Patrick Henry speech: “Give
Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”
Although I don’t agree that President Trump is a bad guy (or
at least not yet) in his Federal government decisions, I do agree absolutely
the Federal government and many Dem-managed State and local governments are
breaking the U.S. Constitution into pieces in the name of the ChiCom unleashed
COVID-19, Globalism and ultimately Communism. Justin Smith takes the robbing of
Liberty to task.
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death:
Free Born Americans Don't Need Permission
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 4/15/2020 1:37 AM
"Even the bad guys are
admitting it, and that is they made these dire predictions so that they could
go ahead and destroy peoples' civil liberties and spend a lot of money and make
up an excuse on why the stock market actually went down -- all kinds of things
by having this coronavirus event blown way out of proportion."
~ Ron Paul, former Congressman and Presidential Candidate
"If a government wishes
to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, its only valid course is
laissez-faire [Blog Editor: Laissez-faire is a central to American
Liberty yet eradicated as an economic principle by Statists and Dem-Marxists in
particular. Since I have doubts Laissez-faire principles are taught to
Americans these days, you should acquaint yourself. Three brief self-education examinations:
Merriam-Webster, Encyclopaedia Britannica and Investopedia] -- to leave the
economy alone. Only if there is no interference, direct or threatened, with
prices, wage rates and business liquidation, will the necessary adjustment
proceed with smooth dispatch." ~ Murray Rothbard, 'America's
Great Depression'
The President who once stated "America will never be a
socialist country", President Donald J. Trump, is currently taking America
down a path far and away from the free market and liberty, in general, in a
manner that will only succeed in creating a situation for a greater economic
collapse in the future, and perhaps the final collapse. He is answering the
current economic collapse with big government, massive spending solutions,
handouts and social projects, in the fashion of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, whose authoritarian policies ushered in a decade of economic misery
and extended the disastrous effects of the Great Depression by years; and, this
is certain to end badly for America, as the country is led further towards a
deep depression and complete socialism, and, quite likely, greater control over
all society, falling into a more extreme political environment and full blown Statism
[Blog Editor: Statism defined – Your Dictionary
and Ayn
Rand Lexicon].
All Americans should be filled with some great degree of
fear and anger as We recall President Trump at the White House, well-intentions
or otherwise, recently stating, on April 13th: "When somebody is President
of the United States, the authority is total. The governors know that."
This is such an egregiously outright erroneous, factually and historically inaccurate
statement [Blog Editor: 10th Amendment and Implication] as to boggle one's
mind that any elected official, much less a sitting President, would so easily
and assertively let such a remark pass their lips. This shows that Trump is
neither the "stable genius" or the friend to the Constitution he
portrays himself to be, and he isn't anywhere close to understanding anything
whatsoever regarding our U.S. Constitution and our nation's founding; and it
sends a flood of hot anger through me to hear such an anti-freedom and
anti-liberty view held by a man who is sworn to defend freedom. [Blog
Editor: President Trump can be infuriating when he makes 10th
Amendment mistakes but on a personal level I’m not ready to toss him under the
bus because he is used to corporate management despotism (remember, “You’re
fired!”?), doesn’t mean Trump is averse to private correction. I suspect
private correction has occurred because Trump has already walked back the I
am totally in charge attitude toward the States. No matter how often
President Trump screws up he drives Dem-Communists and their MSM propaganda
tools nuts. As long that happens I’ll look for the best and pray the worst
Trump decisions don’t activate the worst ends. But that is me – the Blog Editor.]
President Trump may as well have simply stated, "I am
the State."
This national shutdown of America by the Federal and State
governments has crushed nearly every business in the country and put millions
of Americans out of work, in the process, that also resulted in a crash in tax
revenues at the federal, state and local levels. If the economy remains
debilitated by government interference beyond May 1st, America is looking at an
economic decline, a Greater Depression, that will not see its end for two
decades, give or take a few years.
The best thing that could have been done was to allow the
economy to continue to operate and function as normally as possible, rather
than shut the nation's entire economy down in a panic over a virus that
represented so minimal a threat to the greatest majority of the people [Blog
Editor: The Sweden and Brazil approach to COVID-19 you won’t hear about
from MSM]. Somehow, the new Trump GOP was unable to
use any semblance of cogent thought to arrive at this same conclusion; and so,
they succumbed to the badgering of the Democratic Party Communists and passed
the $8.3 billion vaccine bill, the $100 billion relief and paid leave package
and the $2.2 trillion all-encompassing Dream Bailout -- most of it is corporate
socialism, as they currently propose several more $2 trillion packages that
double-down on all the "Free Stuff" that was contained in the first
Trump stimulus, that passed without any debate on a voice vote rather than an
actual recorded vote.
Trump, RINO globalists and Trumpified
"Republicans", now Bernie Sanders socialists, have joined hands with
the "progressive" Democratic Party Communists to open the U.S.
