The following is my senior research paper.

A call to

Liberty’s

Lost

Cause

Do you Dare to be Different?

Liberty – so broad a subject, so intertwined into America’s history, that it would take countless volumes just to cover the mere documents in which it is so firmly embedded, or the wars which were so valiantly fought for its preservation. Therefore, the following text will simply be a dim enlightening of one of liberty’s most noble causes, yet a cause that has, for the last 147 years, been shamefully, but scandalously trampled in the dirt and taught to our young people as a blot upon the nation – The War Between the States. But also, may we never forget that Liberty’s voice did not die on those bloody, sun-scorched battlefields; strain your ears and you can hear her call!

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!” Patrick Henry’s arms were extended aloft; his body was  thrown back, his coat flung right and left. The tendons of his neck stood out white and  rigid like whipcords. His brow was knit, every feature marked with the resolute purpose  of his soul. His countenance was radiant; he stood erect and defiant; while the sound of  his voice and the sublimity of his attitude made him appear a magnificent incarnation of  freedom, and expressed all that can be acquired or enjoyed by nations and individuals  invincible and free.1 He finished his call to arms with these words, “I know not what  course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Origin

“You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.”
– John Adams

Before one can truly understand liberty’s history, they must first have a foundation of the origin and principles of liberty firmly embedded in their mind.

“We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life—physical, intellectual, and moral life. But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.

“Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality, liberty, property—this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”2

Scripted on panel three of the Jefferson Memorial, are the words, “God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Our liberty was birthed at the creation of mankind and was given to us as a gift by God at the beginning of the world. As John Locke taught, there is “a Natural Law rooted and grounded in the reasonable nature of man; there are Natural Rights, existing in virtue of such law, among which the right of property . . . is cardinal; and finally there is a natural system of government, under which all political power is a trust for the benefit of the people . . . and the people themselves are at once the creators and the beneficiaries of that trust.”3 Sidney, Locke, Jefferson and many others rightfully came to the conclusion that:

(1) liberty is of divine origin;

(2) liberty is secured by representative government;

(3) liberty is maintained by obedience to just laws;

(4) liberty is dependent upon virtue;

(5) liberty leads to happiness.

All of these principles underlie America’s Declaration of Independence and are inherent in the purposes of the Constitution.

Principles of Liberty

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.”
– Samuel Adams

“Liberty is based upon certain principles—the knowledge and application of which are required to fully comprehend and uphold liberty, respectively. Principles, of course, are timeless and unchanging, and their applications are universal. It has been said that, “A principle in not like a rule. The rule asks nothing more of you than that you obey; a principle requires you to do your own thinking. A rule gives you credit only for being a creature; a principle gives you stature”. Our Founding Fathers, and the founding documents they authored, have relevance and stature because of their principles. These principles formed the basis for the raising up and establishment of our form of government, which was designed to “secure the Blessings of Liberty” to us and our posterity.

“Now, with respect to the Constitution of the United States of America—in the Constitution we have a finished structure. Like a building, the Constitution is the outward manifestation of the principles of liberty, but it does not set forth the principles themselves. Thus, in order to fully appreciate the Constitution’s purpose and meaning, we must not only look at its modes and manners of construction, but at the blueprints behind it and at its underlying mission. For these answers, we of course must look to the intent of its framers. Fortunately, the Founding Fathers have left to us a rich legacy of their thoughts and convictions, providing to both past and future generations the keys of understanding these principles.

“First, the Declaration of Independence itself needs little explanation, but only a renewed remembrance of the basic principles which it so clearly sets forth: ‘We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . .’

“Consider for a few moments within yourself the significance of the truths proclaimed therein that we are each endowed by our Creator with certain divine, unalienable rights, among which are: the right of Life . . . the right of Liberty . . . the right of the Pusuit of Happiness . . . and, that the primary purpose of government is to secure those rights. Thomas Jefferson believed the only firm basis to secure our liberty is ‘a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God.’ Also, when we realize that our fundamental liberties are divine in nature, the term “rights” (a word much used—and abused—by our generation) assumes its proper place and role in society, being shouldered with its permanent companion term, ‘responsibility.’

