I work for a large telecommunications company and I always find it interesting how you can say one thing and the people on the other end of the phone can hear something different. Let me give you an example. Our company offers a cell phone plan that allows customers unlimited calling on their cell phones to any AT&T customer but when I say that invariably I have to clarify it because I already know they have been trained to hear, unlimited mobile to mobile, so I have to explain they can get unlimited calling to or from ANY AT&T customer. Sometimes it needs even more explanation than that.
I can't help but wonder how often this sort of thing happens when it comes to our constitution. The oath of office the president must take is quite clearly laid out word for word in the constitution as follows: "Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
I fear that all too often what we here is that he will defend the United States, but this is not what it says. Our president's job is to defend the Constitution. This means if our president is suggesting that we need to obey some international court or international laws will hold sway over our nation and over the Constitution that he is not doing what he swore to do. Indeed we might even consider that this is an act of treason and certainly worthy of impeachment. This is exactly what our current president is trying to bring about. He wants us to relinquish our sovereignty and our Constitution in any situation that it conflicts with what other nations want us to do. It makes the Constitution of no affect.
Many of our judges seem to hear in the Constitution the "freedom of expression" but it cannot be found anywhere in the document, it must be interpreted into the document. They hear the "right to privacy" in the Constitution where it doesn't exist, but it is convenient to find it there because it allows for abortion. They find "separation of church and state" in the Constitution but that also can't be found in the Constitution.
We seem to have a lot of leaders and judges that find whatever they want in the Constitution and ignore what is actually there. If we are not careful we are going to find that we no longer have a constitution to protect us. Our founding fathers, though learned men knew how to write clearly what they meant and we need to realize they wrote their ideas quite clearly and for many good reasons. It is said that we have leaders that may well have never even read the entire constitution which they are all sworn to protect. If this doesn't scare you it should!
At the same time these same leaders are trying to define away the freedom of religion clearly stated in the first amendment by using a non-Constitutional statement by Jefferson regarding the separation of church and state to make it so you can't bring your own religion into your public office. They try to explain away the the second amendment allowing us to own and BEAR firearms, citing criminal behavior as a reason to do away with that amendment. Through the patriot act and "government necessity" they are doing away with the 4th amendment.
Consider carefully what our leaders are doing to the Constitution they swore to uphold.
As for representing us where taxes are concerned we have leaders that are taxing is more severely than the King of England ever thought to tax us. Nothing will strip a people of its freedoms more quickly than over taxation. The government is not to be our benefactor. The job of the government is public defense and justice. They are there to protect our right not to take them. They also do not confer rights on the people at least not according to our founding fathers who said that we had inalienable rights given to us God. Our leaders hate to hear the God ever uttered in a public forum as though it were something that our founding fathers also abhorred as much as our current leaders do. One only has to read such things as the federalist papers and the Constitution to see that God was very much in their thoughts and that they mentioned him through all of their writings. No it wasn't always the Christian God. Some of our founding fathers were dieists and Masons who believe in quite a different God from the one Christians generally believed in, but they recognized the right and importance to be able to speak of God in public and included him in much of their writings as the basis for all the other rights we have.
I cannot help but wonder how many hundreds of thousands of pages our current leaders would have made the constitution were they the ones to write it today. On top of that I have little doubt they would all votes for all those pages of constitution they would write without ever reading it. We ought to be screaming to our leaders stop the madness or get out of office.
It amazed me when the Obama spokesman on Fox News said one night that the Tea Parties would have no affect on our leaders or their decisions because our leaders don't care about those meaningless demonstrations. I fear that he was right. At the last election our congress had an 11% approval rating yet 95% of them ended up back in office. We are too afraid to vote them out, and they are not afraid in the least that it will happen.
If a significant number of people people in the United States decided to go exempt on their pay checks for 2 months Washington would pay attention to that. When the money stops flowing they take notice and it seems it's all they take notice of. Because they've made taxes so painless by tax withholdings most Americans don't even really consider that the government is taking as much or more from them every month as they pay for mortgage or rent. Does this seem reasonable to anyone?
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