Harnessing freedom against freedom itself

American citizens dedicated to the preservation of the rights to life, property and liberty, guarantees of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, have long been concerned about a possible attack on our republican form of democracy.
Most of us believed that a forceable takeover by a foreign power, although the chance is remote, would be the only way the government of the United States could be overthrown.
We seldom thought that the very freedoms, unique to America, would or could be used to bring our country down.
Were not these the very freedoms that protected and preserved the American way of life for over 200 years? Did these freedoms not form the beams of light that shine from the lighthouse of liberty beckoning to all freedom-loving peoples in the world?
And we asked ourselves who could possibly want to destroy the freedoms that built the most powerful nation in the world with an economic engine that offered one and all the opportunity to travel the super highway to wealth, security and happiness?
No longer just a pursuit …
Sadly, we underestimated the masters of deceit who slink below the surface and create the mischief of dissension, all in the name of manufactured rights. Not only do these masters of deceit promote Marxist rights that deny the use and now the very ownership of property, but they grant “rights” to rodents, reptiles, birds, insects and in some cases, weeds that transcend the constitutionally guaranteed property rights of American citizens.
These same masters of deceit, through the use of an equally deceitful mass media, have supported appointments to a federal judiciary with far left sympathies. Through a 50-year course of gradualism, the liberal federal judiciary has attacked the very heart of American culture.
We have seen decisions bringing forth acceptance of pornography, protections for the criminal that ignore the victim’s constitutional rights, abortion on demand, diminishing of the individual’s right to use his own property and, on June 23, 2005, the outright confiscation of property of one person for the profit of another.
This last U.S. Supreme Court decision, Kelo vs. City of New London, Conn., signaled the most serious threat to the Bill of Rights to date.
This destructive “gradualism” began with the “Warren Court,” in 1953, with the appointment of Gov. Earl Warren of California as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a brilliant military general, was, unfortunately, a political novice. His five appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court during his two terms in office laid the foundation for a series of five to four votes that was to follow.
If the Bill of Rights, and American culture itself, are to survive, the liberal five-to-four grip must be broken.
The next three Supreme Court appointments are certain to occur during the second term of President George W. Bush. These appointments will either stem the flow of life from our Bill of Rights and strengthen the U.S. Constitution or they will accelerate the loss of most freedoms we know today.
Freedom and liberty are two of the most powerful driving forces in the world. America has shown they are more powerful than the armies of an evil empire.
They are powerful enough to destroy themselves.
The next three appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court will determine on which side the power will fall.