Posted on 11/10/2017 9:00:39 AM PST by Liberty7732
In America, when someone is criticized for kneeling during the national anthem, or when someone speaks a perceived offensive truth, many Americans are quick to aggressively defend our right to freedom of speech as an essential “foundational principle” of America.
There’s no denying the importance of free speech. But too many people apparently forget that America has more than one essential foundational principle.
The Right of the People to keep & bear arms is an essential foundational principle.
The Right of the People to be secure in their property from government defined search and seizure is an essential foundational principle.
The Rights of the people to due process, a trial by a jury of our peers, and to be secure from cruel punishments are essential foundational principles.
Yet every day, many of the same people so distraught over the loss of free speech, scream for the removal of our essential foundational principle to keep and bear arms.
Every day our federal government violates our right to be secure in our property with searches using fake warrants and seizures through civil asset forfeitures. Yet the vast majority of Americans remain silent about these violations of our essential foundational principles.
Every day Americans are held in government custody in direct violation of our essential foundational principles. Every day federal judges actively and cruelly deny Americans’ Rights contrary to our essential foundational principles.
The frequency and degree to which we neglect all other equally essential foundational principles is baffling. Can you imagine the outrage over a politician fighting to outlaw the word “transgender” because it did not exist at the time of the writing of the Constitution? However, that same argument is used to justify outlawing certain firearms. Many Americans also find similar excuses to justify secret court issued warrants, indefinite detentions, and lawless, arbitrary property seizures.
The neglect of any fundamental principle is extremely destructive to the entire foundation of America. We cannot continue to safeguard one fundamental principle while sacrificing all of the others. We must ensure that all rights for all people are protected in America, not just our personal favorites.
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Absolutely right.
The problem is that an increasing number of “Americans” simply don’t love liberty.
Too many think that as long as there is unlimited sex, abortions, and blasphemy all is well in the USA.
Oh, and the right to oppress and subjugate the straight, white Christian male with impunity.
That will only change when this nation turn back to God.
What needs to happen is the establishment of a group within the Trump Administration that reviews any and all “extrajudicial” actions by Federal Judges, with the end game of bringing impeachment charges against them if warranted. Until we start actively forcing our Judiciary to actually follow our Constitution, we’re headed for a very dark place.
Too many think that as long as there is unlimited sex, abortions, and blasphemy all is well in the USA.
Actually, they see unfettered misbehavior as their desired form of liberty. They wanna do what they wanna do!
As a Jewess on the US, I can only point out that the number of women who allegedly DATED, but had no sex with, Roy Moore is EXACTLY the same number who accused President Clinton of FORCIBLE RAPE, a FAR more serious offense. Now we know why all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST. Just sayin’!
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