Wasting a sacrifice

In 1776, brave men fought, and many died, to protect us from a powerful, overarching central government that made unreasonable demands of the citizens lives, liberties, and properties.

From then until 1860, men argued over what the rights of the people in this newly free land should be allowed to do. In 1860, enough people in enough states grew so fed up with the size and scope of the Federal Government, and the meddling in the affairs of soverign states in direct violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments, that they seceded from the union. Many, many thousands of young Americans died as a result of the Federal Government not being willing to relenquish any of its power. Abraham Lincoln sewed the seeds for oppression and tyranny to come, under the guise of freedom.

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt so massively expanded the size and scope of the Federal Government that it would have been wholly unrecognizable to the original framers of the Constitution. All state powers were stripped away, and handed to the Feds. New agencies were created to strip the wealthy of their earnings and give it to underachievers.

In 1941, thousands of Americans went to war, and died, to protect the rest of the world from powerful central governments that made outrageous demands on the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens, and the lands around them that they subjugated.

A few years later, we did the same in Korea.

A few years later, we did the same in Viet Nam.

A few years later, we did the same in Kuwait.

From 1944 until 1991, we engaged in a Cold War against a system of government that was a strong, totalitarian, central government that made unreasonable demands of the lives, liberties and properties of its subjects.

In 2003, we removed a dictator from power who murdered his own people, had a strong, overarching central government that left its people in terror, in poverty, in misery.

For 232 years, America stood out as a beacon of hope against strong central government, even though from 1932 until 2008, it was being, at best, somewhat hypocritical.

In 2008, we elected a man to the White House, and weasels to Congress, who want to confiscate wealth from all who achieve, who will gladly impoverish you for saying the wrong thing (anything not politically correct can be considered hate speech under the 111th Congress), who will murder you for the crime of being unborn and carried by a liberal host vessel, and will imprison people for "hate crimes" that are, in many ways, simple expressions of free speech. (For example, if one were to hang the new president in effigy outside of one's house.) So, 232 years after the founding fathers built up a land based on the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we have elected a government that will take your life, liberty and property without due process any time the feel.

Since we've now lost the freedoms for which they died, can we at least have the soldiers' lives back?