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by Nicholas Testaccio
During his presidency, Ronald Reagan spoke words of encouragement, and determination that spanned the spectrum of history, law, foreign affairs, and the principles of this nation. Many of his speech’s came from writers who penned some of the most inspiring words to be delivered from the presidential podium.
The words I write here are my own coupled with quotes from our Founders and matters in law. I find that the history, the theory, and the rule of law make for a much more compelling method of conveying a point.
I am not sure that what I place on paper lives up to the standards of the orators who preceded my humble attempts at provoking or educating others. My desire is to reach those who care to learn, which is the basis for all progress. Statesmen, true statesmen, are both students of history and politics. While one study has its value in learning from the wisdom of the successes, pitfalls, and failures of the past, the other seems to be an attempt at psychological aptitude.
History does repeat in a manner. There are those who rebuke that doctrine, but in some way the mistakes of the past keep presenting themselves in one form or another. Politics, as it is today, expresses itself in the form of propaganda, dystopian agenda, and powers that have no regard for the people who suffer under runaway insanity. It should be clear to those who have taken even a cursory look at the Constitution, that government has violated the tenets so clearly enumerated. The document that our servants swore an oath to protect and defend is desecrated at every clause and provision.
At one time we had men and women of steel in this nation. While men cast boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor, the women were securing their place in history. “Yonder, the destruction of the detestable weed, made so by cruel exaction, engages our attention. The virtuous and noble resolution of America’s sons, in defiance of threatened desolation and misery from arbitrary despots, demands our highest regard.", wrote Hannah Winthrop.
John Adams asked his friend and clarion of liberty, Mercy Warren Otis to put her considerable talent to honor that band of patriots. In response she wrote “The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs”
BRIGHT Phaebus drove his rapid car amain,And plung'd his steeds beyond the western plain,Behind a golden skirted cloud to rest.Ere ebon night had spread her sable vest,And drawn her curtain o'er the fragrant vale,Or Cynthia's shadows dress'd the lonely dale,The heroes of the Tuscararo tribe,Who scorn'd alike a fetter or a bribe,In order rang'd, and waited freedom's nod,To make an offering to the wat'ry god.
The poem goes on, but it was not the sum of Mercy’s contribution to the revolution. She wrote plays that helped to ignite the flames of insurrection. Yes, as all our Founder’s knew that the fight for liberty and the dissolution of the bond between Britain and the American Colonies was an act of insurgency worthy of a meeting with the gallows. By today’s standards of censorship, Mercy Warren Otis would have been banned long before the men of the revolution knew her name. She may very well have heard a loud banging on her door in the middle of the night by an agency acting in direct violation of the rule of law.
What a tragedy it would have been if we could not have the pleasure of her wisdom and skill with the pen. To be denied the words that expressed her hopes and fears would make us poorer by far. “I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; May nothing ever check that glorious spirit if freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”
And what of today, the rhetoric, and propaganda that has been infused into the culture. Is there an honest voice that shouts of the impending tyranny that will be imposed on us all for the simple fact that we believe in individual freedom, property, and the means by which to protect those elements of our being?
To maintain what is essential to our liberty and the ability to prosper, earn, and enjoy those aspects of life, we must struggle on some level. Thomas Paine wrote, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” Tyranny presents itself, and yet we are wanting of the ability to recognize its talons and prepare ourselves for the conflict that must ensue.
We are now staring down the barrel of tyranny, and we refuse to acknowledge it is at point blank range. Mao Zedong coined the phrase “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”. While unconstitutional agencies are given more and more power to regulate and enforce the rules that they create, there are private organizations assisting the move toward complete government autocracy by demanding the disarmament of their fellow citizens. For their foolish aspirations I must remind these “useful idiots” that you will gain neither safety, nor security by taking the power of the Sword from those who could and would protect liberty.
It is now some Seventy-Five years since American Liberation Forces marched into concentration camps. There they found death, despair, and horror they could not have fathomed. Despite what you might believe, the Nazi’s left behind video evidence of what had been done in the camps. As told to me by one soldier who saw the malevolence; “We brought people from the town in to look at the films. They left in tears. They were all crying.” The story of one of our WWII ...
