“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. … Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” – John Adams
Marxist propaganda is all about supporting and growing the middle class, but actual policies always take a shot at the middle class they claim to defend, and grow their voting block and ruling coalition.
President Obama is calling for prison reform, as if people who made a one-time mistake (like he did) are locked away for life. His proposal is that we release the prisoners, double teacher salaries and ultimately let felons vote. His proposal is further Marxism being exacted on our republic, with the bill laid at the foot of the middle class. He implies that some teenager in a weak moment of impropriety, got busted for pot and is doing a life sentence for it. That simply has never happened. Ever.
If Obama gets his way, America will be a more dangerous place to live because there will be more criminals on the street. Obama wants to eliminate mandatory sentencing, such as “three-strikes” laws, as if someone caught doing a crime is a first-time offender who just had a bad day and ended up in prison for life due to mandatory sentencing. That isn’t true.
The evil implication is that our current incarceration rate is a reflection of a police state, and that simply isn’t true. The police state we feel has to do with overregulation of innocent citizens, not criminals. The irony is that in the ways America is a police state, it is far worse in the most liberal states.
Take California, where
the government makes burning a fire in a fireplace illegal and pays neighbors
to snitch on residents. The state regulates water use for a manufactured water shortage it created. You can’t even grill in some areas
of California, and it is trying to criminalize vaping. That is a police state. But punishing
criminals is part of maintaining a civil society.
Civility becomes more and more difficult when
you remove religion, as this administration has done in unprecedented ways.
Illegals are flooding in, the welfare state has grown, fat union pay and
pensions are crushing the middle class. Now Obama wants to flood the streets
with felons, and people will die. People are expendable to Marxists like Obama.The push for mandatory minimums has effectively reduced crime by threatening the most hardened of criminals that if they recommit, they will get life in prison. That possibility is deterrence for more crimes that, if ended, will cost lives of innocent people. How many people chose to live an honest life because they had two strikes, and they didn’t want to spend life in prison?
While incarceration might be high, crime is accordingly down. Look at New York before Giuliani took over and started locking criminals away.
Mayor Giuliani’s approach was to crack down on “gateway crimes.” If someone could get away with minor vandalism, they feel emboldened to take the next step. If someone gets away with harassing passersby in front of a busy department store for spare change, they are more likely to move up to mugging.
President Obama’s approach is the opposite of Giuliani’s. The president would have police and prisons tending only to the most violent criminals and turning loose the rest. But this will only embolden those who are set free to commit crimes again with little or no consequence.
There is an important reason that we have a high incarceration rate. Our Founding Fathers gave us a republic (if we can keep it), and it gives maximum liberty. But that is 100 percent dependent on a people that are moral. Conversely, the same is wholly inadequate for a people who are not moral.
By every measure, the lot of the poor has been made worse by Obama’s statist policies, but the media, urban leaders, teachers, some pastors and others complicitly keep the wool pulled over the eyes of the minorities being used like pawns. They will never know until it’s simply too late. Those coalitions used to spread Marxism are always the first to be hurt by the regime once it establishes its absolute power.
The Marxist propaganda goes like this: Push injustice by demonizing the justice system (the justice system that was created legitimately and through duly elected representatives and that functions pretty well). Then convince people that the big-government Democrats will set you free and enable you to vote, while evil conservatives who hate you want you locked up for life for petty offenses.
The truth is that felons will flood the streets and many will die. Struggling urban poor will pay the heaviest price, just as they always do in Marxist regimes. But Marxist-driven Democrats will gain millions of votes among felons, their families and ignorant but well-intentioned millennials and other low-information voters who will fail to see the cynical sleight of hand.
We can’t say our Founders didn’t warn us.
Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, said, “[T]he
only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion.
Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no
liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and
principles of mankind.”
Noah Webster, author of the first American “Speller” and the first
dictionary, said, “[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis,
or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government … and I am persuaded
that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which
the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.”Gouverneur Morris, penman and signer of the Constitution: “For avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy … the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. Therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.”
Fisher Ames, author of the final wording for the First Amendment, wrote, “[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”
John Jay, original chief-justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
James Wilson, signer of the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court justice: “Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.”
Robert Winthrop, speaker of the U.S. House: “Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.”
George Washington, general of the Revolutionary Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, first president of the United States of America, father of our nation: “Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”
Benjamin Franklin, signer of the Declaration of Independence: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
“Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness … it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof.”
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