“Before we leave the Declaration, we must also remember that of those who pledged ‘their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor’ as signers to the Declaration of Independence, five were captured as traitors and tortured before they died; twelve had their homes ransacked and burned; two lost their sons in the Revolutionary War; another had two sons captured; and nine died from wounds or the hardship of the war.’ One of liberty’s principles is that liberty has a price.

“The Federalist Papers have been hailed as the most important work of political science ever written in the United States. ‘[T]he message of The Federalist reads: no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self government, no self government without constutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality—and none of these great goods without stability and order.’ The Federalist Papers instruct us that virtue is a foundation stone of American constitutionalism. Alexander Hamilton said: ‘The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.’ And, James Madison stated: ‘To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.’

“It is evident that the ‘roots’ of Constitutional liberty are, as Adams stated, grounded in virtue or morality and religion. As we contemplate the principles of liberty as espoused by Sidney, Locke, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, Jay and others, may we realize this truth: With respect to our Founding Fathers, we stand on the shoulders of giants—and to the degree that we diminish them, we only diminish ourselves and lose sight of the vision they provided to us. The true principles for which they fought, lived and died comprise the granite cornerstones of the Constitution and of American civilization. They spring from the very Fountain of life, and of justice and mercy.”4

War Between the States

“A nation ignorant of its past is a nation ripe for deception and manipulation. Therefore it is not what happened, but rather what people believe happened which determines the present actions of a nation.”

With the foundation and principles of liberty laid out, we must now examine her ‘lost cause’ or more properly said, “unknown cause”. Ask almost any young person who has been educated in our public school system, what the Civil War was fought over, and they’ll automatically tell you “slavery”. The worst part yet, is that so many children educated at home who do not use secular books, but Christian books, will give you the exact same answer. It has been said that, the victor in a war will rewrite history in their own favor; how true!

The first lie that we’ve been taught, is that it was a “civil war”. A civil war is a war between opposing citizens of the same country. Contrary to popular belief, the “Civil War” was between two separate nations: the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. This is where the issue of secession falls into place. Although southern states had begun seceding back in the winter of 1860 and had already inaugurated their own president by Feb. 18, 1861, Lincoln refused to believe that the south had seceded and formed a separate country; he refused to recognize them as such. However, just because one doesn’t want something to happen, does not change the fact that it has happened. I can refuse to believe that the War Between the States was ever fought, but does my ignorance change the fact that it has been fought? Certainly not. Our thinking can not change facts; Lincoln’s could not, either.

Is succession truly wrong, as you’ve been taught? Where in the Constitution do we find a restriction for secession? Many people use the term “constitutional right”. This is such a misconstrued, misleading phrase! The Constitution does not grant you any right whatsoever.

Michael Badnarik wrote in his “Constitutional Discipline”, an article for the Restore the Republic Magazine, “A right is something that you can do without asking for permission, such as walking back and forth on your property. A privilege is something you require permission to do, such as walking back and forth across my property. I may grant you the privilege of walking across my property – BUT – I can revoke that privilege any time I wish. Rights and privileges are opposites! Either you need permission – or you don’t. You can’t lose “some” of your virginity, or be “a little bit” pregnant. You either are or you’re not. There’s no middle ground. When someone places a lien on your property, it is still your property, but you cannot sell your property before you satisfy the lien. A lien is a condition or limitation that is placed against your property. Our rights are “un-a-LIEN-able”, which means they cannot have conditions or limitations placed on them. Freedom of religion is not limited to those who are Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant. “Congress shall make NO law respecting the establishment of religion, or abridging the free exercise thereof…” Thus you see, the Constitution has nothing to do with our rights, but is a set of rules we have placed upon the government.

Mr. Badnarik goes on to say “The reason we are standing chest deep in the septic tank of today’s political process is because we’ve lost sight of the fact that “We the People” are supposed to be protecting the Constitution, not the other way around. We complain about the problems in Washington D.C. without facing up to the fact that Congress is only the symptom. We the People are the source of the problem. That is going to change. Right here. Right now. All of our political problems can be traced back to a single, simple, misunderstanding. Americans have forgotten (or never knew) the difference between RIGHTS and PRIVILEGES.

