Give me back my LIBERTY!

I feel as though I have governmentphobia. Everything I see and hear is automatically translated into how the government has excessive power. My dad owns property in Ohio and Michigan. Every year we cut firewood on our Michigan Property and bring it to the Ohio property to burn for heat during the winter. This year, about 20 minutes into our trip my dad said "shit I forgot my papers" referring to the the rights the government gave him to take firewood across borders from his own property to his own property!!! I wanted to puke when I heard him say that. It sounded to me as though the government had given my dad permission to go on their land to cut firewood and gave us a piece of paper stating so and we had to pay for it!

All day long I hear people talk about daily activities and every thing is politicized. The ones who understand Freedom and Liberty are a minority in this country. Usually the minorities of this country are rewarded! That is not the case for those of us who want the government out of our lives. For those of us who drive by a high school or municiple building and think "look at that giant failing government monopoly that has stolen my rights to be free and choose!". Or see a police officer during the day and think "Theirs the government making sure I don't screw up.". We hear on the news about all these problems in the world and it is the role of the USA to fix them! I know though that the real reason for those problems is the lack of freedom and the abundance of US government power trying to build an empire. Then I think about how much of the media is controlled to make us want to support empire building around the world in the name of helping the unfortunate. Reminding me of the qoute "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." – H.L. Mencken

Everyday problems are pointed out and we are told to trust the government and give them the power to fix them. We fail to see that they will take the power upon themselves to fix it regardless of what we say and we allow it! The most disheartening thought is how society wants these problems solved by the government and they refuse to understand that it is the government that created these problems in the first place. Why is it that we can not enforce the constitution and hold the politicians to the limits set forth with in it! I believe one of the major reasons is that it is the government and politicians who control the education system. And one result of this is that you don't learn the constitution in school. It is a very simple document that gives us the limits of government and tells the people your rights are unlimited just don't harm anyone else or their property. People don't understand this. You could spend an entire school year learning about how government power has grown so far outside of the grasp of the constitution and discuss how it is the right of the people to put the government back under its restraints. The power to do this is so important that the Founding Fathers stated it in the constitution. So let me ask again, why is the constitution not extensively taught throughout public education!? Because the ones in charge of setting the curriculum are the ones to loose.

Our freedoms and liberties were not granted to us by the government but by our creator be it God or nature! Any powers of the government have been granted by the people. Why have we given them the power to make us believe these natural rights are the reverse? And just because the powers are granted by the people to the government does not make it right! It is the constitution that limits what the government can do and it is the right of the people to make sure they are kept in check. So why does society give the power of warrantless searches and seizures, wiretapping, the monopoly of our currency and the power to give billions of dollars in subsidies to farmers to not farm to the government!? Because they know nothing of the reasoning for our Founding Fathers coming to this country nor what the Revolutionary war was fought for.