GOODBYE, CRUEL YEAR

Well, we say, "Next year can't be as bad as last."  Yet, in our hearts we know that it will be.  

There will be more shootings, more stabbings, more name-calling, more shucking and ducking in government; there will be a continuing decline in our freedoms, increased danger in our international relations and acts of terrorism around the globe.  And there will be more attacks on what remains of our rights to free speech, freedom of religion, rights to bear arms, for peaceful assembly, against illegal search and seizure, on and on.  

The unwarranted and continuing violation of the 10th Amendment to our Constitution shall proceed without question: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." 

We now have a president who has openly declared he does not care what the new Congress comes up with; if he doesn't like it, he'll veto it; and if Congress fails to enact the legislation he demands, he will use his pen to create his own.  Surely, just as Putin knows he can do what he wants because the United States will not stop him, so does Obama know he can do whatever he wants because neither the Congress or the people will stop him. 

If we, the people, fail to rise up and exercise our inalienable rights to defend our Constitution and our democracy, then who can we blame except for ourselves?  And ultimately, when and how will it all come to an end?