Don't Give Superman a Speeding Ticket and Don't Blame the Founders for Putting the Brakes On!

Don’t Give Superman a Speeding Ticket; and,
Don’t Blame the Founders Because They Put the Brakes On
            by Timothy A. Ward, Patriot

02-Jul-2019

Everyone was screaming.  Everyone was on the bus of death and everyone was careening out of control into dead man’s pass.  Everyone was screaming, “Help us, Superman, help us.”

The driver had decided that he had nothing to live for and he intended to make this his, and everyone else’s on the bus, last trip ever.  He wanted to die and take everyone on the bus with him when he went.  He wiped the tears from his tortured eyes as he kept the throttle wide open.  The canyon rim was only two miles away and if the bus started its steep, winding journey to the bottom of the canyon at full speed, it was certain death for everyone on board.  Only Superman could save them, now.

Our hero, Superman, saw the bus speeding toward the canyon and he heard the terrified cries of the people who were doomed to certain death.  He dashed behind a cell phone store, because it was closed, and changed into in his super cape and super tights (there are no phone booths anymore, Superman must change his clothes at a cell phone store, at a cell phone kiosk in the mall or at the cell phone stand in Costco).

Ready to save the day, Superman, who is faster than a speeding bullet, is at the bus door in a flash!  He pulls the door open, yanks the driver from behind the wheel, and stomps (as only Superman can stomp) on the brake pedal.  All eight tires on the rear of the bus immediately stop turning … just as the radar detector on the bus bursts into its foreboding yelps as Superman passes a radar cop.

Awakened from his nap by the beeping of his radar gun, the policeman sees that the bus is going 130 miles per hour!  He turns on his lights and siren and gives chase as he shakes away the last remaining drowsiness from his nap.

Thank God we are saved, thinks Superman, as he sees the blue lights in his rearview mirror.  “OK, everyone, please don’t panic.  I am here and the policeman behind us is here to help.”, Superman announced to the passengers.  “I am stopping this bus and the policeman will get help for the bus driver.”  Superman quickly and safely brings the bus to a stop on the shoulder.  He is not even sweating because this is just normal for Superman.  He does this sort of thing a couple of times each day, often during his lunch break.

The policeman calls for backup as he pulls onto the highway.  “What is this bus driver doing? He is going to kill all of these people!  That bus is doing 130 miles per hour!!”, the policeman yells to the dispatcher.”  He is glad to see the bus is immediately slowing down, and he is relieved when it comes to a stop on the side of the road. 

He learns that his back up is nearly there, so he approaches the bus with his hand on his pistol.  Cautiously, he approaches the driver’s window.  “What the $^&)*&$ are you doing, mister?!?”, the policeman yells at Superman.  “You were doing 130 miles per hour!!  Get out of that bus, NOW”, he yells.  Superman steps down the steps to the ground and the policeman yells, “Get on the ground!!”

Superman is confused by the policeman’s demands.  Why is he attacking me when I was only trying to stop this bus and save everyone on it?  “Get on the ground”, yells the policeman.  Superman, champion of law and order that he is, did not resist the policeman and got on the ground.  The policeman handcuffed Superman (who could have broken the cuffs like they were spaghetti), and forced him to sit in the back of the police car while he wrote him a ticket for reckless driving by speed and then he took Superman before the Magistrate and requested warrants for thirty five counts of reckless endangerment (one count for every person on the bus).  Soon, Superman was facing 700 years in prison, plus one year for reckless driving, for a total of 701 years in prison.  He would be eligible for parole in 385 years.

At his trial, Superman testified that he took control of the bus at the very second that he entered the radar beam from the policeman, and yes, he was doing 130 miles per hour at that second.  However, he was not the one who got the bus going that fast, and he was doing everything within his (super)power to stop the bus.  Every person on the bus testified that Superman was telling the truth and that he had saved them all from certain death.

The policeman testified that he saw the bus speeding, that his radar equipment was recently calibrated, and it recorded the bus doing 130 miles per hour.  He testified that he did not see the bus before that time and that he did not know who was driving the bus before Superman took control of the wheel.  He stated that it appeared that Superman wanted the bus to go that fast because it certainly was going that fast when he saw Superman driving it.

The judge believed the policeman.  Superman was convicted of thirty-five counts of reckless endangerment and one count of reckless driving by speed.  He was sentenced to the full 701 years, with 316 years suspended, leaving him with 385 years to serve; therefore, the day that he is eligible for parole, 385 years from now, he will be released.

King George III, tyrant of the known world, and colonizer of the New World imposed a system of servitude on all who came within his domain.  He attempted to own the free will of the colonists by force.  He sent his guns to convince the men at Lexington and Concord to surrender their rifles and cannons; but, with that one shot heard around the world, our fathers said no.

