Our Tyrannical Government

I watched the ABC special interview with Barack Obama and his healthcare plans. This was my reaction:

What is wrong with this mas? He wants the government to control our healthcare! He says people are getting too many procedures done. That is true. But what does he plan to do FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL about it? He can say whatever he wants, but I DO NOT want a WASHINGTON BEAUROCRAT deciding which procedures I or my family members should or should not have! These TYRANTS have no right to make ANY decision for me.

Of course, this goes right along with the other freedoms our tyrant king is trying to wrest from us. As of yesterday, the administration made public its intention to push for ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights on Children treaty! Should that happen, the government would be the final authority on our children. Homeschooling will be virtually illegal (along with most private schools), the government will have the right to surprise inspections of our homes to check on how we are raising our children, and the government will have the final say when it comes to punishment and religion for our children (can't be pushing one single religion on a child or somethings). The moment this treaty is ratified, it becomes on equal level with the Constitution and therefore the supreme law of the land. And at that point we will lose all rights as parents. Some say, "Oh, well you are just taking this too far! Come on, you will not go to jail!" Oh yeah! What about in Europe now where parents are being thrown in jail because they refuse to send their children to public schools! What about in our own country where a judge recently used the CRC as justification to order parents to reduce the amount of "religion" they push on their child and told them how many times a week they are allowed to send their him to church!

And one more, the "Smart Grid." Our government is trying to get the power and technology to record from within our own homes what appliances we have on, what temperature we have our thermostats set at, how many lights we have on, how often we watch television and anything else they want to! This would be warrantless, of course. Can we really expect anything else from these tyrants? Then they say that it is for our own good.

LEAVE ME ALONE! STAY AWAY FROM MY HOME AND MY FAMILY! YOU HAVE NO MORE RIGHT TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO THAN ANY PERSON WHO WOULD BREAK INTO MY HOUSE AND HOLD A GUN TO MY HEAD!

Where I Have Been

Hello world, I am back. Life has been busy and wonderful. Riley Joy is doing incredible new things every day and Hannah just blows me away taking care of Riley Joy during the day and still being able to have dinner ready when I get home. Work is fine, nothing special. Things are slow which makes the days drag, but the weekends still find a way to come quickly enough. Church is wonderful, I love Pastor David and the other members. I never thought we would actually be able to find a church that sought the Spirit but also held fast to the Scriptures. God is good :-). The May rain decided to come in June so we have been drenched the majority of this month but it looks like it finally is going to end. That is well appreciated, because our yard is piled high with half-finished projects that have been waiting for a nice weekend to complete. I need to finish two fences, put in three gates, break down a fence, trim the shrub trees... and the list goes on.

Now, I actually have been doing quite a bit of writing recently. I started a blogsite for the Liberty Bell Center for Constitutional Studies (LBCCS) and have been recording all of the goings on of the organization there. We try to educate through every single email and communication we send out. Even if a person just reads an announcement for upcoming events I want them to get something out of it that they can take away with them. So I have been putting quite a bit of time into our correspondence. Also on the website we have tons of resources for anyone interested. Everything from online books to online audio to informative current event sites. I hope anyone reading this will check it out. The address is:

http://libertybellccs.blogspot.com

So that is my life right now: Family, Work, Church and Country.

Natural Law

Why should you care about Natural Law? Well, it is the foundation of UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, HABEAS CORPUS, LIMITED GOVERNMENT, SEPARATION OF POWERS, CHECKS AND BALANCES, RIGHT TO SELF-PRESERVATION, CONTRACTS, THE FAMILY, RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION and much more.

When our country was created, all other nations of the world were under a legal system known as “Civil Law” which holds that the government is the ultimate law and any rights the citizens have are granted to them by the government. Our founding fathers knew that was wrong and instead built our government based on the radical belief that the government is not the ultimate law. Instead, governments are under the law, Natural Law. But what is Natural Law?

The enlightenment philosopher, John Locke, wrote:

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another's pleasure.

Natural Law acknowledges that people's rights come from the Creator, not the government. No government has the right to deprive a person of any one of their rights “unless it be to do justice on an offender” of the rights of others.

Samuel Adams referenced Natural Law when he said:

The natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second to liberty; third to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.

And Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.

Author Richard Maybury writes:

After 1776, America became the leader of this movement to Natural Law. Countries that adopted a Natural Law viewpoint came to be known as the “free world,” of which America was the acknowledged leader. These countries also became the most prosperous, with the most job opportunities, the largest middle classes, and the most investment opportunities.

The United States of America was the first nation in the history of the world to align their law system with the “law of nature and nature's God” and became the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen.

Riley Joy as a UPS racecar driver?

I generated these at:
http://www.racing.ups.com/crewme/

They made me laugh :-) But just to warn you, they get scarier as you go down the list.

Me On Glenn Beck

I had the opportunity to be on the Glenn Beck Program on Fox News. It was my big moment on national television :-). I got some laughs, but our brains were not on the same track at the end. I was presenting the political spectrum as our founders saw it but he was presenting the scale as a means of making a certain point. Whatever. A friend told me later, "Did you really think you were going to make YOUR point on HIS show?" Yeah, I get it :-).

But boy was it fun!

Finally A New Entry

My brother Tyler implored me to get back to writing on my blog... so here I am. Life has been moving faster than the speed of light and things have been happening so fast and so much that my brain can not condense it into words. So what has been up?

Well, I went on the Glenn Beck Program on Fox News Channel a few weeks ago with some friends. It was a neat experience. He invited me up onto the stage for a demonstration. I was also able to get a few laughs from the crowd.

I have been getting more involved in the Liberty Bell Center for Constitutional Studies where I have now been made the Chairman. We have monthly discussion group meetings to discuss the Constitution and the beliefs of our founding fathers and how they apply to our country and world today. And on June 5 we are having our first LBCCS movie night where we will be watching "A More Perfect Union" which is an awesome dramatization of the Constitutional convention where they put together our current Constitution, the most incredible political document in history. I am excited about that. I have been working with a man named Paul Fiske who founded LBCCS and it is neat to pick his old, wise brain :-).

I have been doing lots of reading about economics and history... my usual.

Work is going fine, nothing special.

Financially we are strapped right now. The old woman Hannah helped died a week ago so Hannah is now without a job (and unable to start a new one with the baby coming). So I have been desperately trying to cut down our monthly bills and expenses so we have some money for food and gas (what Hannah was providing for). We will see how it all plays out. Both of our cars are out of gas until Thursday when I get a check.

Funfun.

I am tired also. Riley Joy is such a handful right now and because of all her new teeth coming in kept waking up last night in the middle of the night and singing and climbing on us. But even though I lost sleep because of her, just writing this down makes me smile. There is nothing in this world like having a child :-).

Racism... Again.

So a few weeks ago I was up getting my tea out of the microwave at work when I saw a paper posted on the bulletin board there. It was a picture printed off of someone's computer. The picture was of a large airplane that was supposed to be Air Force One. On the front of the airplane there was a picture of a monkey eating a watermelon and on the rear of the plane there was a picture of President Obama eating a watermelon and the caption said, "The Watermelon Express."

WHAT! WHO WOULD POSSIBLY THINK THAT WAS AN OK THING TO POST UP THERE! I am not a politically correct person and I enjoy stereotypical humor, but that picture was making two unmistakably racist references!

What is wrong with some people? Who would possibly think that was appropriate... or even funny?