Stopping this ship from hitting the proverbial glacier will not be easy. We are literally staring death in the face, facing a crises that grows exponentially with every announcement of a new government program, new government assistance, or new regulations on the free market.
Many people have ratcheted up their self-reliance preparedness in the last few months. The sales of guns, ammunition, food storage, and the most essential lifestyle survival gear have gone through the roof as people are seeking peace of mind for increasingly turbulent and unpredictable times. The United States Mint has even had to suspend the sales of proof and uncirculated Gold and Silver American Eagles to meet the demand for bullion gold and silver purchases.
The nation is gripped with fear; we are out of control. The shackles or restraints on the Government by the Constitution will be willfully and blatantly ignored until otherwise stopped. The fear is that there will be no end to the increasing level of governmental control, regulation, and intrusion into our private lives. If necessary, it seems, the Constitution will be rendered moot after the fact once the laws are in place for complete governmental control.
And to be honest, this fear is justified. I mean, think about it, what sort of basic human needs will the government not provide for you? For the impoverished, we have welfare, for the homeless we have community housing, the sick, national health care, for the environment, Cap and Trade. Every aspect of our lives, from waking to eating to sleeping to working to commuting to rearing children to investing to food safety, you name it. All will be under the command of the government control grid.
We are all waiting. Getting prepared. But for what?
Our Founding Fathers have faced this fear before. After countless oppressions and struggles and a brutal war for independence, we gained freedom, liberty. That sacred trust was that our social compact with one another, the Constitution, would uphold Natural Law. That is, our Founders placed their trust in a system that inherently said our rights end where another person’s begin. We are to be free from force and compulsion to the greatest extent possible. Our rights were to be a positive prohibition against government action.
The sales of gold, guns and food are all going through the roof for a reason: we all recognize that unless we all take sudden and immediate action to stop this overwhelming tide of socialism our country will be lost forever. We are fearful of losing our own self-control, and to be prepared, many are stockpiling basic human essentials in an effort to prevent the loss of free will.
Like our Founders, we have a mighty rEVOLution to engage. And with rEVOLution comes responsibility.
First, we need a cause.
For my part in the battle, I have chosen to become involved with the Campaign For Liberty. Many of my dear readers are probably rolling their eyes right now (another C4L post Luke?). The Campaign For Liberty’s mission is to, “promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity”. In other words, the Campaign is picking up were Ron Paul’s Presidential bid left off.
I am not suggesting that the C4L is the only political organization worthy of involvement. In fact, I think it will take many different organizations working together and finding agreement on a whole host of issues to find solid, cohesive momentum in a single direction. The point is to find a group that you can relate to and get involved.
For the record, Americans For Prosperity, The American Liberty Alliance, and Freedom Works all seem to be legitimate organizations seeking to gear Americans towards liberty and against socialism. There may be more, feel free to list them in comments, these are just the ones that seem to be the most organized, the broadest in agenda and most national in scope.
Second, we need the candidates and campaign volunteers.
I would like to suggest that the bailouts, the stimulus package, hell the whole gambit of spending and government expansion over the last decade, has inspired a whole new generation of political candidates. Many of them are operating under the broad and as-yet undefined mantra of the Freedom Movement. RJ Harris, Adam Kokesh, Peter Schiff and Rand Paul are a few stepping forward for the first time. But know this: the movement is nationwide, and at nearly every level.
In the loosest possible terms I will define the Freedom Movement’s purpose as this: to maximize individual liberty through strict adherence to the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. From there, every candidate will differ, but the goal is the same: a sudden and dramatic change of course from the direction of Bush/Obama socialism.
The Titanic sank because it spotted the iceberg a mere 350 yards to late. What will the fate of the USS Constitution be? By getting involved passionately, aggressively, and uncompromisingly, we may have just enough time left to change the course of history. And this time, we might actually get strict adherence to the Constitution.
