Dear Everyone;
For the Fourth of July - Libertarian Perspective for the California Libertarian Party I wrote the following op-ed. It was written, not for knowleageable Libertarians, but for common people schooled in our lovely government schools which seem to delibrately omit discussing the US Constitution and our rights. Hopefully it will get published by at least one or two MSM types.
However, it is a re-affirmation that we do have the right to rebel against an unjust government as the Founding Fathers did. And as if something like that couldn't apply today.
All of you and your families have a nice Fourth of July holiday weekend while ruminating on Thomas Jefferson's paraphrased statement: The government which governs best governs least.
Which we could use a whole lot more of today as well.
Historically speaking the title is justaposed because if - "When in the course ... had not been as smashingly succesful as it was then - "We the people ... could not have happened.
Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
"We the People In Order To..."
Two hundred thirty two years ago, Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence, and with representatives of the 13 colonies signed it, thereby laying the cornerstone for America to become a free nation. The Tree of Liberty had a blood-price, as 4,400 Americans died and 6,200 were wounded on Revolutionary War battlefields.
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Read the rest of the op-ed here:
http://ca.lp.org/lp20080526.shtml