An elective despotism

 

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