At the twilight hour.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war. If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds are against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. -- Winston Churchill.


Those who choose to embrace hope, and sacrifice their principles, are forever foredoomed to gain only what they sought to avoid in that sacrifice. Those who await the harvest find the reaping comes for them, too often.

The power of life comes to the vigorous, the active, the brave. it is as it has always been, that the rights of the people, once infringed, lead inevitably to other infringements. Each step leads logically to the next. If one thing is ok, perhaps the next maintains that status.

Another has said it far more eloquently than I ever shall be able to. We remember the last words... but how many have ever seen the whole of his speech, read and felt the impact of his words in full?

Master President, No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at the truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the numbers of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?

Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlement assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, 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. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

-- Patrick Henry.


How often in history have those who offered hope... led only to new chains?

Ask yourselves if the equality and benefit offered is to all, or merely to a few. Ask yourselves if the basis of your hope is valid, is true. Look and see if the hope bears out in the actions of the past, and ask yourselves if you dare believe in the hope for the future... or if the enemy is still binding chains upon you.

Ask yourselves as well if this has ever happened before.. why it seems so familiar... yet so chilling from the history attached.



Alpha and omega... the beginning and the end. A charismatic leader, religious overtones, a time of major economic and political unrest, and economic collapse. Disdain for human rights, for treaties, disdain for the Constitutions upon which the powers were founded. Ask yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, if you dare to continue to compromise, to appease, to bend down before others.. or if you're simply adding power to those whom you would resist, and hoping that they will not notice you as they pass by.

We're at a crux point, a tipping point. The nation by its very nature is on the end of change... it remains to be seen if that change is a good thing.

I only hope enough of the people waken from their complacency soon enough to realize what patterns we are following.
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What is the Constitution to me?

The constitution is a simple document, but it means many things to many people. This is what it means to me, along with documentation of why I believe so.

The Constitution is simply a civil contract between three parties, a particular state, the people of that state, and all other states. It did not provide punishments for its violation, as a civil contract could not do so. In effect, the Constitution established a new party that oversaw the other three, and ceded specific powers from the states to that federal government. These powers allowed limited legislation, as well as the execution of that legislation, and its interpretation.

According to the original documentation and argument, the Constitution was designed to be very limiting. The people at the time had suffered quite enough at the hands of despots and tyrants, and had no wish to bring in new hands to control them. They had recognized the dangers of the manipulation of money under the Bank of England, and thus chose to use gold and silver as a standard. They had recognized the danger of not having a standing military, but feared the military itself. The discussions on this subject were often full of vitriol and anger. Thus the government had to be limited more, in order to prevent the misuse of these powers.

The government did not establish rights, nor did the constitution. According to the people of the time, and the philosophy of the time, those rights pre-existed the constitution from British common law, from the Magna Carta, and from God himself. They were therefore forever outside of the venue and powers of government. This is part of the reason why there was no bill of rights in the Constitution as it was written.

The argument was that anything not written in the Constitution would be outside of the powers of government. The government therefore could not do anything it was not explicitly granted, and further could do nothing that it was explicitly prohibited from. The bonds on government were designed to be strong, to limit the power there to preserve the liberties of the people.

There are several 'basic' rights, the right of liberty, life, and property, as well as that of the pursuit of happiness. It was felt by Alexander Hamilton that the listing of such rights would actually be detrimental, as it would imply by their listing that the government may have the power to limit them, as well as distracting the people from the rights that were so voluminous that they could never be enumerated.

The constitution does not establish rights. It simply recognizes them. The Founding Fathers had studied John Locke, and the Lockseyan model of rights, as well as Blackstone, and many other philosophers of the past. They'd studied Rome, Greece, and had the advantage of being able to start over with a nearly clean slate. When Shay's Rebellion ushered in the awareness of the impotence of the Articles of Confederation, a convention was called to amend the Articles... and the Constitution was the ultimate result.

Our Constitution is a contract, deliberately limiting the powers of the government and of the states, and setting out their duties, their offices, and the nature of the government itself. Our government is limited to only ten square miles of Federal land.... the District of Columbia.

