"Obama Pushes and the People
Punt!"
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, February 9, 2014 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, February 5, 2013
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"To sin by silence when they
should protest, makes cowards of men." Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, American Author and Poet, 1850 - 1919
What in the Hell is the matter with
Americans? Are they so docile and compliant that they would let
an oversized bully push them around? Americans didn't used to be that way. The bully didn't push us
around years ago. When someone pushed, we pushed back because that is the
natural instinct of all life, except maybe in humans who have been conditioned
to be pushovers by their government. Why do we
let government push as around now? What has
changed?
We don't let nations push us around,
so why do the people let their own government push them around? And boy
has the government been pushing us around lately, especially since a glib
Chicago con man showed up on the scene and started pushing the
American people around as if he were King. A man professing to be King in
America should be impeached, or run out of town on a rail. Did you see
that disgusting "I am King - Bow To Me" speech a week
ago?
What has happened to us? The
IRS tramples all over the American Citizen's constitutional rights of due
process with questionable law to back them up and the people have capitulated
for 100 years. Obama and the Democrats shove Obama Care down the people's
throats, strip them of their insurance, raise their insurance premiums and
deductibles and the people, like little bo peep, roll over and sign up on
Health Care.gov. The government wastes billions upon billions of our tax
dollars due to fraud, abuse, corruption and criminal negligence and the
people punt! Why?
Obama, his administration and the
Democrats are complicit in the scandals of Obama Care, Benghazi, the IRS
and NSA snooping and the people are glued to their television sets, or
texting worthless trivia on their Iphones, all across the fruited plain,
oblivious to the camouflaged slavery trap that has been laid for them
by their government.
Obama says in so many words that he
is King and he is going to use his pen to make law, in direct violation of
Article I, Section 1 of the U. S. Constitution. No one challenges him, not
even the Congress, much less the people. Where are the American people in
the face of this blatant drive to absolute power by the man who wants to be
King?
Ladies and gentlemen, in its history
there is evidence all over America of people saying enough is enough and pushing
back against government tyranny, corruption and little tin Gods. One
such push back occurred in a little town in Tennessee in 1946. Another
took place a little more recently on Independence Day 2000 in a little town near
Elko, Nevada on the Jarbidge River. The first push back was called the
Battle of Athens. The second was called the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade.
In the first case, a bunch of returning Veterans from World War
II pushed back and corruption was silenced, at least for a
while. The federal government was told to shove off in the
second. In the first case, the town's people had to resort to violence
because the corruption had gotten so bad. In the second case, the town's
people showed up in large numbers from all over America with shovels raised at
the ready, forcing the government to retreat. That's
right! A bunch of Americans with shovels sent the federal government
packing. Perhaps we are using the wrong weapons against government tyranny
and should take a page out of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade
playbook.
Corruption in Tennessee is nothing
new and it is still going on. Just ask Navy Lt. Cmdr. Walter
Fitzpatrick. He'll tell you a story of corruption in Monroe County, TN,
that will curl your hair and he had to go to jail to prove it. Even today
he's still fighting to restore his reputation from those that smeared and
trashed him with the sole purpose of silencing him by fear, intimidation
and yes, illegal incarceration because he dared to expose them.
But our story of the people pushing
back goes back to a time right after the end of World War II when 15,000,000
soldiers were repatriated in their own country, a country for which they
fought so bravely and paid so much. When they came home, they were greeted
with accolades and parades in every small and large town and county in
America. But in one small town in Tennessee, their welcome home was far
from what they had expected. Although this story has been told many times,
it bears repeating in light of where America finds herself today and the tyranny
and corruption that has infected most of her institutions, including
government at all levels, her courts, academia, her public
schools and the news media.
In the late 1930's and early 40's,
McMinn County, Tennessee was notorious for its corruption and voter fraud.
The local sheriff at the time, one Paul Cantrell, having been elected three
times by the people, decided he would be King of the County and started a racket
where he and his deputies would be paid a fee for every arrest they made.
They sometimes would stop a bus going through town and charge some of the
passengers with public drunkeness and arrest them. They lined their
pockets for a fair the well and manipulated the vote to stay in
power. The people in the town lived in fear of Cantrell and his
henchmen.
Corruption and voter fraud were well
known by the FEDS at the time and the Justice Department, you know the one that
corrupt Eric Holder runs now, investigated McMinn County, but no charges were
ever filed against Cantrell or his deputies.
Returning veterans were also aware of
Cantrell's racket and corruption and ran 5 candidates at the local
election in August of 1946. The Vet's campaign slogan was a "fraud-free
election." Needless to say Cantrell and his men were not about to go down
without a fight and a fight they got. On the other hand these returning
vets were returning from war, where high adrenaline and violence were a daily
part of their lives. They weren't about to be pushed around by some
pot-bellied sheriff who thought he owned the town.
