Why the Second Amendment is Needed With Our Government

Why the Second Amendment is Needed With Our Government

December 29, 2012 marked the 122nd Anniversary of the murder of 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  These 297 people, in their winter camp, were murdered by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection”.  The slaughter began after the majority of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms.  The Calvary began shooting, and managed to wipe out the entire camp.  Two hundred of the 297 victims were women and children. About 40 members of the 7th Cavalry were killed, but over half of them were victims of fratricide from the Hotchkiss guns of their overzealous comrades-in-arms.  Twenty members of the 7th Cavalry's death squad were deemed “National Heroes” and were awarded the Medal of Honor for their acts of ‘heroism’.

We hear very little of Wounded Knee today.  It is usually not mentioned in our history classes or books.  What little that does exist about Wounded Knee is normally a sanitized “Official Government Explanation”. And there are several historically inaccurate depictions of the events leading up to the massacre which appear in movie scripts and are not the least bit representative of the actual events that took place that day.

Wounded Knee was among the first federally backed gun confiscation attempts in United States history.  It ended in the senseless murder of 297 people. Before you jump on the emotionally charged bandwagon for gun-control, take a moment to reflect on the real purpose of the Second Amendment, the right of the people to take up arms in defense of themselves, their families, and property in the face of an invading army or an oppressive government.  The argument that the Second Amendment only applies to hunting and target shooting is asinine. When the United States Constitution was drafted, hunting was an everyday chore carried out by men and women to put meat on the table each night and target shooting was an unheard of concept.  Musket balls were a precious commodity and were certainly not wasted on target shooting.  The Second Amendment was written by people who fled oppressive and tyrannical regimes in Europe and it refers to the right of American citizens to be armed, should such tyranny arise in the United States.

As time goes forward, the average citizen in the United States continually loses little chunks of personal freedom or “liberty”.  Far too many times, unjust gun control bills were passed and signed into law under the guise of “for your safety or protection”.  The Patriot Act signed into law by G.W. Bush, was expanded and continues under Barack Obama.  It is just one of many examples of American citizens being stripped of their rights and privacy.  Now, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is on the table and will most likely be attacked to facilitate the path for the removal of our firearms, all in the name of safety.

Before we blindly accept whatever new firearms legislation that is about to be doled out, we should stop and think about something for just one minute.  Evil does exist in our world. It always has and always will. Throughout history evil people have committed evil acts.  In the Bible one of the first stories is that of Cain killing Abel.  We cannot legislate evil into extinction. Good people will abide by the law and the criminal element will not.

Evil exists all around us, but looking back at the historical record of the past 200 years, across the globe, evil and malevolence is most often found in the hands of those with the power, the governments.  That greatest human tragedies on record and the largest loss of innocent human life can be attributed to governments.  Who do the governments always target?  Scapegoats and enemies within their own border, but only after they have been disarmed to the point where they are no longer a threat.  Ask any Native American, and they will tell you it was inferior

technology and lack of arms that contributed to their demise.  Ask any Armenian why it was so easy for the Turks to exterminate millions of them and they will answer, “We were disarmed before it happened.”  Ask any Jew what Hitler’s first step prior to the mass murders of the

Holocaust was.  The confiscation of firearms from the people.

Wounded Knee is the prime example of why the Second Amendment exists and why we should vehemently resist any attempts to infringe on our Rights to Bear Arms.  Without the Second Amendment we will be stripped of any ability to defend ourselves. And if you under the illusion this federal government would not do you what it did at Wounded Knee, you need to extract your head from the position you have it in and look at the facts because relying on emotion will only lead to the demise of liberty!

The U.S. Federal Reserve – Good or Bad?

The U.S. Federal Reserve – Good or Bad?

By Leon Howard

I have studied this from the aspect of a working stiff, trying to make ends meet and creating a decent retirement. There are those who wholly support the Federal Reserve System and there are those who totally despise it.  I have joined the latter.  You should know why.

