Libertarians

Thomas Jefferson once said, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Unfortunately, too many a good man has stood idly by as those in power have continued to erode, from the people, essential liberty. It is precisely this liberty which guarantees one's right to make mistakes, and gives one the opportunity to learn from them. It is not in the truest character of man to be “saved from oneself.” And there is not a more competent teacher than failure. But these days one must fight for that which one was once expected to embrace.

America, as great as she once was, has become a country whose very morality is grounded in welfare and warfare; a society in which it is believed that might makes right and military supremacy equates to moral superiority. We are a country that has allowed herself to be governed by special interests, both corporate and religious, and as a result are no longer for the people by the people. Our election process, originally installed as a guarantee of liberty and for the protection of the smallest minority, the individual, has become the battleground for the unceremonious coercion of acceptance of one's beliefs by the rest of the nation through threat of force. As long as those in society who believe in this are left unchallenged we will continue to drift down this river of inequity.

Thankfully, the presidential election of 2008 showed us that there are a great number of people willing to stand up, in the face of ridicule, and defend their right to liberty against the tyranny that our government has become. These people accept the challenge of defending their neighbor though their neighbor may not even understand what it is they, themselves, believe. It is not Republican versus Democrat as our two-party system would have you believe, rather it is Liberty against all challengers. Their voices for freedom are strong for they continue to be heard even though corporate-owned media refuses to acknowledge them. They are not willing to accept the loss of society's liberty under the guise of “security.” These are the people that understand that to continually force our will upon the rest of the world only results in the rest of the world retaliating against us; that we would do the same thing if confronted by such nonsense. War is not safety, nor is ignorance bliss. I proudly stand up and count myself as one among this great group of revolutionaries. We are the true patriots.