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Founding Fathers
This is a series about the United States Constitution and Human Freedom produced by thefoxnation.com narrated by Judge Andrew Napolitano. We encourage everyone to watch these videos and discuss these fundamental concepts with their families, friends, and neighbors. You can find the entire series here.
The Constitution and Freedom – Part 1:
The Constitution of the United States of America is the foundation of the American Government and everyone who works for the government takes and oath to preserve, protect, and defend it.
The Constitution and Freedom – Part 2:
The job of the Congress of the United States of America is to write the federal laws in strict accordance to the Constitution.
The Constitution and Freedom – Part 3:
The executive power of the federal government is granted to the President under the Constitution of the United States of America.
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THOMAS PAINE argues for a restoration of the common bond over diversity
“Those who are combined to destroy people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.” – Samuel Adams
If conservatives are serious about retaking congress in 2010, we had better ACT quickly and effectively. This will happen only if we find a way to unite in action, and do it fast.
True, “We The People” are all stirred up, angry and frightened. This seems to be the ideal time to make our voices heard. However, we all seem to march to the beat of our own drum. Our voices sound more like a cacophony of a million rusty hinged doors of junkyard cars closing independently in a random rhythm, than the precise chord of a disciplined, harmonious choir with everyone doing their part.
Too many of us are depending on a national political party to save our country in the 2010 elections. In many cases it is the Republican party being relied upon. This is the same party whose arrogance and lack of clear values got us into this mess in the first place. Others depend upon the Libertarian Party or the Independent Party.
I am sorry but this gives me NO comfort. This WILL NOT get the job done!
For the most part political parties are run by political hacks with personal agendas and ulterior motives that are not necessarily in line with the needs of our country. This is evidenced best by the Republican party’s nomination of Bob Dole in 1996 and John McCain in 2008 because “it was their turn”. As a result of the Dole nomination we enjoyed a second four years of Bill Clinton, with the accompanying scandals, impeachment hearings and serious damage to the Office of the Presidency itself.
The McCain nomination has given us the disastrous past nine months of Barack Obama (with only 39 more to go). The GOP made the decisions to back Dole and McCain based upon some obscure political protocol that gave no thought to who could really win or who would actually be best for the country.
We cannot delegate the fate of the United States of America to any one political party. Like it or not, the fate of our beloved country lies in the hands of “We The People”, just as it did in the time of the American Revolution. This is not the time for patriots to hide themselves in complacency. Either we unite and sing together in a single harmonious chorus or our liberty perishes. It really is as simple as that.
The 2010 elections are just over one year from now. We should ALREADY have a united strategy! We should already have chosen target house and senate seats where we have a realistic chance to replace treacherous, self serving incumbents with true lovers of the USA, its constitution and liberties. We should have already vetted and chosen candidates to unite behind for each of those seats.
We must discard political boundaries, for who is elected in North Carolina is just as important to someone living in Texas as the representative sent to Washington from the home district.
We must discard political stereotypes and political labels. There are clear thinking, courageous patriots in the GOP, the Libertarian Party, The Independent Party and yes, in the Democratic Party as well.
We must put on hold personal political ideologies that divide us and focus on the things we all agree upon. In some cases we will feel so strongly about these issues that it will actually be painful to set them aside, even temporarily.
We must forget about selfish territorial interests and “pork” we can argue about that later. We must forget about political debts and focus on saving the country. We must be willing to think outside the box and elect people who are not insiders and have no political experience.
What is critical at this point is saving the United States of America and our Constitution. We need to focus on that issue! I believe our agenda must be very simple: We must re-enthrone our constitution and redefine the role and size of our federal government. We must put that federal government firmly back in the place in which our founders created it. It must return to the role of servant of the people and the sovereign states, NOT the master.
We are going to have to dig deep into our pockets at a time when we can ill afford it. We must financially support candidates across the USA.
This raises some basic questions:
How do we organize? Does the organization already exist that we can fall in with and trust to put aside the politics and help us vet the candidates? One that we can trust to use our hard earned money wisely? One that we can trust to resist temptation for personal gain and private agendas and pursue the fully disclosed and agreed upon agenda of “We The People”?
If this organization does not currently exist how on earth do we create one quickly and soundly enough to get the job done in 2010?
