Friday, August 14, 2009

The 5000 Year Leap


The 5000 Year Leap has to be one of the greatest non-fiction books that I have ever read. If you have not read it yet you need to. This book discusses the principles that our Founding Fathers followed when they developed the Constitution of our country. It goes into detail how they applied 'Natural Law' to our Republic to guarantee that the citizens of this great country will always remain free. I have had the pleasure to attend a class on this book that is being taught by a gentleman who studied with the author, Dr. W. Cleon Skousen. If you have the opportunity to attend a class on The 5000 Year Leap I greatly recommend it, if not then read it with some friends and discuss it while you do. This will allow you to get more information out of the book than just reading it by yourself.

The more that I read and learn about what our Founding Fathers designed to be America, the more I do not understand why we are in the situation that we are in today. In our Republic, every citizen is truly free. We have rights that are given to us by our Creator and guaranteed to be protected by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Because of this freedom everyone in our Republic has the ability to do as they please and work for as much or a little as they like. Everyone has the opportunity to be rich, they also have the opportunity to be poor. Everyone has the right to succeed or fail as they see fit. No one is held back, no one is put upon or discriminated against because truly 'all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' We have a right to live, we have a right to be free and we have a right to pursue whatever we desire. This last one has been misconstrued many times, we have a right to pursue happiness, however that does not guarantee us that we will succeed in that pursuit. Success or failure is up to us.

However, we now supposedly live in a Democracy, when it changed or why I do not know. Under this Democracy our nation has changed, we now are not truly free, people are being held back or told they are not intelligent enough or strong enough to succeed. Many are being discriminated against either because of race, religion, gender or a number of other reasons. Many have lost the right to life, we are loosing our right to liberty and instead of having the right to pursue happiness we now are told we need to be equal in our successes and failure is being stopped by bailouts. It is time that we drop the Democracy attitude that has been adopted in our nation. We are not a Democracy. America is and always has been a Republic, we are a nation ruled by law, that law is the Constitution of the United States of America. With your help America will always be a Republic as well.

Educate yourselves, learn what it means to be a citizen of America, read the words of the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Start by reading The 5000 Year Leap and move on from there. Once you have read this book, then move on to The Real George Washington, The Real Thomas Jefferson, The Real Benjamin Franklin, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Common Sense and many more. Education is the key to the success of restoring our Republic, an educated population will never be enslaved.