In the end we will beg for a coup

As we look forward to Sen. Joe Biden's guarantee that the election of the untested Barack Obama would inevitably result in a global crisis where our enemies take measure of the man by confronting him and America with a challenge we should remember General Tommy Franks who said another serious terrorist attack on the United States would "begin to unravel the fabric of our Constitution." Franks said that under such circumstances, "the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government."  

 

With the Patriot Act it will not be difficult for the military to do precisely that. 

 

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall looked into the future and said, "History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. The World War II relocation cases, and the Red Scare and McCarthy–era internal subversion cases are only the most extreme reminders that when we allow fundamental freedoms to be sacrificed in the name of real or perceived exigency, we invariably come to regret it."

 

Remember Benjamin Franklin!!! "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

 

As John W. Whitehead wrote, much like animals in a zoo, many Americans have come to believe that the zookeeper is friendly. The greatest threat to our freedoms is not lurking outside our borders in the guise of foreign terrorists or some purported country in an "axis of evil." The real menace comes from within. The enemy is us---our government of wolves and we the sheep. And there is a lesson here. "Rome did not fall because her armies weakened," writes author Salman Rushdie, "but because Romans forgot what being a Roman meant.

 

If America falls, it will be largely because many Americans have forgotten what it means to be American. Since our country's inception, American has been synonymous with the concept that there are certain individual rights and freedoms that no one, not even government agents, can violate. The foundational idea that individuals have an inherent right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" served as a springboard for the Bill of Rights as they were appended to the Constitution.

 

Absolute rights so precious that no government can violate them? What revolutionary thinking! And yet the early American colonists believed these particular principles were not only worth fighting for, they were worth dying for.

 

Apathy, I can take it or leave it..

 

Regards,
John Jenkins

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Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com 

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