Tuesday, May 17, 2011

OPEN YOUR EYES!

The United States Constitution is a document divided into seven sections detailing the rights and powers of government. Once written it could not be passed into law because it did not contain the rights of the people. The American people and their leaders in the 13 state houses would not allow themselves to be subjects again, to go back to living under a government that did not guarantee liberty to the people.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
Patrick Henry
 The Bill of Rights was the compromise, it defines in no uncertain terms, the rights of the people. The inalienable rights held by all mankind. You might even be familiar with some by their number, the second amendment is often refered to by name, and it states. “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Which does not say that you have the right to protect yourself from robbers with a hand gun, it says that you have the right to arm yourself and band together with your neighbors to protect liberty from the government! The fourth amendment is also essential and basic, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” It says that agents of the state cannot enter your home, search you, search your things, look through your papers or documents unless a judge issues a detailed warrant supported by sworn testimony.  It says that you are a free person to conduct your private affairs in private as you please, it says that you are to be free from government intrusion, it says that your house and your pockets are all within your castle. Please read them all. They are your rights. It is the document that forms the skeleton of your liberty, and if you are ignorant of the details of your rights, liberty will be stolen from you without protest. What do you think of the Michigan Militia? Or militias in general? Do you think that they are all suspicious of the government? Preparing to fight if necessary? God I hope that they are, we all should be. The state is not your ally, it is the enemy of your liberty.
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin
Do you know how Adolph Hitler went from elected official to Fuhrer? Someone burned the parliament building and he declared that it was the work of communist terrorists, requiring special, temporary powers to return Germany to safety from this threat.
Liberty is not a word, it is not a quaint feeling to place upon a shelf to decorate for the 4th of July, LIBERTY is the soul’s ability to breathe free, liberty is the most sacred think on this earth, it needs to be tended to and cared for and loved and defended ... even to the death. What did Patrick Henry say? “Give me liberty or give me death” and he wasn’t joking around, he really meant that he would fight to the death for liberty, his liberty, your liberty. He wasn’t alone in that sentiment.
 "Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it."  
John Adams
A century of being spectators to the political process has left our liberty a shell of what it once was, slowly, ever so slowly the state has whittled away at it. They have convinced you that they are not your adversary, that you need them to provide for you. Provide what? We are a great nation of free men, the sweat of our brow is taxed from us and then given back to us and we are to be grateful? We are such fools that we accept these bribes in the place of our liberty? We allow our children to be ignorant consumers?
"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and 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 lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
Lethargy is the forerunner to the death of the public liberty. NFL football and beer and gadgets and computer games and tabloid news and Oprah. When is the last time our rulers were warned that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Sadly there is no spirit of resistance, when the wrongs stack up so high that they block out the nourishing light of the sun we line up like sheep and “vote ‘em out”. We actually believe that it is our only recourse.
Right now, at this very moment, the people of Indiana should be out in the streets, marching to the State House with torches and rifles, the people of every other state should be doing the same in solidarity and as a warning to our own states and courts. Do you even know why? The media that you trust to keep you informed has kept you in the dark. The Supreme Court of the state of Indiana has ruled that the Bill of Rights is null and void, that it is out dated and no longer necessary, they have ruled that your liberty is an antiquated idea that no longer serves any purpose, that you are not secure in your house and that the rights of the State supercede any rights that you might have. Rulers need to be warned!
A man was arrested for resisting the illegal entry into his home by the police, they had no probable cause and they had no warrant. The court found that, “A right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.” Against public policy? It is not only your right to defend you liberty, it is your duty to defend your liberty and the liberty of all of your brothers and sisters. So while the nation sits on the sofa and watches NFL labor negotiations, and American Idol and Dancing with the Stars and the NBA playoffs... The treasure of the republic, the very thing must all band together to defend was stabbed in the heart without any pomp or circumstance.
Do you believe that public policy has any value at all, that it out weighs the very liberty that makes this nation great?. Friends, do not fall victim to the thinking that it is just Indiana, these thoughts and decisions are coming to your state as well and every time they act unchallenged the enemies of the liberty endowed to you by our Creator become stronger and more brash and more bold.
It is not guns that they want to take from you, it is your means to resist. Where they have failed to seize our means to resist, they now look to seize our right to resist. No matter the ruling of the court, it is your duty to resist the state, or agents of the state, making any attempt to invade your home. Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state. Look around and ask yourself, are we becoming more free as a people or are we becoming less free? Are we free to resist the state?
It is a question that is more important than any other, and it is high time that we drew a line in the sand, enough is enough. I, for one, would trade a whole lot more “security” for slightly more liberty. Every time the state forces its way into your life it pushes freedom out of your life. Please, wake up and demand that your God given rights be held as sacred by your elected officials, or by God, let them know that the will be facing your wrath, the wrath of a righteous, armed, free people determined to preserve liberty for all of posterity.

1 comment:

  1. Well said my friend. I agree that personal liberty must be protected and preserved at any cost. What happened in Indiana is wrong. I haven't researched the whole situation, yet, but I'm interested to see the reason the police had for entering this guys house in the first place. Unfortunately in the world today terrorism is a threat, both domestically and abroad. And even more unfortunately there have been people living on American soil whose purpose in life is to do physical harm to American citizens and the government. These people in most cases are able to fund, plan and execute these attacks because they are protected by the Bill of Rights. So while the Bill outlines "inalienable rights held by all mankind" was it really the intention of the Founding Fathers to extend those rights to ALL mankind or were they to benefit American Citizens? I, for one, believe that if you are living in this country illegally and spend your time doing bad things it is the responsibility of the state, if not the people, to apprehend you by any means possible. Now I'm not advocating a Big Brother situation or the total disclosure of personal affairs the the authorities by any means but I have heard of and witnessed situations in the past where flat out CRIMINALS were protected by the Constitution. Did you know that if you capture a Somali pirate actively engaged in acts of piracy in international waters you have to read them there Miranda Rights or they get off scott free? Fact, been there done that. I think that in certain situations the state should have the power to step in and stop people from causing harm to Americans. Now who decides when that situation in present and justifiable is a whole other story. The system is flawed admittedly, but what system in it. It's human nature to try to get away with stuff. We've all been doing it since we were kids! It's too bad that sometimes the protection vs. liberty payoff comes at such a high price but in some cases it seems to be justifiable. Just playing Devils Advocate here. What happened in Indiana IS wrong and I'm sure there will be public outlash to it. Hopefully that outlash will not result in violence, there's already too much of that in the world. My advice, by guns. There's a saying, "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6". Well if we're going by Patrick Henry's mantra then it's an easy decision when to take up arms in force.
    -Morgan Brooks

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