Dear Editor,

I would consider myself to be the face of the average American. I’ve lived in Pocatello for about 24 years and raised most of my children here. I have four children. Two of my boys are in the military, one son in high school, and a daughter who works locally. I attended ISU and am a nurse. As time moves forward and changes come in our country I note that not all of this change is good. I have wondered how many of the laws being passed could be for the best when they are contrary to the Founding Fathers guidelines. You may ask what were the guidelines I am referring to? I have heard the dispute that the Founding Fathers were Christians and that as such, because of today’s politically correct agenda, shouldn’t be brought into the discussion and well I believe they were, I would like to look back to who they referred to for their guidelines and inspiration. For the person that the Founders of this great nation turned to for guidance was neither Christian nor Jewish. His name was Marcus Tullius Cicero and was a “…favorite expositor of Natural Law.” It is Natural Law that is referred to in the Declaration of Independence. As an average American I didn’t know what Natural Law really meant, do you? So I decided to research this term and here is what I found. According to Cicero, leading lawyer in Athens and Roman Consul 106-43BC;

 "Natural Law is true law. True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions….It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter if it. And there will not be different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst punishment. (Quoted in Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 133. Excerpt taken from The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen, pp,40.

Cicero also taught about what happens when men pass laws that are against God’s Natural Law.

 "But the most foolish notion of all is the belief that everything is just which is found in the customs or laws of nations….What of the many deadly, the many pestilential statutes which nations put in force? These no more deserve to be called laws than the rules a band of robbers might pass in their assembly. For if ignorant and unskillful men have prescribed deadly poisons instead of healing drugs, these cannot possibly be called physicians’ prescriptions; neither in a nation can a statute of any sort be called a law, even though the nation, in spite of being a ruinous regulation has accepted it. (Ibid.,pp. 134-35.) Excerpt taken from The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen, pp, 44.

The reason for the letter returns, Dear Editor, to the passing of laws that are not good for this country. Too many times average American’s like myself are kept so busy with day to day life that we fail to see the deterioration of American life due to the passing of bogus and even harmful laws. To see how to better maintain and even restore America to what it once was each American needs to make time to stand up for American values and Natural Law. Attend the Tea Party coming up on July Fourth and go to the Library to the free classes on Thursdays at noon to learn more about The 5000 Year Leap. You can as just one person make a difference. George Washington did. Martin Luther King did. Mother Theresa did.

Sincerely,

B.A. Woods, EMT-B volunteer, LPN.