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Neal Ross

A while back I received a short e mail in response to my article Let’s Talk Illusion and Delusion. The person e-mailing me said, “Well, you have made it clear, you are not only at war with the new deal, but you are at war with the 20th century…. ” I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I am at war, but my beliefs certainly clash with large number of people, even those who consider themselves part of the patriot movement.

Even though many people are picking the candidates they support more carefully, looking for those who have a record of supporting the Constitution, they are still looking to the government for the solution to our nation’s problems.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to see people elected who will uphold their oath to support and defend the Constitution, one has to ask how did people who disregard that oath get there in the first place?

Whether people are looking to the government to expand its powers to provide them with more programs and services, or if people are looking for government to pull back the reins of their usurpation of unconstitutional powers, they are forgetting one very important fact. In 1764, ten years before the opening shots were fired in our First American Revolution, a man named James Otis wrote The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. In it he states, “I say supreme absolute power is originally and ultimately in the people; and they never did in fact freely, nor can they rightfully make an absolute, unlimited renunciation of this divine right.”

Nearly a quarter century later, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison wrote, “Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is cheifly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number
of the constituents.”

Therefore, as government is an entity created by the people, and that we have established the limits upon its authority, we have the right to take back their charter and resume our role as sovereigns over our own lives. As our rights flow from our Creator, not the government, we do not need their permission to exercise them, and any infringement upon them could, and should, be ignored by the people.

However, therein lies the problem. The people of this country are suffering from an identity crisis of epic proportions; we have lost our sense of self, what it means to be an American. According to Wikipedia, “Those who fail to achieve a cohesive identity-who experience an identity crisis-will exhibit a confusion of roles,” not knowing who they are, where they belong, or where they want to go. This sort of unresolved crisis leaves individuals struggling to find themselves.”

The average American citizen has no idea of what it means to be an American. If you want my honest opinion, being American means holding dear to the principles upon which this nation was founded. Unfortunately, over the course of our nation’s history those principles have been forgotten; the writings of our founding fathers are now considered out of place and archaic. Today, instead of learning patriotism and loyalty to country, we are taught political correctness and multiculturalism…and it is tearing away at the fabric that held this nation together!

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