President’s Day       February 20, 2017

Precedents Day Part 1 of 5 Parts

How do we typically celebrate Presidents Day?  Aside from all the furniture and automobile commercials and the other President’s Day sales and perhaps a day off from work, it will more than likely come and go just like any other day of our lives.  Nothing significant happening one way or the other.

However, on this President’s Day, February 20, 2017, in light of the divisiveness in our American Family, with the hostility of our American Family feud being currently dished out on the government head of our American family-our newly Elected President, his family, his Administration and those  of our American Family that aligned themselves with it, perhaps this would be a good day to step back and take a look at our American Family history and see if there may be some things, precedents, principles from our American Family origins and our resulting American Family heritage that we could apply today to enlighten and give guidance and direction to the  present perspectives of our American Family.

There are common-sense techniques, precedents, principles that we often use when we encounter complications when trying to accomplish a task, in planning and or finishing a project, arriving at our intended destination on a long trip after getting lost. or trouble shooting why something is not working the way that it should.  We often stop, go back to where we started and trace our progress until we come to the place where the problem first showed up.  There are proven precedents, principles in these circumstances that when followed have led to the successful completion of each endeavor.

For instance, as individuals we go back and re-read (or maybe read for the first time) the directions that came with product.  Or, we stop and recalculate our trip on a different GPS app since the other one got us so lost we don’t know where we are lost from.  Or when something is not working right, we may call a specialist, like an electrician, a plumber, an air conditioning and heating pro, or with our cell phones and other media stuff call someone we often refer to as a Geek.

So Nationally, let us look back at our heritage to re-discover what our American Family precedents, principles are that worked to re-unite us when we have faced these conflicts in our past.  Then amid all that is dividing us, let us apply these precedents, principles in common-sense problem solving techniques to re-unite our American Family and put an end to our current American Family feud. 

So, what are the precedents?  Today, Monday, is the introductory part one of a five-part series called Precedents Day.   Parts 2-5 will be posted daily this week Tuesday Part 2, Wednesday Part 3, Thursday Part 4 and Friday Part 5.

We will be gleaning our American Family reuniting precedents, principles from our Liberty Bell, Declaration of Independence, Preamble to the Constitution, Pledge of Allegiance, National Motto.

The Liberty Bell.

“Inscribed on the Liberty Bell are these words:

“Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”    Leviticus 25:10    

 

The Declaration of Independence

The first paragraph:

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the power of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

The Constitution of The United States of America

The Preamble

The first paragraph:

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The Pledge of Allegiance of The United States of America:

I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.

The National Motto of The United States of America

In God We Trust

So, what has caused this hostility and is fueling this American Family feud?  The problem must be defined before it can be solved.

George Washington, the first President of the United States of America said:

“Raise up a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God.”

Notice that Washington said ‘a standard.”  The nature of “a standard” is that whenever that standard is applied to solve a given problem, the results will consistently be the same.  In other words, we have a saying: “To many cooks spoil the stew.”  This happens when each of us become a standard unto ourselves.  We become dogmatic, having tunnel vision, making up our own rules- “rights” to our own advantage as we go along giving ourselves power and control to exercise our unjust self-serving authority over others. It is equally true that often those in positions of just authority abuse their power.

 Because of the present hostile divisiveness, it is time for our American Family to have a Reality Check. Our American family needs to find and apply the precedents, the principles that can unite those who are willing to individually accept them and then mutually, regardless of being personally in agreement or disagreement with one another, submit ourselves to those precedents, principles. 

The root cause of divisiveness is an unwillingness to mutually agree on a standard that is proven, objective, unchanging, authoritative being larger than our changing subjective personal opinions.  So, where do we start in our quest to “Raise up a standard to which the wise and honest can repair…?” 

The standard that must be raised up out of which flows all precedents and principles of liberty and freedom that lead to a civilized person living in a civilized family in a civilized nation as a civilized people is the standard of Truth.  Truth is the standard that when raised up in any generation regarding any question will always lead those who are seeking to know, practice and submit themselves to the Truth to be united in the precedents, the principles of Truth’s checks and balances of what is just, right, authoritative as Truth consistently balances the powers of those united by Truth to live in Liberty while having the Freedom to enjoy it. 

Herein lies the problem for We the People in our current culture.  Many in our American Family have lost all True civility toward one another.  The standard of Truth has been abandoned for what is called Political Correctness.  Vast numbers of our American Family have submitted themselves to this deceptive erroneous philosophy. 

They have become transformed by raising up their own self-serving standard where everything is not measured by Truth but by what they subjectively proclaim and practice as being “politically correct.” They measure this Political Correctness by what they further subjectively define as to who is being Tolerant versus those who are being Intolerant. 

All of this is being done according the rules that they have made up and are making up as they go along in their quest to exercise their abusive power and control in every part of our culture politically, religiously and over the general public-We the People.  Realistically speaking please understand, for the Political Correctness crowd considering all their deviousness the motto that best describes them is: “The ends justify the means.” They do whatever they deem necessary to keep or gain power and control.

Having abandoned the objective unchanging “Tolerances” of Truth and Justice, without which there is no Liberty and Freedom, they have exchanged the Truth for a lie. This is seen in their their self-serving definitions of who they say is practicing Tolerance and who they accuse of practicing Intolerance.  With their false standard of Political Correctness, they have become the rule of law unto themselves. 

Political Correctness Tolerance is nihilistic.  Political Correctness Tolerance, taken to its logical conclusion leads to nothing.  Think about it.  Political Correctness Tolerance is a standard of its own. Therefore, if the Political Correctness crowd were building a railroad track, they would tell the Contractor, just make the tracks however far apart you feel like they need to be.  We want to be Tolerant toward you and not confine you to the intolerance of those narrow-minded engineers who designed the plans for the railroad track.  Political Correctness Tolerance just abandoned all the True Standard precedents, principles of railroad construction in the name of Tolerance.

Here is the problem. By Political Correctness standards they would not want to be intolerant and therefore would allow the Contractor to build the tracks whatever width he chose.  The problem? If the Contractor went by the True Standard precedents, principles of railroad construction the Political Correctness crowd would accuse the Contractor of being Intolerant! So, do you want to be on the first train that goes roaring down those tracks.  Of course, not!

We the People, let us raise up a standard of Truth with its proven unchanging objective precedents, principles.

Precedents Day Part 2 The Liberty Bell