Here are some of the “self-evident truths” that our Founding Fathers knew, that we will have to relearn if we’re going to have a hope of reclaiming our Liberty:
• The creator is always more powerful than the created.
• We the People created our government, which means we always have the option of abolishing our government and starting again from scratch.
• We the People have rights, and we grant the government privileges.
• We the People can revoke any or all of the government’s privileges any time we feel like it. All it requires is our collective political will.
Thomas Jefferson said that we only have the rights we’re willing to fight for.”

The only reason used to back up the claim that secession is not constitutional, is that, when we created the United States of America 232 years ago, we created a link between these states that cannot be broken. This philosophy doesn’t make any sense. You just read that “the creator is always more powerful than the created.” Please don’t try to question this fact. You’ve been created by an almighty God who holds this world in his hand, who at any time could destroy it in an instance with the utterance of a single word. Do not tell me that you, the creature, are greater than God, the creator. Reducing the scale to this small world, we have the creator, We the People, and the creature, government. Quoting Benjamin Williams “Now, if a partnership between persons is purely voluntary, and subject to the will of its members severally, how much more so is one between sovereign States? and it follows that, just as each, separately, in the exercise of its sovereign will, entered the Union, so may it separately, in the exercise of that will, withdraw there-from. And further, the Constitution being a compact, to which the States are parties, ‘having no common judge,’ ‘each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode of measure and redress,’ and the right of secession irresistibly follows. But aside from the doctrine either of partnership of compact, upon the ground of State sovereignty pure and simple, does the right of secession impregnably rest”.

Although we tend to think otherwise, secession did not come about at the time of this war; it had been recognized for many years gone by. John Adams was known to have said “It is better for the States to part in friendship from each other than to be held together by constraint and, to form again a more perfect union by dissolving that which could not bind”.” If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it!) when the affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other, when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collision of interests shall fester into hatred, the bonds of political association will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited States to part in friendship with each other than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to from again a more perfect Union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the center.”

Ah, now we come to the largest controversy, yet! The intense question so hotly debated now arises, “For what cause was so great a war fought?” The most reliable way to answer this question, would be to read the words of those who lived during that time period, and who, themselves, participated in the conflict.

“The seceding States not only had a perfect right to withdraw from the Union, but they had amply sufficient cause for doing so, and that the war made upon them by the North was utterly unjustifiable, oppressive and cruel, and that the South could honorably have pursued no other course, than to resist force with force, and make her great struggle for constitutional freedom.” – Dr. Jones5

“Secession is not intended to break up the present Government but to perpetuate it. We do not propose to go out by way of destroying the Union, as our fathers gave it to us, but we go out for the purpose of getting further guarantees and security for our rights” – Commissioner from Maryland

“There was no need for war. The action of the Southern States was legal and constitutional, and history will attest that it was reluctantly taken in the last extremity, in the hope of thereby saving their whole constitutional rights and liberties from destruction by Northern aggression, which had just culminated in triumph at the Presidential election by the union of the North against the South. The South was invaded, and a war of subjugation, destined to be the most gigantic which the world has ever seen was begun by the Federal Government against the seceding States, in complete and amazing disregard of the foundation principle of its own existence, as affirmed in the Declaration of Independence, that ‘Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed,’ and as established by the war of the Revolution for the people of the States respectively. The South accepted the contest thus forced upon her, with the eager and resolute courage characteristic of her proud-spirited people.” – Mr. Williams

Former President Jefferson Davis summed it up all too well:

“The fathers of the Constitution of the United States sought to limit every grant of power so exactly that it should observe its bounds as invariably as a planetary body does in orbit. Yet within the first hundred years of its existence all these limits have been disregarded, and the people have silently accepted the plea of necessity. It must be manifest to every one that there has been a fatal subversion of the Constitution of the United States. In estimation the results of the warm this is one of the most deplorable; because it is self-evident that, when a constitutional Government once oversteps the limits fixed for the exercise of its powers, there is nothing beyond to check its further aggression, no place where it will voluntarily halt until it reaches the subjugation of all who resist the usurpation.

