America’s Last Vestige of Freedom

(Dec. 14, 2011) — To the Public Servants of the United States of America,

The death of a nation happens with a whisper and a nudge, patiently and stealthily, robbing its unsuspecting citizens of inalienable rights and replacing them with governmental controls…for the good of the people, of course.  Only when it is too late to turn back the clock does a nation realize that freedom has vanished in the blink of an eye.

Two weeks ago, the United States Senate issued a death knell to freedom.  The passage and signing away of our rights to due process and presumed innocence fundamental to the Constitution can be found in Senate Bill 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act.  Tucked deeply into this bill in section 1031 is the provision in question, and this should chill every U.S. citizen to the core.Admittedly, terrorism is a real and present danger to our nation’s security.  Yet, it should be apparent that the U.S. Senate had no problem endorsing this bill, even if an American citizen is a suspected terrorist. Couple this with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s 12-page document entitled ‘Domestic Extremism Lexicon‘  “that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States” and the implications are horrendous.Senators, when you extinguished America’s last vestige of freedom, were you thinking about your wife, husband, son, daughter, mother, father, niece, nephew and grandchildren, and the future you have denied them in this, the last free nation in the world?  Did you ask them how they feel about being detained indefinitely without due process even if they are only suspected of being a terrorist?  According to the Department of Homeland Security, Christian patriots are considered extremists.  Were you aware?  What if your daughter came home from college and told you she has joined a Christian patriot organization in the community?  Would you deem her a suspected terrorist?  Make no mistake, the Department of Homeland Security would.

Inquiring minds want to know what went through the minds of 93 of the 100 senators who willfully dismissed the Constitution, tossing it in the trash as they threw all caution to the wind in voting ‘yes’ to this freedom-destroying provision.

Americans implore the Congress of the United States of America to prayerfully consider the dire implications of leaving this provision in the bill.  We pray you have the intestinal fortitude to do what is right, and when you look your loved ones in the eye, you can tell them you stood for freedom.

“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that “if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom,” it is a very serious consideration … that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.” – Samuel Adams