Northern Illinois Patriots

James Madison stated, “It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous they cannot be read or so incoherent they cannot be understood.” The Ten Commandments is only 10 sentences long. Our Constitution is a mere 20 pages long. Both are concise and written in language that is common sense and easily understood. Evil men with an insatiable appetite for power and control have distorted and perverted both for personal gain.

Article 1 Section 8 of our Constitution grants Congress the power to “Regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among several States, and with the Indian Tribes. Regulate meant to make regular or uniform, and facilitate the free flow of goods but not, except in the case of danger, prohibit the free flow of and good. So why would our founding fathers incorporate a Commerce Clause? Prior to the Constitution each State determined how they would regulate and tax and commerce. Without uniform trade regulations commerce among the States would be made more difficult.

No clause has been more disputed or generated more cases of litigation. From the beginning Chief Justice John Marshall saw no limitations for Congress and left its interpretation and enforcement completely up to their discretion. For politicians, it is not about the free flow of goods, it is about power and control and the unfettered ability to tax. They now control and tax every aspect of commerce whether it is goods or services, written or oral, optional or mandatory. Through the unconstitutional health care reform bill we are now required to purchase a product whether we want it or not.

It is not about helping the American citizen; it is about stripping away the rights endowed by our Creator. It is about imposing the same tyrannical form of government and control that was rejected by our Founding Fathers prior to the Revolutionary War. The American electorate has been complicit in this usurpation of power. More concerned with living off the government dole than electing office holders willing to follow the tenets of our Constitution we have become spectators in the systematic dismantling of the greatest nation the world has seen.

 Let me be the first to thank Democrats and Liberals for the reelection of Barack Obama. Thank you for an additional $10 trillion in debt, for continuing trillion dollar deficits, for continuing high unemployment, for the loss in personal income, and for soaring energy prices.

Thank you for crushing new taxes, for a health care bill that people didn’t want but were forced to join, a bill that will increase our premiums, deny our choice of doctors and medical plans, institute death panels, fund the killing of unborn infants and contraceptives, and cut Medicare by $716 billion dollars.

Thank you for the increase in food stamp recipients, families in poverty, people on long term unemployment, and generational welfare. Thank you for insuring the bankruptcy of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, for drastically increasing school funding as academic scores continue to plummet. Thank you for continuing the greed, corruption, and amoral conduct of our politicians, for increasing the size, scope, and cost of government.

Thank you for the continued destruction of our individual liberties and personal responsibilities, for increasing burdensome regulations, creating a toxic business environment, for partisan politics and class warfare, for telling us we are not a Christian nation and removing our right of religious freedom.

Thank you for making our nation and the world less safe as you continue to gut our military, for shunning our allies and embracing our enemies. I apologize if there is something I have failed to give you credit for. Just to insure you that I am not ungrateful, let me once again say a sincere Thank You.

 Ronald Reagan said that, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” He also said that, “We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.” Mitt Romney was in fact the last hope for our nation to be returned to our founding principles and our Constitution. This generation will witness the extinction of what was the greatest and most prosperous nation the world has seen.

Mitt Romney made the case for individual liberties and personal responsibility. He challenged people to use their God given abilities and their freedom to pursue their dreams to become successful contributing members of society. He talked of American Exceptionalism and love of God and country. He is a man of deep personal conviction, unquestionable morals, an enviable record of success both financially and personally, and a man with a long history of selfless public service.

We are witnessing a nation consumed with greed and self interest, a nation that has abandoned God and worships at the altar of government entitlements, a nation more obsessed with being served than serving, a nation more concerned with receiving than giving. We are a nation more content with sitting on the wagon than pulling the wagon.

We will little note nor long remember our Declaration of Independence or our Constitution. Alexander Tyler said that the life cycle of a democracy is about 200 years. We are well past that time. As surely as history has seen the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, we will now experience the Death of America. 

The Declaration of Independence states, “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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed”

 The rights endowed by our Creator have been replaced with rights determined by elitist politicians. They have given us civil rights, human rights, patient’s rights, consumer’s rights, animal rights, enemy combatant’s rights, passenger rights, parental rights, illegal aliens’ rights, the right to remain silent, the right to privacy, the right to speak to an attorney, a woman’s right to choose, and the right to terminate the life of an unborn infant.

 They have also given us the right to food, clothing, shelter, a formal education, health care, legal advice, privacy, laptops, cell phones, child care services, transportation, medicine, and welfare.

 These same politicians have given themselves the rights to benefits not available to all of its citizens, freedom from accountability, pork barrel funds, unlimited power, disdain of the electorate, and perpetual powers of office.

 Government has become the new God. They determine life and death, good and bad, rich and poor, success and failure. Rights once endowed by our Creator are now rights Endowed by Our Government.

Democrats have been the self-proclaimed champions of the poor and defenders of the helpless. The very label of Liberal implies a person with an open mind, a person willing to listen to other points of view. Liberals are people of good intentions not necessarily good results.

But are Liberals really open minded? Liberals love the poor as long as vote Democratic. They love women as long as they vote Democratic and men as long as they vote Democratic. They love Blacks and Hispanics as long as they vote Democratic.

They love union members, teachers, policemen, firemen, blue collar workers, white collar workers, and Wall Street Investors as long as they vote Democratic. They love the rich, the movie stars, sports figures, corporate executives, doctors, and lawyers as long as they vote Democratic.

But there will be hell to pay if you are a Conservative and vote Republican; just ask Sarah Palin, Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Meg Whitman, Allan West, Herman Cain, Condoleezza Rice, and Marco Rubio among others.

