The Freedom Proclamation

Eleven score and thirteen years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in the new American Revolutionary War, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We the people have come to dedicate our lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, while we meet to debate healthcare and taxes and fight to take back our government from corrupt politicians, lobbyists, and special interest groups, we are really rededicating ourselves to the beliefs of our forefathers who fought and died for our rights and freedoms. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what we did here. It is for us the living that we dedicate today to the unfinished work which those before us fought to nobly advance.

It is for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that in our forefathers fight for our freedom, they shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I chose the words of Lincoln to make my point, because they are words of great clarity and understanding. Congress needs to understand that we the people will not allow our heritage, our values, our freedom, our rights, and our fundamental existence under God and the Constitution to be taken away.