Will America always be free?

Seems like every time I turn around I hear or read somebody saying America will get through this current crisis. Or Obama’s socialist debauchery or Romney’s Progressive activities. That the American Spirit is indomitable. It will always shine through, waters will part, the sun will shine, liberty will prevail, Gawd will never let America fall no matter how far she um, er, falls?!!!

These are the people who in the 90’s said it was a new economy and the markets would now always go up.

I disagree with the premise that somehow as Americans we are immune to the march of history. I hear “We will never long surrender our freedoms!!!” Really?

If we compare America of 1809 with America of 2009, do we have freedom? What do we have? What have we permanently given up?

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.  James Madison

Will we ever eliminate the Public Indoctrination School System (P.I.S.S.)? Can you pass a P.I.S.S. Test? You know, global warming is real, kids will always have sex, abortion is a right, government is the answer, a public option is needed, gay marriage is a fundamental right. Just ask, most kids today know these things.

In 1800 I could legally own every weapon owned by the US military. Today? Even if we eliminate weapons of mass destruction from the list?

Of course we could trust you with these weapons; it’s your neighbor that can’t be trusted. Keep an eye on him for us, will ya?

Isn’t a government recipient voter a weapon of mass destruction?

Did Patrick Henry require a license to ride his horse? Did his horse have a plate stuck on his rear end? Did he not travel the public road system? Did people play foolish semantic “privilege” games with inalienable rights?

Can I still buy, sell or trade anything across state lines without my teamster being raped with taxes and regulations?

Is anyone foolish enough to think Washington or Jefferson would have created an FAA or TSA under any circumstances?

Will the FDA ever go away? The NEA?

Is Social Security still the third rail?

Now that Republicans have adopted the Democrat principle of Nation Building are we to forever expend treasure we don’t have to prop up governments around the world?

Will I ever again be free to work at whatever price I deem appropriate or will the minimum wage require me to be unemployed?

Will I be allowed to build the home of my dreams on land that I own or will I be forever at the whim of zoning boards and planning councils?

Must I always expect to pay for the privilege of running a business to some local jerk mayor or county councilman?

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison

This foolishly naive notion that we as Americans will never give up freedom in the face of so many proofs that we have in fact already embraced a subtle tyranny is a little scary. Do we even know what liberty is anymore?

     “‘Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.” Paine

 Who doesn’t hit their brakes first and then check their speed when seeing a tax collector beside the road?

The people who today would never eliminate SocialSecurity, the Income Tax, the Federal Reserve or the “privilege” of a drivers license will tomorrow defend ObamaCare as surely as they defend the other socialist constructs of the last hundred years.

     I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson

We can’t get precinct committeemen to donate an hour a month to defend a nation that was founded by patriots walking on bloody bare feet though the snows of Valley Forge. Thanks for what you do Cold Warrior.

Conservative sites starve from lack of funding by either the big businesses they defend or the little guy they entertain. I could write a book on how we foolishly continue to support Big Business in spite of the fact that most Big Business has no love for liberty or small government or even America. We are equally the enemy of Big Business and Big Government and the bailouts of last fall should have crystalized that for any thinking American. Government regulations, red tape and mandates give Big inefficient Business tremendous advantages over little guys. The much vaunted economies of scale are usually realized in legal, accounting and HR departments not on the factory floor.

The Great Experiment can fail. America can fall. Liberty can die.

The average American has paid no price for liberty, fiscally or physically.

     “What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly”. Paine

We can understand how a “renter” who is enabled to buy a house by some government program can walk away when hardship strikes because they have no skin in the game. Liberty is no different than a house. Most Americans are “renters” of liberty and they will walk away when faced with hard times. In fact they have “walked away” by supporting government programs that promise to feed them, house them or keep them safe from terrorists if only they give up their liberty. We have esteemed too lightly.

I personally have no more use for an ESOL TSA agent wasting my time at the airport than I do for guvmint cheese.

I do not want to trade my liberty for safety.

Liberty is never free and sometimes downright dangerous. But I’ll take it anyway.

     The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. James Madison

We are at a breaking point for America. Assuming that somehow we will always muddle through because we are Americans is synonymous with defeat.

There is a tremendous amount that would have to be done to dig us out of the current mess even if we turned on a dime today. Obama is not going to turn on a dime. Assuming the dollar lasts three more years; America will be $15,000,000,000,000 in debt. Then we replace Obama. Maybe!!! Then what? Will we have half-witted Mitt “he’s a real conservative” RomneyCare or one of his political twins elected to continue leading us down the road to perdition?

There is no point sticking our heads in the sand. America and liberty have never been more seriously threatened. For the second time in our history, (1776 being the first) the outcome is not certain.

Silly platitudes about America’s or the American People’s infallibility can only serve to reinforce a deadly complacency that has infected the nation. We don’t need apathy or despair either. We can win but it will not be as easy as electing a half dozen RINO’s in hard to reach districts. Or promulgating vague proclamations like ending statism.

     “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Paine

We need to look to founding principles.

Back to basics. If a law can’t be justified according to what Jefferson or Washington or Franklin or Henry, et al put out there, it has no place in America. If a politician can’t be relied on to support that position; they have no place in government.

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