Towards Revolution

For those who just expect me to write on religion and theology, I apologize. Well...actually I don't. History and politics interest me, although not as much as religion. So, if politics completely bore you, then I suggest you skip this post.

A growing sentiment seems to be filling the air of late. As I speak with my neighbors, listen to talk radio, and discuss the state of America, I think we are headed for another revolution. Of course, I welcome it. I think we have needed a revolution for many years. I do not have a love affair with violence. However, I am beginning to think that the only way to get things done is through violence.
Let me put it more plainly...VIOLENCE IS UNDERESTIMATED.

Here in California, leftist legislators are pushing to overturn the necessity of 2/3 majority. This would mean that laws could be enacted if only 51% of the congressmen vote for it. I heard an assemblywoman say, "It's just too difficult to get things done" by the current law. Funny...I wonder when she last read the Federalist Papers. The whole point of requiring a 2/3 majority was to make it difficult! Hamiliton's insight into man's nature and political corruption led him to create a system that the majority could not tyrannize the minority, and vice versa. It appears we come to a point when our politician are ready to finally destroy the Constitution.

But our country has bigger problems than that. We are giving billions of dollars to foreign countries, in the name of compassion. Government is spending our money to cure AIDS is Africa. Millions of dollars are sent to foreign countries who support abortions. We have an undying and irrational devotion to Israel. We allow terrorism and Islam to hold the world captive, all the while Christians are being murdered in Africa, China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

Here at home, we continue to protect illegal aliens who also are taking our tax dollars. And, don't get me started on the hand-slapping that occurs with criminals in this country. Our legal system is a joke! We automatically give capital offenders an appeal. We are so concerned about appearing "nice" and "compassionate" that we have lost our sense of justice. When are we going to wake up!

Part of me wants Obama's plans to pass in force. I believe it will bring this country the purging and reckoning it has needed for many decades. America has a history of revolt. We understand what is just and unjust. We know when our rulers are not representing us. I am afraid, though, that we have lost our willingness to take back the country. I am afraid that too many people have been duped by materialism and the media. Too many rely on the goverment, and will refuse to "bite the hand that feeds them."

When are we going to wake up! When are we going to call a spade a spade? When are we going to oust our legislators and start over? When are going to realize that political elites are out of touch with us? When are going to take the law into our own hands?

The reckoning is coming. Thomas Paine is alive and well. But do we have the courage to "begin the world over again?"