Res Publica

[Victor Laslow]

Res   Publica

Our country is in a state of disarray as we find ourselves in debate over the state of affairs the nation is in.
We have come a long way since the days of segregation. As I remember when I was young, prejudice against the races was indeed rampant not only between colors but religion as well had a big divide. During the Vietnam War at the age of 17 I asked my mother to allow me to enlist in the army. I had not yet been open to the political stage play that placed our country in the theater, but I, as so many young men of that era, grew up playing war and it was in our blood as our parents were of the greatest generation.

In playing war the noblest thing to do was dying saving your friends. Of course this was with cap guns and all make believe, we would get right back up and go on another mission in hopes of being as brave as or fathers were in WWII. The thing that we did not know was the real carnage that came with war.
Our fathers never spoke of the actual experience they had gone through, my guess now it was to horrible to speak of and all they wanted was a peaceful place to finish out their lives and die in piece with out the agony of what they had seen, the fate so many of their fellow soldiers had suffered.

Well I digress; it was Walter Cronkite the first of the Liberal mediea who brought the actual battle into our homes that with the eyewitness accounts of friends who returned from Indochina that opened our eyes. We actually saw the carnage, the utter waste of life and how cheap it was to throw it away for a far off land that had no wish for us to be there.
The brave dashing courage I had while playing with toy guns was replaced by the actual threat of a horrible death it only had taken one year for me to change my attitude towards war and think about why we were there, the news that brought the fight into our living rooms made us ask why.
The answer being shoved in our face by the liberal media was becoming more and more relevant The Vietnam war was not the honorable fight war was supposed to be. My friends were coming home in body bags or missing limbs, some were dependent on drugs, the attitude I had grown up with was changing. The attitude of the nation was changing. I guess at the time I thought that is what came with fighting a war with out a cause.

Then along came a war in Israel, I went to my mother and again said I want to go fight for Israel our country is corrupt and I would rather fight for our religion, the answer was swift and to the point.
I have never been hit by my mother before but the slap I received that day woke me up, as her word that followed; “before you consider yourself Jewish you are an American never forget that. Never speak out against this country that gave you the right to be a Jew”.
I never forgot those words. My mother with the one swipe of her hand and the shortest lecture she ever gave me taught me more about being an American than any lesson I learned in school.

Now what does that have to do with the politics today? Plenty, ever since that day the pride of being an America replaced the war games I played as a child and the pretend bravery I wished I had. Now with that love of country I fight only to preserve our Republic. I am too old and my body is a bit decrepit so I fight with the most powerful weapon at my disposal, Words. With that I will tell you what I think.

We are a Republic a Republic that democratically elects our legislators who write our laws, the laws we live by. A republic founded upon the Judaic Christian theology.
It was Moses who brought down the Ten Commandments for my people to live by and though scattered for two thousand years we survived uncounted trials and tribulations thanks to the Laws of my people.

In 1776 Our forefathers formed a new nation a nation of Laws as I said based on the Judaic Christian teachings, only the laws went a step further to include liberty and the means to advance these laws for the betterment of society.

The only way we can survive as a nation is to follow the laws just as the laws have kept my people alive even though scattered apart, and we as nation must remain a Republic to remain as a people.

“The word Republic comes from the Latin words Res which means Thing and Publica meaning Public it means the public thing, The Law.”

That is what makes our nation strong and united as a nation. A nation that has provided rights for all, even if it has taken two hundred years to get as far as to have a President of African decent. I will say this America is not a perfect nation, not yet but it is the best in the world, through the Laws, we have the potential for evolving into greatness.
Look how far we have come. Will we now give that up for the few in control of our government now? I hope not. Remember we as a Republic Democratically elect our representatives and if they do not vote on our behalf we, as a people, have the power to vote them out.

Right now some of the people in our government believe they have the power of an oligarchy. I am speaking of Pelosi, Reid, Frank and yes, President Obama, and with their power they are imposing on our, (I say our, shamed now that I am still a Democrat) representatives to vote as the oligarchy tells them to.

This must not be allowed. We are a Republic We the people are the LAW. And we must not allow a minority of socialist democrats to place themselves above the law. Write your congressman and congresswoman, write your Senators and, even though he might not listen, write the President. Inform them it is but a short while until the midterm elections and you will be heard then.