Marie Komar (5 July 2005)
"My Country, T'is of Thee"

The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 46 Issue: 4 - Monday, July 04, 2005

My Country, T'is of Thee
As America celebrates 229 years of independence from tyranny, it makes one wonder how the Founding Fathers would view the nation that they purchased for us all those years ago.
Would the Founding Fathers of America see this current generation as good stewards of the nation they expended their blood and treasure to create for their descendants?
On July 4, 1776, the Founding Fathers put their lives, their reputations, their fortunes and their sacred honor on the line when they publicly signed their names to a document that held only two possibilities for their future.
Freedom or a rope. There was no middle ground.
The document that bore their signatures began;
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
The nation that they founded was based on the single premise, to which they affixed their signatures, that freedom was an inherent right of all men, granted to them by the same God that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals attempted to have removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
You know, ‘One nation, under God” – a phrase that the leftist judges that pack the bench consider an unacceptable endorsement of religion?
According to judicial ‘thinking’ it is unacceptable to acknowledge God as the Guarantor of American individual rights, in the name of God-given individual rights.
What would our Founders think? Hey . . . let’s ASK them.
“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.”
In 1776, it was ‘self-evident’ to the Founders that, all men were CREATED – that they were “endowed by their CREATOR’ with rights that were outside the jurisdiction of any government, by what was to them, the self-evident truth that what God grants, only God can take away.
Among the rights they envisioned for all Americans was the “right to life” (Hmmm, where have I heard that phrase before?) liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Of course, if there is no God, then there can be no guarantee to the ‘right to life.’ It would be interesting to hear the Founders take on the phrase ‘right to life’ being used as a euphemism for right-wing reactionaries seeking to impose their will on the minority who recognize the value of life only when it is their own.
It would be even more interesting to hear the Founder’s take on a concept of ‘liberty’ whereby it is a Constitutional exercise of the 1st Amendment to burn the flag under which uncounted tens of thousands of their descendants died in battle, but where it is a criminal act for ‘right to lifers’ to protest the killing of the unborn within 100 feet of the kill zone.
As we ponder the men who pledged to each other, their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, one wonders how they would view the concept of America as a secular nation.
Its founding principles acknowledge the Presence of a Supreme Being from Whom certain inalienable rights are received.
It is impossible for any thinking reader of the Declaration of Independence to miss the fact it is based on the worldview that God exists and is intimately involved in the fate of nations.
The Declaration acknowledges the existence of God as the first principle of our form of government. God is the One who endowed us with those rights.
But in modern America, God CANNOT exist. His Name cannot be mentioned in the public school system. The Bible cannot be mentioned.
To millions of American schoolchildren, creation (and the Creator) are mythical, but the TRUTH is that they are descended from monkeys.
It is offensive to American jurisprudence to include His Name in the Pledge of Allegiance, as if pledging allegiance to what they consider a myth is somehow harmful to the nation.
In the name of protecting individual rights of a tiny minority of atheists (under ten percent, according to the CIA Factbook), the rights of the vast majority (76%, according to that same authority) have no religious rights whatever, apart from the right to be free OF religion.
America, 229 years after it was founded as a nation where the existence of a Creator was ‘self-evident’ the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed anywhere in public, but pornographic art is protected (and federally funded) free speech.
The Founding Fathers set up a system of government in which there would be three, separate but co-equal branches of government, the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, independent of one another but all answerable to those they governed.
The Founder’s America was NOT a democracy – to a man, they abhorred the concept. John Adams, a Founding Father and America's 2nd president explained it this way; "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.''
Democracy functions according to the principle that the laws of the land reflect the will of the people. No law can exist without the consent of the governed, and the governed, through their representatives, have the authority to create law as they see fit.
As such, democracies do not function under the rule of law; they are a law unto themselves.
To prevent such a travesty, America was founded as a Constitutional Republic under the rule of law, with the supreme law of the land being the Constitution and the precepts of the Ten Commandments.
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law, (the final reference authority for generations of Supreme Court justices) defined the limitations placed on a Constitutional Republic as being subject to the immutable laws of the Creator.
“These are the eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator Himself in all His dispensations conforms; and which He has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions.”
The Founding Fathers were familiar with Blackstone's Commentaries. In colonial America, Blackstone's Commentaries was second only to the Bible on the colonial best-seller list.
It was after consulting Scripture and Blackstone's Commentaries that the Founding Fathers affixed their signatures to the covenant agreement that;
"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."
Praise God that, to the majority of Americans, if not her governors, those truths remain as self-evident today as they were in 1776.
For all her faults, America is still the greatest nation on the face of God's earth, thanks to those who came before us, and those who now stand between us and the forces that would destroy us.
May God bless our forces around the world no less willing than the Founders to pledge their lives, the fortunes and their sacred honor to keeping us free.
And may God continue to bless the Republic. Until He comes.
Archives of past issues of The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest plus many other Omega Letter member features can be found at: www.omegaletter.com