Supporters try to tell us the Federal Reserve is there to “control” inflation and prevent depressions – from a working stiff’s prospective that is pure fabrication!  What about the depression you never hear of: The Depression of 1920-1921?  Here, the nation actually followed what Austrian economists recommend: The government slashed their budget and the Federal Reserve raised their prime interest rate and the depression ended by 1923 and produced the “Roaring 20’s”![1]/[2]/[3]

I had one ‘progressive’ tell me he’d rather Allen Greenspan (this was a few years ago) would print more fiat money than to rely on a commodities-based currency, like gold and silver.   At the time I thought he was an idiot and, after learning what a ‘progressive’ was, I knew he was an idiot!  Another conservative feared that if we went back to the Gold Standard, the government would manipulate the value of gold and silver.  The only thing I can think of here is that could very well be the case if the Federal Reserve were in charge of our monetary system when we switch back to the Gold Standard but that is not what I would propose.  I want the Federal Reserve Act rescinded and the Congress, once again, fulfilling their Constitutional duties, as stated in Article I, Section 8, Line #5:  “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures … ” Something we must always keep in mind is what our founders thought on any subject and this subject is one of the more important ones.  Do not listen to those ‘progressives’ and teachers who try to tell us our founders were a bunch of rich older slave owners who were looking out for themselves because that is a bald-faced lie!  President John F. Kennedy called a meeting of his Cabinet at the White House and when the meeting began, JFK said, “This is the most intelligence gathered together here since Thomas Jefferson dined here by himself!”

 So what did Thomas Jefferson have to say about central banks, which is what the Federal Reserve is but even worse, the Federal Reserve is privately-owned! "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks]...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." …Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over the Recharter of the Bank Bill, (1809)  How profound!  And aren’t we almost there now?

When the Congress was debating the Federal Reserve Act, we had at least one congressman warning against its passage: “This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth.  When the President [Wilson] signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized…. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.”  Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913

“From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”  Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913

Every now and then, there is a congressman or senator who speaks out against the Federal Reserve; Rep. Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency for 12 years as quoted from the Congressional Record: ”The Federal Reserve Board, ..., has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt...Our people's money to the extent of $1,200,000,000 has within the last few months been shipped abroad to redeem Federal Reserve Notes and to pay other gambling debts of the traitorous Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks...”  McFadden was elected to Congress in 1914 and served until 1934.  Though a Republican, he moved to impeach President Herbert Hoover in 1932 and introduced a resolution to bring conspiracy charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. [4]

He also made a 25-minute speech on the House floor accusing the Federal Reserve of deliberately causing the Depression.  At the time, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was Eugene Meyer, who resigned after Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as president in 1933, and purchased the Washington Post at a bankruptcy auction. [5]

Later in 1933, McFadden introduced House Resolution No. 158, Articles of Impeachment for the Secretary of the Treasury, two assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the officers and directors of its twelve regional banks.  This was McFadden’s political swan song.  In the election of 1934, he lost his reelection bid to a Democrat by 561 votes.

In 1937, Rep. Charles G. Binderup of Nebraska, realizing the consequences of the Federal Reserve System, called for the Government to buy all the stock, and to create a new Board controlled by Congress to regulate the value of the currency and the volume of bank deposits, thus eliminating the Fed's independence.  He was defeated for re-election.

Others have also tried to introduce various Bills to control the Federal Reserve: Rep. Goldborough (1935), Rep. Jerry Voorhis of California (1940, 1943), Sen. M. M. Logan of Kentucky, and Rep. Usher L. Burdick of North Dakota.[6]

“Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders.  The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.  It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.”  Senator Barry Goldwater (R) Arizona.

Rep. Wright Patman of Texas (who was the House Banking Chairman until 1975), said in 1952:"In fact there has never been an independent audit of any the twelve banks of the Federal Reserve Board that has been filed with the Congress ... For 40 years the system, while freely using the money of the government, has not made a proper accounting."[7]

Patman said that the Federal Open Market Committee (who, in addition to the Board of Governors, decides the country's monetary policy) is "one of the most secret societies. These twelve men decide what happens in the economy ... In making decisions they check with no one -- not the President, not the Congress, not the people."