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by Nicholas Testaccio
At a time when people were born to serve kings, American colonists were clashing with British troops, and Thomas Jefferson penned a unique doctrine on the relationship between “Governments … instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”.
American Militia, “civilians primarily, soldiers on occasion”, mustered on Lexington Green, and engaged British regulars all the way back to Boston.
From the time the Declaration of Independence was made the first law of a new nation, until hostilities ended in 1783, the People fought a grueling and costly war for independence, not only from Britain, but also from the old collective of monarchs.
A new nation, “conceived in liberty”, was about to form under a concept that was unique to all the peoples of the world; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
The concept of rights is not something unique to our form of government, nor was it a novel idea at the time of the revolution. When Henry I ascended the throne in 1100 A.D., he set to doctrine the Charter of Liberties of King Henry I.
More than one hundred years later, on June 15, 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta to avert a Civil War when confronted by a host of rebellious barons. Ten weeks later, Pope Innocent III nullified the agreement, and the English countryside was plunged into war.
The history of rights acknowledged, and then revoked is long, and often painted with “the blood of patriots, and tyrants”. While the words in the Declaration may ring as a statement of liberty from birth to death, it is a concept that must be enforced by men and women of courage and fortitude. They must be true to their neighbors, and they must be true in their heart that, above all, freedom is our province, and our responsibility.
Jefferson did not write, nor did the signers of the Declaration recognize “that all men are created equal” and they remain so for the rest of their lives. The concept of equality is a notion of status across a spectrum of laws, abilities, consciousness, determination, and a love of liberty. Obviously, the doctrine laid out in the Declaration can only work when the People understand that freedom does not come lightly. It comes at the cost of diligence and duty. It must be ever protected from the tyrant, the ignorant, the ambivalent, the foolish, and the “useful idiots” that help to destroy a nation.
We are amid, what has been labeled, a pandemic; “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.” Whether or not COVID-19 lives up to its label becomes more and more questionable by the day, we are nonetheless acting as if it has the blessings of the Grim Reaper. We have been forced to shelter in place. Schools are closed, only businesses that have been deemed necessary are open, social gatherings of any type are considered inappropriate, and hoarding has become an issue. Many essentials have become scarce. Chicken is often missing from stores, the price of eggs has doubled, milk products will be next as I have noticed scarcity of some brands. Canned goods are in short supply, and prices have risen. I can see the price of pork products rising as Smithfield has closed three plants, and Tyson recently closed a plant.
Political bantering, and a lack of information has made the situation worse. By this time, every year we could have thousands of deaths from some flu in this nation alone. I have not heard anything at all about a flu problem this year, and certainly the numbers from this dreaded COVID-19 don’t reflect any greater stress on society if we actually count those who died because of the virus, but not with the virus.
I have heard different stories from different doctors. A few, the high profile type that the media loves to use to sell an agenda, claim that “the sky is falling”. Others are saying the opposite, but you will not see them on the mainstream media. Recently, I’ve watched YouTube video’s featuring dissenting views by those who call out Dr. Fauci for being a fraud, a tool of big pharma, and essentially a deep- stater.
Once again, with the help of a dishonest and despicable media, we, the common folk, are in the dark as to what is real, and what is fiction. How are we to overcome when we are given only some facts, and half-truths? More importantly, how are we to survive when we allow government to command us into intolerable positions.
Recently, there have been protests against the lockdown. With typical derision, many in governmental positions, and their tools in the media, these protests have been mocked for one reason or another.
There is nothing to say about the propaganda spewed out by the leftists and the corporate media bent on selling us down the path to socialism other than what more would we expect. What I would focus on is the incredible ignorance regarding protests, and civil disobedience.
Once again I must point to the fact that the Declaration of Independence lays out the relationship between “governments … instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”, wherein all power stems from the People. Later, after a long and arduous rebellion, the Founders proclaimed that “We the People *** establish Justice *** and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” and set down the rule of Law under the U.S. Constitution.
The Framers did not simply make lame proclamations to be interpreted to suit public officials, but rather recognized, and institutionalized, the fact that the one true force for liberty and freedom could only be the body of the People exercising the power written into the Constitution. A power so distinct that it was accompanied by statutes defining its organization, armament, and discipline. A power so well established as to have it roots dating ...
