People will vote for a pathological liar, namely Barack Hussein Obama, because they have no discernment. And where does discernment come from? Or shall I say Who does descernment come from? Just two days ago a conversation took place at work where a couple of guys mentioned what a great orator The Usurper was. “Love him or hate him, boy can he talk.” I was asked if I felt the same way. My response? I don’t listen to him because he makes me want to puke. I listed his multiple lies, from ending the war, no more lobbyists, openness, etc. Then lamented how people focus more on “the talk” and almost nil on “the walk”.

I know that was off-track, but I believe it illustrates how our founders recognized the absolute need to honor God and make sure we always gave thanks to Him. Without obedience to Him we are doomed. Believing liars, re-electing liars, surrendering to potentates in black robes, not taking responibility for ourselves, this is the foundation of our crisis. Dr. Keyes is correct in pointing out the rubrics necessary for a return to constitutional self-government. And I think we know whence it came.

It won’t be easy to turn this thing around but I’m willing to die trying. If for no other reason than our posterity. The innocent don’t deserve enslavement and genocide because of our failures. We owe them that much.

For heath reason I’ve not visited your pages in a few months. I am very pleased with what you have done.

As always your thoughts and writings are enjoyable beyond compare.

Tex Dix-

Dear Representative Forbes,

Thank you for your work on health care, or as many of us spell it, “health”"care.” Many people I speak with, as well as communicate with across this once great country of ours, know this constitutionally ILLEGAL bit of Obama DRAMA has nothing AT ALL to do with HEALTH OR CARE. It is another power and money grab by the federal government to make the states give up MORE of their rights and make its citizens slaves to a system of illegal government.

It is bad enough that there is a man in OUR White House who claims the position of president and yet provides no QUALIFYING documents to validate his claim to this PRIVILEGE. In fact, he has hidden, and paid well to do so, anything that gives him ANY legitimacy even in the eyes of those poor ignorant people that still support him. But to top it all off, even if he IS legitimate in the position that was GIVEN to him, he forgets he works for WE THE PEOPLE, as do you AND your fellow members in BOTH houses of Congress.

We out here in the REAL world are growing weary of this nonsense. Sometimes I wonder how much do the members of Congress get to see of the real world without some member of their staff manipulating every little foot step they take. WE ARE TIRED.

The best thing the members of Congress can do is make sure they have THEIR health care in line, because many are going to be losing their jobs come this fall. We will take care of ourselves, as those RESPONSIBLE members of the USA ALWAYS HAVE. And our neighbors.

Barack Obama and his fellow supporters in this tragic drama would do well to remember what JESUS told his followers concerning the expensive perfume he was anointed with: The poor will be with you always. We do not need the government to tell us how to take care of our bodies. We need them to do what the Constitution grants them the PRIVILEGE to do. Secure our borders. Pay your bills and stop borrowing money. Stop allowing corporations, FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS and unions to control our country. And do we have to really be taxed from conception until even after we are laid to rest back in the Earth? For EVERYTHING?

What we want is someone with a BACKBONE to stand up and say ENOUGH! Speak FOR us and not down to us. We are the ones who make the government and NOT the other way around. It is high time this Congress and so-called “president” got shook up and I pray to GOD above that it comes before any of these poor misguided “representatives” in OUR government try passing any more catastrophic legislation.

Again, thank you for the work that you do,

Sincerely,

Gilbert Brett

PS – I moved back from PA a little over a year ago and lost the right to vote because of a felony that I have more than paid for from 7+ years ago. Until the day I leave this planet, even if I do get to vote in VA again, I am going to make as much noise as possible and talk to as many people as I can about the way they vote and the qualifications they should demand from their representatives.

The question which arises in relation to abortion vs. capital punishment is, perhaps, not unhelpful in understanding the Constitution. We call government a “necessary evil”, but too few people understand what this means, even though the term does not seem particularly difficult. Government is evil, because its fundamental purpose is to inflict injury and death, and it has no power to do anything else except by virtue of this fundamental power. How anyone can forget for a moment that government derives all its force, income, and status from the ordered application of irresistible harms to all those subject to its authority is beyond my understanding, but it seems characteristic of humans that they often have the capacity to ‘forget’ things that they obviously must know when contemplation of that knowledge is unpleasant. An enviable faculty, if I do say so. But not always prudently exercised.

