"Is
Obama's Deck Stacked Against
US?"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
©
Copyright Sunday, October 20, 2013 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, October 23, 2013
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"The marvel of all history is the patience with
which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their
governments." George
Washington
For several years now, we have tried to
convince our audience that it may not be possible to win our freedom and
property rights battles within the confines of the law, or through the
legislative or judicial branches of government. It would appear that the
deck is stacked against us. And certainly we will win nothing by
approaching the executive branch, especially the executive branch now occupied
by the committed socialist, Barack Hussein Obama.
It is alleged that Alexander Tyler
wrote the following statement in 1787: "A democracy is always temporary in
nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A
democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that
they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that
moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will
finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a
dictatorship."
Whether Tyler wrote the statement or
not, it still holds true and the statement has manifested itself right in front
of our very eyes in America ..... in spades. Ever since President Wilson
and the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913, and maybe even before, Americans
have become locked in indentured servitude to an all-powerful central
government. How can the people unlock their chains if the deck is so
stacked against them that the chains cannot be broken without
violence?
There are five forms of redress of
grievances by the "people" to government. 1) Petition the legislative branch
of government directly or by votes; 2) Bring court actions to defend and
uphold our individual constitutional rights; 3) Engage in massive protests
at the foot of government's door; 4) Civil disobedience and defiance of
unconstitutional law and finally 5) armed revolution.
If the first two forms of redress have
been "closed" to the people, there are only three forms of redress
remaining. The third and fourth forms require a huge outpouring from
aggrieved and angry Americans. Protests and civil disobedience must be in
the tens of thousands, if not the hundreds of thousands. And to be
effective, any protests must be brought to the individual legislators and
justices at the foot of "their" doors where they live, not at the capitol
building, or at the halls of justice. Decision-makers must be made to feel
the pain of their decisions where they live. They must suffer, as we are,
for confiscating our rights and our property. They must pay a price for
violating their oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution
if they cannot be thrown from office, or impeached. They must be held
accountable for allowing the bureaucracies they created, like the IRS, the EPA,
the DOE and others, to become corrupted and run amok.
And their families should also pay a
price for being complicit with the decision-makers. Perhaps the wives and
children of the decision-makers, under pressure from peaceful protesters, can
convince the decision-makers to behave as not only representatives of, by
and for the "people", but guardians of our Constitutions. But if the
people do not organize and rise up exponentially in huge numbers, the
people have no chance of winning their freedom.
With regard to civil disobedience
and outright defiance of unconstitutional law (redress No. 4), John Locke
wrote: "Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and
destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary
power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are
thereupon absolved from any further obedience and are left to the common refuge
which God hath provided for all men against force and violence."
Are the people in a state of war with
government? It would seem so now that the door on the jailhouse
cell has locked us in and bound us in the chains of Obama Care, enforced by
the arrogant, abusive and corrupt IRS.
Unfortunately, recent decisions by legislators
and the courts only embolden government and the lobbyists, to continue their
actions. Only WE THE PEOPLE can stop them, but will we? If the right
of protest and civil disobedience, the third and fourth forms of redress of
grievances, produce no results, there is only one form of redress remaining and
it is the hardest and harshest of all the five forms, with no guarantee of
success. But civil disobedience and defiance of unconstitutional law must
be done on a large enough scale or the government will make terrorized victims
out of the few that try.
Just recently an author of the Freedom Outpost
website wrote this:
"Civil War is upon you, whether you would have it or not.
The time has come to realize that words and the election process will not avail
to turn the tide that is rushing toward you. The time for idleness has
ended. The time for action is upon us. Yes, I am openly calling for Civil
War, for the Confederacy and the Red States to secede, peacefully if allowed, by
force of arms if not. The time to act was long ago, the window to act is
almost closed. Our country is being bankrupted, our morals and religion
destroyed by all manner of perversions and horrors, our top military generals
and leaders fired, our borders left wide open, deceptive legislation designed to
subvert our freedoms and our way of life are being passed with little to no
resistance, and our status as (a) superpower almost gone. This is all by design,
moves on the chess board."
This author obviously
believes that "The Deck is Stacked Against Us" and that the normal forms of redress of grievances are no
longer effective. But then it was stacked against George Washington
as well. He didn't quit or we would all be speaking King George
English.
