amicus
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Human Individual Liberty, Individual Freedom, is a rare virtue around the world even today in 2012.
The United States of America, arising from the thirteen colonies of early America, a British Colony, fought for Independence from Great Britain and established a new nation that startled the entire civilized world at the time.
The first departure in all of human history of rule by the force of Kings, Tribal Leaders, Religious dictatorships, all of whom imposed the will of a few on the many.
It was only in America where the individual rights of each was stated and protected and the ‘State’ functioned only by permission of the people and under a strict definition of what the State, the Government was empowered to do.
The creation of the United States of America was not unanimous among those chosen to represent each individual Colony.
The documents that emerged, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights, was hotly contested between those who wanted a small government and those who wanted a large one.
The History of the United States, from the beginning to now, has been a continuing conflict between those who wish to maintain a small, non intrusive government and those who want a larger, more invasive and intrusive government to influence and guide the lives of its citizens.
There was an equal ebb and flow between the two opposing ideologies until about the turn of the century from 1890 to 1906.
During that era, an increasingly influential ideology arose, that of Progressivism, a term that included the tenets of socialism and social democracy.
That combination of ideas accumulated to oppress the individual rights enumerated by the Declaration and the Constitution and replace the individual rights of life, liberty and property, with the group or social orientation and the imposition that social rights were of greater importance than individual rights.
The decline in individual liberty progressed through the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Programs such as the Income Tax, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and now socialized medicine in the Obama administration are clear and irrefutable incursions on individual liberty and the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States.
One is led to believe that these unconstitutional programs are well intended to serve the needs of the people, when in fact they weaken the very foundation of this nation and turn citizens into being dependent upon the Federal and State governments for their existence.
Being dependent on government for food, hosing, medical care and employment has destroyed the individual incentive to be responsible for his own individual existence and turned him instead towards standing in line for welfare checks and benefits from government agencies.
The tone and substance of what you are being taught in school today, at all levels from elementary to college level, is an acceptance that service to the greater good through the sacrifice of individual goals, dreams and aspirations is what your goals would be, is destructive of your self esteem, how you value your own dreams and sense of life.
To my very young writing friends who see and feel the hopelessness around you and choose or consider withdrawing, rebelling or dropping out, I can offer you source material to better understand your plight, but I can offer no recipe or religious tracts to memorize to blind you towards what is going to happen.
By Amicus © 2012, All rights reserved.
Author notes
Four more years of this administration will tip the scare from a partly free nation that America is now. into a socialist democracy that will change tthe emtire character of America from an independent people to and European style socialist
country in which individual choices will be increasingly limited.
You must stop this and you are the generation upon which this monumental task has fallen.
I wish you courage and valor and dedication to t he principles of individual human liberty. Godspeed and grace...amicus veritas
A Call to Action a true purpose for your life.
The United States of America, arising from the thirteen colonies of early America, a British Colony, fought for Independence from Great Britain and established a new nation that startled the entire civilized world at the time.
The first departure in all of human history of rule by the force of Kings, Tribal Leaders, Religious dictatorships, all of whom imposed the will of a few on the many.
It was only in America where the individual rights of each was stated and protected and the ‘State’ functioned only by permission of the people and under a strict definition of what the State, the Government was empowered to do.
The creation of the United States of America was not unanimous among those chosen to represent each individual Colony.
The documents that emerged, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights, was hotly contested between those who wanted a small government and those who wanted a large one.
The History of the United States, from the beginning to now, has been a continuing conflict between those who wish to maintain a small, non intrusive government and those who want a larger, more invasive and intrusive government to influence and guide the lives of its citizens.
There was an equal ebb and flow between the two opposing ideologies until about the turn of the century from 1890 to 1906.
During that era, an increasingly influential ideology arose, that of Progressivism, a term that included the tenets of socialism and social democracy.
That combination of ideas accumulated to oppress the individual rights enumerated by the Declaration and the Constitution and replace the individual rights of life, liberty and property, with the group or social orientation and the imposition that social rights were of greater importance than individual rights.
The decline in individual liberty progressed through the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Programs such as the Income Tax, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and now socialized medicine in the Obama administration are clear and irrefutable incursions on individual liberty and the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States.
One is led to believe that these unconstitutional programs are well intended to serve the needs of the people, when in fact they weaken the very foundation of this nation and turn citizens into being dependent upon the Federal and State governments for their existence.
Being dependent on government for food, hosing, medical care and employment has destroyed the individual incentive to be responsible for his own individual existence and turned him instead towards standing in line for welfare checks and benefits from government agencies.
The tone and substance of what you are being taught in school today, at all levels from elementary to college level, is an acceptance that service to the greater good through the sacrifice of individual goals, dreams and aspirations is what your goals would be, is destructive of your self esteem, how you value your own dreams and sense of life.
To my very young writing friends who see and feel the hopelessness around you and choose or consider withdrawing, rebelling or dropping out, I can offer you source material to better understand your plight, but I can offer no recipe or religious tracts to memorize to blind you towards what is going to happen.
By Amicus © 2012, All rights reserved.
Author notes
Four more years of this administration will tip the scare from a partly free nation that America is now. into a socialist democracy that will change tthe emtire character of America from an independent people to and European style socialist
country in which individual choices will be increasingly limited.
You must stop this and you are the generation upon which this monumental task has fallen.
I wish you courage and valor and dedication to t he principles of individual human liberty. Godspeed and grace...amicus veritas
A Call to Action a true purpose for your life.
