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["Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>]

At 11:00 AM 7/10/05 EDT, you wrote:

>No, they did not anticipate what conditions would be like in this century.  
>For that matter, who among us anticipated them in our own time?   What the 
>revolutionaries of that century understood was that conditions didn't
matter, 
>there were certain principles that apply no matter the conditions, no
matter the 
>century.  

Absolutely.  Human nature is timeless.  Human nature seeks for fame and
fortune.  The Founders knew that and tried to tie the hands that would seek
their own will for the country.  They knew that if a person could, they
would increase their own influence, namely making laws that benefit
themselves and help them with their agenda.

>This is where we disagree, and that disagreement reflects the major
political 
>struggle that is going on right now.  There are some that see the 
>Constitution as flexible, circumstantial, situational.  As the line that
gets repeated in 
>'Pirates of the Carribean' about the Pirate's Code- "It's more like 
>guidelines than a code."  There are others that see it's, really very few,
principles 
>as one thing we should always be able to rely upon no matter what.  They
are so 
>basic to human fairness and equitability that they must be preserved intact.
>

I agree.  It is easier on the mind to know that we will be ruled by law and
not by man's fancies.

It is the rule of law that keeps all enjoying the rights that we do.  In
rule of man it is who you know and what position you hold in society that
would keep you safe and secure.

>The difference is, says I, that while we've enjoyed a long history of a 
>people with a passion for freedom, that is waning now.  Unless the
imaginations of 
>people are once again lit with the idea of freedom, those who think as I do 
>and the Constitution will become only curious anachronisms.

I agree.  The citizens of our country have been buffaloed into thinking
that we are as free now as the day that the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution were signed.  They hear on tv how we are a "Free Country"
and how "They hate us for our Freedoms!" and because it is said on tv and
because it must be true, they believe it is so.

Most don't want freedom...they want their "free" lunches, their "free"
education, and all the rest of their favorite "free" social programs that
they enjoy.  Freedom is hard and is costly.

>I am not hopeful.

I am hopeful only because I have found a handful of people who *want*
freedom no matter the cost.  I have heard that the Revolutionary War was
won with only something like 3% wanting to separate from England...but they
WON!  

I am not trying to incite a war using arms here, but a war using knowledge,
votes, and lots of hard work to try to influence and educate.  I think it
is possible.

Best wishes,
Melody