It's Constitutional Watson
Greetings once again fellow citizens of the great state of Alabama and Lamar County. The U.S. Constitution may be the wisest human document ever written. There are things I will repeat often about it to keep in memory for regular readers, and in case someone reads it for the first time. It's the most important writing for Americans after the Bible. It wasn't written to give us rights, but to protect our God-given rights. It was written to restrain the federal government- not "we the people." Since we apply God's word to our country and time period, it's our final governing authority, not presidential executive orders and congress when they contradict it. Our country is a Constitutional Republic, not a full democracy! Find out if our schools are still teaching it, and rightly at that. If not, pressure them to do it while making sure you're teaching your kids and grandkids about it.
Interestingly, I just came across this quote from President Ronald Reagan: "Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our constitution is a document in which 'We the People' tell the government what it is allowed to do." Here are a few more. Thomas Jefferson once said: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, it's acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." Current Senator Rand Paul said: "The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible." Former Supreme Court Justice William Douglas once said: "The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people." I could go on, but...
While the whole constitution is important, there are 2 amendments that I share often because of the dangerous direction of our federal government- the 2nd and the 10th. Many people in our area know the 2nd amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." It seems pretty straight forward doesn't it? Yet many anti-gun activists use the first 4 words to say that this doesn't apply to private citizens like you and me. That's because they don't care or understand what a Militia was- private citizens working together to defend their country. Supreme Court rulings not too long ago upheld our right to keep and bear arms. No restrictions, no infringement!
The 10th Amendment is equally important today: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This gives states, counties and cities the right to nullify unconstitutional acts by the federal government, and arguably- the right to secede from the union (yeah, I know). While it could be very costly (in more ways than one), it may be the only way to stop the loss of our country as we know it. PRAY, PLAN, PREPARE, and be POLITICALLY PROACTIVE- NOW! As Thomas Paine once said: "The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from it's government." Are you a patriot?
Pester Brat is the Founder & Director of the local La-Fayette Constitutional Patriots and national Fellowship of Concerned Constitutional Patriots. You can email him at pesterbratdotcom@aol.com.
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