Posted on 08/29/2009 12:53:25 PM PDT by Jeff Head
We stand at a pivotal crossroads in our nation's history. It is a crossroads that we as a people have been a long time coming to, with the pivotal events occurring mostly in the last hundred years, and now escalating much more rapidly in the last few months. So-called progressives, socialists, marxists, and those seeking to ignore or discard fundamental republican and moral principle have pushed and pushed, have cajoled and cajoled, and have subverted our nation to this very point, calling the truth a lie as they have gone along. Many have fought them, but far too many have ignored the worsening condition, others have been bought and paid for through blackmail, bribes, or appeals to entitlement and vice, still others have been swayed, in the name of congeniality or "reason", to compromise, to have pleasant dialog, and to meet half way with those pushing for the end of our Constitutional Republic, our Free Market, and our way of life and liberty. The problem is, if you are always meeting the opposition half way towards their position, if they keep stepping further and further back along a particular path...then you are drawn right along down that same road to the destination of their choosing. And that destination is not a constitutional republic, and is not liberty based on fundamental republican principle. Such is the position we find ourselves in. Down one path at this crossroads lies an absolute fatal precipice for our constitutional republic, our liberty, and our traditional way of life. Along the other path lies a long, hard, and dangerous climb away from that precipice back to a place where our Republic and its Constitution can once again rest on a firm and steady plain. That steady plain is rooted in and founded upon fundamental principles and values. The principles are given to us by God in Heaven, the Creator, as our founders pointed out. It is He that has given us our rights and the principles that they are rooted in. The primary, most fundamental right bequeathed to us by God is the right to life. And yet our society has become so twisted that the very definition of life...which is so obvious to anyone particpating with God in its creation, has been twisted and wrested. Abortion on Demand, Abortion couched in corrupt law [warning:graphic image], is not a right...it is the opposite of the fundamental right to life. It is not a "family value"...it is the antithesis of family values and kills outright what otherwise would be the next innocent and loved part member a family...either for those bearing the innocent child, or for those who are waiting in line to adopt the innocent child. That our society has become so engrossed in entitlement, so fixated on convienence, and in the sick and twisted power of words being applied to actions that have no basis in the definition of those words or in reality...is indicative of the absolute critical nature of the crossroads we now find ourselves at. Liberty is also our birthright from God...liberty based on fundamental moral principle...based on God's law. Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shall not steal, the golden rule, etc. It is not liberty to take from another who has earned something and/or owns it, and give it to someone who has not. That is not "sharing", that is not "charity." It is out and out theft. Yet our government practices such theft on a daily basis and thereby breaks faith with its founding principles and the compact which created it. Politicians infest our land...not many statesmen or true representatives, or public servants among them. They are proud of the title. They have come to believe that it is their job to make more laws, and proudly call themselves "law makers". They have created entire courses of study and degrees in "Political Science". But what America needs is not politicians who compromise, but statesmen and servants who stand firm. Politicians buy and sell votes by hobbling together laws and acts that practice the aforementioned theft so they can economically enslave entire classes of people and turn them into poor wretches who do not even know the extent of their slavery. Mindlessly voting for entitlements that are not theirs, and voting for the frauds who enact such "legislation" that takes them from others and unjustly, immorally, gives them to those who have not earned it, or have not received it as a free-will gift and charity from others.
