Deadly Sins

July 14, 2022 | General

by Nicholas Testaccio

When Matthew McConaughey stood at the podium to make his “impassioned speech” for gun control, reality came crashing down around me as if Winston Smith rose from the depths of “1984” to warn that the end is here.

From “Remember the Maine” to Pearl Harbor, to the Gulf of Tonkin, to “Fast and Furious,” to Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, to Parkland, to Buffalo, and now to Uvalde, I could see it all. I could recall my father’s words, from when I was just a boy, that this country was doomed. There were already too many in the halls of the legislatures and the school system who were plotting to destroy what was once a free nation composed of a sovereign People’s.

Let’s dispense with the ignorant remarks of not believing in conspiracies because they abound. The Captain of the Maine told us that it was a bunker fire, the third one that sunk the Maine, not the Spanish, but his report was ignored by those clamoring for war with Spain.

The Captains of the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor all knew that the Japanese were going to attack, and they were given orders to fire on sight, but those orders were constantly being rescinded by Washington.

Years later it came out that the Gulf of Tonkin incident did not take place. It was a story made up by Washington to bring us into the war, but again, most do not have that knowledge.

“Fast and Furious” was a plot by the Obama administration designed to infringe on the Second Amendment by selling guns to Mexican drug cartels. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered as a result of that conspiracy. Eric Holder lied, bold face, before congress and was never charged. However, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon are both being charged with felonies for refusing to testify before congress.

According to the Secret Service, Eighty-One Percent of the shooters, whose intent was to perpetrate a mass shooting, was known to someone as planning the horror. We now know that the Uvalde shooter was on Discord and communicating with an undercover FBI agent. Every one of these incidents stink, and if we were allowed to investigate, and comb through the evidence, I can guarantee that we will find a government fingerprint somewhere in the rubble and carnage.

However, “We the People” are not allowed to investigate. Instead, we are fed whatever the media portrays as fact coming from “public officials” who cannot stop the lies and deceit from vomiting out of their mouths. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated almost Sixty years ago, and we still don’t know the truth of the matter, except for the fact that a nation buried one of its finer presidents. A man, while he had his own personal issues, was working to remove the stink of those who were destroying this nation.

I want to know exactly what took place at Sandy Hook? I want to know why we are not allowed to see all the details when it is being used as a tool to infringe on a right inestimable to the security of a nation hangs in the balance? I want to know why the parents of those poor children are given sway over an entire nation, when the path they have taken is in every-way-shape-or-form “A Case Of Treason”. Yes, that’s right. In this nation, although it has fallen on deaf ears, the original Constitution makes the bearing of arms a Duty. And if we were to adhere to those constitutional commands as the Framers installed them, I can guarantee that these mass shootings would never have occurred.

The Founders of this nation have been, as Thomas Sowell has documented, demonized and their attempts to make that, which “A Declaration” so eloquently states, a reality; “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…”  However, their efforts have been parsed to the waste bin of history by those in government, educators, and media in order to tear apart the soul of liberty.

We all have our faults. Some of us understand our shortcomings and work to improve ourselves. Others, such as those we elect to represent us, take our faults, and use them to undermine and destroy the things that we must hold sacred.

Some are so ignorant of what swirls all around them that they are easily swayed to be a tool of men such as Klaus Schwab, or Joe Biden, a consummate liar. The Clinton’s, the Obama’s, and a host of other’s growing out of the World Economic Forum who tell us what they have planned.

The forked tongue viper sways many a fool into becoming an instrument, by which atrocities can be committed. The Armenians, the Jews, the Ukrainians, the Chinese, the Cambodians, the stench of genocide permeated the air of the Twentieth Century, all documented in a study titled “Democide: Murder By Government”. Two-Hundred-Sixty Million plus murdered at the hands of government in the last century, and here we are in the Twenty-First Century with groups such as Moms Demand Action, and Everytown asking us to hand over to that same entity the tools the Founder’s bequeath to us to stave off the hands of government agents acting with false authority. In the words of Alexander Hamilton, “that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

