What we are seeing is the reawakening of the concept of liberty and freedom. It has been struggling to re-emerge after decades of repression and being taken for granted. People had been lulled into a false sense of security and thus disregarded the warning signs.
During that time forces undermined them and worked their insidious way into the very foundation of our government. They have led the misinformed with deceit in order to betray the principles of liberty.
James Madison foresaw the danger when, in the federalist papers, he noted the problem of a majority in a sense oppressing itself by passing laws that were only as temporary as the passions and fashions that make them seem desirable.
He wrote of the dangers of "mutable government" in Federalist Paper 62, and a small part of what he said was, "It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice ... if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule which is little known, and less fixed."
He also said, (Federalist Paper 63) "an institution may be sometimes necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions.... ...there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?"
By not recognizing the danger of an unbalanced government we also endangered the values put in place long ago.
We have only ourselves to blame because we failed in our duty to uphold those values .... values entrusted to our care by those who preceded us. We neglected our role in the defense of our nation to safeguard it from those who seek to destroy it, even from within. But hopefully we can regain and strengthen our resolve to negate the danger while allowing equal rights for all citizens.
We have seen religious leaders in this country advocating the death of their fellow citizens, all the while claiming religious freedom and free speech, simply because they don’t agree with their lifestyle. These same men are openly endorsing political candidates and those candidates are not speaking out against it. By doing this they are reinforcing this train of thought and giving it legitimacy.
The people of this nation must remain very vigilant, even against those in charge of governing. Maybe these people must be watched even more so because they are charged with representing all the people…. the majority and the minority ..... and especially those most vulnerable ... the young, the old and the sick and the weak.
We must also discourage the advocacy of death against other citizens of this nation and speak out to let them know that their beliefs are not welcomed or tolerated in this society….. a society of freedom and liberty.
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