Guest Host Napolitano: 'Glenn Beck': Here We Go Again
Thursday , April 01, 2010
This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," April 1, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO, GUEST HOST: Thursday's show is about the loss of freedom: The loss of every person to make intelligent choices without guidance or interference or compulsion from the government.
When this great country was founded, those who created the government understood that there are areas of personal choices that are none of the government's business. They fought a revolution. They wrote a Constitution. They guaranteed that the government they gave us would be far different than the one they fought against.
We are an independent country today in large measure because the Founding Fathers had enough of the British king and Parliament telling them how to live; forcing them to sell goods where they didn't want to sell; taxing almost all their behavior, and disregarding their natural rights to speak, to engage in commercial activities of their own choosing, and to be left alone.
Does that sound familiar? That was the complaint 230 years ago. It's happening all over again. Except now it is our own government, the people we chose and we hired to work for us who are trampling our liberties.
Think about it: The air you breathe, the water you drink, the chair you're sitting in and the TV you watch are all regulated by Washington, D.C.
It is hard to find an area of human behavior that the feds don't regulate. All their regulations have added to the size of the government, increased taxes to the breaking point and interfered with our personal choices in ways that those who created this country could never have imagined.
I'll give you a very recent example. Thursday, a federal judge in California scolded the president and told him that he is subject to the same laws as the rest of us. That should not be news; but in the era of the nanny state, it is.
You see, the government thinks that so long as the majority rules, the majority is right. But that's not America. Sure, we have elections. And elections have consequences. But we also have rights that come from God, not from the government. And the Constitution was written to assure that we could freely exercise those rights — free from the bad guys, free from the tyranny of the majority, and without the government on our backs.
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