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.