It is unbelievable to me that anyone could vote for Hillary.  She is unquestionably the most corrupt politician we have ever seen.  Lies flow from her every time she opens her mouth.

I could not believe she is still pedaling that nonsense about her emails last week with Chris Wallace.

Just because the director of the FBI was a coward in not bringing charges against her does not absolve her of the fact that he laid out a play-by-play of why she was completely guilty.  There is no doubt under 18 U. S Code and 793 subsection f.

Yet she insists she did nothing wrong, it was someone else’s fault and she could not, as Secretary of State, distinguish if information in emails was classified or not. O, and spare me the intent B.S.

Such crap and nonsense.  Yet people still support her and would vote for her as President.

Listen, Bill and Hillary are a unit. You elect one you get them both.  And don’t forget, Bill, despite his other short-comings (cough-rape charge-cough) is only the 2nd President to ever be impeached.  Obstruction of justice.  Go figure.

So here is a short list of scandals that we have been subjected to over the years with HRC and Bill:

-Email server – Treason

-Benghazi – Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies and more Lies.

-Huma – trusted adviser tied to Muslim Brotherhood – Yikes!

-Boznia sniper fire – Lie

-Speaking fees – Pay to play with the Secretary and former and possible future President.  Look we have all heard her at some point, would you pay to hear that?  Well some do, they earned $153 million from 2001 to 2015. Ugh!

-Clinton Foundation – More pay to play

-Uranium to Russians – Her role in this security risk is unbelievable

-Haung, Trie, Chung – Illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources

-Renting the Lincoln bedroom out – Seriously

-Selling seats on Commerce Department International Trade missions – Show me the money and someone died

-Subpoenaed Rose Law firm records – Lost and then found in the White House. Hmmm

-Vince Foster and his missing files – Oops. Suicide and office files stolen.

-Filegate – FBI files on political enemies found way to HRC.

-Whitewater – Real Estate swindle and fund raiser

-Travelgate – Friends with benefits again.

-Cattle futures – This one is too funny. Read one article in WSJ on commodity trading and was then able over 10 months to turn $1,000 into $99,500 or an increase of 10,000%.  Really?  What does she need to be President for?

So all of that is just background.  Google it for yourself if you want.

And this dynamic duo wants to rule us all like a ring? And you would vote for that?

See you later 2nd amendment. Hello higher taxes.  Good-bye Liberty.  Nice to see you Tyranny.

We have a big problem here people. What are we going to do?  Think about it!

The beginning.

The Declaration of Independence , July 4, 1776

These were troubled times.  The colonies were under a lot of pressure from the King of England and the leaders in America had had enough.  So they wrote a document to make their case as to why it was necessary “…to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”

They recognized that  “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” entitled them to a “separate and equal station” in the world.  That there were self-evident truths: “…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…”.  The Declaration goes on to say, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”.

They said all of this and more a lot better than I can so you should go read it yourself.

This document set the tone and the foundation for the Constitution which would come later. They understood that there is a power higher than man and that each of us, all individuals, have rights that no government can take away.

They also said governments are created to secure these rights, but only by the consent of the governed.  Why?

These were men that were students of history.  They had read the philosophers of the Enlightenment and had studied the world’s governments up to that time.  They understood that individuals have unique points of view, needs and ambitions.  They also knew when societies come together, that these unalienable rights of individuals would come into conflict.  It’s human nature.

Governments, generally,  are meant to assist in conflict resolution but in order to do so, power must be transferred to them and laws made.

Society needs to have clear rules formulated so that everyone understands what conflicts are and what the consequences will be if the law is violated. This is especially important when you consider an individual’s unalienable right to Life.  An individual’s body is the most basic form of property, and clearly defined rules around property are essential for individuals to live together in society.

So why am I harping on all of this Declaration stuff?

If you don’t believe in a higher power there is no power above government.

If you don’t believe in unalienable rights, then all rights are arbitrary and are provided to you by the government (or not provided as they deem fit).

If you don’t believe that all individuals were created equally then government’s help is needed.

If you don’t believe that governments are instituted from the consent of the governed, then governments are instituted without the governed’s consent.

If you don’t believe in government’s role to protect your property with clearly defined laws, your laws won’t be clearly defined, the consequences of breaking them will be capricious and your property won’t be safe.

A slippery slope is started that will slide you all the way to the Democratic National Convention.

But we are not done yet.

