The Roughton Report

Orlando, FL -  The terrorists of 9/11 were more successful than they ever dreamed.  Ever since the attacks, the people in power in this country have been ecstatic about the prospects it has opened for them.  The rage that was caused by the attacks on our home soil have made the people of this country willing to sacrifice their constitutionally protected freedoms in order to achieve a perceived measure of protection from repeated attacks.  The power brokers in this country have promoted this in order to attain even greater power over the citizens of America.

Our founding fathers would have been greatly disappointed in the citizens of our great nation.  They fought the great fight to make this country and it’s citizenry free from governmental control.  We have given in to the powerful of this nation and the shame is ours for the mistake we have made in believing that others should be responsible for our safety.

Most of us have never had the power to control others and, therefore, have never experienced the addictive feeling of possessing such power.  The adage that says “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is very relevant in this sense.  As we continue to surrender our constitutional freedom to govern ourselves and thus our right to protect ourselves from governmental abuses, we are slowly destroying the reason for the founding of this great nation.

I, for one, am frightened at the direction this country is moving.  I see that the powerful are, by claiming to be acting in the interests of protecting the citizens of this country, slowly eliminating the rights that enable the individual to protect themselves from government control.  The whole purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that the people were never placed in a position where the government could oppress them.  We are allowing the government that we are supposed to be controlling the power to control us instead.

I fully expect that the power brokers in this country, most of which harbor that belief that the average citizen (meaning anyone but themselves) doesn’t know what is good for them, will eventually rule us all by martial law and the suspension of the constitution thereby eliminating our ability to legally challenge their regime.  We will become the next third-world country with a despot ruler and there will be no other country to come to our rescue, as we have come to the rescue of so many others in the past.  Freedom will end and the world will be ripe for the anarchy that terrorists have been fighting for.

I pray that the people of this country wake up in time to stop this insanity.  But, somehow, I just don’t think that it will happen until after it is too late.

Orlando, FL -  What would you think of having a Sheriff that advertises his belief that crime is terrorism?

While on my way to take my wife to work the other day, I saw a sign that had been posted on the corner of Lee Rd and Hwy 17-92 in Winter Park. The sign was an advertisment for a candidate for Orange County Sheriff. It read “Crime is Terrorism” and it got me thinking.

With the meteoric rise in violent crime in Pine Hills, the area in which I live, I almost believed it. Then I started to look into what this belief would mean for the people of Orange County.

I started my research on the internet with a “Google” search for the phrase “Crime is Terrorism” and was inundated with thousands of “hits”. It took me quite some time to filter through them to find the ones that were relevent to the subject. When I was through, I was scared out of my mind at the direction that the country has taken since 9/11.

I found a Blog on the internet that summed up the information that I want to say quite nicely. It is publiushed by an anonymous citizen of Orange County. It is in the form of an emailed letter to a local television station’s news department. I strongly encourage everyone who reads my blog to read this person’s posting as well. You will find the blog by clicking HERE.

I followed the links in this posting and found that the person that wrote the information had already done most of the research that I wanted to look into.

Please, if you care about the United States; if you want this country to remain free and true to the constitution as it was authored by our founding fathers, read the information and then contact your state legislators, congressional representatives and senators and express your concerns that this country not fall into a state of martial law where violating our rights becomes a trivial matter.

Don’t let men like Stewart Malone run things. I would hate to have my rights suspended and be placed in custody without the right to trial or legal representation just because men like Stewart Malone want the power to bypass the constitution to achieve their goals.

Some may think that I am taking this to the extreme; that nothing like this would happen. “Not here, not in America.” What are you going to do when men like this decide to interpret the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act in such a broad manner as to violate your privacy because someone in power didn’t like something you said or did? There is nothing you will be able to do AFTER THE FACT. Be proactive and let’s get rid of the possibility NOW.

Do yourself a favor, do it TODAY. Tomorrow may be too late.