Bradley in DC
06-26-2007, 12:15 AM
Liberty (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=149844697&blogID=280666796)
Government exsists for two reasons and two reasons alone: to protect liberty from invading forces seeking to impose their will upon you, and, more importantly, to protect you from inward forces trying to violate your rights. The only problem is that in our day and age government has become the main catalyst of the latter seeking to "grant" rights those men who run it believe you should have as opposed to being the gaurdian of the rights granted to us by God. This is nothing short of tyranny. Individuals imposing their ideas about your personal life is social tyranny and imposing ideas of use of property is economic tyranny. You see this nation is suppost to be a nation of laws not of men with the head of the law being the Constitution of the United States. The reason for this is that men will always fail and when you instill men with enough power over other men most will succomb to power lust and seize all they can. This is why kings become tyrants. The Constitution is the only law by which the federal government is suppose to function under. This is why every person who is elected to a nationally held public office swears and oath the defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States against enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. Of course most of them are the enemies of the Constitution ignoring it or manipulating it with the exception of Ron Paul. But we are to blame because we choose our leaders. Lord Acton once said, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly." And to this another person once quiped, "Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many." We've alowed weakness to corrupt us and we continue to make ourselves weaker by sacrificing more and more of our power, that of liberty, to our servants, politicians, and its all in the name of and imaginary thing we call security. True security cannot and will never exsist. Anything a man can conceive to secure something another man can devise a way around it. So we are now in the process of trading rights, which are tangible and concreate, for security which is not; we are trading the real for the imaginary, a vision...for an illusion.
Government exsists for two reasons and two reasons alone: to protect liberty from invading forces seeking to impose their will upon you, and, more importantly, to protect you from inward forces trying to violate your rights. The only problem is that in our day and age government has become the main catalyst of the latter seeking to "grant" rights those men who run it believe you should have as opposed to being the gaurdian of the rights granted to us by God. This is nothing short of tyranny. Individuals imposing their ideas about your personal life is social tyranny and imposing ideas of use of property is economic tyranny. You see this nation is suppost to be a nation of laws not of men with the head of the law being the Constitution of the United States. The reason for this is that men will always fail and when you instill men with enough power over other men most will succomb to power lust and seize all they can. This is why kings become tyrants. The Constitution is the only law by which the federal government is suppose to function under. This is why every person who is elected to a nationally held public office swears and oath the defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States against enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. Of course most of them are the enemies of the Constitution ignoring it or manipulating it with the exception of Ron Paul. But we are to blame because we choose our leaders. Lord Acton once said, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly." And to this another person once quiped, "Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many." We've alowed weakness to corrupt us and we continue to make ourselves weaker by sacrificing more and more of our power, that of liberty, to our servants, politicians, and its all in the name of and imaginary thing we call security. True security cannot and will never exsist. Anything a man can conceive to secure something another man can devise a way around it. So we are now in the process of trading rights, which are tangible and concreate, for security which is not; we are trading the real for the imaginary, a vision...for an illusion.