Constitutionally Thinking
By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (ret'd)
CurryforAmerica.com
Worldwide,
there are many political and financial elites who feel obligated to portray
the United States as a failed state
unworthy of the world’s respect. Their view stands in stark contrast to that
of the worlds common man, however. I’m talking about those who ford rivers,
climb fences, and risk death while attempting to cross hot, trackless
deserts to get to the “Promised Land” called the United States of America. That is
the view our Founders held as they risked their lives and the lives of their
families to found and establish this great land of America.
John Adams our
second president once said, “our constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people; it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Consequently, he would no doubt agree that the political theocracy that is
called “modern” Islam is a 7th Century way of life that is best
suited for those who still practice and live under 7th Century
ideas and cultures.
But America walks a very different road.
At our founding we were a nation that adopted a cultural requirement to
maintain a certain level of
decency and who refused to allow our moral Christian foundation to be
undermined or desensitized by wickedness, shame, violence and scandalous
behavior. Unfortunately immorality has now entered into prime time.
Isn’t this what
the Tea Partiers are trying to convey to our representatives in
Washington? That our political and intellectual
elites are producing nothing more than constitutional paralysis. That they
are not seeking to secure ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” but
are simply creating mass frustration and confusion.
Were he here today
John Adams would no doubt be a Tea Partier himself. His written words seem
to confirm that when he says, “We face arduous days that lie before us in
the warm courage of national unity: with the clear consciousness of seeking
old and precious moral values.” He would never use political correctness to
justify a sense of false security or a failure to act -- in
Washington
or at the Arizona
border.
Where are the
Adam’s, the Abe Lincoln’s the Winston Churchill’s of today? Men who are
consistently on the side of righteousness, who stand on the right side of
issues, who can be counted on to make right choices and take right actions?
These are the kinds of leaders America
desperately needs.
The America we know and love exists
because our Founders had a vision of and faith in a land of freedom and
democracy, one they were able to turn into a great nation. These leaders
communicated their vision to the people who, in turn, fully embraced and
implemented it. Ronald Reagan embraced and communicated that
same vision when he said, “I have always believed that this anointed
land was set apart in an uncommon way, that a divine plan placed this great
continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of
the earth who had a special love of faith and freedom.”
Many of the
world’s elites will continue to find fault with the
U.S.
no matter what it does. But while they are holding us in contempt, illegal
immigrants who have a “special love for faith, freedom and democracy” will
ignore their criticisms and keep pouring across our southern border in
record numbers. What do they know that the educated, privileged and powerful
of this world refuse to see or acknowledge?
Maj. Gen.
Jerry R. Curry, US Army Ret.; BA., MA., D.Min.; author:
From Private to General: an African American
Rises Through the Ranks; Haymarket, VA;
www.curryforamerica.