I wrote this to open the eyes of many of my family and friends. It doesn't go into great detail but I believe it motivates the reader to ask more questions.
A Lesson in Liberty
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." - George Bernard Shaw
History has taught us crucial lessons that we are ignoring and we will indefinitely face the consequences. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, a Liberal or Conservative, whether you are left wing or right, the troubles we face affect us all. If we do not unite to repair these tribulations all that we have fought for, all the progress we have made in pursuit of liberty, freedom and justice will be lost in vain.
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. " - George Washington
We are entering a breaking point in the history of not only the United States but also the world. This is a time that we must look to the lessons experience has taught us as well as the warnings that our Founding Fathers have given us and also the reasoning behind each of the amendments in the Constitution. The Revolutionary War was fought to free ourselves from the clutches of tyranny and to liberate ourselves from oppressive despotism. We have learned through their struggles and fortitude they understood why it is imperative to have a free republic with limited government and why it is so essential to have an educated population. We are facing the same problems now that we did in the dawn of this wonderful nation. This is not a time to forget the past and blindly wander into the future. What would you say of any man that does not learn from his mistakes? Listen to Thomas Jefferson's warning!
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson
First and foremost every American must understand that our monetary policy is the most unsound and unstable system imaginable and we were warned against it.
The U.S. Constitution, Art. I Sec. 10 Cl. 1, states, in part: "No State shall ... coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; ..."
What the Founding Fathers meant is that we (Americans) should not use a fiat (paper) money system, for paper has no intrinsic value. The Founding Fathers wrote this into the Constitution because the American colonies used paper money during the Revolutionary War and found that when they printed too much of it, it declined in value at a very rapid rate until it was almost worthless. This can also be seen in the fall of the second Reich of Germany. After WWI because of the unrestricted, unregulated printing of money, the country faced the greatest economic depression they had ever seen. The true loss of value in their paper money could be seen horrifically when a common citizen, would need literally a wheel barrel full of money just to buy a single loaf of bread. Paper money is not necessarily the demon that brings about economic crisis. It is not regulating the amount that is put into circulation that drives the value to the ground and when the paper money no longer reflects the exact amount of gold that it should represent. The most terrifying fact of all is that America's government (which is given its power by its citizens) does not issue or print our money at all. It is printed and loaned at interest, by the Federal Reserve Bank. Which is not as many believe a federally owned or operated government agency but a private organization which consists of a cartel structure of privately owned banks that have been given the power over our monetary and banking policies? In essence it is the same situation for a common citizen that is broke and can't pay their rent, so the citizen goes out and gets a payday loan. When he cannot pay back this loan he repays his debt by taking out another payday loan, which drastically increases his debt on the interest from these loans. This is what is happening in America today and we have seen this over and over in the last century. You do not need to be a rocket scientist or a genius to look at a chart or graph and see the steady nose dive in the value of the U.S. dollar over the last fifty years. Since 1913 the dollar has lost 95% of its spending power. In just recent months we have printed and pumped trillions more dollars into the economy waning the value of the dollar enormously. Any person of logic can see the tremendous consequences this poses for its people and their children, and their children's children. This is the most important fact that the American public must understand. This is purposely hidden from them in the interest of the private banks that control our money supply and is also perpetrated by our own politicians. We must hold our public officials accountable.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -Henry Ford
Now listen to Abraham Lincoln's warning!
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war" -Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
We must stop this downward spiral and stop traveling on the all too familiar carousel we have been riding on. We must open our eyes and not deny the truth because we fear it. We must become free thinking citizens once again and ensure the checks and balances of our government. It is time we rise up in a common vision, the same vision for which the patriots of The Revolutionary War fought for; liberty. We need to take the power back and return it to the people. We the people are the masters of our government not the other way around; our government is here to serve us. And if it is said that we live in a very different time now than they did back then and that this is why we disregard what they warned against, then why disregard the Constitution as well? It was written over two hundred and thirty years ago. So why not just get rid of the first and fourth amendments? This notion that because times are drastically different now then they were back then, that we should not necessarily follow the Constitution is ludicrous. Why would so many of the Founders of this nation give us these crucial warnings if they did not anticipate these difficulties we now face? The Constitution was written and installed to ensure the people's god given rights and should forever be the supreme law of the land. Never to be infringed upon by any threat domestic or foreign even if that should be those that have been entrusted to safeguard our rights.
