ON THE RECORD

In the last few days with the efforts of some Democrats to politicize the attempted assassination of one of Arizona’s representatives in congress, it has been interesting to watch the local Liberty County media gather up and post article after article to demonize Republicans and to help those who would try and further scrap the first amendment. But anyone familiar with history knows our political rhetoric is no worse than it has been at other times in history. And it is no where near as violent as it was from 1865 to 1901 when three U.S.Presidents were assassinated and numerous lower level public officials.

No, this is no time to limit free speech. It is no time to judge responses to liberals telling the rest of this country we want to control or even take away your guns. Our Founding Fathers and the writers of the Constitution would likely react with a “lock and load” type of response. Liberals, as smart as they think they are, would be wise to stop threatening to take away rights American citizens have had since this country began rather than add the first amendment to their threat.

In recent years the first amendment is always under attack by liberals. They have perverted its meaning and its intention. From the freedom of religion wording that is intended to keep the United States from having a state sponsored church like The Church of England to the limiting chains liberals would put on our right to evangelize and to celebrate Christ.

Some of these self proclaimed intellectuals will argue some kind of re-invented history of our country. Some will deny our Christian heritage and facts like some of our Founding Father were preachers and even more were evangelicals actively involved in spreading the Gospel.

But liberals have been emboldened in recent years. Many have come out of the closet. They now will openly express that they could care less about the original intent. Conversations with this kind of “intellectual” may start out refreshing because of the initial impression of honesty but quickly these people get into their self deceptive rationalization leaving out the need to go through the amendment process to change the original intent of laws grounded in the Constitution. Their new found bravery in revealing they are atheists or something besides Christians still has the yellow streak of admitting that their self acclaimed superior metacognition betrays their whole true premise. Their real message is that we should run the country like they say because they are not only far more mentally endowed than not only us, but the people who gave birth to this country.

These people were taking a victory lap after the Obama victory in 2008. But now they are spending all of their valuable think tank time trying to round up all of those inferior to them that helped put Obama in the White House. It seems that many of supporters of Obama are now either disillusioned or they have had an epiphany and are working to undo what they helped to bring about.

Those who have come out of the closet and declared their animosity or indifference to the Constitution and the Bible will not care but they should realize if this country ever returns to valuing these things again, their efforts are on record.

Oops, hold on. They may care. They may consider that a threat. I can hear some of their great minds now: “Maybe we can outlaw conservatives saying you are on record – it sounds like a hit list.”