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Sometimes I Wonder

(Am I Wasting My Time)

Neal Ross

Easter Day 2013

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I'm tired, I really am. When I write I have a specific audience in mind and it seems that I am not getting through to them. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the responses I get from those who do read, and agree with what I am saying. The truth, however, is that I am wasting my time if the only people who read these little missives are the ones who already agree with what I am saying.

Listen, I am not the brightest kid on the block. That may come as a surprise to many, but it's the truth. I do however feel passionate about the subject matter I write about, and I think it is that which separates me from the mindless mass of humanity to whom these missives are written for. I feel that people simply do not care enough to take the time to educate themselves, they would rather 'go with the flow' and not rock the boat. If it were any different I would be seeing a change in people's attitudes, but unfortunately I don't.

A good friend of mine, Carl, recently wrote me concerning this very subject. In his e mail he told me, "Sometimes the stupidity goes well beyond ignorance and apathy, Neal.  There is also well-entrenched immediate self-interest involved in most conscious and subliminal decision-making.  Some people don't really understand what makes them tick, while others are fully and culpably aware of what monumental hypocrites they themselves really are.  Still others can't see the whole panoramic picture of the economic/political landscape, especially the historical aspect.  Hence, that old saw which states that those who can't learn from history are doomed to repeat it endlessly."

He went on to say, "When I read your articles of this nature, I sympathize with you, Neal, but I'm here to tell you that long-term freedom and liberty will ALWAYS take a back seat to short-term profits, regardless how obviously ethereal and transient those profits are.  The vast majority of people only worry about today and maybe tomorrow morning, but damn few of them have what it takes to see any of the possible final "down the road" results of decisions made today."

I see Carl's viewpoint, but it still boggles my mind that people can choose to be so ignorant when it comes to matters of such grave importance. Have we become such an easily misled and foolish people that we choose ignorance over knowledge? If so, then there is no use in my further wasting my time upon the people of this country who deserve every last bit of suffering that is coming.

But, there is one quote from The Crisis Papers by Thomas Paine that keeps me going. Paine writes, "...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire." It is that one quote that gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, something I say may get through to those who need to hear it most. That is why I continue to write, even though, for the most part, my words fall upon deaf ears.

You have to understand, those who would see men tyrannized, oppressed, or enslaved, are, by nature, evil. Oppression of any kind goes against nature and God's will, that all men be free to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I have a t-shirt that I sometimes wear that says, "It's not about right versus left, conservative versus liberal, it's about liberty versus tyranny and oppression."

Unfortunately people misunderstand what is meant by liberal and conservative. They associate those two words with the two current political parties. However, I associate being conservative as legislating by strict adherence to the Constitution, and liberal as one who disregards the limits imposed upon government by the Constitution. If you look at it from that perspective, BOTH political parties are liberal, as neither of them adhere to the limits imposed upon them by the Constitution, and they both are equally guilty of infringing upon our rights.

I know people get tired of hearing me repeat the same worn out old message about the Constitution and our rights, but everything that is wrong in this country can be directly attributed to the fact that our government has strayed from the principles contained in that document, and that we the people are guilty of allowing the government to get away with it.

As I said, men who would see us enslaved are evil by nature, and they learn from their mistakes. We, on the other hand, keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again because we refuse to study, and learn, from history.

For instance, take the Civil War, or the War Against States Rights, as I have taken to calling it. The Southern States were well within their right to secede from the Union as it was the States that ratified the Constitution which CREATED the federal government.

It was commonly accepted that the powers of the federal government were few and defined, as explained by James Madison in Federalist 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

In The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine clearly states, "It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom to say that Government is a compact between those who govern and those who are governed; but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with.

The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government; and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist."

Paine went on to say, "A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution."

Therefore, the Southern States exercised their right to dissolve the bond which tied them to the Union and establish their own system of government which they felt would best protect their rights. Yet the federal government, under Abraham Lincoln, declared that they, were in fact, rebels, and took the nation to war to prevent them from forming their confederacy. This is the truth about history that you have not been taught. In the process of doing so Lincoln destroyed the concept of States Rights, and at the same time infringed upon the liberty of the people, and the press, of speaking out against his policies.

As I said, evil learns from its mistakes. After the Civil War the 14th Amendment was ratified which created U.S. citizenship. Prior to that people were citizens of the states wherein they resided, not of the United States. Then the 16th Amendment was ratified, granting the government the power to tax the income of the people. Then, the 17th Amendment was ratified, taking away the States power in the operations of the federal government by removing their power to select, and recall, representatives in the Senate.

By those three actions the States lost all say in the operation of the government, and much of their sovereign power, while the people became slaves who worked, and were taxed, to fund the government and pay its debts. That is the truth about what the Civil War cost us, not to mention the 620,000 lives lost in a war to prevent federal tyranny.

The evil that would see us enslaved had accomplished their goal by making the States subservient entities to the federal government, not co-equal sovereigns. Yet there was still one obstacle which evil faced that could pose a threat to their plans, that being an educated and informed public.

If you had studied history you would know that the 16th and 17th Amendments were ratified in 1913. Funny thing that the Federal Reserve Act was ALSO passed in 1913, granting a privately owned bank the authority to print our nation's currency, and regulate its value.

Then two years later, those that would see us enslaved began buying up all the news media in an effort to control what you are told on the news. From the Congressional Records, a statement by Oscar Calloway, "In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

Two former executives from CBS News affirmed the fact that they manipulate the news. Former president Richard Salent said, "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."

And Richard M. Cohen, a senior producer of CBS political news, stated, "We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with."

It has been said that at this time there are 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,500 TV stations, and 2,400 publishers, and they are all owned by 3 corporations. That seems to me like there IS a great amount of control over what we are told, allowed to read, and know about what is going on in this country. Not to mention that the government has a great deal of say, via the Dept. of Education, over what is taught in our schools.

Columnist Lew Rockwell, whom I don't always agree with, nailed it when he said, "It isn’t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state’s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government’s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They’ll fasten the chains to their own ankles."

So, if you still think that you have been taught the truth about history, about the principles upon which this nation was founded, and are told the TRUTH when you watch the news, you may want to reevaluate your position and begin doing some research on your own.

You think I learned all these things in a public school, [center for indoctrination], or by watching NBC Nightly News? No, I began reading the writings of the men who established this great nation and found that what they said was in direct opposition to the things I had been taught, and was being told by my government and the network news agencies.

People, the truth is out there, but you have to care enough to go out and find it. I am not saying that you must devote all your time, as I do, to reading about history and political theory, but to ignore it so you can claim ignorance, or be entertained by what's on TV every night, you should be ashamed to call yourselves Americans.

I fully realize that it is difficult to admit that everything you have been taught may have been a lie designed to indoctrinate you into slavery and servitude, but isn't it better to know the truth? As Patrick Henry said in 1775, "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

If you love your country, if you value your liberty, you must take the time to educate yourself. If you do not, then there is no hope for the future of this country as the government will continue to play to your emotions and lead you into slavery. As my friend Carl so clearly said, you may not know what makes you tick, but those in power do, and they are using your emotional responses against you and to deprive you of your God-given inherent and unalienable rights.

For God and Country