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by Nicholas Testaccio
Stephen Decatur Jr. was just Forty-One years of age
when he passed from this Earth, but he had become a legend as a heroic leader
in the early days of our struggle to maintain this country as a free and
independent nation.
He rose to the rank of Commodore, commanded several ships,
fought in the War of 1812, and the Barbary War’s. He is best noted for his
comment, “In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in
the right, and always successful, right or wrong.”
I am among the few who is sometimes praised, or sometimes
demonized for serving the nation. It is difficult giving one, two, four or more
years to a country that demands an allegiance to whatever duty required, for
whatever undertaking.
General Smedley Butler was the most decorated Marine at the
time he served. The General is well known for being distinguished as one of the
few men to receive the Medal of Honor twice, but less known for his book ‘War
Is A Racket’. In it he details some of the wrong doings that were undertaken by
greedy, and selfish men with the assistance of their collaborators in the halls
of government. Young men sent to do the bidding of those who have no regard for
life or liberty. They would gladly sacrifice the life of your child to fill
their wallets.
The general is also known for his outing of a plot to
overthrow FDR, in which he was to lead a march of veterans against the government.
He risked his good name, and reputation against some of the most powerful men
in the country, an act of heroism that should be recognized and celebrated. It
is very unfortunate that most have never heard of this particularly dark part
in our history, but it is essential in understanding why a young man serves his
country “right or wrong”.
We are ultimately a nation of individuals, families, and
communities. Over time, the spirit that was the Revolution faded into a quiet
norm with most going about their daily business, not caring to hold government
in check, or even taking the time to comprehend the dynamic that perverts a
nation and places all of us in jeopardy. When the bullets fly, and the bombs
burst, there is no distinction between those who start wars, those who are
soldiers, and those who are civilians. Indeed, as this Nation’s wars in the
Middle East have reached seventeen years, we should be questioning what
it is that we are trying to accomplish, and if the cost in human life and wealth
has been worth all the toil and suffering.
I can tell you, from my perspective and only from what I
know as an individual, not one drop of American blood, nor a penny from our
coffers has been worth the tragedy that is part of this ongoing war. I’ve not
seen any specific thing that I can lay my hands on to use the word success. Yet
we are trudging along at the cost of the blood of our young, and billions in
wasted dollars. The cost comes by the hands of politicians who are gutless
creatures making promises and then escalating the conflicts.
This was supposed to be a Republic with ultimate power
vested in the good People who “instituted” a nation of sovereigns with
the authority “to alter, or to abolish” government when it runs afoul of
the limited authority we’ve granted. Should those powers that “are reserved
*** to the people” be usurped, it is up to us to remedy the criminality.
In this form of government “We the People” should not
allow any representative, judge, bureaucrat, or agency to infringe in the least
on the rule of law. However, currently it has become clear to me in the many
encounters I’ve had, that most believe that they simply have no authority, and
the only recourse is to hope for the right candidate. It is an attitude that
boggles my mind. It is also inexplicable given the volumes of works from the
time of the revolution, through the ratification of the Constitution, and the
subsequent years of nation building.
I’m certain that at least some of those who believe that
government is the ultimate authority are tools for the communist take down of
America. That’s right, I said communist take down because what we are seeing
today is right from the playbook of those noted for their aspiration to destroy
the Republic and institute a regime to the liking of men such as Karl Marx,
Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and a list of equally infamous tyrants.
Dictators abound. They exist right here in this nation. The
halls of congress and the judiciary are filled with those who believe that they
have some authority beyond the limited delegations specifically stated in the
Constitution. Even in the State houses we see men and women who represent a
growing number of politicians that have absolute disdain for the rules that
were laid down by the Framers. This, in part, is due to a judiciary that has
corrupted the rule of law, sometimes making ridiculous decisions that cannot
possibly be corroborated by any section or clause in the Constitution, and
often violate the Bill of Rights in the extreme.
The lessons of history, though often distorted by a victor or some agenda driven apparatchik, are there in the whole for the populace to explore and ascertain at least a modicum of information as to what has taken place. History books abound, and while there may be misquotes, distorted causes and testimony, the end results are there to examine. There are varying theories as to why our revolution was fought. What was the last straw that brought about bloody conflict? Can the same be asked about the Bolshevik revolution and the institution of communism across many nations? But in the end, those who fought our revolution created a unique form of government wherein the People maintained sovereignty over the State. However, in Russia they went from one form of tyranny to an even more brutal form. The pages of the books of those who experienced it firsthand are there to investigate, just as the myriad of pages on the development of America.
