Justin Smith writes a powerful essay about the dangers of dependence
on Big Government by American citizens. A Big Government incidentally, wholly endorsed
by the American Democratic Party as a remedy for molding American lives.
Molding lives via government is the paradigm goal of
Communism to bring an unreachable political utopia devoid of humanity’s Creator
and hence devoid of the Creator’s plan of morality bring about the true utopia
of the created unified with the very Will of the Creator.
Reaching for the unreachable is merely man-think for
despotic few to dominate the individual lives of the many duped into doing what
they are told … or else.
JRH 10/21/18
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Liberty First and Foremost
Free Men Reject Big Government
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 10/19/2018 1:01 PM
The Democratic Party has grown to be the enemy within our
country, and the communist Democrats working in federal positions are the same
as foreign agents infiltrated into federal agencies, seeking to do whatever is
needed to end this republic. However, an equally dangerous enemy is found in a
government that no longer adheres to the limits the document that created
government imposes upon them, and now, it very nearly does not matter who
occupies the seats of power within government, because government itself has
become a monster that devours the freedom it was established to protect.
Our country is too expansive to be governed effectively by a
strong central government without that government becoming tyrannical.
If America ever hopes to restore itself anywhere close to
the Founding Principles [Blog Editor: Web posts this Editor believes
demonstrate the Founding Fathers’ concept of Founding Principles: HERE,
HERE,
HERE
and a very important 2011 essay – HERE],
the people of America must place liberty first and foremost on their list of
priorities and stop asking government to pass laws that are designed to somehow
help them in life. A free man does not need government for anything; they
succeed or fail based upon their own merit and accept whatever hand life deals
them without asking for any assistance from their government.
Sadly and unfortunate for America, far too many of our
countrymen -- an extremely high percentage -- have the mentality that they
shouldn’t be required to take care of themselves; that should be the job of the
federal government.
When we tolerate laws that criminalize the defense of our
lives, liberty and property, we make ourselves slaves to those who dictate when
and where can defend ourselves. To pass laws which require that a portion of
society be required to subsidize the existence of another is also a violation
of our right to enjoy the full benefit of the fruits of our labor; i.e. or
income. Thomas
Jefferson expressed that belief as follows,
“To take from one, because it is
thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in
order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal
industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of
association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and
the fruits acquired by it.”
Freedom, or liberty, is a two sided coin; you are free to do
as you please as long as you don’t restrict others from doing the same. At the
same time you and you alone are responsible for the consequences of your
decisions and actions. People say they want freedom, and yet, they shun the
consequences of their actions, as they seek political candidates who will
provide a safety net for them should they fail to achieve success or riches.
Much less than freedom, they have embraced the cold chains of serfdom and bowed
at the altar of the State, and when you are dependent upon someone or something
you are a slave to it.
The American people must stop looking to Uncle Sam to do
everything for them. Uncle Sam isn’t going to do a damned thing that reduces
the power its agents already hold over you; all you can do is put of some kind
of barrier that blocks, or nullifies, their ability to exercise that power,
unless and until that power grows so obtrusive and repressive that it is
intolerable by way of its arbitrary rule and acts of tyranny, rather than
representation. At this point, freedom loving Free Born Americans worth their
salt will Rise Up In Armed Rebellion.
Rather than allow matters to progress to that point, if
Americans want to curb the influence of the federal government -- Uncle Sam --
in their respective States, they do not need to focus their attention upon
candidates too focused on attempting to reduce the power wielded by Uncle Sam.
Americans must choose and elect candidates who will tell Uncle Sam that he has
no jurisdiction in their Sovereign State, especially when our federal
government enforces UnConstitutional junk "law", illegally and
extralegally, such as the President Obama's "Dreamer" executive
order, Obamacare, homosexual marriage and abortion.
As noted in Section
177 of the 16th American Jurisprudence:
"An unconstitutional
statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is
wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since it’s unconstitutionality
dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the
decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as
inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question
that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been
enacted.
Such [Blog Editor: The
versions of this quote found by Editor does not have “Such” but rather the word
“Since”.] an
unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follows that it imposes no
duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on
anyone, affords no protection and justifies no acts performed under it.
A void act cannot be legally
consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to
supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to
the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an
unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."
Americans must awaken to the fact that our federal
government no longer serves the limited purposes for which it was established.
It is a government that consistently and regularly encroaches on our rights of
life, liberty and property, ignoring or dismissing them altogether, just as we
witnessed in recent years, with its attempted overreach on our Second Amendment
and numerous violations of the Fourth Amendment and the abuse
of Cliven Bundy's family and the Hammond
family and the murder
of Robert Lavoy Finicum at the hands of its agents, using force
when it has no authority or right to do so.
Uncle Sam derives its power by way of our consent. If we
simply withdrew that consent, saying "I will no longer comply", in a
unified voice, whenever our federal government violates one of our God-given
Inalienable Rights, there wouldn’t be a damned thing they could to about it.
If liberty is the primary reason for which all governments
should serve to protect, the American people need to place that first and
foremost on their list of priorities, so their children's children and
generations beyond will grow up in a land of true freedom and liberty. And they
must stop voting for any candidate who seeks to limit liberty, or will not
defend liberty to their last dying gasp.
by Justin O Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
All text embraced by brackets
as well as source links are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
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