Observations©

By Donald S. Conkey

Date: August 5, 2010 - # 1032 - Title: America shouldn’t ask for a king (4271)

I am beginning to wonder if Americans really care about their freedom. If they do, they certainly didn’t reflect it in the Georgia primary election on July 20 – only 20 percent of the registered voters in Cherokee County turned out to vote in that primary. And the August 10 turn out is expected to be even lower.

And with Obamish-like promises being made by many candidates every voter should be alarmed and more fully involved. But they’re not. Don’t they care? I think they care but are turned off by the election process, nasty rhetoric, and are ignoring their civic duties as a citizen of a free country.

            In past columns I have made reference to the 21 or so civilizations that rose to prominence as a nation before falling from Grace and becoming lost to history. A number of these ‘lost civilizations’ are mentioned in the scriptures. Daniel makes reference to several of them. But the most prominent biblical government found in the Old Testament was Israel. Three million Israelites were freed from Egyptian bondage by the power of God via Moses. It is important to understand here that Moses was not sent by God to free these Israelites until after they had prayed for deliverance. It is also important to remember that under Joseph they had lived the good life but then, because they had prospered, they were enslaved.

After Moses freed the Israelites and led them out into the wilderness he was called up to the mountain by God where he received God’s ‘perfect laws of liberty.’ These laws were easily understood laws that the Israelites then covenanted to obey. These are the laws the Founding Fathers patterned America’s foundational documents after, the laws God established to govern a free people. They governed the Israelites for nearly 230 years until corruption and greed caused the Israelites to ask for a king.

I hope America never asks for a king as did the Israelites. An ancient king, after his sons refused the kingship near the end of his reign, encouraged ‘his subjects’ to establish a republic (not a democracy – democracies always self destruct), but warned his people against choosing another king. His words read: “And behold, now I say unto you, ye cannot dethrone an iniquitous king save it be through much contention and the shedding of much blood. For behold, he has his friends in iniquity, and he keepeth his guards about him, and he teareth up the laws of those who have reigned in righteousness before him; and he trampleth under his feet the commandments of God. And he enacteth laws, and sendeth them forth among the people, yea, laws after his own manner of wickedness; and whosoever doth not obey his laws he causes them to be destroyed … and thus an unrighteous king doth pervert the ways of all righteousness.”

This people followed their king’s advice and established a republic, with judges to judge the people. But within a few years’ secret combinations set out to destroy that free government. The opponents of liberty, comparable to today’s progressive’s agenda, finally destroyed their government – They self-destructed in the short time period of only three years. A historian, reporting on this destruction, wrote: “And they did set at defiance the law and rights of their country; and they did covenant one with another to destroy the governor, and to establish a king over the land, that the land should no more be at liberty but should be subject unto kings.” Now note how, in less than two years, the Obama administration has ‘fundamentally changed’ the laws established by America’s Founding Fathers in their foundational documents of law.

Do these words sound familiar? They should! Why, because this is what is happening in America today. I now better understand why the progressives fear the reading of the Declaration of Independence in America’s schools today. In addition to naming America’s two cornerstones of liberty and freedom, “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” Jefferson declared that America was “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable (natural) Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness …” Jefferson then declared “That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the governed, (now read these words carefully) 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 …”

Finally Jefferson declared that when “a long train of Abuses and Usurpations … are designed to reduce them under Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off such Governments, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.” While many say Jefferson was talking about King George III, there are those today who believe he also saw America in 2010 - and Obama’s ‘king-like’ administration.