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." Patrick Henry And yet, despite the teachings and urgings of our founders to the contrary, here we are. Faced with existing and looming moral ruin and economic bankruptcy as the Free Market is dismantled before our eyes by wanton marxists who are dedicated precisely to that "fundamental change". They have no interest in the free market or maintaining it or helping it. They are interested in destroying it, along with our fundamental republican principles so they can build a marxist command economy on its ashes with themselves and their close supporters in charge. That is the truth of the situation we face. But events surrounding the current administration are opening a window of opportunity for all patriotic, traditional Americans who love life, liberty, and the opportunities those rights and the principles they are founded upon empower them with. The opportunity to work hard for and realize dreams and pass them on to their loved ones, or at the least bequeath them the same opportuinty in the same environment. Americans are waking up and they are not happy as they realize that their very liberty and their very opportunity to achieve and excel are being robbed from them. In this situation, we must remember that there are certain foundational principles and institutions that we can hold fast to, rally around, and draw other Americans to on our journey up the steep path away from the precipice. It does not require a "new" constitution. It does not require "new" amendments, it does not require losing any of our birth rights or the unalienable rights God in Heaven has given us and that our founders enumerated for us. What it requires is that we, as patriotic, God-fearing, liberty-loving Americans stand and assert our way of life, our constitution, and our rights...and that we do so firmly, without equivocation, and without compromise as regards those birth rights, those unalienable rights, or those fundamental principles. I will try and illustrate the nature of all this by drawing on experiences I have had in life. They were taught to me by my mother and father, who in turn learned it from their parents. Who in turn learned it from many God-fearing and faithful generations before them, and on my Dad's side stretching back into the original colonies in the 1600s. There are three oaths that I have taken in my lifetime that I hold inviolate. They are oaths that I am willing...right here...right now...at any time to fight for, and if neccessary to die for.
First: I made a sacred vow and oath, when I came to Jesus Christ and was baptised in His name, to take His name upon me, to try and always have His countenance about me, and to obey His commandments and live as He would live. In so doing I repented of my former sins and self and He saved me spiritually and took me to be His own...and I now go through life constantly reminded of that vow, of that oath and covenant I made with God and Him, and constantly seeking to be more like Him, being lifted up by Him when I fall, and trying to help others do the same. This basic principle, repeated millions of times over in this country, is, in reality, why we are free. So, these three oaths define what I fight and die for. GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY. Those are what we rally around...irrespective of your denomination. Irrespective of your interpretation. Irrespective of whether you name Him Father in Heaven, or Nature's God. The principles apply and they are the foundation of this nation and the reason we have been the freest, the most charitable, the most prosperous, and strongest nation on earth. Again, the founders and great thinkers and orators of the day understood how all of this tied together and warned against any tendancy to stray away from it.
"[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity." Daniel Webster And if we are true to those values and principles, we will not only remain that way, we will cast off the malaise, the darkness, the doomsayer attitudes of those who stand against these principles and we will overcome all enemies foreign and domestic, whatever the cost. The enemies of this nation, both foreign and domestic, must know that their push against these fundamental values and principles are at an end. We say the slide stops here. We say that the time has come for us to stand firm against their relentless push against liberty. We lean into their assault, and push their efforts back the other way and cast them off into the dark depths that are their home. If we do not unflinchingly face those who are seeking to subvert the fabric of our liberty directly and forthrightly now, and if we do not endeavor to pass these truths on to all those around us ... the time will come, as surely as night follows day, and as surely as our founders found, when our liberty will be under so grave a threat that we will be compelled to defeat the resulting tyranny (either foreign or domestic) by nothing short of the force of arms. We must let the enemies of liberty know that we are not only willing to fight, but prepared to do so and to do so with extreme prejudice in defense of our constitution and the principles and values that form its foundation. Those enemies must understand that their fate will be so awful if they attempt extra-constitutional or totalitarian methods of supressing our rights and liberties, that they will not dare to do so. As Ronald Reagen said, years ago, "It is a time for choosing." Let us choose aright. If we do, the promise of our founders and their experience extends to us.
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775 But if we choose wrong, we, or our children or grandchildren will live out the harsh warnings and lessons of history:
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."- William Penn And for those who think that it cannot happen here. History teaches and tells us differently. Wake up and look around. It already is. As Sophocles wrote well over 23 centuries ago :
Far-stretching, endless Time It is time to stand firm. Jeff Head A PETITION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
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Make sure each man is trained in ‘active protest’ and has all the tools required to ‘protest effectively’.
I am forming my team.
Those are what we rally around.
And that's our enemies' fatal blindness. They don't understand us. They can't even begin to comprehend what motivates us. Never will. They have two fatal weaknesses:
1. Their overweening arrogance borne of their sense of entitlement.
2. Their utter and complete inability to understand what motivates us. It's like Kryptonite to that sick parade of collectivist pornography that passes for their thought processes.
They may have read Sun Tzu, but they clearly don't understand it well enough. We do.
Nor on mine.
That distant thunder that you may hear rolling through far-off hills is war.
War is coming. Here. Soon.
