Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are called
‘unalienable rights’ in the Declaration of Independence, and a quick look in
the dictionary tells us that ‘unalienable’ is something that cannot be bought
or sold. Unfortunately, not only is
there a wolf at the door wanting to take these rights away from us, there is a
wolf in sheep’s clothing inside our own house eager to sell the very same
rights out from under our noses. These wolves hope that the majority of
Americans are so weary and lethargic that the true meaning of these rights have
become fuzzy, that they have somehow become abstract and illusionary, that they
have become mere words and nothing more. Let’s pull these unalienable rights
out from the shadow of neglect and into the light of reason, understand them
for what they are, and then look at what the wolves within and without intend
on doing with them.
Life itself is the most fundamental of all rights. We could debate all day on the essential right of a pre-birth child to live, but I’m not
just talking about the right to stay alive once infused with life. We could even muse over the philosophical
meaning of what constitutes life, but the drainpipe of our conversation would
get hopelessly clogged with all those split hairs. I’m talking about the
privilege of self-sustainability, the entitlement (yes, I used that dirty
word!) to thrive by one’s own effort, to act according to the dictate of his or
her own basic needs. Who truly lives when their decisions are made for them,
when they are slaves to government or religion, when they are handed what
others decide should be adequate for their survival? Just recently in the news a
Mr. Michael Cole from Great Britain stabbed his wife to death and then tried
taking his own life because they were both on benefits and could only sit and
watch TV all day and night. Life is not freedom from frustration, but freedom
from despair. Life is not the right to merely have those things that sustains
itself, but the right to earn them. We cannot demand that an unborn child live,
but we can try to give that child every chance to fight for his own right to
live. The right to life means not being deprived of it for the benefit of
others.
Liberty is the freedom from being oppressed, particularly by
a government or religion. Remember, our founding fathers were breaking free of coercion
by the tyrannical rule of King George the Third. The right to liberty, contrary
to popular belief, does not mean the freedom from all laws and governance. Liberty
is choice, pure and simple. When an institution is allowed to whittle your
choices away, your liberty is at stake. Recently MSNBC anchor Melissa
Harris-Perry took Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book idea that “It Takes A Village” to a disturbing new level when she said that we need to stop
thinking of the responsibilities of parenting as being a ‘private notion’
because (and I quote her here) “These are OUR children …We have to break
through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents…and recognize
that kids belong to whole communities.” The government is currently working on
a program that will collect individual databases on all schoolchildren under
the guise of helping maximize the individual’s education, but is in essence an
effort to gain more control by the state. Fingerprint all the kids, take
samples of their DNA, find out what they think, how they feel, and then
manipulate them into government drones. Sounds like “A Brave New World,” doesn’t
it? Liberty is the freedom to raise your children the way YOU see fit, the
freedom to vote for whatever candidate you want without fear of Big Brother
giving you a hard time over it, the freedom to live without the daily threat of
coercion. Remember the patriot’s call to “Live free or die!” Are you willing to
die for your liberty?
The unalienable right for the pursuit of happiness can only
be realized when the individual is free to seek his own her own bliss. The
pursuit of happiness is the mantra of free enterprise, of entrepreneurialism,
of capitalism and the very backbone of healthy competition. The writer Ayn Rand
said in her book “Atlas Shrugged” (if you haven’t read it, stop right now
before you take another breath, get the book, read it, and then send me a
thousand word essay on how it changed your life) – she said “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man
as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only
absolute.” The wolf outside and the wolf in your midst wants nothing
more than to deprive you of your pursuit for happiness, because when they
accomplish that, they will have taken your purpose and with it your will. Barak
Obama said “You didn’t make that yourself!” If he succeeds in convincing you of
that it will be no great leap for him and others like him to tell you that the
pursuit of happiness means your efforts are for the good of the whole, that you
should sacrifice your own goals for the collective, that you have no right to
succeed when there are others in need. Don’t buy into it!
The wolf outside
the door is radical Islam. Its goal is global domination, and it wants you to
surrender your freedoms and submit to their oppressive, subjugating and violent
Sharia laws. Radical Islam is growing at an alarming rate; it is not shy about
telling you what it wants: complete surrender to the will of their god, or
death. Pure and simple. Do not under any
circumstances let the petty politics and dramas of the world take your
attention off the very real threat they pose to your unalienable rights. Unless
you live in or near a country that is under the thumb of these animals, you
probably feel sure you won’t have to worry about someone coming along and
slicing your head off. Tell that to Lee Rigby’s widow. The wolf is right
outside your door, and the wolf inside wants to let it in under the guise of
religious tolerance. This sheep-covered danger around you is Progressivism, the
steady eroding influence of a socialistic government wearing away at your
individual freedoms. It wants to reduce you to a disposable and replaceable gear
inside the machine of the collective, much as radical Islam wants to reduce you
to a disposable and replaceable slave to the desires and whims of pure
evil. Both wolves hate life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and together
they constitute the vise-like jaws that want nothing more than to crush your
freedoms. Be aware and be prepared, my
friends!
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