Probably one of the saddest letters you will read concerning the low state to which we have fallen. The cause? Our inattention to the activities of those otherwise ordinary “citizens” we delegate to properly operate the system the Founding Fathers ATTEMPTED to leave us. We have permitted them to become the “royalty” and cloak themselves in “...titles of nobility”...brave and angry men began to resist in Boston Harbor and on Lexington Green.
Thomas Jefferson issued multiple warnings about what would happen if we failed to be attentive to the process.
“Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or, will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction.”
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in men but bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution”
Those warnings were echoed nearly 2 centuries later with these words:
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” — Judge Learned Hand, 1944
PLEASE READ THIS MOVING MISSIVE AND, IF YOU AGREE, SEND IT ON. THIS MAY BE THE LAST CHANCE WE HAVE TO LEAVE OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN THE HARD WON BIRTHRIGHT OUR PARENTS LEFT US AND WHICH WE NOW HAVE TAKEN FOR GRANTED!
http://web.archive.org/web/20140219142212/http://dallasdigestforum.com/forum2/107501.html
Thanks for posting that link. The letter is addressed to my two loser fed senators in WA state. I’m absolutely certain that they immediately put his missive into the circular file.