To the Editor: It is quite evident to me that God bestowed the incredible foresight that was historically known as the Declaration of Rights of Virginia, written by George Mason in 1776, later to become the law of the land on December 15, 1791, as the Bill of Rights.
To assemble an instrument of such lasting proportions, by men from a simpler time, men of fortitude, religious ethics, high moral standards and great courage, a time all but forgotten by the ‘leaders’ of our country today. ‘Leaders’ that don’t understand or respect the sheer courage our Founding Fathers showed to even pen their names to such a ‘treasonous’ document. A document that snubbed the might of English dominance and placed all they owned in peril, including their very lives. As aptly illustrated by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:(“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately”). This kind of courage is easily overlooked by a majority of pampered politicians whose only ‘peril’ lay in how to trick enough people to vote them into yet another unproductive term of office. It is a sad affair when voters realize that they must weigh which politician is least dishonest prior to voting.
The British were adept at ignoring, but over taxing the colonists, that was one of the main reasons the American Revolution ensued. In our not to distant future, the middle class will vanish and there will only be the elite and those who believe they are ‘entitled’ to government handouts. If you would listen to a few of the ‘silver spoons’ in office now, ‘leaders’ who want to rewrite parts of the Constitution so as to suit their own personal little short sighted agendas, then you should reflect and ask yourself if these ‘leaders’ would put their very lives on the line for the United States of America?-(as our Founding Fathers did) If you were to honestly answer that question you should become saddened by the road this country is now on.
When legislators support and write laws that arbitrarily strip away any of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights, (the Second and Fourth are under attack now) and take away due process from law abiding citizens, as a 209-A restraining order does, then these legislators should not consider running for office in these United States. Instead they may be more at home with one of the many dictators in the world, where individual rights would not hamper their little agendas. To name a few who would love to strip away your constitutional rights are the Clinton’s, Janet Reno, Congressmen Charles Schemer, Major Owens and Joe Kennedy, Senators Daniel P. Moynihan, Howard Metzenbaum , Dianne Feinstein, Terry Murray, and Ted Kennedy. The list goes on and on, it is truly unbelievable. Their number 1 target is our Second Amendment. Their voting records prove that. It would appear that their motto is; Now that we are in office, to Hell with the Constitution! To Hell with the Bill of Rights! To Hell with the constituents! http://www.nagr.org/UNTreaty_Pledge1.aspx?pid=4b
The media gets all bent out of shape if their cameras are not allowed into a court room claiming that their First Amendment rights are being violated, what concerns me is that the media will overlook infringements on the Second and Fourth Amendments, and others. By overlook, I mean by not taking a stand, but don’t touch the First Amendment by God! We as a nation are all in this together, every last American, and the media had better wake up and become more objective, stand with American citizens and all of our rights! Once the Second and Fourth Amendments are written out of the Bill of Rights it will not be long until certain “dictator want-to-be” politicians with their one world government agenda, set their sights on the First Amendment with a vengeance. Believe it! I am certain our Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves!
Mark Shean-Written Oct. 1994 –
{Note; A word from THOMAS JEFFERSON:{“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual”.}
*Update; As of 11-08 I believe we will all start to really understand what Thomas Jefferson is trying to warn us about. As earlier, I hope everyone took notice when Bush actually signed the McCain/Finegold bill, the First Amendment was put under a harsh attack, with bipartisan approval of Congress! This bill was made simply to protect their politically corrupt lives from scrutiny around election time! How clever. Our very sovereignty will become another target soon, and the excuse will center around the world economy! Truly unbeliveable, these are more good reasons for us to force term limits on these long term corrupt human ticks feeding off us all!
M.Shean- www.mafirearmsafety.com