Well, then, why have government at all, if it is so horrible? Ah, there’s the rub. In places where the rule of law has given way completely to anarchy, we see that living under a government (that is, an organization of persons who consider it their right and duty to injure or kill us should we transgress their law) is not the worst possible situation. Abolish government, and we replace one entity willing to destroy life, limb, and property with thousands eager to do so.

Abortion represents the highest evolution of the fundamental depravity of the human condition. That a mother would voluntarily subject herself to a brutality equal to the most violent rape, for the sole purpose of destroying the life of her own child…no stronger tie of natural affection exists on the one hand, and one is not willing to describe a worse ordeal on the other. One can say that men are worse, and I would agree. One only need imagine the horrors that would occur if men were given the legal right to murder unwanted children (though if you’re not content with imagination there are plenty of countries where you can go to see this sort of thing for yourself…though I wouldn’t advise going without the backing of a large military force).

And yet, the only tools government has to prevent this gross evil is the infliction of another evil. The search for ‘good’ government consists of trying to apply the minimum evil that can effectively prevent the gross evil which will result from not enforcing any laws at all (a key point, one can debate, enumerate and legislate all the day long, but until you enforce those laws, they don’t prevent anything). A bad government will routinely apply a great evil to obviate a small one, or allow a great harm which could be prevented by a lesser. It doesn’t take a moral genius to see that if you consistently trade lesser evils for greater, and never greater for lesser, you’re going to end up with a lot more evil than if you do the opposite.

Well, I should probably keep this from becoming any longer by pointing out that the Constitution is the solution to this problem. There have been many others, and only those involving direct, ongoing intervention by God can even compare. Given that nothing in the Constitution compels you to abandon seeking the other blessings of Providence, it is well worth some study.

I believe that it is, and you identify and articulate the flaws that undermine it in cogent and concise terms. But it lacks persuasive power to say that something is unconstitutional until you reacquaint people with both why the Constitution itself is important and what it actually says. A large part of this can be attributed to the popularity of appealing “unconstitutionality” as a means of arguing against doing things that are clearly necessary or moral. Some of this is self-reinforcing, since many such arguments rely on people’s ignorance of what the Constitution actually does and doesn’t say. Such arguments promote this ignorance as well as benefiting from what ignorance has already become general.

More destructive still, the constant cry that this or that manifestly evil behavior is protected by “the Constitution” has left many unclear on why exactly anyone should care what it says in the Constitution. One contemplates the state of Islam, a religion which suffers from a complete lack of reliable accounts of it’s early history. Most of the scripture and early history was probably invented out of nearly whole cloth by later warlords seeking to justify themselves rather than teach the truth about Muhammad, even assuming they knew it themselves. If there ever really were a “religion of peace” spoken by Muhammad, I’m hard pressed to explain why that has any practical relevance to Islam as it exists today.

We have a great advantage over the Muslim world, both in time and primary sources. Whatever some might say about the Constitution being a living document and the nebulous intent of the Framers, the truth is that the original text of the Constitution still exists and is readily available to us, and the most respected of the Founding Fathers left extensive commentary, written by their own hands. I think that your past comments have also illuminated an important perspective, Dr. Keyes, which is that the spirit of liberty which pervades the design of self-government is the will of God, who invites all men to partake willingly of His blessings.

I sometimes remember where I was before God enticed me. It isn’t a state to which I would be happy to return. But I digress.

Or, perhaps, I have simply already said what I intended. To wit, before we can speak of Constitutionality, we must understand the reasons for the Constitution itself. And, once we understand the reasons, the Constitution is plain enough in what it says.

I further agree that within the American populace such people do exist and will indeed rise to the calling. Liberty in our nation is not beyond saving. We the people have been awakened to the worsening crisis of the restraining of liberty in this land. The people are begining to take back their responsibility to hold their elected officials to account for their actions, particularly when they vote contrary to their sworn oath to serve the people of the nation by ignoring the dictates of the United States Constitution. We are not accepting what various political parties give us as choices in candidates as readily as we once did.

We are not in disagreement, sir. On the contrary, I am heartened to read your sincere commentary to the contrary in your blog and elsewhere far more often nowadays. God bless!