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Monday, August 4, 2009
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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. James Madison, Federalist Paper # 45.
News Letter No. 18
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Title: It’s Time for the States to do their duty. We will accept no more excuses.
The Federal Government under our current regime has taken extreme measures to destroy the States and with them the People of this nation. Its time we said, “NO MORE”. We need to examine the thoughts that led to the War of Independence, and the promises that were made to “We the People” when the Constitution was being debated and ratified after winning that war. It is my contention that we are at the point in time where we must act now, or loose our Country and our way of life for ever.
We have seen such encroachments on our nation in the past. Most have always followed a “Crisis too valuable to waste”. The Patriot Act, the Social Security Act, Medicare, Medicaid, US Senators being elected by popular vote instead of nominated by the states. All of these measures, which I believe were designed to tear the fabric of America apart piece by peace, were passed by devious and crafty men who either had an agenda to destroy America (FDR, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter) or where useful idiots to the cause (G. Bush, Bill Clinton). And of course we had the people in the Congress and Senate who only wanted to get re-elected and would vote for anything if it meant more power to buy votes. Any pretense to following the Constitution has been abandoned for many years.
But we now, to quote Ron Emanuel, face a crisis that we better not waste. We face a Constitutional Crisis of epic proportions. Nationalized Socialized Health care! This action is so Un-Constitutional that it is unbelievable that every Senator and Representative in both the Federal and State Governments is not shouting at the top of their voices, Its Time! But we don’t hear it do we. Oh there are a few out there. Texas has passed a Sovereignty law. Oklahoma has passed a weak version (our great Governor Henry vetoed the original bill) but it did not go far enough. Nebraska has two State Senators who are working to get their own Sovereignty law passed (Mark Christensen and Tony Fulton – if you know anyone in Nebraska, pass on your praise for these two guys.
I would like to make a case, in the founders own words, of why what is happening is Un-Constitutional and how we Can and Must Resist.
And no one can say we were not warned. The old adage, Forewarned is Forearmed does not seem to apply to American politicians or the people at large. History is replete with examples of governments destroying themselves from within. Will we just be the next?
Benjamin Franklin, Sept 17, 1787 at conclusion of the constitutional convention.
In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Deposition as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
(Are we there yet? Does the fact that We the People elected Barack Obama, an avowed socialist and what a demonstrated tyrant as our President? Have we become so corrupted and debased that we are only fit for a Despotic style of Government? We watch in wonder as this President and his minions completely ignore the Constitution AND the Congressmen, both Democrat and Republican, argue around the margins and never stand up and say “This is Un-Constitutional and Shall Not Pass.” No, instead they worry about how they can spin the bill to get the maximum amount of money to spend in their district or State in order to buy enough votes to get reelected. Maybe we are. JWB)
I would like to begin this letter, and I apologize that it will be a long letter, but deposing the founding fathers and early American Jurist by examining their writings will take a bit. And the following is not an all inclusive summary. I only picked some quotes. There are hundreds or others along the same line. None of the Founding Fathers recommended or tried to twist the Constitution into what it has become today.
(In any court of law, witnesses are Deposed to find out what they meant, their frame of mind, etc. when something happened. NOTHING IS CLEARER THAN THE ACTUAL WORDS IN THE CONSTIUTION WHEN COMPARED TO THE THOUGHTS OF THOSE WHO WROTE THE WORDS! And WE the PEOPLE are perfectly capable of reading and understanding the meaning of the Constitution. When we said in the Constitution that “…all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution…are reserved to the States or to the People”. we don’t need a lawyer, a Supreme court justice, a President or a Congressman or a Senator to explain what that means. We will not buy into the chicanery that tries to tell us what our eyes can see is not so JWB).
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.” James Madison, Federalist paper # 45
(The Father of our Constitution, James Madison wrote these words to convince the people of the United States that we had nothing to fear from the new General Government JWB)
There was much mistrust in America about an overreaching Federal Government at the time of the ratification of the Constitution. We had just defeated a monarchial power and set up a “Confederated” form of government that had very strong States and a very weak Federal component. The argument was that the Federal Government was too weak to perform their duties. A convention was called by the states to “Alter” these Articles of Confederation, not write a new Constitution. The People were quite shocked by what came out of this convention and pretty much railed against it. Hamilton, Jay and Madison, who all worked on this document, wrote many letters to the “People of New York” and by that method to all of the residents of the Confederated States of America trying to calm their fears of this huge national government. In Federalist paper #45, James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” spelled out that the Federal Government was of limited AND enumerated powers. The States had all of the power.
