Headed For Bondage Sir, Ma'am

Originally posted, Monday, January 19, 2009



As I look toward the future I find myself a bit worried. It has been said...

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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith,
2. From spiritual faith to great courage,
3. From courage to liberty,
4. From liberty to abundance,
5. From abundance to complacency,
6. From complacency to apathy,
7. From apathy to dependence,
8. From dependence back again to bondage.


too long have we lived our lives here expecting the government to take care of us. The problem with letting the government take care of us is,

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

(the two quotes above have been attributed to a Doctor Tyler, or Tytler. However there is apparently debate as to that issue.)

You see we all have lived our lives ignoring what is going on around us. Too many people are trying to take our freedoms away from us. And I worry that we are facing imminent danger of collapse.

The recent vote is a sign, I believe, of such an occurrence. I was very concerned when I saw people who were being polled after the election. many of them indicated that their vote was considered solely on the basis of who would give them more.

for a long time some have been trying to erode the constitution. And we have let them!

We let people reinterpret what the founding fathers wrote to the point where the founding fathers themselves would be hard pressed to recognize their ideals in the laws governing us today.

I believe that what the founders of our country wrote is actually pretty straight forward.

for example...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

Both of these were written into our laws in December of 1791. Unfortunately the first one is either misquoted, abused or both. Note it says Congress (ie: government) will make NO LAW respecting establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;! yet that is exactly what is happening every time they say we cannot pray if we are in government employ (free exercise of religion) or every time they say a pastor cannot preach on a subject because it is "hateful" (this also buts into the freedom of speech part.)

People want us to believe this means "separation of church and state" but I ask you were are those words here? that phrase is found NO WHERE in the first amendment.

As for the second amendment people want me to believe that the guys who wrote this "didn't know that Automatic weapons were going to exist, this must have been established for hunting and no one needs an automatic weapon for hunting." but you know what? I do not see it saying anything about hunting. It states that this amendment is there for us to be secure! To defend ourselves against those who would take from us our freedoms! So if the "enemy" will be armed with automatic weapons doesn't it stand to reason that we too ought to be armed similarly?


I want to end with a few more quotes... note the dates and/or people making these statements!

"One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms".
- Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. 1811-1845
"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
- Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme court (1939-75)

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
- Thomas Jefferson

Democracy, or Republic?

Many People like to tout that America is a democracy, the problem is that technically no it is not. And it was never intended to be.

Benjamin Franklin once was quoted as saying, "This new government is a republic, if you can keep it.”

Of course there is a point there, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT. even while creating it they knew it could be fragile and if the people didn't stand up for it and defend it then it would disintegrate to something much less.

I like the joke that James Bovard had to say...

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed, well-armed sheep.

See a constitutional republic, like what we supposedly live in here, allows rights or LIBERTY for everyone... minority as well as majority.

Our founding fathers were wise enough to see the need for such a setup. It is firmly established in the Constitution!

"Section 4 - Republican government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

They established three branches of government in order to keep the government from being abusive.

So, O.K. time for our lesson of the day.
The U.S. Government consists of three branches the Executive, (the president) the Legislative, (Congress) and the Judicial (The Supreme Court). The President "runs" the country the Congress makes the rules and the Supreme court is to make sure that the rules made by the other two do not infringe on our rights guaranteed in the Constitution.

Then Like President Abraham Lincoln said we are a government "of the people By the people and For the people." The PEOPLE are supposed to determine the level of governance they have.

The Declaration of Independence States,

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

O.K. so now you are armed with some basic education. Now we can start looking into other things.