Our government is prohibited from removing Habeas Corpus rights from the people, except in the most dire of emergencies of insurrection and rebellion.

Our government is prohibited from legislation that removes the rights of the people without trial, making laws that make actions illegal or provide punishment or consequence after the fact, or making a taint from the parent pass to the children. (corruption of blood).

I look back into the past and see many parts of history, the tools that led us to where we are currently, and weep that so few ever read the histories, not just what you are presented in school, but those histories that are found on dusty library shelves, in journals, and diaries. One must be cautious to compare them, and to try to eliminate the personal bent that exists in all writings.

It provides a quite different view of the nature of our government. Our rights pre-exist the government, and were never provided by it. Our rights exist, not because of the government, but in spite of it. The government cannot create rights, but only attempt to destroy them.

The Boston Journal of the Times in 1769 wrote an article on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, saying it was a pre-existing right. Indeed, the Militia Act of 1792 provided for the arming of the militia out of their own pockets... every able-bodied male citizen of the United States was ordered by writ to have, and maintain the best military weapon that they could afford, to provide powder and ball, and to be proficient in their use, to prevent the tyranny of a newly-established Federal military.

John Locke felt that there were only a few things that could destroy a free people. One was to have public education that was government funded. One was to have a standing military that was stronger than the might of the people. The third... was inaction of those very people, disinterest in their rights and ignorance of their meaning.

Ultimately, as was intended in the preamble to the Bill of Rights, but destroyed in that Article 5 Constitutional convention, the powers of government are derived from the people, and it is their right, when they believe that those powers are being used in ways detrimental to their well-being to alter or abolish them, by whatever means their conscience sees fit.

All rights are retained by the people. All powers are derived from the people, and all governments stand... or fall by the love of their people. Fear not only leads to tyranny, it is a symptom of tyranny. When we cannot defend ourselves.. we are already a good distance toward that ignoble goal.

When we cannot speak, we are already on our way to slavery. When we cannot believe, cannot worship, cannot meet, cannot even petition for the redress of grievances... we are already there. Is it necessary to wait until the chains are already upon us? Is it a good thing to cling to that siren of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?

Hope is an illusion. It will, as Patrick Henry said, prove a snare to your feet. Our hope lies in the re-establishment of that Constitution, as it was intended in the beginning, for a limited government, and a powerful people. The people cannot simultaneously be subjects of the government, and the owners of the government. It is a logical fallacy to claim that the government can own us, while we control it.

It is equally a fallacy to claim that the Constitution established rights... as the Constitution only established a government and limited it. The rights existed before the government, and were forever to be outside of its powers.

You might ask yourself if the government might have transgressed its powers over your rights. The right to liberty... to no undue government interference. The right to life, to have your body under your sole control, to not be forced by a government into surgical procedures, experimentation, sterilization, or death. The right to property: The very right to maintain a home, land, and goods. The right to the pursuit of happiness... all rights limited by the rights of others.

We will never have a perfect society. We will never be without crime. The Supreme Court has judged us to have no 'right' to police protection, which leaves our protection, as it always was, in our own hands. If we have no right to police protection, no right to protect ourselves, then who is protected?

None but those outside the law.
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How much is your dollar worth?

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Cynicism: it's not just for breakfast anymore.

The current President Elect, our 'Candidate for change'... brought in to help with the finances one Paul Volker, from Chase-Manhattan bank. Paul Volker, if you will recall, was the one that, nigh singlehandedly, caused the last recession in 1982, when he decided to 'squeeze the inflation out of the market' by instituting massive interest rate hikes. This policy led to something that was called at the time, "The Third World Debt Crisis".

Meanwhile, in the United States, we've crippled our economic drivers, our factories, our industry. Due to high union wages, high environmental taxes, increased retirement costs, due misinvestment and misallocation of retirement benefits, we've created a class of pensioners that the companies must support by contract, even though they are no longer generating revenue. Were this done by simple trust funds, paid in from their wages, and limited to the payment from those wages, and long-term bond-backed investments, it would be a quite different thing.

