'DEFEND AT ALL HAZARDS'

            Today, the whole world is abuzz with talk of the United States Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the majority of Obamacare, a law that the greater part of the American people do not want.

Now, a good many of us wanna lay ALL the blame for this at the feet of President Obama, but the truth is more fault rightly belongs with the 279-elected representatives that voted this piece of legislation into being, as well as, the other 251 that did nothing to stop it ‘dead-in-its-tracks’, as we expected ‘em to do.

The way I see it, all 530 of ‘em seem to be more concerned with playin’ politics and gettin’ reelected than they do with what’s in the best interest for ALL of the people that they were elected to represent. Seems they’ve forgotten the basic principles for which this great nation of ours was founded upon.

Ol’ Sam Adams, one of the organizers of the Boston Tea Party, wrote back in 1771 that:

“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receive'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.”

                       

You know, that rings just as true today as it did some 240-years ago. I’m neither Republican, nor Democrat, nor Libertarian... I am an AMERICAN! And I say enough with the ‘bull-hockey’ politics! It’s gotten to the point that most of us no longer see our Federal government as being of The People, by The People, and for The People, but more like a government against The People. Each and every day, we see our liberties and rights continuously under assault in some form or fashion by the very people we have elected and sent to represent us in both houses of Congress, and it has got to stop.

Come this November, I plan on exercisin’ my right to vote, in hopes of sendin’ as many of these ‘so-called‘ representatives as possible back home. Hopefully, that’s all it’ll take. But, should it someday take more, make no mistake… we Americans WILL rise up and follow in the footsteps of our ancestors to ‘defend our liberties at all hazards’. We’ve done it before, and we can do it again.

“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of The People to alter or abolish it and to institute new government...” - Thomas Jefferson (3^rd President of the United States & an American Founding Father)