Justin Smith tackles
the assault on American Liberty and a Free Market Economy. The threat:
Left-Wing lies as truth and the slow criminalizing of what has made America
Great.
“They say sex without consent is rape. Then what is government by coercion
and force upon those who do not consent to its authority over them?” ~
Neal
Ross
JRH 6/29/19
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Liberty Suppressed
Freedom and Liberty Are At Risk
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 6/28/2019 9:18
PM
Independence Day is a now a day that has no real meaning for
far too many Americans today, as nearly half the nation works tirelessly to
destroy our republic and the principles it was founded upon, and the rest of us
can barely believe that some who want to lead the nation, Democrat communists
and Republican globalists (RINOs), hold a vision, that would reduce us all to
serfs serving the government rather than the government serving the will of the
people; and a good portion of both sides simply want a barbecue and a good
time. America's domestic enemies see state power as paramount over
individual liberty, and unless America's youth starts standing up and
remembering how much blood was shed for their freedom and the rights they so
casually abuse as they trash America in so many ways, from their anti-American
speeches to their attempts to destroy the basis of America and our
Judeo-Christian principles, everyone, my children and grandchildren and yours
too, face dangerous times ahead.
Anyone who listened to Presidential candidate Elizabeth
Warren share her horror over states making gains in halting abortion understand
that true liberty and individual rights, even states' rights, mean nothing to
the Democrats. Warren called for a federal law that codifies Roe v Wade, with
the certain knowledge that the federal government treasury would be used to
coerce states to fall in line, as has been done regarding so many other federal
laws.
Even at the local city and county governments, citizens
witness elected officials, claiming to be "conservatives" --
who think they know better than the people -- go against the will of the
people, just as the city council in Murfreesboro, TN and also Rutherford
County council did recently when they voted a thirty-five percent and six
percent tax increase respectively to pay for services and pay raises and to
preserve a government "savings account".
Our republic uses democratic mechanisms to govern, while
certain checks and balances and the Bill of Rights were also put in place to
protect the individual's rights. The principle of good governance as set forth
by Thomas Jefferson and many of the Founding Fathers acknowledges that the
rights of the individual are paramount over anything else one might consider in
any government.
Read the unredacted parchment drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
It presents an important distinction, in that it reads the "Unanimous
Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America", not the
"Declaration of the United States of America.
These were thirteen independent states, on that hot summer
day in 1776, not a "United" States in the singular, a State to be
held together at gunpoint or through coercion, and these sovereign states were comprised of
sovereign individuals who gave their consent to be governed, not ruled.
However, today a stark contrast exists between the single State governed by the
central authority of the federal government and the once sovereign states that
have become nothing more than administrative districts.
Think You're "free"? Try not paying excessive
taxes, as we recall that the War of Independence was fought, in part due to the
Stamp Act of 1765 and the Tea Act of 1773 and three pennies added to the cost
of a pound of tea.
The fact that government can levy an excessive tax against
Us today and take any amount of our money it arbitrarily determines is
"fair" belies the notion we are free. Whatever of our own finances we
retain is only by sufferance and not by right.
Even though you are an adult, who is responsible for your
own choices concerning your safety, try not fastening your seat-belt as you
cruise down the highway on a sunny Saturday drive.
One never really owns their property either. No matter how
much one paid for it or how many years it has been paid off in full, one is
forced to continue paying money to a government whose exactions and existence
were never consented to by him.
And for many Americans, such as President Trump and even
myself, who have often stated, "America will never be a socialist
country", America is already well on its way to being just that, if not an
authoritarian fascist state, noted by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to be "corporatism" and the "merger of
corporate and state power". Think of "too big to fail", Bear Stearns and American International Group and the 2008
economic collapse and today's Big Tech subsidies.
America began a major slide into fascism
around 1913, and from that point on, when America enacted
many of the ideas enumerated in Marx's 'Communist Manifesto', like a
progressive income tax, a national centralized bank, government
ownership of land, government ownership and control of communications and
transportation, government schools, regulation of installment buying, price
controls and farm subsidies (corporate farms), government housing, social
security and "free" education, and several other items. This has
essentially resulted from a convergence of capitalism and socialism, a bit at a
time, and not only has it slowly destroyed our economy (note that the current
economic "boom" won't last) education and the nation's moral compass,
it gave rise to the utter corruption of our political system and the Deep
State.
By contrast, in a true capitalist system an actual
free-market exists that is unfettered by government interference, finding its
own level as the market demands at any given time. Supply and demand are
self-regulating, and government controls are unnecessary limitations on
economic freedom.
Today, far too many Americans have come to see government as
their "rescuer" in their longing to have every need met by someone
else. They expect government to solve all their problems, and that's a real
problem, since everything the government "gives" us exacts a price
from our individual liberty, not to mention that D.C. draws sociopaths to it
like a pile of cow manure draws flies.
Just as in Venezuela, our Deep State actors, in cooperation
with billionaire socialist George Soros, have been most thorough in
representing the current economy as a "capitalist economy", even
though America has not had a truly free-market capitalist system in over a
hundred years, and they have facilitated full socialism into the political
realm. And, when our economy finally does collapse under the weight of the
current out-of-control spending and the ever growing fascism and socialism,
these anti-American, anti-freedom authoritarians will attempt to fool Americans
that capitalism is the problem and socialism is the cure, laying the blame at
the feet of capitalism.
