We the people...

We the people...

We the people is a powerful phrase in this here land...it actually means something in this great society. I for one am glad to have it as part of my life, knowledge, history, and example. With a loud and boisterous upraised voice...we the people have the ability to speak. We the people have the ability to be heard. No matter what our message might be...because sometimes it truly is of the greatest importance...and sometimes it is trivial and trite...but here...in this wonderful land...we the people means something...and we have a collective voice...that can be heard.

I truly love this country. Our foundation certainly had a rocky start and at times...it's true...our government and leaders made choices that have been harmful...but all in all...I think...personally...we are in the middle of the most amazing society and land in the history of mankind.

Which....I recognize....is really saying something because there have been several amazing societies before us...Greeks, Romans, Persians, Egyptians, Chinese to name a few...there are certainly other amazing societies alive and around us now...but never before has there been such a mix...such a freedom...such opportunity...as the society we have created here. It makes me very proud...and glad...to have my children live and learn here...to be in this mix...to be a part of it...

We have problems too...don't get me wrong...I recognize this as well...serious problems as of late...things that we desperately need to address and work on...many problems of many types...problems that make many of us...feel overwhelmed...and angry...because we haven't worked out the solutions yet...but we are truly human...and no society or government...no body of people...no....body....is perfect...or is gonna be...so...we will continue to do our best...despite our weaknesses...

We the people of this great land have compassion...we have empathy...we the people care...we the people reach out to try to help...to build community here at home and around the world...to share what we have come to know...

We the people of this great land serve as an example...of what people around the world should be...as an example of how we should be doing....how we should be being...as human beings...as global partners and neighbors...for every negative thing that an American company or government has done...there are equal positive examples of what we the people have done around the globe to help and hold up in support...to exemplify and cheer...to comfort and heal...to fight injustices and wrongs...to try to do right by....people...other people...that are in need of help...

We the people of this great land have a capacity that no other land could have...because we all know we are in this fight for survival together...there is a unity that underlies those stars and stripes...there is a cohesion that no terrorist will ever be able to sever. Because this country is not based on bloodline and ethnic continuity, this country is not based on birthright, this country is not based on the privilege that so many bicker about around the globe.

This country is based on ideals and values.

This country is based on an idea.

This country is based on a belief.

In the end, an idea and a belief is stronger than blood ties. An idea and a belief is stronger than simply occupying space for a long time. An idea and a belief becomes the soul of a society. An idea and belief becomes a society's identity. An idea and belief becomes alive in the hearts and minds of those people that live it...because it lives in them. An idea and a belief becomes something worth dieing for...worth protecting...at all costs...

This is what the terrorists around the world do not understand...because what they are fighting against when fighting against us...we the people of this great nation...is not just military might, money, or power. They are fighting against the very ideas and beliefs that we the people uphold. The ideas and beliefs that we live, day to day. The ideas and beliefs that this great nation was actually founded on. We are here because we CHOOSE to be here. Not simply because we were born here.

We are powerful and great not because of our might...or our military...but because of what we believe...and hold to be true....as...we the people. The terrorists around the world are actually fighting against themselves when they fight us. Fighting themselves because they struggle through the same things as we do and want many of the same things as we do...better lives for themselves and their families, freedoms, a voice...and because they are fighting against themselves...they will never get what they want...they can never win...a house divided against itself will fall...just as the Bible says...all the terrorists can do is harm...but it will not get them what they really want. They and their families will not be better off until we start to heal instead of harm each other. Hatred will only lead to more hatred, violence to more violence, bloodshed to more bloodshed. They will never get what they want. To live their lives peacefully and love their families.

If they were to look at who we are...not simply what they think we represent...they would see the forged strength of our ideas and belief...that every human being has a right to freedom...has a right to speak their belief...has a right to believe whatever they want...has a right to exist...has a right to worship...has a right to live...in whatever way they CHOOSE...as long as they are not hurting others in their doing so...

Those that fight against us...us meaning and defined as...we the people....of this great land and nation...not just our government...or our industry...because frankly both of those entities have made harmful mistakes and choices around the world that would leave someone whom has been harmed by them distrustful and hurt...and therefore angry and resentful...but those that fight against our way of life...they will not be able to break us...to break our will or spirit...

The reason they will not be able to break us...is because of the idea...the belief...that we are free...free from tyranny and oppression...free from someone telling us how to think and what to believe...a belief that freedom should be a right to every human being...everywhere...that freedom is too important to each American...we let the genie out of the bottle folks...and once it's out...there just ain't no getting him back in.

We do not have to bow down and cower...we do not have to close our mouths or our minds...even when some in our own society call for others to do exactly that...what we have created is just too important...too vital...too significant. We must protect our freedoms here at home...and we must help others around the world to discover what we have found out...and we can never go back...

The price for protectionism is too high if it includes the human rights and freedoms that many in this great nation now take for granted. I cannot imagine living under oppressive conditions because a government or a religion commands that I do. Even the conformity that I live in here sometimes feels oppressive. Having to conform to an employers desires and treatment can emotionally have that taint of oppression...but this is America!...if I truly don't like it...I can leave and start elsewhere or start my own business...or go live under a bridge...I have freedom to CHOOSE...something different.

We the people...have the option...to CHOOSE...how we want to live...how we want to love...how we want to make a living...who we want to be...and even today...in many areas of the world...many countries around the globe...still do not offer their people a simple choice...all any American really has to do to see how great this country is...is travel to other countries...see things for yourselves...the oppression is out there folks...the differences are there....even in this day, time, and era.

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.

May God bless us one and all.