Searching For Logic

Time is precious and time becomes more so when one's liberty is threatened. I have mentioned to folks that the perception of freedom was much stronger when I was a youth. Of course there were things that needed to be corrected, like overcoming racism and ensuring that the playing field for all was equal. My generation of the 60's, sadly, proceeded to destroy personal responsibility as they proffered free love, drugs, live for today and a contempt for our military. Our parents were "the Greatest Generation." My father was a machinist, my mother a seamstress. This was a time when our parents (most of them) held us to a higher standard of personal responsibility. But many parents also must have failed in this critical control because it bred the Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffmans, John Kerrys and various haters that have since bred themselves and failed their children miserably, too. While trying to do good in many things, my generation failed their country and their children, with a few exceptions, continue to fail it.

I'm happy to have been blessed with good parents that loved me, made sure I knew it, and yet gave me hell if I erred. I'll never forget the day I said the "N" word in my mother's presence, having heard it for the first time in school that day. She clubbed me good and told me how reprehensible a thing it is. She did this and other things out of love, and all the while taught me the conservative principles I live by today. My parents believed in their country and the Constitution, but rather that recite it to me, they lived it; they showed by example. This ethic is alive today, but it does not exist in any great measure in Washington, D.C. or in many state executive or legislative bodies. It exists in the non-elite; in everyday people who still must live by laws and logic.

Every public official must take the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America." I took it as a deputy sheriff and when I held positions of trust. Most politicians have failed this and most have KNOWINGLY subverted and broken their oath. To me, this is treason. That is logic to someone who takes an oath as a point of honor. Honor is what this country needs more than any other cure. If there is any justice, 2010 and 2012 will be the rebirth of liberty, freedom and an America that loves itself for the shining thing it was and can be again.