Winding Down

Blog

This is going to be the penultimate post. I think. chizzyandbryan was set up to be the blog to document the stories of our time in Europe. I guess it kind of did that in the beginning. But as we settled in here and life became routine I lost the material and the will to keep it updated regularly. I made a couple half hearted attempts at a true blog but it never materialized. I’d like to try that in the future but it will not be on chizzyandbryan.

So, yeah. We are returning to Seattle next week. I plan on doing one final post that reflects on these past three years.

But for now, one final political post.

I’m going to follow through and cast my vote for Ron Paul in the Washington State primary coming up. In fact, I’m really looking forward to voting my conscience, getting some closure, and starting to look for other ways I can contribute to the cause of freedom and personal liberty.

Our country was founded with the goal of creating the smallest government the world has ever seen. A government whose primary purpose would be to preserve and defend the freedom of the individual. We’ve failed in this so catastrophically that, over the course of only a couple hundred years, we now have the largest government the world has ever seen.

We don’t debate whether or not the government is allowed to steal from us or invade our privacy. We only debate how much they are allowed to steal from us and how much privacy they are allowed to invade. Our courts consistently rule that the government isn’t actually obligated to protect the citizens it claims to serve. Law enforcement agencies are advised that when attempting to identify “domestic terrorists” one will often refer to “their rights” or to The Constitution when being questioned.

And, yes, the one presidential candidate who firmly stands for the basic tenets of our founding ideals is so marginalized that a casual observer will either never have heard his name at all, or can only associate him with derogatory terms.

How did we get here?