We have enough oil, natural gas, iron, coal, aluminium, limestone, oil shale, titanium, gold, silver, uranium, and about any other material needed to run the country for a very, very long time, at the old rate of expansion of use. (Conservative estimates for oil were at 300-500 years, and natural gas potentially for a thousand.). We also have, and had, one of the best industrial complexes in the world... which has since moved offshore, and into foreign countries.

Our economy cannot be driven on service alone. The industrial capacity of the country, for national security reasons, must be such that we produce every critical thing that we need.

We could, properly utilizing the bread basket states alone, feed the world, with food to spare. In the interest of pandering to their lobbyists, however, grain rots in the fields, in the silos, to maintain prices. Fields are left fallow, not to regenerate them, via crop rotation, but due to the interest of controlling crops grown to maintain prices.

Our goods more and more are designed with a lifespan that is... frankly, rediculous. I have an old 1950s sunbeam mixer... that still operates. It still beats bread dough (not just batter), after over 50 years. Our mixers today? Very few of them will hold up to that kind of abuse for more than a few weeks.

We design our vehicles with non-interchangeable parts, design them so they have to go back to the factory technicians or certified techs for repair. We have outlawed small two-stroke motors used to convert bicycles into small mopeds, at 200 mpg, due to 'Inefficiency and pollution' and replaced them with 40mpg four-stroke units. We've redesigned tires, redesigned our televisions, by law banned incandescent bulbs and replaced them with flourescent lights that are filled with materials that the EPA says are toxic enough to require evacuation of parts of a building upon their breakage.

Our food continues to be more and more adulterated, chemicals placed in them, and with them that are known to have deleterious health effects. Our vaccines contain the same toxins as our lights, mercury.... mercury thimerosol, in some cases, 20x the maximum allowable dose per pound of weight for an adult, into our most vulnerable population, our children. It is toxic enough that to dispose of it, one would have to move the material to Envirosafe sites, as toxic waste.

We watch with stunned horror as atrocities are committed overseas, by dictators, but close our eyes to the same atrocities done by our own government. We decry torture, but engage in it, and when called for our duplicity, outsource the torture to foreign governments.

Was it not an argument of our very own Declaration of Independence that secret trials, trials by tribunal rather than jury, moving people overseas, denying them a defense, denying them due process or remediation of grievances... was tyrannical?

Was it not an equal argument of our founding fathers that the troops of the Federal Government should never be used against their own citizens?

Was it not, ladies and gentlemen, an argument of those very same founding fathers, that no person should have their rights removed, save by the due process of law, trial by jury, and then only for the time decided by the judge and jury as due recompense for the crime against that society?

If due recompense was paid in, as Winston Churchill wrote 'The hard coinage of punishment', how can any society demand more?

Yet we do. We rail against the felon, reach out to block them reintegration, distrust them, provide no services for them when they leave the system. We provide no counseling, minimal education, minimal support groups... and then wonder, when we push them to the edge of society, at the corruption of the felon.... when we gave them no chance at all to return and be embraced back into the society that they wronged.

Criminal judgements are not about the individual. They are public law, and thus prosecuted by a public attorney, by the state, or county. It was considered worse to be imprisoned than to lose money, so less protections were made upon the courts in private matters.

Now, that selfsame private law is being usurped in an attempt to incarcerate. Regulation is a means of control. It has ever been so. The census itself is regulatory, determining the nature of a population in an area, their affluence, and their influence. The census has equally been used for atrocities. From the Jews, leading to the trials at Nuremberg, to the Japanese-Americans, leading to a presidential apology.... humanity has had a long history of using regulatory registries for purposes quite opposite to their original intent.

From the registration of firearms, to their collection and destruction, as seen in Great Britain, Australia, and Nazi Germany, registration has been utilized to make a free people substantially less than free.

