Thread: What Makes You An American?: Michael Anthony Peroutka

What Makes You An American?: Michael Anthony Peroutka



Published on Jul 29, 2014
Are you an American?
If you are, can I ask you a question? In your way of thinking, what makes you an American?
Is it where you were born?Is it because of where you presently live?Does a SSN make you an American?Or a passport or driver’s license?
If we think back to when America began, what made you an American back then?...


Will We Be Ignorant or Free?



Published on Aug 4, 2014
“Anyone who desires to be ignorant and free, desires what never was and never will be.”
Let me quote Thomas Jefferson again,
“Anyone who desires to be ignorant and free, desires what never was and never will be.”
When Jefferson, the principle author of the American Declaration of Independence, wrote these words, he was expressing a truth that relatively few Americans appreciate today.
You see, an elected – or appointed official at the local, state or national level, is required to take an oath to defend the Constitution of both his state and the United States. His job, then is to follow his oath. Fair enough, but what if...