The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest Vol: 46 Issue: 4 - Monday, July 04, 2005
My Country, T'is of Thee As America celebrates 229 years of independence from tyranny, it makes one wonder how the Founding Fathers would view the nation that they purchased for us all those years ago. Would the Founding Fathers of America see this current generation as good stewards of the nation they expended their blood and treasure to create for their descendants? On July 4, 1776, the Founding Fathers put their lives, their reputations, their fortunes and their sacred honor on the line when they publicly signed their names to a document that held only two possibilities for their future. Freedom or a rope. There was no middle ground. The document that bore their signatures began; “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” The nation that they founded was based on the single premise, to which they affixed their signatures, that freedom was an inherent right of all men, granted to them by the same God that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals attempted to have removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. You know, ‘One nation, under God” – a phrase that the leftist judges that pack the bench consider an unacceptable endorsement of religion? According to judicial ‘thinking’ it is unacceptable to acknowledge God as the Guarantor of American individual rights, in the name of God-given individual rights. What would our Founders think? Hey . . . let’s ASK them. “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.” In 1776, it was ‘self-evident’ to the Founders that, all men were CREATED – that they were “endowed by their CREATOR’ with rights that were outside the jurisdiction of any government, by what was to them, the self-evident truth that what God grants, only God can take away. Among the rights they envisioned for all Americans was the “right to life” (Hmmm, where have I heard that phrase before?) liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Of course, if there is no God, then there can be no guarantee to the ‘right to life.’ It would be interesting to hear the Founders take on the phrase ‘right to life’ being used as a euphemism for right-wing reactionaries seeking to impose their will on the minority who recognize the value of life only when it is their own. It would be even more interesting to hear the Founder’s take on a concept of ‘liberty’ whereby it is a Constitutional exercise of the 1st Amendment to burn the flag under which uncounted tens of thousands of their descendants died in battle, but where it is a criminal act for ‘right to lifers’ to protest the killing of the unborn within 100 feet of the kill zone. As we ponder the men who pledged to each other, their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, one wonders how they would view the concept of America as a secular nation. Its founding principles acknowledge the Presence of a Supreme Being from Whom certain inalienable rights are received. It is impossible for any thinking reader of the Declaration of Independence to miss the fact it is based on the worldview that God exists and is intimately involved in the fate of nations. The Declaration acknowledges the existence of God as the first principle of our form of government. God is the One who endowed us with those rights. But in modern America, God CANNOT exist. His Name cannot be mentioned in the public school system. The Bible cannot be mentioned. To millions of American schoolchildren, creation (and the Creator) are mythical, but the TRUTH is that they are descended from monkeys. It is offensive to American jurisprudence to include His Name in the Pledge of Allegiance, as if pledging allegiance to what they consider a myth is somehow harmful to the nation. In the name of protecting individual rights of a tiny minority of atheists (under ten percent, according to the CIA Factbook), the rights of the vast majority (76%, according to that same authority) have no religious rights whatever, apart from the right to be free OF religion. America, 229 years after it was founded as a nation where the existence of a Creator was ‘self-evident’ the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed anywhere in public, but pornographic art is protected (and federally funded) free speech. The Founding Fathers set up a system of government in which there would be three, separate but co-equal branches of government, the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, independent of one another but all answerable to those they governed. The Founder’s America was NOT a democracy – to a man, they abhorred the concept. John Adams, a Founding Father and America's 2nd president explained it this way; "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.'' Democracy functions according to the principle that the laws of the land reflect the will of the people. No law can exist without the consent of the governed, and the governed, through their representatives, have the authority to create law as they see fit. As such, democracies do not function under the rule of law; they are a law unto themselves. To prevent such a travesty, America was founded as a Constitutional Republic under the rule of law, with the supreme law of the land being the Constitution and the precepts of the Ten Commandments. Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law, (the final reference authority for generations of Supreme Court justices) defined the limitations placed on a Constitutional Republic as being subject to the immutable laws of the Creator. “These are the eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator Himself in all His dispensations conforms; and which He has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions.” The Founding Fathers were familiar with Blackstone's Commentaries. In colonial America, Blackstone's Commentaries was second only to the Bible on the colonial best-seller list. It was after consulting Scripture and Blackstone's Commentaries that the Founding Fathers affixed their signatures to the covenant agreement that; "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." Praise God that, to the majority of Americans, if not her governors, those truths remain as self-evident today as they were in 1776. For all her faults, America is still the greatest nation on the face of God's earth, thanks to those who came before us, and those who now stand between us and the forces that would destroy us. May God bless our forces around the world no less willing than the Founders to pledge their lives, the fortunes and their sacred honor to keeping us free. And may God continue to bless the Republic. Until He comes. Archives of past issues of The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest plus many other Omega Letter member features can be found at: www.omegaletter.com