Better Days Ahead.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010  //  2 Comments  //  Blog

 

It is a perilous time for America. It is threatened by a possibility of tyranny overtaking liberty. This, however, isn’t anything new. We have overcome similar obstacles in the past. Today our nation can solve the problems at hand as well. Actually, America has dealt with far worse. 

The country is still young and vibrant. We are bustling with a thirst for knowledge and are open for debate over the big issues of our time. We are far too powerful to be pessimistic about our place in the world. America’s height of greatness is not in the past, as is the case with Greece, Rome, or England. America has better days ahead.

Yes, our current president (B. Hussein Obama) is spending like a teenage drunkard with mommy’s new-shiny-bottomless-plastic credit card. It is careless to say he is the first to do this. It is, unfortunately, all the more accurate to say he has spent more fervently than all who have come before him. He continues to spend with total disregard for our nation’s debt and our children’s future. Under Obama, we have seen two consecutive fiscal years of trillion-dollar deficits. And, while we suffer under the Obama administration’s strict supervision we have seen the take over American businesses. Nevertheless, while these facts are bone-chilling, crimes more nefarious have been waged against American liberty.

I’d like to take you back to a budding nation, the year 1798, the country, America. It is an all too common misconception that all of our founders were above reproach and removed from all scandalous activities (though most were). Some of them, unfortunately, made bad mistakes. In the year of 1798, under the 5th United States Congress and under the helm of President John Adams, four bills were passed called “The Alien and Sedition Acts.” These laws trampled on our God-given liberties and the Constitution by making illegal any “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the government and its officials, which in actuality were used to suppress the growing voice of opposition to the Federalist expansion of government.

February 19th, 1942. Is that a date you are familiar with? Is it something that lives in infamy, hardly. We all know of December 7th, 1941 (as we very well should)—-”a date which will live in infamy” as Franklin Delano Roosevelt so eloquently put it. We need not forget February 19th, 1942, for on this day Executive order 9066 was issued by President Roosevelt. The executive order forced over 120,000 Japanese-Americans into detainment facilities. A grave crime committed against honest Americans. Unfortunately, this page of the US history is often overlooked.  

I have laid before you two crimes that have been leveled against Americans in direct disregard of our God-given liberties and the Constitution of the United States. Others include slavery, the removal of Habeas corpus etc. These lawless deeds, however, I contend, are far worse than any of the things Obama has committed against the American people. I’m not saying that in any way mitigates the vile enigma he has wrapped himself in. I’m arguing that we’ve survived acts far more villainous than what Obama, Reid, and Pelosi have conjured up. 

Abraham Lincoln once said, ”America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Let’s heed the words of Lincoln. Let’s make sure that America truly has its best days ahead. Today, American people are awakening to a government that is hostile to their ideals of freedom and liberty–and they’re ready to fight back to force the government to respect the Constitution and be accountable to “we the people.” We have successfully defended the liberty in the past, and we can win this fight as well.