“Cherish therefore the
spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon
their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and
Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves.”
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to
Edward Carrington
1787
Let me start here, I am no
scholar and I hold no official higher learning degrees. I am not a professional politician or a
member of any political party. I am the
proud Husband of my dear Wife and the Father of our four sweet kids. I work for a living and we make hard choices
when the bills come due. I have
honorably served in the United States Army and I am an American, a Citizen of
the State of Washington.
Over the past ten years, I
have been learning much of the intended functions of our Constitutional Republic. I listen to the Declaration of Independence
regularly. I have and continue to read
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights often.
I have reviewed Amendments 11-27 numerous times. I have read many speeches and letters written
by those men who shaped the original government we were meant to live
with. They had an idea, a perishable
vision of a land of free men, able to morally govern themselves.
Today, I find little of that
vision actually still exists. These long
dead men warned us of the consequences of our lack of involvement and oversight
in our government, regardless of the excuse.
Today, we bear the burdens of a government ignored and left to run
itself by generations of neglect. It has
passed into the hands of those who would consume us and we live today in a land
full of men who have never truly known Freedom as the Framers viewed it.
We are educated from birth
to accept certain things as truth and most never question the intentions of
these messages or the people who do the teaching.
Here are some of those
messages:
We live in a democracy.
People are generally good.
Authority is good and trustworthy.
Put your trust in banks.
Debt is acceptable.
Obey the police without question.
Follow all laws and do not question who, what or why lies
behind them.
Our leaders deserve our respect and trust.
Those who serve in government are the best among us.
Only an expert can truly understand our government.
Media is truth.
The right election will fix all this.
How many of these statements
above do you consciously agree with? Why? How about looking in the mirror and asking
yourself if that belief was ingrained or indoctrinated as a child and has long remained
unquestioned? And should you question
it?
“The qualifications of self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long
training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering.”
Thomas
Jefferson
Writings
Vol. 14, p. 22
How many of you men and
women have ever read a book, watched a video or listened to a speech that truly
challenged your worldview? Would you
ever read a book like Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” that
proposes having an undue respect for government and it’s laws may be a bad
thing if those laws are immoral? Or
“Nullification” by Thomas Woods which examines in depth the concept of true
State Sovereignty in regards to nullification of unconstitutional laws and
federal actions? Have you studied the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Do
you really understand the Ninth and Tenth Amendments in the Bill of Rights and
where those should protect you and even your State?
I’m not picking on you, I’m asking
you to think for yourselves. For the
last year we have been led to believe that this election will save or doom America. That media driven line is a lie. Looking at the government lined out in the
Constitution and then honestly comparing it to what we live under, and in
subjection to, today leaves an honest man with a dilemma. The two are clearly not the same. America,
the Constitutional
Republic, is no more.
“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that
power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave,
cries “Give, give!””
Abigail
Adams
Letter to
her husband
27 Nov
1775
224 Years ago, a contract
was signed by men sent to represent 13 Sovereign Nation States. It was proposed that this Constitution would
work for a period of time and would be far better than it’s predecessor, the
Confederacy of the States. And it was better in
most men’s minds. And also, it did last for a
small period of years in an undamaged form.
It created the Agent of the
States, an artificial construct that would work at the clear direction of the
States WHO CREATED IT. The concept that
it would have a will of it’s own was not intended. Neither was the creation of a powerful
central national government.
Federal defined: A group of sovereign States or
Nations, who willingly submit a portion of their self-governance to a central
body for the benefit of all.
The Constitution was based
on the idea that a moral and educated people should be able to govern
themselves and it provided the tools for that concept to work. The men who wrote it were fallible and
completely human and yet they were able to create something far better than any
other form of government before seen.
The Framers knew that their
creation was flawed as it was created by man and would be managed by man. But they pinned their hopes on the idea that
a correctly educated people, those who knew the civics of their government,
would be able, if they remained alert and aware, to stop any attacks on the
forms the Framers created.
Those signatures on the
Constitution came with many warnings from the very men who formed the body who
created it. They warned about specific
dangers from political parties, banks and financiers, regional disputes, desire
for empire, ignorance, immorality and many others. In my readings, we as a nation have fallen
prey to all they warned us about and more.
Unscrupulous men rapidly
sought to undermine the protections guarding their neighbor’s Freedom. They worked to empower a strong,
all-powerful, integrated central government where none was intended. The process of twisting the government from a
chained tool to a tool of enslavement took only a few generations.
By Lincoln’s day, the central government had
reached into many areas, uninvited and unwelcome. It asserted power where none should exist and
willfully overrode the will of the People.
It even killed them when they resisted it’s illegal and unconstitutional
demands.
