Dear Mr. President,
First
let me note that you and your family are in our prayers in this difficult time,
and that I do not pretend to have a comprehension of the numerous and crushing
challenges that you face day by day.
Having
said that though there is a point that no one has called into question that
needs to be addressed, you have often said that your first priority is the
health and safety of the American people. This is not correct. Since the days
of George Washington the oath of office that you and so many other great men
have taken is to uphold and defend the constitution
of the United States.
Of
course a significant part of upholding the constitution is the safety and welfare
of the American people, but what makes America unique and exceptional is the
freedoms expressed in our Declaration of Independence and codified in our
Constitution. If it should come about that we succeed in greatly in mitigating
the spread of this virus but we harm the very constitution that you have sworn
to uphold and defend then we are unworthy of the legacy of sacrifice that has
navigated us through the murky waters of history and made the American dream the
envy of all mankind.
Part of
the reason our constitution is so effective is the brilliance of the Federalist
system that allows for the differences in a vast and
varied landscape and a regional subculture area by area to make the whole of
our nation stronger. This unilateral response to this threat cuts at the very
heart of this system. To bankrupt a barber in Smyrna Georgia and force him to
accept government handouts in order to survive will not save a single life in
Manhattan. To treat rural America with the same remedy as NYC to silence a
million innovative businesses and individuals in one heavy handed blow is not
just foolish it breaks the very oath of office you have taken.
So much
of your success has come from public private partnerships with men like Mike
Lindell stepping up to help in this crisis, but how many millions of Mike
Lindell’s are being squelched in their efforts to help. How many millions of
small business men, inventors and innovators lack the clout and resource to
have the President’s personal phone number or to have a friend in the governor’s
office that would allow them to be declared essential in order to implement
their innovations? Most of these ideas and innovations might fail but somewhere
there are the preverbal bicycle shop owners ready to invent manned flight that
your social distancing guidelines are suppressing.
Right now
governors all over this country are drunk with power, Newsome and Cuomo,
terrible men whom you keep praising, Justice, Hogan and Northam, who seem to be
racing to see who can get there state to resemble 1980’s Moscow the fastest are all taking their ques
from the top and you sir, could begin to halt their excesses simply by
reminding them that they are no better than Abraham Lincoln and that their
little disaster declarations do not give them unlimited power to suspend Habeas
Corpus any more than the Civil War did
Lincoln.
What may become the most
damnable legacy of this crisis and of your administration if you don’t change
course soon, is the harm being done to religious freedom. This is a heartbreaking
irony considering that no President in history has been a stronger champion of
religious freedom than you, but one crisis and you seem willing to throw that
away. When you allow government to close churches for their own good, than
freedom of religion becomes a technical argument rather than a principled one. Churches now meet at the Governments
discretion? Do we now need the permission of the county health department to
hold services? Are we now able to be shut down during every seasonal flu
outbreak? Shut down preemptively because there might be a seasonal flu
outbreak? Churches are the number one
source of aid, of relief, of support, and of hope in every crisis and we should
be doing the same now but we are barred from congregating. God has always
worked in the mightiest ways in times of despair, when his people come together
to pray (facebook prayerchats are not the same) and when they have braved every
kind of danger and disease to take the Gospel to the world. In my community not one church has chosen to
defy these orders and hold services. I was stupefied when our church chose to cancel
services in March and argued so vehemently with my pastor against the decision
that I had to call him back to be sure we were still friends. I fear we shall
rue the day for many generations to come when we sold our liberty in an attempt
to avoid making waves and the risk, very slight in our rural community, of
catching a virus.
There is
a very old saying that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Step away
from the models and the New Yok, Los Angeles media, and the bureaucratic experts
and look at the harm you are doing to Middle America, I.E the people who
elected you in the first place. Our nation can survive a virus even a devastating
one but I am not sure we can survive a competent Executive Branch with good
intentions. I close with the words of a
famous American one far more eloquent them myself:
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to
restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the
government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” Patrick Henry
Your friend
and our generations Patrick Henry, Rush Limbaugh has often said no one can separate
Trump from his supporters but Trump. The longer you ignore your duty to the US Constitution
the greater the danger of that very thing happening becomes.
Sincerely
John W Tabler, concerned citizen
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