Look to the second amendment of The Bill of Rights: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Listen to what George Washington said!
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." -George Washington
Also,
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." - George Washington
The Founding Fathers understood all to well the importance of American citizens right to bear arms, for they faced the very same dilemma in the early days of the American Revolution. Would this country ever have been founded if they had not the power to rise up against an oppressive tyrant? People all over the United States debate what the second amendment truly implies and authorizes its citizens when it is very clear that the Founders knew that to remain free from tyranny you must be empowered to overthrow a corrupt and oppressive government. The Declaration of Independence also explains this:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
If we as Americans give up our right to bear arms and do not have the power to adequately defend our constitutional rights we are no longer free citizens but slaves to the will of the ones we have put into power. It has been shown many times throughout history that gun control and arms regulation ends with death tolls in the millions and sadly the numbers don't lie. Look to Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, and Mao's China. Millions upon millions of peace loving and law abiding citizens were rounded up and exterminated by there own government and when told to give up their arms for the better of the whole nation.
It is the most insane notion that Americans do not ask themselves this most eye opening question: If we are so worried about terrorists infiltrating our nation and threatening our constitutional liberties and rights, why is it that we have still not secured our border with Mexico. When approximately two thousand plus illegal immigrants come freely through the border and into United States on a daily basis? And now to the notion of gun control and firearm bans. In WWII one of the primary reasons that the Japanese did not invade the United States was that they knew the majority of the United States citizens owned guns. The same can be seen when in the early morning of March, 1916 Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico, catching everyone by surprise with more than 600 men. His men damaged a great deal of property, but only seventeen Americans died, only eight were soldiers from a nearby army post. Because the civilians were well-armed, 94 of Villa's men were killed and an unknown number wounded, despite the surprise attack. It has also been seen again and again when gun control laws, indeed any unreasonable prohibitions are put into affect, the crime rate of the country or city imposing them swells immensely and plagues the peaceful citizens. Theft, armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape and murder rates skyrocket when criminals are assured their potential prey are unarmed. Guns in the hands of law abiding citizens help to stop crime. Criminals never have, nor ever will abide by the law. Introduce gun control laws or arms regulation and the criminals will still get their hands on guns as they always have and free citizens will be reduced to mere slaves. Heed the warnings of the founders of this nation!
We were warned against fighting unnecessary wars. Now at this time we have military troops in approximately one-hundred-thirty of one-hundred-ninety plus countries around the world. Is it really isolationism to think that there is a problem with this? We hear cries from so many Americans saying this is unpatriotic or that those who ask this question or see a problem with this do not support the brave men and women who serve and fight in our armed forces, but this is ridiculous. There are very few people out there who do not support our American troops across seas, but there are many out there that do not support the reasons and agendas for why we are fighting in foreign nations. We are exporting democracy through military intervention. The notion that because America was, or is believed to be the most powerful nation in the world, has a duty to police the world as a whole and to install democracy in foreign nations is outrageous and goes against our Constitution. Why are we so determined to police the countries of the world and intervene in other nations business when we are facing tremendous struggles on our own soil? We have spent trillions of dollars interfering with foreign countries and building them up when we should be spending that money here at home. It is special interest groups that benefit from war. Not the American people. We pick and choose our battles in foreign lands not in the interest to end the hardships of the countrymen we mean to protect but in the interest of the ones who benefit from them. Washington, Madison, and Jefferson warned us against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts, yet we flagrantly ignore them.
Listen to Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning in his farewell address to the nation:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
And now American sovereignty is under fire.