When any people, any nation, makes the choice to allow their own regulation, to allow the registration of their whole, or any part, ultimately, that society and people become less free. The regimentation of laws continues, unopposed, and destroys the origin of that society. When fear becomes the motivation for law, law itself falls, and turns from a scalpel in a surgeon's hands, repairing problems, to a machete of butchery.

What is the ultimate form of control of a people? When the government uses their army, or the army of others, to subjugate the people to their will. This is why there is an absolute prohibition, and has been for over a century and a half, against the use of US troops on US soil against US civilians, and an absolute prohibition against the beginning on the use of foreign troops on US soil against US citizens.

Some may feel that what I write goes far beyond what is accurate or reasonable. This is their right. Some may perceive me as having my own agenda... and indeed I do. That agenda is the restoration of the Constitutional Republic, and the restoration of the rights of all citizens, and the placement of the control of that government back into the hands of the citizens with all due prohibitions on the powers of that government returned to place.

It is patterns, after all, that relate the past to the present. Patterns wend and wind their ways through our world, a warp and weft that can be seen with a small amount of effort. Often, even unconscious effort can create patterns, accidental patterns that lead to similar results. Patterns are a pressure, a tide, written in history that can be applied again, and again,, and unless they are recognized for what they are, cannot be stopped.

Each and every thing I've posted, I have done my best to research. Each and every thing that I have spoken, I stand behind. If what I write is treasonous, or seditious, it is because the government has deviated from the agreement in the beginning. My positions, my goals, my ideals are in line with the origins of the government, of liberty for all mankind, due diligence for their rights and immunities pre-existent to the constitution, and the restoration of constitutional government.

What I write may be shocking, it may be controversial, but it is what I believe to be the truth. Americans are educated away from a great deal. Our history books contain very little on the founding fathers, nothing on the federalist or antifederalist papers, almost nil on the constitutional convention, the origin of the bill of rights, or even the discussions of the Declaration of Independence or history behind it.

When the past is considered dead... when any government agency starts rewriting the past, the future is in jeopardy. Eastasia has, after all, always been at war with eurasia... regardless of what our memories may say.

We might be shoeless and homeless, and not able to get jobs, but after all, the government says everything is ok, so it must be imaginary.

Production of food is up... if we're not getting enough of it, it must somehow be our enemy's fault.

Orwell had a lot of things to say about these very things.. 1984, Animal Farm. The Founding Fathers had a great deal to say as well, as did John Locke.

If you disagree.. do your own research. Look at what I've had to say, and look it up. The journey will be educational either way... and even if we don't agree at the end of it, we'll both be learning.

That is growth.




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Enough is Enough!

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Lou Dobbs on Posse Comitatus

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When is it enough?

I wish I could say I was still ashamed of the United States... I really wish I could, because that would mean that my expectations were still high.

At this point, however, I cannot admit to high expectations, or any expectations really. Stupidity seems to be the status quo. Sometimes I wonder what they're putting into the water supply in Washington DC.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGvwttDayiiM&refer=home#

The Fed responded Dec. 8, saying it’s allowed to withhold internal memos as well as information about trade secrets and commercial information. The institution confirmed that a records search found 231 pages of documents pertaining to some of the requests.

“If they told us what they held, we would know the potential losses that the government may take and that’s what they don’t want us to know,” said Carlos Mendez, a senior managing director at New York-based ICP Capital LLC, which oversees $22 billion in assets.

Your taxpayer dollars hard at work.... you pay the Internal Revenue Service. They report to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve then loans that money to Congress, with interest.

Tax returns? If you're lucky, they're a return of part of the capitalization you pay them to do their job. If you're unlucky, they're a distant dream. The interest on that capital? It's absorbed by the Federal Reserve, and used for further capitalization.

Your work is monetized, and used to back up the Federal Reserve's foreign loans as well. Loans to Afghanistan? Russia? China? The International Monetary fund? All there. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran. Nobody's off the list anymore.

But what do we get out of it? We get told that it's none of our business, because it might damage the assets of central investors.

Umm... Hellooooo in there? Umm... have they replaced the oxygen bottle with laughing gas again?