Patman also said: "In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution."

During his career, Patman sought to force the Fed to allow an independent audit, lessen the influence of the large banks, shorten the terms of the Fed Governors, expose it to regular Congressional review just like any other Federal agency, and to have only officials nominated by the President and confirmed by Congress to be on the Federal Open Market Committee.

In 1967, Patman tried to have them audited, and on January 22, 1971, introduced H.R. 11, which would have altered its organization, diminishing much of its power.  He was later removed from the Chairmanship of the House Banking and Currency Committee, which he held for years.

On January 22, 1971, Rep. John R. Rarick of Louisiana introduced H.R. 351: "To vest in the Government of the United States the full, absolute, complete, and unconditional ownership of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks."

He said: "The Federal Reserve is not an agency of government.  It is a private banking monopoly."  He was later defeated in a bid for re-election.

During the 1980's, Rep. Phil Crane of Illinois introduced House Resolution H.R. 70 that called for an annual audit of the Fed (which never came to a full vote), and Rep. Henry Gonzales of Texas introduced H.R. 1470, that called for the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act.  The Federal Reserve System has never been audited, and their meetings, and minutes of those meetings, are not open to the public.  They have repelled all attempts to be audited.  In 1967, Arthur Burns, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that an audit would threaten the "independence" of the Reserve.

The Fed in the 1970s and 1980s: In 1979, after dismissing Secretary of Treasury Michael Blumenthal, President Jimmy Carter offered the position to David Rockefeller, the CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, but he turned it down [as he had previously turned down the offer from Nixon].  He also turned down the nomination for the Chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board. 

Carter then appointed Paul Volcker as Chairman.  Volcker graduated from Princeton with a degree in Economics, and from Harvard with a degree in Public Administration.  He was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1952-57), worked at the Chase Manhattan Bank (1957-61), was with the U.S. Treasury Department (1961-65), Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs (1963-65), Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs (1969-74), and President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (1975-79).

When Volcker was in the Nixon Administration as the Under Secretary for Monetary Policy and International Affairs, the executive branch official who works most closely with the Federal Reserve, he and Treasury Secretary John Connally helped formulate the policy that took us off the gold standard in 1971, because of the dwindling gold reserves at Fort Knox.  Volcker was chosen because he was the "candidate of Wall Street."  He was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a major Rockefeller supporter.

Bert Lance, the Georgia banker and political advisor to Carter, who became his Budget Director and was later forced to resign...said that if Volcker was appointed he would be "mortgaging his re-election to the Federal Reserve."  Lance predicted that he would bring high interest rates and high unemployment.  He was confirmed by the Senate Banking Committee in August, 1979, replacing Arthur Burns, an Austrian-born economist who was a CFR member with close ties to the Rockefellers.  Volcker was against a gold-backed dollar or gold being used as a form of currency.  He attempted to tighten the money situation in order to curb the 10% annual growth in the money supply, and to ease the pressure of loan demands.  The result [of his policy] was a dramatic increase in interest rates, which climbed to 13.5% by September, 1979, and then soared to 21.5% by December, 1980.

[We may speculate] that this economic decline was purposely engineered to cause the political decline of Carter.  In response to the rising interest rates, Carter said: "As you well know, I don't have control over the Fed, none at all.  It's carefully isolated from any influence by the President or the Congress.  This has been done for many generations and I think it's a wise thing to do."

During the 1970's, many banks had left the Federal Reserve, and in December, 1979, Volcker told the House Banking Committee that "300 banks with deposits of $18.4 billion have quit the Fed within the past 4-1/2 years," and that another 575 of the remaining 5,480 member banks, with deposits of $70 billion, had indicated that they intended to withdraw.  He said that this would curtail their control over the money supply, and that led Congress, in 1980, to pass the Monetary Control Act, which gave the Federal Reserve control of all banking institutions, regardless if they are members or not.

