We Must Speak Out Actively!!!

Dr. Carle Zimmerman wrote in 1947 in his book, Family and Civilization and described eleven “symptoms of final decay” observable in the fall of both the Greek and Roman civilizations. Most of these describe our current society in these United States:

1. No-fault divorce
2. “Birth Dearth”; increased disrespect for parenthood and parents
3. Meaningless marriage rites and ceremonies
4. Defamation of past national heroes
5. Acceptance of alternative marriage forms
6. Widespread attitudes of feminism, narcissism, hedonism
7. Propagation of antifamily sentiment
8. Acceptance of most forms of adultery
9. Rebellious children
10. Increased juvenile delinquency
11. Common acceptance of all forms of sexual perversion

Adapted from Carle C. Zimmerman, Family and Civilization (Wilmington, DE, ISI Books, 2008), 255

America is infected with the deadly disease of moral decay and that most blatantly demonstrated in the lives of many (if not most) of our elected national leaders. They have yielded to the temptation to personally profit from public service. Thomas Jefferson wrote while deliberating on the wording of the Declaration of Independence in 1776: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes... But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is [the people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

Regarding resistance to government, Jefferson also wrote the following in two letters to contemporaries:

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" —Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." —Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.

He warned us:

"Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society." —Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1825. Yielding our prerogatives as “We the People” to power-mongers and the morally bankrupt, selfish, arrogant rich elite will surely result in loss of our hard-won freedoms, dishonoring the blood shed to secure those freedoms.

Obama's initiatives will not address these factors and we cannot allow him to aid the degradation of our society.