America at 250

As America prepares to celebrate our 250th birthday, it is imperative that all Americans recall those things that made our nation unique.

There are fundamental principles that formed the foundation that produced the greatest nation in the world.

Those principles were laid out in our Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and put into operation eleven years later when our Constitution was written and ratified.

The Declaration stated succinctly the important principles that express what our Founding Fathers had in their hearts and minds:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

Many of those same Founding Fathers, along with others, moved with purpose to create our Constitution, including a visionary preamble:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Americans must always remember that our independence was secured with the blood of patriots, and that over the past 250 years, millions more have taken an oath to defend our Constitution and made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our nation free.

The principles that formed our Declaration of Independence are unique to America; no other nation has declared independence the way America did 250 years ago. Our Declaration inspired others, but no nation was born the way ours was.

Our Republican form of government, spelled out in our Constitution, is absolutely unique in the world. Our Constitution has stood the test of time, making us a nation of laws, not of men, as John Adams famously stated.

This is now more important than ever as we look across the Atlantic Ocean at Europe.

Europeans in several nations, notably the United Kingdom and France, have forgotten who they are and have descended into being nations of men, not laws.

No country in Western Europe has freedom of speech and freedom of expression as described in our First Amendment. In the UK, British subjects are being arrested in their homes for expressing their opinions on Facebook. The Left is slowly turning the UK into a totalitarian state.

Europe has often been regarded as the cradle of Western Civilization, but it has forgotten the admirable principles that make Western Civilization superior to others.

This is especially seen in the mass immigration—much of it illegal across undefended borders—from the Islamic Third World into Western Europe. The Islamization of Western Europe has resulted in cultural rot and creeping Sharia.

What does Sharia bring with it? Severe discrimination against women and non-Muslims, barbaric criminal activity, wildly escalating rape and sexual assault crime rates, and Islamic ghettos that are scarcely recognizable as European, if at all.

How did this come about? It came about because Europeans abandoned their own mainly Christian faith, making their culture vulnerable to a highly motivated and hostile Islamic invasion.

Nowhere is this more vividly portrayed than in campaigns across Europe to replace Christian churches with mosques…

…in the UK…

…in France…

…and it’s no accident…

It’s happening here in America, a well-financed campaign to buy churches and turn them into mosques.

Americans must not forget that America is a unique place, what President Reagan called a “shining city on a hill.”

Our nation was founded on bedrock principles that are inherently opposed to Sharia. We must not make the mistakes that Europe has made and allow barbarism into our culture and society.

As we celebrate our 250th birthday, we must never forget who we are and what America stands for.