Where Do We Go From Here?

Where is this nation of ours heading? In what direction is it going to ultimately find itself going? Will the noble experiment of our founding fathers continue on the same course or will it deviate from that path and go where it was not intended for it to go?

We've borne witness to an event never before experienced in this country but which was foretold with dire warnings. Warnings that were patently ignored by those it was directed at. Barack Obama is much more interested in remaining in office than in the fiscal solvency of this nation. He is irresponsibly spending funds, with the help of his Democrat allies and bureaucracies that are allied with his ideals and goals. Goals that have seriously hampered the economy of this nation like none has before.

It's quite obvious to many that Obama's aims are to create a large Federal Government which will control practically every aspect of life - the dread of George Orwell's seminal novel 1984. Big Brother and a permanent Democrat majority is only a eye blink away from becoming reality.

Destiny has not always been kind to this nation but in the long scheme of things it has remained basically true to the ideals of those men who framed it's founding documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These were men who placed their faith in Divine Providence and a belief in the contemporary Enlightenment ideas of nature and reason, of progress and the rights of man.

To these ends they they pledged "to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor". I point out the order of this pledge - lives then fortunes and finally their sacred honor. These men were willing to place their own lives on the line above all else to battle tyranny and establish a new paradigm in the world. An idea that quickly spread to France and other nations as revolution spread against the old order of Europe.

Yet even when the American Revolutionary War was brought to it's completion there remained many obstacles that had to be overcome by the North American Colonists as they stumbled in establishing a central government. The Articles of Confederation created a very weak central government with no ability to tax the member states and so it was destined to be replaced because this did not satisfy the so-called Federalists who insisted on a more powerful federal government. Thus was born the assembly that would frame the new Constitution for the United States of America.

Since it's ratification and implementation this country continued to face obstacles, the War of 1812 followed by the War Between the States, The Mexican War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, two World Wars and so on through Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iran and who knows where else.

Generations of young men have gone off to war to fight for a belief that free men must make their own way and elect those who will lead over them instead of being at the whim of tyrants, no matter what name they may give to themselves. Such tyrants will continue to exist as long as people continue to be swayed by promises of a better future they extoll in the hopes of gaining a toehold of authority over them.

Yet, things took a turn away from ethics and personal responsibility when Supreme Court decisions created a world were the label Civil Rights were plastered on things that had absolutely nothing to do with the original concept of the rights of man. Why was this so? What was the reason behind this enormous fraud perpetrated on society?

Simply put it was because lawyers virtually took over and pushed social programs that stressed avoiding error and removing fear and failure from society. Their actions through court decisions solved nothing and only created the chaotic mess that prevails today. Fear and failure cannot be removed from the equation. The events of the past fifty years have shown that the attempt has only lead to the innocent suffering even more and the guilty not being punished at all.

A pendulum swings from one side to another in a mathematically calculated period. The pendulum of common sense is long overdue swinging back to the side of reason and sanity. To put it succinctly the law needs to be removed from the hands of politicians & lawyers and placed back into the hands of the people; and error must not be made on the side of caution but on the side of survival.

Radical? Maybe. Conservative? Some would think so. Does it lead to survival? Only the passage of time will tell but those who are faced with a crisis of any kind must take radical measure to insure survival. This is a solution that may not be satisfactory to everyone but it is a solution and so far there are no other viable ones on the table. Where do we go from here? There are only two roads - one leads to survival - the other leads to destruction. History has shown that large governments invariably lead to destruction.