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The enemy within

In an address made on January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln stated, “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

Like many of the insights of our early leaders, this quote has become very prophetic. It is not China or Russia or Radical Islam that threatens the destruction of America. It is those amongst us that promote and support principles that are blatantly un-American. Government regulation and the redistribution of wealth are the truly dangerous forces that will spell doom to America and they require a sizable portion of the citizenry to elect the politicians that propagate this destruction.

America was born of a single ideology, that of freedom. The freedom to do as we please as long as in doing so we don’t violate the rights of our fellow citizens and the freedom to similarly spend our legally earned money were both integral reasons there was a revolution. Our Founders didn’t risk their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create a government that was little more than a service provider for a portion of its citizens. In a famous passage attributed to Thomas Jefferson, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have,” reveals the fear and disdain our Founders had for big government. He also said, “A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” Our Founders repeated these sentiments continuously because these ideals were the foundation principles that they built this country upon.

Grover Cleveland wrote, “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution,” while vetoing a paltry $10,000 farm relief bill. Cleveland was simply echoing a long accepted principle that ours is a Constitution that authorizes only limited government. In 1794, the father of the Constitution James Madison, in front of the House of Representatives declared that he could not “undertake to lay his finger on that article of the Federal Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending on objects of benevolence the money of their constituents.”

Today’s politicians believe that there is nothing that is not the prevue of the government. The size of sodas, the size of our toilet tanks, the content of our health insurance, the wages that must be paid, what is acceptable to say, the groups with whom we must associate, and to whom we must sell, rent, and serve. These impositions on our liberty could not exist if it were not for the support of a group of misguided Americans who continue to elect the political machine that strips us of our freedom while at the same time they accumulate massive amounts of personal wealth and power.

With freedom comes responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to the government comes at a high cost. That cost is our freedom.

The enemy is those who look to politicians or the government for a handout.

The enemy is those who believe that political correctness takes precedent over freedom of speech.

The enemy is those who believe that some Americans have accumulated too much wealth and it is the government’s obligation to spread that wealth around.

The enemy is those who look to politicians or the government to help them blame their failures on the success of others.

The enemy is those who believe that the government should control virtually every aspect of our lives and that we no longer have a duty and responsibility to individually take care of ourselves.

The enemy is those who believe that the rule of law is an antiquated concept; that right or wrong are culturally based and therefore subject to a person’s individual choice and that moral relativism should be practiced, not a strict adherence to a written code like the Constitution.

Too many Americans have lost sight of the principles that have made this country great and regrettably all those people still get to vote. Those votes, when leading to the demise of our constitutional government, are little different from bullets and bombs aimed at us with the same intent.

To save the American ideals our Founders won and bequeathed to us we must wrestle the levers and switches of power from our neighbors who believe that government exists to solve all their problems. America will not be conquered by foreign invaders, it will slowly collapse under the strain of the cancer that is collectivism. Leftist politicians and the voters that support them, are systematically dismantling the culture of freedom that has made this country the greatest nation the planet has ever witnessed. Will we continue to allow them to get away with it?

Visit Jack Loesch’s web site:?www.TorchNFork.info.

He may be reached at: TorchNFork@frontier.com

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