Sheriff Clarke: our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor are still at stake TODAY: embrace the concept of self-rule

Last updated on: February 27, 2017 at 11:33 am by Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.

Sheriff Clarke: our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor are still at stake TODAY: embrace the concept of self-rule 2017-02-27T11:33:01-05:00 Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.

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At CPAC last week, conservatives from all over America gathered to celebrate principles that have made America great throughout our history and have made America great (again) with the election of President Donald Trump. It was an honor to be able to address this crowd of red-blooded citizens who understand the role of self-governance. After my initial introductory remarks, I said:

In 1964, the Great Communicator, offered us stern advice: “It’s time,” President Reagan observed, “we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers.”

In 1964, the Great Communicator, offered us stern advice: “It’s time,” President Reagan observed, “we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers.”

Do we?

Our nation was formed with a debt paid in blood, from the blood of Crispus Attucks and the Boston 5 in 1770 through the Surrender at Yorktown 11 years later.

Those that would spend their energies, those that risked and in so many cases lost all in establishing a nation for the ages knew the likely price of their efforts; and undertook their sacred work nonetheless.

In their great founding Declaration, Thomas Jefferson spoke for those Patriots and the price that might be levied in writing, “And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor.”

And to what purpose did our founding Fathers and the Soldiers of our great Continental Army strive?

Did they work to form the so-called “Great Society”, a place of cradle-to-grave reliance on the benevolent providence of Government as the father, the mother, the breadwinner and the teacher?

Hardly.

General Washington was rightly and fiercely proud of the nation that he believed lay within the grasp of the colonists as they struggled to tear it away from the corpulent arms of a king.

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America” Washington wrote to Benjamin Franklin. “Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly.”

But despite what Washington believed lay before the founding Patriots, they weren’t building a nation to be ruled from a throne room.

But I was just getting started. I went on to talk about the law itself being justice, morality, and Providence itself. Listen to the whole speech here:

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