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Two Hundred Thirty Five years ago a group of mortal men created an unheard of enterprise. Despite their shortcomings, they accomplished something short of a miracle.
Yes, some of them were slave owners. Some succumbed to the foibles that we all do from time to time. Be that as it may, they swore their allegiance to a cause that would create one of the most wonderful, and exhilarating experiments of liberty in the course of history. They did it with full knowledge that they might very well come to their demise at the end of a rope. They did it despite the fact that they were mere mortals who erred from time to time.
Centuries later, men and women of much lesser quality have maligned, accused, defamed, and corrupted the memory of those brave souls. It has been done behind their backs, so to speak, because they are not here to defend their logic, and reasoning. Their record speaks for itself; the United States became a beacon of liberty, progress, and prosperity for the world. While they left us with problems to be resolved, they also left us with the tools to overcome.
The same people who have made careers out of blasting our Founders are the very same people who would use every underhanded tactic available to end the freedom that Americans enjoyed from the blood of those who went before us. Under the guise that the Founders were flawed, people of much lesser quality and courage, these detractors, make the hollow claim that the ideas and actions were imperfect. Yes, they certainly were not perfect, but the genius of what our Founders created was the ability of the people to be free to not only question the flaws, but to rectify the errors, and build on the concept of a free and sovereign citizen.
The failure of the men and women who founded this nation was that they were products of their own time. Although they were forward thinking people with an in-depth ability to understand the character and shortfalls of men, they lived in a time when certain ideas were the norm. However, they recognized the need to create a nation that could thrive, and correct the inconsistencies. They disagreed on a number of issues, but recognized that certain compromise was necessary to form the union.
Two Hundred Thirty Five years ago this land was open, and while there was an oppressive king, there was still the concept for which the Pilgrims migrated; freedom. Freedom is what made this country great. Freedom to build, thrive, defend your family, and defend your rights against government oppression.
The land was as robust as the spirit of men and women who sailed thousands of miles in small ships to obtain the desires of the soul. Tired of the abuses that were struck by tyrants, Pilgrims were willing to risk it all to bask in the sunshine, unencumbered by rules that were petty, and abusive.
What founded this country was a desire to live free without interference from not only the government, but every busy-body who believed that they had a cause that required state intervention. Ben Franklin warned us that “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
Two Hundred Thirty Five years later I venture to say that given all the facts of today’s political climate, the Pilgrims would not have made that journey.
So ladies and gentlemen, the burden of a dying nation rests clearly on our shoulders. It is the product of our willingness to be led astray; our ambivalence, our ignorance, our naivety. Combine these flaws with the illogical act of repeatedly sending the most irresponsible, corrupt, and disrespectful of candidates back to the legislatures, and we have a country on the verge of destruction.
We have allowed the courts to take away the Grand Jury and the Petit Jury. We have allowed the state to infringe on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and then allowed that same entity to claim that we cannot fight back when it raises its fist to beat us down.
We have allowed the state to tax, and tax again so that it may keep its boot on the back of our necks. We have allowed it to take our children’s bodies and minds for whatever purpose. We have allowed the state to enforce acts that are repugnant to the rule of law. We have allowed it to arrest when there was no authority to arrest, condoned its actions in the courtroom, and justified our approval with notions just as ludicrous as allowing the judiciary to interpret law against our sovereignty.
We can no longer sit idly by while our bombs drop across the globe. We can no longer sit idly by while our legislature robs our wealth and passes it along to those who should be incarcerated for their deeds rather than rewarded.
We can no longer sit idly by while our prisons are packed, and the state ravishes those who do nothing more than raise a voice against intolerable assaults by the police state.
This Fourth of July, our freedom wanes, our liberty passes, our spirit dies, and our common sense vanishes.
This Fourth of July we should be shouting “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
There can be no other way.
‘Nick’
This is a reminder to the American people that justice no longer exists in our judicial system.
At one time we the people understood our duty to the law, and to our fellow citizen. Now we simply rubber stamp a criminal system that has gone berserk. As Thomas Jefferson stated, “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
Decades ago the jury would be called upon to not only judge the facts of the case, but to judge the law. The legal system has taken that away by allowing judges to instruct the jury that they must judge the case based on how he/she gives them, the jury, the law.
It is not only the judges, but also the prosecutors and the police. Funds are distributed on every level to insure that the private prison system is fed, much the same as we have done with the banking system.
