Thursday, September 15, 2011

Broken Oath (2006)

For years I have broken the oath I took and I did many things for which I am not proud. I forgot what integrity, responsibility, loyalty, and honor truly meant. I wrote the first of the following pieces sometime in 2005 (when George W. Bush was President) when I reaffirmed the oath I took many years before. I also began to implement that oath fully into my life after Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally on 8/24, 2010. I believe this is something all who have ever taken an oath should do, and for those that have never taken an oath should do so to themselves now.
Semper Fidelis,
Edward Bates

                                                                      Broken Oath(2006)

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God."
                                                                                                       Presidential Oath of Office

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
                                                                                                       Congressional Oath of Office

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
                                                                                                       Military Oath of Service


These oath's are taken when you are going into government service and they all have two things in common. The first is that when you take them you vow to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." The other commonality is that each and everyone that has ever taken these oaths are at this moment breaking them.

This liberal government, both democrats and republicans, are leading us down the road to socialism with their massive growth of government and nanny state social programs. These things are completely at odds with the Constitution. They often ignored or attempted to circumvent the very document they have vowed to protect. That makes them traitors, but we are no better.

Many of us has sworn to our God that we would defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." We failed to do this when we sat idly by and allowed these "leaders" to shred the sacred document we vowed to defend. Our inaction makes us as treasonous as their actions.

President Gerald R. Ford said, "our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men." President Ford was right our Constitution does work, but it is no longer being used. They interpret it to say what they want it to say to fit their treasonous actions.

They are breaking their oath, let us not be their willing accomplices. We must uphold our oath. To do so, we must stand against this quest for socialism and totalitarianism from both parties. It is our duty to do so.

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