Educate and Empower Yourself

The Forgotten Man, by John McNaughton

A disturbing news segment yesterday revealed that many Americans - well, some millennials in California, anyway - would gladly get behind a repeal of the Bill of Rights in order to fight ISIS here in the homeland.  Wow.  This hypothetical repeal was raised during on-the-street interviews, and most responses were just short of idiotic.  But it reveals some very disturbing evidence of just how ignorant young people are regarding the concept of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  And this is proof that state sponsored education is aimed at keeping students - and future voters - ignorant of the genius of the concept of united states, of the Constitution and especially its guarantees of individual liberties. 

Yet there is no excuse for ignorance; for not understanding the basic concept upon which our country, government and culture is founded.  Hillsdale College, an independent college founded in 1844, offers free online college courses that teach these precepts.  Specific to this post, Hillsdale offers Constitution 101, a course that begins February 24th.  Register here free of charge.

Simply put, the Constitution states that people are born free, as a creation of God Almighty, and that any government they may create is a man-made construct that may not override or suppress these God-given freedoms.  No government in the history of man was ever founded on the rule of law, not of men, as did this constitution.  But Jefferson wanted even further assurances that this new government could never erode these freedoms, and the Bill of Rights was added as the first ten amendments to the Constitution.  These amendments are prohibitions - hard core restrictions - on the federal government's power over the states and individuals and their freedoms.  That's what drives the regressive liberals to distraction:  they can't just implement their whacked  ideology of utopia at will.  Freedom is protected.  Dang.

Yet this president - illegitimate in every sense of the word - along with the compliant regressive media -  continues to do just that:  ignore and override the Bill of Rights at will. He has fewer than seven hundred days left in his last term to either suspend the 22nd Amendment, or invoke martial law, or use some other slight of hand to enable him to lawlessly complete his ultimate goal of the transformation of America.