Dear Leaders of the United States of America:
On Friday, America celebrated the anniversary of our great Constitution. Two hundred twenty-three years ago, great men signed a document that has set the standard for freedom and self reliance the world over. They instituted the "BILL of Rights", the first 10 amendments of this great document, to insure each individual the ability to maintain these God given rights and freedoms. God is a very important word in this document. Rights given by our Creator are not the property of any government to rescind at their pleasure. "We the people.." is a very important group of words in this document; it means all of us; not any specific pressure group or minority, or political party; all Americans of every strata of society. All of America are the "lobbyists" that elected officials are supposed to be influenced by.
I don't have a Harvard education, I'm not a wealthy man in a monetary sense; but I do have a loving God, a great family and a love for my country; all of which make me a very wealthy man. I live in the heartland; you know those folks who cling to "God and guns" when things get tough. Over the last several months, I've seen the nation I love degenerate into a cesspool of name calling and racial epithets. I've seen honest opinion regarded as "UN-American and hate speech". The words" prayer and God" seemed to be turned into profanity by many in today's media. The definition of family and morality are being re-defined on a daily basis.
Free assembly has been depicted as rabble- rousing and racist hate mongers in a concerted attempt to stifle and cloud honest dissent. It seems to me, a pretty average man, that our people and our leaders have forgotten what those "first signers" were intending on the day that they put their names on our Constitution.
Our branches of government are meant to be separate; you know checks and balances. Each of these branches have specific duties to perform. It is currently as if everybody wants to do everybody else's job. We have an executive branch that believes it can force law on the people through force of power, regardless of Constitutional restraints. We have a judicial branch that, at times, "re-interprets" our Constitution to change laws and legislates from the bench. Our congressional representatives act like a body that has been given empirical power to dictate change without Constitutional authority. As I said everybody, is trying to do everybody else's job!
The Constitution was written to be followed, not twisted to fit any agenda. The real "rulers of the United States of America" are its' people; not its' elected officials. Mr. President, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid is your philosophy keeping you from properly doing the job you were hired for; following the will of the people?
As we celebrate the signing of this wonderful document I ask this question: will those of you who have sworn to support it, PLEASE READ IT?
Best Regards,
Thomas Paine
(readers, feel free to forward this to any of your representatives; they might learn something)
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