If you care about this country, We would like to have your suggestions. Tell us which existing organizations we might be able to trust to pursue our agenda of re-enthroning our constitution and redefining the role and size of the federal government.
I suspect there is no single organization that conservatives will agree can be entrusted with this mission. If that is the case, then I suggest that the following approach be adopted:
Establish a volunteer governing board of proven conservative patriots who have NO connection to either The Trilateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations or the Bilderberg Group.
I suggest that the first three board members be organized from among clear thinking and influential conservatives at least two of which are NOT Washington “insiders”; people like Thomas Sowell and Glenn Beck. The third member might be a proven conservative elected official such as Michele Bachmann or Jason Chaffetz. The first three members will then choose an additional four to six members, consulting with conservative organizations such as The Heritage Foundation, The Cato institute, etc.
This board of Trustees would
- Recruit volunteer staff
- Hire staff with specific expertise as necessary
- Develop overall project strategy
- Target specific house and senate seats
- Vet candidates to back
- Oversee the raising and allocation of campaign funds
There is not a lot of time for those of us who love the America we inherited from our founders to act to take our country back. Please give us your feedback and suggestions. If patriots lack the passion and commitment to step forward and join the debate, the fight is lost already, before we begin.
Learn more about the U.S. Constitution Here:
National Center for Constitutional Studies
Tom Woods addresses 1,000+ on August 15, 2009 in Galveston Texas at the “Lectures on Liberty” event.
Thomas Woods: Lectures on Liberty – Four-Part Video:
The men we have come to revere as our founding fathers were strong, opinionated, ordinary men. They didn’t think of themselves as heroes, yet they saw what needed to be done and did it regardless of the personal risk and sacrifice involved.
They must have wondered on many of those long lonely nights away from their lovers and their children if their sacrifices would ultimately be worth while. Surely in those lonely moments of doubt, they must have imagined the challenges, we, their posterity would face. Would we have the courage and the wisdom to face them and prevail? Would we be willing to pay the same price they did to preserve liberty for ourselves and our posterity?
They had charged ahead to the point of no return to the status quo. They had become criminals in the eyes of the lawful government of the land. They were condemned to lives as a fugitives and soldiers when they were really farmers and tradesmen.
I find their ability to imagine our future and plan for it in the constitution they adopted amazing. Clearly they saw our day and recorded warnings and encouragement for us to see at the times we would need it most.
Here then are some timely warnings from our firebrand forebearers, revolutionaries and trouble makers all. I will let them speak for themselves, warnings from the grave:
First and foremost these men feared the potential for evil that government holds. They mistrusted government in general and encouraged the same of us Government was to play a very narrow, controlled role in our nation:
George Washington:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments
John Adams:
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
Thomas Jefferson
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
And finally, Thomas Paine
That government is best which governs least.
They also generally mistrusted those who would step forth and seek to govern, understanding that by its nature the very power vested in government would attract the wrong kind of person.
George Washington
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Thomas Jefferson:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
There was no mistake in the minds of these men the role that the second amendment was to play in keeping us free. The purpose of an armed citizenry is to protect itself from the tyranny of its own government!
George Washington
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
John Adams
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.
Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
We must listen to these men and heed their warnings. The nature of men and governments is unchanging. Our founders experienced oppression, felt the chains and were determined that we never would!
Our precious liberty was fought for and purchased with the blood of men and women whose names we may never hear. And as Jefferson predicted, the tree of our liberty has been nourished with the blood of heroes and tyrants from time to time since then.
The soils of Europe, the sands of Africa the atolls of the pacific, the jungles of Asia, and now the rugged terrain and desserts of the middle east are all stained with the blood of brave Americans who stood with our founders and shouted “the liberty of my fellow countrymen and our posterity is more important than my very life!”
God help us to see clearly and honor their sacrifice. Help us to stand up to any would be tyrants that threaten our liberty and disdain our constitution. Help us to successfully crush any who would rob our children of the great legacy that has been bequeathed to them through the blood and sacrifice of patriots throughout the existence of our great land. Help us not to be the weak link that breaks this divine chain of liberty, the last great hope of the world.
What are you doing to protect your posterity and to save our country? Tell us here.
I hate to say this, but I have come to believe it. Those who object to America’s quantum leap to the left and the frightening ability our government has acquired to restrict or eliminate our liberties seem to be depending on the GOP to step up and save our country. If that is our plan we will likely fail.
