...Known Only to God.

Here Rests In Honored Glory an American Soldier Known but To God"

reads the inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

While groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) maintain their constant attacks on our national security and our country’s inspiration, that they are able to wage their irrational nonsense is doable because of the very United States Constitution whose meaning they twist and obscure to justify their treachery while the ground on which they stand is protected by the soldiers they seek to embarrass and defile through such actions as revealing confidential photos that could be easily misinterpreted by those who would harm our republic.

Our nation was founded on the belief, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” We repeat this notion often for it is the essence on which our country was founded and the framework for our government was established. The Declaration of Independence further asserts, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” This defines the source of government’s power. It does not empower judges, political parties, or Presidents to do so except as consented to by the public at large.

To ensure our government would operate in accordance to these simple principles, the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments were enacted to create the legal and moral framework from which our government could operate. In translating how the Constitution should impact the citizens, the First and Second Amendments helped define specific freedoms the government could never deny:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (First Amendment to the United States Constitution)

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed .(Second Amendment to the United States Constitution)

As simple and essential as these concepts are, our citizens face constant challenges to these basic principles often using a bloated and over reaching judiciary that sets its own agenda and twists Constitutional concepts, out of context and against the spirit of the documents themselves, to create an imposing agenda that ever increasingly asserts the role of an all-powerful government as if their position appointed by the executive and approved by the legislative is to set forth the role of the government regardless of how at odds their notions are to what the American people would ever give their consent.

Witness the merciless attack on the open expression of public recognition of God in the workplace or in any assembly where the government plays a role or are held on property of the state. Displays of the Ten Commandments, Christmas decorations, or items which express individual affirmation of faith are routinely banned and those bans are upheld by the secular tyranny of the court.

Clearly “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” was written to assure that the newly developing national government and individual states would not establish an official religion for its citizens mindful that the Church of England was a product of the British crown and that many colonists fled Great Britain specifically to escape from persecution against their practice of religion. Some colonies were centered on the faith of their founding settlers whether it was Catholics in Maryland, Quakers in Pennsylvania, or Puritans in Massachusetts. While recognizing the contribution the pursuit of religious freedom played in the establishment of the colonies that would form the original states, such founding should never turnabout to create environments of faith-based colonies that recognize one faith to the exclusion of others. Our founding fathers obviously accepted the roll of our Creator despite vastly differences of what kind of figure that creator was among the gifted minds who developed the core philosophies from which our government emerged.

The current attack on religion clearly takes aim at “the free expression thereof” not by denying such things as mandatory school prayer which would impose some prayer developed by the state on school children, but instead censoring the open expression of religious faith by teachers, public employees, or even those in the private sector where the government believes it has a controlling interest, an interest that is growing more and more as the government is now in the banking and automotive industry advancing issues of more instances of government action contrary to Constitutional guidance on contract law and financial independence.

Court cases are in various stages toward rulings on whether “one nation under God” is state imposition of religion on school children or is simply recognition of that which our founding documents clearly recognize. If the secular extremists are successful in using the radicalized court to win that battle, is the next battle front “In God we Trust” being removed from our money. When one looks at the genesis of the nation’s current economic crisis, perhaps it is valuable to be reminded our trust in God remains because we’ve seen where our trust in government has led us. The warning signs of financial meltdown were everywhere to be found, but when President Bush sent members of his economic team to warn of an impending mortgage meltdown resulting from the lending practices Congress enacted in the name of “affordable housing” as part of the oversight function of government, they were promptly blown out of the hearing room by Democrats such as Barney Frank who decried their insensitivity toward those struggling to own their first home while the Republicans, then the majority party, lined up in “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” position not wanting to generate any bad news when the cha-ching of legitimate cash transactions were ever increasingly being replaced by the clicks and beeps of electronic transactions using credit cards and loan agreements that hold no trust for anyone but clear assertions what happens if the borrower defaults on his obligations. “In God we trust” quickly turns to “Lord have mercy” on those who could not or would not fulfill their responsibilities.

From the actions of the Bush administration in the early stages of the bailout program and instituting the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to the massive socialist intrusions of the Obama regime, constitutional wisdom falls by the wayside to a misguided sense of immediate urgency.

All the while, our courts and government organizations go way overboard to accommodate and not offend members of the Islamic faith giving them the kinds of specific accommodations the courts have yanked away from less demanding Christians and Jews from enjoying while radical members of the Islamic faith sworn enemies to our freedom, core beliefs, and all we hold dear conspire to attack our way of life killing 3000 Americans regardless of faith or nationality on 9/11/2001.

Our system seems more worried about the so-called rights of the plotters and planners or terrorism than making sure those whose lives were destroyed by the Islamic terrorists’ treachery struggle to seek just compensation for their losses.

Soldiers stand guard in Iraq and Afghanistan in two wars. Servicemen are stationed around the world and on and below the high seas ready for action whether it’s a full fledged military operation, dealing with pirates, or possibly just providing food and comfort for victims of a natural disaster. Others work in bunkers, offices, on airplanes, and ships in front of computers and other technological equipment monitoring the activities of nations like Iran and North Korea for their acts of treachery.

The silent hills of Arlington, Virginia and veterans cemeteries around the world tell the tale of those who gave all they had for the sake of our God-given freedom. As we write this knowing the inscription, “Here Rests In Honored Glory an American Soldier Known But To God,” we recognize the revulsion those who subscribe to the ACLU world view must surely feel at a state facility, the resting place for fallen servicemen, daring to provide such obvious recognition to our creator as what is inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Suppose an unknown soldier might be an atheist!!! If true, so be it. He is still unknown to all but God regardless.

We pray for our soldiers who stand watch to protect our freedom and thank our creator for the great opportunities we share as Americans. The events of 2009 provide each citizen ample opportunity to reflect on the remarkable wisdom providing every one of us the liberties we celebrate on this special holiday observance.

Let us not let the corrupt and misguided politicians and judges who’ve lost sense of the meaning of what the American experience is all about cloud our vision of they are employed and sworn to protect our liberties and that they serve us, not vice versa.