restoring our biblical and constitutional foundations
An Urgent Appeal to All Freedom-Loving Americans
People sometimes ask me why I have become such an adamant supporter and outspoken defender of the national Constitution of the Republic known as the United States of America. After all, it was not always so. Perhaps the best way to explain this is to employ a well-known theory that describes why and how people change their behavior.
The theory, known as the theory of cognitive dissonance, holds that the mind involuntarily rejects information not in line with previous thoughts. As far as I am aware, the first person to document this law was Leon Fetinger in his book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Stanford University Press, 1957), but he was certainly not the first person to observe it in action. In essence, the theory states that a person can deal with new information in one of two ways. He will either deal with the pressures generated by cognitive dissonance by changing old behaviors to harmonize with the new information; or else he will simply reject the new information and remain committed to the old behavior. But the main aspect of this theory that I want to emphasize is the fact that people very naturally rely to one degree or another on the opinions of others whom they respect to establish the credibility of new information and ideas and overcome cognitive dissonance.
Now the conditions in current American society and their causes are not something an external enemy did to the American people. We did it to ourselves via contacts with a totalitarian-leaning Leviathan. As a result, America hardly resembles a republic anymore. In fact, our media often refer to the United States as a democracy. Thomas Jefferson said that a democracy (Latin for mob rule) was the worst form of government on earth and that we should avoid a democratic form of government like the plague. A republic is what our Founders gave us, not a democracy!
If you had told me this ten years ago, I probably would have said, So what? Since that time I have learned the difference between a democracy and a republic. An example would be if we had, say, 100 people in our country and 51 of them decided to hang the other 49. In a democracy, the 49 would hang (mob rule), but in a republic there would be a law that no one was to be hung without cause, and therefore no one would hang. Thats the difference between a democracy and a republic!
Well, the U.S. Constitution established, not a democracy, but the rule of law in America. It was designed by the Founders to set up a small national government to do very limited acts for us and to keep us free from the domination of would-be tyrants. Constitutional government in our American Republic was designed to allow us the freedom to act as sovereigns the way our Creator intended that we should live. Remember, it is your Constitution and mine.
Now heres my point. There is an old saying that goes like this: When you do nothing, something always happens. Now the Constitution is as timeless as the hills and as relevant as your daily newspaper; it will serve us well into the future if we let it. But this will never happen unless we breathe life back into it and give it a fair chance. If you never fed your dog, I dont think it would last very longif it bothered to hang around. If you never put oil in your car, I dont think it would take very long before your car would quit running. If you never mowed your lawn, the grass would just keep on growing until your yard became a jungle. In other words, when you do nothing, something always happens!
By the same token, if you do not care for, nurture, and guard your Constitution (remember, it is yours), it will be stolen out from under you. Falsehoods and ignorance have gotten us into a real pickle, but I believe that knowledge and diligence can deliver us. Its high time we begin to demonstrate who owns the Constitution and show some of the power We the People were created with. Its time to take charge of our own lives with all the dignity we were born with as free citizens. Lets relegate this thing called government to the place it deserves in our lives, and that place is most certainly not to be a dictator!
Remember, you and I are largely responsible for letting government falsely assume sovereignty over us. We are responsible in that we have failed to understand what control of mens minds is all about. We have abdicated this responsibility of running the political part of our lives and given it to someone else to do for us instead of doing it for ourselves. We have invited the foxes into the coop, andguess what?the foxes have done what foxes always dothey have eaten our chickens. Whats so unusual about that?
If theres one thing that July 4, 1776 proved, its that tyranny never corrects itself. History also shows that once a government tries to hold its sinking ship together with force, that force itself only hastens the demise of that government. And things will only get worse until enough of us raise a large enough hue and cry to make our politicians realize they cant get away with it forever.
My friends, isnt it time to put a halt to all the misery and suffering that the abuse and neglect of the Constitution has wrought in our great republic? Isnt it time for you to join the present American patriot movement?
July 4, 2003
David Alan Black is the editor of www.daveblackonline.com.