Treasury to a massive theft that would create an indescribable envy in the
hearts of the New Deal porkers, the Great Society big spenders and the Obama
cartel cronies. And, as they also move towards a $2 trillion or more
"stimulus/infrastructure" bill, and a deficit that will be $3
trillion this year and next, they are engaging in a fiscal drunken revelry that
will leave America with outrageous and criminal debts, political dysfunction
and economic debilitation and catastrophe for decades to come.
Look at what these criminals advocated and passed and then
tell me they don't need to be hung from the railings of the Capitol Building:
$25,000,000 for additional salary for the House of
Representatives (Doesn't that just blow your mind?)
$20,000,000 for UPS (for who knows what)
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Arts (as if they
said, "Let's do it. They'll never know)
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities
$435,000,000 for mental health support (that's a lot of
suicide hotlines)
$30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education
stabilization fund (WOW, that's massive. They need it to complete the
indoctrination of children into the Communist ideology. I wonder how much goes
to the socialists of the NEA?)
$200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence
Program (because the virus causes students to be violent???)
$720,000,000 to the Social Security Administration (However,
only $200,000,000 of this goes to benefit people. The rest goes to
administration costs.)
$25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building
(Yes it's true. See page 136)
And these few examples don't even begin to scratch the
surface of the theft that is being perpetrated against the people through a
massive bill that amounts to nothing less than a Grab Bag of Goodies for
Congressmen, the lobbyists and their crony criminal CEOs and Wall Street.
The Democratic Party's opposition to helping small
businesses and their preference for handing out checks is sheer malevolence; in
that they will hand a person a fish to feed them for a day and stand nearby as
their policies destroy people's ability to remain gainfully employed. Jobs and
pensions alike are being destroyed as we speak. The Democratic Communists and
Republican Statists and Communists have no consideration of the consequences of
their actions [Blog Editor: Sadly, Justin is 100% correct], and they
will eventually have to raise taxes as any future attempt to issue more debt will
prove difficult in the midst of an economic collapse. One cannot help but see
this as a deliberate move to force a Universal Basic Income in place of
employment in order to create a larger welfare state. And the Paycheck
Protection Act is simply one more big government program that facilitates this
very thing.
The Communists within our government barely did achieve the
216 members' presence for a quorum, of sorts, after Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) demanded it and went on
to suggest they were trying to subvert the Constitution.
Although President Trump and former Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) criticized
Massie for the move as "grandstanding", Massie pushed back stating
that it wasn't "grandstanding" when one defends the
Constitution.
Massie further justified his dissent, stating, "I came
here to make sure our Republic doesn't die by unanimous consent in an empty
chamber, and I request a recorded vote."
Americans understand what it means when seventeen millions
of their countrymen -- a full 10 percent of the workforce are added to the
unemployment rolls in the past month, with projections that suggest it could go
as high as 47 million, if not ended soon. We are appalled to see modern day
bread lines at local food banks stretch for miles in the heart of America's
once proud cities, such as Philadelphia, and we -- at least the Conservative
Americans -- are angered at the knowledge our fiat Monopoly Money debt rises
over $24 trillion and the Sovietization of Wall Street and our economy has been
completed by the Federal Reserve Bank.
Americans also understand what it means when billionaires
such as Bill Gates start explaining that
only their new experimental mRNA
vaccines will release us from this nightmare and
provide us with the "certificates" that allow us to
return to work. We -- the Christians and true Conservative liberty-minded
Americans -- are truly angered to hear of threats to mark us with invisible ink
tattoos, and we are infuriated to hear them say that we will not be able to buy
or sell and participate in the economy until we can prove our
"immunity".
It means that the New World Order is upon us and charging at
a furious rate of speed to finish the job of ending America's republic.
Never did the simple, plain good and decent Americans
suspect that someday their so-called "protectors" and
"leaders" would lead them to the slaughter, but while some may say we
were stupid, by and large, far too many Americans are naive and innocent [Blog
Editor: It is this Editor’s current opinion that business mogul turned
President Trump is among the naïve though probably not innocent] when it
comes to seeing through their government's Machiavellian machinations. They are
trusting, peaceable and cooperative by nature, and that is nothing to be
derided. If it weren't for the predatory criminals in our midst who gain seats
in all levels of government, their failings could be seen as virtues.
To date, an unimaginable number of our political, financial,
corporate, religious "leaders" at every level, such as Jerome Powell, Steven Mnuchin and Larry Kudlow, have revealed their
true nature and their willingness to violate moral and ethical codes to
facilitate the current Trump agenda, that does not align with the Constitution
or the views of liberty-minded Americans. They, like top federal bureaucrats
and Congressional leaders, have confirmed they are one party, that is loyal to
corporate and banking interests, and completely willing to destroy the
livelihoods of nearly all Americans to keep the top one percent enriched and
empowered. And, more than likely, they will continue to do so until every manjack among us picks up a rifle
and puts an end to it all, in order that Americans may one day achieve real
freedom and liberty.
So my mission is to awaken all my countrymen and say,
"Fight like Hell to save Freedom and Liberty in America!"
