Party discusses U.S. Constitution

Discussed forms of government

MOSES LAKE - The Grant County Constitution Party elected new officers and discussed the principles of the party Thursday.

The group elected Sandra Hodges to be chairman of the party, Mary Gillmore to be vice-chairman and Karen Murray to be secretary and treasurer.

The group of 15 people who gathered for the meeting including Constitution Party members and presidential candidate Ron Paul supporters who were curious about the party.

Murray said although Paul is a Republican, most Constitution party members support him for president.

Murray gave a speech concerning the moral imperative to act. She based her speech on the movie "High Noon."

Murray said the movie tells a story about a man who used to be a sheriff but quit to be married and later became sheriff again.

"We are facing our own 'High Noon' in this election year," Murray said. "We are subject to a mentality that depends upon government assistance and subsidies in an endless variety, to rules and regulations that are oppressive, to laws that make criminals of us all. If ever there was a moral imperative to act it is now."

She said a constitutionalist believes in the rule of law.

"We believe in limited government, in freedom of conscience, in right of self-defense, in freedom of religion, in freedom of speech," Murray said. "All these beliefs and more are threatened by the globalist corporate government encroaching upon us from all sides."

She said the duty of the party is to steer the nation toward the intent of the U.S. Constitution.

Murray suggested sharing the principles of the party with others, opposing bad legislation, supporting constitutional legislation and supporting moral leaders.

"The betrayal of the U.S. Constitution is the betrayal of mankind's best hope for living in a society that allows liberty of conscience and the freedom to soar to the highest heights that can be conceived of by the mind of man," she said. "Let us now be persuaded to raise the weapons of word and action against those who would destroy the very documents that has created the environment of liberty."

Hodges shared a speech she wrote, entitled "Choose Your Allegiance."

"Nature and nature's God have recognized opposing forces, darkness and light, virtue and vice, good and evil," she said. "There are forces at war today for the hearts and minds of the human race."

Hodges said the opposing forces are tyranny and liberty.

She said if tyranny exists it equates to total control at the cost of liberty and they cannot co-exist.

Hodges said the Communist Manifesto was initially perceived as a utopian dream of equality while Communism forced people to be equal in every way. She said the U.S. Constitution provides rights to citizens different from those who lived under communism.

"The constitution was written as a shield from tyranny. It does not grant our constitutional rights but validates our God given rights," Hodges said. "It puts limits on tyranny and it is the contract the people have with those that they would choose to govern them to hold tyranny in check."

She said the constitution was created to ensure all people are equal under the law.

"No one hated slavery more than the founding fathers, and they should know, some of them had slaves," Murray said. "Slavery was not only immoral but unfashionable and expensive."

She said the constitution was written to allow slavery to be phased out over a 20-year period.

"There needed to be time for slaves to prepare to be self-sufficient and slave owners to adjust," Murray said. "The cotton gin was invented and they say the rest is history."

She said people who are not self-sufficient now, are virtually slaves.

Murray said according to the Declaration of Independence, people are granted unalienable rights. She said they are irrevocable rights and are God-given.

"No earthly king, no feudal lord, no tyrannical dictator, no sleazy politician, no other human being can take these rights from you without incurring the wrath of God," she said.

Murray continued to discuss definitions of liberty and tyranny and how they might apply to daily life and constitutional rights.

"All unalienable rights hinge on one question, 'Is there a creator?'" she said. "Our founding fathers believed so and they knew that the only basis for sound government and just human relations is natural law."

Murray said if there is no God then people do not have rights in correlation with how the Constitution was written. She said all things would become permissible including murder, pedophilia and bestiality.

"If there was nothing and then it exploded, then life is a Darwinian survival of the fittest," Murray said.

She said those with the biggest guns would be the fittest.

"'Thou shall not kill' would be replaced with, 'kill whomever you want,'" she noted. "Let's say we just kill the unborn, or the mentally challenged, or the old people that are a drain on our social system or just kill the Jews. Whatever the case, make it legal in an earthly court. Or as a last resort you could be the leader of an army that would do the killing for you and if they balk at the idea, kill them too. There would be no right or wrong, everything would be relative to the society you reside in and how far they have evolved."

Murray said without the God given rights, one could worry the world could become what she previously discussed.

She said people must practice their rights written in the Constitution or their rights could be taken away.

For more information about the Grant County Constitution Party e-mail constitutionpartyofgrantcounty@hotmail.com.