The Tree Of Liberty In The United States Is Overdue For Refreshing

There is many that argue that the United States is a free government and I laugh at there ignorance. It is true that we are a representative democracy but that does not make us free. To be free and enjoy the blessings of liberty we need a curb on our self indulgent behavior. The Virginia Bill of Rights on which the Constituition Bill of Rights was based was passed in June of 1776 and stated the following.

That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

John Locke in his 1690 Second Treatise on Government stated it as follows.

But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it.

William Blackstone in his Commentaries On The Laws Of England wrote the following.

And also the law of England wisely and religiously considers, that no man has a power to destroy life, but by commission from God, the author of it: and, as the suicide is guilty of a double offense; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the Almighty, and rushing into his immediate presence uncalled for; the other temporal, against the king, who has an interest in the preservation of all his subjects; the law has therefore ranked this among the highest, crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony, a felony committed on oneself

These documents expound on the viewpoints of our founding fathers and what they held as the truth when they wrote these sanctified words in the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

I call those who desire the true liberty and freedom to rebel against the debaucherous tyranny that controls American and elect new representatives that are more interested in fighting against the self destructive practices of alcohol abuse, drug abuse, tobacco abuse, abortion, easy divorces, the sexual revolution, and others practices that are known to be harmful to our society and therefore deprive us of the blessings of liberty. Follow the instruction in the Declaration of Independence and be ready for war but hope that lesser means will prevail in obtaining the liberty promised to us by The Constitution.