Not Yours to Give

The story “Not Yours to Give” is a personal favorite of Dr. Paul. He loves to hand it out to children, especially. This is a Davy Crockett story, but not another story of Davy at the Alamo. This is a story of Congressman Davy Crockett, who was once reminded by one of his constituents that all of his votes must be faithful to the Constitution.

The point? The federal government does not have free reign to do whatever it wants to do. This story is a great, simple introduction to the principles we stand for. Make sure to read it if you have not done so before, and also pass it around to your family and friends. Everyone loves a good Davy Crockett story, and this one will not only entertain, it will educate, and maybe even change some minds.


“Not Yours to Give”

Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.

One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.

Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:

"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.

"The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but as I thought, rather coldly.

"I began: 'Well friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates and---

"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again."

"This was a sockdolger...I begged him tell me what was the matter.

"Well Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting you or wounding you.'

"I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.

But an understanding of the constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the honest he is.'

" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by fire in Georgetown. Is that true?

"Well my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just the same as I did.'

"It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.

What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he.

If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give at all; and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.'

"'Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this country as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have Thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.'

"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'

"'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'

"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:

"Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'

"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'

"If I don't, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'

"No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. 'This Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.

"'Well I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name."

"'My name is Bunce.'

"'Not Horatio Bunce?'

"'Yes

"'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my friend.'

"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence, and for a heart brim-full and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote.

"At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before.

"Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before."

"I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.

"But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me.

"In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:

"Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only."

"I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:

"And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.

"It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'

"He came up to the stand and said:

"Fellow-citizens - it affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'

"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'

"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'

"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday. "There is one thing which I will call your attention, "you remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $20,000 when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it."

Lorain Morning Journal at it Again!

I'm canceling my subscription because I can't bear to read this rag any longer. Front page,top article:

PUSH IS ON FOR TUESDAY"S ELECTION
"On the Republican side, the two presidential candidates Sen John McCain and Gov. Mike Huckabee."

The only viable Republican candidate isn't even mentioned; Ron Paul.

Now even if you don't support Ron Paul, if you support the Democratic process and fair elections this should make you furious.

Do they have a right to decide who they allow the American people to see? Are they allowed to censor candidates? I'm a customer of theirs, should they be presenting all the choices and let me decide who to vote for? Don' they care that they are basically telling me and thousands of others you don't matter?

Here's what this does. And we can't always blame the AP (Associated Press) this article was written by local reporters-Chanda Neely and Richard Payerchin. American citizens have come to view their newspapers and nightly news as a source of information. And they assume the news has a duty to present all sides. Well they don't. They have no obligation to be fair. One only need look at local election coverage to see who's letter's to the editor get published as the candidate they favor. It's a problem from the bottom up. It's a cancer that is destroying our nation.

Our elections have become like those in communist nations where the media highlights the candidates the corrupt government endorses and not candidates who will offer any real change to the status quo. But the political campaigns you get to see say change; when in fact none will be had.

If candidates can't be seen or have an opportunity to be heard, they are unfairly removed from the process making our elections very unfair. You only have access to their candidates and no real change can ever occur. Unless you seek out other sources of information.

I know this because I'm on the outside looking in. I'm not part of any fair election process. My candidate, conservative, professional, record breaking campaign contributions, most contributions from military personnel than any candidate, perfect congressional voting record, isn't owned by lobbyist and special interests (Hillary and Barack say they are not but they are the biggest beneficiaries of lobbyist money) civil liberties champion,never backed an unbalanced budget, never voted for a tax increase, wants smaller government; less bureaucracies, has been re-elected 10 times to his congressional seat, has been married to the same woman for 51 years, voted against the Iraq war and the highly unconstitutional Patriot Act; he's a beacon of light among scoundrels and thieves and because of it, you don't get to hear about him.

If I had never heard of him like many of you I would feel exactly the way the news tells you to, he has no chance he's not a viable candidate, he's fringe and crazy, on and on mud slinging to keep you from looking any further because what he represents is a threat to the corrupt subversive element in our government.

Because he will fix the economy and get us back to sound money, he's viewed as the enemy by the media because the media is monopoly owned and allowed, in exchange for a controlled consistent anti-American message; they call it propaganda. If your candidate is making it to the news; ask yourself why?

If you don't care that all the candidates are represented fairly because at least your candidate is getting a fair shake you miss the point of why our nation is so great. Free and fair elections so we can elect the candidate that best represents the direction we want to go as a nation.