What I hear from the likes of these people is I have suffered, now its your turn. I will do whatever I can to bring you the same pain I have felt. While we must sympathize with those who have been through such a life shattering experience, the empathy must be held at bay once their revenge is brought forth upon those of us who had nothing at all to do with their tragedy. Their actions are a direct attack on the lives of myself, and my loved ones. They are attempting to hand over to that entity that Thomas Paine noted; “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

They live by the illusion that “it can’t happen here,” and yet they are doing everything they possibly can to bring that about. First, they have no right whatsoever to engage government  to bring its heavy boot down on the necks of those who are innocent. Second, they are so blinded by their circumstance that they cannot recognize that they are the same people who loaded Jews onto freight cars destined for places like Auschwitz, slave labor camps in Siberia, or were the assassins of those who did nothing more than speak out, be an intellectual, or simply exist with different beliefs.

The facts are out there for all to see, and most have little desire to learn the truth. If you removed the Second Amendment today, it would have no effect on our Law. Article I, § 8, Cls. 15 & 16 contain more than any other statue on the numerous volumes of code that have been produced since this nation’s inception.

Article I, § 8, Cl. 15 delegates to Congress the authority “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions”. One sentence, one clause, but what does it say in its entirety?

The Colonial Militia existed long before “A Declaration” was ratified. For those who do not, or even reject the history of this country, on April 19, 1775, Seventy Militia, under the command of Captain John Parker, mustered on the Green in Lexington as a show of force against Seven-Hundred British Regulars who had come to disarm the militia. Militia mustered not as a voluntary force, but as able-bodied men, organized, armed, and disciplined in accordance with colonial statutes.

From Lexington all the way to Boston, colonial Militia engaged the retreating British Column. They were equipped with rifles and accoutrement prescribed in the militia statutes that had been in place for well over One-Hundred Years. The fact that those men acted in accordance with specific function and equipment as laid out in the statutes seems to have been lost to time, and more likely propaganda.

Although, throughout the war for Independence Militia did not fare that well, it was nevertheless what the Framers knew and understood when they penned Clause 15. Able-bodied men capable of bearing arms they themselves supplied for the purpose of fulfilling the constitutional commands.

Clause 15 also makes this very salient point. The Constitution, to which all our representatives must take an oath, not only states that body with the specific authority “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions”, by its enumeration, it prevents legislators from restricting, and disbanding that institution. It also places a barrier to the creation of any entity that might infringe on the powers commanded by the Constitution. Once again, the legal doctrine is “Expressio unius est exclusio alterius;” “Expression of one is the exclusion of another.”

In simplest terms, the creation of any institution, such as the FBI, violates the principle and the Law as it is set down in Article I, § 8, Cl. 15. None of the alphabet agencies can therefore claim any law enforcement powers. However, in this day-and-age, even those who claim to be patriots, or more perplexing still, attorney’s, who have supposedly studied law, are not willing to point out this glaring violation.

As I noted above, the fact that Eric Holder lied before congress, and more than likely should have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder went untouched, while some political opponents have been charged with serious crimes for doing much less. It is insidious and we are refusing to acknowledge that there is an obvious plan to overthrow our form of government. Why don’t the people act? They certainly have the legitimate tools to do so.

What is it about maintaining and employing the militia that appears to be repugnant to the public?

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpations and arbitrary power of rulers…And yet, though this truth would seem so clear…among the American people, there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burdens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.” – Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution.

Justice Story wrote the Commentaries in 1833. He notes, even back then, after having fought a war for Independence, and another to secure the nation just Eighteen Years later, the people were already abandoning their powers as if they were some great burdens to be arbitrarily discarded for convenience’s sake.

It is also important to note that Story understood the critical aspect of being “organized” in order that it be “practicable to keep the people duly armed.” In this, the public has lost a basic principle of strength. As part of  U.S. military training, the chain of command is explicitly stressed. This is and has always been critical to the American military. Unlike other nations, in which there was no chain of command, forces became disrupted as superiors fell. This is something that those in the so-called militia movement, and even the pro-2^nd community do not comprehend. There must be a structure, and that foundation must be rooted in the Rule of Law.

