Part #2
The so-called anti-Federalists of the day were highly incensed.? Patrick Henry warned in 1788 that "
Congress, from their general powers, may fully go into the business of human regulation....? By this Constitution some of the best barriers of human rights are thrown away....? That paper should have declared the common law in force."
After the anti-Federalists failed to prevent the Constitution's ratification in 1789, they did manage to push through two years later what we now call the Bill of Rights.
It was their attempt to reassert at least some Natural Law.? While the Bill of Rights has helped to limit govt, it sadly hasn't lasted over time.
With the help of the federal courts, the 10 Amendments have been reduced to little more than speed bumps in the road of Tyranny.? Our 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendment rights, for example, are 80% gone.
We no longer have rights, we have permissions.? Permission to speak, permission to publish, permission to own weapons for self-defense, permission to own a business and keep perhaps half the profits.?
We are being regulated to death, as deTocqueville described:
The will of man is not shattered but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly retrained from acting.? Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better that a flock of timid and industrial animals, of which government is the shepherd.
Does anybody in this room truly believe that your Government is dedicated to freedom and flourishing of every American??
America is not the freest country in the world.
We are merely the healthiest patient in the cancer ward.
And to cure the patient would kill the doctor.
Such has been the course of all collectivist nations in history.
Yet, the United States of America had originally begun on such a fine footing of Natural Law, that its inertia was felt for over 100 years.
While no country on earth has adhered to the rule of Natural Law, enough of its residue remained on these shores to create history's finest example of freedom technology.? The fantastic wealth of Manhattan is ample proof of it.
In a free trade, both parties end up with something they value more than what they traded away.?
Therefore, in a free trade, both parties profit.? Both have their lives slightly improved.
The sum of all the profits in a society is what we call progress.? Free trade is the source of progress.
Much profit goes towards just staying even, towards avoiding decline.? So, only a portion of our profits goes towards genuine progress.? We need a certain amount of profit just to keep from sliding back into the Dark Ages.
When the two fundamental laws are not obeyed--when force or fraud enter a transactionCodds are that at least one party will suffer a loss.? Someone will give up something he values more than what he receives in exchange.? Civilization will move slightly backward.
The presence of force is a near ironclad guarantee of loss.?
In a government-controlled economy, force is involved in millions of transactions every day.? So, millions of transactions yield losses every day.
When the government grows large enough, the losses outnumber the gains and civilization moves backward.
? -- Rick Maybury, What Ever Happened to Justice? p.56-57
All indices show that America's standard of living peaked in about 1973, and has fallen ever since.
Those born in the 1990s are the first generation who cannot be expected to live better than their parents.
And why is that?? Because we have lost the Natural Law, that device which makes justice and prosperity
possible.? Because Force and Fraud are, due to government regulation, inherent in nearly every transaction, the l
aissez-faire Win-Win scenario is generally a faint and fond memory.? Thus, through millions of transactions involving guaranteed loss, America is sliding backwards.
Because the scientific Common Law has been stolen from us, we no longer have the tool necessary to discover legal principles in such divisive matters as:
Abortion
Animal rights
Assisted suicide
Child theory and the age of majority
Euthanasia
Genetic engineering
Ownership of ancient cemeteries & archy sites
Ownership of extraterrestrial materials
Ownership of orbits
Ownership of scenic views
Reproduction rights of mental incompetents
Space junk
Surrogate motherhood
Thermal pollution
Now, these things are left up to random, ever changing democratic persuasion, assuming such can still prevail against the entrenched hierarchy.? Because of the inherent turbulence of opinion, we'll never arrive at wise,stable answers to the above dilemmas.
Political law applied to your right to keep and bear arms has made illegal:
handguns too long
rifles too short
rifles too military-looking
and guns too powerful
...even though the 2nd Amendment clearly states that your right to keep and bear arms "
shall not be infringed."? ?This is strong, unequivocable verbiage that no other Amendment enjoys.
You'll go to jail if your
gun has a muffler, and if your car does
not.
Because of the rule of Political Law, in Vermont it is illegal to whistle under water.? Well, has
that become a problem?
