The Constitution has brought unparalleled political freedom and prosperity. Marxism has brought unparalleled misery and death. People don’t clamor to get into Marxist countries like China or Cuba or Venezuela. But they do risk their lives to get into the United States. That’s not despite the Constitution and what it represents. It’s because of it.

But many forces today, because they love power, are willing to undermine the Constitution solely for the purpose of getting more control. This does not bode well for the future of our republic.

Thomas Sowell warns, "It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences."

This point is reminiscent of a warning from the father of our country.

As Dr. Peter Lillback and I noted in our 2006 book, George Washington’s Sacred Fire , “Washington asserted that human depravity could ultimately destroy the Constitution, even with the checks and balances it possessed. In his proposed Address to Congress in April 1789, he described how the Constitution, with all of its wisdom, could ultimately come to naught by the depravity of the people and those who govern them, since the Constitution in the hands of a corrupt people was a mere ‘wall of words’ or a ‘mound of parchment’”  (p. 220).

One of the geniuses of the Constitution is the way its principles were built by men who acknowledged the sinful nature of man. I believe that because it was based on correct anthropology, one that recognizes our innate selfishness.

James Madison, a key driving force behind the Constitution, learned well from his teacher, Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, the devout Presbyterian who was the president of Princeton, who taught Madison what the Bible says about man’s corrupt nature.

Madison said, “All men having power ought to be distrusted.” Therefore, the founders separated power, explicitly, so that we would have liberty rather than tyranny.

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The funny thing is, some will never see the irony in this.

Some Christian proclaiming the need for the constitution, when they sidestep it and try to change things to their views constantly.

EXCLUSIVE: Crenshaw Bill Would Take Down National Archives’ ‘Harmful’ Warning On Founding Documents

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 By Haley Strack

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw swore an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution when he was elected in 2019. To fulfill that oath, he is now fighting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for labeling the U.S. Constitution “harmful and difficult to view.”

Crenshaw introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the NARA from attaching “harmful content” warnings to any Founding-era documents, including the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights.

“The left is engaging in a Marxist cultural revolution, attempting to undermine our founding and our history and our sense of what it means to be an American,” Crenshaw told The Federalist. “These little steps, slapping warning labels on our founding documents, are all part of their effort to tear down our founding principles, and it must be stopped. My bill makes sure the National Archives is prohibited from including content warnings alongside founding documents of the United States. Whoever decided to put those warning labels up in the first place should also resign.”

The National Treasures Act of 2021 would effectively stop the NARA from attaching such warnings to “any document drafted in whole or in part by a Founding Father of the United States.”

Over the summer, the National Archives issued “harmful content” warnings on all its collections of online documents, including Founding-era documents like the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. The warnings, which allegedly protect against documents that “reflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes; be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more,” and “include graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more,” were slapped as a blanket statement across the Archives’ cataloged website .

In June, the Archives’ racism task force discussed removing the label “Charters of Freedom” from Founding documents, claiming that America’s governing documents didn’t grant freedom to everybody. The task force also argued to include “ trigger warnings ” on documents in the Archives’ “structurally racist” Rotunda, which houses the U.S. Constitution.

On Tuesday, 45 Republican lawmakers wrote to the Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, demanding the Archives remove warnings on seminal documents. Politicizing such documents only “obscures the truth,” the lawmakers said.

“The reality is that this is indeed a war of words. When you have an entire movement in America that seeks to undermine our founding and our history and our sense of what it means to be an American, these little steps actually matter,” Crenshaw said in an Instagram video last week, blasting the Archives for becoming woke.….

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funny, I don't consider teavangelical cultists americans or christians...

Reality clearly is lacking in post 2.2.  

another day another article about the founding fathers. Bizarro Ground Hog day.

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In your case, a picture is worth no words. 

People in America that include you among them living in America today are the reason why we need now more than ever to remember and remind our citizenry of 1776 America and never let the founders and the founding documents contribution to our nation and its founding ever be discredited or forgotten.  The founding fathers will be honored and revered and kept upon the pedestals we have built for them in the form of monuments and statues.  

As to the constitution, it is to this day, despite the wishes of secular progressives still the law of the land.  

The ‘1619 Project’ Gets Schooled

The New York Times tries to rewrite U.S. history, but its falsehoods are exposed by surprising sources.

