No Compromise

Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Having spoken this truth, Barry Goldwater went on to lose his race to win the presidency in 1964. Americans will not elect an individual who is not willing to compromise. As if all ideas are equal and all men have an equal right to sit at the table of civilized men, egalitarian Americans demand their leaders compromise even our most cherish values to court thugs and assassins.

How does a free man compromise with the armed lunatic who has sworn to kill him because he drew a picture of the prophet Mohammed? How does one compromise with the thug burying a bomb in the planter at the entrance to the abortion clinic? These people aren’t interested in compromise. They seek only to force all of us to sacrifice our individual rights to their insane beliefs.

When good compromises with evil, only evil wins.

There is only one way to compromise the truth of a basic principle like “each individual is free to think for themselves,” and that is to lie and argue that there is some “greater good.” Then, use government to enforce the lie.

My only responsibility to my fellow man is to respect his life, his liberty, and his right to pursue his own happiness. Men create governments, Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “to secure these rights.” This means it is the government’s responsibility to protect me from others who would deny me the freedom to live my life in accordance with my own thinking.

To violate anyone’s unalienable rights is not a sin. It is a crime.

The Framers recognized the fact that through history the greatest violators of human rights were governments, politicians walking hand-in-hand with their symbiont, the priests. In fact, every government in the history of the man prior to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights was tyranny by some combination of church and state. The state provided the church with wealth [land], protection, soldiers, torture chambers and prisons; the church provided the state legitimacy in the eyes of the people, not to mention threats of eternal damnation for disobedience. James Madison, the “Father of the U.S. Constitution” and author of the First Amendment, was well aware of these facts when he wrote the Establishment Cause of the First Amendment. He knew that without a separation of the church and the state, freedom would not survive in the new republic.

Contrary to the thinking of our Born Again president and his media stooge Sean Hannity, holding elections is not the key to liberty. Democracy is not the key. The firm recognition and protection of the rights of individuals is the only key. Article I of the new Iraqi constitution [the one we’ve spent a half-trillion dollars and over 3,500 of our soldiers’ lives to defend] states:

"The Republic of Iraq is an independent sovereign state. Its system of government is republican, representative (Parliamentary), democratic and federal. Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation. No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established…”

The day we compromised our values and accepted this abomination—Islam is the official religion of the State—was the day we lost the war in Iraq. Any country that defines and declares only a certain kind of thinking to be acceptable, will never be free.