The Phony Drug War

If you have ever been arrested on drug charges and have had to endure incarceration for it, this story will certainly thrill you.

The British giant banking firm, HSBC, was slapped on the wrist this week by the United States Department of Justice and while they violated several laws (the Bank Secrecy Act and the Trading With The Enemy Act) no criminal charges will be filed. Instead Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the longtime buddy of none other than former President William Jefferson Clinton has chosen to settle with the banks for $1.9 billion dollars, despite the fact that HSBC makes more than that in less than a week of banking. While admitting they have laundered billions for both Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and others, the USDOJ will prosecute possession of drugs (don't get caught with a pot seed!) to the fullest extent of the law, while allowing the real pushers to get away with crimes.

This is evidence that there is no real war on drugs, only a war on individuals who choose to exercise their own choice to use drugs. While in many cases, the choice is a poor one, you cannot deny the fact that prosecution is selective.

The fine of $1.9 billion dollars may seem like a lot, but when you consider the hundreds of billions this one dirty bank makes annually, it is merely a few pennies from a cookie jar in comparison. Believe what you will, but this is another outrage from a DOJ that wants to take your Second Amendment rights while sending arms to drug lords and terrorists.

Where is the outrage from the American People? Where is the media coverage of the blatant disregard for the rule of law? Where is the rebellion?

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The Cost of Freedom

We all know the often repeated phrase, "Freedom is not free" yet we ignore the reality of the price we must pay to sustain it. If you are not willing to defend your freedom with your life, you really do not deserve to have it.

I have been writing the Fix America blog since 2008. In that time I have covered many subjects that I felt were relevant to a majority of Americans. I have leaned heavily on the principles of liberty as a birthright as opposed to something that is granted by government. In fact, the very nature of our liberty is dependent on those willing to sacrifice all on order to have it.

The foundations for American liberty can be found in the words of Thomas Jefferson, specifically in the Declaration of Independence. In that superbly written document we read,

 "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." 

It then stands to reason that the government itself is created through the consent of We the People, and its purpose is to protect the rights of all sovereign individuals. At some point in the history of this once great nation, people began to take freedom for granted and the government began taking freedom from them.

The document itself is rebellious. It is the very essence of what Americans are in a sense, a revolutionary force in the world, that does not subscribe to the subjection to laws and regulations that inhibit the freedoms we hold so precious. And to protect those freedoms we must be rebellious at all times to anyone and anything that will attempt to deny us those rights.

In her book, Give Me Liberty, Naomi Wolf challenges the reader with these very same principles, to revolt, to rebel, and to be ever vigilant of those who seek to control you. It is portrayed as "A handbook for American Revolutionaries" and rightly so. 

In the present times, the very government that our founders created now view those same founders as extremists and insurgents, and that is exactly how we all must be to keep our freedoms and stop the tyranny of a government out of control. It is why the government wants gun bans, and laws that prohibit free speech. It is why we have unconstitutional laws such as the (un)Patriot(otic) Act and NDAA. If our founders were alive today, I am certain they would be gathering militias to storm the halls of the nation's capital and remove those guilty of high crimes and treason. But they are no longer with us and we must take up the challenge ourselves.

Resolution or Revolution?

What will the New Year bring? As we look back and reflect on the past year, what do we see? Not that we will all see the same things, but so many remain in a state of denial about what they have experienced and what is to come.

I hear and read every day about many things that the government is doing, but all I get from the people is complaining about the same old issues and the rhetoric and denial that got us to this point of turmoil.

The term bantering about lately is that we are 'falling off the fiscal cliff' and that our government is leading us toward that abyss. But I ask as John F. Kennedy did in his inaugural address: "What can you do for America?"

Each of us has the duty and responsibility to be accountable for our own liberties and rights. Each of us when we are united in conviction and ideology can make changes that will restore the integrity of government and the freedoms that so many thousands upon thousands of our ancestors and brethren have fought and died to give us.

Elections were meant to allow the citizens to hold office as representatives of their peers, to protect the rights of their own families and friends, to hold their respective elected counterparts accountable to the People. They were meant to serve a term of office and then to return to their businesses and jobs, knowing they did their part to insure the liberty of themselves and the rest of America.

Prior to 1913, there was no taxing of wages. There was no Social Security numbers, birth certificate numbers, marriage license numbers, or even drivers licenses. Numbers placed upon citizens reduce them to commodities that make them slaves to the corporate state. This was what our founders wanted to prevent by placing before the union a Constitution and the concept of contract law.

By allowing corporations to infiltrate America, and the laws that followed, the law of the land was replaced by the law of the seas, admiralty or maritime law that makes each of us nothing more than property of the corporation. 

It is time to make resolutions for a new year and to end the slavery that has replaced the liberty that was the united States of America, just as our founders did, through the rebellion against tyranny that has become the corporation  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

I will not blame the government for what America has become. In fact, I will not place the blame on the corrupt politicians that perpetrate the treason against all sovereign individuals. No, I will take responsibility to correct the errors and replace the tyranny with liberty, so help me God!

And what will you resolve to do for the New Year?