Thomas Jefferson said: “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

And: “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

James Madison stated: “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

Barack Hussein Obama said: “Government is the one thing we all belong to.”

Alexander Hamilton said: “It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.”

Walt Whitman stated: “There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.”

Edmund Burke said: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

Hugo Black stated: “The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”

Last weekend, Barack Hussein Obama said: “Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.”

Yes…He actually stated, of those who would warn you of tyranny, “You should reject these voices.”

My God…

Twice, officially, Barack Hussein Obama has also stated: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Preserve…PROTECT AND DEFEND…The CONSTITUTION of the United States.

How exactly can one preserve protect and defend a Constitution which is, in and of itself, not only a response TO tyranny but a WARNING OF TYRANNY if one advocates REJECTING THE VOICES of those who would WARN of tyranny?????

The Declaration of Independence itself, penned by Thomas Jefferson, is a direct and pointed refutation OF tyranny. It is a direct warning to a tyrannical government that we will NOT be submissive to them any longer and that we would become liberated FROM tyranny.

The Constitution is a direct warning to OUR government that tyranny will NOT be allowed and that We the People hold the power over GOVERNMENT and NOT the other way around.

In those written words, one can HEAR the VOICES of our founders and framers…Arguably the greatest minds in this nation’s history as they…THEY…warn us of the prospect of rekindled tyranny.

ALSO, in that Barack Hussein Obama speech at Ohio State, he uttered THESE words:  “We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn’t want to. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it’s not about what America can do for us, it’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.”

“Because we understand that this democracy is ours…?”

In this…DEMOCRACY of ours???

One would certainly HOPE that someone who claims to have been a “CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR” would know better than THAT but…In case he didn’t know, allow me to let Mr. Jefferson clear it up.

Thomas Jefferson said, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

THAT is why we have a REPUBLIC…rather than a DEMOCRACY which is exactly what Barack Hussein Obama WISHES, desperately, that we had.

In a DEMOCRACY, this man could have his way. In a DEMOCRACY, he would BE a Dictator.

To those who would scoff at the notion that Barack Hussein Obama is desperate FOR a DEMOCRACY…How many times have we and will we hear from his mouth, “The majority of Americans agree with ME?”

Interesting, isn’t it? That the same voice we should reject because it warned us of tyranny is the same voice that set us up in a republic rather than a democracy?

In the words of Lysander Spooner, “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”

In 1873, William Pitt stated, “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

In Plato’s “Republic” we read, “The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”

In the words of those whom Obama says we should reject, we see a verbal portrait OF Obama.

The very FOUNDATION of this nation is BUILT upon the very NOTION that we are but a single election from tyrannical rule. Those who FRAMED our Constitution entrusted US to ALWAYS be wary of our own government.

The voices of those who warn of tyranny are the voices of our 1776 Patriots and those today of those who believe that the REPUBLIC must be guarded by We the People if it is to survive.

Our founders and framers knew that we should NEVER drop our guard against tyranny.

REJECT THEM??? Reject the voices of TODAY’S Patriots and the echoes of our founders and framers?

No.

Not I.

I will EMBRACE them.

Craig Andresen

The National Patriot

Weekend Edition 5/12/13