How do we stop it? Where do we go from here?
It is certain that if parents are helping the state to prosecute their children, or just standing by while the system consumes more and more of our rights and humanity we will come to a tragic conclusion.
That conclusion might look something like ‘1984’, or at least something as diabolical.
When did we loose our sense of dignity? When did we loose the spirit that made politicians heed our will, and bow to our authority? When did we loose the backbone that made America great?
Corruption now rules on every level in our system, and it is because we refuse to stand up and make the system take notice. Some will say that by confronting politicians on the street and yelling at them we are achieving victory. I say non-sense because as long as our voting system is controlled by rules set by the politicians, and yes it appears that it is also rigged, we accomplish nothing except maybe a sore throat.
This is about who we are, what we once were; a nation of farmers, clerks, and tradesmen willing to sacrifice everything by taking on the British army when the King imposed unjust, and intrusive acts upon the citizenry.
Part of our problem is in our education system wherein we are taught that our Founders were nothing more than rich slave owners who didn’t want to pay taxes, or that our rights come from a Constitution. It does no such thing, but rather endeavors to point out where granted government powers end, and our sovereignty takes hold.
But even at that, our Founders warned that it is up to us to rein in the government whenever we the people feel that it has run afoul of the law we have given to it.
Have we had enough? Have we reached the point of no return? Because as sure as my fingers now fly across this keyboard we are dooming ourselves, and our children to a life of servitude, and horribly a life of fear. Fear that one day a knock will come on the door, and they will be taken away for something as simple as noting that something is wrong, just as I note here.
‘Nick’
The definition of a peaceful revolution, as far as I can tell, is that the people are beaten, abused, robbed and taxed for the privilege of being crushed. Then when the system has had enough foreplay to satisfy the blood lust, the people are sold a change that further crushes their inalienable rights.
The truth is “that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” So we suffer, as will our children, their children, and so on until we have been backed into a corner from which there is no other way out.
This is the way of the world; lies, deceit, suffering, ambivalence, and cruelty. The lies, cruelty, and deceit are a form of government regulation through hatred, and intimidation. The suffering and ambivalence is all up to the individual who prostrates him or herself at the foot of some bureaucrat who was never lawfully given the power that they impose by force of arms.
We have been lied to so often that we can no longer reconcile what is truth, and what is fiction. In our struggle to discern what reality is we spin into a state of confusion mindlessly repeating some phrase that is continually broadcast from a talking head. This is our armor against a world that has been made hostile to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The problem with all those who profess the concept of a peaceful revolution is that they never truly understand what is taking place around them. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts recently stated that if the people in Libya succeed in overthrowing the government through arms, they will be more successful than the Egyptian’s.
Dr. Roberts understood what was actually taking place, and comments by Joel Skousen emphasized what Dr. Roberts realizes. Skousen makes the point that the Egyptian protests were theater, and that the U.S. has paid agents provocateurs throughout the Middle East. So, using the same propaganda that has become the religion of peace brought about by the Gandhi revolution, we work toward unachievable goals. To think that a few months down the road the people of Egypt will actually have freedom is just ‘rose colored glasses’.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than to give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war.” In my opinion, it takes a man of common intelligence to understand the need for peace, but it takes a man of fortitude, and courage to stand up for what is right, and that may mean the ability to deliver a blow before all is lost.
I had a friend who was a prisoner of war. The details of which are unimportant except to note that he received the most brutal of treatments. So barbaric was the torture that he would never speak of it except for one occasion.
On that occasion he spoke before the congressional committee hearing testimony on women serving in combat. He described the torture he was subjected to, I’m sure in excruciating detail, and then asked the members of the committee if they expected a man to stand by and watch a women be subjected to such torture.
The truth of the matter is that we men have been neutered. At one time boys would fight, someone would intervene, and then the boys would shake hands and nothing further was said. Even in the catholic grammar school I attended, the priests or nuns would pull the boys apart, and nothing further was done except to facilitate a handshake.
Most schools in New York City had rifle teams. You could actually go on public transportation with a firearm, and no one would freak out, and scream bloody murder. There were no swat teams to come along to execute a person for carrying a lawfully owned firearm. Crime rates were much lower, we were more civilized, and it would not be considered any sort of crime to defend your girlfriend. As a matter of fact you were looked down upon if you did not defend the girl to which you were attached. Today self-defense, protecting another or any sort of fight can carry substantial penalties dished out by the state.