“This was the sole issue involved in the conflict of the United States Government with the Confederate States; and every other issue, whether pretended or real, partook of its nature, and was subordinate to this one…In strict observance of their inalienable rights, in abundant caution reserved, when they formed the compact or Constitution—which ever the reader pleases to call it—of the United States, the Confederate States sought to withdraw from the Union they had assisted to create, and to form a new and independent one among themselves. Then the Government of the United States broke through all the limits fixed for the exercise of the powers with which it had been endowed, and, to accomplish its own will, assumed, under the plea of necessity, powers unwritten and unknown in the Constitution, that it might thereby proceed to the extremity of subjugation.

“Although the Confederate armies may have left the field, although the citizen soldiers may have retired to the pursuits of peaceful life, although the Confederate States may have renounced their new Union, they have proved their indestructibility by resuming their former places in the old one, where, by the organic law, they could only be admitted as republican, equal, and sovereign states of the Union. And, although the Confederacy as an organization may have ceased to exist as unquestionably as though it had never been formed, the fundamental principles, the eternal truths, uttered when our colonies in 1776 declared their independence, on which the Confederation of 1781 and the Union of 1788 were formed, and which animated and guided in the organization of the Confederacy of 1861, yet live, and will survive, however crushed they may be by despotic force, however deep they may be disallowed by the time-serving and the faint-hearted; yet I believe they have the eternity of truth, and that in God’s appointed time and place they will prevail. The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

“The champions of constitutional liberty must spring to the struggle, like the armed men form the seminated dragon’s teeth, until the Government of the United States is brought back to its constitutional limits, and the tyrant’s plea of “necessity” is bound in chains strong as adamant:

‘For freedom’s battle once begun
Bequethed by bleeding sire and son
Though baffled oft, is ever one’

“We have conceded the physical strength of the Northern States—with their Federal Constitution gone, ruthlessly destroyed under the tyrant’s plea of “necessity”, their State sovereignty made a byword, and their people absorbed in an aggregated mass, no longer, as their fathers left them, protected by reserved rights against usurpation.”6

If you took careful notice, Mr. Davis pointed out that the whole reason there was a war was simply because when “the Confederate States sought to withdraw from the Union…Then the Government of the United States broke through all the limits fixed for the exercise of the powers with which it had been endowed, and,…assumed, under the plea of necessity, powers unwritten and unknown in the Constitution, that it might thereby proceed to the extremity of subjugation.” Reinstating what Mr. Williams has already said, “There was no need for war. The action of the Southern States was legal and constitutional, and history will attest that it was reluctantly taken in the last extremity, in the hope of thereby saving their whole constitutional rights and liberties from destruction by Northern aggression…The South was invaded, and a war of subjugation… was begun by the Federal Government against the seceding States, in complete and amazing disregard of the foundation principle of its own existence…”

I know, you’ve been told that the South started the war because they fired the first shot. Per contra, “It should also be considered that when the fleet came to anchor off Charleston bar, it was well known that many other and larger vessels of war, attended by transports containing troops and surf boats, and all the necessary means of landing forces, had already sailed from Northern ports—‘destination unknown’—and that very considerable time must have been requisite to get this expedition ready for sea, during the period that assurances had been so repeatedly given of the evacuation of the fort…It was intended to ‘draw the fire’ of the Confederates, and was a silent aggression, with the object of producing an active aggression from the other side.”7 Mr. Hallem realized this also, stating, “The aggressor in a war (that is, he who begins it) is not the first who uses force, but the first who renders force necessary.”

Dare to be Different

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”
– Samuel Adams

“There is ample evidence to show that in America we are following, slowly but surely, the pattern of the fascist, communist, and socialist countries of the world. We are putting a premium on conformity, regimentation, and group action; a penalty on originality, ingenuity, and personal initiative. The greater tragedy is that we are following the pattern blindly – even willingly – because it is the path of least resistance, because a whole generation has arisen in the past 20 years that knows nothing different, and because there is a mirage on down the trail which beckons us.

“We seem to be oblivious to the fact that this same mirage has beckoned many a nation to its doom. Nor can we seem to understand that a social group which does its thinking by ear and its acting by imitation can never do more than travel in circles – like elephants in a circus ring, tail to trunk and trunk to tail. Coerced conformity is a sure road to national suicide, and the blind acceptance of the role of an exact duplicate of everyone else is self-condemnation to mediocrity and oblivion.

