So many dots, so little connection

By WES ALLEN

Published 12:12 pm, Wednesday, April 17, 2013

To The Editor,

Americans have experienced a lot of shock and uncertainty these past two decades, a period of three successive two-term presidents. If the big events of decaying moral conduct, the financial peaks and valleys, and the surge of anti-Americanism here and abroad are charted, they will appear as random chaos, a world acting out its worst fantasies and desires. The single common factor in this chaos is a U.S. government that has failed to legislate, execute and judge according to the founding principles of our republic.

Some 230 years ago we were warned that this fledgling democracy was created for a moral people that would exercise personal self-control and enforce that philosophy on its elected representatives. Somewhere during the past 60 years we’ve lost that vision, allowing ourselves to believe that a free lunch is what someone else pays for. The chicken-in-every-pot has come home to roost. With executive fiat, the lawyer in the White House magnifies every tragedy by finding blame instead of solutions. Half the population doesn’t pay income tax, doesn’t know who is vice president, and can’t make change without a computer, but they adore the give-away king.

The Boston Marathon bombing may have been planned for months, but it could be the result of releasing thousands of illegal immigrants in March blamed on sequestration. Homeland Security has never said how many or the seriousness of their crimes, or if they’d be tracked in any way. There are so many dots, and they all point to Washington, D.C., to a president, to a Congress, and to federal judges who have failed to protect us and the Constitution. Every crisis is an excuse for taking more of our freedoms. We could stop this insanity, but probably won’t — let someone else do it.

It is a shame that young people don’t know who Ben Franklin really was. “People who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.”