As the old expression goes, “I have talked myself blue in the face over this topic,” but undaunted by the fact that few seem to understand the gravity of the situation, I continue to reach out to anyone who will listen. We have enemies all around us, successful by the fact that the majority suffers from the most abhorrent of the Deadly Sins; Pride.

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Pride is considered the author of all the deadly sins in that it is what spawned the uprising of Lucifer and his followers in Heaven. Pride creates a hubris that prevents the lifting of the veil that is cast upon our eyes and blocks the truth from coming through. And because the truth will not be allowed we can rest our thoughts on the fact that all is well if I am fine. Nothing to be done if I stick to my own needs, thus casting the heinous sin of sloth. I can be ambivalent and the tide of terror so obvious will simply pass me by.

Every election we continue to vote into office those who have shown their “Lust” for power; their “Gluttony;” their “Greed.” Unabated, we go dutifully to the polls and vote for those who would share their sinful behavior by promising that which they never deliver except into their own pocketbooks.

I am equally as prideful in trying to educate others to the truth of the matter. I recently had a conversation with a friend who pointed out that there is not one person in any office who agrees with what I say about the Constitution. As I note, repeatedly, I am simply reciting the words that are plain as day scribed into that document; “for it is evident from the whole instrument, that no word was unnecessarily used, or needlessly added. The many discussions which have taken place upon the construction of the Constitution have proved the correctness of this proposition and shown the high talent, the caution, and the foresight of the illustrious men who framed it. Every word appears to have been weighed with the utmost deliberation, and its force and effect to have been fully understood.” – Williams v. United States, 289 U.S. 553

Am I just the fool to think that the character of man is ready to ascend beyond the errors and mistakes of the past? The pages of history are soaked with the blood of fools and tyrants. “Useful Idiots,” such as those who call for disarming the public are given the headlines rather than those of us who point to the past to remind others that given the choice between liberty and tyranny, the majority will always choose the latter.

Given the choice between closing my eyes to the truth, and assimilating the propaganda, I will error on the side of freedom. Freedom, as does all the components of this life, does hold risk. I am willing to accept the taunts, the accusations, and the condemnation of those who seek only to be secure in themselves at the danger of bequeathing to posterity a world, in which my children will have nothing, and they will be happy. A proposition that I contend is not the natural order of humanity.

So, to the fool and the astute alike, I repeat what is written into the Constitution as the Framers instituted as the People’s Teeth in Law; “A well regulated Militia” is the proper and only recognized authority “To execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions.”

Despite the cries of those who assume that feelings should be used to push unconstitutional acts that diminish the power of the People to stave off tyranny, I will continue to sound a truth. Not that which has been created by a subversive agenda designed to enslave us all. It’s not that we haven’t been warned; Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion.

We can hear and see his warnings playing out as cities are set on fire, and certain segments of the political spectrum are allowed to cut a swath of terror across the country.

The Left is in the streets causing chaos while the right condemns violence. The right is perfectly willing to accept violence from the left as it is unfolding. The Left is more than happy to apply that violence with encouragement from our “leaders.” It is clear that people in positions of power are not only condoning violent Leftists, but they are aiding and abetting that behavior. For those who are ignorant of the history of the last century, genocide promoted by “evil” authoritarians in government used the same tactics we see being employed today.

If Americans don’t wake up and stop espousing the ridiculous notion that conspiracies don’t exist, while informing the enemy that we are willing to accept any and all forms of violence for some high ideal, we will lose what is left of the Republic.

Violence is employed on a daily basis by government agents performing duties that are forbidden by the Constitution. Stop your ludicrous pandering to whatever it is you are supposedly trying to accomplish. We are in a fight for the Republic. If you don’t know how to maintain Liberty through enumerated powers that “We” enshrined in the Constitution, you are doing nothing more than condemning us and future generations to an onslaught of violence. Peace is wonderful, but at what cost? When you close your eyes for that last time, are you closing them to the horror that you have left to your children?