"For three hundred and fifty years, sovereignty - the notion that states are the central actors on the world stage and that governments are essentially free to do what they want within their own territory but not within the territory of other states - has provided the organizing principle of international relations. The time has come to rethink this notion." - Richard Haas
The talks of a New World Order and a North American Union and the great opportunity that they bear are a travesty to the American people and should never be accepted. A global government is a preposterous notion and is being openly discussed along with a global currency through a central bank by our very own public officials. Who do you think will benefit from this? Will the people of independent nations that make up the world share the spoils? Or will the money powers of a central bank that regulate and tax the money distributed amongst them? Look to misguided philosophy of The Communist Manifesto (which could work perfectly except for the phenomenon of free will and human nature) and you will begin to see the frightening similarities that it has to this global agenda. We fought to preserve our national sovereignty and become an independent nation in the Revolutionary War and our valiant patriots died for this belief and have ever since. Americans must realize that if we accept this notion or even entertain the thought of it, all that we have gained, and all the progress that we have made will have been in vain. We must never give up our national independence from the world. Now, more than ever before our government has almost limitless power in the Legislative Branch, installing legislation that is methodically stripping us of, and eliminating our constitutional rights as Americans. We see this in the Patriot Act which violates our Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights and yet when contested in the court of our laws it is being disregarded by the judges that preside over the hearings. This legislation was passed to aide in the "war on terror". We now resemble more than ever and are on the road to becoming, a police state where American citizens live in fear of their government. This is a travesty and our forefathers are rolling in their graves.
Thomas Jefferson said: "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -Thomas Jefferson
These are startling but most enlightening truths that we must face with courage, determination and with a collective and intellectual mind. The American people have been misguided and left in the dark for the better part of the last century, blinded by the mainstream media and uninformed in the halls of our education establishments.
Listen to what David Rockefeller said in an address to the Trilateral Commission in June of 1991: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries" - David Rockefeller
The media companies have become a building block for deceiving the American population and misleading their attention on the issues that primarily affect them. It seems more and more that the television and media companies have now become the fourth branch of the Federal government. American citizens immerse themselves and their beliefs in complete and utter lies and are subjugated only to what the establishment wants them to know. It is very frightening that the majority of information that the American public is given, is through their televisions and is censored with limited current news and topics around the world. The education system and schooling for average American students is extremely sub par and they are not taught to be free thinking or to question the information and facts that are given to them. Nor are they educated on the key topics of their time and they are not given the proper tools and knowledge to adequately solve the problems that their generation will face. Children and young adults hardly read any more and what they do read is selective and suppressed. Alternative news and information programs are additionally censored and are not readily available to the general public. The media and television companies have now become much like the Federal Reserve Banks comprised of a cartel structure so the competition is ultimately at a huge disadvantage. The First Amendment is being flattened and the voice of truth and reason is being silenced by those who are empowered to protect it.
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
It is imperative now as it was at the birth of this country for real education reform and not only for the younger generations but for those that are beyond the years of formal education. Americans must think for themselves and ask the crucial questions. It is clear we have a long way to go on the road to restoring the fundamentals this great nation was founded upon in 1776 but we can overcome.
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - Adolf Hitler
These truths must be brought to the attention of every American citizen young and old. These truths can no longer be hidden from the general public and no longer silenced or smeared as propaganda, political slander or mere conspiracy theories. We must open our minds and our eyes in the face of oppression and rise up together with the same measure of bravery as the authors of our Constitution did. We must hold our politicians and public officials accountable to the laws of our nation and we must demand they use their consciences. We must once again become free thinking citizens of a free nation. We must educate our fellow Americans of the injustices and travesties that are taking place in our country. We must study and become acquainted with the Constitution. We have sacrificed too much and come too far to let this country that was founded on the most essential principals falter. We must not detour from the pursuit of our liberties and freedoms. We must not be sheep but lions in this tremendous struggle. Let your voices be heard and let anyone who wishes to take your constitutional rights away know that you will never allow it. Join in civil disobedience. Join your fellow Americans to reclaim your government. Restore the Republic. Nothing is more important.
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." - George Washington
-Bryan Petersen
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