''America has lived through fear of depression, Nazism, Communism and Islamic Fundamentalism. This is the first time Americans have ever feared radical change and oppression from their own government.''
Over my years of foreign
travel and entertaining people from other countries visiting the United States, I've developed a little lecture that explains some of the mysteries about this country that bedevil a lot of foreigners. If you're a native-born American, don't be ashamed if this is new to you, too. A major part of the problem is that too many Americans have never heard, never understood, never known and never cared about what comes next.
It's easy to think of America as a "country" like Canada, Mexico, Paraguay, Poland, name one. They're all "countries," right?
Wrong! Until recently, innocently wrong. In the age of Obama, disastrously wrong.
It's easy to make that mistake. Consider Europe. You step from a country called Estonia into a country called Latvia and you don't understand a word. The Estonian and the Latvian who don't understand each other can take a few more steps and enter Lithuania, where neither one can understand a word. Then they all turn eastward and take a few steps into Russia, where none of the three can understand. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia are all "countries."
America is dramatically different. America started out as 13 different countries; colonies, as they called themselves. Because, unlike Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, those 13 American "countries" spoke the same language and were ethnically identical, it was easy to suppose, "Well, this new America is another country, like Canada, Mexico etc." We drew up a "marriage contract" nailing down rules as to how we would live together. That contract, of course, is the Constitution. As America grew and more countries were added, that fact of American birth and American life didn't change. America is far from a "plain old country." America is a union of 50 different sovereign states! So, what's the big deal?
Whatever happened to states' rights, limited government and natural law? Find out in Judge Napolitano's "The Constitution in Exile"
The big deal, and it's a very big one, is that, wherever you live in America, you are in a sovereign state connected to 49 other ones. Interesting coincidence: The territory between Great Britain and the Ural Mountains has 50 sovereign states. We call it "Europe." The territory between Canada and Mexico also has 50 sovereign states. It's called "America." Wrap your mind around that concept and hang on tight. It's going to get bumpy. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117024