Opinion : Letter to the Editor: The choice between liberty and tyranny

These are troubling times. Families are struggling to keep their houses and to put food on the table. They see their paychecks, if they haven’t already lost them, remaining stagnant or decreasing, all the while costs of living are increasing. School children are going hungry because of new school lunch guidelines mandated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the First Lady. Meanwhile, the Middle East is on fire, hatred for America and her freedoms have reached a fever pitch, and even an American Ambassador has been murdered.

There certainly is reason to be worried. With all of this going on, where can we go for the truth? It seems that we cannot watch the news anymore to get accurate information. The American dream seems to be fading, or at least being fundamentally transformed. We are now facing the real threat of losing our country. The United States of America will be here, but no longer as a Constitutional Republic. Not as the America we know and still want to believe we live in. We seem to be losing our freedoms at a startling pace, and we don’t know where to turn.

It has become almost taboo to talk about our founders or the Constitution, as if it is a “here they go again” moment. Yet those who sacrificed everything did it for one cause: freedom. Almost to the day 225 years ago, on September 17, Benjamin Franklin wrote a speech to the delegates of the Constitutional Convention, delivered on the last day of that convention. He wrote that this government “can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Are we to that point? Are we incapable of governing ourselves and do we require a despot, a tyrant, to rule on our behalf? We again find ourselves in a fight for our country. We are not incapable of ruling ourselves and it is time again to take back our freedom and liberty, and regain control of this government; our government. We must remain the beacon of freedom throughout the world, for there is nowhere else to go.

That is the choice this November. Your vote will choose liberty or it will choose tyranny. We must vote for liberty, in order to preserve, and I argue restore, our freedoms. It is again time to pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Stand with me in voting to restore this country to its true potential, found not in the empty promises of one man, but in the American people. We can and we will restore America and will once again be the light of freedom shining throughout the world. That must be our only task this fall. This is our country. Let’s take it back.