What did the founders think about this? Did they think they were putting into place a government just as oppressive and just as corrupt as the one they had fought to get rid of? I think not! Lets look at some of their writings and see if we can detect their feelings and their intentions during this tumultuous period.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
(We NEVER parted with any of our God Given Rights and we are not about to start! JWB)
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.
Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms, July 6, 1775
(We do not have the right to give up our basic freedom. Our Children have the RIGHT to be as free as we were JWB)
If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave. John Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
(He is saying here that even if we for some reason said that we gave up this right, the laws of nature are such that we would not be allowed. It would be like saying we gave up the right to breath. This is what Obama and his henchmen in Washington would have you believe. You can give up your freedom. Absurd indeed JWB
[W]e are confirmed in the opinion, that the present age would be deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves, if they do not establish an American republic. This is the only form of government we wish to see established; for we can never be willingly subject to any other King than He who, being possessed of infinite wisdom, goodness and rectitude, is alone fit to possess unlimited power.
Instructions of Malden, Massachusetts, for a Declaration of Independence, May 27, 1776
(The thinking of the entire people of the US went along this line. It was not just the people who worked on the Constitution or wrote the Declaration of Independence)
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics. John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
(The Constitution of the United States of America is the HIGHEST law of the land. In it we clearly do NOT give the General Government any power over health care! JWB)
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
(Obama, the progressives, Big Business may have a desire for us to give up these rights, but we have the right to CHANGE these people out of power if the persist in their efforts to harm us. We also have the God Given Right to alter or change the form of Government if need be. JWB)
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
(Again, he was prophetic. Our elected folks have become so used to feeding on us that they have no capacity for honest labor any longer. We have to get back in the game and put these people in their place! JWB)
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
James Madison, Federalist No. 45, January 26, 1788
(Elected Representatives and Senators used to understand the limits of the Constitution. That they could NOT use it to transfer our money to others no matter the cause. The Constitution does NOT give the General Government any power to transfer property form one person to another. Still does not! JWB)
On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823 The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it. James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, Circa 1790
(Again, this is not hard to do as there are plenty of writings from the founders on these subjects. These people had spent many lives and much treasure throwing off a tyrant. Can anyone contemplate these people setting up a system that would allow some crafty, devious people to set that system back in motion? JWB)
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1791
(Why would we have a Government if not to protect, not harm us? JWB)
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition. Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, February 15, 1791
(While Thomas Jefferson was not in the US during the drafting of the Constitution, he had constant correspondence with Madison, Monroe, Hamilton and other who were. It was Jefferson who pressed Madison to include a Bill of Rights in the Constitution. He KNOWS that this document was a draft of Negative powers to the General Government. JWB)
It is an established rule of construction, where a phrase will bear either of two meanings to give it that which will allow some meaning to the other parts of the instrument, and not that which will render all the others useless. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given to them. It was intended to lace them up straightly with in the enumerated powers, and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect. Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, February 15, 1791
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.
Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, February 15, 1791
(An Absurdity of course. Why would all of the words be written? Why would Hamilton, Madison, Jay write the Federalist papers to explain just what power we were giving up and what we were not if the only words having any meaning were General Welfare or Necessary and Proper? JWB)
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.
James Madison, Federalist No. 39, January 1788
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions. James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792
(Every Founding Father acknowledged that we were entering into a Federal Relationship with States retaining their sovereignty. JWB)
The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant. Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens. Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833 (Justice Story was a justice of the Supreme court and one of the most prolific writers on the Constiution. He understood as almost everyone else did that the General Government had LIMITED and ENUMERATED powers. JWB)
In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Cartwright, 1824 (Health Care is one of our most fundamental rights and will not be taken from us. JWB)
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
(This was the why we threw off the yoke of the King of England. We will NOT be harnessed now by another would be tyrant. JWB)
This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Henry Lee, May 8, 1825
(Nothing new was declared. We only took back what had always been ours. JWB)
For many years now, Washington and the crafty, dishonest men and women who we send there to do the Nations work have perverted the Constitution and stolen the money and property of the frugal and hard working and given it to the un-motivated and lazy. Now in some cases they have given money to people who no doubt cannot help themselves and do legitimately need help. BUT WE DID NOT GIVE THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT ANY POWER TO DO THES THINGS! We have to constantly remind these people that they have over stepped their bounds. The programs Obama and his toadies have put in place, bailing out car companies, propping up mortgages for people who were in most parts spectulators, buying cars and then scrapping them to get people to buy smaller cars is all UNCONSTITUTIONAL! These people are breaking the law and we have a congress that is aiding and abetting them in their criminal acts!
