F R E E D O M ! ! !

The American birthright cannot be aborted…

Fans of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart will remember the primal scream for freedom that, at least in the movie, was the last word of William Wallace, a Scot who led the First War of Scottish Independence from England.

It is this primal scream that needs to be heard throughout America today.

No housing boom and bust, no Wall Street meltdown, no ‘first black American President, no mythical concept of universal, free, efficient, efficacious, government-run healthcare, no hysterical atheism masquerading as science in the global warming hoax—none of this is worth giving up America’s birthright of individual freedom and responsibility under God.

As America’s 4th of July celebration approaches, our urgent wish for each and every American is that they wake up to their birthright, that they resist the manipulation of Washingtonian elitists who suggest that if we just allow them to have more power and control over industry, finance, healthcare, and our personal lives, that the result will be good. It will be anything but.

The skeptic will say “but what about those living in inner-city or small town wastelands of poverty and despair? Don’t they need an activist government to look out for them?”

Those living in poverty and despair need freedom more than anyone else. They need freedom from all forms of limitation that tell them they can’t improve their lives on their own—freedom from the incessant message that they are perpetual victims of injustice and unfairness and do not have what it takes to succeed. They need freedom from the utterly false and destructive worldview that says one man’s lot in life can improve only at the equivalent expense of another—the so-called ‘zero sum’ view of the economy. They need the freedom to claim their heritage under the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence: that they are created equal in the eyes of our common Creator, and entitled without interference of the government to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The cynic will say, “come on, cut the mom and apple pie routine…life is unfair and America is unjust and racist, and government is the only solution.”

NO. Government is the only certain non-solution. The freedom so desperately needed by Americans of all kinds is freedom from the nonsense that elevates ‘government’ into something it is not and can never be: a loving, ‘creating’ God. Human government is just a bunch of people, typically no smarter and no better than the average American, and no more equipped with the answers to life’s challenges than any ten people in the phone book. Yes, you say, but they have the power of law to make things right and the power of taxation to take money from those who have it and give it to those who do not.

The Declaration of Independence ‘made things right’ better than any later law ever will; and taking money from others at the point of a gun to give to someone else has never improved and will never improve the life of the recipient. These are inescapable truths, and the sooner we learn and re-learn them, the better off we will be.

So around America, here’s to a universal wakeup from the lies of political elitists who try to make things far more complicated than they really are, or who suggest that they are able to alter the ‘natural law’ that requires of each and every individual hard work, sincerity and persistence for any real and lasting success or progress.

It makes no difference how attractive the packaging of a Washingtonian elitist is—he can be cool, hip, smooth-talking, charismatic, a ‘first’ in any number of ways—the effect of the elitist and his agenda on individual freedom is always negative, and disastrously so when elitism is combined with arrogance and ambition and a messianic self-image.

Obama’s agenda in every particular is a disaster for every individual American and an aggressive denial of every American’s right to live with individual freedom and responsibility under God. His agenda must be stopped, cold.

The primal scream of “freedom” is in fact primal because it is and has always been the universal yearning of the human heart. Right now there are groups of Americans who are mesmerized by the belief that freedom is secondary to the illusion of security and comfort that a wise, all-powerful, all-controlling central government can provide. Here’s hoping the echo of William Wallace’s scream is still bouncing around enough hearts to wake this nation up. NOW.

Here’s to a real 1776-inspired 4th of July that rallies Americans to honor and demand their freedom and take back their country, immediately. There’s no time to waste.

Paul Gable

Posted June 18, 2009