I gave up trying to reason the issue of taxes. For one
reason even as I worked to explain how higher taxes equal less revenue and less
freedom I knew that Boehner and the boys were going to sell out. They did.(Our
girl, Shelley Capito stood her ground and voted no, odd mix this Capito, she
talks like a moderate and votes like a conservative, unlike her leadership that
sits opposite) Oh now the debt ceiling is when we make our stand they say, but
already come the rumblings from those like Newt Gingrich (now that he is not a
candidate he is back to being the guy who endorsed Dede Scozzafa) saying no, lets cave on
this and fight the battle when the budget comes due. As though the Democrats were going to pass a budget anyway! What
will happen is that our guys will kick the can down the road one too many times
and it will go over the REAL fiscal cliff and the country will go right over
with it.
The problem is we are no longer dealing with an informed
electorate, informed conservatives are furious over the lack of spine that
their representatives have, and the uninformed only know the President is a
nice guy, Mitt Romney told them so!
I will leave the subject of taxes and spending for now, to
be revisited soon, because another terrible threat to our liberty arises and we
must tackle it head on. But I won’t simply quote facts and make a reasoned
argument as to why none of Barak Obama’s myriad of executive orders and legislative
initiatives will do no good and potentially much harm. Others will do that better, and the informed
already know it. The uninformed think Obama loves kids and doesn’t want them
hurt, because as Mitt Romney and John McCain told us, he’s a nice guy.
First let’s look at the second amendment itself: 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.
Some will argue
that the amendment applies only to the militia, but precedent is on the side
that the second part of the statement applies to the individual. The current
rot coming from DC is that hunters and sportsman and those who purchase a gun
for self-defense need not fear. “The Federal government isn’t going to take all your
guns” as the President comforted us. While hunting and sports and certainly
self defense are important the real reason for the second amendment is found in
the first part of the sentence, being necessary to the security of a free
state. Some quotes from one of the chief founders, Thomas Jefferson.
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government”.
‘When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
The second amendment, which was indeed of lesser importance
than only freedom of speech and religion, was not put there to offer us better
hunting options than bow and arrow, its fundamental root is to avoid tyranny. Why then do the liberals so despise it, feel
so threatened by it? When has the President or his party offered a solution to
any problem that does not have at its heart, “People have too much
freedom”? Riots in Benghazi: too much
freedom of speech. Obesity: too much freedom of choice. Etc. the Libs want to
dominate and control every aspect of life and at some point an armed citizenry
becomes the counterbalance that prevents the overreach of government. I turn again to Jefferson:
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are
not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance?”
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on
certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be
exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.”
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all
power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty
to be at all times armed."
The President has declared war on the bitter clingers and
he’s winning. Remember his quote, “And it's not surprising then they get
bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't
like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to
explain their frustrations.” So he has attacked religious freedom through
Obama-care, he has hit immigration through executive order and now he’s after
guns. Is the President trying to push the country into civil unrest? He attacks
openly in word and deed all the things that are American. Free enterprise free
worship and gun ownership. I fear an insidious plot, an attempt to force people
to defend their liberty by extreme means, perhaps even to start a new civil
conflict in order to expand his power. (God let me be wrong) there has to be
reason to push gun control when he knows and even said, “none of these measures
alone would have stopped the tragedy in Connecticut.” Back to Jefferson:
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make
things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather
to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)
It’s time for
rebellion, oh not the armed kind, but simply writing letters and talking isn’t
going to cut it. Jefferson believed that occasional rebellion was essential to
liberty and we must fight back now. My suggestion
right now is that states begin saying no to these executive orders. Simply
refuse to implement this tyrannies!
Jefferson:
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime,
abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the
foundations of society.
When wrongs are
pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed
until they try to take it."
I have sworn on the
altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of
man.
The two enemies of
the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the
chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version
of the first.
An elective
despotism was not the government we fought for.
There is more to be
said of course but this is the basic most reason for the right to bear arms, if
we lose it we lose much if not all.
Let’s keep on the
firing line
