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| The Global Freedom Institute |
| Social Order: The killing of Individual Freedoms in America. America is supposed to be �the land of the free.� However, when one looks at the laws that are created daily and how they are enforced, one has to wonder just how true this is today. Would our forefathers have been pleased with the way America has moved towards social order over personal freedoms? Is this what they envisioned? We will never know for sure, since we cannot talk to them personally. However, it does leave one wondering about the balance between individual freedom and social order. When the United States of America was formed, there was an important balance to be maintained. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were put into place to ensure that individual freedoms were to be maintained without government putting the need for social order above that right. It was meant to be a balance between the two, but tilted towards individual freedoms. Had it been meant to balance the other way, towards social order, then things like the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendments would not have been put in place. In order for the government to maintain total social order, speech, guns, and criminal rights would not have been put in the Bill of Rights. Thus, those Amendments were designed to maintain a tilt towards individual freedoms. However, in years since, the balance has shifted heavily towards social order to the detriment of individual freedoms. Consider the amount of government legislation that is designed to micromanage and control the lives of individuals. Hate crime legislation that is designed to control emotion. Drug laws that are designed to limit individual freedoms. Prostitution laws to enforce certain morality upon people. Parental responsibility laws for the actions of children. Animal owner laws to determine types of pets that should be owned. Gun control laws that are designed to know and control all guns in America. And the list goes on and on. How long before we get our daily �to do� lists from our governmental legislation? Why are individual freedoms so important that it would warrant this or any other discussion over the safety of Americans? When this country was founded, it was a rebellion from the European social order. The controlling influence of European government was attempting to control everything from the religion of its citizens to the courts that determined guilt or innocence of individuals. The governments were not in the game of being responsive to the needs of their citizens. The creation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights were a response to this: social control and lack of responsiveness to the citizens. They were designed to limit government and its control over people. Let�s look at some of them and their intent. The First Amendment is commonly referred to as freedom of speech. Why was speech so important that it had to come first? Humans think in language. The quality of those thoughts are only as good as the quality of our language. Meaning, overtime, when certain language is no longer allowed, they are removed from our thought processes. Only by using the language are we able to actually think about those ideas. When people were not allowed to think about the world being round, when the �scientists� of the time tried to claim the world was round, they were subject to death. It was an attempt to prevent any denial of the foundations of the current knowledge of the time from being undermined. The same was true in terms of thinking of the stars as other planets, as well as, the idea that earth was not the center of the universe. Those thoughts threatened the way that humans viewed themselves at the time as being primary, the focus of everything. So our language, our speech is vital for our ability to understand the world around us and to prevent government from controlling our thoughts and us. So why include a �separation of church and state� as the Courts have called it, in the First Amendment? Voltaire once said, �if there was no God, man would find a need to create one.� This could be taken several ways. One could argue man needs a reaffirming force to let them believe they are doing what is right, based on this quote from Voltaire. However, one could also argue that Voltaire�s point was man�s need to control others through the use of God and religion. Machiavelli wrote in The Discourses, that man would only be afraid, and thus in control of, other men for so long before they lost that fear and began to rebel. Therefore, a God or greater being was needed in order to maintain control over people. Once people put their faith in a �God�, they become afraid of it because it is unknown and assumed to be greater than they. Ever notice how every Presidential War speech has made a call to God? Ever wondered how a President would know how God feels about our side of that war? Yet they still continue to make statements about how our cause is just and God is behind us. Ever notice how people, other than a Vietnam, seem to be willing to give up their freedoms to support a war? Today, the rationale is that Americans must appear united to save lives and win the war. However, could it be from long conditioning throughout American history to give up your rights because God supports this war, so we have to also? Even if that isn�t the conscious rationale, could it be working in our unconscious mind? People tend to be willing to give up control when they think their �God� is in control. So what is the point? The point being that as people put their faith in God, they should not automatically put their faith in government too. By allowing linkages by government to a God, they then can use that linkage to create links to themselves. People don�t often question their �God�, but people are willing to question their government now and rightfully so. However, if God and government are linked openly, then the questioning of government will be brought to an end, and will allow for governments to control us. God and religion control thought, that is the business they are in. They tell people something, and those that believe in that faith, do what they are told without question 1 2 3 4 |
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