Jacob Jester captured the pat-down at Kansas City International Airport. Picture: Jacob Jester

Have we finally lost our God given common sense and our way as a nation?

By the comments posted on MSNBC.com I am starting to believe we may have finally lost our way as a once great nation and a beaming star of hope for other nations around the globe.

In what should be a time to recognize the historical and brave actions of our special forces last week, we are instead given another reminder of what is rapidly becoming very wrong about the Great US of A.

Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying;

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

Our Founding Fathers understood what personal responsibility and common sense meant. They understood “real” freedom and “real” safety can not be guaranteed by the State. It is only through individual acts of personal responsibility that can ultimately deliver any sense of personal safety and personal freedom.

I am ashamed at the sad state of affairs our policy makers have directed us towards. Why does it take a 9-11 type event to show what our great country and its people are capable of?

In our increasingly complex world we live in I don’t blame those who would rather turn to the excitement of a good football game with friends over spending a little time to read and understand history and how we got here as a people. I don’t blame them for not recognizing we may be just another false flag event away from causing irreversible changes to our country, our way of life, and our constitution.

I know we as individuals are given the ultimate potential to fulfill a great mission in life. My only hope is that we give a little thought and use common sense in our actions. If that means we refuse to enforce those laws, regulations, and policies that are unjust, then that is the conclusion I would expect any reasonable person to make.

I will no doubt receive numerous emails in response to this letter; most likely of the unfavorable sort and that is fine. One right we still partially have is the right to free speech and I’ll fight to the grave for someone else’s right to free speech even if they choose to use that right in speech against me.

My only request is that as you read this short grief, that you step back and look at it from a broader perspective.

This isn’t necessarily about a specific act by a specific organization or particular individual. It is about the overarching trend and path we as U.S. citizens are on at the direction of our policy makers. Today it’s a pat down of an 8 month old baby, what will tomorrow bring, or the next day, or next year? What liberties will we be willing to give up a decade from now for the “perception” of safety?

Those are the honest questions you must ask yourselves and then you must help us get off this path and back on the path of personal responsibility and common sense.

Our rights are ultimately granted under God; rights no Sovereign has the power to change or revoke. It is only faith in our Lord, that we will every truly be safe.

There are risks all around us, there always has been. I for one, however don’t need to see an 8 month old baby patted down to make me feel “safe” while traveling to my aunt Hilda’s house.

Godspeed and happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there.