By Elliot Kaufman

Dec. 16, 2019 6:54 pm ET

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‘So wrong in so many ways” is how Gordon Wood, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution, characterized the New York Times ’s “1619 Project.” James McPherson, dean of Civil War historians and another Pulitzer winner, said the Times presented an “unbalanced, one-sided account” that “left most of the history out.” Even more surprising than the criticism from these generally liberal historians was where the interviews appeared: on the World Socialist Web Site, run by the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Party.

The “1619 Project” was launched in August with a 100-page spread in the Times’s Sunday magazine. It intends to “reframe the country’s history” by crossing out 1776 as America’s founding date and substituting 1619, the year 20 or so African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Va. The project has been celebrated up and down the liberal establishment, praised by Sen. Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

A September essay for the World Socialist Web Site called the project a “racialist falsification” of history. That didn’t get much attention, but in November the interviews with the historians went viral. “I wish my books would have this kind of reaction,” Mr. Wood says in an email. “It still strikes me as amazing why the NY Times would put its authority behind a project that has such weak scholarly support.” He adds that fellow historians have privately expressed their agreement. Mr. McPherson coolly describes the project’s “implicit position that there have never been any good white people, thereby ignoring white radicals and even liberals who have supported racial equality.”

The project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is proud that it “decenters whiteness” and disdains its critics as “old, white male historians.” She tweeted of Mr. McPherson: “Who considers him preeminent? I don’t.” Her own qualifications are an undergraduate degree in history and African-American studies and a master’s in journalism. She says the project goes beyond Mr. McPherson’s expertise, the Civil War. “For the most part,” she writes in its lead essay, “black Americans fought back alone” against racism. No wonder she’d rather not talk about the Civil War.

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To the Trotskyists, Ms. Hannah-Jones writes: “You all have truly revealed yourselves for the anti-black folks you really are.” She calls them “white men claiming to be socialists.” Perhaps they’re guilty of being white men, but they’re definitely socialists. Their faction, called the Workers League until 1995, was “one of the most strident and rigid Marxist groups in America” during the Cold War, says Harvey Klehr, a leading historian of American communism.

“Ours is not a patriotic, flag-waving kind of perspective,” says Thomas Mackaman, the World Socialist Web Site’s interviewer and a history professor at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He simply recognizes that the arrival of 20 slaves in 1619 wasn’t a “world-altering event.” Slavery had existed across the world for millennia, and there were already slaves elsewhere in what would become the U.S. before 1619.

But “even if you want to make slavery the central story of American history,” he says, the Times gets it backward. The American Revolution didn’t found a “slavocracy,” as Ms. Hannah-Jones puts it. Instead, in Mr. Mackaman’s telling, it “brought slavery in for questioning in a way that had never been done before” by “raising universal human equality as a fundamental principle.” Nor was protecting slavery “one of the primary reasons” the colonists declared independence, as Ms. Hannah-Jones claims. It’s no coincidence the abolitionists rapidly won votes to end slavery in five of the original 13 states, along with Vermont and the new states of the Midwest.

Ms. Hannah-Jones insists “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.” Mr. Mackaman calls that claim “anti-historical.” Proving it requires her to belittle the most progressive declaration of modern history: “that all men are created equal.” Ms. Hannah-Jones calls this a “lie” and claims its drafters didn’t even believe it. The abolitionists disagreed. So did Martin Luther King Jr: He saw it as a “promissory note.”

Mr. Mackaman also protests Ms. Hannah-Jones’s “cherry-picking” of quotes to present Lincoln as a “garden-variety racist.” He attributes the misleading picture to her “totally racialist interpretation.” If whites and blacks are supposed to be “diametrically opposed to each other,” he says, “then you have to disregard all the history that runs contrary to that—and there’s an awful lot.”

Other “1619 Project” essays are similarly tendentious. Sociologist Matthew Desmond marshals substantially discredited research to tar the whole of American capitalism as a legacy of slavery. Legal activist Bryan Stevenson presents the war on drugs and broken-windows policing as successors to lynching, the Black Codes and other white “strategies of racial control.” Times columnist Jamelle Bouie claims Republican opposition to raising the debt ceiling in 2011 was of a piece with Southern defenses of slavery and Jim Crow.

Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party’s national secretary, says the “1619 Project” is aimed at legitimizing the politics of the Democratic Party and at “dividing workers” by race. “The interests of a black worker on the line in an auto plant and a white worker,” he says, “are fundamentally the same, and a million miles from the interests of an Oprah Winfrey or a Hillary Clinton.” He rejects the “pseudo-left politics” of identity, which “fight out conflicts within the top 10% or so over access to positions of power and privilege” through diversity programs, then “denounce white workers for being supposedly privileged even as they suffer from a decline in life expectancy and horrific social conditions.” Nobody is better at deflating the pretensions of progressives than the Left Opposition….

