One of the most alarming episodes in the recent loss of freedoms concerns an incident occurring in Texas. A student, who also serves as a pastor addressed a group of boy scouts. He talked about the Constitution. After speaking to the group, he was pulled aside and question by Federal officials. He was questioned about “acts of terror and espionage” because he dared to talk about the Constitution and the Patriot Act.

Although the Bill of Rights was designed to allow for the free expression of political opinion, the modern interpretation severely restrains free speech. It is extremely ironic that during the War of Northern Aggression, there was more freedom of the Press in the Confederacy than  in the Union, even though the modern politically correct interpretation is that the Union was fighting “for freedom”. Many newspapers were shut down in the Northern states for printing theri opinions. The truth is that there was more freedom of speech in Confederate Texas than there is in 2008. There were no government officials questioning people who spoke out on the Constitution. There was those who did speak out. Governor Pendleton Murrah spoke out against the oppressive actions of the Confederate government and the Davis administration quite often. Some of the German immigrants spoke out against the Confederate government as well. There were no government officials barging in on them. Trouble only began when people took up arms against the government.

It would stead Constitutional scholars well to recall the words of Founding Father James Wilson who noted, “that wise and good government–I speak, at present, of no other–instead of contracting, enlarges as well as secures the exercise of the natural liberty of man: and what I say of his natural liberty, I mean to extend, and wish to be understood, through all this argument, as extended, to all his other natural rights.”

Given his comment, the present regime is acting foolishly by contracting rather than expanding the natural liberties of man. Does James Wilson know what he was talking about? Yes, without a doubt. He was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He also later served as a Supreme Court justice.

Free Texas!

J Murrah

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