Certainty then, Uncertainty now

Growing up in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, there were a few things that were certain. 1. That my parents loved me. 2. That the town swimming pool was going to be ice cold no matter how hot it got and 3. The United States was governed by a constitution, laws that guaranteed me the right to do as I saw fit for my life and the lives of my family.

The first two ... COUNT ON IT even today. The third, not so much.

Maybe its because I lived in a small town, or maybe it was the era that I grew up in, Ronald Reagan was President for much of that time and before him I was too young and naive to care, since then there has been a steady decline in my confidence in my government's ability or even desire to protect those rights. In fact, more aptly I found them taking less and less pains to hide the fact that they couldn't care less.

It's takes no great thinker or political scholar to see the writing getting bolder on the wall. Atheists, liberals, (and no that isn't always redundant), self serving and greedy politicians, and a lazy or uncaring society has destroyed much of what the "Greatest Generation" had suffered and died selflessly to provide for us . In fact, those soldiers who still remain with us are embarrassed by what the children and grandchildren they've sired into the world have developed into. We've reaped the garden we planted. The Vietnam; love not war era has now "grown" into the leadership rolls that we expected they would but unfortunately that ignorance of youth was never outgrown. The selfishness, the what's in it for me arrogance not only still remains; it was handed down proudly to their children and the United States - void of any patriots - is now suffering for it.

The blame lies not only with those personalities that I've described; but also with those of us who continue to watch it progress without protest. We are allowing the greatest society ever assembled, one in which we were guaranteed to live without the fear of Gestapo-esk police patrols pulling us out of our homes for "obstruction of justice") to be trampled under the guise of "protecting liberty", "freedom of religion". We stand idol; and allow ourselves to be led to the slaughter. We deny our faith - the same faith that founded our country; to be bastardized and corrupted into the battle cry of anti-"Constitutional" law. - Shame on us.

We allow human beings to decide when and how to kill our own. What's convenient or expected lives; what requires virtue and dedication is cast aside without a second thought.

Continuing to look the other way is tantamount to slitting the wrists of our declaration of independence and building up our declaration of inter-dependence. The answer lies not in judicial independence, not in creative legislation nor in the brilliance of political figures... the answer is simple: Love your neighbor as yourself, defend the rights of those who are helpless and hold fast to the laws established in the Constitution and support it with the weight of your sword.

At all costs defend her