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Jerry is slacking off, he only mentioned the boogeyman word of the day 'Marxism' 4 times.

You mean our wonderful document helps to prevent atrocities like this?:

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EXCLUSIVE : The Polish- Canadian pastor who has been repeatedly arrested for holding church services in Calgary, Alberta, said Canadian border police confiscated his belongings and apparently broke into his personal computer.

When Pastor Artur Pawlowski landed back in his home city of Calgary on Monday following a four-month tour of the United States, customs officials were waiting to cuff him on the tarmac for two criminal charges, he told Fox News in an interview.

"They have fallen to a new low," Pawlowski said of the Canadian authorities. "Our lawyers contacted them and asked them if there are any pending warrants for me when I was in the states. They said that there are no pending warrants, there is nothing outstanding."

Pawlowski had been traveling throughout the United States over the summer to spread his warning that Western governments increasingly resemble the communist regime in Poland he fled as a young man.

His tour followed the international attention he received in April when officials went to his church in Canada during Holy Week to inspect it for COVID-19 compliance. Because they entered the sanctuary armed and uninvited during a worship service, Pawlowski refused to speak with them.

Instead, he accused them of being "Nazis" and shouted them down until they agreed to leave. Video of the encounter went viral.

Three weeks later, officials returned with a court order authorizing them to access Pawlowski’s church and arrest him if he failed to comply. Again he demanded they leave the church property and contact his lawyer.

On May 8, a motorcade of Calgary police vehicles pulled over Pawlowski and his brother to arrest them in the middle of a highway on their way home from church.

This time, Pawlowski speculated that they misled his lawyers before activating criminal charges against him Monday while he was in the air.

The first criminal charge, Pawlowski explained, was levied against him for failing to wear a mask in public, despite a medical exemption from his doctor. The second was for organizing an illegal church gathering. Both were related to offenses in March and June.

In an interaction he characterized as an ambush, Pawlowski recounted how three officers demanded that he and his pilot step out of the plane. He said he heard one of the officers tell the pilot to surrender his phone, though the pilot refused and managed to record the incident.

Particularly troubling to Pawlowski was that he was not allowed to greet his family, who were waiting to see him for the first time in months. His wife, he said, was notified of his arrest by reporters.

"That was the most brutal thing," he said. "That was Nazi-style, communist-style. Trying to break a man and his family and children by not allowing me to just even say hi after being away for so long."

‘I’m not a terrorist'

Pawlowski said authorities confiscated his luggage after they arrested him. Even after his lawyer secured his release during the early morning hours on Tuesday, he said police first denied they knew where his possessions were, though a reporter told him he saw his belongings being packed into a police cruiser.

When he ultimately recovered them at the police station, he said his things had been marked with labels suggesting that authorities had rummaged through them. There were also indications that his personal laptop had been accessed. Normally locked by a passcode, he said it was open when he got it back.

A spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said the agency is bound by Canada's Privacy Act not to comment on specific individuals or situations but directed Fox News to a website explaining the policies governing the CBSA's ability to examine electronic devices.

CBSA's website says agents are authorized to inspect electronic devices, and travelers are obligated to comply to the point of surrendering passwords. Instances of electronic devices being examined are extremely rare, however, and the CBSA's own statistics claim it has happened to only .014% of those who passed through Canadian ports of entry from Nov. 20, 2017, to June 30, 2021.

"I don't know what they were looking for," Pawlowski said. "I'm a pastor. I'm not a spy, and I'm not a terrorist. Everything that I do is public."

'The government wants to become God'

Sarah Miller, one of Pawlowski's attorneys, said his treatment has been "unusual."

"There was no need to do that at the airport," she said, adding that police could instead "call him in advance, tell him that they were coming over to lay criminal charges, meet him at his house, give him opportunity to access legal counsel and sign paperwork without having any detention.

"I think that would be the ordinary way to do it," she added. "But if you've been following Artur Pawlowski's story, there's nothing ordinary about the way he is treated by officials."

Since the pandemic, other churches in Canada and Alberta have faced imprisoned pastors , locked facilities, steep fines and continued interference from government officials.…

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Alberta is a deeply Conservative province run by ... Marxists?

The pastor in question was arrested on a Monday afternoon and released on Monday evening ... hardly a hallmark of Nazism or Communism.

That’s not the only place in that dystopian regime up there that this is happening.