I was sent a short treatise on government written in 1959 by Robert LeFevre which shows that America's Liberty has been suffering an ongoing destruction for a long period of time. We tend to focus on specific, recent examples of our loss of freedom such as TSA searches, the militarization of the police, the current status of the Department of Justice and Supreme Court decisions. But all of these examples (and more) share the following basic tenet of a dictatorial government as shown in this excerpt:
Today governments concern themselves in general not with criminals, but with law-abiding citizens. Every citizen is a victim of the aggressive tactics of government. Government begins by seizing the arbitrary and total power of deciding how much money it wants. Then it collects the money without a care or concern for the plight of the individual who must pay or be punished like a criminal.
Next, the government establishes hundreds and thousands of regulations which prescribe particular practices and proscribe others. Almost every action of every citizen has its legal "do" and "don't."
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Try to think of something that people do. With the possible exception of breathing, laws bristle from the activity like quills from a porcupine. And the result of all these laws is to make any individual who does not conform in every respect, a lawbreaker.
Thus, the average person today, buttressed in by government, surrounded and overshadowed by government, finds himself a lawbreaker several times during an average day. And this fact turns him from being a law-abiding citizen into a lawbreaking citizen and equates him with any criminal who, in fact, breaks a law with aggressive intent.
The basic tenet of a dictatorial government is simple: it treats its citizens as criminals in order to control them. This means our "rights" and Liberty are mere whims that we think we possess. People that know me, think that I am headstrong. What they mistake for being headstrong is actually passion. Passion for Liberty and my natural rights under God. I refuse to fly because I refuse to surrender my security under the pretext of being a criminal in the eyes of our government.
With this treatise fresh in my mind, I had the unfortunate "pleasure" of having to enter the Cherokee County Courthouse in Murphy, North Carolina for business. Under new guidelines, ALL citizens must now submit to a search and walk through a metal screener to enter. My pocket knife was forbidden and I had to return it to my vehicle in order to enter. The female deputy in charge of this screening was oblivious to the fact that she is subjecting the very people that the police are in place to protect to a process which makes "we the people" the criminal. No trial. No rights. No redress. NO LIBERTY.
So if we allow "our" government to make us into criminals with no rights to protect ourselves, no redress and no honor, what do we have left?
A federal court case has been launched after a SWAT team in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area busted into the wrong house, shot the family’s dog, handcuffed the children and forced them to “sit next to the carcass of their dead and bloody pet for more than an hour.”
The case has been outlined by Courthouse News, and Mike Riggs at a Reason.com blog wrote, “Shawn Scovill of the taskforce may have raided the wrong house, but he didn’t want to let the opportunity to rifle through someone’s things go to waste. So he and his team ransacked the Franco house for over an hour, and managed to find a .22 caliber pistol in the ‘basement bedroom of Gilbert Castillo,’ which the suit says they attributed to the head of the Franco household, Robert Franco.”
Do the police in the above picture remind you of a "peace" officer? So what can we do when the militarized police come for us? Our best defense is to plead for mercy. In Spanish. Because that is all we have left in a country without the rule of law if we submit.
David DeGerolamo
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Comment by David DeGerolamo on August 16, 2012 at 3:02pm @Randy Lynn Kyle
I believe the government agrees with your assessment. Their only sentient conclusion was to buy more hollow point bullets.
Comment by Randy Lynn Kyle on August 16, 2012 at 2:51pm Well, I think we have strong precedent for what SHOULD happen when "good" people become "criminals". I believe it was 1776. Another "king" decided that he "owned" his fellow countrymen (and ladies). They politely begged to differ. Is it that time again already? My, how time flies.
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on August 13, 2012 at 10:23am Comment by David DeGerolamo on August 13, 2012 at 6:39am @Ronald Robert Sorrells
Your link of Lincoln's quote "of The People, by The People and for The People" is incredible. The man who started the destruction of the Constitution, suspended our rights, and attacked another country without provocation? Five years ago, I believed the lies told about him but as I read the history of our country, I learned more truth than I bargained for.
The government owns nothing? Have you seen the maps of the land that the government now owns? 90% of Nevada alone. Government are no legitimate power? Wasn't that the point of the article? They are using power to make us criminals in order to control us.
I agree with your statement concerning the constraint of government. Unfortunately the warnings from our founding fathers concerning this very point have gone unheeded. There are no checks and balances, no budget and corruption is rampant.
Comment by Russ Henry on August 13, 2012 at 3:29am Don't you have a gun? There are 80 million gun owners in our country, the Chinese army is less than 5 million. When "they" come to your door be prepared! The 2nd Amendment is in the Constitution for exactly this reason!
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on August 12, 2012 at 10:28pm David:
Government is "of The People, by The People and for The People".
David:
Government is not a separate entity from "The People".
Government has nothing, owns nothing and "Has No Legimiate Power Accept by The Will of The People !
We The People are not in a "Contract with The Wind" !
The Constitution was developed by We The People to constrain government !
Ron
Comment by David DeGerolamo on August 12, 2012 at 9:55pm The Constitution of the United States is a contract between the people and a federal government. If any part of a contract is breached by either party, the contract is voided. If the contract outlining our government has been voided, the answer is that the Constitution is no longer the law of the land.
Comment by Gail Cohen on August 12, 2012 at 8:23pm Too bad Ayn did not really understand Christianity - but she had it right on, Bob, that is EXACTLY what they are doing today - and now the criticism of Ryan is that he only passed 2 bills -- SO - I prefer no new regulations - just protect the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution
Comment by Freedom on August 12, 2012 at 12:25pm @David DeGerolamo
"Bread and Circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion, distraction, and/or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
they own the media, the monetary system and the government and they purposely disenfranchise us by feeding us milk toast propaganda and candidates that promise just enough to make us believe we are doing something. As soon as it appears they are getting what they want, they move the public discourse to the most trivial issues possible. I laugh as they spend untold hours comparing Mitts verbal blunders to Obama's and transparently avoid any conversation of substance. They squeeze the economy so that the only job you can get is a para-military TSA-type job, they brain wash these para-military employees so they see the populace as the enemy and threaten to cut off their only source of income if they do not do as they are told. They hilariously attempt to divide us on non-issues like marriage that they do not have jurisdiction over and out come will not effect on their end game. We are willing slaves. Most people just want to live in peace and reasonable comfort. They instinctively sense their own self worth and do not consider that there are people that actually long to control everything. This desire to control comes from a place of extreme insecurity that compels people to dominate others in a futile attempt to convince themselves that they have worth.
Comment by Ann on August 12, 2012 at 10:37am Wow, check this out!
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