Many of our leaders across the country are violating their oaths of office, and violating our rights laid out in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Someone asked me today, what is the right thing to do about this, as a Christian. Should we read the bible, pray, and witness to people about Christ, and do nothing more, or should we become involved politically. My opinion is this. Evil men and women, ungodly, violating biblical law, and violating the Constitution are gaining more and more control in this country, because too many Christians are not speaking out, and are not getting involved. It has been said (perhaps by Edmund Burke, but the true author is not clear) is “”The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.” I believe that is true. Good men and women have been doing nothing, and evil is surely triumphing.
Our Constitutional rights are being assaulted every day. The First Amendment is under assault by laws limiting freedom of speech, such as laws that prevent a person from saying they believe homosexuality is wrong. The liberal mainstream media protects its’ liberal cohorts in Washington, as directed to by their billionaire masters who think they should control us because they are wealthy. They have forced upon us “fairness doctrine”. If a television news host has an opinion on Radical Islamic Groups, that program must have a person representing that group on the show in order for that group speak its’ viewpoint, no matter how evil and insane it is.
The Second Amendment is under assault. Disarm us to enslave us. That is the ultimate goal. It is the template followed by every totalitarian state. Should the people in Germany have just allowed Hitler to do what he did, or should they have done everything in their power to stop it? The same thing is happening in this country now as happened in China, Germany, and Russia. The promise was, the “state” will protect you. Soon, tens of millions of people were slaughtered as “dissidents”.
Should we not at least speak the truth? Should we not at least call leaders who violate their oath of office and commit acts of treason, such as unlawful infringements upon our Constitutionally guaranteed rights, 3 of which, including the Second Amendment had the phrase “shall not be infringed” emphasized with them? Should we stand mute as our the law of the land, which millions have fought and died for, is dismantled piece by piece through the lies and deception, while the government tells us it is for our own good?
I believe we as free Americans, especially Christians have a duty to call out evil and confront it publicly, for evil always succeeds best when hidden in shadow, and veiled in darkness, which is often “false light”. How can our government know the depths to which we oppose these infringements if we stand silent as they destroy everything this nation has stood for since its foundation? It cannot. So whose responsibility is it to speak out if not ours? I for one cannot remain silent. Thomas Jefferson said this : “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” He went on to say that “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.” I think that makes things very clear, and Thomas Jefferson was a Christian, as were many who fought the Revolutionary War, and founded this country, and wrote the Constitution.
Winston Churchill once said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. I can certainly count myself in that group. I have openly accused the President and many lawmakers in Congress traitors, and of violating their oaths of office. Many think they will eventually come and arrest me for sedition for this, or some made up charge. We shall see.
Churchill also said “If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” We can certainly see that in America today. Obama creates hundreds of thousands of new regulations, and hires 101 new federal employees a day, everyday to oversee these regulations. Congressmen and women have admitted that they simply don’t have time to read the Bills that come in front of them in their entirety, they are too long. We have far too many laws and regulations already. The beauty of the Constitution was its’ simplicity and adaptability. Thomas Jefferson spoke eloquently of the Constitution, as did others. He posed the question “Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God?” Notice, our liberties came from God, not from the law, so how can so-called lawmakers take away our rights that “cannot be infringed?” Patrick Henry put the entire question to bed with this last statement, which the Democrats, led by Obama have certainly forgotten, or chose to ignore ( An evil, conscious decision, or a slip of the mind? I will go with the former). Henry stated “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
I believe we have an obligation to speak the truth, no matter the consequences. This is what I will continue to do.
~Steve Jacobson
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