We as a nation now stand at a point of decision. Will we be true to the spirit that gave birth to the American way of life? Or will we forget it to try and find some new way yet unknown? This Fourth of July let us remember our past by reading the Declaration of Independence. May we again understand what the framers sought to build.
They came from and understood the top down type of government. Europe for the most part had royalty elitists that held the reins of power. That power did what it always tends to do, it corrupts like a virus or cancer. Our forefathers knew that human nature was flawed in that respect. They sought to build a government that was a bottom-up type of rule. A government by the people and for the people.
A representative, administrative and judicial government that balanced and spread out the power.
Such a government also spreads out the responsibility so that we the people have the most responsibility because we are the largest part in this government.
This is a call to Americans, a call to freedom and independence that is our heritage, a call to stand up and be responsible to your country and fight for what is right.
We must fight against principalities and power in high places that seek to control us.
In the past we have overcome these power grabs such as the trust busting of big corporations that tried to set prices, we fought against organized crime in our cities and even now we fight against ideologies that try to control by terror.
Now the biggest problem that we face is that we have fallen back into a top-down type of rule so that everything has been turned on its head and corruption has slowly turned up the heat and we are now nearing a boiling point because those that have been corrupted can no longer be trusted.
If this government fails it is because the people have failed it!
David Ferguson
Camano Island
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