A while back we watched a two-hour
special on George Washington, the Warrior. It presented our first
president at first as a bungling British officer at the tender age of 22, with a
military career that could have ended in abject failure. We missed
the first few minutes and thus didn’t learn how he had obtained the rank of
major and then lieutenant Colonel, at such an early age. His almost
downfall came during the opening of the French-Indian Wars (circa 1755)
in one of the first skirmishes with French Troops and the unnecessary
killing of a French Ambassador that caused an international incident.
George was learning the hard way, as most of the rest of us must learn, the hard
way. To add insult to injury, he set up a fort at the sight of the first
battle with the French and ended up losing almost his entire command to the
French because of his in-experience. How he managed to either survive the
battle or save his military career goes deeper into history than space
allows. But survive he did. In fact, in another battle with the
French, his British commander was killed and he took over in an absolutely
chaotic situation of death and mayhem. He organized the remaining troops
and staged a retreat that saved many of his men. Musket balls were flying
everywhere and some went through George’s tunic, but he escaped the battle
without a scratch. It was clear that George, the man and the officer, was
beginning to get his stride.
George retired from the service and became a
gentleman farmer at a plantation in Mount Vernon, Virginia that he inherited
from his brother, after his brother died. George later married Martha, a
wealthy widow with two children. One of those children would die in
George’s arms during an epileptic seizure. It was at the Plantation that
George learned more critical skills.
(NOTE: Our current batch of legislators and justices could learn a lot, like
George did, if they would only spend some time in a business pursuit to teach
them the realities of economics, commerce and people, instead of becoming
lawyers and spending their time in law offices and courts suing people
before they became politicians.)
By 1775, the British were getting a little
tired of the colonists resisting their rule and taxes and commenced outright war
against them. The skirmish with 600 British soldiers and some American
militiamen at Lexington became the "shot heard around the
world." The Revolutionary war that ensued
is a matter of history, but what may be little known is the enormous part that
George Washington played. Single-handed, George held a rag tag army
together and with the help of the French (war does make strange
bedfellows) bested the British to win our freedom.
Many times George Washington, mounted on his
horse, would race out in front of his men, in between them and the advancing
British soldiers, to spur his men on and lead them to victory.
Time after time he braved musket balls, bayonets and cannon fire. At any
moment, during any battle, he could have been killed. Yet he lived to
become the first President of the United States.
Washington had to beg the early Congress to
give him the materials he needed to prosecute the war. Time after time his
begging went unanswered as Congress went into hiding. Washington's biggest
problem was resignation and desertion. Dozens of his men went home
sick. Still more left because of pleading letters from their wives
back home. Some officers quit after Congress refused to promote
them. Many of the troops were simply fed up and warn out. There were
not enough guns, blankets, or food. Illness was rampant.
Nevertheless, Washington and his men
advanced on a British position, many of them in bare feet, at night, in the
middle of winter, with deep snow on the ground. They won that battle, in
spite of the unbearable hardships. Many wanted to return to their homes
after their enlistment expired. George convinced them to stay one more
month to win another battle. Many stayed much longer. In a winter
camp, as men were dying at the rate of 10 per day, he held them together to
fight again.
Without George Washington, America would not
exist. So one man can make a difference, even if the deck is stacked
against him. Think what great things we could do in America with many men,
or women, who were as brave, steadfast and dedicated as George Washington and
who strongly believed in freedom enough to drive he and his men into oblivion,
if necessary. Who among you?
It isn't necessary ..... yet, to ride into
battle with guns blazing. So who among you will challenge unconstitutional
laws? Who among you will organize protests, local, state, or
federal? Who among you will risk fighting the IRS ..... as we are?
(review the details of our fight HERE, including our criminal complaint filed with the
FBI) Who among you will tell a government agent to
get off his or her land? Who among you will take their day in
court to prove that the law (or laws) they are
being forced to follow have no basis in constitutional law. Who among you
will say an emphatic NO! to Obama Care? Who
among you will get out and support and fund a candidate that espouses the
principles of liberty?
Ladies and gentlemen, if Americans don't start
saying NO! to government, in
no uncertain terms, then Americans will have to get used to the chains around
their necks. Millions of Americans are already in the virtual chains of
government tyranny, or they are the recipients of government largess and will
not bite the hand that "feeds" them. The tragic part is, this is America's
reality. It is not fantasy.
Does Obama or the Democrats hold all the
cards? Only if the people of conscience let them.
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