Advice From The Founders
Jan 8, 2013 7:35:52 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Jan 8, 2013 7:35:52 GMT -5
As always a good read from T L Davis. I would step back even farther than T L does and state that an individual's loyalty lies not to the document either but to what that document represents. The Declaration stated "We hold these truths to be self evident". In this the Founders were telling us that what they acknowledged with this document existed long before the document and would continue to exist long after they wrote and signed this document. Men had rights "endowed by their creator" and those rights were given to every man including those who did not embrace the Creator thus "natural" rights. These rights needed no document to grant them and should be evident to all.
Having won their fight for Liberty the founders moved from the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union to the Constitution (a debate on this move is for another time). The Constitution was a document that the founders meant to restrain the federal government created whose only purpose was to protect the rights of the states and more importantly the individual rights acknowledged in the Declaration. They knew very well that the federal government they created would take on a self destructive life of its own and grow out of control if not restrained not so much by the Constitution but by a moral and virtuous people willing to die for Liberty. No that is where my loyalty lies...
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The American citizen is bound by no loyalty to a government, but to the document which created the government. Where the government has strayed from its purpose and obedience to the document, to which the American citizen is loyal, it has become disloyal to the citizen. In other words, it has chosen to become the enemy of the people by violating its oath and using the political power granted by the people against the people.
When a government uses the power of its public offices designed to ensure the liberty of the people, to secure their rights and their property as a means to alienate the people from their liberty, their rights and their property, it is unjust, illegal and traitorous.
While I am no leader, belong to no organization, pay dues to no entity and act in no official capacity for any group or organization, I say to you that your leaders are those who led the first American Revolution against the exact same tyranny and oppression of a government acting on the dictates of a king, with no seeming responsibility to the citizens of the colonies despite demands for payments and threats of force to comply.
I have been asked what we should do now that such actions have been taken against us. From the advice of the founders: form into squads, identify targets and work to undermine and/or destroy those targets.
Having won their fight for Liberty the founders moved from the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union to the Constitution (a debate on this move is for another time). The Constitution was a document that the founders meant to restrain the federal government created whose only purpose was to protect the rights of the states and more importantly the individual rights acknowledged in the Declaration. They knew very well that the federal government they created would take on a self destructive life of its own and grow out of control if not restrained not so much by the Constitution but by a moral and virtuous people willing to die for Liberty. No that is where my loyalty lies...
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The American citizen is bound by no loyalty to a government, but to the document which created the government. Where the government has strayed from its purpose and obedience to the document, to which the American citizen is loyal, it has become disloyal to the citizen. In other words, it has chosen to become the enemy of the people by violating its oath and using the political power granted by the people against the people.
When a government uses the power of its public offices designed to ensure the liberty of the people, to secure their rights and their property as a means to alienate the people from their liberty, their rights and their property, it is unjust, illegal and traitorous.
While I am no leader, belong to no organization, pay dues to no entity and act in no official capacity for any group or organization, I say to you that your leaders are those who led the first American Revolution against the exact same tyranny and oppression of a government acting on the dictates of a king, with no seeming responsibility to the citizens of the colonies despite demands for payments and threats of force to comply.
I have been asked what we should do now that such actions have been taken against us. From the advice of the founders: form into squads, identify targets and work to undermine and/or destroy those targets.