We hold these truths to be self evident...or do we?

The Declaration of Independence states, "that all men are created  equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," and we say we believe that to be true. But I have found that that is not always the case. We say we believe in the Right to a fair trial but do we? Bear in mind, it says it is our Creator who gives us these rights not Government. And we say what our Creator gives us Government cannot take away. So why do we rush to the defense of Government when they want to take them from others? We believe, as per the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, that we are protected from cruel and unusual punishment but refuse this same Right to others. The Bible says a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Has America become unstable.

This recent and ongoing "War" on terror is showing this Country for what she really is. We scream that we have Rights that we want protected but want to refuse those same Rights to the alleged terrorists. That is right, alleged. We are told these people wish to do us harm and must be locked away and tried under the cloak of secrecy but unless we allow these people the Right to "a speedy and public" trial we only have the Governments word for what they did. What ever became of innocent until proven guilty? Just calling someone an enemy combatant doesn't make it so. That is for a jury to decide. Only once tried and convicted can they then be called enemy combatants.

We say, but they aren't Americans and don't have the same Rights as us. I beg to differ. If these Rights we scream for are given by our Creator then they apply to ALL men. "But they say they want to do us harm.". I hear Americans every day say we need to kill all of them. Is this not the same thing? Have we become a Country of hypocrites ? "But they are coming here to kill us. We have to go there to stop them." If that is the case why are we not in Saudi Arabia where the majority of the "alleged", again I say alleged as we were promised proof from our Government that has yet to surface, highjackers on 9/11 came from. And how does this make what happened in Iraq okay? Because they had weapons of mass destruction? Sorry, "aleged" WMDs. Does that mean any country that thinks the U.S. shouldn't have WMDs has a right to invade us? And do we become enemy combatants just because we wish to defend ourselves? Should we be rounded up and tortured?

America likes to call herself a Christian nation. Do they even know what that means? Let's look at what Christ has to say, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven; for he maketh his sun to to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethern only, what do ye more than others? do not the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect." St. Matthew 5:43-48.

I hear all the time how Christ said to sell your cloak and buy a sword but very few mention how when Peter cut off the centurions ear Christ said if you live by the sword you will die by the sword. But what does he know, it's not like he was persecuted and had people wanting to kill him, right?