Establishing Principles of Freedom

“You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” – Abraham Lincoln

We were established under the principles of freedom. So when did American government have the right to make the decision to take another citizen’s life on their own soil?  Government’s authority is killing us softly by using lethal force against its own citizens. Lethal force should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific, and imminent. The American Government is violating our Fifth Amendment right that: ‘No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law;’ while at the same time violating our First Amendment protections. Government shouldn’t have the power to assassinate an American citizen. Even in our current criminal justice system, men and women are given the right to a trial, the right to appeals, and to follow the Constitution.

Our forefathers built America through the establishment of the Constitution. The Constitution asserted that power was inherent among the people, not to provide a sole power to the President of the United States.  Our Constitution is based on the unique purpose of: creator, people, and lastly, government. It is the people who grant rights to the government. The Constitution was based on limiting the amount of powers given to government. Not long ago, in the State of the Union Address, a promise was made to the people to work with Congress on the drone striking program. Instead, every attempt has failed. Congress isn’t able to provide oversight; which means the current administration is acting alone. The many problems that we face today as a country are a result from a departure from this basic con­cept, the concept that our forefathers originally gave us− to live in a free society. To live in a country that is free from physical harm or danger. The role of government has been reversed to having a greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of in­dividual freedom and limited government and warned repeatedly that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve our freedom before it’s gone.