We May Have a New Weapon for Use in the Fight for Liberty

I hope I’m in good form today, because this just might be the most important thing I’ve ever written. I’ve been thinking since I wrote my last “blog,” you see.

I also have to say this: I’m a man who has suffered and recovered from almost every kind of hell you can imagine. A former father-in-law, that of my deceased first wife, used to say, “You’ve hit the toughest damned row of stumps any farmer ever did.” I won’t bore you with it all, but take my word (and I wrote a book about it), I speak here from the vantage point of one who knows.

“He never laughs at scars who felt a wound.” No one is better at evading what caused the wounds, either.

That we have to do better is something many of us realize, and, it seems, realization is creeping down from the senior citizens among us, those who have also born the heat of the battle that is life, to those younger and not so battle-wise. That we as a society and nation have not learned all those lessons taught by the battle is due mostly, I think, to the supposed information age and the wedge it has driven between parent and children. When I have finished here, you may have come to realization that the so-called generation gap is not an accident of life’s vicissitudes.

The younger generations haven’t listened to the older; they had all that information available from strangers, information that didn’t have to be paid for with the respect once paid parent and elder. Then, too, there was the feminist revolution, which told young people that the ship of society didn’t need the keel that was masculinity and its honor codes.

Had younger Americans then listened to their elders – this one, of course, was one of those accursed men – they would have heard John Stuart Mill:

“A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.”

But we didn’t listen, and we are where we are now.

Where are we? I doubt that I need to say – the so-called “information media” and the daily news scream it. And therein lies the first of many proofs of what I have been saying in my blogs, that the nation has lost its democratic soul and republican heart. Bad news, like hate, sells. More, bad news is deliberately demanded of the media by government.

Bad news, you see, sells the government’s protection racket. It tells everyone that they need government, the worse the news, the more desperate the need. Good news, on the other hand, is the people’s doing. Good news tells us all that we can do for one another far, far better than government can. Face to face, hand to hand, caring, we can solve one another’s problems – every one of them – without repair to the far-off, megalithic, and implacable government in Washington, D.C.

That is not the message government would have its media disseminate.

More, government has long had the advantage, the tactical one so old that it was once stated by a Roman Emperor. “Divide to conquer.” Anyone listening to any of the electronic media, or reading the newspaper, can – if he will - quickly see the tactic in operation. That’s what bad news – and spreading hate – is all about. The actors in the government’s Greek Chorus tell us that we are at war, the better to assure that we recognize someone other than government as our enemy.

How often have I, personally, observed that no criminal or crook has ever troubled me very much, but that government here in the Land of the Free was like a Fifth Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a federalized mafia ten, a hundred, a thousand times worse than any gang of thieves or murderers, a far more vexing enemy?

And there it is: we are plagued by the assemblage of organized crime on the Potomac because we patronize them, buying the vices they sell. Strong, independent, supporting one another neighbor to neighbor and reaching only as far outward from our neighborhoods as necessary, we don’t need these people!

Think about it! We are told - as we have long been told - that federal government is necessary because it can do things for us we can’t do for ourselves.

Yeah, like what?! Oh, I can hear the answering refrain even as I write these words. “Defend us from foreign enemies.” Think about that, too. Spending nearly six hundred billions of dollars a year, fifteen trillions since World War Two, what are we getting in the way of “provide for the common defense?” Why are we, militarily supposedly the most powerful nation in history, cringing like children before a raggedy band of motley maniacs like al Qaeda?

“‘Splain dat to me, Luci!”

“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.” The italics are mine, and the words are those describing the purpose of government. Must I peruse and discuss, point by point, how well the Mafia on the Potomac are doing in that regard? Okay, I will:

“Domestic Tranquility.” A few weeks ago, Rita, my schoolteacher wife, was obliged to attend a seminar intended to teach her self-defense – against anticipated attack by her pupils. She teaches middle school. Yesterday, teachers here held a conference intended to deal with widespread disciplinary problems in classrooms. Check the news – dare you say our little school here is unique? How often has the utter savagery of our young people been in the news? While you’re on the subject, consider what the criminal conspiracy on the Potomac has done for education. Compare it with national defense. Do that, and you’ll discover the same thing in both cases, namely, that we have for decades continued to send staggering – life-controlling, matter of fact – sums of money to Washington, that while what the “establish” people establish has been a rapidly deteriorating status quo.

The government’s answer? Send more money. We’ll hold more hearings, consult more experts.

You need an expert to teach you how to defend yourself against an enemy armed only with small arms and improvised explosives? No tanks, no ICBMs? No submarines, not a single airplane or ship with which to invade? Call me!

You need a panel of PhDs from Harvard or Yale - to teach you how to raise a kid? How to teach him? How to maintain discipline? Call me!

And then there’s “promote the general welfare.” Forty million people in the “more perfect union” live in poverty. That’s one in six children. Your government will send hundreds of billions of dollars to a place like Iraq – where most of the people despise you, everything you do, and everything you are – but it leaves one out of every six of its own children in poverty.

And ignorance – or have you forgotten all those revelations of late concerning the abject stupidity of our youth; that while government spends billions on the welfare of citizens from Mexico? That, while government rages with argument concerning twenty million people who are here to live off its constituents’ tax money, while it just about totally ignores the trouble of its own people. “Promote the general welfare,” indeed!

Let me leave for a summary reminder how after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita “promote the general welfare” is going in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast.

Consider on the other hand what the case would be, were we all to do what I’m suggesting here. What if each of us simply went to the aid of his neighbor, of anyone we found to be in need? What if, in order to do that most effectively, we were to demand that all those rights guaranteed by the same U.S. Constitution we’ve been speaking of here were unfettered by government with its obvious motives and intent to do the contrary?