Now the 'military peacekeeping force' is in the US. Can we guarantee that they won't operate as police officers? How can we monitor what police do?

Are they doing investigations? Do they do arrests? Do they stop cars on the street? Establish roadblocks? Are they asking questions? Do they enter and search homes, businesses, or other premises?

Are they on a clear and established mandate from the community? Does the community still provide their funding?

Oh wait... Army. That's right. If they start acting up, we can't exactly cut their funding and arrest them.

Posse Comitatus? Sorry, the signing statement on the restoration act was the president did not feel that he had to be bound by Congress or the Constitution.

The police state is already here. They're currently enforcing traffic in San Bernadino county, engaging in joint exercises in Texas, Louisiana, and elsewhere.

Under military law you have no rights. You are property of the Federal government, to be disposed of as necessary. How are we being treated now? We're being... disposed of as necessary. Economic sanctions, against the very people who are the basis for governmental power. Warrantless searches, seizures, wiretaps, seizure of property without due process, imprisonment under military commission, without recourse for a lawyer?

Habeas corpus restoration act: Signed with a signing statement saying that the president isn't going to follow it.

So with your money in their hands (your dollar bills, bills of credit under the definition of the Constitution) being capable of being dissolved at any time, for any reason, or no reason, them refusing to show what is backing the bills, then refusing further even to give the commissioning agency (congress) information on the bailout...

Where is the real power here? Now the Federal Reserve can pull the Government's paycheck, the Army's paycheck, your paycheck.

And what do you have to stop them? An army? Oh wait, that's under their control. The National Guard? Federalized. Your police force? Oh, sorry, FEMA authorization under Executive Order authorizes them to be federalized too!

There were reasons for the second amendment, having nothing to do with hunting. They had just come from one tyrannical government, and over the years, we've built another.

The central banks were critical to the British Government's stranglehold.. what are they doing here?

The firearms were not against simple robbers... but against the greatest criminals of all, our own government, your banks, and anyone who would rob us of our freedoms and liberties. Those rights, pre-existent to the constitution, guaranteed free of imposition by that constitution, were to guard our liberties and rights.

Boy, we're doing a really good job.








I mean, what the hell folks? When is it enough? When will you pull your head out of the sand, and realize that this stuff parallels things that have happened before?


All of these are 'police powers' specifically prohibited the Federal Government under Posse Comitatus, and the Bill of Rights.

Where is it all going?

Let's look back in time... This man says it far more eloquently than I.



Does it matter what they call it if all the symptoms are there? Does it matter if they call Martial Law 'Happy Fun Time' if they are exercising martial law?

It is time for us to wake up. The powers in government are ours. We cannot be simultaneously owned by the government, as well as being the owners of government. The two states will inevitably destroy each other. We are not 'Citizens of the United States', nor were we intended to be. We are citizens of our Soverign states, and the government, the Federal Government, is ours. We do not belong to it. We never could, as it is our power that implements and maintains it.

The symptoms you see all around you, the decaying jobs, the decaying morality, the 'crime rate' are all symptoms of the same things... our own ennui destroying our freedoms.

So when do we stop being passive? When do we become proactive in maintaining and utilizing our freedoms, our liberties, our rights?

And if you don't believe that they've exceeded their charter.. think on this. A single vote can pass a law in the Congress, or the Senate, for the entire country if they do not adjourn Sine Die. That single vote... could be for anything, Ladies and Gentlemen.

And does it matter if it is unconstitutional, if we won't stand up for the Constitution? The backing of that document is us... not the US. The powers in the document were ceded from us. The rights in that document we reserved to ourselves explicitly as things which the government was never to touch, in order to preserve our freedoms.

So think about it... and may God have mercy upon your souls.
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Martial law and you.

Friends, I come to you in mourning... Martial law is here, by definition and in truth. I don't know how much longer I will be allowed to write this blog, it does not really matter. There is a great deal more you need to know.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gJd63da5mM0wM8hDw0VkfJjebZbg
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/

Heretofore, this blog has been a set of observations, each proceeding from things I've seen, things I've understood, dug through, and looked through in history.

