Soldierhugs: Predatory Government
Soldierhugs has recently invited new article writers into the fold
here. The below article is from a very knowledgeable patriot
and Veteran of our Military who comes from a long line
of Military service Veterans in his family. I am proud the introduce
one our new authors Ian MacLeod, and his first article post on
Soldierhugs.
Hugs,
Aaron
When
the Founding Fathers were wrestling with their ideals, their consciences and
their own fears, cudgeling their imaginations and drawing on a wide,
well-educated experience, they could not have imagined the world we live in now.
They could, however, imagine fanatics and others who would want, and try, to
take power for themselves, and therefore away from the people. They were none of
them naïve idealists who did not understand the world, business, war, diplomacy,
philosophy and politics, as well as other cultures. They brought all of this to
the Continental Congress with them in the document they finally created, and it
shows. They were clearly men of courage: having signed their names to the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, they signed their own death
warrants if they lost, and they were taking on one of the most powerful empires
on Earth. Nonetheless, while they could easily have made the Constitution ten
times as long as it is and attempted to regulate a great deal more of business
as well as personal behavior, they did not.