I noted in a previous article the words of Thomas Jefferson;
“The people cannot be all, & always, well informed.” Herein lies the ...
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by Nicholas Testaccio
This Fourth we should take stock of what we were, what
we are, and what we will be.
There is an effort, an agenda so to speak, to change
what this nation has strived for in the past, what it has accomplished, and the
turmoil that is tossing us all about.
John
8: 2-7
At
daybreak he appeared in the Temple again; and as all the people came to him, he sat down
and began to teach them.
The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; and
making her stand there in the middle they said to Jesus, 'Master, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery,
and in the Law Moses has ordered
us to stone women of this kind. What have you got to say?' They asked
him this as a test, looking for an accusation to use against him. But Jesus bent down and
started writing on the ground with his finger. As they persisted with
their question, he straightened up and said, 'Let the one among you who is
guiltless be the first to throw a stone at her.' Then he bent down and
continued writing on the ground. When they heard this they went away one
by one, beginning with the eldest, until the last one had gone and Jesus was left
alone with the woman, who remained in the middle. Jesus again
straightened up and said, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?'
This nation was formed in blood by a rebellious people
who were sinners the lot. They were traitors to the Empire of Great Britain.
Their acts were that of people who used any tool, method, and any other device
they deemed necessary to sever ties with those who lorded over them.
After a long and arduous fight, the chains were cut, and a new nation began the complicated struggle to form a Union of independent States. The battle was just beginning for this country, for it was developing in a manner that was unique in all the history of the world. It was to be a Republic wherein the People would be sovereign, and thus hold the reins over government.
“In order to form a more perfect Union” clarity, and determination were essential as it was obvious to the Founders that this nation could not survive as Thirteen small countries at odds with each other. Some compromises needed to be struck so that they could secure for their posterity a form that could flourish with the knowledge that aid and comfort would be provided by a Union.
No one is perfect, and certainly no one is without
sin. We are once again embroiled in a skirmish to save this nation from annihilation.
This time the enemy is not Three Thousand miles away, but is here in the
courts, the legislatures, and sadly the schools and universities that most of
our children attend.
We face a foe that is so insidious that it has absolutely no qualms about lying, deceiving, and even fostering violence in order to secure its goal; a country of slaves as has been created in so many other places. We are being torn apart from within. Marcus Tullius Cicero stated, long before the land we live on became this nation, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
The struggles that this nation has endured from the Revolution, through a Civil War, a great Depression, two World Wars, and civil strife is a testimony to the fortitude of those who came before us.
Now we are engaged in what appears to be the opening
salvos of a true Civil War wherein race, creed, and ideology clash. The battle
lines are drawn by the one side with the help of their “useful idiots” as
soldiers causing discontent, and chaos. They are led by corrupt politicians who
are on record calling for violence against the opposition. They are supported
by educators who have a deep hatred for what they perceive as some injustice,
or slight. They are bolstered by a judiciary that has long lost its mandate of
justice for all.
The other side is led by those who have long ago forgotten how this nation came into being, and cower at the mere word that might have them perceived as some sort of villain. They “indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. *** [they] cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!” - Patrick Henry
I am reminded of the words of Thomas Jefferson; “God
forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot
be all, & always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be
discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If
they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of
death to the public liberty. *** What country before ever existed a century
& half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties
if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the
spirit of resistance? *** The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to
time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.”
History repeats itself in a manner that is often
frightening to this writer, and hopefully to others.
So, this Fourth of July I will look upon the words of
the men who struggled with life and death to
form a new and unique nation. I will remember history as it was with all
its lessons. I will remember ...
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by Nicholas Testaccio
Who mourns for Brian Terry? Certainly not the students or faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. I guarantee that the media, the democrats, and Mothers Demand Action shed not a tear for the man who fell December 14, 2010.
