WHO WE ARE!

[Dale T]

http://vimeo.com/105686970

[mike martell]

Thanks for posting Dale!

This should serve as a constant reminder of what and who we are.

Here is where we are in Oregon when things could change with less than one week remaining for Tuesdays mid term elections....Voter participation is around 25% return of vote by mail ballots?

Simply stated, if we go back to our founding fathers, who by the way must of possessed a crystal ball into the future with a vision of how things would be today, I constantly think about these words from Jefferson...

Jefferson understood "unalienable rights" as fixed rights given to us by our Creator rather than by government. The emphasis on our Creator is crucial, because it shows that the rights are permanent just as the Creator is permanent.

Jefferson's thought on the source of these rights was impacted by Oxford's William Blackstone, who described "unalienable rights" as "absolute" rights—showing that they were absolute because they came from him who is absolute, and that they were, are, and always will be, because the Giver of those rights—Jefferson's "Creator"—was, and is, and always be.

Moreover, because we are "endowed" with them, the rights are inseparable from us: they are part of our humanity.

In a word, the government did not give them and therefore cannot take them away, but the government still strains at ways to suppress them and if you fail to vote you toss your rights into the hands of an out of control corrupt Government!