Dear Editor,
Freedom has many enemies. Among freedom’s many enemies are ignorance and apathy. Ronald Reagan said those who have known freedom and lost it have never known it again. He also said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We do have a constitution that guarantees our liberty and freedom right? Every Congressman-woman takes an oath; “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Maybe it’s just situation ethics the current administration has justified itself to usurp power over the Constitution and do whatever they please. After all, we’re in a deep recession. So we must keep borrowing and spending right? Lawrence Lindsey fourth director of the National Economic Council said, “No country has successfully behaved the way the United States is behaving.” How we could lose our freedom in this country is taking place at this moment. We must slow down the growth of the federal government and preserve states’ rights (10th Amendment).
Every congressman should get behind Rep. John Shadegg, R-Arizona and support his H.R. 1359 bill of the 110th Congress. This bill is known as the Enumerated Powers Act. It’s a measure to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws and other purposes. This would stop the kind of things we have witnessed over the last several months and the taxation of our future generations.
In a letter to James Madison Sept. 6, 1789, Thomas Jefferson said; “The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this side (Europe) or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government.” The continued growth of the federal government is an ominous threat to our freedom. The 10th amendment must be upheld. It’s the protection we have to keep a growing federal government from evolving into tyranny.
Howard W. Hall,
Shawnee
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Dear Editor,
Freedom has many enemies. Among freedom’s many enemies are ignorance and apathy. Ronald Reagan said those who have known freedom and lost it have never known it again. He also said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We do have a constitution that guarantees our liberty and freedom right? Every Congressman-woman takes an oath; “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Maybe it’s just situation ethics the current administration has justified itself to usurp power over the Constitution and do whatever they please. After all, we’re in a deep recession. So we must keep borrowing and spending right? Lawrence Lindsey fourth director of the National Economic Council said, “No country has successfully behaved the way the United States is behaving.” How we could lose our freedom in this country is taking place at this moment. We must slow down the growth of the federal government and preserve states’ rights (10th Amendment).
Every congressman should get behind Rep. John Shadegg, R-Arizona and support his H.R. 1359 bill of the 110th Congress. This bill is known as the Enumerated Powers Act. It’s a measure to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws and other purposes. This would stop the kind of things we have witnessed over the last several months and the taxation of our future generations.
In a letter to James Madison Sept. 6, 1789, Thomas Jefferson said; “The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this side (Europe) or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government.” The continued growth of the federal government is an ominous threat to our freedom. The 10th amendment must be upheld. It’s the protection we have to keep a growing federal government from evolving into tyranny.
Howard W. Hall,
Shawnee