And, like my father before me, I am prepared. I am prepared to honor my oath.
And I won't be alone.
Amen brother...not on my wathc either.
We can, and we shal restroe our Constitutional Republic...and we will put down these usurpers, quislings, and totalitarian ideologues in the process and send them packing.
The sound of awakening is reverberatting across the land. We see it, hear it...we feel it in Town Halls, Tea Parties, on forums, on talk radio, all across the width and breadth of our nation.
It is rising up as a tidal wave and it is going to run its course. Starting now through 2010 and on through 2012.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan
I want to see the Two ‘fer Act of 2011 after the new Congress comes in. If I were in office I would sponsor it myself. Any new “Act” of Congrres or “Law” must show specifically it constitutional authoirity, and then it must overturn two existing laws before it can be passed...naming those acts that it overturns sepcifically and providing for their demise within the wording of the bill.
God's speed and His blessings on every single sincere effort to restore our Constitution and the principles upon which it was founded.
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Thanks Jeff !
Perhaps God in Heaven will smile upon us and help us avoid that if we are vigilant and up to the task...but we must be prepared for it and realize that an ocean of blood, in the form of the innocent babies of two generations has already been shed.
You are very welcome. Please feel free to spread the word...about this essay, and particularly about our Constitutional Restoration effort:
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I have patiently paid off all of my debts, saved tangible assets and made preparations for what is yet to come. I live in a remote rural area and can heat my home with wood, coal or what ever will burn. I eat the fish I catch, the deer I kill and have put away a large amount of canned goods, grown by my own hands.
Bring the appocalypse on Brother. My military service has given me skills and experience that only the elite Swat teams are familiar with. They may be turned against us, out of fear and blind loyalty to their overlords, but I wonder, really.
Once they realize that we are all cut from the same flesh, they may see that we are the real patriots, fighting for our liberty. And that they are the compliant drones. Mindlessly carrying out the orders and wishes of their Fascist rulers.
Time will tell, and the first sign of things to come will be clearly evident, beginning this November.
If the numbers, percentage wise pan out like the Revolutionary war, that will be about 90 million Americans. Those are good odds.
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They can't comprehend our faith because they're Godless.
They don't understand our devotion and love for our families because they're without natural affection.
Our enemies are perpetual malcontents who have enjoyed the best that our Nation has to offer, while they would spit in the face of those who sacrificed to afford them their fat happy life.
It's hard to imagine that anyone who has relished in the freedoms that America has to offer, would also wish to destroy Her.
To what end? I have long been perplexed over this, but in later life I have come to the conclusion that such hostility
toward our nation by the very ones who benefit from Her bounties, has to be motivated by the god of this world.
I can tell you to what end. In fact, I've just updated my Fourth of July Tea Party Speech, adding B. F. Skinner to the list of progenitors of the very bad ideas that animate the monsters who would cruch us and rule us now.
But the answer to your question is quite simple, and makes a terrible kind of sense once you turn and face it squarely: A free and prosperous people cannot be ruled. They can only be killed in great numbers and the survivors crushed in order to make them subservient.
Remember Machiavelli's advice to his Prince regarding the conquest of those with a sense of freedom?
"When cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince... they do not know how to live in freedom... and a prince can win them over with greater faculty and establish himself securely. But in republics, there is greater life...they do not and cannot cast aside the memory of their ancient liberty, so that the surest way to conquer them is to lay them waste."
Youve got understand that the people who've now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the American State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They will happily reduce Western civilization to stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they believe that they will be the ones sitting on top of the ruins. Why? Again, because a free and prosperous people cannot be enslaved. They must be broken first. Laid waste, just as Machiavelli prescribed so long ago.
We're in this now for everything that matters: God, country and family. All else is window dressing. The freedom and prosperity of our children and theirs now rests on our willingness to go all-in in the coming battle.
That distant thunder that you may hear rolling through far-off hills is war.
War is coming. Here. Soon.
And, like my father before me, I am prepared to honor my oath.
I won't be alone.
I like those odds. Our erstwhile masters don’t have the full support of he US military. That also improves the odds.
They’ve also made another fatal miscalculation: the number of us who are willing to go down swinging before we submit.
OK, so your spell check isn't working.
8^)
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Congressman Billybob
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