In Alice in Wonderland the King said “Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

It is often difficult to see where beginnings may lead you, so sometimes it makes more sense to begin at the end in order give the beginning some context and then going on to the end is not so hard.

So to end with, last week the Democrats held their convention to nominate for President a person that should be a convicted felon.  They did this at a convention center (named for a bank) in Philadelphia and around it the DNC saw fit to construct a four mile long, eight foot high fence.  Even though Democrats often tell us that fences won’t keep anyone out, I guess they had their reasons.

Protesters outside burned American flags while inside the convention, there were no American flags, at least not at first. There were however, plenty of  Communist flags, Palestinian Flags and North Korean flags.  And sorry Mississippi, but your state flag looks a little bit too much like a Confederate flag. It had to go.

Inside the convention center police were not allowed to wear their uniforms.  A Dallas Sheriff who was speaking at the convention requested a moment of silence in observance of their fallen officers, but it was interrupted (alas) by two people shouting “black lives matter.” The invocation at the start of the convention was met with booing.

And lastly, the DNC had the mothers of people that had been shot in altercations with police tell their stories, including the mother of Michael Brown, whose run-in with the police gave birth to the “Hands up, don’t shoot” mythology.

All of this sounds very tolerant, pro-american, and hopeful right?

It makes you want to ask:  How did a major political party in America become so anti-American and how do we go about understanding all of these examples given above?

Next time we will begin at the beginning.

What is Liberty and where does it come from?

John Locke wrote in part -“…we must consider what sate all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of all their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.”

Liberty is the freedom for individuals to act in their own self interests as they determine them.  It is the ability to possess property and dispose of it without interference from others provided they act within the law of nature.

This idea found its way into our Declaration of Independence.  In the preamble of the Declaration it states: “[when one people] 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…that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Liberty is an unalienable right according to this founding document.  We are free to pursue what we will and this is a right that cannot be taken from us.

How is Capitalism compatible with Liberty?

Capitalism is an economic system that is based on the private ownership of the means of production.  This system, even as imperfectly as it has been implemented here in the U.S., has proven itself capable of providing high living standards and great wealth.  Our country’s history demonstrates the benefits provided to all individuals by this Capitalist system is unparalleled in human history. Why?

It is due to our system of government being based on the principle of individual liberty. This has allowed people the freedom to pursue what they wanted to. Entrepreneurs worked to improve the quality of their own lives by utilizing the private ownership of the means of production and in doing so, they improved everyone’s lives.

Railroads, telephones, electricity, cars, food, clothing, shoes and every other imaginable good and service was developed by someone that thought they had a better idea and had the freedom, the Liberty, to create it.

Attacks on Capitalism are Attacks on Liberty

Capitalism and Liberty have become inexorably intertwined.  Private ownership of the means of production is tied to the unalienable right to Liberty and the natural right to possess property unfettered.

When Capitalism is attacked, as it relentlessly is, what are the remedies sought? Regulations and government oversight.  Restrictions on an individual’s ability to possess property is an attack on Liberty.

And as we continually see, government intervention becomes plunder.

It is very to hard to keep in mind events that have happened.  There is wave after wave of new events crashing over us each day.  Something else to be astonished about, but do you remember any of these?

The attack on our embassy in Benghazi.  (Supposedly caused by a video but not really.)

The IRS targeting Conservative political groups trying to form non-profits to get their message out.  (Left leaning groups were unmolested, probably an oversight.)

The government wire tapping certain Associated Press reporters phones. (Trying to get a jump on the news for the daily White house briefings maybe?)

The NSA storing all of our phone conversations and internet traffic. (If we can just identify one terrorist it’s all worth it.)

The Defense department announcing global warming (excuse me, climate change) is an “immediate risk” to national security. (But ISIS apparently is not.)

The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. (Whoops, Gruber let it slipped that it was meant to be unaffordable.)

The President declaring that he has a phone and a pen and if Congress won’t act, he will.  So he announces in Las Vegas that he will implement immigration reform in a 32 minute speech. (Whew! Thankfully he still had the time to play 27 holes of golf immediately after for 9 hours.)

How do these events and the government actions and talking points that follow from them impact our unalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?

Is the government taking its just powers from the governed and using that power to protect our rights?  Can the government really protect our rights when they lie to us about what they are really doing?

The President and the Senators and the Congressmen took an oath to uphold our Constitution and to defend our rights.  Repeatedly.  Yet, we have the short list above.

Don’t we have to ask ourselves, how are these seemingly inconsistent things, the list and the oaths, related?