Got this from Chuck Baldwin's Chuck Wagon Newsletter. Loss of Morality Portends Loss of Freedom April 28, 2000

Can an immoral person be regarded as a true patriot? The framers of this republic didn’t think so. The Father of the American Revolution Sam Adams, said, "He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections…."

Our form of government is totally dependent upon "each and every one of us to control ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God," James Madison said. John Adams agreed. He said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

William Penn warned, "If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants." Patrick Henry said virtually the same thing. He declared, "It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." Freedom-loving people must by nature be God-fearing people.

Recent events suggest that America has forgotten this basic truth. Intoxicated with hedonism, we not only tolerate Clinton’s Mafia-style brutality; we applaud it. Americans applauded when those people at Mr. Carmel burned. They cheered when federal agents seized little Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint. It doesn’t bother us that Clinton’s merciless mad dogs victimize innocent women. Even the national press looks the other way when one of its own is pummeled by Clinton’s thuggery.

I used to marvel at how the German people could support a man like Adolf Hitler. When Hitler came to power, Germany was a republic. Furthermore, they had a rich Christian history. The Germans were cultured, law-abiding people. How they could follow a man like Hitler was a mystery to me – until now.

Are we not like Germany of old when we applaud as federal Storm Troopers kick down our fellow citizen’s doors during the night to carry out the unlawful orders of a ruthless ruler? Do we really think that it can only happen to our neighbors, and not to us?

America is no longer ruled by the U.S. Constitution. We are ruled by brute force. Clinton has effectively neutered congress and the courts. He is an authority unto himself. He is accountable to no one. What is worse is that the vast majority of the American people seem to find this palatable.

Some have suggested that Bill Clinton will never leave office. They propound that he will create a national crisis and then declare himself to be the only one who is capable of solving the problem. They believe he will suspend elections and seize authoritarian control.

For the sake of discussion, who among us would resist such a tyrannical move? Would his fellow Democrats? As for the Republicans, about all we could expect from them is that they would conduct hearings on the matter. Would our career-craving military brass stand in his way? Would the media protest? They already serve as Clinton’s Propaganda Department.

It appears to me that the same majority of Americans who have supported every corrupt and debauched action taken by this corrupt and debauched man would continue to support him no matter what he did. We have traded our morals for a burgeoning stock market, and we have traded our faith in God for a boy who would be king.

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