From: Rebecca O'Dell Townsend
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty
is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people and
a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain sovereign control
over the government." Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have come to a place in the history of
our Nation where our government is no longer strong enough to protect the
interests of the people and the people are not well enough informed to
maintain sovereign control over the government. "We, the people"
and our elected representatives have failed to rein in an immoral and unconstitutional
judiciary. "We, the people" and our elected representatives have
failed to enforce laws which protect our citizens, especially our children,
from the onslaught of judicially-created immorality and violence.
But are "we, the people" strong enough to
become well enough informed to gain sovereign control over our government?
Are we strong enough to "act to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity?" Let us hope so, because our ability to do so
not only affects our "continuing liberty," but that of all civilization.
As former Ambassador Alan Keyes has warned, "should we sacrifice all that
is essential to sustaining the moral foundations of our country, we will
transform the great power of this nation from a force of good into a global
force for evil." We, the people, have failed to maintain sovereign
control over those in our government who would do just that.
Every candid person knows that there is no
constitutional right to pornography, sodomy, abortion or to censor religious
speech. A small minority simply wants it that way - a small
minority who have taken over one branch of government - the one branch
of government that does not have the right to create new constitutional
rights. Are we strong enough to reassert sovereign control over that
branch? Let us more than hope so. Let us, "with a firm reliance
on the protection of Divine Providence," "mutually pledge our Lives, our
Fortunes and our sacred Honor" to do so.