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This is the most important issue
We are told frequently what our number one issue is. For now the media and politicians proclaim our economy as the number one issue. Focusing the population on issues keeps many preoccupied, worried, and hopeful our government can save us. Economics are not the most important issue facing us today. The most important issue, which the government is not capable of helping us with, is liberty.
There are two major aspects of liberty which are in jeopardy among the people. Natural liberty as well as civil liberty. From the 1828 dictionary we read in part, "A restraint of natural liberty, not necessary or expedient for the public, is tyranny or oppression." There is also an assault on political liberty. Consider the growing pressures from a federal government over the sovereign states that established it.
Liberty is one of the inalienable rights promised by our Declaration of Independence and delivered through a republican form of self-government as outlined in our U.S. Constitution. Liberty is critical if we are to be free. Freedom is a demanding way to live. Although it is simple we know from our attempts at maintaining our united countries under self-government it is not easy.
Today more people are sensing something is not quite right. Struggling to understand the issue causing concern we too often turn our attention to media outlets or politicians' empty promises. There is a general uneasiness yet our media and politicians, for the most part, are not telling us honestly our very liberty is under risk of failing.
While addressing the Virginia Convention in 1788 James Madison said, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." Gradually, for well over a century, government has taken a bit here and there. Alarms are sounding inherently within many of us because we are closer than ever to losing the Constitutional Republic designed for the self-governed.
Chief Justice William Douglas told us, "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Our twilight years passed and now it is growing dark. We must resist being caught up in the issues we are told to be concerned about, these issues used to further steal our freedom.
What can you do? Seek others (See 'Fighting for Liberty' link section to the right) who are striving to restore this country to a proper path of self-government. Educate yourself on our Constitutional principles. Our ancestors attempted a more perfect union and we can once again deliver for our descendants the same opportunity if we demand less government and more personal responsibility. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw)
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