Let me elucidate: Under martial law, the constitution is suspended, and you have no rights.

It is equally martial law if they do not call it such. It is equally martial law if they simply take your rights away and never tell you... and we are in a state of war. We are slaves to a tyrannical government, a government that was implemented and designed in the interests of a nation being governed by the people, and that government being limited from restricting the rights of others. Our liberties, our freedoms, all of them were founded prior to the government, and extended throughout that period, with the understanding that said government could not, and had no power to infringe upon those rights, those liberties which they guard, and the freedoms and immunities which pre-existed the government itself. The only means by which the government could assume tyrannical power was by its military, which was to be opposed by the militia. The Federalist 26 directly addressed this subject.
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed26.htm

"Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community REQUIRE TIME to mature them for execution. An army, so large as seriously to menace those liberties, could only be formed by progressive augmentations; which would suppose, not merely a temporary combination between the legislature and executive, but a continued conspiracy for a series of time. Is it probable that such a combination would exist at all? Is it probable that it would be persevered in, and transmitted along through all the successive variations in a representative body, which biennial elections would naturally produce in both houses? Is it presumable, that every man, the instant he took his seat in the national Senate or House of Representatives, would commence a traitor to his constituents and to his country? Can it be supposed that there would not be found one man, discerning enough to detect so atrocious a conspiracy, or bold or honest enough to apprise his constituents of their danger? If such presumptions can fairly be made, there ought at once to be an end of all delegated authority. The people should resolve to recall all the powers they have heretofore parted with out of their own hands, and to divide themselves into as many States as there are counties, in order that they may be able to manage their own concerns in person.

If such suppositions could even be reasonably made, still the concealment of the design, for any duration, would be impracticable. It would be announced, by the very circumstance of augmenting the army to so great an extent in time of profound peace. What colorable reason could be assigned, in a country so situated, for such vast augmentations of the military force? It is impossible that the people could be long deceived; and the destruction of the project, and of the projectors, would quickly follow the discovery."

This is, by its very nature, a definition of the right, and the duty, under the Constitution to secede, and/or dissolve the original contract. The rights and immunities under the constitution were not established via the constitution, or the government, they pre-existed the government.

See the Boston Journal of the Times, April 13, 1769

"Instances of the licentious and outrageous behavior of the military conservators of the peace still multiply upon us, some of which are of such nature, and have been carried to such lengths, as must serve fully to evince that a late vote of this town, calling upon its inhabitants to provide themselves with arms for their defense, was a measure as prudent as it was legal: such violences are always to be apprehended from military troops, when quartered in the body of a populous city; but more especially so, when they are led to believe that they are become necessary to awe a spirit of rebellion, injuriously said to be existing therein. It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own defence; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.^"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#cite_note-20

If, as the government argues, the second amendment was to preserve the militia to the states, how does it excuse the seizure of the National Guard to the Federal Government's control?

The nation has violated the contract which created it, a civil contract bound in tradition, and common law.

At this date, common law falls... and all men are transformed into slaves.

A strong statement? Perhaps. Look, however, at the definition of slavery in the 1956 anti-slavery compact, signed in 1957 by the US government...

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/slavetrade.htm#wp1034251


Article 1

Each of the States Parties to this Convention shall take all practicable and necessary legislative and other measures to bring about progressively and as soon as possible the complete abolition or abandonment of the following institutions and practices, where they still exist and whether or not they are covered by the definition of slavery contained in article 1 of the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926:

( a ) Debt bondage, that is to say, the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor of his personal services or of those of a person under his control as security for a debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined;

( b ) Serfdom, that is to say, the condition or status of a tenant who is by law, custom or agreement bound to live and labour on land belonging to another person and to render some determinate service to such other person, whether for reward or not, and is not free to change his status;

( c ) Any institution or practice whereby:

(i) A woman, without the right to refuse, is promised or given in marriage on payment of a consideration in money or in kind to her parents, guardian, family or any other person or group; or

(ii) The husband of a woman, his family, or his clan, has the right to transfer her to another person for value received or otherwise; or

(iii) A woman on the death of her husband is liable to be inherited by another person;

( d ) Any institution or practice whereby a child or young person under the age of 18 years, is delivered by either or both of his natural parents or by his guardian to another person, whether for reward or not, with a view to the exploitation of the child or young person or of his labour.


