American Citizens

I wrote this when I was 11 years old:


Dear American Citizens,

            I hope that you are working hard and trying to honor and serve your country, but most of all, the God of creation - whom created you and me. I also hope that you are ready to make a stand for what’s right and that you’re ready to do whatever it takes to protect yourself, your family, and your country.

            We all want liberty and freedom but I believe that we are losing liberty and freedom more and more every day. We need to educate ourselves on the state our nation is in now.  Also we need to educate ourselves on the lessons that our Founding Fathers learned.  Also remember the morals they gave to us so that we can live in a free and independent nation.

            If we read and study the Founding Fathers, we can clearly see that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and many others were warning our generation about our government systems. For example, these quotes by Thomas Jefferson, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have”  and t "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people there is liberty.''  George Washington also gave us a few quotes on the matter such as, "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.'' and  ''A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.''

            These men warned us beforehand because their grandparents came from a bad state of living as we are having now. So we need to learn what some of these words mean and memorize them. We need to be ready to protect them with all our might because our God gave them to us to treasure and to hold for ever.   Words such as Liberty, Heritage, Freedom, Patriot, along with a few others mean OUR freedom  and OUR liberty; so let’s learn what they mean:

                
 Liberty - The state of being free from oppression, tyranny, confinement, or slavery; freedom;

This is a pretty clear definition of  Liberty, but what does tyranny mean:

Tyranny – Harsh, absolute, and unfair rule by a government, king or other ruler.

Liberty basically defines Freedom, but let’s see what the dictionary defines it as.

 Freedom – The condition or state of being free; political independence; possession of political rights; boldness of expression; liberty; unrestricted access or use.

So Freedom and Liberty mean the same thing.

Heritage - Property that is inherited; something handed down from past generations; a legacy.

Our founding fathers have past down the Heritage of Liberty, Freedom, and a sense of patriotism yet we are ready to give it away.  We are giving way to communism at the drop of a hat, because we don’t want to earn our living or fight to live daily not only for our country but for our God the Kings of Kings and Lords of Lords.

Patriot – A person who loves and defends his country.

            Are you a patriot?  Are your children? Are you ready to give your life for your country like so many of the ones who signed the Constitution? You are not a patriot if you don’t protect the First Amendment of the Constitution.  Do you protect the Constitution? Are you ready to resist tyranny and bring liberty to the land?  I believe that there is tyranny in the land and not liberty. Just like Thomas Jefferson said “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people there is liberty”.  Is this what we’re seeing today? The liberty and freedom fought for by the Founding Fathers and, most of all, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Paul, Peter, and others.  We have a privilege that no other country has, and yet we are ready to give it away to communism. I pray that this nation will never be ready to give it a way

            But before I go any further, I want to thank the men who are rising up and taking a stand for what’s constitutional and Biblical. I just thank  you for your hard work and pray that you will continue  what you are doing  for the glory of God.  Also remember, that you are an influence to your children and  grandchildren and  no matter what you do,  it will be an example for generations to come.

            Another reason why our nation is failing is because were not self-educated. Our modern day school history book will hardly ever mention the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. Back in the pioneer days, the school’s history books were the Constitution, the Bible, and a book called the Lives of the Signers. We are a long ways from that education.

           Did you know 87% of our public schools' history textbooks do not mention Christianity? It does mention the Jewish, Amish, Mormon, and Catholic beliefs but not Christianity*. I would like to mention a quote by our president Obama, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation , a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation and a nation of nonbelievers.’’  This is who your President is and this is what the schools are teaching children. Parents, we can’t let the teachers teach this to our children, your children - your blessings from God. We can’t throw our children into the world while at the same time shooting our Christian nation in the foot. And if you are a teacher please be careful of what you allow to go on in your school room, especially when it comes to history and the Bible.

             Here is a paragraph out of the Book Faith of Our Founding Fathers by Tim LaHaye page 1; “Secularism is taught in those same textbooks, a life and world view for children and young people that little resembles the one taught in this nation for the first 150 years of its history. Almost no mention is made of the public schools that represented education at the time the Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to draft our nation’s Constitution. Consequently, a whole generation of school children is being robbed of its country’s religious heritage in the learning process.’’

            You can’t teach your children one thing at home - such as, we are a Christian nation or we need to protect liberty  - when they’re going to public school where they are being taught another thing such as:  we need to share and be fair and that we are no longer a Christian nation . They are teaching communism! There is nowhere in the Constitution or any other document that says there should be a separation of church and state. But this is what they are teaching our children in the public schools. But that’s a whole other subject.  Ask your middle or high schooler (who goes to your normal public school): "Have you ever read the First Amendment or the Constitution? What does the Constitution mean to you? What does Liberty, Freedom, or Heritage mean to you?"  See what answers you get -  if you get any. Yes, there are some self-educated children out there, who may be very interested in the Constitution, but do their fathers participate with them?

            We may be getting off the subject a bit, but it all boils down to the father preparing the generations to come -  to serve and to protect our country, our liberty, our freedom that our Founding Fathers gave us. I would like to give you a few more quotes on our liberty:  ''Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.''(George Washington) and "the people are the best guardians of their own liberty.''(William Henry Harrison).

I was a very patriotic 11 year old.

                               Grace