Posted on 06/16/2016 2:17:54 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Many American minds have been twisted by a hundred years of progressivism. A once proud and independent people have become increasingly meek and dependent on the decisions and goodies disbursed by faraway masterminds.
Part of that twist moved our attention and expectations from the dispersed power in our states, and toward a single focal point in Washington, DC. For any real or imagined problem, the perceived answer no longer resides within our communities or states. No, there must be a national program to deal with and regulate everything. This top-down imperial approach, that treats the fifty states no better than subservient soviet republics, is not only incompatible with, but hostile to free government.
Aren’t you tired of pleading like a serf with your rep and senators to comply with the constitution they swore to protect? I’m not saying we should stop communicating with them, but as a group, they will never reform the system that serves their personal interests so well.
If we are to save our republican freedoms from runaway tyranny, we must take the initiative, and stymie the radical onslaught, but how?
Voting for conservatives to national office is necessary, but history has shown it is insufficient. Conservatives will never set the terms of the debate in Washington, DC. The left simply owns it all. Big media and the DOJ are Obama’s shield and sword. If we are to be winning generals in this long battle against despotism, we must select the best terrain to fight upon, and that terrain is not in Washington. It is distributed among fifty state capitals.
Yes, the states. It is there our Framers direct us, in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments through Article V, to begin the process they planned, to take back our republic from the forces of darkness and despair. We do not have to put up with consolidation of all power into the hands of the few. We have the means, we must use them.
This new tactic requires a new perspective.
Do you know your state rep and senator? From you, do they know they have the constitutional duty and muscle to restore republican freedoms? They know very well the heavy hand of DHS, EPA, HHS, etc. and unfunded mandates too numerous to count. They know that over half of the states stood in court to oppose Obamacare. They know radical judges alone prevented Arizona from defending its southern border. They know of DOJ intent to hijack elections for democrats, and how the statists are ultimately nullifying the constitution. Do not discount their collective loathing.
These are the politicians we must motivate, because they are the men and women who will send delegates with detailed commissions to an Article V amendment convention and wrest power from our oppressors.
We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder of the American Republic. Join Convention of States.
Article V.
Land of the thieves…
…home of the slaves.
Thanks for your work, Jacquerie.
That’s a frightening webpage.
<>Land of the thieves . . . home of the slaves<> !!!!!
A lot of serf mentality in the business world too. Almost all businesses will accept statute or regulation on the face of it without putting up a fight either due to legal advice or they consider it’s too costly to deal with court.
I remember the HIPPA stuff on medical privacy when it came out. The law itself only said docs couldn’t share with anyone but patient and designees. Sounds fine on the face of it until the legal advice rolls in - if you don’t document your record release, you stand the chance of being sued and certainly don’t use email - what if your admin staff types in the wrong email address!!!
So, even though there is no problem with them handing you your own records, you wind up encountering resistance and hassle to get something that would otherwise be simply handed to you without “incident” because they have been worked up by the legal world to see a lawsuit under every rock. Being sued all the time for other reasons doesn’t help either.
But the above is not the worst of it in my mind.
If you want to talk about serfdom, look at how businesses reacted to the drone bit. When the FCC said they were “looking” at regulating it, everyone screeched to a halt and waited for their regs to come out before even attempting to put into practice its commercialization.
This was actually a “wow” moment for me. A critical difference between being governed in the US vs being ruled everywhere else is that in the US you don’t need to “ask for permission” (supposedly).
Government is given an itemized list of what IT can do via the constitution and if it’s not listed the government can’t do it. If there is no prohibition via statute or reg, you can do it, period. If a subsequent statute or reg comes into play, you are “grandfathered”.
In other countries, it is the complete reversal, it is the serfs who are restricted. The de facto rule is that if something is not specified as being allowed to do, you are not allowed to do it. You must first ask the government permission to do it.
This is exactly what happened w/the drone commercialization. Instead of businesses saying, “Well, there are no regs yet, so let’s consider them model airplanes and get started!”, they cowed and waited for the FCC to tell them what to do.
Imagine if that’s how it went down w/internet stuff. In that case, I probably wouldn’t be posting this now!
A serf’s tax rate was only 20%.
Three hideous examples of the serfdom come from rural Pennsylvania, land of rugged individualists.
1 The notorious government hold on liquor sales.
2 The extremely burdensome requirements for homeschooling.
3 The weird law in Bloomsburg that requires antique and secondhand dealers to submit their business account books to the Police Department. (We’re not talking firearms, we’re talking granny’s rocking chair. The police need to know where you got it, when, how much; or else!)
Hardly anyone I’ve met seems to mind these things. But on the Fourth of July you can buy fireworks on the street, no questions asked, and shoot and holler yee-haw all through the night. Confederate flags are ok too, because it’s one big Hazzard County between P-burgh and Philly, a land of churches, tat parlors, taverns, and tractors. And good ol’ serfs decked out like rugged individualists.
Well said. You are in good company. Here's how Algernon Sidney expressed the same idea in 1682:
“Liberty solely consists in an independency upon the will of another.”
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