In Wilson’s time, the vision of a republic was lost and he was
able to push out an image of a free democracy where each man had a voice in the
government. While teaching this lie, he
worked to ensnare the government to the will of the central banks via the
Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment. When the war came he seized powers and
created government where none should be to fight a war that was not in the best
interest of the American People. That
power grab, like all those before and since, has never been ceded back to the
people.
Throughout the days of FDR,
the chains of true bondage were forged and the People were made ready to be
completely enslaved. He worked with
compliance from a willing Congress to nationalize some industry, force unions
on the People, seize assets, enforce compliance and repress dissent. He damaged what was left of the balance of
power by packing the Supreme Court with like-minded individuals. His regime jailed men for failure to or
unwillingness to comply with his dictates.
After the war started, it was even worse.
Today we worship these
men. One “Saved the Union
and freed the slaves!” The second “Saved
our monetary systems and gave us the Federal Reserve to protect us.” While the last “Brought us through the Great
Depression and won the largest war ever fought by man!”
Lincoln freed no slaves.
The People through their Agent, the States, freed the slaves with a
Constitutional Amendment. He no more saved
the Union than an abusive husband does, when finding
his run-away wife, beats her senseless and chains her in the house until she finally submits to
his “authority” has saved his marriage.
He used tyrannical powers, he jailed judges and the press, sent the
military to fire on protesters in several major cities in the North, embraced fiat currency
to finance a war he originally said he would not fight and started a war with
sovereign nations that resulted in 400,000 Americans dead.
Wilson’s bank has completely destroyed the value of the
American man’s life energy. That fiasco,
when combined with the IRS, created a huge sucking vortex that devours the life
energy of men and women throughout their entire lives. Wilson’s
view of democracy has wrongfully prevailed and even today skews the ability of
Americans to understand the nation they live in.
“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
Woodrow
Wilson
War
Address to Congress
1 Apr 1917
“The world was never more unsafe for democracy than
it is today.”
Stanley Baldwin
Speech at
House of Commons
12 Mar 1935
FDR railed against fascism
all throughout his terms in office. Yet,
by definition, he himself was a fascist.
He sought total control over private business and personal affairs. While he fell short of total control, he
severely damaged this nation at its core: the People and their view of the
nation.
I would like to say that I
have hope in the light of that last sentence but I do not. It is not that the people resisted his
attempts, it just that the energy in the system was too strong to be completely
changed in one decade. His immense
control over the government surpassed what most monarchs wished they had.
We live with the echoes of
his actions today. I see such a degradation
of the character of man even in my home town.
I hear such foolish prattle about politics and politicians as if they
are a better breed of man, more superior and able to change reality. The people I speak with are all too likely to
just accept the messages they are fed from media and just acquiesce to the whim
of their rulers.
“Power gradually extirpates from the mind every
humane and gentle virtue.”
Edmond Burke
A
Vindication of Natural Society
And then we sit and bicker,
send in our money, and eventually vote for the men who someone else put up for
us to choose between. Here’s the
question, “Who chose these men and women as my only realistic choices?” Then having asked that, ask this, “Why should
I surrender my government to men I never would have chosen to speak to or
socialize with in the first place?”
Dangerous question, that one…
These men and women are
acceptable to the system that is in place to control our nation. That even means Ron Paul. They have all been vetted by this system and stand as no threat to it. They are allowed to run and some are even allowed
to win. But they are not allowed to
change or damage the system in any way to bring more Freedom to those who
elected them.
We as a nation, regardless
of party, put our irreplaceable life energy into these elections. We expend our time, spend our money (and thus
waste more of our life energy), annoy and sometimes damage relationships with
family and friends, restrict our activities and separate ourselves from actions
and groups who might actually help us recover our lost Freedom. All in the name of these “free elections…”
Let’s delve into your
personal history a bit. What President
has acted to restore Freedom and self determination to the People IN YOUR
LIFETIME? How about a Congress that
actively sought to free the People? Any
of them ever dismantle a bureaucracy that repressed Freedom? How about an unconstitutional
department? Anyone? Just one man who acted to make the people
more reliant on themselves and less reliant on the government? Come on, there has to be at least one who did
something good…
Sorry, time’s up. It does not happen. Those in power never willingly surrender that
power. It’s a law, like gravity. They only surrender it when threatened by effective
force.
The thought that we will be
able to “vote the bums out” is a foolish one in light of the last 150 years of US
history. The true tyrants are not up for
re-election as they are not necessarily part of the government. And the thought that a single president will
be able to resist those in power and push this nation back to a moral center is
crazy. He/she cannot control the moral
character of this country. Should he
truly try to free the people, he will be dissuaded or killed. And it seems that the only power a President and
to an greater degree, the Congress, actually has is one of making things worse
for the People.
