The fourth
reason that our Founders fought a war to create our government was: to provide
for the common defense
This seems
like one of the few purposes of our government that doesn’t require any
explanation, yet that simplicity can distract us from seeing the bigger picture.
Do wars
require bloodshed and death before they are called wars? Are wars only fought with guns? Do wars require clear starting dates and
ending dates to mark their existence?
From 9/11,
we saw that wars don’t have to be between nations. Enemies can exist within nations or within
many nations at the same time. They
won’t always have fixed headquarters, firm boundaries, limited numbers of
military targets, or even uniforms.
From 9/11 we
saw that wars don’t have to be fought just with guns. Soldiers can be recruited and deployed
through ideas that can be communicated easily through books, media, and the
internet. A common enemy can easily have
forces in a hundred countries, and nobody may even knows they’re there.
From 9/11 we
saw that wars can last over generations.
No longer can we think like the past where even a world war took only 4
years for us. Europe had a Thirty Year
War and a Hundred Years War, but now we have entered a war where we should not
be thinking about or even planning for an end date.
Now, 9/11 wasn’t
the start of this war. It only made us
aware that what has been happening throughout the world for 1500 years does
indeed affects us and has finally reached us.
There is a common goal for these now several hundred known organizations
that are waging the same war in countries from Europe and Africa to the Far
East and has now come to the Western Hemisphere.
This common
ultimate goal is to make our country just like the countries they came
from. In other words, they want our
country to change its Constitution and its core values. That’s it.
The goal isn’t really to kill people, though that was necessary in other
counties past and may be necessary again, but the goal is to change our
country.
They have
learned, at least some of them, that killing people is not always necessary to
achieve that goal. They are now flooding
the world with their people in every country that will admit them. These people themselves may not even be
thinking of that ultimate goal, but their leaders know that this is
enough. They can change the demographics
of a country over generations, and it’s only a matter of time before they have
enough people to change the things they want to change. If physical conflicts
are necessary, it’s a lot easier from their viewpoint if they are emmeshed in
that society.
Now all this
should have made us aware of another matter.
Are these the only groups that want to change our country?
And this is
where it gets tricky.
Things
always change. Nothing stays the
same. Right? Well, yes and no.
In anything,
families, schools, businesses, society, government, countries, they all have to
figure out what things make them what they are and must be protected and
preserved, and what things can change without losing what it was that made them
what they are.
Frankly,
right now our country is in a crisis, though I doubt very many people are even aware
of it. They know something is going on,
but they don’t know how to define it or what exactly is it that is going on.
Our country
is changing and changing rapidly. Many
or most of the major changes have come and are coming through intentional
actions of our government and our courts, but it is not the source of these. The government and courts are made up of
people, and they are where the people who want to change our country can do
what they have come to believe they must do after having decided that our
country is not what they believe it ought to be.
The crisis
is that our country doesn’t know anymore what exactly it is that made it what
it is, or whether there something we ought to be that we must protect ourselves
from. Yes, things change. But what changes just come from growing and
learning, and what changes change us into something that we were never intended
to be, that are contrary to what our Founders fought a war to give us, and that
made us the most prosperous and freest nation in the history of the world.
What makes
all this difficult is that there are people in our schools and our government
who are discrediting everything we thought we knew about the past, and we are
watching the country we grew up in changing in ways we never imagined, and we
don’t know what to do or even if we are right to do anything. Maybe we were wrong about our country.
When people
are sworn into high government positions, we hear it said that they are to
defend us from all enemies, foreign and domestic. So what exactly is a domestic enemy?
It is
someone who is working to change the fundamental nature of our country. And if we don’t know what the fundamental
nature of our country is, we won’t know what changes are inevitable and
acceptable and what changes must be fought or defended against.
So we have
to ask the question: what is America?
Throughout history, nations formed from a common ancestry or a common
language. But the United States formed through
a core set of beliefs, and the simplest, most basic foundational belief or
principle is that God gave people unalienable rights. Unalienable rights are rights that precede and
supersede government. Government cannot
remove, modify, or restrict them. That’s it in a nutshell. That is what our freedoms and liberty are
based on. Our government was created to
protect and preserve those rights.
Providing
for the common defense includes protecting our nation from people who already
live here who want to change our country by changing this most fundamental
foundational principle of our country.
And why
would they want to do that? Two reasons,
and they are related, but not everyone needs to know both reasons.
They believe
they have a better way to run our country, and/or they don’t like the
foundational principle of our country.
Our country
is based on a belief in God. If God
doesn’t exist or if we are not allowed to bring God into our politics or the
public square, we are running our country as atheists. To be neutral to all religions is to
recognize none of them as being true or important for our country. They only exist, because people insist on
having them, but they have no relevance beyond the persons believing them.
But then
what does that do to the idea that our rights come from God? Simply put, it must be mistaken. There is no higher power than our government
which has now assumed the role of benefactor and provider for the people of the
land.
And this is
the very thing that all nations believe.
They just disagree over what rights the government gives and should give
to its people.
Our
government is on a mission to bring in as many people from as many different
countries of the world as possible, and then we don’t teach them the founding
principle of our country. We don’t even
teach it to our own children. In a few
generations, nobody who votes, runs for office, or makes laws will be guided by
that principle, and the United States will cease to exist from the unique
nation we were founded to be.
And the
worst part? All these people won’t even
know that it happened. The change is
gradual. Every generation starts with a
new normal.
The older
people who were taught differently and who remember more of the past are dying,
and the proportion of those who don’t even know or, as in the case of many of
the people who come here, wouldn’t even believe in our founding principles if
they were told it, is increasing daily.
The
government that was created to provide for the common defense is allowing and
even encouraging the destruction of our country from within. Some of it is caused by those who believe in
this, but many don’t’ even know what our founding principles are, so they are
unwitting, willing accomplices to our downfall.
Stopping
this won’t depend on a huge military budget.
Stopping this won’t happen if we hope somebody else will do it for us.
Everybody
who sees the issue must take up the cause. It’s a war of ideas that must be talked about everywhere,
because people everywhere will be voting one way or the other or not even voting
at all, because they don’t see the bigger issues. Is the United States on the right track or
the wrong track? And what is the right track?
If you say
that you’re old and won’t live to see it when it finally happens, then do it
for your children and your grandchildren.
If you want to do good for the whole world, then a United States living
by its founding principles will do more good for the world as an example to the
world than when it loses what made it what it was and meant to be.
