Like so many others, it has become clear to me that our federal government no longer seeks to defend and protect individual rights or the founding documents that guarantee these rights. All have sworn an oath to defend and protect these founding principles; yet day after day, this sacred oath is ignored to the detriment of those persons and things sworn to protect. They only seek their own purposes.

“They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

“Experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But this long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism.”

I have meticulously listed my grievances against this increasingly controlling and deceitful government. I have helplessly watched our protector—the judiciary– ignore and bastardize our sacred constitution. They give pass after pass and acquiesce to the executive and legislative branches of government as the rights of the individual are supplanted with the rights of the state.

I have hoped in vein that the fourth estate, i.e. our news media, would somehow rally public opinion against these forces; only to find they too support the increasing power of our federal masters. These are historical times as we find ourselves perched on the razors edge of freedom or tyranny. We are witnessing the rapid destruction of our individual rights, once sustained by our respect and reverence for our founding documents of still visible scribbles on parchment at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. This experiment in the primacy of individual rights 237 years ago created the greatest engine for freedom and prosperity in the history of man. Are we now expected to sit passively by and watch as our treasure is plundered by the Permanent Political Class and their legions of Bureaucrats?

So the question for me is: “Is our government legitimate?” Can a government who has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies (foreign and domestic), who is now engaged in the wholesale destruction of these same principals …can this government by any reasonable measure be considered legitimate? The answer is clearly no.