“The world’s progress always has been started by individuals, not by groups. And these individuals have always been nonconformists – people who had a vision of something better than the status quo and had intestinal fortitude enough to fight for it – people who bearded Procrustes in his den and did battle with him, instead of letting themselves be cut down to his size. Progress is never made by those who merely follow the crowd, but by those who dare to show the crowd a better way.

“Blind conformity, regimentations, and loss of the individual in the mass are both national and individual suicide. When we have reduced the world to a cage of apes, each imitating the other, we may be perfectly sure that we will be apes and nothing more. For leadership does not develop in an atmosphere that provides no opportunity for change, growth, and self-determination.

“God gave you legs on which to stand, and may He forgive you if you use them only as something with which to run away from reality. Yet he who takes a stand on anything today is in danger of being torn to pieces by those who run with the pack.

“Despite all interpretations of the Constitution to the contrary, man still has innate and inalienable rights. One of these is the right to be an individual. But this right is also a responsibility. If you refuse the responsibility, as so many people today are doing, you will be deprived of the right – as has happened in almost every other country in the world. The hour calls for people who dare to be individuals in a world where it is fast becoming improper to be anything but apes.

“My prayer for you is that you may not succumb to the false notion that people as individuals no longer count. Someone has said that most of the world’s problems are attributable to one per cent of the people. Wars are traceable to individuals and small groups. Strikes are traceable to the acts of few individuals.

“Communists, though too numerous in America, comprise but a small percentage of the total population. They just work harder at being effective Communists than we do at being good Americans. Now, if one per cent of the people working against the rest can produce such havoc, can it be that individuals do not count? No – as they count for evil, they also count for good.

“Now there may come a day in America when most individuals will not count. That day has come in other countries. If we have another generation of Americans tolerating a political Procrustes and his little “iron bed”, there may be no tall men left to lead. It is the fate of your generation to decide whether we shall have a world of free men or of slaves.

“In spite of all I have said, you American young people still have the largest measure of freedom of any group in the world. You do not need to be regimented into collective nothingness and pushed into individual oblivion – if you do not want to be. People are still the most important force on earth, especially young people. Whether or not you lose your freedom depends on how you use it now.”8

Current State of Affairs

“Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.” – Florence Allen

Thomas Paine wrote in his work “Common Sense” under “Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs”, “But where says some is the king of America? I’ll tell you Friend, [H]e reigns above…”Ah! How long ago that was written! How far we’ve come from our once so righteous state!

“On July 4th, 1776 there was a document that declared the united States to be a free nation. The British Empire (The most free, and best nation in the world) had been perverted into tyranny. It was the right and duty of the colonists to throw off that government and provide new guards for their securities. The same thing has happened today, the “best nation in the world” has been perverted into tyranny, and it is time for Independence.
“There is much argument over the Constitutionality of secession, but any reasonable man will agree that there is a moral right to secession and independence.
“It is my prayer that all of those who read this document will turn their thoughts and loyalties to God, and their families, over a perverted national government and nation, and see the Moral right and DUTY of independence.