Even though inflation had skyrocketed to all-time highs, Reagan kept Volcker on.  It was Volcker who started the collapse of the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan, who became the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1987, is [also] a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has a bachelor's and master's degree, and a doctorate in Economics from New York University.  He met Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, in 1952 and they became friends.  It is from her that he learned that capitalism "is not only efficient and practical, but also moral."  In February, 1995, the seventh increase in the interest rate, within the period of a year, took place.  This put Greenspan in the limelight, as well as the Federal Reserve.  It was very interesting how the media spin doctors churned out information that totally skirted the issue concerning the Fed's actual role in controlling our economy.

These interests control the Federal Reserve through about 300 stockholders:

• Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
• Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
• Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy
• Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam
• Lehman Brothers Bank of New York
• Kuhn, Loeb and Co. of New York
• Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
• Goldman, Sachs of New York

Because of the way the Reserve was organized, whoever controls the Federal Reserve Bank of New York controls the system.  About 90 of the 100 largest banks are in this district.

Of the reportedly 203,053 shares of the New York bank:

• Rockefeller's National City Bank had 30,000 shares
• Morgan's First National Bank had 15,000 shares
• Chase National Bank had 6,000 shares
• National Bank of Commerce (Morgan Guaranty Trust) had 21,000 shares.

A June 15, 1978 Senate Report called "Interlocking Directorates Among the Major U.S. Corporations" revealed that five New York banks had 470 interlocking directorates with 130 major U.S. corporations:

• Citicorp (97)
• J.P. Morgan Co. (99)
• Chase Manhattan (89)
• Manufacturers Hanover (89)
• Chemical Bank (96) [8]

You will find these same names as the owners of the International Monetary Fund; in other words: 10 to 12 banking families control over 90% of the world’s wealth!  Surprised?  I was when I learned of this but why hasn’t our government protected us?  Obviously, we have the best government money can buy!

To understand why, you must remember what they said and it has been repeated over and over: Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild: “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws.” [9]

 “The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it’s profits or so dependent on it’s favors, there will be no opposition from that class.” Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863. [10]

The truth has been there the whole time but our government doesn’t want you to see it because they realize you would probably have them tried for theft, fraud, and treason, of which they are guilty.  I condemn the Federal Reserve and think the ill-conceived Federal Reserve Act of 1913, should be repealed and the gold in the Federal Reserve Banks confiscated as partial restitution for the theft they have committed on the American People for 100 Years!

Do you think we can find enough congressmen/women and senators with the intestinal fortitude to get this job done?  I think we know the answer to that … Jackasses and RINOs … There is no courage in either camp!

 Here is what the Federal Reserve has done to the U.S. Dollar, “ … through inflation and then deflation …”

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This is why I oppose the Federal Reserve and would repeal the legislation from Jekyll Island!!  Liberty!!!

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[1] “The Depression You've Never Heard Of: 1920-1921” by Robert P. Murphy: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-depression-youve-never-heard-of-1920-1921#axzz2KRig6zxU

[2] “The Forgotten Depression of 1920”  by  Thomas E. Woods, Jr.; you can read it: http://mises.org/daily/3788 

[3] “The Forgotten Depression, 1920-1921” by Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D. and Kristie Pelletier at: http://www.newswithviews.com/Coffman/mike128.htm

[4] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve2.htm

[5] McFadden speech: http://www.afn.org/~govern/mcfadden_speech_1932.html

[6] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve2.htm

[7] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve2.htm

[8] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve2.htm

[9] http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Federal%20Reserve%20Scam/quotes_on_the_federal_reserve.htm

[10] http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Federal%20Reserve%20Scam/quotes_on_the_federal_reserve.htm

[11] http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Federal%20Reserve%20Scam/quotes_on_the_federal_reserve.htm

"Order Over Liberty!"

Order Over Liberty!

“ORDNUNG UBER FREIHEIT!” “Order over Liberty!”  The mantra of the socialist, Nazi, communist, Marxist, and dictator. It always has been and always will be until we exterminate this mind-set! I’m not suggesting these people be killed, as they would like to do to all fiscal conservatives; I’m suggesting we have to get better at explaining the truth – Those I spoke of have become experts at presenting the lies as truth!