Article 7

For the purposes of the present Convention:

( a ) "Slavery" means, as defined in the Slavery Convention of 1926, the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised, and "slave" means a person in such condition or status;

( b ) "A person of servile status" means a person in the condition or status resulting from any of the institutions or practices mentioned in article 1 of this Convention;


Compare this to the federal reserve, a system of debt bondage by which we, as the American Citizens, are placed in a condition of debt bondage, subject to the seizure of our real property, goods, chattel, and person for the failure to pay a debt created not by our own actions, but by the policies of a government that appears inimical to our national and personal wellbeing. Our capital paid in taxes is not applied to the principle, nor the interest of the debt, but used in the creation of further debt. Should we fail to pay the taxes, paid in company scrip, redeemable only with the company itself, we face prison time and loss of all putative assets.

Is this not slavery? Do we not need a passport to leave our country, and to return? Do we not require, by law, the permission of our nation to leave and return, and our return can be barred for any or no reason, as can our leaving.

We can be transported across the seas for prison or trials, without representation.

At this point, within each and every possible measure, we are slaves, and the Federal government is in violation of every possible section of the Declaration of Independence's grievances.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gJd63da5mM0wM8hDw0VkfJjebZbg
And now they move in the troops? Perhaps our nation has forgotten the statements of Patrick Henry:

"Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlement assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, 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. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

We are a nation of patriots, a nation of men and women engaged in the most arduous struggle of all, that struggle for liberty, for freedom from the unjust and impositional government that arbitrarily changes the law, changes the punishments of men, and changes and destroys the rule of law in the mindless seeking of power.

If we mean to be free, if we mean to maintain that freedom for which our forefathers fought and died, we must be true patriots. The war is... already begun, a war created against the citizens of the several states, a war fought on the financial front, on the power of a few men choosing to seize and assert control over a nation by deception and fraud.

We are not taught of our freedoms, nor of the foundations. We are not taught to look at those who are most despised to see how they are treated, nor are we shown, by that, what our government's innermost nature is.

The troops are come, and are training to come to your door, and to remove your means of resistance, and we still sit here idle and prattle on about this and that, as though any of it matters without our freedoms and our rights.

Our rights guard our freedoms... if rights are not equal for all, they exist for none. Any class asserted to be 'less worthy of rights' is easily expanded. Any class of persons deemed to be 'problematic' ultimately leads to an 'ultimate solution'.

If we have learned nothing from the past, should we not at least have learned that it is our most despised people that betoken our own ultimate fate?

But then... we would have to look at ourselves... and realize that we too are slaves, and we strike out at the least liked because they are unprotected, using them as the whipping boy of a government gone mad.

Ask yourselves, gentlemen and ladies, whence the powers they seized came? Ask yourselves what it means to be free... and measure it against a world that would throw you aside in an instant for the seeking of power...

Then ask yourselves what you can do about it. It is laid out in law, in tradition, and in the very arguments used to pass the Constitution, and enforcing the creation of the Bill of Rights.

Then ask yourselves if you can still sit idle, and allow those rights to be torn away from others. it matters not who they are torn from, we are as evil for sitting idly by and doing nothing as for doing the tearing ourselves.

And then look deep into your heart and ask yourself if your comfortable conditions are really comfortable, or just an illusion.

All of your stuff, all of your money, everything... is a sham. It's smoke and mirrors, created by a press and political system.. that intends, and has the power to take it away from you at a whim, and on suspicion, not via due process, not via trial by jury, but on suspicion without any possibility of court action or representation.

Is it so comfortable now?
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