Why We Object to Obama

It was empirical reflection that brought independence to the colonies, as much as affliction played a role in the declaration, remedies were numerously proposed and reconciliation was the foremost at the time.  As much as usurpation and injustices may have originated the debates, the remedy, was not unanimously collaborative. 

The abuses of the king were not levelly applied to all colonies.  Quartering of British soldiers was more prevalent in some colonies than in others,  tariffs impacted some colonies more than others and, violent interactions between colonists and British soldiers were not uniformly spread throughout. 

The tribulation of the colonist was not the cause of the revolution as much as the reality of the inevitable.  If we are to accept that the king’s actions were the sole reason for the coup of tyranny then, we must ignore the arduous and lengthy efforts preceding the issuance of the declaration.  There was not unanimity in the congregated, there was no relish for war!  Clear and conscientious logic is what prevailed and, though the causes of the declaration are clearly laid out as a list of grievances, it was the inescapable truth that only adherence to the laws of nature and God could bring the liberty that lead to the abolishment of the unnatural ties to the monarchy.

So it is no less true now, than it was then, that it is not our tribulations that have stirred our defiance.  It is our instinctive desire to be free.  The pursuit of happiness is only that, a pursuit.  Created equal does not mean remaining equal.  As the great Thomas Sowell once wrote ”A confusion of morality with causation may be politically convenient but that does not make the two things one”.  Causes promoted by honest men have within their core a strict accounting of consequences, they lack confusion between morality and causation. The causes promoted by those that are only interested in power and fame are inherently flawed by superficial morality and a quest for total acceptance rather than being guided by actual outcomes.  Outcomes and positive results are sought by the free minded lovers of liberty.  What good do intentions promote when their outcome is contrary to their mission? 

Logic and reasoning are not merely related they are the same and without evidence of reasoning within our causes we may only expect our morals to be warped and our outcomes to be dismal.  Our President is a great proponent of causation, an advocate of a higher calling if you will.  He promotes Just causes but without regard to outcome.  History has been around long before our leader was born and history does not agree with the projected outcome of his causes.  Logic would dictate that what failed in the past under similar circumstances will reasonably fail again.  Our leader speaks reasonably but promotes illogically.  He raises taxes on the wealthy though history condemns prior policies of the same to ruin whole economies.  He advocates redistribution of wealth though historically this, in prior societies, has failed to remedy poverty.  He grows the powers of the governing over those of the governed which again, history has demonstrated to be catastrophic.  

Our dissent, not unlike the colonials, is not based on the individual pains these actions create for us.  I would venture that some, if not most of us, that do speak out are not yet affected by these actions yet, we are bound by our love of liberty and pursuit of freedom to object.  Our leader behaves not like a grounded and sensible man but more like an insolent, he demonstrates apathy to the masses and, dismisses the obvious public disdain for his behavior as that of a select few.  It was a call to the adherence of the laws of nature and of God that united the Colonials in defiance of a tyrant and, it is the call of adherence to the same that will unite a splintered America.  Learn your history and you shall see that not long ago our disagreements were on just how it was that we were to achieve what we desire. Compare it to now that we disagree on even what it is that we must achieve.  We have been divided, not united.    

I think it is worthy to note that Kings need not be tyrants as there have been a few good ones however; it is more important to note that tyrants need not be Kings.  Whether a tyrant is inherited, chosen, elected, or takes power by force he is never the less a tyrant and to call him by some other name is to confuse morality with causation.  I have never seen a better collection of words for describing a king, a tyrant, a man unworthy of a role in leadership than the words written by Thomas Paine,

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”

After watching my President partake of an endeavor that could only benefit a select few during a time when the masses are in need of leadership more than ever I have sadly concluded that no words better fit the man than those of Thomas Paine.  I conclude with a small poem I have written which I would like to dedicate to our President and all who in the name of causation act only to sustain their own power and prosperity. 

 

 

 

 

The Tyrant

Braggart of righteousness and sanctimonious lore

Superficial defender of countless decor,

Will speak to no end of that to be done

Will do as required until he has won.

No thought will he pay to the manner of thing

Death by kindness his doctrine will bring.

He’ll do what is needed to whom is no matter,

Of Truth and Power he seeks the latter.

He takes the seat at the head of your table

Proceeds with promises of heavenly fable.

Wicked tongue he possesses for treason

Disguised cleverly by words of reason.

Pay him no mind if freedom you seek

Rely on him not for he is weak.

Pay him mind for judicious sake

Or in a world of slaves you awake.

Be warned good man of this ghastly fellow

His effects are dire though his causes mellow.

Be not duped by his simple verbosity

Less you give him sanction for atrocity.

Be not frightened from what I have spoken

Pay my warning occasional token.

Live free and righteous prosperity seeking

Labor in honesty and God in good keeping.

If an unknown here arrives espousing causation

Demanding upheaval promoting vexation,

Gather the native as well as the migrant,

And

Prepare thee the masses to face the tyrant.

By Carlos Perez