America once was a great country where freedom was defended by all those who swore to uphold it. Its core was its people, a people who held high the community’s best interest; along with the individual inasmuch it was the community which assisted in the overall welfare of the individual. The community itself cannot sustain without the individual and the individual cannot sustain without the community. So it is accurate to state that America cannot sustain without its people and its people cannot sustain without its' nation, America.

These communities were naturally small to begin with, but they grew and grew along with our population into what society is today. People, Americas’ ‘core’ was closer knit than the people of today, they worked alongside of the men they lived next door to. Men who tilled fields together or built the local churches, schools, jails, roads or what have you, together. Today we live next door to strangers, people we see but rarely say anything more than hello to. We do not work alongside them; we do not share our lives with them. This difference in community holds extreme significance in the ‘fabric’ of society when compared to today’s societal fabric. Today we work with people from different cities, counties, states, and countries. We have differences in our tolerance of others simply because we spend most of our time with people we truly know so little about and we create superficial relationships which in turn cause a lack of emotional bonding so vital to a community’s needs.

Henceforth, this lack in bonding, caused by our creation of artificial relationships causes a breakdown in our society’s structure whereas the people we spend the majority of our time with are not fully trusted because it is a business world and the rules and ‘laws’ which bind any and all businesships apply to our social structure. While being bound today by a ‘political correctness’, those of yesterday were bound by a much higher code and moral standard.

America was a country where tyrants were few and those that were feared to act due to the knowledge that the people would not stand for their actions or behaviors. Since my birth forty years ago, I have found that this country has fallen behind in its vigilance against tyranny. Its greatest document has become one of controversy because of many years of law-makers creating laws for no other purpose but to line their pockets and attempt to secure their cushy future.

We the People have allowed this to happen before our very eyes. The majority of us, I included, at one time or another has sat idly by while these laws were passed and our freedoms stolen. I cannot state its inception, nor am I able to state what was the most devastating law enacted against our freedoms, but I can see it clearly enough to know all of our freedoms are on death row. The gallows are built, the hangman stands at the ready as our Constitution is marched down the hall into its' holding cell. From the 1913 Federal Reserve Act to the Patriot Act, we have had more freedoms striped away than most other countries enjoy. All for the benefit of those select few individuals who would put their own well being ahead of the communities.

Why have ‘We the People’ allowed this to happen? How could we not see this storm coming? Are we all so blinded by the 'American Way of Life' that we simply have become apathetic to the tyranny before us? We live in a country where we work a minimum of forty hours each week to give approximately 1/3 of it back to our government because they say it is law. (Whose law?) We pay insurance companies another large chunk of our wages. (Granted this is done before taxes are taken, a nice gift from our federal government) We must then pay our bills, which have increased dramatically over the years to pay for 'inflation' which is caused by our elected officials making choices which benefit only the rich. What we are left with is hopefully enough to save for a rainy day, or to take a vacation or bring the kids home a new toy. We have lost the hope of ever saving enough to buy a new car for cash, unless it is a super sub compact with all the likeness of the car Fred Flintstone drove. No longer are we able to save enough to buy a house for cash or to buy land without taking out a mortgage. I won’t go into how the banks set things up to take your home or property, for that is an entirely different article.

Is it just me who sees this or are there others out there who see this too and have that sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach?

Now, I do believe in taxes as they pay for our roads and help those who are less fortunate get assistance if they need it, but are ‘We the People’ not taxed enough without being represented equally for the taxes we pay? I say certainly not! Our government has become too big and too corrupt for their programs to be effective. If you want proof just look back over the years, or better yet look at your paycheck and compare it to your cost of living. Recall those days long ago when you could rent a house for well under one-thousand dollars per month, or buy a car used or new for several thousand. Nowadays we are forced to pay off a house over thirty years and pay triple what the house and property is truly worth. We pay more for a gallon of milk than we do for a gallon of gasoline. While I also feel gasoline prices are well above what the actual prices should be, how the hell are we paying more for milk than gas?

With our elected officials living high on the hog, luncheon-ing at fine restaurants, we spend our days toiling for a pittance eating spam sandwiches. While they pass laws they did not read, on the suggestion that this will bring more money into their next terms election campaign, we try to make ends meet by scraping every dime out of what we make. While they vacation for months at elite locations, we tell our children we can not travel because we owe more money than we can pay. Haven't the American people had enough of this yet?