1. Public prayer, even voluntary prayer, is denied in schools paid for by taxpayers. Our children are not allowed to pray publicly in government owned buildings, God is not allowed to be mentioned in textbooks, and our children are forced to learn the disdainful state religion of “evolution”.
2. Un-Constitutional federal income taxes cripple the family economy forcing the father to work outside the home, and many times forcing the mother to work.
3. Our scriptural command to protect our families is under attack with various “gun-control” laws. To protect our families, we must register our guns with the government, or face prosecution.
4. Our Scriptural Command to instruct our children in righteousness is under attack with child raising laws, and the jobs as parents are being taken over by organizations such as the DCF.
5. Any law the Federal Government wants to pass is forced on the Sovereign States, thanks to the abominable 14th Amendment. This violates our GOD-GIVEN right to self government.
6. You now rent your property, and freedom from the government, and you are only a State-Appointed foster care-giver to your children. If you don’t pay the rent on your property (the numerous unconstitutional forms of property tax) the government takes it away from you, and auctions it off. If you don’t pay the rent on your freedom (the unconstitutional federal income tax) you get your freedom taken away and you are sent to federal prison to think over your “crime”. If you don’t raise your child in a way the government sees fit, your job as foster care-giver is taken back by the state and reassigned.
7. The Regime in Washington D.C. has, for 150 years, crippled our national economy, become aggressive abroad and despotic at home, has secured its grip on the citizen with “police” agencies such as the CIA, and FBI. It now has a force of hundreds of thousands of peacetime soldiers at it’s complete bidding, now able to be put into action against anyone the federal government wishes, or able to be transferred to the U.N. to do ITS bidding.
8. Now, in addition to renting your freedom and land from the government, there are NO property rights left. The executive order in this link gives the federal government the right to seize the property of someone they believe to “Threaten the security and stabilization of Iraq” …Bush…will bring DEMOCRACY to Iraq! http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
9. The Biblical Principle that those who will not work, will not eat is undermined by welfare and government food stamp programs, and all of these are paid for by honest, hard working, middle class men.
10. The Responsibility of the Church and the Family to take care of the elderly and widows is undermined by federal programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
11. The Middle Class, those who keep America running, are slowly disappearing, thanks to the meddling of the Government into virtually every part of our lives, they either break it big, or are taxed into the ground.
12. There is not part of your life that the government does not have SOME part in. Think about it for a while, and you’ll realize it is true.
13. (This applies to all proud peoples, but I am hitting it from the Southern View) Our proud and distinct entity as a Southern People is under attack daily. We are being invaded from the South by Illegal Immigrants, and from the North by meddling yankees. Our beautiful land and culture is being homogenized with all other cultures and peoples into a proposition nation, and an “American People”. Our pride and loyalty is going from Tallahassee, Birmingham, Jackson, Charleston etc to Washington DC. Our loyalty for our people is being drawn to abstract things such as the “global community, the environment, and the nation”, and above all this we are forced to support it through our tax dollars in the form of “education” in the government schools.
14. The murder of un-born babies is condoned and protected under the guise of “women’s choice”, and with this precedent virtually any horrible practice or procedure can be allowed.
15. Our young ladies our turned into feminists and our young men into sodomized “guys” by the government “schools” which we are forced to pay for. Therefore we are forced to support immoral and ungodly principles as long as we are under the current regime.

“The current system is not feasibly able to be returned to a federated Republic. Both parties are one and the same, statist perverts. The federal government has absolute power, as did England in 1776, to stop attempts to change it. We have petitioned this to be changed for 180 years, but nothing happened. It is now our right and DUTY to “abjure the realm” and raise godly families that serve Him, not the government. We must return to the land, and become a self-sustaining people. After we separate ourselves as a distinct, God-Fearing nation we will naturally “dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them”…

“I do not think the reasons I have listed are ‘light or transient” at all, they deal mostly with something far more important than a nation with the name United States of America staying “United”, they deal with our Lord, and our families. It is time for us free men to declare as a free people that we have No King But Jesus! While the Southern people are a distinct people, we must confederate with other free peoples who wish a federate Republic once more. It is time for independence, and once that is achieved the federal empire that has risen will crumble and fall, and we will be a free nation/nations again. May God bless a righteous and noble cause.”10

The french economist from the early 1800’s, Frederick Bastait, wrote in his masterpiece “The Law”, that welfare and public education were “violations of liberty and property”, “organized injustice” and “legal plunder”. Read for yourself in the following exerpts:

-Welfare-

“You say: “There are persons who have no money,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

“With this in mind, examine the protective tariffs, subsidies, guaranteed profits, guaranteed jobs, relief and welfare schemes, public education, progressive taxation, free credit, and public works. You will find that they are always based on legal plunder, organized injustice.

-Public Education-

“You say: “There are persons who lack education,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching – and – learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property.”9

200 years gone by, and we still haven’t heeded to his warning!

