Constitutional Republicanism or Despotism and Anarchy

I will not remain silent in the face of injustice and thus would like to state that the terrible rioting and the destruction of lives and property that is going on in our cities must immediately be stopped by our governor, our mayors and our state and local police whose primary responsibility it is to maintain law and order and uphold our state and federal constitutions within the community.

Some thoughts from Calvin Coolidge, our nations vastly underrated 30th President:

"No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped."

- From President Coolidge's speech at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence July 5, 1926.

"Coolidge was right. And the reverence that the forefathers had for things holy was like banking moral capital. As we grew in accordance with the principles on which we were based, our moral capital grew. But it is increasingly evident that our moral treasury has been laid to waste and with it our greatness. There is a profligate vanguard which pays homage to the latest visionaries instead of heeding the adjurations of reality and the spiritual truth our founders knew. We may not be totally gone, but we are moving at an increasing rate ever closer to a despotic condition."

- Mr. Carl Strom

And President Coolidge also said it best in his inimitable style and with crystal clarity when he said:

"It is my purpose to maintain the Government of Massachusetts as it was founded by her people, the protector of the rights of all but subservient to none. It is my purpose to maintain unimpaired the authority of her laws, her jurisdiction, her peace, her security. This ancient faith of Massachusetts which became the great faith of America, she reestablished in her Constitution before the army of Washington had gained our independence, declaring for ‘a government of laws and not of men.’ In that faith she still abides. Let him challenge it who dares. All who love Massachusetts, who believe in America, are bound to defend it. The choice lies between living under coercion and intimidation, the forces of evil, or under the laws of the people, orderly, speaking with their settled convictions, the revelation of a divine authority.”

— Governor Calvin Coolidge, excerpts from an Address at the Tremont Temple in Boston to the Republican State Convention, October 4, 1919