What Ever Happened to Right and Wrong?

There was a time, and it wasn't so long ago, that a man new what it meant to be a man in this country. He new from an early age that there were certain things that were expected of him if he wanted to call himself a man and that these things were understood and accepted by most everyone in our society. Among these things were a universal duty to God, his family and to his country as a whole; and these duties ran in that order.

A man was expected to be as upright and loyal to his God, no matter his faith, as he could be. This meant trying to live a good and wholesome life and following as closely as he could the laws given to all men as well as the laws of the land; as long as those laws did not interfere with the teachings of his God and his conscience.

He was expected to provide for his family. He did not have to provide extravagances' such as huge houses, expensive cars or power boats; but he was expected by all to put in a full days work for a full days pay and to provide all the needs of his family to get by. He was expected not to divorce his wife because he grew tired of her, not to cheat on her, not to abuse her or her children and to generally try to raise his children to be good and productive citizens.

Also expected of every able bodied man was to serve his country. This could be through active military service, as a reservist, in civic activities or engaged in politics but this was the norm for all men and not the exception. When a threat to our nation appeared, all men were expected to defend her. When disaster happened people didn't text in donations, they got up off their chairs and went to help.

Our country is a nations of citizens not of tenants. A citizen is an owner, he mends what is fixed, he looks for signs of wear and tends to these things and if someone breaks in or tries to burn down the place he defends what is his with all his might.

When, please some one tell me, when did we stop being free American Citizens and become share croppers on our own land? When was the Constitution repealed? When did the Liberty Bell get melted down?

This did not all start in the 60's but it has gotten much worse sense then. Of course the reason for that is because our public schools have been taken over by those nice tambourine playing hippies we used to laugh at years ago. Our children are indoctrinated from a very early age to believe that America is basically bad, that we keep the third world poor and that all people of the world are equally entitled to what we have in our country and that anyone that doesn't want them to take it is evil too.

Our children are taught that freedom of expression entitles them to follow no rules of civil behavior, that they own nothing to society or to their own country and that in fact antisocial behavior is good. They are taught that the country owes them a living and that if they don't feel like working it is OK because they can always go on welfare.

They are taught that the Bible is a myth, and that there is no God. They are taught that there are all sorts of "Other Types of Families" and that sexual deviancy is equal to if not preferable to "tradition" (meaning real) marriages.

The last four Presidents of the United States have been progressively working to rid us of the Constitution. Bush Jr. was quoted, when informed that something he wanted done was probably unconstitutional, as saying, "Well, it's just a piece of paper..."

Just a piece of paper my ass. That piece of paper is the foundation and life blood of the first truly free nation. It is and was a living document ordained and inspired by God. My family has fought to defend it's principles sense even before it was written and I will personally take up arms and fight against any man that tries to get rid of it.

Every man and woman that has ever served in the US armed forces took an oath to protect and defend that document against all enemies foreign and domestic; those words are in the oath of office of every member of congress and of the President, so tell me why is it so hard for any of them to remember that?

Could it be that they are just ignorant having never read it? It is a very small book and could easily be read in a few hours even by the slowest reader. Maybe we need to pass a law that no elected official can be sworn in to office until they have read the constitution at least once and know what they are swearing to protect.

God forbid they are of the opinion that just because this nation has over the pas few decades developed an almost coma like apathy that we will not rise up and revolt against the tyranny of an oppressive government. If any of them still think this they are slow learners and obviously too dim witted to remain in public service.

Obama has awakened this country more than anyone has sense the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and for this I am grateful to him.

Think about it for a moment. After President Reagan our nation started into a steep and steady dive into a progressive hell. George the First didn't just lie to us about "No new taxes", he stripped our intelligence community to the bare bone. He started the RIF (reduction in Force) which stripped our armed services of most all combat experienced veterans and then he started a war which we won in a few hours but then lost the peace almost as fast. I myself was so disheartened that I actually voted for Perot because I refused to vote for him again.

Slick Willy was even worse. I could care less who he slept with; it is not illegal to have sex with an intern. Sick, desperate and immoral yes; illegal, no. What upset me was the wholesale marketing he did of our nation. He sold the Naval Shipyard in Long Beach to the Chinese. Now up until this China had been considered an unfriendly nation at best, so he gave them most favored nation status so that it wouldn't seem wrong to sell our shipyard, our steel mills our trees and everything else that wasn't nailed down to our enemy.

Let us not forget that this is the man that also effectively shut down our only clean coal mines so that we would have to buy it from Asia. He then went after what was left of our military and RIFed out even more officers and senior NCOs to the point that we now have to call upon our reservist and national guard to fight our wars. Genus move there.

Bush Jr. was worse yet. He followed in his fathers footsteps like a clone doing everything in his power to increase the wealth of oil companies, security firms and anything else his family had money in but doing very little to protect this nations economy.

My personal favorite thing was the Patriot Act. What a crock of horse manure. This law does nothing to protect Americans yet effectively takes away the bill of rights from all US citizens. While making it so the police now have the power to hold people without reading them their rights, without letting them call anyone or even let family members know where they are this law does not let the police profile possible terrorist as that would violate their rights.

So, yes, when people ask me what I think about Obama I tell them that he is my favorite President of my life time except Reagan; he is the first and only person I know to make America stand up as a nation and say enough is enough. He is the first man to get a whole nation flipping through the constitution to see if "that is right" or not. He may very well be the catalyst that brings common sense back to the nation. God bless him and his craziness, he wanted to rebuild a nation; he will get his wish. Only it will not be the "progressive neo-communist" nation of his dreams. Who knows, it maybe the nation of laws, common sense and personal responsibility of old.

We can only hope and pray; well and take up the title of liberty and be the men that we are all supposed to be. Who knows, with time, we may even remember how to stand up for what is right and how to fight against what is wrong. At lest that is my hope and my prayer.