Greetings, y'all. It is the first week of February, and it is also the week of my 64th birthday. However, this week got started with a bit of a troubling episode. It was Monday afternoon, and I walked out from the Dallas County Republican Party headquarters to my 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Gladiator to find the unspeakable…someone had busted out my right rear passenger side window and rummaged through my glove compartment and center console. Nothing was stolen, I guess they did not even want my Indian motorcycle black vest in the backseat. What got me was the brazen act itself; it happened sometime between 12:50 pm and 2:40 pm when I walked out. I had just finished an interview with Steve Gruber on Real America’s Voice network.

Needless to say, I was fuming. The area near the DCRP Hqs, Forest Lane and Central Expressway has a homeless problem. In broad daylight, the perpetrator made a calculated decision to vandalize my vehicle in a public parking lot and obviously felt that there would be no consequences. Lucky bastard!

All is well; I was able to contact USAA, thanks to NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski, and get squared away with Safelite for a window replacement on Tuesday. However, this entire episode got me thinking about two fundamental premises of our Constitutional Republic: natural rights theory and the law.

During my normal Tuesday morning run and workout, 4.5 miles, multiple sets of pushups and ab exercises, I thought about the incident on Monday. Conservatives should all be familiar with the name John Locke, the English political philosopher who, in the late 17th century, introduced a revolutionary concept called the Natural Rights theory. Locke wrote in his work, The Two Treatises on Government, that man naturally was endowed with rights from the Judeo-Christian God of life, liberty, and property. These were not rights as afforded under the concept of divine rights; meaning passed onto individuals by some ruling monarch so-called divinely appointed. It was Thomas Jefferson who read Locke and quoted his theory in our Declaration of Independence, “The Laws of nature and nature’s God.” Jefferson, however, rephrased the unalienable rights of an individual to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…as it was not desired to foster a belief that God gave a right for anyone to own another as property, meaning slavery.

Leftists despise Natural Rights Theory and have gone so far as to assert that it is some “alt-right” and “Christian nationalist” concept. They reject any premise that they are not in control, meaning government, man, of your life, liberty, and property. If you want to see a comical example of progressive socialist disdain for natural rights theory, just watch then-Senator Joe Biden question Clarence Thomas on the subject at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Biden was dumb then, and it only got worse.

And so the incident of Monday was a direct violation and assault upon my natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

Later, in the early 1800s, French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote a seminal work titled The Law. Bastiat postulated that the very existence of the law was to protect the individual’s life, liberty, and property. Instead of having rampant chaos and anarchy, the individual submitted their permission to the government to secure their rights, also mentioned in our Declaration of Independence. Yet, we still retain the right to self-defense as the Second Amendment states, “…being necessary for the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.

Unfortunately, in my absence and in a public setting, there was no security for my property. I did immediately report the incident to 911. Early Tuesday morning at 1 am, I awoke for a latrine call. I went over to where my phone was charging (it was on buzz) and noticed two phone calls at 9:46 pm and 9:58 pm. It was the Dallas Police finally responding to my 911 call. Uh, this ol’ Soldier hits the rack at 9:30 pm because of my 5 am wake up for my morning run. I returned the call and was directed to 911 again, who informed me that I would have to make an online report. I submitted the online report to Dallas PD at 1:46 am, and it was approved at 3:26 am.

No, I do not blame the Dallas PD. I blame the leftist politicians on the Dallas City Council, who have quietly sought to defund the police in violation of their own city charter. And when citizens filed a ballot initiative to align Dallas PD with the proper ratio of police to 1000 citizens, the political elite class balked, and campaigned against it. These are some of the same people who seek to undermine our Second Amendment right, as they willfully do not subscribe to Bastiat’s rationale for the existence of government—to protect our life, liberty, and property. The homeless situation in Dallas, and in every major Democrat-controlled city in Texas and nationally, is the doing of those who place their delusional ideology over protecting the rights of legal, law-abiding citizens.

And this is the same with the issue of illegal immigration. How is it that these progressive socialist elected officials are vowing to disavow federal law and protect American citizens from criminal illegal immigrants? Think about it: an innocent woman riding the subway in NYC was set afire (had her natural right to life taken away) because no one sought to operate according to The Law, as Bastiat explains…not to mention Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and many other women.

The role of government has nothing to do with USAID, the Department of Education, or any other misguided philanthropy and example of legal plunder in Bastiat’s words. The preeminent role of government is to protect that which has been endowed to every individual citizen, naturally, the right to life, liberty, and property.

It’s time we stress that point, and not relent from it. We here at the American Constitutional Rights Union certainly shall not…join with us.

Steadfast and Loyal.