To The Republic,

I fully understand that the war to Secure Our Borders will have small impact on people like me, "long-in-the-tooth Vietnam vets". The war must be won for our children's children and their future. Government ineptness and lack of will lost our war in Southeast Asia and I'm unclear how we will ever rid the world of terrorists, but we must Secure Our Country from illegal invaders including the internal invaders we voted into office. We, the American citizens, have been asleep since we began voting ourselves entitlements. No republic can withstand the pressure of an overpowering bureaucratic government. A government that is controlled by special interest and is deaf to the voices and pleas of its citizens can not support republic ideals, nor can it survive. In a broad definition, a republic (America is not a democracy) is a state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control by the people of that state or country. In general being a republic implies sovereignty as for the state to be ruled by the people it cannot be controlled by a foreign power. With continued bastardization of our Constitution my sense is that the American Dream is dead. Regardless, we must wage this last great war guided by the principals and disappearing hopes of saving the republic: The United States of America.

David A. Bess
Murfreesboro, TN.
http://www.tennesseeworkers.blogspot.com

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