On November 26, 1796, the city of Savannah, Georgia, was devastated by a fire. Representatives introduced legislation calling for federal aid to rebuild the city. In the course of significant debate on the measure, Representative Nathaniel Macon from North Carolina remarked that:
The sufferings of the people of Savannah were doubtless very great; no one could help feeling for them. But he wished gentlemen to put their finger upon that part of the Constitution which gave that House power to afford them relief.... He felt for the sufferers...but he felt as tenderly for the Constitution; he had examined it, and it did not authorize any such grant.
Representative Andrew Moore of Virginia, among others, agreed: "[E]very individual citizen could, if he pleased, show his individual humanity by subscribing to their relief; but it was not Constitutional for them to afford relief from the Treasury."
To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816
(This of course was written only 27 years after the constitution was ratifed and 25 years after the Bill of Rights was added. Can anyone with any integrity or honesty maintain that what the Obama Administration is attempting to do is Un-Constitutional as hell? Remember that the whole point of Nationalizing 1/5 of the economy is to cover the so called 50 million people without health care. WHERE DID HE GET THAT POWER! The answer! Neither he nor congress was ever given it. JWB)
When a bill was brought forth in the house to “reward” a widow for the services of her deceased husband, one Congressman stood up and said…"I do not wish to be rude, but I must be plain. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks." David Crockett Representative from Tennessee
He learned this from one of his Constituents when he made the mistake of voting for just such a bill earlier. This constituent told Congressman Crockett, "No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution. 'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.' Horatio Bunce, Tennessee Farmer.”
(There was a time when not only the elected representatives but the People themselves understood what the Constitution said and meant. Here we have an example of a simple farmer “schooling” an elected representative on the power that was delegated to the General Government by We the People. And taking his money to give to someone else because it made him feel good or bought someone’s vote was unconscionable. We each need to learn to be Horatio Bunce! JWB)
[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
(This was intended to be a Very Limited Government. Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States. He was very much involved in the thoughts and ideas which were used in the development of our government. He is saying that the Federal Government needs to stay out our lives and leave us be JWB)
(In this Socialized Medicine bill, like many others, there is a component to take from the mouths of the hard workers and give it to those not so inclined. This is of course Charity and Charity is NOT part of our Constitution. You and I may feel compelled to try to help people less motivated or less fortunate than ourselves. But these are, and must be, private decisions. JWB)
It originally comes from the Apostle Paul, in 2 Thessalonians 3: "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." Captain James Smith of Jamestown paraphrased this by saying, “Those who will not work shall not eat” (this should be a truth that is acknowledged and accepted by everyone. JWB)
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
-- Benjamin Franklin (This is no different than today. Think of your children. Do you give them everything they want? How would you teach them any sense of responsibility? How would you teach them how to provide for themselves? There is no difference between teaching your children and teaching the poor. They MUST make the effort and they MUST be responsible for themselves. We are NOT responsible for them. JWB)
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free. John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787
(Anyone who tries to say we have an obligation to send the fruits of our labor to a government who then will use it to buy votes is denying this truth put so well by the 2nd Prsident of the United States. JWB)
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they worked for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
—Dr. Adrian Rogers
(We are dangerously close to this moment. And we have a person in the White House who is pushing to tip us over this edge. As I said earlier, NO ONE has the Power to take from you and give to someone else. They do this because we do NOT fight back. We have to start Fighting or we are lost! JWB)
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state. George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1778
(Isn’t this what has happened to us? We now have a class of people who are wholly unqualified for any gainful employement who feed at the public trough. These are for a very large part the lowest most dispecable group of people in America Today. The are leaches who produce no goods or services but rather feed off of the productive part of society. As Dr. Coburn tells us, these people are only interested in one thing. Getting re-elected.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
And don’t fall for the line that the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government could tell you what to grow or what to consume or where to get your health care or that you can’t fill in a hole on your property. YOU are the final arbiter of this. You can educate yourself to understand if their rulings are correct or not. Get Informed. Understand how you as a Juror can stop this runaway, out of control Federal Government through Jury Nullification JWB)
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823
(Of course thanks largely to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court packing scheme, the court has been totally perverted. They now see themselves as the final arbrieter of all constitutional questions. This was NEVER the intent of the founders. And these people were NEVER intended to be able to legislate. When they tell a school system that they have to spend money to create new facilities for some slight, they have over-stepped their boundaries. Since they have NO power to create consequence (they can legally only impose remedies passed by the legislature) and they have NO power to tax (in Kansas City the judge ordered tax increases to pay for his stupid ideas of how to remedy so called discrimation. This judge (Russell Clark) should have been ignored and more probably should have been impeached.)
