As this is being written, it is realized that I may be lumped into a fanatical group because of supporting the last standing true Constitutional conservative vying for the Office of the President, Ron Paul. It is easy for those who oppose the constitutional path of government to brand him a libertarian kook. Herb London, president of the conservative Hudson Institute, said, "He has a fanatical group of libertarians who stand behind him that account for the success he's had against all of the mainstream positions." As I recall, mainstream now means anything goes and allows the government to do as it pleases irrespective of the constitutional limits on government. All the dissenters should remember that nearly 250 years ago that libertarians conducted a revolution to throw off the chains of a totalitarian government. Their exercise in fighting for freedom went against the mainstream at the time.

If anyone cares to notice, the political mob in Congress, the bureaucracy, and the President have replaced the English Crown, exercising the same type draconian laws against freedom and liberty. It makes no difference to the power mad crowd that they are bound by the chains of the Constitution, an outdated piece of history they are so fond of spouting, that can’t possibly address the modern issues of the day. In case anyone is interested, especially those who don’t know anything about the Constitution and the politicians who aren’t interested in what it says, there isn’t one word in the document that says one iota about government addressing issues, social or otherwise, except the limited issues in Article I, Section 8. Wisely, the founders set up the system so that the people, through their state governments, could address issues as they saw fit. That provision served to limit centralized government by its very nature.  Yet, we are told that this is preposterous in this day and age of centralized control, and that those who believe in limiting government are considered nothing more than members of a fringe group.

Through the adoption of the Seventeenth amendment, (direct election of Senators) the balance of power has shifted to Washington D.C. to the extent that the states and the people have no voice for constitutional government. Tragically, the so-called mainstream is made up of those who think that the federal government is the all-wise, all knowing place of problem solving. That idea is no different from the thinking prior to 1776 and later that the English Crown was sufficient to supply all that anyone needed. When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they were so out of the mainstream at the time, that England and the supporters thought they were mad.

Mad or not, according to the wisdom of the day by those who thought they and those who supported them were insane for challenging England, brave men set in motion a course of action that gave birth to the greatest experiment for freedom and liberty ever known to man, except the freedom and liberty from God found in the gospel. Those who ignore the Constitution are no better than those who deny the need to follow Bible principles or obey the gospel. Both will lead to destruction and that is where this nation is headed as I write this article. Does that make me a fanatic because I continue to believe in limited government found in the Constitution? If it does, then I am practicing what the  founders believed.

It is understood that those who are in the mainstream of liberal thought or the stream of thought that continues to tout government programs and power, don’t like those who don’t like their constant barrage of words for big government solutions.  Is it not reasonable to say that those who continually push for bigger and bigger government aren’t fanatical in their belief? Yet, those of us who want to limit government are branded as fanatical in their beliefs.

Call Ron Paul and his supporters fanatical if you wish. In Sorting In Out, we are in good company with the freedom and liberty loving folks of 1776. May God bless us fanatics!

© 02-08-2008 DEC