Friday, May 16, 2014

The Dishonoring of Memorial Day by the U.S. Government and Liberals

                Today, the way our Federal Government is providing for the care and treatment of the Veterans of our military who have fought and served this nation with honor is disgraceful and dispicable.  As we approach Memorial Day, a Day where we honor the men and women who gave their lives in the defense of this nation's rights as outlined in the Constitution interpreted the way our founders intended, as a retired Officer who served in the Army and the U.S. Air Force, I am deeply offended, angered, and hurt as I see what the state of our Federal Government is today and its attitude towards the military and veterans.
                Memorial Day, to me, is the most sacred of all U.S. Federal Holiday other than Christmas or Easter.  It should be a day spent being grateful that as an American, we are privileged to live in the only nation in world history where a person is free to worship God in public whether they are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or any other religion.  Yet thanks to misguided liberals, congressmen, senators, and Supreme Court Justices today, I feel like our Government has allowed Memorial Day to become a day which disgraces the memory of all who have died in the service of our nation's armed forces defending its Constitution.  If the liberals in Congress, the ACLU and other evil, misguided anti-religious groups get their way, pretty soon, the only way we will be able to shout the name of God is inside church walls, as long as we do not quote God’s laws against homosexuality, gay marriage, or this politically correctness trend where we cannot say anything that might hurt somebody’s feelings.
But that is not the way the nation was originally brought into being.  Our forefathers fought a revolution to build a different type of nation; one built on Christian principles where its citizens were free to worship the God of the Bible; e.g., Jehovah, Yahweh, Elohim, Adonai, El Shaddai, and many other names, as they wished.  But you do not have to believe me; read what the founding fathers said and did about their feelings about religion and worshipping or studying God and how that integrated into government:
·         The Federal Government actually held church in the Capital building starting in 1800 and it continued until well after the War
·         “The real object of the [First Amendment] was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects” – Justice Joseph Story, U. S. Supreme Court 1811-1845
·         “What is an establishment of religion…It [religion] must be considered as the foundation on which the whole structure rests….In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity; that, in its general principles, is the great conservative element on which we must rely for the purity and permanence of free institutions.  That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”  U. S. House Judiciary Committee of 1853-1855
·         “…The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were …the general principles of Christianity….Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God….I could therefore safely say, consistently with all my then and present information, that I believed they would never make discoveries in contradiction to those general principles.” Former President John Adams in a letter to former President Thomas Jefferson June 28, 1813
·         “Three points of doctrine, the belief of which, forms the foundation of all morality.  The first is the existence of a God; the second is the immorality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments…. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these articles of faith and that man will have no conscience…the laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they can never make him wise, virtuous, or happy.” Letter from 3rd President John Quincy Adams to his son
·         “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any others” John Adams, 2nd President of the USA
·         President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt issued a Bible to soldiers during World War II.  On the inside cover, he wrote:"To the Armed Forces: As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength and now, as always, an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul."
            The U.S. Supreme court, beginning in the 1940’s arbitrarily injected a gross misinterpretation of the intent of the founders of our nation by taking a phrase from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to a group of Baptists that he was trying to convince that he had no intention of allowing any Christian sect to be named the official “religion” of the nation.  In that letter he introduced a clause known as the Separation of Church and State which has driven American down a path undreamed of by the founders, and on a path that will inevitably lead to its decimation as the greatest nation the earth has ever seen.
            The founding fathers all believed that America came into being and won its freedom in a revolution that was God-ordained and God-determined as to outcome.  The founders, as they wrote the Constitution, prayed before every major decision regarding a point to be or not to be included in that document.  Their original intent was for the Bible to be taught in public schools; it was the most prevalent book of its time, and as such, the leaders expected it to be used to teach everything from reading to good morals.
            Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court systematically started destroying what our founding fathers envisioned as the proper role in government by injecting their liberal desires to create a super Federal Government and decimate State’s Rights that the founders blatantly states was something that they all dreaded and warned Americans was inevitable if the citizens of the USA lost their fear of big government and their zeal to protect the State’s rights to govern their citizens.
            As a soldier who fought for this nation in two foreign campaigns, I deeply resent the intentional efforts of liberals to destroy the nation that our founders envisioned as they gave birth to it.  I deeply resent how all liberals and most other politicians today are nothing but hypocrits, power-hungry, lying, individuals that ought to be put in front of a firing squad or sent to prison for life for treason against the Constitution.  And, probably worst, I absolutely detest what the U.S. Supreme Court has become, e.g., nothing more than a political tool for the parties that they are nominated by, and who have totally ignored the intention of the writers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as they reshaped this nation’s morals, freedoms of religions, speech, and protections from the Government that they are supposed to protect the citizens from. 
            Thomas Jefferson once said:” I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” and “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”  All I would say is “AMEN”.  Every soldier that values the freedoms as established by the Constitution as originally intended when written should be absolutely infuriated that the politicians are doing nothing but try to localize their own power and destroy the Bill of Rights.  In my opinion, they are traitors and are worthy only of being tarred, feathered, disgraced, and imprisoned for treason.  Their hypocrisy is unbelievable; they can send a citizen to jail for lying to Congress, but they systematically lie to the American Public without fear of any type of punishment.
            I would pray that this Memorial Day, every Veteran that has fought for this country, in honor of every soldier that has died to protect and defend the Constitution contact their elected Representatives  in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and vent their outrage over the way that our Federal Government is treating our Constitution, and disrespecting and killing the veterans that have fought for our nation.
            Remember…evil grows and wins when good people stand by and do nothing.  Veterans have already stood on the line.  It is now the duty of the citizens of the USA to stand up and protect the rights of American Citizens as intended by the writers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and care for the veterans in honor of the ultimate sacrifices we honor on Memorial Day.