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“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..” (Robert Frost’s 1915 poem, ‘The Road Not Taken.’ )
What is ‘that road that Americans should take, if not the road that is of peace and tranquility, a road that gifts us with national civility (genuinely treating each other with kindness, respect & politeness)? What other road is there that we can nationally consent to as a diverse people, with our different ethnicities, religions, politics, and walks of life? Was not the matter deliberated upon with much thoughtful discussion in our Continental Congress’s of (1774-1776), a committee created to draft a document that could stand the test of time and still maintain itself after 246 years as the promissory note that was the first agreement to national community? It ‘was and is’ a promise; a road’ a national agreement, a first Bill of Rights, and a charter that the American society would be founded and established on the protection of individual human rights, that we may self-determine the course of our life, in as much as we respect the same rights of all others, without partiality given to the ethnicity, religion, politic, skin color, or walk of life of any other individual, and only in respecting the value of our humanity.
That document is the Declaration of Independence, and it is a promise of national civility, if we agree that the value of human life is accepted as equal since the time of its creation; that the unalienable claim to life & liberty belongs to all of us, that in that mutual agreement, we are safe & happy, and in that itself, we enjoy the reward of civility.
There is no other way, road, or formula that works for all of us; only the mutual respect that our human life has equal value to all human life, and that these rights are not given, parceled out, or bestowed upon us by another individual, or by government. These rights, these liberties are self-evident, unalienable, God-endowed, and understood to be the natural law of humanity.
That some of us may pay lip service to the name of the document, and not adhere to defend the spirit and complete word of it, in not teaching and establishing the importance of the understanding of it; —the heritage of actions exacted by the American government between 1776-1820, and by individual government officials in defense of that good spirit is the crux of the break in the walls of a ‘city on a hill’ that should always reside brightly in our hearts & minds. Think not that the work should be left unto others better suited, but accept and teach that it is the solemn duty of the American individual civilian to look into the matters of how government performs in alignment with the foundational first laws of that Declaration and our Constitution; not only in word, but in spirit and originalist understanding of the intentions of our founding fathers: liberty and justice for all, without partiality, starting at creation.
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| The people of America are like a fleet of ships. We move best when we move together, encouraging one another onward, yet all with the same ballast of agreement unto the value and protection of each others life and liberty. |
That we may agree or not agree about the biological start time of human life is our liberty, but that I, you, or any third person, or government may take upon itself the judicial activism to take away the right to life is unlawful, not in the Constitution, and expressly against the spirit & word of the promise of the Declaration of Independence: that these liberties are unalienable, and not attributed to us by another person or government. It is the doctrine of ‘care not’ that Abraham Lincoln so clearly outlined and spoke on in the 1850s; the doctrine of ‘Popular Soverignty:’ a person can own a person, and a third person, nor government can object.—We can have our diverse politics, we can have our different view points, we can disagree, but we do not have the right to end innocent life, nor claim humanity as our property, be it brought in chains from another continent, or forming after its creational start within the female body.
That human formation takes on different stages of growth and metamorphosis across its life span, is a separate point from when that formation is created. That an extremist view point may counter the standard biological understanding of when life begins is solely their right, but that they harness the judicial and legislative instrumentality of government in order to allow the slaughter of humanity in the womb is evil, and in open and direct opposition to the core of the values and principle that the United States of America was founded upon: the value and protection of individual human life, that we may be safe and happy to self-determine our life.
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| How do we strengthen the foundation of the spirit, word, & originalist intention to value and protect human life, and our right to be safe and happy? We must be a people, who at the least can agree to form a nation of civility upon the understanding of the promise of true liberty & justice for all starting with the first laws in our Declaration of Independence. |
The work of a remnant of champions of liberty, of George Washington, of John Quincy Adams, of the U.S. Congress in all its forms, before and after the Constitution, between 1776 and 1820, the work of Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, of Senator Charles Sumner, though their message is unspoken, hindered and limited in our American schools, and their championing of a spirit of liberty & justice for all is not officially brought forth to defend against the present day doctrines of ‘critical of the white race theory,’ these same works and the persons who made them remain triumphant champions who will ultimately be joined by new generations of champions, themselves, having taken the time to learn what was the selflessness and wise understanding of these men and women who stood up with all their might, all their intellect, all their soul strength to stand in front of the continual onslaught upon the national spirit of our union. These, having experienced tremendous opposition, vilification, censorship, threat of death, threat of loss of livelihood, and altogether, persecution, are our champions. They did no harm; they were relentless in their staying power to be the exemplification of American civilians, and as individuals they became mighty because of their long-suffering endurance; their work of patience unto preserving the goodness of national peace, done right, both in meekness, and with great temerity of heart and mind, and with love unto all.
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