My family and I believe that we are fit to govern ourselves.

We believe that the disposition of the fruits of our labors are and should always be a matter of personal conscience.

We believe that we have the fundamental right to live according to the dictates of our most deeply held values. 

These are conditions of human dignity and freedom that the believer and non-believer alike can recognize. The corollary is that the individual or institutional use of force to deprive any of us of these rights is a crime against Man, nature, justice and reason and must always be resisted lest we give those who commit those crimes our sanction - and in so doing, sanction the crime itself.

To believe otherwise amounts to a profound abdication of personal responsibility and a rejection of the qualities that make us human.

To believe otherwise is to embrace an ideology of helplessness and the worldview of the victim.

To believe otherwise is a despicable betrayal of ourselves and those we love to abject evil.

To believe otherwise is to declare oneself an enemy of human freedom and dignity - like it or not, know it or not - and to expose oneself to all the inevitable and inescapable consequences.

To believe otherwise is to place oneself firmly in the camp of the enablers of human misery, mass murder and oppression.

Democrats stand ready to 'improve' the judgment of others they deem less enlightened than themselves with the barrel of a gun. Republicans are only somewhat less inclined to do so. Those who think that Democrats and socialists are humanity's saviors are nothing more than idolaters in the same 'church' as Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot and every other totalitarian monster who left slaughter, misery and mass murder strewn in the wake of their trajectory through the history of the last century. Each and every one of these monsters had their applauders, their sycophants, their appeasers. Most of them were voted and openly cheered into positions of power. History's very clear on this point, as it is on the consequenecs.

Think carefully, therefore about the nature of those whom you applaud, aid and abet - that is, if you care to think at all. I believe that we have arrived at one of those great watersheds of history where the course of human freedom and dignity will either descend into a nightmare of slaughter, slavery and misery from which it may well never recover, or it may veer towards a great philosophical and moral renaissance - a rebirth of our respect for life and liberty. In closing, please consider the following propositions (with nod towards Professor R. J. Rummel):

• Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
• Compassion, when exercised by the mentally, physically and spiritually lazy, is an open invitation to tyranny.
• Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. Nobody. The more power a regime has, the more likely it is that people will be killed. This is the indisputable record of history, and it the major reason for promoting the cause of liberty.
• Educators, political scientists and philosophers virtually everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power, the dilution of individual responsibility and the death of discourse. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression - enemies of human freedom who must be opposed at every turn. They are humanity's dark shadow, they will always be with us, and they must always be resisted and fought.
• Acton's Corollary: Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
• The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder is through restricting and checking the power of government. The means to uphold the rule of law and to promote individual freedom and the responsibility that freedom demands was given to us by the Founders - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
• Humanity has always had a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty and to reduce the power of government.
• Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.
• To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress and spiritual sovereignty.

Ward Dorrity