Enemies Both Foreign And Domestic

October 24, 2022 | 2nd Amendment, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Militia, Republic

by Nicholas Testaccio

The fear that a nation cannot survive the traitor has been in the back of the mind of many for centuries. Someone, at some time made the point because the traitor looks like us, talks like us, and lives among us. They may be a friend or relative. They may be someone we elect to represent us, or uphold the law. They could be the perceived do-gooder who uses a political, or social position to build an organization based on some need. That need to correct whatever the issue might come with flowers, tears, and is presented with all the fanfare of a greater good. It has never, to my knowledge, achieved anything more than wealth for the promoters, and hardship for the intended beneficiaries. The far greater harm is to those of us who seek to maintain liberty.

Perhaps I am wrong about those organizations, or even government programs, but I do not see where I have missed the outcome. We need only look at “The War on Poverty”, “The War on Drugs” as two of our most malicious governmental programs. A war on something is nothing more than an attack on freedom. Most conspicuously, with open borders, cartels running amok, and over One Hundred Thousand deaths this year alone from fentanyl, we are either failing, or the traitor is succeeding.

We can look all around us and find agenda’s that are foisted upon the unsuspecting so-called beneficiary pleas for more assistance. I, myself, was fooled for years by supposed pro-2^nd organizations fighting for my right to keep and bear arms. They took my money, and here it is over Forty years since I was first introduced to the NRA, and I am now looking at the possibility that this government will pass a total ban on all semi-automatic weapons. This even though the U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent such a blatant attack on the ability to deter and prosecute “public officials” much the same as we would common criminals. More importantly to the preservation of liberty, the protection of life, and the means, by which this nation cannot be turned from a Republic to a democracy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famous Roman statesman is credited with saying “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

Our history has been under attack for some time now. While there are skeletons in just about everyone’s closet, the accomplishments of our Founders so far outweigh their faults that  the linking of the two can in no way deter what was past to posterity. A form of government, so unique that it is lost in today’s political landscape. It is not only a tragedy that most Americans are ignorant of this nation’s laws, but also a crime of immense proportions.

The general public is so ignorant of our rule of Law that they are jeopardizing the future to a point of no return. By that I mean to say there is a reading comprehension level, and a planned destruction of our founding documents.

I am often completely puzzled by those who are prolific readers, those who abhor racism, and bigotry, yet they will make perplexing statements such as “a great democracy.” I know what a democracy is, and what our Constitution commands, Article IV, Section 4 – “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…”

Why the Framers placed that command in the Constitution could best be explained by the man who has been labeled the father of that document. James Madison stated “Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”

I have spent considerable time studying our rule of Law. I label the Constitution as such because that is exactly what it is. It does not mention women. It does not mention any races, ethnicities, nor religions. It certainly does not mention men of any race, creed, or color. What it does contain are rules of delegated authorities, powers, and disabilities. It does “not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power.” Not my words but that of Justice Stanley Mathews who delivered the opinion of the court in a case regarding “A municipal ordinance to regulate…”

I have chosen those few words from that case for a specific reason. This is a nation of laws, but the Laws, the foundation, and the principles of the Republic are being torn apart by the foolish, the evil, and the traitor.

Alex Jones is among other things, a purveyor of truth. While he has been demonized as a sensationalist and “conspiracy theorist,” he is none-the-less one who has brought forth facts that were dismissed, and then shown to be true. His record is long, and because he has a following who know his record he must be silenced.

For his record, Jones must be silenced so that others who might speak the truth and challenge the current descent into tyranny, will fear to voice their concerns. Much the same as the political prisoners of January 6^th, a cruel and unusual punishment must be made the norm. It must be obvious to anyone who is willing to see and hear that speaking out against the agenda will not be tolerated.

In the latest show of force, the Alex Jones trials, in both Connecticut and Texas are a harbinger of what is to come unless we start regaining our sovereignty.

I am going to take a turn here, to which most will disagree. So be it if I’ve crossed the line. Throughout history, treason has come for numerous reasons. Some for gain, some for power, and some for vengeance. General Benedict Arnold turned on the Colonists because he was passed over though his actions in the field during the Revolution were exemplary. He was bitter and, I have no doubt, felt some need for vengeance.

On December 14th, 2012, an horrific act took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty Six children and teachers were murdered. Whatever the emotional cost to the nation, it had to be miniscule compared to those who suffered the loss of a loved one. It is impossible for me to comprehend what those who lost someone on that day felt.

