Posted by
Adam Cassandra on Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:44:09 PM
The Boston Tea Party and the TEA Parties
across the nation yesterday were both in opposition to a tyrannical
government. One of the things I talked about with a reporter on the
scene yesterday was how our elected representatives have trampled all
over the Constitution of the United States to expand their own power.
Now those on the Left will say that these politicians just interpret
the document differently than I do, but if you actually review history
and why certain wording was used in the Constitution, and what its
authors actually said it was supposed to mean, much of the Left's
argument is completely blown out of the water.
Here's something to think about:
The
authors of the Constitution just finished a war to gain freedom from a
tyrant. The British did have established laws with understood meanings
to govern British subjects. King George went around those established
laws (call it reinterpreting them) to impose his own will on the
American Colonies. So after fighting for independence, would it make
sense that the Americans then set up a government under a document that
could be interpreted at will by those in power?
The
Constitution was written with fixed meanings for a purpose: to limit
the ability of a tyrant (or tyrants in the case of Congress) from
imposing their own will on the people. When we cease being a nation
governed by the law, we become a nation governed by the whims of men
(and women), which is where we are now.
Here's another thought:
A
business owner opens up a shop. He establishes the policies and
procedures to operate the business in following a mission statement.
Time goes by, and the business is prosperous. One day the owner hires
a new manager who decides to start running things under his own
policies and procedures with his own mission and goal for the
business. After being confronted by the owner, the new manager says,
"Your procedures and mission is in the past. They don't matter
anymore. This is a new age, and I run things around here." The
business owner then has to choose between conceding to the manager, or
firing the bum.
We the People are the owners of America. Our
elected representatives are the managers that we have hired to run
things. We have the same decision to make: do we concede to their
power and give up the ways that made us prosperous, or do we fire them
and hire new management?