A Fork in the Road

Yes, we have reached a fork in the road as a nation. We have a choice to make that will determine whether or not we really cherish liberty or want to become like every other nation that fell under the yoke of socialist slavery.

We already are questioning the validity of our Constitution in view of world governance, and have not been vigilant of the runaway usurpation by those we chose by election to represent and protect us. Slowly over the decades, our servants have become our leaders and they are leading us off of the path of liberty and onto the road to serfdom.

Even what we eat and drink has become a subject of sociopolitical concern of those who we asked to protect us from a government that steps beyond its constitutional boundaries, and into the private lives of the American People.

What are we to think of a government that uses the same propaganda to scare and disarm its citizens as every dictator and tyrannical government has since recorded history? Are we to believe that it will be different this time? Why? If humans were better today than they were during the Inquisition and more civilized, we wouldn’t be discussing gun control at all. But the issue is what to do to protect ourselves without giving up our liberty in the process. And the truth is there is proof that no matter how well intentioned such laws were when enacted, the result has always been the murder or innocent civilians.

Our military is the most advanced on the planet, more than capable of protecting all of the United States from border to border and sea to shining sea from any enemies. But why are we paying them to protect other nations and corporate interests? If they were all brought home to defend  America, we would not have the need for the excessive military spending we have now.  And with a smaller military force that is backed up at home by the very capable and well armed citizens, less taxes need to be levied on the businesses and work force in America.

Some will say that we live in a more dangerous world today than even that of fifty years ago. That is all the more reason for the people to be well armed and trained in protecting themselves. How many planes would have been taken by terrorists if all those brave Americans were armed? Even a Sky Marshall or a few on a plane will be targets to take out before taking over the cockpit or crew.

I am saddened by these school killings, and I am appalled that those in positions to do the most good have instead continued to play a dangerous game of politicking which only serves to embolden criminals and place more good people in harm’s way. I will not however be willing to give up any rights for the illusion of security. Not once in human history has the banning of weapons benefited the people at large. Not once.

So here we are, looking at spiraling debt and out of control government spending, as the government looks for more ways to restrict the rights of its citizens as it taxes them into poverty. We have reached a fork in the road and if we take the path to the right, we may have the means to restore the Republic and our natural liberties and rights. Or we can continue to allow 534 people in Washington to continue to ruin our nation while they continue to enact laws designed to take more of our rights and our property.

Still think it’s about Democrats and Republicans?

Principles, Not Ideology

What have we become as a nation? Our country was founded upon principles. Even though there were no prohibitions to slavery, drugs, guns, or rock and roll, there were always principles that led most people to do the right thing.

Slavery was not practiced by all, and it was the founding principles that did not interfere with the choice that people made regarding it. Just as we can choose not to patronize corporate brands who employ low wage workers in foreign lands, the free market system will always prevail to bring the best ethics from the providers of goods and services so long as the consumer is ethical also.

We are losing our liberty as we decline in wealth. We are declining as a nation as we lose our ethics and morals. And yet those who we elect to represent us have sold themselves to unethical special interests and corporations that place profits above the ethics and the law. Our representatives have legislated in favor of these corrupt corporations, elevating their rights above that of the individual.

The President and the liberal left do not possess a monopoly on legislation that is contrary to the principles of constitutional government. Many on  the right have supported legislation that is anything but constitutional. The Patriot Act and NDAA are two such examples. The rights of the individual are now secondary to the perceived belief that we are safer with  these laws.

The safest people are those who have the means to protect themselves, for they are the ones that the criminals fear and will avoid confronting. Car-jackers will think twice when enough media reports display would-be-victims taking responsibility for their own safety and use personal arms to protect themselves from these predators.

Lately I have heard arguments against gun bans from the so-called conservative party, that claims that federal weapons bans on such things as nuclear weapons and armored tanks are the only types of restrictions that can be permissible. I disagree.

If you have the wealth to purchase an Abrams Tank or a cruise missile, you have  the right to do so. The 2nd Amendment does not give you the right to bear and keep arms, that is written for the purpose of explicitly putting the federal government on notice that they cannot infringe on the right of the People to protect themselves. Just because the government is given the responsibility to protect all the States and all the People from enemies crossing our border and coming in from the seas, does not exclude the People or the States from protecting themselves. The first part of that Second Article of Amendment makes it clear that the States have explicit right to form their own militias, made up of the well armed and trained residents of the State.

All those laws that have been written since the Constitution was ratified, that clearly violate the limitations of the federal government and or restrict or prohibit the People from exercising their own rights, are not valid as law. We do not need the Supreme Court to offer an interpretation of the Constitution in order for the Constitution to be upheld.

It is with certainty that the complexity of law which is U.S. Code and Uniform Commerce Code, far exceed the constitutional limits on the federal government. Simply put, it is not for the majority of Americans to learn those complex laws, rather learn the Constitution and stick to it. Allow no exceptions in law that bends or breaks the purpose of the Constitution regardless of how socially expedient and necessary it may seem.

More laws do nothing to end the problem. Perhaps the punishment for breaking the law needs to be addressed. Starting with the 535 criminals who hold the entire country in slavery from their mahogany-paneled offices built with the taxes they stole from the States and the People.

Doing the Right Thing: A Revolutionary Concept!

This last week I witnessed what some are calling a historical event. By standing up and talking for over thirteen and one half hours, Senator Rand Paul did what we elect all of our representatives to do; protect our rights.


Perhaps it is the fault of an education system that is wrought with bureaucracy and corruption; the generations graduating from schools all across America have no knowledge of what liberty is and what it costs to maintain it. It was that commitment and passionate that allowed a small group of people (most claim it was only three percent of the colonists) to defy the mighty British Empire and claim independence from the Crown's rule of government.


The nation we call the United States of America today is nothing like the nation that was created with the ratification of the Constitution for the united States of America. See, back them it was the sovereign States who wielded the power of governing, and the union formed under a federal constitutionally limited government was meant to protect the States of enemies from without and the rivalries among and between them. United we stand and all that.

Great leaders, whether they are political leaders or religious ones, all have a way of uniting people in a common cause. Often times it will be the path that leads to destruction as it had in Nazi Germany and all the way back to the fall of the Roman Empire. Regardless of what propaganda is used, dividing the people only occurs when the united people have identified the "enemy" and the hence their target.

Maybe it is the difficulty that most intelligent people have in admitting they too were fooled. It was not any different for me when I "awoke" to the reality and truth of how my country was being attacked from within.

Do your own investigation. It may be good therapy for those feelings of being dumb. You're not dumb. You have been duped by one of the greatest plots ever devised. And yes, there are many who we have elected who are also unaware or refuse to believe that things are as bad as they really are.

By assassinating a leader, or creating a crisis, the country becomes pliant in the hands of the manipulators. Fear, sorrow, even anger and hate are all emotions that are stoked and manipulated to make people allow the government to "solve" the problem.

Lest we forget, "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving there just powers from the consent of the governed..."  and that We the People can give and take that consent when the powers we conceded are far overreaching the explicit limitations placed upon them, choosing new government through the ballot or by whatever means required to secure the Republic and the Rights of the People.

Senator Paul did his duty and he is praised and ridiculed. I simply acknowledge a man who stands as a Statesman, and a true representative of  the People who elected him.