WE THE PEOPLE should be today and forevermore grateful for America.
We should be grateful for this great country, for the privilege of living here, and most especially for the FREEDOMS we enjoy and so tragically take for granted so often.
We assume these freedoms every day we live. We assume we will live safely, and our family and friends will be safe with us. We assume we will not be under the power of any man or woman, we will not live under any coercion or constraint, but have the full range of choices for our lives at all times.
We assume those freedoms, so incredibly articulated in our Constitution, will be at work in America every day, without really knowing or understanding what those freedoms are and how they are protected and applied.
The vast majority of Americans do not know the Constitution, its 28 Amendments, and the FREEDOMS contained therein. WE ASSUME! We assume dangerously, for the more we assume and the less we know, the more these precious freedoms are in danger. We pay no attention to Former President Ronald Regan who told us clearly the loss of these freedoms is only one generation away, and, when these freedoms are lost, they are lost forever, FOREVER!
Nevertheless, WE THE PEOPLE go on with our tragic assumptions, and a lack of appreciation for and understanding of what defines America. Perhaps more importantly, we fail to teach our children American history, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and everything about America which makes it different from and better than any nation in the history of mankind.
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THIS GREAT COUNTRY IS ONE-OF-A-KIND. So many of us do not do our share of protecting these rights, privileges, and freedoms which we have every day, which so much of the world does not.
We live in America and exercise its precious rights and freedoms, but so often without understanding and being responsible for the DUTIES which accompany these precious rights. We owe allegiance to the flag of America. We owe it time, protection, championing, and, if necessary, our very lives, so we can discharge our duties as privileged citizens and, if necessary, as Jefferson said, offer our blood in sacrifice so the tree of liberty can be protected and refreshed.
WE THE PEOPLE worship as we please, or not at all, as it says in the First Amendment to the Constitution. We speak freely and say what we please, without fear of retribution or government intervention, protected by the First Amendment. We print, text, and read whatever we wish, protected by the First Amendment. We have the right of assembly, for Christians the church, and the right to petition our government, to complain, protest, and otherwise be active in politics, fully protected by the First Amendment. Those rights, which we tragically assume and do so little to protect and defend, exist no where else in this world.
All men and all women are created equal, UNDER GOD, and under our Constitution. It is our duty to protect this equality any way we can and at all times. Equality guaranteed by our Constitution would exist everywhere in America, as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. so well said, if WE THE PEOPLE only lived up to our very own Constitution. If we did, there would be no discrimination of any kind.
It is tragic indeed we need an incident like 9/11 in the fateful year 2001 to remind us of these freedoms, of our rights, even if this patriotic reminder existed for only a short time. FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL are in our genes, part of our biological and political make-up. However, how tragic it is for us, WE THE PEOPLE, the privileged and favored Americans, to take so much of it for granted, a tragedy indeed.
We can protect ourselves with weapons, protected by the Second Amendment. We have a right to a fair trial by jury. Our constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. It provides for orderly and fair elections and transfer of political control. And so many others.
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Why, I wonder, do WE THE PEOPLE so tragically take all these freedoms for granted and do so little to protect and defend them, WHY? We watch our beloved democracy erode. Anti-Americans know this and seize the power we abnegate, exploiting our rights and freedoms. It is now even to the point where Anti-Americans are elected to high office (Senator Sanders and NYC Mayor Mamdani, to name only a few), who are openly socialistic, and many think communistic, with the ultimate goal of destroying or radically changing constitutional America and the lives you and I live.
Why do WE THE PEOPLE let this happen, WHY? What do you do, really do, what action do you take, no matter how busy you are, to protect this great country in which you are privileged to live? What exactly do you do, not talk, but do? What do you do on a daily basis to protect the life, liberty, and happiness which is promised to you by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
What do you do on a daily basis to protect and defend this one great nation UNDER GOD, which is a beacon on the hill, a light to the world, and one-of-a-kind in all of human history? This great country changes imperceptibly every day, EVERY DAY! When good men and women neglect the political arena and do nothing, the bad men and women take over, and the takeover has begun and will continue to its satanic conclusion as we do nothing, NOTHING TO PROTECT THIS GREAT COUNTRY!
Pastors and churches must step up, the curriculum of schools must change, the families in America must take the time, make the time, make it a priority, to teach the Constitution, the rights and privileges we all, and especially our children, enjoy. If not, in due course this America we know and love will change radically, as many, including me, think is coming soon.
Freedom, once lost, will be lost forever, FOREVER! Do not let it happen, my fellow citizens. If you love America, you are required to your duty, to do something, to take action, to be involved politically as you can every day, EVERY DAY! Do something if you love America, or the America you assume and take for granted will be taken over and it will be the end of all rights and freedoms WE THE PEOPLE now so tragically take for granted.
STEP UP, AMERICANS, AND DO SOMETHING TODAY AND EVERY DAY!