If a Liberal finds a particular act of behavior offensive they will not only refrain from that behavior but they demand all others refrain from that behavior. They believe their doctrine of elitism and superiority not only allows but requires them to impose their world view on others. Their platform denies freedom of choice, the foundation of our Constitution and a democratic society. Can the Democratic Party, in good conscience, call themselves the Party of Inclusion?

 Unless you were the toughest kid in school, everyone experienced the grade school bully. The first time he approached you, he told you to give him your lunch. Because you were afraid of the bully and didn’t want to make him mad, you gave him your lunch. But the bully wasn’t satisfied. He next demanded your lunch money, then your new watch, then your cell phone, then your new coat. No matter how much gave to the bully or gave into the bully it was never enough.

Our government is the new grade school bully. Government takes what it wants when it wants. If we refuse we will be punished. Government determines what we will be allowed to keep and how we may spend it. Our Declaration of Independence states that, “All Experience hath shown that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.

Voters have been complicit in the steady erosion of our liberties. We have allowed government to dictate what we may eat and drink, where we may live, the cars we may drive, the clothes we wear, what our children will learn, what we see, what we hear, what we may say, the manner in which we worship, and through health care reform, who may live or die. They control all aspects of our lives.

Rather than stand up to the bully we accede to his every command and decree. What will it take before we make a stand and defend the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator? When Will Enough be Enough?

 Americans and certainly Christians will never forget the words of our President when he stated, “We are not a Christian nation.” Whether unintentional or deliberate, President Obama ignored over two centuries of our nation’s history as a Judeo Christian nation. From the Mayflower Compact to the Declaration of Independence, to our Constitution, from the halls of Congress to our national monuments, to our Courts and our Archives, the name of God and his teachings are indelibly etched into the minds and hearts of our citizens.

While our President clearly distances himself from any professions of his stated following of Christianity he had no problem remarking on Ramadan, an Islamic holiday. He said, “Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths.”

Is the Islamic faith he is referring to the same Islamic faith that chops off peoples’ heads, beats, stones, and oppresses women, hangs homosexuals, and promotes hatred? Is this the same faith that says a Muslim woman is worth half a Muslim man, that states they must slaughter all non-believers, that kills innocent men, women, and children in its name, and that is systematically destroying Coptic Christians?

The behavior of many practicing Muslims in no way mirrors the teachings and practices of Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Hindus, and other accepted religions. For the President to make such a comparison is non-factual and flies in the face of reason. While stating that we are not a Christian nation was he inferring that we are now A Muslim Nation?

 James Madison said, “It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the health care bill before we know what is in it.”

Our Constitution is a mere 20 pages long. The health care bill was over 2,600 pages long and that was just the outline of the bill. Obscure provisions were written and hidden in the massive document. References in the bill were made to other bills and other documents. Few if any Senators read or understood the entire bill or its legalese jargon.

The Federal Register which contains proposed new rules and regulations, final rules, changes to existing rules, and notices of meetings and adjudicatory proceedings annually tips the scales at over 70,000 pages. The Federal register does not include State and Local rules, regulations, and restrictions.

The Declaration of Independence states that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed in order to secure the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. Every regulation, every law, every rule removes one of those rights. Our government controls the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the homes we live, the cars we drive, what our children learn, and the air we breathe.

The bureaucratic quagmire that politicians call the “Rule of Law” is really just Colossal and Confusing.

 The Declaration of Independence states, “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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed”. Government is created solely to protect and defend our individual liberties. Every regulation removes one of our individual liberties.

The recent decision to uphold the health care reform bill confirms that the Supreme Court cannot be relied on the defend our Constitution, that there is no limit on what our government can force us to purchase, as long as they call it a tax, and individual liberties are under assault like no other time in our history.

Just because the Constitution doesn’t say our government can’t do it doesn’t mean they can do it. Nowhere in entire 20 pages of our Constitution does it give our government permission to require its citizens to purchase a product or a service. The Supreme Court majority chose to ignore the obvious and rule based on ideology not the Constitution. Today’s decision does not mean the law is Constitutional it simply means that five Justices believed it was not unconstitutional.

Thomas Jefferson said, “A government big enough to give you everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything you have.” That day is here. While many Liberals will applaud the decision, freedom is dying a death by a thousand cuts. Whether it is evil men with evil intentions or good men with good intentions the results are the same. We are living in a nation unknown to our founding fathers, our grandparents, or our parents. This day will go down in history not as a triumph for mankind but The Day Freedom Died.

 No society can exist without laws and laws are meaningless without universal enforcement. The United States has more laws than any other nation. The outline of healthcare bill alone is 2,600 pages. Our President takes an oath to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution.

Our Constitution provides for three separate and distinct branches of government: The Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. Our Constitution has provisions for its change through an amendatory process. No citizen, and no politician, not even the President has the authority to decide which laws they will obey and which laws they will ignore.

Our President has displayed a consistent pattern of ignoring laws. Most recently he has decided not to enforce immigration laws. He has similarly ignored laws regarding gay rights, drug enforcement, Internet gambling, and school achievement standards. He has ignored rulings of Federal Courts regarding on order not to implement health care reform.

The Department of Justice has refused to prosecute cases of voter intimidation, ignored states rights on border security enforcement and voter identification cards. They have refused to comply with Congressional requests for documents in a gun running scandal.

Our President has openly stated that if Congress will not comply with his agenda he will find a way to accomplish his objectives without them. What we are witnessing is anarchy and the establishment of a despot. We have seen the abandonment of the Rule of Law.