Today, the government threatens and punishes us without trial for exercising basic freedoms.Īnd all this do-as-I-say-today-or-face-newly-crafted-government-punishment nonsense, which is enforced by reluctant police who would rather chase a bank robber than a jogger in a government-owned park, is not the result of legislation enacted after a broad national debate, nor is it authorized in the Constitution. And it prescribes the means for the government to follow if it can show that the freedom of some - like a bank robber - needs to be curtailed.Ī bank robber gets a fair jury trial before losing his basic freedoms. The Constitution openly and directly prohibits all governments from interfering with personal liberties like speech, press, travel, assembly, religion and commercial intercourse. Once the virus arrived here - like a tidal wave - the government’s response has been to treat the freedoms for which brave men and women have fought and died as if they are not the inalienable personal rights Madison and Thomas Jefferson and all the founders and framers and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution called them but rather privileges subject to government permission slips. Drop by drop, the intelligence data is being released or leaked, and it shows an administration indifferent to the plight of folks from China traveling west, gullibly accepting the deceptions of the government of China, arrogantly self-confident that it can’t happen here, ignorant of the ease with which a virus passes among the heedless, and unwilling to grasp the dangers making their way here. It probably did originate there, but the Trump administration declined to take it seriously for nearly three months.
The government has persuaded nearly all of us, with its selective employment of scientific data, that we are suffering from an unavoidable viral pandemic that originated in China. This is a painful question to ask and answer in these trying times. Could it be we have repeated it so often that we have lost sight of its meaning? Is the United States today the land of the free and the home of the brave? The phrase “the land of the free and the home of the brave” is as American as any one-liner in our history. A century later, it became our national anthem. It was re-named “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and it became a popular patriotic piece meant to commemorate American freedom and the bravery of those who fought to preserve it. Madison narrowly escaping.Īfter the British tired of the war and went home, Key’s poem was set to the tune of a drinking song, popular among British soldiers and sailors. Capitol and the White House were burned and severely damaged, with President and Mrs. Notwithstanding its origins, the War of 1812 brought Americans perilously close to being British subjects again. They thought this even though the Treaty of Paris, signed by the United States and Great Britain in 1783, unambiguously recognized the United States of America as a free, independent and sovereign nation. The Americans argued that the British government’s stated reason for its attack was a pretense, as its real goal was to re-capture what many Britons still considered to be their colonies. The British government claimed that President James Madison had designs on the British king’s lands in Canada, and so it attacked the U.S. This was the War of 1812, the origins of which are lost to history.
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