American Indepedence = Demanding Intrusion by Big Government!

This excerpt is from Frank J. Fleming's The Real Story of America’s Founding. Political satire is the best satire -- It only offends those who ought to be offended.

Back before the Unites States was an independent nation, people lived in horrific conditions under British rule. The British weren’t providing very good free health care (wait time for a poor person to get an MRI was over 200 years), they were refusing to increase taxes on the rich, and they had very few laws dictating what colonists were allowed to eat, causing many to become obese on the high-fructose maize syrup the Indians taught them to make.

So the colonists kept demanding that the British give them big government to regulate their lives and provide for their basic needs while confiscating all their wealth. “We’re stupid,” they’d cry out to the British. “Please rule us and make us do what you think is best!” But the British kept refusing, saying, “No, you guys are doing okay by yourselves. We want you to have the freedom to run your own lives.”

It was this laissez-faire attitude that led to the Boston Massacre, in which five people died of heart attacks in Boston from eating fatty foods a proper government would never have let them eat in the first place. Finally the colonists had enough of not being bossed around and decided if the British weren’t going to provide them the all-encompassing government they wanted, they had to make it themselves.

They started by throwing tea into the Boston Harbor since they determined it had too much caffeine and people shouldn’t have been allowed to drink it. Then they formed militias to collect more taxes from the colonists to spend on welfare and government works projects. The British tried to strike back by ending regulations and giving tax rebates, but the colonists were now ready to fight to make sure some large entity would tell them what to do. And many were rallied to the cause by Patrick Henry’s cry of “Give me a large government telling me what I can and can’t do while spending most of my money, or give me death!”

Some leftists will make the classic Big Government error when they see this post. They'll be confused by social restrictions which are imposed on self, with political restrictions which are imposed on [nearly] everyone by someone else.

For example, if you didn’t like the odd stringency of the Puritans, you could drop that religion. Its much harder to drop all your property, not to mention your religion and friends etc, and move to another country.

Thanks to Bob1 in Seattle.

School Can’t Hold Commencement In A Church

You have undoubtedly heard of the case of the Connecticut school wanting to hold a graduation in a church because of the convenience and cost. A federal judge ruled May 31 the school district's plan to hold graduation ceremonies violated the separation of church and state and ordered school officials to find a secular site. The school board decided not to appeal. Click here or here.

And you have heard from the crazy, loopy Leftists agree that this was a violation of church and state.

These people who repeat this mantra are simply anti-Christian ignoramuses.

First the constitution says nothing about the “separation of church” What the first amendment actually says is that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion” That is it, there is no phrase of “separation of church and state”.

When interpreting any law one must abide by the clear intent of the legislature. In this case it is the clear intent of the framers of the American Constitution.

To understand the legislative intent you must consider that in Europe in many countries had a state religion, for example in England they fought consistently over whether the state religion should be Roman Catholic or Protestant. A lot of folks died over that issue.

The framers of the constitution, wanting to avoid this, passed the First Amendment. In short they wanted to avoid a state sponsored religion.

The actual phrase of “separation” came from a misquote of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 in which he referred to a "wall of separation," assuring the Baptists the state government would not restrict the practice of their particular form of Christianity.

In 1892, the Supreme Court of the United States gave what is known as the Trinity Decision. The Court declared, "[The United States] is a Christian nation." Or as John Quincy Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was, it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

So there.

Carl, The Violent Viking