The socialist Presidential candidates, such as Bernie
Sanders, who wants to forgive all university tuition debt and make healthcare
"FREE" also, argue that "capitalism" has failed, and while
it is true that the gap between the rich and poor is greater today than it has
ever been in modern times, and that the middle class is shrinking and the elite
oligarchy of the upper class is growing wealthier, it is due to the insertion
of socialist policies into the economy. Pointing to capitalism as the problem
is based on more falsehoods and fallacies than I can list; such claims are
undeniably false.
Capitalism has not failed, but rest assured that the socialists' dream of making education and healthcare -- the two largest rackets in America -- "free" only further ensures that Americans will be turned into debt slaves and bankrupts; and, to date, socialism has always failed in the basic mission to prepare young minds for life's reality and to "first do no harm."
Capitalism has not failed, but rest assured that the socialists' dream of making education and healthcare -- the two largest rackets in America -- "free" only further ensures that Americans will be turned into debt slaves and bankrupts; and, to date, socialism has always failed in the basic mission to prepare young minds for life's reality and to "first do no harm."
All of the socialists' policies in education and healthcare
would still do nothing to reform the patent idiocies of the gender studies
departments and the current misinterpretation and application of Title IX that
infringes on heterosexual rights. Those policies also cannot rescue the
"victims" of self-inflicted obesity and diabetes from their toxic
consumption of Big Macs, Frosty dairy desserts and fries, since these dynamics
rest on the wheels of futility, often depression and self-loathing, for which
there is no happy ending outside of drastic changes in behavior.
One must also fully understand governments, especially under
Obama and even under President Trump, always move in a direction of more
control; just look the politicization of the IRS, FBI and the DOJ and the
passage of the FISA Reauthorization, bump stock regulation and various new bill
proposals. Given enough time, governments always create a state of despotism,
and historically, governments never voluntarily reverse their level of control
and introduce greater liberty.
Although the number is disputed by some, even President
Ronald Reagan once noted that there are roughly 20,000 laws regarding gun
control alone, and that's just the federal illegitimate "laws". So
many other "laws" exist that it's been estimated the average American commits approximately
three felonies each day, and this makes the authorities' task very
simple, if for any reason they wish to victimize you. Just ask the Bundy Family, Hammond father & son, LaVoy Finicum's Family, Lt. General Michael Flynn and
Michael Cohen and a few others.
Thomas Jefferson once stated: "Even under the
best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny."
God help America if the Democrats take the majority in the
Congress and the Oval Office anytime in the near future and implement a more
stringent and authoritarian form of the morally corrupt, economy destroying and
de-civilizing ideology of socialism and the sick social system it embodies.
Their system must be exposed for all the obnoxious, abhorrent and hellacious
ideas it represents.
Too large a segment of America no longer cares for
individualism, free markets, personal freedom and free minds, and in fact, they
now mock the very virtues America was founded upon. They may have some
ill-formed, nebulous notion on ethics that they borrowed from the Boy Scouts,
but they basically assert that socialism and communism are as equally good as
capitalism, while their reigning philosophy is a mixture of Marxism, identity
politics, anti-male feminism and anti-white racism.
The institutional damage along the way has been epic, and
the scene today is a debris field of broken ideas, that strayed far and away
from the Founding Principles and the Original Intent of the U.S. Constitution.
The far left still advocates the failed Marxist vision as having national
support and purpose, as they rush to implement and organize a chaotic
demolition of pretty rigorous American values and traditions and even historic
monuments and paintings, in their insane desire to eradicate our republic, a
country that still may be the "home of the brave" but is now barely
recognizable as the "land of the free".
America is the only country in the history of mankind that
was founded on the principles of individualism and personal freedom, that
manifested in the early rugged American independent nature of America's people.
America is still special, still unique and still that Oh So Exceptional nation
that has millions across the globe rushing towards Her shores, even if it's
becoming harder to see the fact and the light of liberty shining from Lady
Liberty's torch is growing dimmer each day.
As the Founders' spin in their graves, America is now
rapidly nearing the point of the ultimate inversion, where the government is
free to do anything it pleases and our individual liberty is suppressed and we
must bow to the altar of the state and beg permission to act. And this is the
stage of the darkest times of human history, the stage of total dominance and
rule by violence and brute force.
Is it too late to restore and save our beloved America?
Nothing is ever too late if it serves a righteous cause, and I defy anyone to
name any better causes for Us to firmly stand together and defend than our God
Given Rights, the Bill of Rights and individual liberty in America, even if it
takes us into the streets of our nation in armed conflict and civil war.
A certain chapter in American history is closing and the
future of America and freedom is at risk. Those of Us who love freedom and
liberty and America must grab hold of the moment to seize the 21st century for
our children's children and their children and generations beyond to ensure
their economic prosperity and liberty and a 21st century that becomes all the
Founders envisioned, full of an appreciation for life and all America
originally represented, God's glory and grace.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced by brackets and source links are by the
Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