Lest our Cause be Worthless

“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies; and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast commerce, and it was not there. Not until I visited the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”-Alexis de Tocqueville

Patrick Henry told us that “Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.” Not only Patrick Henry, but our other forefathers also, held this as a vital factor to a good society.
John Adams wrote:
“Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.”
Samuel Adams stated:
“[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”
Daniel Webster assurted:
“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”

Was such wisdom spoken to no avail? SCV (Sons of Confederate Veterens) chaplain, Rhett Kelley, recently wrote in his “Confession as Means of Restoration”, “any time a people desire to be restored and have the blessings of God upon them, they must repent and confess their sins. Confession and repentance are essential to personal salvation as well as national revival and restoration…It’s my sincere belief that as the people of the South turn their hearts to God, we will see God restore the South spiritually and maybe, just maybe, as a Nation as well.”
It will not only take a revolution in the minds of every American to restore our country, but in every heart as well! It doesn’t come any plainer than in God’s words, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Throughout our nation, the vast majority of people know neither virtue nor patriotism. Many Christians have caught on to the deceiving yet prevalent philosophy, that we can’t do anything concerning the saving of our country because this is where God has brought us, in judgment of our nation, and we’re not to stand in His way. Wake up people! We’ve made a big mistake! It’s now time to correct that error! We’ve made our country what she is and now it’s our duty to bring her back to the Lord! God is not actually reigning judgment upon our country; He’s simply leaving us to make our own scandalous choices, which is bringing our country to her doom. It will take patriotism on the Christian’s side and virtue on the Patriot’s in order to uphold our cause. Let such a worthy cause be carried out by a people of integrity!

Likewise, we must also address a small group of others. Those who truly understand our nations history, whose patriotism, at writings of our founding fathers, flares high…yet… always, there’s a burning question subtly eating away at their spirit, the question of “All said, what can I do?”. It was once stated that, “They[We] cannot fight the current government physically, they[we] cannot amend it legally, they[we] must protest protesting because it’s stupid…” Yes, that is the way it looks. Per contra, there is one untruth in the aforesaid. It can be amended legally. You see cases from the past you observe current cases, and you tell me it cannot. You are right. It cannot; unless there is first an awakening in the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens.

Many have the false perception that if a revolution is to occur, it will come sweeping over our nation like a breath-taking whirlwind. No, that is not how it is to be. It must deviously creep in, slowly taking over individuals. For example, many expected that by hard work Ron Paul could be put into office and turn the country over. However, there is no way that we can put Ron Paul into office until we have at least a few decent state governors, and we can not get even a few good governors until we have elected moral local officials. Revolution starts with you. You must spread the truth. You must reveal to others, what has been revealed to you. You are a voice of America. Speak! Ron Paul’s campaign has sounded a voice that has been silent for ages. Through the powerful voice of media, Restore the Republic activists have begun bringing the truth to the public. You can write, you can speak, you can support! Do it.

BUT, never forget the God who gave you your liberty. It is only by His hand that such a revolution will occur. Beseech Him for it.

God holds the scales of justice;
He will measure praise and blame.
And you will stand the verdict.
Stand it without shame.

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Now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and His works.

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The echoes of freedom’s voice are still sounding. Her muffled cry can still be heard. Will you dare to be different and take up Liberty’s Lost Cause?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.

Deo Vindice!

1 Manuscript (facsimile), Patrick Henry: Corrections of Biographical Mistakes and Popular Errors in Regard to is Character. Anecdotes and New Facts Illustrating His Religious and Political Opinions, and the Style and Power of His Eloquence. A Brief Account of His Last Illness and Death, Edward Fontaine, 1872, Accession 22470.

2 Bastiat, Frederic. The Law. New York: FEE, 1988 p. 1-2

3 Times, August 29, 1932

4 Gowdy, J. David, The Roots of Our Constitutional Liberty, Institute for American Liberty, 1997. Database online. Available from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904337/posts Accessed July 14, 2008

5 McGuire, Hunter & Christian, George The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States Mississippi: CRCP, 1907

6Davis, Jefferson The Rise and fall of the Confederate Government New York: DA & Co., 1881 p. 293-295

7 McGuire, Hunter & Christian, George The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States Mississippi: CRCP, 1907 p. 52

8 Sollitt, Kenneth W. Essays on Liberty: Do you Dare to be Different? New York: FEE, 1954

9 Bastiat, Frederic. The Law. New York: FEE, 1988

10 Miller, R.G. Moral Rights and Reasons for Independence The Southern Nationalist, 2007. Database online. Available from http://floridacrackercsa.blogspot.com/2007/12/moral-rights-and-reasons-for.html Accessed June 24, 2008