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We The People
Must Inform Ourselves
by KrisAnne Hall
I would like to speak to you today on the subject of INFORMING
OURSELVES.
Thomas Jefferson warned “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free
in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will
be.”
We have enjoyed the benefits left to us by previous generations.
America has had the greatest medical system, the greatest technologies,
the strongest military, the greatest economy. However, as our nation
has prospered we have become distracted by our luxuries, busied by our
labors and lazy toward our liberties. We have allowed the enemies of
freedom to worm their way into positions of power and influence.
The Heritage Foundation says it like this, “There is widespread
ignorance of American history… We face an education system that upholds
mediocrity in the name of relativism; an ever-expanding and centralized
government, unmoored from constitutional limits; judges openly making
laws and shaping society based on pop-philosophy rather than serious
jurisprudence…At the root of all these problems is a pervasive ignorance
about the core principles that define America and ought to inform our
politics and policy.”
Unfortunately, I would agree with them. That’s why the tea-party
movement is so important and so encouraging. I am actually encouraged
that the Tea-Party is not a party at all; it is We the People. We the
People founded this nation and I believe – We the People will take it
back!
But We the People must Inform Ourselves if we wish to take back our
nation for ourselves and our children. Notice I did not say that we
need to be informed, rather we need to inform OURSELVES. Truth is Power
and it is up to us to search out and secure the Truth. The Bible
says, “…ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” If
we arm ourselves with truth and act on that truth we can be free from
the bondage that ideological tyrants would desire to enslave us with.
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