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Freedom Week
17 September is the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America. The state of Texas will celebrate this event with Freedom Week (AKA Celebrate Freedom Week) in her schools. Middle school and high school teachers will be expected to teach a week of lessons celebrating the Constitution and the ideals of freedom it was written to protect.
One of the required exercises for this fete is that students will recite from memory:
"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,"
Beautiful words, stirring, inspirational, a great explanation of why we owe obedience to the State. Words beloved by statists conservative and liberal alike. Why we should be good little girls and boys. Only the Declaration of Independence was never about being good little girls and boys. It is about why sometimes good little girls and boys need to be naughty:
"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."
If you are a Social Studies teacher in Texas remember to teach your students this phrase. If you are a Social Studies teacher in any state that requires they learn the first two phrases, make sure they learn the third phrase. If you are a parent make sure kids learn all three phrases, why they should be good little girls and boys, and why sometimes good boys and girls have to be naughty.
A.X. Perez
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Re: “Why I Am A Libertarian and Not A Conservative” by L. Neil Smith in this issue
Regarding your Dad’s questions about the morality of his actions in WW2 as a member of the US Army Air Force and tangential to same: trying to resolve his questions on this issue is what led Walter M. Miller Jr. to write A Canticle for Leibowitz. While it may be a bit more religiously themed than most moderns would like (hint: if you can’t accept that God’s law trumps Man’s or that honest priests are speaking with God’s authority , not simply that of human institutions, this is not your cuppa), it is a good read and an honest search for an answer to an unbearable dilemma.
One is libertarian because one’s highest value is liberty, not tradition as conservatives view things, or fixing things, even if they “ain’t broke” or actually are working better than your fix will leave them as liberals/progressives do. As result one is often seen as too conservative by some and too liberal by others. The difference is truly radical, based on a set of values than the other points of view.
Which kind of brings us back to Canticle and why an honest pope is going to anger both liberals and conservatives, believers are ultimately using a totally different set of values than either group.
“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” (first Maccabees, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson. Eleutherophiles and theophiles, while they also disagree with each other frequently, will always find themselves t odds with those who worship the power of the state, i.e., most conservatives and liberals.
A.X. Perez
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How not to commit armed robbery
This one was so noteworthy that my son "Dad, one gun is enough" Jayson commented on it before I saw it in my twitter feed.
🍁Jay🍁 (@CanesinceDay1) tweeted at 4:52 PM on Sat, Sep 08, 2018:
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Jim Woosley
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I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair—Editor
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