Free born Americans do not need permission to buy and
sell anything, to leave our homes to assemble and speak our minds, because the
government doesn't have the right to know where we are, who we meet or what we
are buying and our every move each hour of the day. Each of us are free to
leave our homes as we desire and wish, for any reason, including work, despite
illegal "orders" from incompetent or criminal "leaders" on
the advice of intelligentsia knaves and fools far too willing to serve an
agenda that destroys liberty in America. [bold text by Editor and I
concur.]
There are dark forces using this virus for ulterior motives
and creating an economic collapse that will cost more lives than anything we
will ever see from COVID-19, and, as the veil of civilization is pulled aside,
everything past generations have fought to secure and achieve is now at risk.
The economy expanded and life expectancy increased all due to the prosperity
initially created in America's earliest years of constitutional governance and
unfettered capitalism. Now, that is all being undone.
Not one single red-blooded freedom and liberty loving
American should ever be willing to sacrifice their liberty and freedom for the
safety and security of a corporate fascist oligarchy that has bastardized our
Constitution and now pretends to be a government of the people, by the people
and for the people. Any liberty mistakenly abandoned may never return to us, or
it may be a long time coming.
Our fragile constitutional Republic and civilization itself
rests in our hands. It will take a people with great courage to defend our **Founding
Principles, if we are to survive as a civilization, society and nation. So long
as we remember the blood of our brave ancestors flowing through our veins and
remain brave ourselves, in the face of great adversity and danger, our desire
to live free will never be extinguished and it will burn brightly in the lamp
of Liberty forever.
**[Blog Editor: Again, the concept of Founding Principles
is a forgotten subject matter in most American school curriculum. So consider
some self-education:
o What were the Founding Principles? By James D. Best;
What Would The Founders Think? - ABOUT; Copyright 2010-2014
o Why It’s Absolutely Vital We Understand America’s Founding
Principles; By Bre Payton; The
Federalist; 3/9/18
o The Founding of the American Republic: 17. Principles of the
Constitution; By Clarence
Carson; Foundation for Economic
Education; Originally written 12/1/1972 (According to
search engine date) Re-posted 3/30/20]
And at some point, in the not too distant future, Americans
will have to recapture that spirit that was once inherent to us all -- the one
that said, "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death".
[Blog Editor: Some Patrick Henry historical perspective]
By Justin O. Smith
++++++++++++++++
[Blog Editor: For the most part, Justin’s post is
awesome! If you believe the Federal government is usurping too much into your
life (I certainly do!), this post excerpt that you should read in entirety:]
Confronting the Leviathan of the COVID-19 Crisis
April 16, 2020
The COVID-19
outbreak has made one thing clear: we are a nation that is quickly forgetting
how to be free. How many people, in the face of economic panic, have knelt
before our elected officials and financial authorities, yearning to be led out
of this crisis and made secure in their livelihoods? How many people have taken
comfort in the small amount of safety that comes from knowing that millions are
not allowed to go to work and support their families, or leave their homes for
anything other than what the government deems necessary?
Increasing Government Powers
How many have taken comfort in knowing that the police, in
complete violation of the fourth amendment, are conducting unwarranted searches for
civilians not following quarantine mandates? How many have gained a sense of
peace in the idea of forced checkpoints and the
government’s ability to dictate what companies ought to produce?
How many people have taken comfort in their measly share of the $2 trillion
stimulus package, which was financed from their own income and savings in the
first place? And how many people have marveled at the government’s power to
indefinitely shut down the economy and bring millions of lives to a halt?
It appears we live in a nation of people who have chosen to
dismiss, or are blissfully ignorant of, the wealth of historical
evidence—expertly documented in Robert Higgs's Crisis and Leviathan—which
lays bare the state's tradition of arrogating unwarranted powers during crises
and emergencies, powers that never fully recede from its arsenal of economic
and political manipulation once the crisis subsides. Higgs described this
pattern as the “ratchet effect” and documented its unfolding throughout
critical events of the 20th century—most notably the Great Depression and both World
Wars.
In each crisis, the government assumed incredible powers to
manipulate both the economy and the court of public opinion. For example, World
War I alone saw the initiation of the War Industries Board, the War Labor
Board, the Espionage Act, the Food Administration, the Fuel Administration, the
Railroad Administration, and many others. The War Industries Board and War
Labor Board, for example, represented one of the most invasive economic
planning attempts by our government to date. And the Espionage Act, created to
prohibit interference with military operations, military recruitment, and
punish enemy support, was also used to silence opponents of the draft
and those who exercised their right to speak out against American involvement
in the war.
After the war ended, every bureaucratic creation mentioned
above was formally scrapped, except for the Espionage Act, which remains on the
government’s books to this very day. This is but one example of Higgs’s
“ratchet effect” where not every power assumed by the government during an
emergency is fully relinquished after the … FINISHING READING
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Edited by John R. Houk
In Justin’s submission, text
embraced by brackets and embedded links are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
