The future 4th President of the United States wrote to the future 3rd President of the United States that “Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against. danger real or pretended from abroad.” Indeed, our founding fathers of this nation were incredibly prescient and knew not only human nature, but also understood the inner workings of the national governance and did not wish to see the United States of America devolve into being an oppressor of the people, but rather desired to see that this nation was in fair conformance to being a nation of, for, and by the people, so as to protect best the citizen’s unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We live in a day and age, in which, those who are our leaders, are far too prone to sell to us the same tired story again and again, that there are enemies abroad that are so dangerous to our way of life and democracy, that we need to address them forthrightly in their foreign lands through sanctions or war, or both; and in order to best protect our citizenry at home, our government needs more and more robust governmental powers, thereby signifying that the people need to sacrifice some of their liberties for the security of this nation as well as for the protection of their own personhood.
We are told by our government that we should trust that they always have the peoples’ best interests in mind, and therefore the legislative laws and Executive Orders that are actuated, are prudent and for our own good, as well as necessary for our security, of which, some of these laws are subsequently sold to the general public as being for a finite amount of time, or until the crisis has passed, but often are re-purposed in a way and manner, that these laws and Executive Orders are never repealed or to suffer expiration, at all.
We want to believe that our government has our best interests in mind, but because so much of what the government does is secretive and therefore not for purview or review to the general public, it is therefore impossible to know as whether or not our government is being forthright and honest with us; because as it stands this type of governance lends itself to the people sacrificing more and more of their liberties and freedom, under the guise that this is necessary for homeland security, without the people knowing how true or untrue that this actually is.
To place trust in any government or any personage in which that trust is not warranted is the same as giving up some portion of our freedom, and the more that we cede what has been gifted to us by our Creator to that which deserves it not, the more that we become less citizens with a democratic vote, with fair representation, and more that we devolve into becoming subjects, that are meant to serve the interests of those that are in authority, with the attendant sacrifice of our Constitutional liberty