Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:40:39 PM
There are many well thought and worded posts here calling for the people to rise up in rebellion to the tyranny we are experiencing and to take back our government. I agree that the present administration is in violation of the Constitution and federal law and is following a road to absolute dictatorial tyranny the kind of which we should not tolerate.
That document that grants us the authority to rebel lists what would be necessary to make such a rebellion legal and proper. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Indepenence,
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
Jefferson states that prudence will guide us not to throw of a government long established for transient causes. But he also says that when a long train of abuses leading to the same goal shows there to be a design for despotism. THEN it is our duty to rebel and reform the government according to our wishes.
While it is true that the Constitution has come to mean less and less to our federal officials, we did not ever consider it tyranny until it had actually become such, beginning January 20, 2009. Until the past six months we still held some hope that the election process could be the tool for peaceful. legal authority over the government.
Also, if you read on to the end of the Dec of Independence, it is the STATES who declared their independence and it was the STATES that created the Constitution. Therefore, I believe that it is only the STATES who can determine that tyranny has been suffered long enough. For the people to bring arms against the government without the states first acting and failing to abolish that government is illegal under the Constitution. The people must decide when they've been ignored long enough by the feds and give up trying to get them to act and, instead, focus all their anger and dissension at the state legislatures in an effort to convince them to pass state's rights resolutions that list the illegal actions by the feds, and resolve to abolish their contract with them, essetially firing the federal government.
A majority of state legislatures passing identical resolutions would be constitutionally legal and, in my opinion, garner the support of the Armed Forces. That will be absolutely necessary.
The reason all the law suits against Obama were dismissed because of lack of standing is because the PEOPLE must act throught the States, as they did in creating the USA, to have any authority. Individuals did not create the Constitution and are not covered by it. They lack standing in most relations with the feds.
While we've been under this attack for only six months, there is no time to lose.
Let's stop pi--ing in the wind by trying to influence federal officials. It is useless.
Let's put all our efforts where they will be legally recognized even if they are ignored, toward the State governments. It is the ONLY legal avenue for We the People to assert our authority, peacefully. If that fails, then we will speak of more unpleasant days to come.
I have posted a list of websites of all fifty states' governments that have e-mails of all state legislators. It is THESE legislators where we must focus our voices for it is only they that just might listen. We already know the feds won't.
E-mail them demanding they unite as they did in 1787, and fire the federal government, resetting the Constitution.
Glenn Flowers