Today if you believe we should protect our borders and enforce immigration laws you are labeled a racist and deemed to be heartless. The media finds the most heart-wrenching story they can involving a family that came into the United States illegally, completely ignoring that unsecured borders threaten the security of the citizens of United States and illegal immigration is a devastating drain on the economy.

If you question the progressive agenda of entitlements and redistribution of wealth you are selfish, unfair and probably, again, racist. If you don’t want big government taking over the healthcare in the United States you are, in effect, killing the uninsured. You’re labeled an extremist, a conspiracy theorist and ignorant if you think the government handling our healthcare is, at best, overstepping their bounds, and, at worst, acting unconstitutionally. Forget the fact that entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security have nearly $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, this program will be different they say.

If you choose to watch certain television stations that don’t chant the big government mantra you’re a tea bagger, closed-minded, a hate-monger, and, you guessed it, a racist.

If you believe life begins at conception then all of a sudden you are infringing on a woman’s freedoms. Isn’t that ironic. If you believe marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman, blessed by God, you’re mean-spirited and out of touch.

In today’s society moderate is the word of choice. You’re led to believe that the only Republican that can win an election is one in name only. One that walks the line of indecision, a place more closely associated with the self-preservation of the politician than with the values and principles of the Conservative.

If Conservatives continue to stand pat and allow the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and even Barack Obama to blame every day issues on race, religion, social class, gender or sexual orientation, Conservatism will continue to suffer. Until, as a whole, we begin to stand for independence, self-reliance, responsibility and hard work, Conservatism will suffer. True equality is not caring what color the skin of a person is. Real justice is living our lives free of the fears of being labeled a racist or a bigot because we reject the notion that anyone is owed anything more than life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Conservatism isn’t about hate. Conservatism isn’t about racism, slavery or bigotry. Conservatism is about the love of God, family and freedom, and if that isn’t politically correct, I don’t know what is.

Forget the legal aspect to this. I don’t know what kind of legal right there is to request a resident to not fly a flag, especially on their personal vehicle that is parked in the apartment complex lot, but forget whether or not they have any legal standing, instead try to comprehend the fact that someone in Albany, Oregon doesn’t think the flag of the United States of America should be flown because it may offend some people… really let that sink in.

Has it really come to this? What kind of people live in this country? If you live in the United States and the flag that represents this country is offensive to you… MOVE! No one is forcing you to live here. If you don’t respect the symbols of the United States of America, go somewhere else, but to think that the flag is offensive to some people that live here is scary.

The level of stupidity this person exhibited is utterly shocking! The story says that the apartment management wouldn’t comment on the request to remove the flags, but I’m sure that someone, at this point, has come to their senses and realizes the mistake they made in hiring the person decided to tell residents they couldn’t fly their US flags. Well, I’m hoping that is the case… I’m really, really hoping that is the case.

To be fair, the apartment manager didn’t discrimate against the US flag, the complex said that no flags are to be flown, regardless of their symbolic significance, as if that makes it a reasonable request.

Wow.

UPDATE: According to KVAL News, Barb Holcomb, the apartment complex employee that put the flag ban in place, has since lifted that ban due to legal concerns. The articles says that Holcomb didn’t believe she had the right to ban the flags, though the ACLU told KVAL News that there wasn’t any law preventing the apartment complex from banning the flags… big surprise. The best part comes at the very end of the article when Holcomb describes the individual that went to the media regarding the ban:

“He’s just a romping, stomping patriot,” Holcomb said.

The Declaration of Independence declares life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness inalienable rights of man, granted not by the government, but by our creator.

Today our government is trying to redefine those rights. Their desperate and shameless pursuit of control is destroying the United States of America that our founding fathers worked so hard to create.

The endless parade of new spending does nothing but create a population dependent on the state. Teaching a man to pursue happiness will go much further than providing happiness in the form of government entitlements.

Lets stand up. Voice your opinion, let your politicians know how you feel. Find common ground with your neighbors, friends and co-workers and work together towards a common goal of returning our country to a government that is by the people and for the people.

Should we fail to protect our rights our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness will be overtaken by lies, lawmakers and the pursuit of control.