For all the suffering of that day, it is difficult for me to say without any doubt, that we have been given all the facts. I say this because you do not hide a good deal of the evidence from the public when it is those of us who had nothing to do with those murders are called to task. You do not level an entire school to quell the anguish of a community. By doing those things you create questions. Why, in the name of any reason would you act in such a fashion? There are other instances that lend doubt, but it remains in my mind, at least, that in the Twentieth Century, genocide and ethnic cleansing was responsible for the murder of at least Two Hundred Sixty Million men, women, and children. We built monuments to those who were brutally treated. We did not destroy camps such as Auschwitz. We immortalized them so that we could remember.

Almost Twenty years later you do not bring suit against someone who questioned what took place, and then retracted those comments. You do not make it clear that your actions are done to silence someone in what many attorneys are calling a rigged trial, past the statute of limitations.

At some point we must reconcile that something is very, very wrong with the parents who took part in what we have seen over the last several months. Is it vengeance? Is their grief, to this day, so immense that they want to wreak havoc on the right to a fair trial, and then place your child and mine in jeopardy of suffering under the yoke of man’s most brutal enterprise? That being a government with the sole power to wield force against the people it is supposed to serve.

It might appear here that I have placed the Sandy Hook tragedy on the same level as the horrors of the last Century. That is not the case. What I am trying to do is create a narrative that highlights the title of this article.

In this nation, “We the People” created the Rule of Law in a fashion that provides for our sovereignty over the state. As I have noted in numerous articles, we do not simply have a Right to Keep and Bear Arms, we have a solemn Duty. If we rebuke that responsibility, we suffer the consequences of tragedies such as mass shootings, or a nation suffering from agendas that cast both emotional and physical harm.

Four years ago, Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr. wrote an article “The President Can Suppress School Shootings.” He wrote it using facts. Facts about our Law, and our unique form of government that could not only prevent such shootings, but unfathomable atrocities such as the Holocaust.

Let us never forget that the genocide of the last century was not simply perpetrated by a fiction known as government. It was carried out by the hands of those who followed a few leaders into the depths of depravity so mindboggling that it defies any form of reason. Much of, if not all of it, was executed by those who thought they were doing something good and noble. I have no doubt that some did so for vengeance and power. Some were convinced that it was needed for whatever went through their minds at the time. Some could not have been thinking with any compassion. I will make a point here that all were traitors to their fellow citizens.

In Marbury v Madison, 5 U.S. 137, Justice John Marshall famously stated “The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.”

In this nation we have a vested right, as Samuel Adams noted, “Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.”

“We the People” did not create this Republic with power vested in our hands so that it may be subject to the agenda of corrupt politicians; ignorant and abhorrent people and organizations; whims and fancies, nor tragic events. We formed it with the purpose of preventing what history has taught us to be the most violent and corrupt of institutions, government.

Logic and reason derived from facts. Many of those facts are taken from events that took place decades, even centuries ago. Do we dismiss them because we believe that it cannot happen here, when in fact it has? Do we say damn to our fellow citizen because we endured heartache? Are we of the mindset that no matter what history teaches, we will walk down that path to our own demise?

We cannot continually repeat the same mistakes of the past and expect that we will come to a different place. We are not compassionate because we have empathy for those who have suffered when we turn around and make everyone else an enemy. When the Founders of this nation created the Rule of Law, by which Freedom could survive, they placed that responsibility in the hands of everyone. Their hope was for “A Republic. If you can keep it.” It was not for a democracy, in which tragedies are used to undermine the Rights and safeguards of Liberty.

No matter what the future holds, we must understand that we are mortals with fears, aspirations, and emotions that often cloud our thought process. We must follow the Law, and the Law in this nation is for organized, armed, and disciplined men who are there, on the spot, bearing their own arms, so that they may “Execute the Laws of the Union…”

The safeguards that were established at the outset of the Republic are there for a reason. If we avoid our duty to enforce those rules, then we must ask who is ultimately responsible for the tragedies that we experience? We must also remember that the prescription for diminishing our rights has been to “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.”

Instead of persecuting those of us who chose to be free, and wary of government intervention, learn from mistakes of the past. Do not follow like sheep, those who would add to not only your grief, but also inflict that onto others by the heavy hand of government thugs. Those, who throughout history have shown their willingness to murder young, old, women, and children without remorse.

This has been made a complex issue by the power hungry, and the “useful idiot.” Do not inflict your lack of understanding on me. Realize that if we are to use our grief for the purpose of circumventing that, which was designed to keep us free, then who are we, but if not “An Enemy…?”