Caldwell: Taking Back America's Moral High Ground

Should we be allowed to only discuss taxes, economics and national defense?? Are we to be quiet about moral issues because that divides some people?? Issues like same-sex marriage, abortion, pornography, protection against criminals?these are the moral questions of the day.? Are we not allowed to openly give our views or must we allow only one side to be heard, for fear of division and disagreement?

My good friend Andy Caldwell has written, ?A recent example of this phenomenon is the debate about reforming the California Environmental Quality Act.? The local Sierra Club director claims CEQA protects democracy.? He can only make that claim if you define democracy as the ability to take away a person?s rights and opportunities without compensating them for their loss.?? CEQA is a bureaucratic morass that has given birth to a cottage industry of lawyers and activists intent on defrauding people of their rights.?

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Taking Back America?s Moral High Ground?

Andy Caldwell,? COLAB,?? 3/14/13? ?

A lot of people avoid speaking out on a number of subjects due to the fact they are controversial in nature, but some controversies present problems too important to ignore.

Few could argue the very basis of our free market capitalist system is being challenged on moral grounds, i.e., that the profit motive is evil and selfish, and that the redistribution of wealth is the right thing for government to impose upon society.? Additionally, the concept of private property rights and the ability to make use of natural resources, including growing food, can now be considered as damaging to the environment!

Whereas, many business people don?t feel comfortable debating issues of morality, there is another group of people who could be in the forefront of these debates.? For lack of a better term, I will simply refer to them as the faith community.? Unfortunately, many in this community don?t want to get involved in politics!? So, the business and faith communities forego the debate and the public is led in a vacuum of rational and historical discourse with serious consequences.

Historians are clear on one point about the demise of democratic forms of government and that occurs when a majority of citizens realize they have the power to take things away from the minority.? Inevitably, the economy collapses and society implodes.? We are supposed to be protected from this phenomenon as a result of living in a constitutional republic where the law protects the rights of every single person, versus a democracy where the majority rules.? Unfortunately, our courts and politicians have eroded the distinction between these two forms of government.

We are at a cross road in American history where a majority of Americans will soon be receiving their succor and support through the government.? These citizens don?t seem to care that our government has nothing to give to them but what it has taken away from some other citizen in the form of taxation, regulation or outright confiscation.

A recent example of this phenomenon is the debate about reforming the California Environmental Quality Act.? The local Sierra Club director claims CEQA protects democracy.? He can only make that claim if you define democracy as the ability to take away a person?s rights and opportunities without compensating them for their loss.?? CEQA is a bureaucratic morass that has given birth to a cottage industry of lawyers and activists intent on defrauding people of their rights.

Our founding fathers changed the course of history when they settled on a principle of government that challenged the norms of political discourse forever.? Our founding fathers stated in no uncertain terms their belief that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, including, but certainly not limited to, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.? Other rights of men enumerated included the right to free speech, religion, self-protection via the right to bear arms, the right to assemble, and freedom of the press.? Additionally, private property was protected, including the ability to be secure in your home and that your property could not be appropriated without just compensation.? Further, the founding fathers indicated that the only real, genuine purpose of government was to secure and protect these rights and whenever a government fell short, well, it would be time for another revolution!

If America is to survive, statesmen need to arise and defend our freedom and our rights and take the moral high ground in the process!? It behooves us all to ensure that such statesmen arise.

Andy Caldwell is the Executive Director of COLAB and the host of the Andy Caldwell Show, weekdays from 3-5 p.m. on KUHL AM1440 and News Press Radio AM1290.

Source: http://capoliticalnews.com/2013/03/14/caldwell-taking-back-americas-moral-high-ground/

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