In fact, there were no screams by the media, or students, or pundits when Brian was gunned down. Nary a word or crying on a daily basis to strip the American people of their rights because of Brian’s death. No tears, no wailing or gnashing of teeth. Brian’s death was simply part of the agenda to disarm the public, the incredibly stupid general public that is fed by a corrupt government and its media cronies. A morally bankrupt media that had to keep the details covered.
Then president Barrack Obama, and Attorney General Eric Holder engineered the death of Brian Terry through “Fast and Furious”. Congress was silent when Holder perjured himself. There were no cries to impeach Obama for conspiracy to commit murder.
Brian Terry is only the tip of the iceberg. He is only one small part of the atrocities committed by mans most evil invention – government.
As a child, on Sunday’s I sat at a table with my mother, father, grandma, grandpa, and other family members. Two generations of knowledge to be absorbed and recalled in order to pass along a wealth of experience. What I took away from listening was a realization that government is not to be trusted. Conspiracy was well known to our ancestors. In particular I recall distrust, even a hatred for FDR. My elders understood that FDR had deliberately sacrificed the lives of some 2,500 good men to bring us into, what we now refer to as WWII. On the 7th of December 1941 the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbor. It was not a sneak attack. The Navy was prepared as it sent out scouting ships to engage the coming threat, but FDR kept countering their preparations. Both Admiral Kimmel and General Short became the scapegoat for FDR’s deplorable act. As a small speck of justice, the U.S. Senate voted to exonerate both Kimmel and Short and restore them to their proper rank. Fifty-Eight years after they had been blamed for the false flag setup by FDR, they were exonerated by the facts.
On the 8th of June 1967, the U.S.S. Liberty, and its brave crew were the victims of a false flag perpetrated by both the U.S. and Israeli governments. The ship was attacked by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. The reason for the deception was to blame the attack on Egypt and thereby bring us into war with the U.S.S.R., Egypt’s ally. Thirty-Four crewmen, and One civilian were killed. One Hundred Seventy-One crewmen were wounded. The attack had to be broken off when a Russian destroyer showed up at the scene of the carnage. For those with some integrity left, you can Remember The Liberty in the words of those who experienced the treachery of their own government.
The list is long, and it can be accented by the fact that since the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, we’ve stood by while more than Two-Hundred Fifty Thousand of our good men and women have been sacrificed in this on-going war on terror. That’s the number that the VA admits to, but there is evidence that the toll is much higher. The American public will never raise an eyebrow to stop the murder that has caused the deaths of millions, including women and children, in what future generations will remember as one of the great genocides of history. That is if we have the courage to stop the madness, maintain our rights, and to see and speak the truth.
However, we now live in a society that can neither see, nor hear the truth. We are emotionally played at every conceivable angle. We fall for every deceit, repeat every lie, and scream conspiracy when we hear the truth. As the saying goes, “The first casualty of war is the truth,” and make no mistake about it, we are in a war to save our Republic from evil people who are using compliant fools to destroy the nation.
I am a firm believer in the first Thirteen words of the Second Amendment, the actual meaning, and the benefits of abiding by the law.
Before I explain further, I want all those who call for the disarmament of the American people to take a good look at the picture below. It is the terrifying image of Christian women who were raped and crucified at the hands of men who acted with the power of government at their backs.
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It all starts the same way, rhetoric about safety, and then the eventual disarmament of the intended victims.
For those who repeat the mantra, “It can’t happen here”, ask yourself if you are one of those who is calling for the removal of one of the tools that the Founders incorporated into law as “necessary to the security of a free State”.
The pages of the last Century are filled with genocide perpetrated by governments around the world whose arm was the man on the street. Government is a fiction, and can only operate by the hands, and the tools that men would bear.
Place that picture in your mind and remember that those girls suffered an horrific death that began with the same sentiments and actions that we see and hear from the media, college campuses, Everytown USA, Mothers Demand Action, and now the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
I want to give credit where it is due to those who have questioned the government line.
Stacey Lippel is a language arts teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Lippel told ABC’s Good Morning America:
“And then I suddenly saw the shooter… standing in the hallway, actively shooting down the hallway. Just a barrage of bullets. And I’m staring at him, thinking, ‘Why is the police here?’ This is strange ’cause he’s in full metal garb — helmet, facemask, bulletproof armor, shooting this rifle that ...
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