A little recent history from the 40,000 ft. view: after eight years of the Clinton administration the Republicans were swept into power, controlling the white house and both houses of congress. They came in with a “move-over-we-are in-charge-now” arrogance that nearly wrecked our nation and eventually led to our current predicament. They fractured the Republican “contract with America” that had returned them to power in the 1994 congressional elections and assumed their rightful position at the career politician’s feeding trough. They behaved not as the Reagan “less-government-is-good-government” conservative saviors but more like Tax and Spend Liberals taking their turn at the trough and tossing around the pork.
Now the real patriots of America depend upon the party of Specter, Powell, Sanford and McCain to step up and save our liberty. There are some very good Americans that wear the Republican label, and truth be known there are many good Americans who wear the Democrat, Libertarian, and Independent labels also. Labels and party machines however will not save us.
Why are so many of these good Americans with the “correct labels” standing silently by when our constitution is being trampled and the government is positioning the power to place their boot upon our necks without further warning? (Police State U.S.A?) Where is the public outrage from these label wearers over the shameless pay-off to ACORN for fixing the 2008 elections? Pay-off from taxpayer funds, by the way that will make ACORN the fourth largest US government contractor in the nation at $9 BILLION (behind the big three defense companies, Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop). Where are the shaking fists at the pending adoption of a economically disastrous Cap and Trade policy aimed at what may well be a manufactured climate crisis created for personal gain? How about the absence of pointing fingers as an unprecedented increase in the M-1 money supply baffles economists who have no history upon which to project economic consequences? What about our country’s new willingness to throw our friend Israel under the bus and acceptance that Iranian nuclear capability is inevitable and none of our business, when we know exactly what those nuclear bombs are destined for? All this with no screams, just politics as usual.
We need people with the courage and selflessness to stand up uncompromisingly and SHOUT “THIS IS WRONG!” THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL! THIS IS UNAMERICAN! Most of all we need someone with the courage, credibility and vision to stand up and shout “FOLLOW ME! I WILL LEAD AMERICA BACK TO THE FUTURE. I UNDERSTAND AND REVERE OUR CONSTITUTION AND I WILL PRESERVE PROTECT AND ADHERE TO IT! WE ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE A FREE PEOPLE JUST AS IMAGINED BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS! FOLLOW ME AND TOGETHER WE WILL BRING AMERICA TO ITS REBIRTH AS THE BEACON OF LIBERTY TO THE WORLD!
Can any public figure who wears the self-awarded labels of “patriot”, “conservative” “Republican” or “Libertarian” who has remained silent, who has not screamed in outrage stand now and presume to lead us?
Recently I saw in a Bio statement (the author of which I am not able to properly credit) the following: I am a libertarian with a small l. Well that describes me too. I am not a member of the Libertarian party, although I agree with much of their platform, nor am I a member of the Republican Party or the Independent Party. The only labels I claim are that of Lover of America and liberty and an advocate of minimal government.
I am not unique in this. There are literally millions like me. There are enough of us to save the America we love for future generations yet unimagined. There are some big problems, however. We can’t seem to agree on anything beyond the basic principles. We know were we want to go but can’t begin to agree on how to get there. Too many of us are depending on some existing party organization to do the work for us. Too many of us look at self awarded labels and automatically trust the person hiding behind them.
If we want to save America we will have to do it the same way our Founding Fathers created it. We can’t do it sitting in our comfortable homes waiting for someone else to do the heavy lifting while we pontificate our individual philosophies.
Our Founding Fathers were willing to take any risk, endure any discomfort or inconvenience, and make any sacrifice. They actually made themselves into criminals fighting against the establishment. Many sacrificed their homes, families and even their lives.
Fortunately we are not to the point where we have to become criminals against the establishment….yet. Thanks to the wisdom of our founders we have legal options that they didn’t have. What we need now is unity and leaders. If we would save America and her liberties we need to find a leader with vision and courage to UNITE behind and do it FAST!
On this 233 birthday of America, join me in a commitment to see the America we love reborn. Let’s make it easy for the right leader to step forth. Let’s be sure we recognize him or her when they do. Yes, her. We may well leave our progeny talking about their Re-founding Mothers.
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