Nothing trumps liberty! The one thing we must never forget and must relay to our friends and family, always, is that liberty cannot coexist with socialism, Nazism, communism, or dictators! Does that mean we lose our liberty right away? Yes and no; we will instantly lose the right to keep and bear arms because none of the political structures mentioned will allow the people a way to defend themselves against the “will of the collective”. Order over liberty is their mantra; an armed populace isn’t conducive to an “orderly society”.

The people’s God-given rights become “rights” granted by the government; in other words, our rights become privileges granted or revoked at the whim of the government. Our “right” to protest will probably be allowed until it no longer allows “order” – And in other cases, according to the evolution of the political state, protest will be met with violence and death by the government. Every time a nation has gone under a dictatorship or oligarchy for socialism and communism, it has reverted to extermination of religions, ethnicities, or races deemed “enemies of the state” but prior to the exterminations, the populace was disarmed – Mr. Obama and the Democrats, along with many RINOs in Congress are attempting that as I write this article.

But, you say, they’re only going after the assault rifles and high capacity magazines – Two things I would say to you: (1) Read the proposed legislation from Feinstein; it involves a lot more guns than reported by the “lamestream media” and, (2) If they are successful in passage of this ban, many guns are required to be surrendered or confiscated by the government – If they were successful with that, how soon do you think it would be before they outlawed the rest of  the guns? Don’t fall for it! They want to impose their will on the people and the only way that happens is if we are defenseless!

To paraphrase what Pastor Martin Niemöller said during Nazi Germany’s terror: “First they came for the assault rifles and I said nothing because I could see no use of them for hunting and, besides, I didn’t own one; then they came for the semi-auto pistols and I said nothing because I didn’t own one; then they came for the revolver and I said nothing because all I owned was a pump shotgun; then they came after the shotgun and there was nobody left to protest …” That is our near future if we allow these bans to be enacted into “law”!

I maintain the best, fairest economic system is the free-enterprise system and the best proven political system is the original republic government established by our Constitution, but the system in place in the United States today, has little resemblance to that republic established in 1787. None of the 3 branches of government resemble or practice their Constitutional responsibilities! How did this happen and when did it start?

The last President to allow himself to be “chained by the limits of the Constitution” was Thomas Jefferson and he thought he had violated it by the Louisiana Purchase and there are 2 schools of thought on that issue but he did not try to usurp the power of the Congress as we see with the current administration.

The first real violations of the Constitution came under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln and the “radical” Republican Congress: Unconstitutional export taxes on southern cotton led to the secession of the southern states and the War Between the States. Instead of trying to assure free trade between the several states, the Republicans enacted a tax to punish the south and the War virtually destroyed the Tenth Amendment! We could spend hours debating the honorability of both sides but that is not the purpose of this article.

Before and during the War Between the States, the federal government began picking the winners and losers of business. Using the excuse of “opening up the West”, they rewarded two wealthy railroads for building the transcontinental railroad, connecting east and west. Was the railroad a good thing? Certainly but why pay exorbitant fees for every mile of track laid, instead of letting it out for bid, if you felt the government should “own” it? Wouldn’t it have been better to let the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific build the road for their own profit instead of letting the government, in their “infinite wisdom”, destroy the railroad?

This led to every hair-brained idea being lobbied for to Congress – They began picking the winners and losers by the money granted and loaned to the winner/losers. Corruption always begins with the best of intentions but ends as corruption anyway .. If taxpayer money is involved, there is always corruption involved – That is because government has a less than stellar record for picking the right technology or company and that is because the “picking” depends on who spends the most on members of Congress!

“We have the best government money can buy.” Is the adage and it is truer than most want to believe – If you didn’t get a chance to see “BoomTown” on the Sean Hannity Special, take 40 minutes and watch: http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/01/video-sean-hannity-special-boomtown/  The two guys who compiled the corruption, on video, Stephen Bannon and Peter Schweizer, exposed how the politicians in Washington, D.C., use our money to enrich themselves as well as lobbyists, government contractors and other special interests. Seven of the top ten richest counties in the United States are in the D.C. area, even though the city doesn’t produce anything. The “business model” there is government and extracting money from the taxpayers.