The millions of supporters for my candidate have a strong communication network so we know just how big we are. We also know in stark contrast the media is lying to you because again we know our numbers.

The congregation of 500 members in Cincinnati, Ohio who researched as a congregation and are voting for Ron Paul are 100% clear on what is happening.

The thousands of local groups who go to rallies and 7,000 people show up,

or at the University of Michigan when 4,000 students showed up for his rally, they know the truth.

Being in the middle and seeing the people; a chill goes up your spine every single time a news program is turned on or a newspaper is picked up, when he just isn't even mentioned. He's such a threat they don't even report the huge crowds, or the record breaking contributions;$25.00 dollars at a time to reach a record breaking $6 million in one day. As if he doesn't even exist; as if we don't exist.

You should be furious your local newspaper and TV station censor him. The only people who get hurt are everyone one of you.

Hitler was voted in by 95% of the people because his propaganda campaign was legendary. Many similarities exists with our current propaganda message:

"Naturally the common people don't want war...But, after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

-Hermann Goering, (1893-1946) Nazi Reichsmarschall, at the Nuremberg Trials, 4/18/46.

Tuesday is such an important day. Ask yourself, did I pick my candidate because he/she has a nice smile and the news is saying everyone is behind him/her or did you research records and affiliations and history to make an educated decision?

Those 95% thought they were doing the right thing; tell that to the 6 million people who died because of it.

Great Article

From: Second Amendment Committee
P.O. Box 1776 Hanford, California 93230

SLEEPING AMERICANS: WAKE UP!
THE FORM OF YOUR GOVERNMENT
HAS BEEN CHANGED!

By Bernadine Smith

Sleeping Americans: Wake Up!
Not only has the form of your government been changed,
you are being asked to consign yourself under a dictatorship,
by approving this newly installed
- Militarized Global Government Management System. -

Taking advantage of the trust you have placed in those whom
you have elected to public office, but without your approval,
a global government system has been over laid down upon you!
The manipulators do not think you care about what is happening,
because you did not object to the major transformation when they
pulled it off, right under your nose, using the excuse of "terrorism".

Why have you accepted this disastrous alteration in your
government system without as much as even a slight whimper?

No longer will the 1787 Constitution be our protectorate
against unjust and unlimited power,
because it has been unlawfully superseded.

Only remnants of its shell appear to remain.
Your system of government is no longer that of a "republic".
"Democracy" has been the stand-in word used
during the acceptance of the transformation.
People are no longer identified as "the ultimate power".

The United States has been captured and transformed
into a militarized communitarian global system,
mostly without the knowledge of the general population,
and their understanding of basic rights,
which they thought would be theirs forever.

These are being wiped out by manipulators who ironically
promise the people "safety" - "safety against terrorism,"
as they say!

This transformation from the Constitutional system to this
new form had its early beginnings in the 1970's when the
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration first revised
the nation with preliminary mergers of the law enforcement
systems with the military under one head,
which was then called the "public safety agencies".

Better wake up, sleeping Americans, because soon
your safeguards, and defenses by virtue of the Bill of Rights
will be rewarded with only a sarcastic laugh!

The transformation has the intent of a cruel iron hand.
It intends to enforce communistic law on a global scale
to which it is committed in building a New World Order!

How did it happen in the United States?
Simply by issuance of a huge executive order signed (unlawfully)
by the stroke of a pen of one person, George W. Bush:
>>>
Executive Order No. 13286, dated February 28, 2003.
The installation of E. O. 13286 was titled:
"Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions,
in Connection With the Transfer of Certain Functions
to the Secretary of Homeland Security."
>>>
It set down the framework and underpinnings of the new form
of government: a military system. When the Homeland Security
Agency became installed in the United States, it broke
a 220-year-old essential principle and time honored tradition.

A sharp line had always existed, separating
the military from the civilian law enforcement.
To merge the 2 would create a military government, and this was
known to be a BIG NO-NO, if the republic was to remain a republic.

The fact is: That line that once separated the 2 has now been broken,
deliberately crossed, and the grievous merger has been made!
This action greatly altered the concept by which the United States
form of govt was constituted, and definitely was meant to operate.
It changed the system from civilian management
into military management while the Constitution
"the supreme law of the land" became even more detruded.

President Bush declared that if another event such as 9/11 occurs,
he would activate and place the full military government into action
over the whole nation. He has acknowledged that the Constitution
(our only hope against the misuse of power) will be suspended
and its protections and safeguards set aside.

