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12:05 PM Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The question often is asked, “What can we do today?” As frustration levels increase over an increasingly out-of-control cabal in Congress, violating constitutional principles at every turn, the quality of citizens who made this nation the “shining city on a hill” — that President Ronald Reagan spoke so elegantly of — wonder out loud: “What can I do? What can we do? What can be done today?”

Today? Today, start teaching our children that “rights” come from God. Government doesn’t give citizens of this nation their rights; their rights come from God. Free citizens of the United States have rights far beyond what government has the capacity to give.

... Government derives its rights from the consent of the governed; government is granted rights by the citizens.

Grab a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Read it again, (and) explain it to our children. Start teaching our children of their rights and the source of those rights, then stand up for our own rights as citizens. Stand up for the Constitution which outlines the rights citizens grant to the government. Stand up for what is right and insist that representatives do the same.

Martin Luther King Jr. had the right idea a few decades ago. Say “no” to oppression. Say “no” to a violation of citizens’ inalienable rights. In the manner of King and Mahatma Gandhi, stand in the face of oppression and say: “No, I will not succumb. I will not yield to the oppressor.” ...

Emmette Boone

College Corner

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