July 27, 2009 – I have been told that I have a gift for writing, for putting things in terms that people can easily understand. I don’t know whether there is any truth to that or not. I only write the way I think.

I have also been told that I should write a book, that I could make lots of money and become famous. I don’t know about that either. You see, the thing is that I am not seeking riches, or fame. My goal is much loftier, I write in the hope that I can turn the lights on in people heads, to awaken them to fact that we have completely abandoned the principles upon which this country was founded. I want them to see that all of the problems that we suffer from could easily be eradicated if we returned to those principles.

I wonder, did Thomas Jefferson think about how much he could earn when he drafted the Declaration of Independence? Did the fifty-six men, who committed treason against the crown by affixing their signatures to that document, think about fame or glory when they did so?

When the first 49 patriots who died at the Battles of Lexington and Concord think of heroism, or fortune when they faced off against the British Redcoats?

Did the 140 American soldiers who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill think of glory, or maybe the 300 who died at the Battle of Long Island?

In total, around 8000 Americans, just like you and me, died in combat during the War for our Nations Independence, while 17,000 more lost their lives to disease, such as malaria, typhoid, influenza and smallpox.

These men made the ultimate sacrifice so for their freedom and their liberty. They gave their lives in the hope that they could live as free men. So that their children could live as free men. So that you, and your children, could live as free men.

They understood that they were born free and independent, that this was a gift bestowed upon them by their Creator, and that no man, nor group of men, had the right to infringe upon their freedom.

Thomas Jefferson understood this when he said, “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

What have we done to honor the sacrifices made over 230 years ago by our forefathers? I’ll tell you what, not a damn thing! Our government betrays the oath to uphold the Constitution with each new piece of legislation that infringes upon our God-given liberties.

Our schools betray their responsibility to teach our children about the principles upon which our nation was founded. The media shelters our government by feeding us mindless drivel instead of revealing the traitorous acts committed almost daily by those elected to represent the people.

You think I lie, I over exaggerate? How many people, without being told, know that our system of government is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy? Something simple that our schools should have taught us.

I was listening at work the other day to some people discussing the death of Michael Jackson. I said, “You know, I wish people would stop talking about this guy, it’s not news.” They all said, yes it is, he might have been killed by his doctor, and that is something new that we need to know.

I asked them if they thought the fact that the news had barely reported on the fact that a monstrous 1018 page health care bill was making its way through Congress at this very moment.

They said no, but it wasn’t important, and anybody, (including me I assumed) who wasted their time reading those kinds of things needed to get a life.

I had to get back to work, or the time clock watchers would have had my ass, but I wished I had more time to explain something to them. You see, Michael Jackson’s death is insignificant. It does not matter if he died of natural cause, or was poisoned. In either case his death will not pay my bills, put food on my table, or get the government out of my life.

But the fact that our government is attempting to assume control of another aspect of our lives, an aspect that they have absolutely no authority to interfere with, is something that should be news. It should be talked about in depth by every news agency, and every household across the nation. But it isn’t.

You see, there is something that America seems to have forgotten, something that Thomas Paine understood when he wrote The Rights of Man. That is that, “There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the “end of time,”

Yet that is exactly what our government is doing, bit by bit, law by law, usurpation of power by usurpation of power. They are stripping us of our rights, and our liberty.

There is something else that Thomas Paine said in The Rights of Man, something that I agree with completely. That is, “That men should take up arms and spend their lives and fortunes, not to maintain their rights, but to maintain they have not rights, is an entirely new species of discovery…”

Our nations founders understood these things. The people that inhabit this country today do not, at least a good percentage of them do not.

As Nathan Hale was about to be hung for treason against the Crown, he uttered the famous words, “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

I am pretty sure that nobody wants to die, I most certainly don’t. But I don’t think the 8000 who died defending your freedom did either. But they knew that the time had come to take a stand against tyranny.

The infringements upon our liberty today are far more severe than those suffered by the colonists in 1776. If America new what true liberty meant, they would realize this.

However they are far too busy with their reality TV, their YouTube, or My Space. They cannot be bothered to take time from their busy schedules to read the bills that their government is passing. They cannot take the time to read the writings of Jefferson, Paine, Madison, and a host of other founding fathers.

That is why I write. I do not seek wealth, or fame. I seek only to rekindle that flame that will stand up against tyranny, and defend liberty, to the death if it comes to that. I care not whether my name goes down in history as being a great man, a noble patriot. You see, I only care that my country survives, that my son, and possibly his children will grow up in a land that respects their rights and their liberty. That is all I want. But it is up to you, my readers, to realize that our government has gone to far, that it has been doing so for quite some time.

It is time for you to forget about party loyalties, and start thinking about your loyalty to the nation, and to the principles that made it great. Because if you don’t, this nation won’t be around much longer.

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says “OH SHIT!!…. HE’S AWAKE!!”

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?“

~ The Author ~
Neal Ross can be reached for comments at bonsai@syix.com. Visit Neal’s Blog at http://www.zombie-slayer.com/neal