Texas Drifter: “Liberty Is Responsibility, Not license”
Marshall’s Law Dateline – If reader does not believe following by Francis A. Walker from DISCUSSIONS IN ECONOMICS late 1800’s, reader should probably not waste their time reading rest of this Texas Drifter writing exercise.
Walker’s words: For it is never to be forgotten that self-defense is the first law of nature and of nations. If that man who careth not for his own household is worse than an infidel, the nation which permits its institutions to be endangered by any cause which can fairly be removed is guilty not less in Christian than in natural law.
Title, “Liberty Is Responsibility, Not License” is from address by William McKinley at the dedication of the Cuyahoga county Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at Cleveland, Ohio, July 4, 1894. Mr. McKinley was then governor of Ohio.
SUCH monuments as these have another meaning, which is one dear to our hearts of many who stand with me. It is, as Mr. Lincoln said at Gettysburg, that the dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation’s later birth of freedom and the people’s gain of their own sovereignty shall hot perish from the earth. That is what this monument means. That is the lesson of true patriotism, that what was won in war shall not be worn in peace.
But we must not forget, my fellow countrymen that the Union which these brave men preserved, and the liberties which they secured, places upon us, the living, the gravest responsibility. We are the freest government on the face of the earth. Our strength rests in our patriotism. Peace and order and security and liberty are safe so long as love of country burns in the hearts of people.
It should not be forgotten, however, that liberty does not mean lawlessness. Liberty to make our own laws does not give us license to break them. Liberty to make our own laws commands a duty to observe them ourselves and enforce obedience among all others within their jurisdiction. Liberty, my fellow citizens, is responsibility, and responsibility is duty, and that duty is to preserve the exceptional liberty we enjoy within the law and for the law and by the law.
Following observations are TRUE or FALSE?
Obama and his Marxist-fascist allies along with Republican establishment aristocrats believe that liberty is license to:
1. steal your property with excessive taxes and public debt;
2. deny your rights to be responsible for you individual actions with excessive government regulations;
3. prevent you from making and following pursuit of free will religious beliefs by using government force which causes you to support promiscuity;
4. worst of all using their liberties as a public sector license to force you to become government slaves;
5. reader’s assignment add to above list.
Above TRUE observations mean two undeniable truths: You will prove that you dislike America more than you dislike Obama by voting for any of other 2012 Presidential candidates other than Romney. Two, vote for Massa Obama is vote for government slavery.
Three closing points to this writing exercise:
1. socialism is and always has been and will be Devil’s temptations;
2. to paraphrase old country song: Texas Drifter is still proud of being a patriot when being a patriot was not cool;
3. re-stating the obvious, I am too old to learn to be a government slave; how about you reader, will you make a good government slave?
Repetition is still a good training tool this writing exercise has three such lessons:
1. Walker’s words: For it is never to be forgotten that self-defense is the first law of nature and of nations. If that man who careth not for his own household is worse than an infidel, the nation which permits its institutions to be endangered by any cause which can fairly be removed is guilty not less in Christian than in natural law.
2. It should not be forgotten, however, that liberty does not mean lawlessness…. Liberty, my fellow citizens, is responsibility, and responsibility is duty, and that duty is to preserve the exceptional liberty we enjoy within the law and for the law and by the law.
3. You will prove that you dislike America more than you dislike Obama by voting for any of other 2012 presidential candidates other than Romney. Two, vote for Massa Obama is vote for government slavery.
