Welcome to the August 2008 Edition of Patriot Music News!

	Matt Fitzgibbons

I recently had an interesting conversation about the developing political events in Russia with a American friend whose grandparents came to United States from that country after the Communist Revolution of 1917. A staunch patriot and veteran of Operation Desert Storm, my friend passionately feels that while a return to our Constitutional principles are necessary for us, the Russian government's disregard for what most Americans would consider rights, is entirely appropriate for them. (Including Putin's policy of silencing dissidenting views from newspapers, radio, and websites)

The question then arises: What are inalienable rights?

As our Founding Fathers believed:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
United States Declaration of Independence

So, while it is s