Of late, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about bullies and how they never really seem to grow up. Though it may have been a few years since your last encounter with the schoolyard version of the phenomenon, you needn’t look very far today to see the obvious lack progress and maturity displayed by those stunted souls. Trapped in childhood, bound to a philosophical mid-life-thumb-sucking, they terrorize the playground, never outgrowing the habit of verbally and physically threatening another in a vain attempt to conceal their own timidity, weakness and fear. Today, many channel the vestiges of their infantile aggression into political, religious, journalistic and scholastic tyranny.

When you’re not a badass it becomes terribly important to act like one, I guess.

True, we all have a bit of the bully in us. Minus the talons, claws, brute strength and/or the razor sharp teeth of the other animals on our planet, we needed to find our own unique defense mechanisms; a way of puffing our chests, growling, terrorizing,  frothing at the mouth, pointing our fingers, and preemptively attacking a perceived threat. We needed different weapons to survive, that said, bullying is better left behind, like bedwetting, in our personal and societal past.

Freedom, the inalienable attribute most feared, and therefore targeted by bullies, is under attack today. Adult, professional bullies look to control all they touch, hoping to curb and check the political, economic and religious liberty we all strive to enjoy.

The Constitution serves to protect us from bullies, to safeguard those latent, inborn rights endowed by our Creator. Look around, those trying to quell your natural rights of speech, assembly, property and religion, even those doing so under the guise of protection, political correctness and “general welfare” are the biggest bullies of all.

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