Were I somehow to obtain a national rostrum from which to discuss this, I would point out that the “services" government would most certainly sell with its bugaboo promotion is that first touched upon here, “provide for the common defense.” But what have they actually provided? What they have provided most meaningfully and effectively is dependence upon government, not freedom - dependence together with the distraction and need to defend oneself against that same government. It’s hard to sell – especially at the federal price - to anyone what he can do for himself, and the plummeting rate of violent crime since state after state has returned to the people by way of concealed handgun licensing their right to self-defense makes very clear who it is who best provides “defense” when it is defense against hoodlums like so-called terrorists. When Nine-Eleven terrorist victim Flight Ninety Three and what happened made incontrovertibly clear the truth about who – government or individuals citizens - is best equipped to protect individuals against hoodlum and terrorist, it was no mere co-incidence that commentary by the Greek Chorus that is our federally-controlled media strove so mightily to conceal the impotence of our near trillion dollar a year “common defense.”

Nevertheless, using the incident and its horrendous failure lemon to make lemonade, the chorus managed still another time to “Operation Mockingbird” the public. Instead of coming to realization, in short, the public handed over more of its money for “common defense.”

From the myriad of examples I might use to elucidate the point, none is more illuminating than the fact that personally-armed individual citizens successfully preclude or prevent violence and crime more than a million times a year – and that occurs without a single mention in the nation’s press. While every incident like that of Virginia Tech is blazoned and bellowed as long and loudly as possible (that, of course, without mention of the fact that what happened was made possible by the further fact that no one abiding by the law may on the Virginia Tech campus possess a weapon with which to defend himself). “Bad news sells government, even when the bad news is the fact that government cost thirty-two people their lives (talk about lemonade out of lemons!); good news is the public’s success, and it sells freedom.”

“Divide and conquer.” Keep divided, stay in power. That, CIA Operation Mockingbird formulators decided, was the function of the media. And, since formation of the CIA in 1948, that has ever been the case. Today, the effect of the public discourse, its free press, has been completely neutralized. We have not spoken to one another as citizens in a free society in decades.

Now there is a chance for that to happen again. The “chance” is the Internet, where the free flow of ideas is as obvious as is the government’s effort to gain control there. The government, the CIA, and the military industrial complex corporation that own both know as well as I what that might mean. Already a new Internet political party has arisen, that of Unity08. Already, too, however, the “protect us” cry, cynically broadcast everywhere by the media, is being noised about. While flooding the world-wide web with pornography, the federal government and the military industrial complex corporations that own it regale the public with that “bad news” - stories of sexual predators having preyed upon our women and children, the government sells it protection racket. No one suggests nationally and at the same volume, you’ll note, that individual parents might simply parent their children. Neither does anyone dare point out that women stupid enough to have been duped by feminist nonsense concerning their Helen Reddy, “I am strong, I am wise” equality are not the responsibility of the very same men they have dwarfed “in order that they may be more docile instruments . . .”, and are now themselves responsible for whatever happens to them on that account.

Freedom isn’t free, and it always costs personal responsibility.

God damn it, citizen of the United States of America - remember who you are! You are the inheritor of the greatest experiment in liberty ever attempted by man. Your grandparents and their forbearers, have purchased for you with
their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor,” a nation that should by now be a veritable paradise. With decadence, concupiscence, and greed, you have squandered almost all of it. Cowardly, slothful, you have sold your birthright democracy, in return for the neo-royalty and oligarchy of neo-conservatism. Once a republic, we are again a virtual kingdom.

We can do this. WE, DO, NOT, NEED, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! I ask, I urge, everyone who reads this to link it to as many other sites and persons as you can. Let me explain again that citizens willing to help their fellows have no need of defense against terrorism. Citizens willing to go to the aid of their fellow cannot be beaten (my god, I should think – were it not for federal propaganda – that Iraq would have taught you that by now!).

In closing, I paraphrase a very famous – well, until a couple of generations ago, anyway – speech, that of Patrick Henry before delegates from Virginia. While the speech in its entirety are singularly apropos here, I will only use a few lines:


We are not weak or dependent upon would-be kings in Washington, D.C., if we make a proper use of the means which god has given us. Three hundred million people armed as we are and in such a country as this, are invincible by any force that could be sent against us . . . This battle, like that of which Patrick Henry spoke during the birthing or our nation, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Besides, as Henry said, we again have really no election. Even if we were base enough – and, now, we may very well be so base - to desire it, “it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!”

Where Henry’s speech went on, I tremble at how what he warned of has come to pass. I quake with rage at the cynically contemptuous daring of having named the proviso for the chains Henry spoke of then the “PATRIOT Act!

“Our chains are forged!” Patrick Henry said. I say with him in this time that war is inevitable. War between those so contemptuous of individual rights as the Patriot Act and fifty more usurpations long since a part of federal government is always inevitable, the reason Thomas Jefferson could not conceived of any democracy that did not rebel from time to time.

With Patrick Henry, I, too, argue that “It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen (I note that today these are all the effeminate kind, and few others exist) may cry, ‘Peace! Peace!’ - but there is no peace . . .”

It is said that Henry’s voice had been rising from the beginning of his speech. Here, it rose to a full-throated roar. As far as my method permits, I do likewise:

“What is it that (effeminate, metrosexual [parenthesis here mine]) gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

We deciding that, folks – make no mistake. What do you think the war-mongering protection racketeers will demand next? Who will pay its price? You’re damned right - your children and their children. The fight has to come. The human condition is what it is, and it has never been otherwise. We fight now, with the power of free people and with all the weapons made available by the Bill of Rights Patrick Henry once demanded as a condition for there having been made the nation we live in, or your children and grandchildren will fight – probably with guns.

“Forbid it, Almighty God!” And you, too - "America."