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Edited on Fri Sep-21-07 06:00 PM by IDemo
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A note from the past
James Madison, upon having a copy of any of today's newspapers drop into his hands from the future, reads in amazement, and promptly returns a note to the future.
I stand here in disbelief that the weak willed citizens of this continent in just two centuries from now are the progeny of the founders. Have the documents establishing your freedom against foreign tyranny become dust, along with the principles they contained? What guides your thoughts and actions now, with the absence of the spirit of rebellion so evident even in the face of a tyrannical George the patriots never dreamt of? Plainly you now embrace that tyranny, believing with it comes the protection provided by a strong monarch against invaders from the sea, yet blinded to the treachery emanating from within the palace.
Do you believe your nation's founders were merely spinning children's fables when crafting the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution? For even as fables will generally contain a moral for the child to learn and hold to in life, these documents can hold no further value than to light the evening fire if the principles contained therein are not seen as the bedrock upon which free people live.
Do your history books claim that we hastily scratched out the words "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated", for our safety alone, and damn the children? And that "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury" was meant for our generation, but not for our descendants two hundred years from now, yours after another two hundred, and theirs?
Unless citizens in your time recognize the danger of bowing to kings and kneeling to the fear they sow, and see that -- whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, then this republic will have existed like just another of Franklin's mad electrical experiments: something which could have killed a man in its pursuit, but didn't, instead dying away with the faint rumble of distant summer thunder.
Now is not the time for brave men to crouch in fear beneath the storm, but to come out and feel the rain on your face, and to embrace the fight. To keep the republic, if you can.
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