Free-thinking Americans Are a Threat? To Whom?

The Department of Homeland Security released a report yesterday that outlines several potential threats to the US, focusing mostly on right-wing extremist groups. While I’m sure the intent of the report was never to say that all gun owners or all military veterans are “extremists in the making,” it nevertheless sheds some light on how the government thinks, and why.

It has been said that the government should fear its people, rather than the people fear their government. Ideally, government should have nothing to fear, so long as it is made up of citizens governing by the rule of law and not meddling in people’s lives any more than absolutely necessary. Clearly, however, our government is afraid of us. Why?

What is our government? Is it citizens applying the principles of the Constitution in an unbiased way? It should be, but it’s not. There has been a change over the last century when it comes to how the federal government works. Does it seem that the government has become a monstrous entity unto itself, a perverted mutation of what it was once intended to be? No longer content to be OUR government, it is now our Government. And Government knows what is best for us and will guide us by its all-knowing hand. Government is a kind master (or so it wants you to believe). Either way, it is still your master, and you its slave. Government has crowned itself king in an attempt to control every aspect of our lives.

Long live the king.

And yet the government is still made up of individuals. How, then, does it find itself with this singular mentality, this singular identity that feels so threatened by ordinary citizens? Per haps it is because those individuals have forgotten who they are. For decades now, this change has been occurring. It seems that each person who is elected to “power” comes to think of him or herself as part of the Government, rather than as a citizen who was elected to represent the people and govern according to the rule of law. Thus, the Government grows, and the individual is lost.

Eventually, the individual becomes the Government. This is what happens when you have career politicians who serve without term limits. They spend 20, 30, even 50 years as the king of the hill, with all the power and prestige a man could want. They have no incentive to give it up, so they seek more and more ways to retain their thrones. Re-election to the Government – that is their Holy Grail. Not service to the people. And so, they become Government.

Why does the DHS report show this fear of veterans? Of gun owners? Of people who support the Constitution? Because we are free thinkers. And free thinkers are a very dangerous thing to a Government that means to be our master. Government suggests we are a threat to the United States because we support the Constitution. That’s funny, because the Constitution is the document that ESTABLISHED this country. How could we be a threat to the country, when we support the very ideals and founding documents that gave this country life in the first place? (Answer: we are NOT a threat to this country, only to those who have hijacked the constitutional government and crowned themselves kings).

They suggest that gun owners may be a threat to this country? This country was founded by free thinking men who fought their masters and won their freedom WITH THEIR GUNS. Again, we merely support the founding principals of this country, so how could we been seen as a threat to it?

It occurs to me, then, why Government is afraid of us. Government is confused . Those who make it up have become disoriented during their mad grab for power and the insane moral contortions required to keep it. You see, the ones in power believe that they ARE the United States. They believe that they ARE the Government. They have failed to remember that the government is OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people. It is not Government who is the United States. It is US.

So when Government says we are a threat to the United States, what it really means is that we are a threat to THEM. To any politician, Republican or Democrat, who sells their soul and their citizenship for power. And they are right.

No true patriot would ever rise up against the United States. But every true patriot is prepared to rise up against those who hijack our government and use their position for their own gain. It is time to remind those in OUR government that they are not THE government; they are only its stewards.

It’s time for a change in stewardship. It’s time for We the People to take back control of our government.