A reasonable person might ask, what is the claim upon which the state makes a case for actions against those of us who choose self defense? And the answer is that we must be kept in line so that when we awake from this coma we will have given up our arms in the name of peace, and receive serfdom for our efforts.
In order to protect our self esteem we lie to ourselves. We have convinced ourselves that what actually was did not exist. We have changed reality so that begging for mercy is seen as something admirable. I can’t believe that Gandhi subscribed to such a notion.
Did Gandhi actually say that “It takes more courage to take a blow than to give one.”, or was it fabricated for the public? If he did make such a statement, I have to ask what type of man can stand by and watch as others are beaten and murdered? Would not any man have the same reaction as my old buddy who pointed out his sentiments to the congressional committee?
Gandhi was also credited with stating, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” This quote might lead one to believe that Gandhi was a realist, and understood in the final analysis that it was less likely for a tyrant to come to power if the people in general were armed, and willing to fight for that which they believed.
The truth of the Gandhi movement was not as glorious as has been preached. Tens of thousands of Gandhi’s countrymen were killed. The British raped the nation while the ‘peaceful’ protests were taking place, and the country was left in a desperate state for decades. Gandhi is not revered among many Indians who are aware of the actual history of the movement. I can go as far as to say that some despise him, and the notion that he was a great leader.
My point is not to destroy Gandhi’s credibility, but to bring to light the fact that nothing is at it seems, and history can be manipulated for the benefit of those who wish to control. Obviously if we are imbued with the false hope of peaceful change then we will aspire to that goal even to our own demise.
In reality there is no record of a truly peaceful revolution. Our Founders were well aware of this and so they created a system of checks and balances in order to impede a tyrannical aspirant. The Founders created a central government with very limited powers. The states were given the duty to protect the rights of the people, who themselves are sovereign to the state, and well within their right to dismantle the government by force.
Our system, though not infallible, is designed to be the best effort against the state becoming abusive. While we slept and became re-educated by the controllers of the system each and every one of our checks has either been removed, or is in the process of being terminated.
Now, using tactics that we should abhor, such as the BATF facilitating gun sales to drug cartels, the Obama administration is seeking stricter gun regulation of American citizens. What he should be doing, if he at all had an ounce of honesty in his body, is asking why we have an agency that conducts such operations.
We must understand that some of us have to be educated to the truth, and those of us who know the nature of our problems must help in the education process. It is of paramount import that we enlighten others to the fact that what they believe is a free country was long ago taken away, and our ignorance has placed us on the path to violent revolution, or wretched slavery.
In order to accomplish a peaceful revolution we must first grasp that if we are even having this discussion then there is no chance of success. We must also understand that in this universe one thing that is certainly impossible is a ‘peaceful revolution’ as the words are in direct conflict with each other. Our Founders realized this after years of pleading for justice. “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.”
If both parties were resolute in the idea of peace, we would have abolished the tools of government determined to cower the people; the police, prosecutors, and judges that have corrupted our system of law would have been gone long before the idea that a revolution was needed.
Peace is not a one way affair. It is not that moment when the vanquished surrenders and the victor is appeased. That is simply the end of a violent confrontation.
Peace is not the activist who is pummeled on the street at the hands of a government agent. That is what it is, a tyrant exhibiting his power over the hapless subject.
Peace is not you and I debating what move is needed next to wrest power from those who have ignored our Redress of Grievance, and given themselves immunity from our prosecutions.
Peace is, however, the coming together of like minds for the benefit of all. It is a lifting of all the minds and hearts of the people to harmony, and tranquility.
In the absence of peace we are left with the choice to surrender to the abuse of the other side, or to take a stand. To that end our Forefathers warned that “the security of a free State” was, and still is today “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”
In order to affect change in a manner that is least likely to cause further harm to the Republic, we must engage and enlighten the sheriff as to his/her true responsibility to protect our inalienable rights. That includes arresting a judge if a juror complains about the conduct of the black robbed administrator.
It would also include the questioning of any indictment handed down by a grand jury controlled by a state prosecutor, and not in the hands of the people.
It must include the decommissioning of the current legal system to leave way for that of the common law. It must certainly include the power of the jury to stand in the way of government abuse, and to be backed by force of arms before arms are our only recourse.
There can be no peace until the people are on level ground with those who have been entrusted with the duty to protect, and defend the rule of law for the sake of us all.
‘Nick’