The men who founded the United States of America were the Superman who jumped on the “out of control bus” which was the tyranny of King George III.  Our Founders saw our people being oppressed and that our peoples’ free will was owned by the English Crown, a power which was not God and which was in no way legitimate according to the truth of God’s Bible or according to the proof shown in the common law history of humanity. 

When they created our nation, our Founders applied God’s Truth to the record of the centuries of trial and error experienced by humanity as humanity tried to learn how to exist with one another, (i.e., our Founders studied the common law tradition which builds on the experiences of those who came before for the answers to how we should interact, today).  Our Founders knew that a government that protects the fundamental, foundational and inalienable freedoms which God gave to each individual person, is ensuring that each individual person can choose for himself or herself what is best for them.  Our Founders created a Constitution that ensured that each person can be free to live as they choose, if they don’t harm anyone else.  Ours was the first nation in the history of the world where the individual could determine how to live, free from an authoritarian government’s intrusion.

Our Founders “jumped on” the government of King George III when it was careening ahead at full speed.  The tyranny and oppression of the Crown was felt by everyone in the colonies and our fathers were the “Supermen” who rose to stop it.  They “stomped on the brakes” to stop tyranny and to stop slavery and servitude when they wrote our Constitution and when they watered the tree of freedom with their own blood on the battlefield.  They “stomped on the brakes” to stop the gun confiscation and taxation of King George III and they “stomped on the brakes” to end his oppressive control over their lives.  In the words of Ben Franklin, when the Founders created the United States, “[They] gave you a Republic, if you can keep it.”

The United States Constitution is like the brakes that Superman used on that bus that was running out of control.  Our Constitution slowed and stopped the oppression of government, it paved the way to end slavery through the popular vote (i.e., the 3/5 of  a person clause was an anti-slavery provision meant to limit the voting power of the slave states), our Constitution gave the way to establish the rights of women and it protected our freedom in so many other ways.

Our Founders applied the Constitution to the government which they were living under at that time.  At the time when the Constitutional protections were applied, that government from King George III had just ended because of the Revolution and the people of the Colonies were culturally attuned to living under the Crown’s law.  That law included the right to own slaves, and the law at that time forbade women from owning property and so much more that we find abhorrent today.

Our Founders did not create the world in which they lived; they rebelled against that world.  They wanted to change that world, and today they are blamed for the very world that they wanted to change and which they defeated in the American Revolution.  Our Founders rebelled against the societal norms of servitude that existed when they lived.  They wrote the greatest document in the establishment of individual freedom in the history of the world, and they applied those principles, those “brakes”, to change the world.  However, just like it took Superman some time to get that runaway bus stopped, it took time for the upswelling of human freedom to take hold enough to change the course of society.  The freedom which our Constitution guarantees could not be fully found for many decades because it took time for the people to discover their own freedoms and it took time for the legislatures and courts to craft laws to protect those newly found freedoms.

Superman got his speeding ticket because a policeman saw him at the moment that he took control of the speeding bus.  Many people claim that our Founders were racist oppressors and slave owners because the world in which they lived was certainly that way.  Our Founders are blamed because they lived in the society which they rebelled against, even though what they wanted was something very different from the society in which they lived.

Our Founders took control of our nation when it was racist and slave owning; but, like Superman was not a speeder, the great majority of them weren’t racist slave owners.  The fundamental principles described in our Constitution created the way for human freedom to flourish; but, at the instant it was ratified the nation was not yet transformed.  Our Founders wanted a different society, where all persons could be free to live as they chose, but it took time for society to catch up with them.

Many people on the left view our Founders as racist slave owners who do not deserve our gratitude and respect.  These people are like the policeman who saw Superman speeding because he took control of a speeding bus.  The policeman did not understand that Superman was not speeding just like those on the left do not understand the collective mind of our Founders who took the reins of a government of a society that they wanted to transform.

Those who hate our Founders because they lived in a time of racism and slavery, and who blame our Founders for these ills by association, simply do not understand that because of our Founders, and their belief in the dignity of the individual human being, that the course of Western civilization was changed from the monarchy of the English Crown to that of freedom for all persons.  They fail to understand that our Founders wanted a world were all persons could be free and they created a Constitution to enable that to become real and therefore our Founders were not like the society around them.  Our Founders believed in individual freedom for all people and they gave their sweat and blood to secure that for us. 

Please look at the founding of the United States of America as if we were rescued from tyranny and given the freedom to live as God intended each individual person to live, answerable only to God and not to any earthly power which contradicts God.  Please realize that to blame our Founders and claim that they are guilty of the evils of servitude and slavery is to ignore their dedication to oppose tyranny and their mortal commitment to give us a nation where we can be free if we restore the Constitution that they gave to us.