The vote was August 1, 1946.
Over 200 armed guards were placed around the polling places. With only 15
deputies under sheriff Cantrell, he had to bring guards in from surrounding
counties. A black man was assaulted and then shot at one of the polling
places by one of the deputies. The deputy ultimately went to
jail for 3 years.
When the polls closed the deputies
seized the ballots and took them to the jail. The jailhouse was barricaded
and defended by 55 deputies. The veterans, very familiar with guns from
the war, armed themselves from the local armory and descended on the
jailhouse. Estimates of the number of armed veterans besieging the
jailhouse ranged from 200 to 2,000. The veterans demanded the ballot boxes
but sheriff Cantrell refused. Riots broke out across the town with
most of the damage being inflicted on police cars. The
veterans opened fire on the jailhouse and ultimately dynamited the
jailhouse door. In any event, the veterans recovered the ballot boxes and
after a "fraud free" count, 5 veteran candidates replaced the corrupt
ones. The gambling and liquor houses, owned and operated by the sheriff
and his deputies, were raided and closed down. (source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946))
Please take note that the corruption
in Athens, Tennessee would have never been stopped with nice words. In
almost every case, the only thing that will stop corruption and vice, which is
violence by its very nature, is violence challenging violence.
Corruption in the hands of those that carry the guns is violence on the
people. Government, by definition is force. Force, or the threat of
force against the people, is violence. We are not advocating violence at
this point in America's history because there are still peaceful ways to root
out the corruption, that is if enough Americans are up to the task.
Jarbidge is a little town of about 50
people, some 100 miles northeast of the town of Elko, Nevada
and is nestled deep in the Humbolt National Forest, near the Nevada's
northern border with Idaho. The Jarbidge river flows by the little
town. The town is serviced by a long narrow road and is accessed off of
Nevada State Route 51 from Elko. The people of Jarbidge weren't bothering
anybody but they were about to be "bothered" by the federal government and an
environmental group, Trouts Unlimited. You see the Jarbidge River contains
bull trout and the environmentalists and the government decided that the bull
trout were endangered and needed to be protected. One way to protect
them was to declare the river a protected habitat and to close off the access
road to the river. Now the county owned the road, but granted a right to
the forest service to maintain it as needed. The forest service
intentionally closed the road by dumping tons of rock and debris on it.
Part of the rock and debris was one giant bolder in the middle of the
road. The forest service refused to remove the rock and the bolder and
open the road. Enter the people of Jarbidge, Nevada.
On July 4, 2000 the people of
Jarbidge and a whole host of other citizens from all around America, numbering
around 5,000, took on the forest service and joined the town of
Jarbidge to open the road with their shovels. Most of the 5,000 or so were
from Nevada and adjoining states, but some came in caravans from as far away as
New York, Maine, Florida and the Carolinas. With their shovels and even
their bare hands they cleared the road of all of the rock, debris and the giant
bolder. The forest service and Trouts Unlimited, even though trying to
stop the people of Jarbidge from opening the road, had to capitulate to the
town's people and went away. (source: http://www.wnd.com/2000/07/4664/)
Once again, the people rose up and
the people won. They were not about to be pushed around by a bunch of
high-paid bureaucrats in Washington DC and a wealthy environmental group
that thought they could throw their weight around and con some "ignorant" rural
landowners into giving up their land. How wrong they were.
Ladies and gentlemen, progressives,
liberals, or Democrats, whatever you choose to call them and those that follow
their radical socialist and environmental ideology, are running
scared. They have been exposed for what they are; anti-American,
anti-freedom, anti-free markets, anti-property rights and
anti-constitution. Obama, Obama Care and the Democrats in Congress exposed
themselves. They are vulnerable. Quit punting and go get 'em!
Being nice won't eliminate corruption or socialism, as the people of Athens
TN found out. If the Republicans won't do the job, "esplain" it to them in
no uncertain terms so that they will. If the Republicans take the
House and the Senate in 2014, lobby both Houses of Congress to impeach the
President. This lawless president needs to be impeached before
he can do any more damage. It's your free America ladies and gentlemen
that is if you care to keep it free.
This author has come to the conclusion
that big events, like civil unrest, massive uprisings, revolutions, or civil
war tend to come in their own time. It takes a
catalyst or a great leader to trigger an uprising. So far the catalyst or
the leader haven't happened ..... yet! But it will. The pot
is warming rapidly and it's getting hotter by the day ..... thanks to
Obama and the Democrats. Those that cherish freedom and there are millions
of us, are not about to go quietly into the night, or "punt
when Obama or the government pushes." Do you need
a platform on which to stand, then read our "18
Basic Principles for America" HERE. Are
you with us, or are you just kicking the tires?
Are you fighting the
IRS? Check out our information-rich website HERE. Who
knows, you might just find what you need.
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