Looking back, I don’t see
much difference between the so-called opposing parties. They are like two basketball teams running
the ball back and forth but they always run up the score… And we watch.
And we despise the other team and their supporters. And we pay money for the privilege of
watching a pointless game…
Parties are a control
mechanism. They exist as a place for the
People to put their attention, their extra money and their irreplaceable life
energy. These resources are completely
wasted, thoroughly expended and not truly invested for any useful and Freedom
expanding purpose. And the system
flourishes, regardless of the amount of abuse heaped on the People as many
still believe that this system still works or that it can be fixed.
The painful truth is that we
exist on a farm. And it is not a farm we
own. We don’t even manage the
flock. We are the sheep. The farmer doesn’t want us thinking. It’s not good for his farm to have sheep
asking tough questions about his management and the results. He just wants the sheep to shut up, be good
give up the wool and make more sheep.
We are the flock. And fleecing time is upon us again. It’s time for the sheep to get their anger
and their guns and live out the following, “…But when a long train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
That won’t fix this system
but we can then hope to start over. The
choice today is between either a guaranteed life of slavery and then perhaps dying
peacefully in your bed or possible winning true Freedom for your children at
the cost of prison or even death. You
choose. Be aware that even failing to choose is making a choice.
“Under a tyranny, freedom is destroyed by freedom of
speech; a semblance of freedom is retained by silent acquiescence.”
Lucan
De Bello
Civili Bk 3, 1. 145
I believe the first steps
for men who would desire to be free is the acquisition of knowledge. You must know who it is that desires your
life energy. You must know the tyrants
who seek to rule over you and there are many of them. You must understand the original (idealistic)
plan for this nation and perhaps even embrace it.
Only then will you have the image in your mind of something worth fighting
and even dying for.
“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is,
the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its
tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But
almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they
think, in the Revolution of '75.”
H.D.
Thoreau
Resistance
to Civil Government
1849
This is an excellent point
he makes. Is it bad enough today to make
the loss of life or so-called freedom necessary? Are we more
oppressed that those farmers who left their families and took up arms against
the Crown? This is a personal
decision. I cannot decide for you. No man should make this choice for you. You must look in the mirror and ask yourself
exactly what you should do. You must
know for yourself what is the truth regarding your oppression and then you must
choose where to stand in relationship to that truth.
I love the idea of America. I embrace the personal responsibility
involved in the choice to stand for Freedom and resist Tyranny. I am personally aware of the futility of one
man standing against an entrenched power such as exists in Washington DC. Then I think of the solitary man standing in
the path of ten main battle tanks during the Tainanmen Square events in China. The driver and commander of that lead tank
faced a personal decision: “Do I kill this man?” and he chose rightly. Can we count on that choice from those sent
to enforce the edicts of the national government? No.
They have shown a willful disregard of human life and of the Rights
codified and protected by the Bill of Rights.
Well, what can a man do in
days like these? Not many safe and also
effective things. Protest all you
want. Write, email, fax and call all you
want. Buy guns and every bullet they
manufacture if you want. Plaster your
body with shirts and your vehicle with bumper sticker. By all means, vote for the lesser of two
evils. But be aware, none of these
things will make them do more than slowly tighten the controls on the
flock. None of these actions will change
the fact that you are a slave. And that
your children are being raised to be slaves.
Men and women will have to
be willing to kill and die to bring this to a head.
We must begin to position armed Americans in positions similar to those of the Minutemen in Lexington, where men
stood in harm’s way as a trip line. Imagine
if there were 250 armed Americans standing on the next hill, watching
everything the agents of the national government were up to in Waco.
Or at Ruby Ridge. Things would
have been different.
Should this be an organized
effort? No. These events should be the actions of aware
men and women who care to ensure that the Rights of all Americans be
preserved. They should be the actions of
people with a personal vision of Freedom and are willing to lose theirs to
bring that Freedom to their children. These men and women should see the need and act, without waiting for an organization or some so-called leader to send them. Just get up and go.
“This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For Freedom only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.”
John
Quincy Adams
Written
in an album
1842
Those men in Lexington may not have
known what they did by standing armed in the face of the British Regulars but
the effect was clear enough: They died on the Commons and the American people moved as a
result. Militia all over the area
gathered and delivered a stunning blow to those sent by the tyrants to steal
and oppress them. Those people spoke
through their actions and said, “No.” in clear and unequivocal terms: they
provided the dead and wounded British soldiers sent to oppress them as evidence. Their rejection of the Crown belied no
misunderstanding.
Our choice needs to speak
just as clearly.
