Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The litany of the loss of freedom is sad and unconstitutional and irreversible. The government does whatever it can to retain its power, and it continues so long as it can get away with it. It can listen to your phone calls, read your emails, seize your DNA and challenge your silence, all in violation of the Constitution. Bitterly and ironically, the government Jefferson wrought is proving the accuracy of Jefferson’s prediction that in the long march of history, government grows and liberty shrinks. Somewhere Jefferson is weeping.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

Jefferson weeping

Andrew Napolitano offers litany of freedoms lost just in last 12 months

Do you have more personal liberty today than on the Fourth of July, 2012?
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he used language that has become iconic. He wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not only did he write those words, but the first Congress adopted them unanimously, and they are still the law of the land today. By acknowledging that our rights are unalienable, Jefferson’s words and the first federal statute recognize that our rights come from our humanity – from within us – and not from the government.
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