Today I took my little sister and a friend of ours into town to run an errand and to hang out a bit. My little sister doesn't get out that much and neither does our friend. Stopped by a local book shop and picked up the Federalist. It was composed by three authors; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. I started to read the first of the Essays and I wasn't able to get through the first page before I was compelled to start writing down my thoughts on what was written. I took the first one or two sentences and rewrote them in my own words and started to expound upon them with of course my own thoughts. That first paragraph really got me thinking. Right about now my friend, Maggie, is rolling her eyes; yes, Maggie, I know, dangerous.
What constitutes the constitution is very much influential upon the very fate of the Union. This amazing experiment shall show (I hope) if the fate of the ruling class is fixed to be continuously corrupt. After 234 years we seem to have found ourselves at an even more precarious edge. There are those who are intent, or at least seem to be intent, upon violating the freedoms and liberties that we have already fought, died, and killed for.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson wrote this in a letter to a gent by the name of William Smith. Let us ponder for a moment just how true these words are.
No, really, I mean think about it a bit.
Good, now that you have I will tell you that I believe these words to be true. Honestly, I have come to deeply and utterly hate this well known sentence for how true its words are. The killing of another human being is most abhorrent. The idea that one would have to take such drastic action for such a cause in such an occasion that it is the only viable option shows that a pitiful path had been previously chosen to reach such a climax. Should one pursue political liberty at such a cost? Due to a deification of this nation's founders and that ever pervasive and cunning deception many and perhaps most would believe that it should be. I hold it to be true that and certain that such an end even if achieved would not justify such deplorable means, but also that this metal of truth be tempered by the even more shunned idea of familial responsibility. There are many thoughts I am sure on what one's responsibilities are concerning family. I am, of course, speaking of the defense of the family in general. In my case I see this responsibility extend past those I am related to by blood and farther still than even those I consider friends. I mean to say that those even who I do not know being innocent to a reasonable extent are held in this "circle" that also includes my family and friends. This as a matter of course is pointing toward the singular right to bear arms, but that alone is not what I would focus on for now. Rather it is the idea that while it is wrong to kill for political liberty it is as equally heinous to abandon one's family to be slaughtered by the wolves of poverty, perversion, and violence. Granted, for the time being things are not so terrible that such terms would apply to everyone, but is it not in the terrible times that we see things for as they truly are? Is it not the fire that purifies gold and rids it of its impurities? Is it reasonable to think that our actions will suddenly change for the better when the dark time comes? Those of you who would reply yes to that are fools of the worst sort. When situations intensify so do people's natures. They do not change. While such a change is not impossible it so rare that it is for all practical purposes. Taking this into consideration this idea of a balance between the preservation of general life at the cost of one's freedom and the preservation of the lives of one's family at the expense of those not so close and perhaps not so innocent is not to be thought of lightly. After thinking on this, and take heed my friends consider this well, I ask a question that many would hold as heretical, but of course never use such term. Were our founding fathers right in their rebellion towards the obvious tyrannical King George the Third? Think on this.
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