ON THIS JULY FOURTH REMEMBER WHAT GOT US HERE

along with the parades,picnics and fireworks it is important to remember the great chances and sacrifices the founders of this Country took to allow us to live in this still wonderfual and free Country.

When we think of the chances that they framers of the Constitution took with their very lives and the sacrifices that Washingtons Army made as well as every man and woman who has served in combat since that time in the 1700's we should thank the Almighty God we had such heros.

The question I have is are we ready to sacrifice whatever it takes to maintain those freedoms?

It is appropriate that I print an exerpt from a piece written in the Patriot Post today.

"The Founders sought liberty, not license—rather than a loosening of restraints, a freedom to pursue right. The objective was citizens’ safety and happiness, later called “the common defense,” “the general welfare,” and the “blessings of liberty.” The mottos of the American Revolution were “No King but King Jesus!” and “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”

Given their experiences with a leader who had violated the laws supposed to control his own conduct as much as theirs, the Founders sought to avoid the instability of democracy or of oligarchy, in which one or a handful of people can overturn the foundations by a simple vote or decree. Fisher Ames warned, “The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.” John Witherspoon referred to pure democracy as “very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.” The Founders ultimately chose a constitutional democratic republic—based on the foundation of the reliable rule of law, responsive to the people’s “consent of the governed” through representation of the citizens, predicated on the virtue of the people.

The colonists came to these shores with a learned tradition of liberty, and this new land offered a manner of living that further taught freedom. Our performance in upholding this heritage is mixed. We are divided as a nation, no longer pressing toward unity and allegiance to shared principles. Facile commentary lauds comity as the antidote for what the Founders derided as faction, applauding the elitist establishment fetish for bipartisanship. But they are exactly wrong. Indeed, bipartisanship today is more akin to factionalism than are those adhering to the two major political parties out of principle.

There remains one crucial question: What are we willing to risk to salvage the heritage our Founders handed down to us? Our warriors in the field have demonstrated that they stand in the direct line from our Patriot Founders—prepared to sacrifice all in service. Many activist citizens gave time, effort and resources to turn aside the Senate’s recent attempts to foist a dangerous change in immigration laws on the nation. But the United States as a nation is not as secure as at its tenuous beginnings."

The treat is ever present despite the protestation to the contrary by the leftist who would like to see us become another state in the World Union of States. Will we let that happen? Only Go knows, and he hasn't yet wispered in my ear.

Happy Fourth To All and God Bless America!