Open Letter to Americans

  As years progress, the more indignant I become. Not towards the politicians and corporate thieves, but towards you my fellow Americans. You who through apathy, ignorance or self interest are allowing the liberty, which many of you don’t understand, slip from your grasp. You, who are so concerned with your own little world, that perhaps sooner than you believe, stands to lose it.

Be immature and believe that the problems are Bush, Obama, Healthcare, Republicans or Democrats. Ignore that the problems we are facing didn’t begin 6 months or 8 years ago. Keep watching your “American Idol”, as your personal freedom is slaughtered upon your altar of indifference. You deserve to be enslaved. You are demanding it. You already are enslaved.

Go ahead, moan about how difficult life is, the so called benevolent hand of government will be quick to provide you the illusions of help. Why?, because they “love” you? Be foolish, take the bait. After all they have run things so well for the last 50 -100 years. Let me ask you something, if politicians are among most un-trusted people, as polling indicates, why are so many of you trusting them to solve your problems?

Oh that’s right, those greedy corporations and banks, those dang special interests. Now there is the problem! What, you expected me to defend these people? Well, I am not. They are just as complicit to the problems we face.

My question to you is who is bailing them out? Who is “not” investigating corruption on all levels? Who is “not” holding people accountable for their actions? WHO HAS TAKEN A PUBLIC OATH TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION!

Folks, you better wake up. This nation was conceived on a novel principle, that the people rule this nation, not tyrants or kings. That means “you” madam and sir, and “you” have been negligent in your duties.

You have allowed, and continue to allow bloated and ponderous local, state and federal governments to rob you, your children, and grandchildren of not just your money, but your most precious possessions, liberty and freedom.

You cry out to government when you should cry out to God. You beg at the trough for entitlements, when you could be helping yourself. You’ve trampled underfoot the only thing that can fix the mess, the Constitution, which many of you are too lazy to even read and growing numbers ignore.

You have allowed government to centralize too much authority. You have allowed your self interests to override general welfare. You have allowed politicians and thieves to divide us and set us against each other and to what end? Look around, it’s obvious who is benefiting and it is not us.

Some of you know all this, but you still allow your brothers, sisters, sons and daughters to believe a lie. You don’t challenge them; you let them languish in their falsehoods and ignorance. How are you helping, by letting them believe something that is not true? And do so without so much as a word or an attempt to defend the truth!

And what is that truth? Well it certainly isn’t that this nation is bad or evil; that the system is somehow broken and needs replaced. It’s not the Constitution that is broken, it’s the idiots and fools that ignore it, who call it antiquated and inapplicable to today’s society, and seek to change it behind our backs, outside the its legal constants, THEY are what is broken Let me ask you, what happens to a structure whose foundation erodes away by neglect?

Please, spare me the drivel about it being a “living” document, which must adapt to today’s social and political morays and needs. Fine, I concede that, but not outside its Article 5 amending process.

Not from the bench of some nitwit appellate court judge. Not, because Congress or the President alone choose to do so. Not, through regulation imposed by some third tier unknown executive agency. Not, because “you” want something that the rest of the nation doesn’t, and certainly not because “you” think “you” are smarter than the rest of us.

NOT UNTIL, the American people have had their say through the legal process of Article 5, THEN and only THEN will our Constitution be changed! Do you disagree? Then perhaps you and your evolved superior intellect would like to argue with the ones who wrote it. Better yet, pick up a book and read about them.

What good is a Constitution that can be ignored when you don’t like it? What good is a Constitution that can be amended by the few when it is applied to the many? Are “We”, the real authority in this nation, going to let this continue? Are “We” going to continue to succumb to the lie that government, not the people, know best?

If the people are incapable of ruling, just where are these “angels of benevolence” that can rule going to come from?!? Harvard, Yale, Columbia? Right, right and that has worked so well hasn’t it?

The greatest lie perpetrated upon the American people is that you must be a Harvard Law professor to understand a document written by farmers, fishermen, shopkeepers and soldiers. A document meant to protect “our” freedom and liberty, its foolishness to believe that only “certain” people are educated enough to interpret it. Worse yet, its a cowards way out.

This passionate plea is not about President Obama, it’s not about healthcare, and it’s not about the economy. It’s about the only thing that can fix the problems facing us, Freedom and Liberty, and the document that protects them.

If we continue to ignore it, if we continue to blindly follow politicians like we are rooting for our favorite sports teams, if we remain apathetic… then the greatest nation ever built by the shed blood of patriots has already “…perished from the face of the earth”.

 

Thomas the Paine