How
to Select the Best Presidential Candidate in 2008
by Marnie Pehrson
Read the U.S.
Constitution here.
Are you PRO Constitution? Consider Ron Paul for President
Ron Paul's Freedom Principles
- Rights belong to individuals, not groups.
- Property should be owned by people, not government.
- All voluntary associations should be permissible --
economic and social.
- The government's monetary role is to maintain the
integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud.
- Government exists to protect liberty, not to
redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges.
- The lives and actions of people are their own
responsibility, not the government's.
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If you were a referee at a basketball game, what would be the first
thing you would need to know or do? How well could you judge the game if you
were not familiar with the rule book? If you didn't know about the
three-second rule or didn't know what constituted a foul, or didn't know how
many shots a person received when they were fouled, could you fairly referee
the game?
And if you didn't know the
rules, what might happen on the sidelines or in the bleachers as the fans
became more and more incensed at your ineptitude? Would they rise up in anger
against you? Would they walk out of the game?
What if they didn't know the
rules either? What if everyone in the building was clueless about the rules of
basketball -- the players, the refs and the fans all had a different idea of
how the rules should go. You'd end up with pure chaos, wouldn't you?
We live in an age of rampant
information and disinformation. Anyone may put their ideas or opinions out on
the internet as fact. Anyone may claim themselves to be an expert. Anyone may
report "news" as if it is fact without any real checks or balances
in place about proper reporting or verification of facts.
So how is one to know the
truth? As Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" (John 18:38). As
everyone scrambles to find their next Presidential candidate for 2008, there
is mudslinging, false news reports, attacks upon character and more. How is
the average American to know "what is truth?" In essence, our nation
is like a bunch of ball players, referees and fans who have forgotten the rule
book. Because we don't know the rules of the game, we can't judge and we
certainly can't proceed fairly.
And so I make a plea with my
fellow Americans to return to the rule book - to make it an active part of
your study. Read a little less news if you have to. Stop searching out
negative information and disinformation on the internet and spend more time
studying the rule book and educating others about that rule book. What is this
rule book? If you haven't guessed yet, it's the Constitution
of the United States of America. If you will make an honest study of it,
you will find that much of what is advocated today by political ball players,
fans and referees is simply a mad scramble for power and gain or at the very
least just rules they made up. Most of it can't even be found in the rule book
at all.
The
Constitution of the United States of America has served us well for over
225 years -- in spite of society's degeneracy, and in spite of it having been
ignored, twisted and misinterpreted. Just think of what we could do if the
"fans" of this country read the rule book! Would we allow power
hungry refs and corrupt players to ruin the game? Of course we wouldn't! Would
a crowd of fans at a basketball game -- who were well acquainted with the
rules -- stand by and watch the referees and ballplayers ruin the game of
basketball? Of course not!
Then why don't we Americans
wake up to our own power to set things right. Begin a thorough study of the
Constitution and invite your friends and family to do the same. Study The
Federalist Papers
as well -- they are essays written by the Founders themselves and will help
you understand why they included the things that they did in that inspired
document.
Once you understand the
Constitution, it won't matter what the media says. It won't matter what
disinformation or corruption is out there. You'll be able to review the voting
records of politicians and easily see whether they know the rules or not. It
will all become as plain as judging a basketball game.
Stop fighting against the
dark shadows and sinister forces -- for whatever you resist persists. Instead,
start fighting for truth and justice. Start fighting for
the rule book -- The
Constitution of the United States of America!
