I detest feeling the urge to be pessimistic regarding our Republic, but I ask, “Have we lost the republic?”  Has the ship of republicanism (system of government) sailed, never to return to the harbors of freedom again?  Has the fundamental transformation that Barack Obama salivated to achieve reached a point where it is inevitable?  Have we, the people, totally abdicated our constitutional, moral, ethical, and biblical responsibilities governmentally?  Is America still America?

Before you blast me with both barrels blazing, pause for a minute and ponder where we are and how little the Constitution means in today’s American government.  How little it means in the halls of justice, the bureaucracies, and virtually every sector of our American life.  If you can genuinely assess where we are and the abridgments and infringements that have transpired and say we are okay, what I say will either irritate you or dismiss me as a conspiracist cook.  Either way, another nail will have been driven into the coffin of the American Constitution and Republic.

I have had little to say about the Durham report because nothing will likely be done with the findings.  It exposes and then gives cover to the violators or enough cover that those in power will talk about it but do nothing.  That is business as usual in Washington from both sides of the political aisle. 

The 306-page report that took too long and cost too much revealed the egregious abuse of power and only exposed what has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen.  Unless there is a transformation of the human heart of those seeking to seize total control over our lives and government, it will continue.  That is not very optimistic, is it?  However, I will state that although I see the handwriting on the wall and the obvious dangers, I still believe in God. If God’s people and the lovers of freedom unite and return to moral and ethical sanity, we can salvage the Republic.

The incredibly blatant partisanship of the FBI is appalling. The knowing disregard of exculpatory evidence and the deception and lies advanced to obtain warrants on the Trump campaign are more than a little troubling.  The reality that our federal law enforcement could and would break the law and disregard the moral and ethical duty to follow the Constitution does not bode well for our Republican System of Government.

It has been said that power corrupts, and ultimate power corrupts ultimately.  That is apropos in Washington today.  I am not sure what each of the elements of the corruption thinks they will gain, but it involves money, power, position, and insulation from prosecution should the winds shift.  I believe that they believe they are betting on the winning horse or holding the winning hand and therefore have hitched their wagon to that star.  I pray they are wrong!

The FBI’s guiding principle statement is ‘Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity.’  The Durham report exposed the hypocrisy of the agency.  I do not want to throw every member of the FBI under the bus. Still, all who participated in and facilitated the fraud, corruption, distortion, lies, and deception are not worthy to carry that shield.  Those supposed guiding principles are not rooted in the hearts of many within that agency, especially those at the top.  It was blatant partisan politics seeking to shape, shift, and determine the election(s).

One thing John Durham did was lay out the abuse of power in unmistakable terms.  The fact that little is being said and little action is being taken should be terrifying to every American.  If they can do what they did to Trump and other Conservatives, they can do it to all of us.  If the FBI deems itself above the law and not subject to the moral, legal, ethical, and constitutional guidelines, they are a modern Gestapo.   That is not the America of our Founders nor the America many of us grew up loving.

If it were just the FBI, we might have a greater sense of optimism, but the CIA, DOJ, NSA, Homeland, IRS, and other agencies have been involved.  The DOJ and the FBI in this investigation are the most obvious, but the others were not innocent and without guilt.

When a self-determined elite hierarchy operates as they have, you cannot maintain a republic of free citizens with a government of, for, and by the people.  If we wonder what the founders would say about this, we only have to read some of their many writings.

John Adams eloquently stated, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any others.”  George Washington concurred in his farewell speech, “’Tis substantially true that virtue and morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”  Those are only two of the many quotes we could cite.  The founders would align with Jefferson and call for “the tree of liberty to be watered with the blood of her patriots.”  They would not be milquetoast cowards!

Those who know me know that I base all I believe governmentally, socially, morally, and economically on the writings and teaching of the Bible.  I am a follower of Christ and believe the Bible to be The Word of God, not simply containing the Word of God.  I believe that without God’s providential help, there would be no America, and without his guiding hand, it cannot survive.  2 Chronicles 7:14 resonates with me. I believe the declaration of scripture that if we return to Him, He will return to us.

So how do we fix the problem?  We, the people, must determine that we will return to our moral moorings and reject any politician that plays free and loose with the Constitution regardless of party affiliation.  We must demand ethics, morality, truth, observance, and obedience to the Rule of Law and the Constitution.  If it is good for the goose (us), it is good for the gander (politicians, bureaucrats, justices, etc.).

Congress can pass a myriad of new rules and regulations, and they will be sidestepped and ignored like the previous ones were.  Unless we, the people, unite under the flag of freedom and recover our moral virtue and allegiance to the Constitution and thereby demand it from the political elitists in Washington, we will have lost the Republic. 

The FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle, one of three testifying to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, warned others who might come forward – Don’t Do It!  He said that the FBI would destroy those who dared. His words, “They will crush you!  The government will crush you and your family if you attempt to expose the truth about the things, they are doing wrong….”  He said those like him are examples of what the government will do to those who spill the beans.

The verifiable reality of what they did to him should be enough to send chills down the spine of every citizen.  It invokes images of the Tsars in Russia, the diabolical tyrants of China, the Nazi regime in Germany, and more.  It is Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Porfirio Diaz (Mexico), Genghis Khan, Stalin, and a host of others.  The pathway to power is similar in each of them, and the abuse of power is evidenced in them all.

America, we MUST return to God and UNITE, or we will witness the final nails being driven into the coffin of the Republic.  I cannot and will not allow that in silence and compliance.  As Queen Esther responded to her Uncle Mordecai, “If I perish, I perish,” I avow the same.  Maybe we have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.  We must stand fast for Faith, Family, and Freedom, or we lose everything!

God bless you, and God bless America!