Yeave Me A Yone!

My wife and I attended the Campaign For Liberty Forum, last Friday evening, as part of the CPAC Convention in Washington D.C. We listened to six great speakers, which included Congressman Ron Paul, Thomas Woods, and Judge Napolitano. The ballroom had to be stuffed with at least four hundred liberty-loving patriots. We cheered for over two hours as we were enlightened, and inspired, by statements like Judge Napolitano’s, “Lincoln was our nation’s worst president!”

One of the guest speakers enumerated some of our liberties: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, etc. Then he condensed them into a broad but encompassing right: “The right to be left alone!” This is what the American, and for that matter foreign, freedom lovers really want: to be left alone.

Our empire, is not only entangled with 135 foreign countries, is destroying the economic future of our financial system, our families, and the dollar, but has its crosshairs set on our right to own a firearm, and a mandatory draft. Our foreign neighbors are hollering, our free market is hollering, and our families are hollering, “Leave us alone!”

When my youngest son, who is 21 years old, was three, he prophetically coined our battle cry. He has always been strong willed, and at three, he had not quite mastered the roll of the tongue, which is necessary for the “l” sound. That didn’t stop him from exercising his freedom of speech. Whenever he was corrected, and decided he had had enough, he would let loose an emphatic directive, “Yeave me a yone!” He didn’t need the “l”; we knew what he said.

Having lived through this almost primordial sound of command, I could not get Friday’s message out of my mind. The truth of government's intrusion into our lives, begs the question of credibility. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are they still recognized rights in the USA?

So today, as I drove through a suburban wooded park, I opened my window, and let it rip: “Yeave me a yone!” It felt great. Try it. The revolution has begun.