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Well, I’ve been feeling like a little bit of a conspiracy theorist lately, except for the fact that everything I believed was going to happen, has happened in the past and is once again happening, at least openly. In fact, if it weren’t for the digital age that we live in and the many ways we can capture speeches, statements, debates and arguments, we wouldn’t have their own words to use against them. I am trying to be a little tongue and cheek, funny even, if what has recently been uttered weren’t so true and so scary and so revealing as to what’s coming our way. If you haven’t heard, Senator Tom Harkin recently made the following statement. “What this bill does is we finally take that step. As our leader said earlier, we take that step from healthcare as a privilege to healthcare as an inalienable right of every single American citizen.” This may very well be the scariest thing ever uttered in American history. The founding fathers understood very clearly, looking at history, that man left unto himself, without proper restrictions, specifically those of Judeo-Christian principles and values, would wax worse and worse and eventually become tyrannical over other members of mankind. This is the reason that the founders specifically used the wording in the Declaration of Independence, “unalienable rights.” They knew that rights, if derived from man, the same man could then take them away or limit them to only certain people. If our rights are given to us by some other or greater source, then no man could ever limit or separate us from them. They went even further by saying that these unalienable rights were “endowed by their Creator.” It wasn’t wording by accident or happens-stance, this was specific and fundamental to the country that would become the United States of America. What has separated the American experiment and our prosperity from the rest of the world throughout all of history, has been the fundamental aspect of our entire founding. Mankind derives its rights of life, liberty and property from God and therefore no man can limit or deny an American citizen those rights. Here we have a United States Senator, admitting that the healthcare bill, upon becoming law, moves healthcare into the category of an unalienable right. That it can never be given away, taken away or separated from the citizenry. Healthcare is not an innate thing or service. It cannot stand on its own. Understanding Judeo-Christian principles, God has not promised us, given us or endowed to us the unalienable right to healthcare. This is however, my greater challenge with Sen. Harkin’s comments. Our government has officially moved into the business of determining, granting and defining the rights of American citizens. They have moved into the role that the founding fathers reserved for God. Government has grown so arrogant that they really believe that they are God. Historically speaking, the idea of rights, government and the individuals has always been a topic of controversy and debate. In the 1700’s, it was believed that God, gives all authority to the king and that the king dispenses them to the individuals. This was widely accepted by many, but not the founders. In 1776, the founders changed the flow of rights from God to the individuals and the individuals establish government to protect the God-given rights. In the late 1800’s, with the emergence of the progressive movement, progressives stated that there was no God, therefore all rights rest with the individual and government is established by the individuals. Then the people within government began to question who the individuals thought they were and moved to grow and seize power from the individuals. The progressive movement was to try to mesh Marxism with the American concept of liberty. In our current day, God has been replaced with the planet because of its “bigger ness” than our individual existence. To some, there needs to be government established to restrain the individual and then the individual is at the mercy of a planetary government. We are more similar today to the flow of rights of the 1700’s than any other point in the history of mankind. Who we are and why are we here? Why is society the way it is and what’s wrong with mankind today? How do we solve the ills of society and what is our plan of redemption? These are the fundamental questions that our founding fathers answered and the answers were found in the Christian Worldview. Every other “-ism” is a fraudulent attempt to redefine the Christian Worldview and gain power, control and to refuse individual responsibility for our station in life. The people who are in charge of our government today want a “classless” society, but they want class warfare like that of the “New Deal” days. They want the “have’s” and the “have not’s” fighting like never before. For if they can get true class warfare, they can usher in Marxist policies, like healthcare, cap and trade, card check, etc. and fundamentally transform our country from the bastion of liberty that we have been into the Marxist utopia that they desire. Heaven on earth does not, cannot and will never exist, but this is foreign in the mind of the progressive. American’s today are not tied to the founding fathers like we were 70+ years ago. The progressives have been successful in their “slow march” toward progressivism in American society. The American electorate has been dumbed down to the true principles, detailed in our founding documents and what this great country was founded upon. This dumbing down is now being exploited by our government and unless Americans are awakened and educated, the “slow march” towards a progressive utopia may become the new America. This is the mission of 2010: the refounding of the United States of America. Stand up fellow patriots, pledge to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, for indeed it is under attack and we cannot let our country be hijacked anymore. This is the year that we take our country back from progressives, liberals, Marxists, communists and any other group that does not believe in individual freedoms endowed by God. As our founders did then, we too find these truths to be “self-evident.” |
