opinion, on every subject beginning with your local level politics on up to the state and federal level.  They will listen.  We just have to shout louder with bigger collective voices.

 

Keep in mind, Phil Robinson, ABC and the Duck Dynasty, a case where the powers that be got the message of the people loud and clear.

 

What can we do? Take a look around you.  Set forth and change those things you can but don’t wait until they come knocking on your door.  By that time it’ll be too late!!!