Sunday, January 3, 2010

Liberty Leak

Liberty Leak.

In physics, the Laws of Entropy dictate that all matter changes from an ‘organized state’ to one of ‘disorganization’. Inevitably, over time, no physical matter escapes entropy. Whether it’s a new computer, a shinny new car, a rod of radioactive uranium, a majestic mountain, or a perfect newborn baby, the universe’s Time Keeper vigilantly pushes us all towards our eventual inescapable crumbling demise.

Fortunately we humans have been able to create majestic monuments of organization that outlive us and even push back the certain decay that will follow. During our fleeting existence we all get to build and enjoy our castles in the sand. Throughout the generations we have learned to repair, improve, and diligently safeguard our more worthy creations from the incessant termite-like erosion from entropy.

Our miraculous Constitution and our Freedoms are no exception. Over time, liberty will naturally decay and want to give way to regulation and tyranny.

Ronald Reagan declared: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Indeed to preserve our Liberty we must endure the pains of maintaining it. Liberty’s strongest foe is apathy; and apathy is entropy’s best friend.

As 2009 seamlessly morphed into 2010, we need to redouble our vigilance.

Everyday that governments assemble across our globe, is another day where Liberty is lost.

Every time Congress or your local Town government assembles, new legislation is drafted, another regulation or tax is put in place, and another Liberty quietly slips away.

Mark Twain accurately said: "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while Congress is in session."

As a resolution for this new year, consider being vigilant as if your life and the future of your children depended on it. Push back harder against government’s natural inclination to grow, rule and dominate. Speak up, speak out, and for a change, demand legislation that increases Liberty instead of squashing it. On Liberty, there can be no compromise. You are either free or you are ruled.

Happy New Year!


Jacques Ditte
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Jacques Ditte: Extended bio.

I am a first generation American, born in New York, of French parents.
My passion for politics came no doubt from the life experiences my parents endured and overcame. My love for the United States as the last greatest bastion of Freedom, has existed since my earliest childhood memories.

My father & mother grew up in during WWII in occupied France. My father was taken prisoner, was forced to quarter German soldiers in his home. My Uncle was the French Resistance.

My mother, lived through the occupation, plane bombings and daily food rationing. She lived with food rationing and witnessed French citizens executed by Nazi soldiers on her way to school.

Last year, I survived a hard battle with throat and lymph node cancer. Cancer is a life altering chapter in one’s life. In my case it further cemented my core values and blessed me with a special appreciation of the finite time we all have.

Asides from volunteering my time to help other cancer patients through “Blog For a Cure”, I now focus my time and energies on causes I believe in; notably the promotion of our nation’s founding principles of Individual liberty, by helping those people and organizations who wish to preserve the same.

I am fundamentally guided by my unwavering knowledge that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I am an unabashed Constitutional Conservative. My political values are firmly grounded in Individual Liberty, limited government and State Sovereignty. The core Constitutional principles of our Union for which that hundreds of thousands of patriots fought and died.