Wednesday, January 23, 2013

A Message for Our Time

What if there was a place where the leader of the country could have you arrested, with no evidence of any wrong doing, deny you a trial, access to a lawyer, and let you rot in prison, forgotten, until you died; would you want to live there?

What if in this same place, the police could write their own warrants to search and take from you whatever they pleased? Not only that but if you told any one, even your lawyer about the warrant, the police could arrest you, just for telling some one else, even your lawyer. Would you live there? Would you even dare visit?

What if these same police could imprison you, simply because what you claim happened and what they believe happened differ slightly? How safe would you feel on vacation there?

What if, in this hypothetical place, the leader issued orders as he pleased while the legislature was completely impotent in restricting the leader and holding him to the laws of the land? Sound like a place to risk even flying over?

What if this corrupt government was spending its country into bankruptcy? What if in that country unemployment was over 9%? On top of that the legislature and the leader made special deals for their friends in business while passing laws that hurt their competitors? Would you dare invest in any corporation within their borders?

What if this country fought endless wars, invaded small nations as it pleased, and funded terrorist organizations when they served it's purposes, all the while railing against such organizations in the state controlled press? Would you believe anything this countries government or it's media said? Would you want them to be an ally of your country?

What if this government was spying on it's citizens, and arresting some of those who speak out against these things, sending them to psych wards where they have mind destroying drugs forced upon them? Would you support political pressure from your country to get this behavior to stop?

Does this sound like a 3rd world dictatorship? Or maybe a communist empire on the rise?

What would you do if I told you, you live here already? That everything described here is happening, right now, in the United States? Would you believe me? I hope you would because it's all very true.

We are not fighting the slow onset of tyranny or minor players in an 8 year game of change-the-leader. Tyranny is here, and we must beat it back into the pit of hell before it becomes despotic. It is not yet despotic, political strategies are still possible if the force of the people is behind them.

But it must be said, that if we lose the right to bear arms, arms of military capacity that could hold back the attempts of a military dictatorship to take root, then we will, in our lifetime see the United states decay into the turmoil and terror that is brought by such dictatorships throughout history.

Do not mistake these warnings as a call to arms, nor as a condemnation of the current regime. This is a fight for the minds of the people, and we the people are solely and completely to blame for these events. We fixed upon our shoulders the burden of governance at the founding of this nation, yet as time has passed we have cast aside this responsibility for the promise of security and free money.

Nothing is free in this world, and those who have within their grasp the ability to provide you everything can also take it away. We have done a terrible thing, generation after generation, allowing our freedoms to slowly erode, believing the lies of those in power promising us more security for every piece of freedom we relinquish.

We are solely responsible for the problems I point to in our country. If we wish to fix them we must start by blaming no one but ourselves. The key to freedom is the responsibility of the individual. The individual must take it upon himself to be as he wishes his country to be.

We have been the frog in the pot, slowly brought to boil. Each generation, slowly purged of it's freedoms in the name of safety and security. Slowly a distrust is raised among us. We want restrictions of every kind. Why? Because some one some where abused a freedom, and someone else was hurt because of it.

What fools we have been! How can we be this blind? In every group of people of any appreciable size there will be those who abuse their freedom at the expense of others. This can never be stopped, it can only be dealt with when it happens.

Yet instead of dealing with derelicts of society and moving on, we create spectacles of them. This spectacle drives up fear, fear of suffering the fate of the victim's. In our panic we lose trust of our neighbors. We demand their rights be reduced in a futile effort to protect ourselves from the scarcest of foes. All the while we are blind to the obvious reality that the reduction of my neighbors rights is a reduction of my own.

Piece by piece we demand our government take our liberties for the promise of safety, a safety that no man can ensure. Do not seek what you cannot have, and what no man can give you. Yet secure safety, not from the hazards of life, but from the greatest destroyer devised by man: government.

The blueprint to this freedom has already been created within the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. Read these documents, and understand them. Then hold your servants in government to these laws.

And yes, they are your servants, treat them as such. The government of the United States and all it's subdivisions are representative in nature. We elect those who serve us in government. For far to long we have given them far to much leash and have been brain washed into believing that nothing will change.

Our conviction is self fulfilling. If we believe nothing will change, than it never will, for our voting will never change. And do we ever contact those we elect when matters of importance arise within their jurisdiction? Conversely, if we commit to changing the outcomes of decisions of those who we have let dominate us instead of serve us, we will have change. Not instantly, and not with grand victories. It has been a long time in heating the pot, and it will be a long time in cooling it down.

Take it upon yourself to learn what matters to you and make your public servants aware of your desires. This is how we will win, if we have the desire to do so: by each man taking the responsibility of governance upon himself.