Food for Thought

It’s been a long time since I took a history class, and even longer since I took a “Civics” class. I’m not sure if they even teach what we called “civics” in high school anymore—what with all the time they have to spend teaching multiculturalism and secularism and tolerance. Then, of course, there is the time spent indoctrinating students with a large dose of general self-hate for our country.

I spent a little time looking up a few basic documents this morning in an effort to put the current state of world affairs into perspective for myself. Here is the first one of importance to me:

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

Read this again, and try to understand it this time. I doubt that anyone alive today could still think like this let alone write it down so eloquently. We here in the US are so far from this today that I doubt we can ever go back to where we started. Our present government is definitely "destructive to these ends..."

Then there is the preamble to the US Constitution:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Who were these men? We certainly aren’t turning out scholars like this from today’s public (government) schools.

And then there is this little tidbit of information that I had never read before:

Charter of the United Nations

Preamble

We the Peoples of the United Nations Determined

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

And for these Ends

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

Have Resolved to Combine our Efforts to Accomplish these Aims

Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.

Sounded good on paper at first, didn't it? Now I ask you, after reading the citations from the first two documents, then reading the last rambling dissertation, is there any wonder why the United Nations is the completely lame, useless, feckless, wishy washy, piece of crap organization that it is today?

It seems to me that we've forgotten where we come from and where we were going...