The legal and economic history of our nation's decline I quite well understand.? But the sociological foundation required for this patent squandering of our Common Law rights escapes my comprehension.
By some process not entirely clear to me, we have developed into a people unable to
hear the truth, and thus have achieved a government incapable of telling the truth.
About
anything.
About the origin and purpose of Natural Law, and why its lack today is responsible for nearly all of our ills.
About money vs. currency vs. fiat currency and inflation.
About the difference between violence and aggression.
About Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City.
About the legitimate purpose of government and why it must remain strictly limited to expressly delegated powers.
By diligently avoiding Truth, about nearly everything, America has fully become the People of The Lie.
Lies sell better than truth by a 30 to 1 margin.? That is the book sales ratio of Fiction to Nonfiction.
For example, the entertainment industry is, at its core, in the business of selling lies.
I once worked on a movie set.? What struck me was that there are so many more people behind the camera than in front of it.? The viewer cannot truly appreciate this because the viewer is watching the actors.? And what are the actors doing?? Ignoring dozens of production people and stacks of equipment in order to say words they didn't write, conveying emotions they don't own.
Actors must ignore what is real in order to sell the viewer what is not.? Actors are professional liars, and this is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Even historically based films are invariably saturated with lies.? Who here saw
Schindler's List?? OK, now who also read the book?
I read the book.? It contains many things left out of the movie.? Director Steven Spielberg chose to omit one of the most important events of what happened in 1945, at Schindler's camp in Czechoslovakia:
He rode day and night, not only to purchase food for the Jews in Brinnlitz camp,... but to buy us arms and ammunition in case the SS conceived of killing us during their retreats.
? ? ?-- Itzhak Stern, page 337
During the winter, Oskar built up an independent arsenal....? Most of the weapons...came from a flawless source, from Obersturmbannf?hrer Rasch, SS and police chief of Moravia.? The small cache included carbines and automatic weapons, some pistols, some hand grenades.
...Once Oskar had the weapons, he appointed Uri Bejski, brother of the rubber-stamp maker, keeper of the arsenal.
...Having selected a small body of prisoners for training, Uri took one at a time into...the storehouse to teach them the mechanisms of the Gewehr 41Ws.? Three commando squads of five men each were formed.
? ? ?-- page 346-347
As a shooting instructor and gun collector, I can tell you that the rifles mentioned were technologically quite extravagant and expensive.? Very few were manufactured, and they fetch about $3,500 today.? Those G41s were not mere Mauser bolt-actions.? It seems Oskar Schindler always purchased the best!
What did you miss in the movie:? Jews with guns then disarmed the camps guards and Commandant Motzek, who pleaded for his life.?
Not only was this an important historical event, it would have made a fantastic scene!? Who here wouldn't have enjoyed watching formerly helpless Jewish prisoners, now armed, stripping the SS Camp Commandant of his pistol and the guards of their rifles?
Yet director Steven Spielberg, himself a Jew, chose not to film this vital part of the story.? He chose to lie by omission.? He chose not to tell you the vital truth about the Holocaust, that it occurred solely because six million Jews were unarmed.? The few times they did arm themselves and resist were greatly rewarded.
The heroic Jews of the Warsaw uprising, Sobibor, and Treblinka not only had guns, they had
unregistered guns.? So should we:
A registered gun belongs to whomever is in political power, even temporarily.? The only defense that the citizen has against tyranny is the unregistered gun.
? ? ?-- Jeff Cooper
Oskar Schindler bought his Jews
unregistered guns!
Spielberg had not only the chance, but the duty to tell you this truth in Schindler's List, but chose not to.? This is all the more incredible when you learn that he has one of the largest automatic weapons collections in America.? When chided for the apparent hypocrisy of his well-known support of gun-control, Spielberg is said to have replied, "
That's for them! "?
Meaning, no unregistered guns for the average citizen.? Only the elite can be trusted with the means to protect themselves.? The lower and middle-classes are suspect and must be watched.
If historically-based films are not truthful, then what about documentaries?? Well, beware what poses as a "documentary" as Michael Moore's films have proven.? His Bowling For Columbine was chock full of outright falsehoods, such as banks directly dispensing shotguns to new customers in the lobby.
