IN AMERICA

In America there is no place for a so-called free speech zone—all of America is a free speech zone.  This includes our right to freely exercise our religious beliefs—no matter where we are, including government property.  We have a right to say a blessing over a meal even if it is being eaten at school or say a blessing before a graduation or a ballgame—and to say it in any way we choose—even to say it in the name of Jesus because we have a right to do so given to us by our Creator and defended by our 1^st Amendment.

In America, the militia, which is just another word for the public in general that gets together to defend against a common foe, infringement of the right to keep and bear arms is unacceptable.  The arms we keep and bear must be comparable to the arms held by a standing army in order to prevent a tyrannical takeover of our country. I am no expert on guns but my point is if our professional military arms their forces with a weapon such as an AR15, then we need comparable weapons. This is the only thing that keeps us free and anyone who attempts to persuade you otherwise is trying to persuade you to accept your chains and be happy about it.

In America, there is no place where giving up our right to be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects is acceptable without  probable cause and an oath or affirmation used to issue a warrant for a search and/or seizure.  This includes the airport and train and bus stations and anywhere that a crazy person might want to cause mayhem. The answer to a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. There is no way that after 9/11 anyone with nefarious aims will ever again get away with hijacking another airplane. Americans would rather risk dying taking down a hijacker and preventing another disaster like 9/11, so all of the unconstitutional groping and radiating at airports is just window dressing and is unnecessary. It is all just to make us “feel” like they are keeping us safe but in reality is just conditioning us to giving up our 4^th Amendment rights.

In America there is no room for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In one fell swoop the NDAA takes away our right to a trial. We can now be kidnapped by the government and held indefinitely and tortured. They can take our property and take our lives, all without due process—and why can they do this? Because the NDAA gives the power over life and death of Americans to just one person and that person is whoever is occupying the chair in the oval office.  He doesn’t have to say who is on his assassination list. He can keep everything quiet and hidden behind the veil of “national security” and never say a word.

In America 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. Or to the people—herein lies our hope. We the people must use the constitutional tool of nullification to put this genie back into the bottle. It is necessary for the sake of our children. Some states are already having some success with it. The answer lies in returning to the constitution where it has been all along. We owe our founders a great debt of gratitude for the blueprint that they left for us.

We the people are the last line in the defense of freedom. We must find a way to rid ourselves of the electronic and computer voting systems that are so easily corrupted. Perhaps the answer is a system that gives a receipt when you vote. Then the receipts would be inserted into a locked container and at the end of the day they would be counted and compared to the electronic/computer vote count to see if they matched and if they did not match there would be an investigation to see why. If they did match the votes would be called into a central vote tallying center in full view of everyone. It is simple accounting and makes perfect sense to me. Yes, it would be more time consuming and would take more effort but to save the integrity of our election system, I believe this is a very necessary change. This would be a start. Honest voting is where we must begin.