Birthright abandoned

Walter Williams in today’s WND article:

There is nothing complex about those 12 words the framers wrote to protect us from governmental property confiscation. You need a magician to reach the conclusion reached by the Court's majority. I think the socialist attack on judicial nominees who'd use framer-intent in their interpretation of the Constitution might also explain their attack on our Second Amendment "right of the people to keep and bear Arms." Why? Because when they come to take our property, they don't want to risk buckshot in their butts.

The true nature of any government is to enslave it’s people. This nation was formed with the thought that we should vest the maximum power with the people via protections for speech, property and weapons (etc.) so that the power of the government might be checked. Even a cursory look at the Articles of Confederation (Yes; that was the first constitution of the US: I’m glad you remembered!) will demonstrate the paranoia that the framers had with powerful governments. They longed for liberty and were more than willing to deal with some discomfort in it’s pursuit. Not so today.

Today we have generation upon generation of people who crave comfort and peace at the expense of their liberty, (or that of someone else…). It is a foolish choice; and no choice at all. For with the abandonment of liberty you gain not peace, but the exchange of one master for another. Even today, you have a choice to serve God or to serve government. Consider the Catholic Charities in California being forced to provide abortion services to it’s members against it’s faith. Or churches being threatened with loss of their tax status if they speak out against a matter that some deem to be political speech. Empowering government to deal with YOUR fears places them in power to make YOUR thoughts, YOUR speech and YOUR faith illegal. As General Stonewall Jackson is credited with saying: “Never take council of your fears.” At the risk of throwing around too many quotes, I’ll add the following from George Washington:

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

This land was settled for liberty. This nation birthed for liberty. How far we have fallen.