What makes us Americans unique in the world is that we question everything. This is how we are able to keep our freedoms, by questioning the people representing us in our government.

However, we have stopped questioning; we let them get away with too much, and they walked all over us. Now, we pay the price. Our freedom is at stake.

Where we once could be free people, we have been regulated and controlled. We no longer can have lemonade stands; kids can’t just go outside and play. They have rules about riding bikes, playing in the street on a Saturday, and what games can be played at school (oh yeah, and there are no winners and no losers growing up.) Groups of people have words they can use but others cannot, we have “free speech zones”, reporters for our Representatives have to use government computers so they can be monitored, and we have cameras on corners to watch us. In short, we have BIG BROTHER.

Yes, everyone needs rules, but common sense should also be there. Don’t ride a bike in the middle of the street. Don’t just go up and hit someone because they are different; there are ways of speaking without causing a fight. Unfortunately this is all some people can understand.

Where is our common sense? It’s been legislated to death.

We have given away too much power to our Representatives. We need to take it back.

Our Representatives are trying to put everyone in a bubble, for our own good. They want to control us for our safety.

We have given up our freedoms because we kept quiet too long. Our Representatives do not hear us anymore, no matter how loudly we yell or scream at them.

If we want OUR White House back and our House and Senate back, we are going to have to make them listen. We are going to have to find a way to get their attention.

Too many times, we have heard this is so-and-so’s Senate seat or House seat. It is NOT their seat; it is the people’s seat.

The White House is the House of the People. It does not belong to the current President, whoever he (or she) may be.

We MUST remember the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They are not just old pieces of paper or rags.These are our Rights. Our founding fathers even said that they could not list all of our Rights in the Constitution as there are too many.

Do we really want to keep giving away everything? Or do we want safety so badly that we’re willing to give up ALL our Freedoms to Big Brother?

Do we want Big Brother speaking to us from a box on the street telling us to pick up trash and to not do this or that? Do you really want to get fined for anything and everything that they think we should or shouldn’t do?

I do not want to live like that. I want to take personal responsibility for myself and my actions from when I get up in the morning, deciding for myself what I eat, whether or not I exercise, and what choices I make during the day. What my kids eat during the day is MY responsibility. If I decide to drink soda 6 times a day or more or get a hangover, this is my responsibility. Taking responsibility also means accepting the consequences when you do something wrong, intentionally or not.

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Not long before Dick Armey – a conservative Republican constitutionalist – retired as House majority leader, he gave a speech expressing his worry about the government’s increasing blanket surveillance over We the People. He practically begged President George W. Bush to “use these tools we have given you to make us safe in such a manner that’ll preserve our freedom” (my book, “The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance,” Seven Stories Press, 2003).

Bush’s response, alas, was to listen more and more to Vice President Dick Cheney.

And now for the first time in American history, according to the Government Accountability Project’s Jesselyn Radack, Attorney General Eric Holder has officially and publicly declared “new guidelines that permit the federal counterterrorism investigators to collect, search and store data about Americans who are not suspected of terrorism, or anything …

“According to the Justice Department, law enforcement and other national security agencies can copy entire databases and sift through the data for suspicious patterns to stop potential terrorist threats” (“Govt. Keeping Data on Americans With No Connection to Terrorism,” whistleblower.org, March 23).

Where in the Constitution do “suspicious patterns” – otherwise undefined and outside the jurisdiction of our courts – allow the government to put large and growing numbers of us into databases for future tracking?

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James Bamford, whose track record on all things associated with the National Security Council (NSA) is excellent, has a chilling article in Wired about the NSA’s newest facilities and capabilities. They are jaw-dropping. In effect, he is telling us that once the new Utah facility is operational, everything that an American citizen does that involves electronic communication will be captured by NSA—emails, purchases, cell phone calls, text messages. Everything. Bamford doesn’t say it, but I assume that NSA can also do what hackers can do: Get access to the entire contents of disk drives.

Contemplating this capability, we are beyond having to ask whether NSA will watch over the most private affairs of American citizens. That’s already happening, under guidelines that the government assures us limits surveillance to those citizens who pose a threat. The only question is how fast the definition of “threat” will expand from people who pose a clear and present danger of mounting a terrorist attack to people who pose whatever kind of threat is dear to the heart of the administration in power.

Read More at The American. By Charles Murray.

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