What Happened to the Constitution?

For forty something years my wife and I were enjoying the freedoms provided by the Constitution of the United States and our State Constitution. We had a home, three kids, two cars, four television sets, a boat on the lake and all the comforts that the freedoms of our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, would allow. We took vacations and enjoyed life pretty much to the fullest.

My wife and I retired a few years ago and now with our children all married and living in their own homes. Finally we had very little to do or think about so we started paying attention to the “state of the nation”. Suddenly we were sore afraid. Just what has our elected representatives done to the “constitution”. They surely have not been following it very closely nor paying attention to its laws or the people who have entrusted them with the job. We find that our country is deeply in debt, our foreign policy is a joke, people around the world are laughing at us and we are the target of the nation of Islam just as soon as they finish off our most trusted ally, Israel.

As a Christian (which is not a religion in the first place but a philosophy), I can not understand the determination why Democrats, liberals and atheists are so adamant about removing Christianity from the only nation founded upon Biblical Judeo-Christian principles by its’ founding fathers. Any educated person who has read any of the founding fathers writings in full without picking and selecting passages out of context to prove their point would know without a doubt what was meant by the first amendment.

Article I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Perhaps the word “respecting” is a bit Shakespearean for them to fathom the meaning thereof. My Thesaurus gave me the phrase “with regard to”. So Congress shall make no law with regard to an establishment of religion, (That’s a comma meaning there‘s more of the same subject) or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; (that’s a semi-colon: it means a continuation of the thought.) or abridging the freedom of speech, (that’s a comma again) or of the press; (another semicolon) or the right of (We) the people peaceably to assemble, (another comma) and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

There is nothing hard about that to understand. As an American citizen, I have the right to not only go to the church of my choice, but also if I want to, establish my own church and denomination. Yet the progressives, Atheists and the Democrats (if you were listening to them booed God at their presidential nomination convention last September) would like for me, a member of the FREE United States of America, to curb my freedoms to keep from hurting their feelings. Why does it bother anyone in a FREE country what his or her neighbor does or says. They do not have to pay any attention to what I do or say. After all, I do not pay them any attention when they insult my beliefs. “It’s a FREE country….or is it?”

Madalyn Murray O’Hair made headlines when she objected to her eldest son, William, participating in Bible readings in the Baltimore public schools. She carried her argument to the Supreme Court and would you believe it….she won her argument. Makes me wonder where the Supreme Court Justices were educated. After years of being the most hated woman in America, she was murdered. It was years before her body was found and the murder has never been solved. The Atheists would be very pleased if it was proved some Christian who did the deed.

I went to a Baptist college with a fairly good number of foreign exchange students who were of mostly non-protestant religions (my favorite friend was a young Buddhist) and some of no religious convictions at all and never did any one of them object to the fact that we had religious assembly every morning. People can get along with each other ONLY IF THEY WANT TO. There are those in our nation and in our political circles who DO NOT WANT TO. They are set on creating divisions and strife among the citizens. When I was just a young boy the old folks called them “TROUBLE MAKERS.”

Now all 57 states… I mean all 50 states (57 is the number of Muslim countries at present) have to subscribe to a socialized medicine program where everyone gets the same medical care (FREE??? I doubt it, it‘s going to cost someone.) What about article 10 of the constitution?

Article X

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. 

Do I need to break this down into English for anyone? It is not even in the Shakespearean form and it is very well punctuated. The powers not delegated (given) to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited (forbidden) by it to the States, are reserved (set aside) to the States respectively (in that order), or to the “people”. (That is us).

States have rights even though we are a part of the 50 United States. What is legal in some states can be illegal in others. New Hampshire, as well as several other states, have a right to carry a weapon. In other states it is illegal. I personally believe the citizens of every state should have the right to wear a side arm in public. I personally believe the crime rate would drop drastically.

I started this article with “What Happened to Our Constitution?” I will end it with this thought. Years ago a cartoonist named Walter Kelly, drew a comic strip in most of the newspapers in the U.S. called Pogo. One of his strips became famous for this statement: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” We were for over 40 years our own worst enemy. While we enjoyed the fruits of our labors and the freedom to pursue happiness we did not keep an eye on Washington and our very trusted, elected leaders have stolen our freedoms slowly and surely for their personal gains and interests. I remember a statement from Soviet Russia (USSR) that said “we will bury you with your own shovels.” and I believe they have succeeded. There’s no secret any more that there is a Democratic Socialist party in the United States, and other political groups with Socialist leanings who spew forth with Socialist and Communist propaganda and are not particularly mentioned in our mainstream media.

I think we owe Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) a belated apology. In 1950 as a U.S. Senator he became concerned about the growing number of communist and communist sympathizers in America and started holding Senate hearings. He made many enemies who also followed his activities with a strong interest. Determined to stop McCarthy from spreading the truth about their communist agenda, many anti-American Hollywood insiders found willing accomplices in the budding liberal media. These propaganda-mongers added a new word to the dictionary, defining “McCarthyism” as a senseless political witch-hunt. In fact, McCarthy had exposed scores of known communists in the capital without a single known false accusation. Joseph McCarthy’s critics were never interested in the truth.

The leftist counter-offensive against McCarthy was beginning to take its toll in late 1953. Many Senators became fed up with McCarthy’s showmanship as the liberal media relentlessly launched baseless attacks against his character. On a dark day in American history in December 1954, American hero and patriot Joseph McCarthy was censured by the US Senate.

Was he wrong? I remember him pretty well because he was covered by black and white television back then. I thought he was doing a pretty good job and television producers spun off a show that caught public interest called “I Was A Communist for the FBI” which was about an undercover FBI agent infiltrating communist organizations in the U.S. No…he was not wrong…just ahead of his time. Our country has moved far enough to the left that people proudly claim to be socialists, or communists, when they use to hide that fact from the public. Moreover, they have no trouble at all calling me, a conservative Christian, a racist. I have never worn a white hood nor been part of the KKK. Nevertheless, there are a few Democrats still alive that cannot make that claim. Senator McCarthy, I for one apologize for the way you were treated by your own peers in the United States Senate.