Nope we haven't. Not yet, for we still allow our federal government to control our decisions, make our laws and disobey their constituents. We sit by and watch as our freedoms are taken, one by one. We watch the evening news oblivious to the truth that is out there about the laws they pass, the wars they wage and the tyranny they commit.
For the first time ever we have a black president. It is truly a blessing to be alive and witness such a happening, yet when this president was questioned about his birth place, he shied away from the facts and refused to provide proof of his birth place. Now I may be wrong by expressing myself, but without proof of birth, I see a leaderless country without a Commander in Chief. To be elected president, (which I believe there hasn't been a real election since Kennedy) you must be a natural citizen of this country, something Mr. Obama has not proved. Until Mr. Obama provides publically that he is in fact born on United States soil, he is not my president.

With the state of our economy being in such dire need of overhaul, our elected officials decide to spend billions of dollars on companies which failed due to their unsatisfactory business decisions. Now what the !^@(! is that all about? If any one of us opens our own business and makes poor business decisions I know for a fact that our officials will not send us one dime to help save us from failure. We have been robbed blind by those elected officials who swore an oath to do the constituents bidding. They disregarded our will and then told us our economy would collapse completely if we did not go along with their foolishness.

What bothers me most about this is WE SAT BY AND LET THEM DO IT! We allowed them to put our children’s children into debt and we did it while watching the evening news, or sipping on a cafe' latte’. Truly we are as lost as sheep in the sewer.

Furthermore our civil liberties are in more jeopardy than when we wrote the Declaration of Independence. Just today I read more about the 'Hate Crimes' bill and realize that if this bill becomes law any free speech can and will be considered a 'hate crime' and will be punished with up to two years in jail. Our jails and prisons are full to capacity already and these buffoons want to pass a law that makes it a crime to voice your opinion. Forget about the mainstream media, for they don't tell the truth anymore than the elected officials who make the laws which steal our freedoms, I speak about the average man or woman who wishes to voice their opinion about something. This law will affect us all in ways which seem unfathomable. Already we have seen the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer removed from our schools, next it will be certain texts which are prohibited because it states something which could inspire free thought. We are in jeopardy from the very government we elected and we must do something as one voice to prevent further assaults upon our freedoms.

Freedoms are only as powerful as those standing behind them. America was once free, but now lies enslaved walking behind the bankers and corporations who own our politicians. These bankers and corporations entice our politicians to pass laws which benefit them, not ‘We the People’, but ‘We the People’ must obey these laws, for they protect the bankers and corporations from ‘We the People’. We are kept separate by being forced to make ends meet which have become so distant to one another we can barely see the ends at all. We are told that black men and woman should live in different neighborhoods than white folks. I say bullshit! We are all the same and to prove it, skin yourself and skin someone of a different race. I bet you both bleed red blood and look exactly the same!
We must live daily with freedom in the forefront of our minds. Exercise your rights every chance you are able to. Get yourself concealed weapons permit, write your legislature, your local government, call then, fax them, and go picket their offices or homes if they refuse to listen. Do anything you can to make them aware of how you feel and tell them that under no circumstance will you be silenced, imagine what might happen if you went down to the local commissioner’s office and saw other people there for the same thing? Now imagine what might happen if all over the city this occurred. The state would follow and soon we'd be heard loud and clear.

I am only one man with one voice, who speaks ever so softly but I believe that 'We the People truly do control this country if we work in unison towards the same goal. We must put aside any and all differences, whether it is a difference of race, religion, sexual preference or financial status (add any other differences here), if we are to make our government listen. We must stop fighting for this issue or that issue and hope it brings about the change we looked for. We must use the very core of all of our issues as a place where we meet and join together standing firm and relinquishing no ground until our government listens to our will. Restore order inside our government, remove those who have acted against our Constitution and in their place put people from everyday jobs into office. It is they who will understand the common man and the wishes of the people.

Maybe then we can truly abolish the Federal Reserve and have real transparency inside government. Maybe then we can begin to make this country great once again.