If you don’t have 40 minutes to watch the whole thing, check out the write-ups of the special at American Thinker and Big Government.

“Order over liberty!” If they can keep us orderly, the corruption will continue, unabated, until there is nothing left for our children, grandchildren, and future generations – We are so close to that today, we may not be able to pull our nation back from the precipice!

Our corruption problems have been compounded by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, an unconstitutional “law”, usurping the duty and constitutional responsibility of our money from Congress to a faceless, unaccountable corporation made up of banking families from the U.S. and Europe! Congress created another “central bank” – A concept that had failed twice in our nation’s young history. Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist, wanted a strong central government and a central bank – He got the central bank while he was Treasury Secretary under George Washington and it failed after a few years.

Thomas Jefferson was against the central bank: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." This is from a letter written to Sec. of Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1802 and later published in The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)

From the banking history, we get this from Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild: “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws.” Is it any wonder Thomas Jefferson held those reservations? But the ‘progressives’, with Woodrow Wilson as President, were only interested in gaining power over the people.

As you can see, our corruption isn’t just one faction, one group, or one party; it is and has been a concerted effort by both political parties, in conjunction with the international banking families, and the career politicians to rob the American people of their wealth so as to enslave them to “the State” in a socialist utopia! We, the People, created this animal called the ‘career politician’ to the point they feel revered – Almost king-like, they pass “laws” to destroy our freedoms and exempt themselves from those laws.

“But, why?!” They know in their heart of hearts they are less qualified than us but because we keep returning them to office, they begin to feel they are not only smarter than us but they are better than us – We let them believe this because we treat them like they are the boss! We, through apathy and ignorance, have allowed these entities to turn our republic upside-down; literally!

To fully understand what steps we must take to re-establish the republic, we must first understand how the republic was created. Through prayer – a lot of prayer – our founders realized the form of government that needed to be established had never been tried before: Self-governance! Anytime a politician tells you the ‘great experiment’ of our founders was democracy, you are justified in telling them they are lying! But these two parties have been trying to establish us as a democracy to get us to their ultimate goal: “Ordnung Uber Freiheit!” “Order over liberty” is the ‘politically correct’ way to say slavery and that is their ultimate goal!

Self-governance means you are the sovereign – You are the king or queen of your castle and your life! But to leave it that way would be anarchy and that couldn’t succeed so we, you and I, would cede limited powers to the government to protect all the sovereigns. This protection wasn’t just protection from other sovereigns but ‘from enemies foreign and domestic.’ Our founders greatest fear was the government getting so powerful that it would enslave the people – Remember, they fought and shed blood to end slavery from England and the king. They made this evident in our founding documents; in the Declaration of Independence, it was summed up this way: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed … “

In the Preamble of the Constitution, they explain this very well: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Do not get lost in the inequity of ‘slavery’ being practiced here at the time of these documents being created; slavery was practiced throughout the world, at that time, and is still practiced in the world today, most noticeably in the middle east and parts of Asia. Yes, it was a cruel practice and civilized nations don’t buy and sell humans today.

Looking at the construction of the different levels of government our founders created; it should look like this:

Sovereigns (The “Bosses” = you and me)

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County Government (Servants to the People)

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State Government (Sovereign over Federal – 10^th Amendment)

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Federal Government (Limited power through Constitution)

That is certainly not the way government operates today so, how do we turn it around and re-establish our republic? Tis a puzzlement – In everyday life, it is pretty well established that 10% of any given profession or people are a**holes but, in government that isn’t the case. In Congress, there are only 10% true citizen legislators and 90% a**holes! So, short of having a firing squad for 391.5 of these jerks, I’m open for suggestions! (That is meant as humor so, please, don’t start shooting them – Yet!) LOL!!

We need to adopt our own mantra as liberty-loving patriots and I suggest we can use: “Nichts Trümpfe Freiheit!” “Nothing trumps liberty!”