Now that America has an entrenched culture of the lie, little wonder that our government so rarely tells the truth.
Let's take a local and fairly recent example: ? TWA flight 800
Federal authorities interviewed over 150 eyewitnesses, including airline pilots and doctors, who saw a missile streak up to that hapless 747. ?Oh, but what did the official investigation purport to find as the cause of the explosion? ?
A spark in the central wing fuel tank.
Oh,
really?
Well, if a fuel tank spark was the cause of the explosion (which, by the way, had never before happened in the 35 years of 747 flights), then why weren't the hundreds of 747s worldwide grounded because of this potential defect, hmmmm? ?Why wasn't the FBI and the FAA hounded into an embarrassed retraction of such a ridiculous story?
By some process not entirely clear to me, we have developed into a people unable to
hear the truth, and thus have achieved a government incapable of telling the truth.
About
anything.
Including 9/11.
What is the core truth about 9/11 Americans cannot hear and their Government cannot tell? ?The only one which no major newspaper can dare report?
That 9/11 happened because of American
cowardice.
Look, our airplanes were hijacked by 5-man teams. ?Outnumbered by 20 to 1, and armed with only boxcutters, our airplanes were apparently hijacked and flown into buildings by 5-man teams.
First, we submit to 30 years of unilateral in-flight passenger disarmament. ?Then, when a pack of rabid, opportunistic losers take notice of such a ripe vulnerability, what does America clamor for? ?To become even more defenselessness! ?The airport confiscation of their tweezers and nail clippers! ?
And let's put up a fuss about arming pilots, too!
One definition of insanity is the repetition of action with the expectation of different results. ?
Unilaterally disarmed passengers invite hijackings. ?Yet what was the national response to 9/11? ?Disarming passengers even further. ?Ladies and gentleman, that is nothing short of
insanity.
Years ago on a South American flight, a fellow attempted to hijack the plane. ?The passengers instantly descended upon him with everything from fists to boots to butter knives, leaving him quite, well . . . dead. ?He was covered with an airline blanket, somewhat stuffed under some unoccupied seats, and the stewardess opened up the bar!
The libertarian science-fiction author Robert Heinlein once wrote, "
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness." ?Those South American passengers lived through their flight because they refused to be terrorized. ?
I'm not talking about merely being
afraid. ?
I'm talking about being
terrorized, terrorized to the point that dozens of grown men will allow themselves to be herded like cattle to the back of a Boeing by a few guys with boxcutters. ?I'm talking about dozens of grown men being so terrorized that they will helplessly watch a stewardess having her throat cut before their very eyes.
Terror, like dancing, requires two participants: ?one to lead, the other to follow.
Manhattan lost its several prominent skyscrapers and over 3,000 people because Americans gave up their dignity to remain armed. ?They chose the likelihood of terror. ?
Now, we've regressed to the pitiful state of children, whimpering for Sky Marshals on every flight. ?
Daddy, protect us from the Bad Men!
9/11 was not a tragedy, it was an
atrocity.
The proper response to a tragedy is tears.
The proper response to an atrocity is
anger.
9/11 happened not because those airplanes had 5 bad people who were armed, but because those airplanes had 100 good people who were not armed!
That is the truth about 9/11. ?
And I am very, very angry about it.
Why isn't the rest of the country?
Whatever happened to the implacable ferocity of Americans when they were attacked?
In the event of a water landing, your removable seat cushion will serve as a flotation device? ?How about: ?in the event of a terrorist hijacking, your removable armrest will serve as a club! ?
By some process not entirely clear to me, we have developed into a people unable to
hear the truth, and thus have achieved a government incapable of
telling the truth.
Be they schools, airliners, or post offices--the fact that mandatory "gun-free" zones get defenseless people killed is the truth which can neither be heard nor told in this country. ?Instead of clamoring for this truth, Americans are willing to trade their dwindling liberty for something called "Homeland Security." ?This has never worked for any length of time. ?It's like burning dollar bills to keep warm. ?Pretty quickly you'll be broke, and cold . . . permanently.
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