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day. Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
(This is why you must arm yourself with the Constitution and what it was meant to be, not what some judge or politician says it means. You are at the top of this Government. Remember the Constitution starts out with, “WE the People” and everything else is subservient to us. Politicians, Elected officials, judges, etc. WE ALLOW these people to act in certain capacities as LONG as they do not Pervert their offices. Once they do that, we MUST step in and correct them. We can do this many ways. JWB)
“The American People will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program” Norman Thomas, Socialist party presidential candidate USA 1944
(They have almost succeeded. FDR took us half way there. Obama is trying to complete the journey. JWB)
"A new revolution is possible only in consequences of a new crisis." Karl Marx - the father of the communist manifesto
Never waste a good crisis - Hillary Clinton in Brussels march 6, 2009 commenting on climate change
– You never want a serious crisis to go to waste - Rahm Emmanuel
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, Circa 1749
(We have a corrupt and corrupting government today. It is up to us to correct them or we will loose America for our posterity JWB)
"The law becomes the weapon of every kind of greed. Instead of checking crime, the law itself is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish." ~ Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
(Think about this. Any law that does not respect our God Given Rights is a nullity to begin with. But these people pass laws that would punish us for resisting Un-Constutional laws. JWB)
The following is adapted from Carl Watner, who says better than I can,
"Government is the only institution in our civilized society that is able to cover its coercion and use of threats of force in a shroud of mystique and legitimacy. Government is the institutionalization of conquest over people and property. The stated purpose of government is protection. In reality, its purpose is exploitation to extract resources. Governments excel in the use of force and threat – the political means of survival – by combining forceful conquest with ideology. Governing requires that those who govern authorize or commit criminal acts. Through education and propaganda the people are conditioned to accept government as a natural part of their environment. Their demand for government services is what fuels the State. So long as the criminality is veiled by the political process, people accept it without seeing that it conflicts with their basic values. It is concealment of government criminality that is the tragedy.
"Perhaps the tragedy can be made more plain. Look at the daily news. It reports one group or another appealing to the government for its special agenda. The tragedy is that people do not realize it is their own neighbors from whom they are stealing in order to support their special program. The political process is purposefully impersonal. The secret ballot and the use of majority vote obscure the fact that it is our neighbor – perhaps the struggling widow – who is being threatened at gunpoint if they do not fill the government coffers or follow its mandates.
"Few people would directly confront their neighbors with a demand of "Your money or your life!" The structure of politics allows the supporters and perpetrators to conceal – even from themselves – the evil reality of what they are doing. Such is the real tragedy of political government." ~ The Voluntaryist No.79
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Andrew Jackson
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
(How many new “Offices” do we have today with gun toting agents ready to do you violence if you do not follow their instructions or if you resist? Who are these Czars and why are they there? How do unelected people with no Constitutional mandate get into our government? Because the people we elected as our watch dogs have laid down and are now licking the hand of the President)
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.
Samuel Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, November 27, 1780
(Of course instead of these kind of men, we have the Ted Kennedys and the Chris Dodds and the Barny Franks, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Obama. There are precious few men Samuel Adams was hoping to find in our General Government actually there today JWB)
We can and Must Fight Back if there is to be anything left of our beloved county for out Posterity!
"Non cooperation with evil is as much our duty as is cooperation with the good."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government ... The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair ...
The natural strength of the people in a large community, in proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than in a small ... the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate. -- Alexander Hamilton
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. -- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788
(We have seen the so called Patriot act allow you to be imprisoned without trial. You can have your phone tapped and your emails read. And thanks to the laws supposedly in place to hinder organized crime, RICO, you can now be stopped by police and your property stolen from you with no recourse. You will not be arrested but rather your property will be. Police departments all over America have used this law to fatten their coffers. Like Seat Belt laws, these are not aimed as much at stopping crime or safety as they are aimed at fleecing the public)
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government. Mercy Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805
(Where are our “Rulers” that should be helping us. Where are our State Representatives and Senators and Governors? These were to be the bulkwark between We the People and an overreaching Federal Government. We must DEMAND that they step forward and do their job or we must Replace them in the next elections! JWB)
There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!
John Hancock, upon signing the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
(You have seen my Name and initials all over this document. I like John Hancock do not want to hide from these would be tyrants. Do you? JWB)
I don’t know why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. Henry Kissinger 1973
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, speech in the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams
There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come. Peter Muhlenberg, from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock, Virginia, Jan, 1776
Is now the Time?
Thanks very much
J.W. Berry
Newsletter No. 18
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