Awakening

The power grab of the current administration, and their "legal" ability to do it, in that the nation seems to be willing to accept anything with resignation if Congress votes for it, has cracked my head open to reality.

The Constitution has been overthrown.

It has been for some time. But like the frog in slowly warming water, I didn't notice until the current arrogant cooks cranked up the heat so high so fast that I finally realized their intent is to boil me alive—and that all the apparatus necessary to do so is already firmly in place.

They didn't build it alone. But they are exploiting it to a degree and at a velocity that others never dared. Because they, too, realize there is no longer any limit to their power. We have the "democracy" of the mob, no longer a limited government Republic. If the tyrants can get the mob to go along with them, through emotion appeal, lying, or bread and circuses...they can do whatever they choose. There is no longer any restraint upon the power of the STATE.

That the Federal Government...in the persons of a succession of Presidents, Congressmen, Senators and Justices of the Supreme Court has slowly built an apparatus that breaches the Constitutional limitations of Federal power, and enables the STATE, at will, to enslave me in violation and defiance of the Law of the Land, I am forced me to a single conclusion:

The Federal Government is an OUTLAW.

It defies the Constitution, it violates every limitation put upon it by our Founders. It contravenes every article of faith and freedom enshrined in our nation's most sacred documents, and denies the inalienable rights granted us by our Creator.

Indeed, it has banished the Creator, and set itself up as the Highest Authority. The all-powerful, all-knowing Master of our lives.

The Government as currently constituted is illegitimate. As illegitimate as any usurper who banishes the Law in favor of a man.

For the moment....for a brief moment...while we still have the will and the weapons, we must decide what to do.

I have no allegiance to the government. My only loyalty is to the Constitution. And the government is its grossest violator. The government being an outlaw, a defiler of the Constitution, is my enemy. Not merely in the rhetorical sense, as a tenet of political thought, but in the literal sense of all tyrants who seek to dominate The People with intimidation, threats, force and violence.

Secession/insurrection may not be wise, but I'm no longer confident that any other avenue is open to us now.

The totalitarian government is consolidating its power, lengthening its reach, extending its influence.

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me...

The Government has violated our First Amendment rights by interfering with our practice of religion, limiting political speech during a campaign, and it has signaled its intention to silence dissent by destroying Talk Radio. It has, in its schools virtually outlawed certain speech. And it has made calling someone names, making certain gestures, or using certain symbols a crime.

It has signaled its intention to effectively abolish the Second Amendment by whatever means necessary.

It has begun the drafting of our children to be good little soldiers in the Soviet regime, to spy and snitch, which violates the Third Amendment.

Arbitrary traffic stops and searches, and RICO prosecutions for purposes it was never intended has already rendered the 4th Amendment obsolete.

The modern Federal Charge of "Violation of Civil Rights" puts every defendant in a crime against a person in Double Jeopardy. The routine seizing of private property in drug cases, no matter how peripherally connected, and the notorious Kelo decision has made any protection for private property a joke.

The 6th Amendment has been used to coddle criminals, ignore victims, disregard public safety and breakdown community standards and morals.

The 7th Amendment has been hijacked by trial lawyers. Any individual or business may be held hostage, and be forced to pay ransom for the crime of being prosperous.

The 9th and 10th Amendments may as well never have been written. The Federal Government considers itself the rightful arbiter and grantor of all rights, which it begrudgingly allows The People—or the states—when it is politically expedient or convenient.

Our Constitution, the sacred document for which so many have given their lives, their fortunes and their honor, from the Founders to the heroes of our military today, has been spat on, ground underfoot and shredded by the very criminals who abuse it to justify their privileges and their power.

The Government as currently constituted is OUTLAW.

The question is, "What am I going to do about it?" It's something I'm going to be doing a lot of thinking and praying about. I'm not sure I can live with myself if I do nothing. How would that differentiate me from the sheep I despise?

How can I justify abandoning the Creator's gift of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness without a fight?

What will I say to Him when he asks, "What have you done...?"

The Gunslinger