Don > The sad fact of the matter is, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't a single organization in existence which embraces an unadulterated version of the principals of those who founded this nation.
That is indeed sad, because the principles used by your Founding Fathers were the basis of democracy throughout the world. Of course, over the years, and as I understand it, the principles of individual liberty, particularly those embodied in the Amendments, have been whittled away so that today the greatest threat to the individual, namely government, has assumed total power, and the second greatest threat, namely the threat to financial independence of the individual, in other words, sound money, has been destroyed by the Federal Reserve. I would imagine the final nail in the coffin of individual liberty is the fact that a business enterprise is treated as a person.
And, I suppose, in the circumstance where the Constitution has failed to ensure a secular utopia, particularly for the ordinary man, one should not be surprised at the enormous popular movement toward myth and superstition -- I refer, of course, to religious fundamentalism, particularly Judeo-Christian. In fact, in a world of so-called "enlightenment", especially in the West, I find it extraordinary the degree to which many Americans now embrace the supernatural and the "divine" when it comes to secular matters.
Is it just a matter of time before witches are, once again, burnt at the stake?!
Or is Guantanamo the modern way to exorcise evil spirits? |
