The Constitution

We were on the coast in Malindi at Turtle Bay last week; no TV's, no internet, completely disconnected from the rest of the world for a relaxing six days. Consequently we missed the opening of Congress and the reading of the Constitution, and we didn't hear about the Tucson, Arizona shooting until Monday.

Sadly, the mainstream media's reaction to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six others was not only typical, but predictable. While they immediately warned the country not to rush to judgment when Nidal Hassan murdered 13 soldiers while shouting, "allah akbar," this time they rushed to judgment blaming the Tea Party movement, talk radio hosts, Sarah Palin, and guns. One deranged Congressman from South Carolina even suggested that the reading of the Constitution at the Capitol caused the atmosphere for the shooting to take place.

For four days the media shamelessly spewed their vitriol until the President made his speech about not using this for political expediency. Nice, except it was about four days too late. And it hasn't apparently helped. We just watched Jonathan Mann's weekend review on CNN Overseas. His expert analyst reported it was a bad week for news journalists because of all the false accusations that went flying over the airwaves. While making the analysis pictures of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter were splashed on the screen. Let me see, those weren't the journalists spreading the lies and hate, they were the ones being slandered by people who were spreading the lies and hate. Shameless isn't even a strong enough word for the MSM.

Now it turns out the shooter is an extremely liberal registered Independent, looney-tune pothead, who was in favor of illegal alien amnesty. A far more rational rush to judgment would have been to say that he shot Giffords, who is a conservative Democrat in favor of closing the border and against amnesty, because he was influenced by liberal alien amnesty supporters. But the MSM hasn't given us that side of the story.

"The pen is mightier than the sword," but the pen can be used to tear down or to build up. In this case it is the pen of hate filled left-wing socialist slugs who don't give a rip about America. They don't care about the Constitution either, which is why the left wing agenda so often rejects the very basic tenets of our founding document.

The Constitution was written "in Order to form a more perfect Union." In other words, the Constitution was designed to unite, not divide. Anybody who will take an objective look at America today (which leaves out the MSM) will see that the vitriol, the hate speech, the perpetuation of racial divisions, and the perversion of the Constitution comes not from conservatives, but from the far left. Liberals are usually guilty of the very things they accuse conservatives of, and they are the ones doing the dividing, not the other way around.

One purpose of our more perfect Union is to "establish Justice." Justice is not served, however, when the Constitution becomes a living document that constantly changes to fit self-serving liberal interpretations of it. Neither is justice served when our national boundaries are left unprotected and foreign drug cartels run freely across American soil murdering Americans eighty miles inland from the border, and US Border Patrol agents are sent to jail for trying to stop them.

Another purpose is to "insure domestic Tranquility." That means to keep the peace, which is to be kept by the rule of law, which is the Constitution. Unfortunately, the current administration has thumbed its nose at the Constitution, showing its absolute disregard for America's traditions and the rule of law.

The Union is to provide for the "common defense" which includes closing and protecting our borders from all enemies, which illegal alien drug running cartels from Mexico are.

Finally, the Union is to "promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." A socialist state will not promote the blessings of liberty. It will restrict them until it enslaves the people, and a 14 trillion dollar untamed debt will deny those blessings to our children for generations to come.

The answer for America is to go back to our beginnings, re-establish our Constitution, and govern by the principles and character of our Christian Founding Fathers. We could no more govern America effectively without the Constitution than a Christian Church could carry out its business without a Bible. Enough of the progressive movement trying to rewrite our history and our beliefs. We have the greatest governing document ever written in the history of man. Reading it in Congress was a good idea. Now, We the People need to demand the government not only defend the Constitution of the United States, but govern strictly by the Constitution of the United States.