It will no longer have any standing. No government
"of the people, by the people, and for the people" ever existed and
retained its authority after a military system was installed over it!

That is the fate which has overtaken us since George W. Bush
brought on the transformation 'to make us safe'!
It should not be taken lightly nor be allowed to stand.
To ignore the potential of this transformation, and to see it expand,
is without a doubt, the most fatal mistake of the century.

David Davis, a Supreme Court Justice (1815-1886)
left us with these remarkable thoughts on despotism:

"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people,
equally in war and peace and covers with the shield of its protection
all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever
invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions
can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of govt..

Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism,
but the theory of necessity upon which it is based is false,
for the government, within the Constitution,
has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary
to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved
by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority."...
David Davis, Ex Parte Milligan,4 Wallace 2 (1866)

How true! Not only is a military government not needed,
but it opens the door for pernicious consequences.
Nevertheless, the government of the United States has now
been revamped so that the government of this nation
is in accord to military concepts on an international regional basis -
- global communism - all done without the consent of the governed!

Among the powers vested in the Homeland Security Agency
is control of birth certificates and driver's licenses,
which creates a wedge for forcing the people
to approve of the unwanted change.

There appears an attempt to gain legitimate status
for this unlawful transformation in the power structure
of the American government, which is witnessed in the effort
to get the people to consent to using a "national ID card".

Currently, the effort is called the "Real Id Card Act of 2005".
By acceptance on a state-by-state level of this national Id card,
the people can become, as a whole, registered as not only
being compliant with the powers and authority
now vested in the Homeland Security Agency,
but also they can be viewed as extending their consent
to the transformation into global government.

As a starter, a chip will be placed in each person's driver's license,
but the ultimate goal is to have the chip installed in the hand of each
and every person, because not everyone is old enough to drive a car,
and some people do not own cars, nor drive at all at any age.

The chip will carry the most personal
and private information regarding the person wearing it.
The chip is also a 'people locator'.
- This is not the liberty and freedom
which men died for during the War for Independence!

By use of the chip, your total history will be available to anyone
who asks for "your papers, please." It can control everything from
being hired, to food rationing, health record or gasoline allowance.

George Bush has transferred directly to himself
powers that he previously vested in the Homeland Security Agency.
This is tantamount to completion of a dictatorship atop the
physical underpinnings already built and necessary to sustain it.

Are you able to turn to the police or the sheriff for help?
Not likely, because every policeman in the nation, in every city
and town, large and small, in every state in the nation is already
beholden to the Homeland Security Agency and is now
'on line' taking orders from the Homeland Security Agency.

The sheriffs, too, lack the courage it takes to face the fact
that the federal government is misleading the nation and has seized
the law enforcement system that rightfully belongs to the states.

When the dictatorial powers of the president and those of the
Homeland Security Agency are combined and fully activated
by these unlawful acts, pronouncements of sovereignty
by the people and endowments which God has granted
to each and every individual will be forbidden!

The Constitution will be publicly denounced and outlawed.
The people will not be allowed to exercise their former rights
nor to claim the 1787 Constitution as the Supreme law,
because they will have lost the battle by today's lack
of resistance to the victory of the transformation agents.
The republican system will then become recognized
and known as having been totally overthrown.

As a part of the final transition, the people will be totally
without any force. (There will be no guns for the people -
- only the militarized Homeland Security Agency and
its companion, the World Army System, will have any guns.)

With no power left for the people to decide their own fate,
in any matter whatsoever, the non-elective, appointive system
of regional governments will decide the future of all the people.
These regional agencies will have more power over the lives
of people than our public officials ever had!

They can tell you where to live; where to work anywhere in the world,
and they are prepared to set your salary as they see fit.
You can be sent anywhere in the world to work,
according to your ability, and your salary will be determined,
according to your need, which they will determine.

You won't be allowed as an individual to own property
(a long-standing United Nations policy).
You will be told whether or not you may have children.
The world army will give backing to the Communistic policies
of the Homeland Security Agency.

You can't vote these regional global managers out,
or recall them, because you will do not have that right
under the "Appointed" global government management system.
The states will be abolished and in that act, the state
and federal Constitution, which formerly protected you,
will no longer be your source of defense.

You will have totally become a "Human Resource",
a classification already in use.

You will be given a communist bill of rights
(called the Human Rights Treaties -- already written),
which has been quietly and gradually replacing
your inherent true rights listed in the 1791 "Bill of Rights".
There are no 'checks and balances' and no 'endowments
from the Creator' under the Human Rights Treaties.

