With Hope For Tomorrow
We make our sacrifices of vigilance today, defending and promoting the
respect that we each should have for the laws of our liberty, and defending and
promoting our military strength, in the hope for tomorrow that no sacrifice of
life, or of even one drop of American blood, will ever again be required in
battle because of an oppressor’s mistake in thinking that we have a flaw or a
crack in the armor of our political union.
Only Through Vigilance
Fellow Americans and Lovers of Liberty,
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Are we paying the price? We must
be eternally vigilant to elect good candidates who will serve us and obey the
law.
Our nation’s Founding Fathers wrote the laws of our Constitution because
they loved liberty. They understood that the power to govern always becomes a
self serving ambition for greater power and control over the people as witnessed
throughout history in every nation and civilization from kingdoms to republics.
Those that were fortunate enough to embrace freedom and allow voting rights for
the common people always degenerated into a corrupt democracy and tyranny over
the rights of independent citizens.
No government has long been known to uphold the rights of individual freedom.
For this reason our Founding Fathers established our Constitution for the
purpose of putting chains around the tyrannical nature of government. In the law
of the Constitution they specified just how far the power of government could
go. The ability to secure and defend the Constitutional laws of this newly
created Government was given in a system of checks and balances, and ultimately
given to the people in the people’s right to promote political and religious
viewpoints, and then vote for those Government representatives who supported
their views.
In liberty there is a danger. Evil can thrive as well as the good. That is
why it is so important for the citizens of our political union to pay the price
for liberty. Eternal vigilance may at times require more than just lip service.
It does require our sacrifice of time and talents.
Many have been willing to make that sacrifice always in times of threat
against our freedoms. Let us always honor the memory of those who were willing
to sacrifice to give us our present opportunity to continue on in the defense of
this great political union in liberty.
We cannot trust the defense of the Constitution to the politicians. The
Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution because they knew politicians cannot be
trusted. The Constitution was written to bind them down to the law. Those who
are bound by the law should not be trusted to define the law. They will, sooner
or later, define it for their own self interests. Independent Americans must be
eternally vigilant to understand the Constitution, and then defend it. First, it
is essential that we study the Constitution. Then we exercise our power to vote.
Of course, not every politician is without sincere dedication to the values
of national independence and individual liberty as embraced within the laws of
our Constitution. We do our best to vote for the election of those politicians
who we hope will defend our law. The following web sites are recommended for
this help.
The Liberty Committee, http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
, is composed of citizens like yourself who are working with a number of
Congressmen to promote the passage of pro-Constitutional legislation and also to
influence the defeat of bad legislation.
The Independent American Party, http://www.usiap.org
, is a means of uniting the efforts of good citizens and politicians. In
addition to their own candidates, they publish a list of adopted political
candidates who they endorse as having views favorable to their own Independent
American National Party Platform.
Thomas Jefferson warned against letting our confidence in any man outweigh
our concern for our Constitutional rights. He said, "It is jealousy and not
confidence which prescribes limited constitutions; to bind down those whom we
are obliged to trust with power; that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the
limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go; . . . In questions of
power, then, let not more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from
mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
He effectively said that we can expect political mischief against our rights
if we fail to be eternally vigilant in upholding the laws of our Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln put it this way. He said, "Let every American, every
lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the
revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and
never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of ‘76 did to the
support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the
Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life, his property and his
sacred honor. Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on
the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children’s
liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the
lisping babe that prattles in her lap; let it be taught in schools, in
seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and
almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls,
enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of
the nation."
We hear these words of Abraham Lincoln. It is apparent that this is not main
stream thinking in most political and educational circles of our day. Therefore,
the aim of the American Patriotism Project is to promote greater awareness of,
and concern for, the laws of our Constitution.
Our support and vote ought to be given only to those who place first priority
in knowing and supporting Constitutional law, and who, before ever considering
violating the law, would always follow the Constitution and amend only as
needed.
According to the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, all powers, authority
and responsibilities not specifically given to the Federal Government by the
Constitution, are reserved for the states and the people.
Among the Federal Governments specified responsibilities is the power to
collect tariffs on imports. This serves the duel purpose to raise money for
Federal operations, and to protect the manufacturing industries in the states
from unfair foreign competition.
During the past three or four decades our politicians, from both major
political parties, have failed in their Constitutional responsibility to protect
our manufacturing industries. As a result, much of our manufacturing has closed
down and gone to foreign countries because of the economic advantage of cheaper
operations. This is not good for our people’s prosperity, as we are witnessing
today, or for our nation’s security due to the need to be independent of
foreign produced defense parts and products. With the loss of all those
thousands and thousands of good industrial jobs, many are losing hope for their
American dream.
We need involved citizens to work together to create the political
environment that will bring back our lost industry. We need to bring back the
American dream for an independent and prosperous future for more people who want
to work.
As citizens of this nation that was forged on the battlefield for the rights
of man, for equality, liberty, independence, and for the right to pursue
happiness, we ought to take more time to hear and do what this nation is about.
We need to take time to act upon what Abraham Lincoln told us to do. We need to
know our Constitution and not leave its meaning strictly up to the courts and
their judges. We need to teach reverence for our laws of liberty through the
needed emphasis. We need to look around us and see where we are failing, promote
the needed education, and then trust in the power of the American vote and
always in God.
For Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, the price is eternal
vigilance
In Defense of Liberty Confirmed in Law,
The American Patriotism Project
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