Let me take a moment to introduce you to a very special person. This person is in all likelihood, in your life, the single most powerful and influential person you will ever have the fortune or misfortune (depending on your perspective) to come to know.
You would be absolutely amazed if you had any idea what a profound influence this individual has on your everyday life. So, before we continue, let's meet the person who has had more impact on your life than the Congress, been more powerful than the president and, in fact, has in some instances been more influential than God Himself.
Look at a reflection of yourself and say, "He is talking about me!" You didn't recognize that person, did you?
The story is told of a middle-aged woman who has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. Despite the doctors' desperate efforts, she dies. When she shows up at the pearly gates, St. Peter greets her and asks her name. She says, "Marie Kant." St. Peter looks up her name in the book and asks, "What are you doing here? You have another 40 years to live." He sends her back.
While recovering, Marie decides that since she has another 40 years, she will make the most of it. So while in the hospital she has a facelift, liposuction and a tummy tuck. After her last operation, she has her hair styled and colored. Finally she is finished. She puts on a new designer outfit, takes a long last approving look in the mirror and walks out of the hospital.
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She steps outside and takes a deep breath. With one last wave she starts across to the parking lot to take delivery of her new sports car and BAM! She is hit, and immediately killed, by an ambulance speeding up to the hospital. Again, she arrives at the pearly gates as St. Peter greets her and asks her name. She begins to shout, "I'm Marie Kant, and you said I had another 40 years to live!" St. Peter comes up, looks at her closely and says, "Oops! I didn't recognize you!"
Could it be that perhaps we, like Marie, do not recognize ourselves?
Perhaps we don't recognize who we are and where power lies.
As many of you are aware, there is a plan or movement (call it what you will) to remove every trace, every vestige of Christianity and the influence of the Judeo-Christian God from American history and from the modern political landscape. The problem is, these principles are the basis for most, if not all, of our constitutional liberties.
Let me inform some, shock some and remind others: The Bible is not a religious book. It was never meant to be one. The Bible is filled with transcendent principles – fundamental truths or propositions that serve as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior. (There are seven references to "religious/religion" in the Bible, and only one of them is positive. That one has to do with caring for "widows and orphans" – in the true sense of the word – not single mothers and their illegitimate offspring.)
With these principles in mind, the Founding Fathers had a revolutionary concept in mind for America; they called it a republic. I call it "you da man." Let me tell you why I believe "you da man" is what the founders had in mind. Who is "you da man"? The president? Senators? Congressmen? Some Supreme Court justice? The attorney general? The FBI? The police?
"Da man" (the man) is whomever "We the People" ascribe, assign or endow with authority. In other words, the American colonials, who had learned to live with the dictates of a foreign sovereign in their lives, had discovered another sovereign. This new sovereign – in the United States of America – is "We the People."
Recognize this?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." (You may want to read that again carefully.)
The Founding Fathers endowed the American public, which, in our form of government, is the ultimate sovereign, with the authority to have our government act in/on our behalf, and that is critical. On whose behalf and in whose interests are they authorized to act? Ours, not theirs!
In our system of government, just because we call someone a congressman instead of a cook or a senator instead of a servant, doesn't mean they don't work for us. They don't inherit those titles by divine right. We bestow those titles on them.
This is the purpose of elections every two, four and six years; they have to come back and ask us for permission to keep their jobs! The government works for us. It is made up of public servants. We are the public and they are the servants, and if we don't like the job they are doing, we fire them. Your next employment decision is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. It's called the midterm elections.
Oh yes, and by the way, just in case you have forgotten, one of the primary functions of a free press is to keep "da man" informed as to the performances of their employees. If you are in business, you want your enterprise to be successful, so you endeavor to hire good people. Keep in mind, whether you call them workers, employees, supervisors, senators, congressmen or president, they must perform according to your standards and directions.
Said another way, employees must please "da man" – us – and if not, "Adios amigo!"
Remember, in the final analysis, "You da man!"
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