Your whole life will be monitored and dictated from cradle to grave
through the managers of the Homeland Security Agency.

A world army of foreign troops will "preserve order" in this former
'land of the free' and will enforce additional taxes and regulations
under the "new world order" rule.

Foreign troops can arrest violators, and try them in the World Court,
which incidentally, is also in operation and handing down decisions.
The unknowing young have not been told of
"The United States Program for General
and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World" (P.L.87-297),
which is the source for closing down U.S. military bases
that should have been left open for the people's protection.

Public Law 87-297 has always been the main source
for the effort to prohibit all privately owned firearms.
Self-preservation with arms, protection against lawlessness
and sedition will be denied to the people while open borders
promote the merger of Mexico and Canada with the U.S.A under
the global government, which is called the North American Union.

These conditions alone should have indicated to even the most
poorly informed that a new system of government was "in the works"!

Couch potato parents really don't care what suffering they are
permitting to fall upon their own children. "It can't happen here",
they say, while evidence abounds that it has already happened here!

These are facts, yet some do not want to muster the interest in
verifying these facts, and they have no intention whatever to stop it!

The weak tell us that they just
"don't want to hear anything that depresses them",
and they just don't care enough about their kids
to spend their energy in preventing this burden
from falling inextricably upon their own children!
Their offspring won't know how it all happened to them, and they will
not have the means necessary to make possible an attempt to stop it.

The propaganda press has emasculated many of those who
were supposed to provide protection and guidance to their children.
The young are being denied the protection that every young person
should have so that they can make their own decisions,
and decide their own careers and futures, but they may end up
getting caught in the trap their parents created for them
by parental lack of interest and parental lack of reasoning.

So wake up, sleeping Americans, and shoulder your responsibility
to your families against this - this that is real terrorism,
a war that is being waged in your own country by your own
disloyal public officials against the people they were hired to protect.

The 1791 Constitution and the Bill of Rights
are still the supreme law of this country,
because they are owned by the people, and we the people,
have never given our permission for public officials
to invalidate or disregard them no matter what pretended legislation
or bogus executive orders are written to the contrary.

Wake up, sleeping Americans, and begin an effort
to oppose both of these interconnected dangers:

(1) the installation of the Homeland Security Agency,
the militarized system -- the new form of government
- brought on by those who have no authority
to overthrow our true government, and
(2) the Real Id Card being fostered state-by-state to seduce
and deliver acceptance of the people to a new form of govt.,
a commitment to accepting the unlawful Homeland Security Agency,
and its dictatorial Communist Lifestyle.

Second Amendment Committee
P.O. Box 1776 Hanford, California 93230

Have you signed the petition?

To Impeach George W. Bush?

They have 977,047signatures; they are shooting for 1 million. Will you be in D.C. on September 15? Can you be in D.C. on the 15th? Can you wait 495 more days? I'm sorry but 1/09/2009 can't come fast enough.

The only way to send a clear message that we want policy change, we want our Republic back and we want our Constitution as the rule of law is to get this movement going.

~He is the worst President in U.S. History.

~He has turned our once struggling Republic into a first class dictatorship and made us the laughing stock of the world.

~He has created several executive orders that have given him the power to become a full fledged dictator and remove our Constitution all together. In the event of a national tragedy if he exercises this order we will cease to be a free country and will never ever have freedom in America again unless we have a Revolutionary war to take it back. This standing order is the biggest threat to America in our entire history. The fact that it exists is a ticking time bomb. It also presents the potential that something will be staged to exercise it. It's the single most abusive act by any American President in our history. If exercised we will lose our right to vote, our ability to eat and travel and our fire arms will be taken away. We will be under military rule all systems will be under his control as he claims for the good of the nation. When you are living in a FEMA prison camp and don't have food or running water don't say you weren't warned.

~He has created acts which have stripped all Americans of most of their Constitutional rights

~He declared war when he isn't allowed that power and in doing so is treasonous and has given us grounds for impeachment.

~He has done everything opposite his Constitutional oath of office as president namely to uphold and defend our U.S. Constitution.

