Sunshine Patriot

The Constitution of the United States of American is a short concise document, not restricting the rights of the people, but rather guaranteeing the liberties, the freedoms that are god-given rights. The founders fought and died for these freedoms and were not about to hand them over to some central government. They knew that power rested with the people and not with the government, something that has been cast aside by today's leaders.

Today's politician goes to the Capital with one thing in mind to help those who elected him to office and the general welfare of the public is the farther thing from his mind. He goes into the various congressional committees seeking to advance the causes of those groups who supported him, those groups that gave the most to his campaign. Nowhere on his list is the group that needs his support the most. Those in this group have NO representation No voice in the laws that are proposed and then passed to help us all, to protect us from ourselves. Nowhere is this group heard, while law after law is passed and presented to the public as great achievements. And we are told that our great new leaders, leaders cut from the mold of Jefferson and Washington, have passed laws that will make our lives better. Who is this unimportant group whose voices are not heard, who are pushed aside by those in positions of power, who are these people. Let me tell you!! You are in that group if you are silent, if you fail to speak up for yourself, if you go along with the crowd, if you feel that your opinion doesn't count, you are that lowly thing, that may call himself a citizen, you are that lowly thing that may call yourself a voter. You and you alone are the problem. Not the politicians, not the special interest groups, but you and those like you. You, my friend are the sunshine patriot and the fair weather soldier, you are the one who hangs back while better men step forward and answer the call, the call of a nation dying from within, a nation whose freedoms are being eroded by those whose only motives are greed and power. You are worst that the corrupt, worst than the greedy, because you, yes you know better. You have tasted the freedoms better men have fought and died to pass on to you. You have enjoyed the benefits and pleasures of a free nation. You have taken those freedoms and liberties for granted. And now you sit in silence while the futures of your children, your grand children slip away. You my friend are the "Ugly American".

It Has Always Been the Soldier

Many forget what we owe to the men who wear the uniforms of our armed forces. And some choose to denigrate their service to this nation. Many group demonstratate against these men, some accuse them of crimes. Some great universities will not allow organizations associated with them on campus and some of the left even spit on these returning heros. But it is to these few, to these men, to these heros that we owe everything: Found this poem at Political Wonk

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SOLDIER

It is the soldier,
not the President who gives us democracy.

It is the soldier,
not the Congress who takes care of us.

It is the soldier,
not the Reporter who has given us Freedom of Press.

It is the soldier,
not the Poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.

It is the soldier,
not the campus [community] Organizer who
has given us the Freedom to Demonstrate.

It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester to burn the flag.

Father Dennis O’Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain

Rights and Sands in the Hour Glass

by Ron Russell

While commenting on an article by James on Right On concerning the Constitution and gun rights I began to think about all the rights I have seen slip away over the years. The following is the comment I left on "Right On":

The constitution is clear on gun ownership rights, but slowly over many years the state and federal governments have steadily and methodically chipped away at those rights as they have with other basic rights that we once had. Rights that the young don't even miss because they never experienced them. Sometime I see our rights, our freedoms, and our liberty's slipping away like sands in the hour glass. Once that freedom, that right is gone it does NOT return. It's gone forever and all the complaining and the moaning will never get it back. As the sands of the hour glass get lower and lower one can more easily see the change--the movement seems quicker although the rate remains the same. It's just that the remaining freedoms and rights are fewer and the loss of even one is sorely missed and more become aware of the approaching emptiness. If we are not careful this emptiness will be filled by something that is totally alien to our American way of life, something that will repress individuality, something that will stifle our remaining values, and something that will crush our children's future.