~He has personally gained financially because of the war in Iraq and the high gas prices

~He has turned our media into a propaganda machine by controlling information supplied to the American people and has lied to millions of Americans calling patriots, traitors and implying that a fight for our Constitution has deemed us nut jobs and whacko’s dividing our Country in half for his own selfish greed and power. "Divide and concur" is the tactical method used on us to weaken our resolve. His administration is counting on most of our countrymen to be ignorant about our rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, be afraid of our government, feel blind faith in him is patriotic and to question him is un-American, watch propaganda controlled media exclusively, believe our enemy is a tactic rather than a real person i.e., "terrorism", will have no real knowledge of American History other than what they see on TV, and finally will support his policies no matter how criminal in the name of loyalty.

~Against his oath of office he called our Constitution (in my opinion the greatest document of freedom ever written), a "Goddamned piece of paper", yet his whole position and power are based on it.

Now the Orders:

Executive orders become law, Constitutional or not, by their publication in the Federal Registry, bypassing Congress all together. This loop hole which needs to be closed has no check or balance. As a result the above are true.

Do your research, here are the Executive Orders:
11003, 12656, 11005, 10990, 10995, 10997, 10998, 11921, 11051, 11000

And these acts:
The Patriot Act
The Military Commissions Act
The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003
*National Security Presidential Directive 51
*Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20

*Signed in May of 2007 By Bush- allows the President to control and coordinate all 3 branches of government in the event of a catastrophic emergency.

Looking at the Executive orders, you'll see a wordy mess of unclear direction and scope. This purposeful confusion similar the IRS tax code practices to confuse and hide the true evil nature of these directives. Your government hopes you won't take the time to read it. Then it can blame you when your government has changed before your very eyes.

We wrote it and you didn't protest so we thought that was the direction you wanted us to go.

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Tyranny in Texas September 2, 2007 Is This Just the Beginning?

Texas Straw Poll proves the GOP won't allow a fair election. Delegates who paid to vote in this Saturday's Texas Straw Poll were denied access to the building to pick up their credentials and vote. Their notices all set the time to arrive at 10:00 a.m. Because they are voting for Republican candidate Ron Paul they were denied access. This video shows others walking in with almost no restraint.

As Americans living in a free country, this is extremely scary and sounds like something that would happen in a communist country not The United States. The media's continued blackout and censorship of this top level candidate allows these types of things to happen as it is assured the mainstream media won't pick up the story. So this kind of stuff will keep happening because who can these Americans tell? The media doesn't report on Ron Paul or on Americans being denied civil liberties. They may provide brief glimpses but it's usually accompanied by misinformation including that's he's for gay marriage, or that he has radical ideas. All of which aren't true.

If supporting the Constitution is radical in the United States than we're all radical. This man is running for the President of the United States and he has to take the oath of affirmation which states:

"I do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." ~Article II, Section 1

Our current President when trying to get the Patriot Act passed was given the Constitution as the reason to reject it. His response: "Stop throwing the Constitution is my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper. "

His oath is to defend it. The reason our freedoms are being taken away just like this video depicts is because our current administration sees the very thing our country and freedom are based on as a goddamned piece of paper getting in his way of his being a dictator. That isn't upholding the oath. He may have taken the oath but he has only committed treasonous acts against it.

• Declared war in Iraq-Congress is given the right to declare war in the Constitution not the president. ~Article 1, Section 8
  
• The creation of the Patriot Act removes our 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th amendment rights... need I go on. Creating an act that takes away our amendment rights under the Constitution is Unconstitutional.
• In 2006 the Military Commissions Act Suspended Habeas Corpus for anyone suspected to be an unlawful Enemy Combatant with that definition left up to our government's discretion.

These items were done and Americans stood by as if nothing has happened. To many citizens are under the belief that question our leaders is unpatriotic and un-American but our Constitution was written knowing full well that if our country was overthrown and liberties were lost it would be at the hands of corrupt and evil leaders.

Common in propaganda is the use of the term unpatriotic of those that even question the government. Our Constitution was created to protect us against our government not to protect our government from us.

From The Declaration of Independence:
"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 shewn, 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.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

It is American to change an abusive government. Our forefathers knew power was easily corrupted and they wrote our Constitution and Bill of Rights to give us the power of free speech, to protest our government and to assemble peaceably as our own protection against an oppressor. Being denied these basic freedoms is a huge red flag that our government is controlling what we are allowed to see on the mainstream media or Newspapers. I don't think our forefathers ever envisioned the press being controlled by our government as long as we were a free Republic. The press only 20 years ago reported good or bad the state of our country. Now their is a thick vial of secrecy and the media is owned by government controlled companies. The easiest way to prove this is to weigh what you see on your local news station with the same topic entered into a search engine on the Internet.

The truth is out there, as educated Americans you just have to seek it out.