- As we witness the
developing struggle of AIPAC's many candidates arrayed
against Ron Paul, it might be well to discuss the document
on which he depends for his decision-making, since that is
the main difference between him and the other dozen or so
presidents-in-waiting. And there is the long-awaited
"decision" by the Supreme Court on whether or not we can
carry guns, based on the deceptively-worded 2nd Article of
Amendment. The US Constitution consists of seven original
Articles and now twenty-seven Articles of Amendment. One of
those latter ones rendered the whole instrument null and
void, but we'll get to that later.
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- It should be
remembered that everything Abraham Lincoln did, everything
Woodrow Wilson did, almost everything Franklin D. Roosevelt
did and right up to everything George W. Bush has done were
found "constitutional" by the Supreme Court. The Supreme
Court even found its RICO-style appointment of Bush to the
presidency "constitutional." Everything the government does
is "constitutional," with very few exceptions. The Civil
War, the Spanish American War, the First World War, the
Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the War
on Poverty, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, plus
slavery, denying women the vote and prohibiting drinking
were/are all "constitutional" according to the Supreme
Court, which was created by the Constitution. The Supreme
Court is one of the three "checks and balances" of the
Constitution. But what is the check and balance on the
Supreme Court?
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- Don't get me wrong
- I like Ron Paul. Who doesn't, other than the owners of our
Zionist State Factories, the military-industry complex? If
he became president, their trillion dollar death machine
would collapse like WTC-7. Those who planned the 9/11
massacre don't want him. The owners of the Federal Reserve
Corporation don't like him, of course. But I repeat myself.
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- Ron Paul thinks the
Constitution is some sort of safeguard of our rights, some
sort of limitation on what government can do. Of the
thousands of congressmen who have been his colleagues over
thirty years, he is the only one who still believes that,
which is part of his charm. Larry McDonald had a similar
though less stringent philosophy and we saw what happened to
him. George Hansen, too, believed the Constitution did not
allow terroristic tax collection but he was wrong and we saw
what happened to him. Ask George Hansen if he still believes
in the Constitution. Jim Trafficant believed the
Constitution protected the rights of his constituent, John
Demjanjuk, and for that he, too, rots in prison. I don't
recommend asking Trafficant what he thinks of the
Constitution.
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- Now several million
Americans have the idea that the Constitution, if it were
our guide for good government, would have prevented say, our
terroristic war against Islam. But I disagree. The
Constitution is not our friend. That is, when it still was
in effect it was not our friend. It has not even been in
effect for about 147 years. For all that time since we have
been under the Law of the Gun, or of Deuteronomy, which is
the same thing. We've been pretending that there has been
some legal framework for the police state we call America.
But there really never was, from the very beginning.
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- I call as my first
witness the most significant man in our history, the man
whose combined powers of thinking and speech and action
persuaded Virginians and others to rebel against the cruel
and despotic forces of King George III. He urged rebellion
at a time when four regiments of British troops were camped
up in Boston, more were on the way to New York and nearby
Chesapeake Bay, where squadrons of British vessels from the
world's mightiest navy were ready for action. On March 20,
1775 in Richmond, with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
George Mason and others in the audience, he said,
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- "I have but one
lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of
experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by
the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there
has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last
ten years that justifies those hopes which gentlemen have
been pleased to solace themselves and the house? Is it that
insidious smile with which our petition has been lately
received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your
feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.
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- Ask yourselves how
this gracious reception of our petition comports with those
warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our
land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and
reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be
reconciled that force must be called in to win back our
love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the
implements of war and subjugation - the last arguments to
which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this
martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to
submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive
for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the
world to call for all this accumulation of navies and
armies?
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- No, sir, she has
none. They are meant for us: They can be meant for no other.
They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains
which the British ministry have been so long forging. And
what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir,
we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we
anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have
held the subject up in every light of which it is capable,
but it has been all in vain.
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- Shall we resort to
entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find
that have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech
you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done
everything that could be done to avert the storm which is
now coming on. We have petitioned - we have remonstrated -
we have supplicated - we have prostrated ourselves before
the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest
the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our
petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have
produced additional violence and insult; our supplications
have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with
contempt, from the foot of the throne.
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- In vain, after
these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and
reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we
wish to be free - if we mean to preserve inviolate those
inestimable privileges for which we have been so long
contending - if we mean not basely to abandon the noble
struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we
have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious
object of our contest shall be obtained - we must fight! I
repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the
God of Hosts is all that is left us!
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- "They tell us, sir,
that we are weak - unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the
next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally
disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in
every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and
inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance
by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the illusive
phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and
foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those
means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.
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- Three millions of
people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a
country as that which we possess, are invincible by any
force which our enemy can send against us, The battle, sir,
is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the
active, the brave.
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- Besides, sir, we
have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is
now too late to retire from the contest. There is no
retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are
forged, their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!
The war is inevitable - and let it come!! I repeat it, sir,
let it come!!!
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- "It is in vain,
sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace,
peace - but there is no peace. The war is actually begun.
The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our
ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already
in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that
gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or
peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course
others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me
death!"
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- Many Americans used
to be familiar with this call to arms, though not anymore.
And it sounds familiar, since we are now faced with just as
terrible a threat from the owners of the American empire as
our forebears faced from the owners of the British empire.
Same owners, of course.
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- Patrick Henry was
not just a rebel in words. Thomas Jefferson became his
jealous enemy and slanderer after 1781 but as he neared his
own death he wrote, "Our leader was far above all in the
Revolution. It is not now easy to say what we should have
done without Patrick Henry."
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- This was
demonstrated in The Powder Affair. Within days of his speech
in Richmond, the royal governor of Virginia, John M.
Dunmore, prohibited any Virginians from attending the
Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The British government
suspended all supplies of gunpowder to the colonists.
Dunmore actually ordered part of the Williamsburg powder
supply (20 barrels) seized and taken to his warship, the
Magdalen, in the James River. If the colonists objected and
did anything foolish, he threatened to arm the slaves and
burn down Williamsburg, a typically British gesture.
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- On April 18th,
Governor-General Gage attempted to seize the gunpowder
supply at the Concord arsenal near Boston, which resulted in
the Battle of Lexington and the opening of the rebellion.
The following month, Patrick Henry took command of the
Hanover Volunteers militia group - 120 men - and marched to
Williamsburg to secure the remaining powder supply and
obtain repayment for that which Dunmore stole.
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- By the time they
got there, he was leading a force of 5,000 volunteers.
Dunmore panicked and got Thomas Nelson to pay Henry twice
the value of the powder, which had been bought by the
Virginia colonists from England for their own protection.
The matter was concluded without violence, although it did
lead to much violence by Dunmore, who proclaimed in his
arrest warrant for Henry:
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- "Whereas I have
been informed that a certain Patrick Henry and his deluded
followers have taken up arms, excited the people and
committed acts of violence, I have thought proper, with the
advice of His Majesty's council and in His Majesty's name,
to issue this proclamation charging all persons not to aid,
abet or give countenance to the said Patrick Henry, else the
whole county must be involved in the most direful calamity.
God save the King."
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- Dunmore had fled to
his warship and soon became a renegade. He would use the
powder he stole from Williamsburg to burn down Virginia's
biggest city, Norfolk, the following year.
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- This was the
revolutionary background of America's first rebel and
freedom fighter, mentioned to impress upon the reader that
if Patrick Henry, who coined the idea of American liberty,
hated the Constitution, the reasons for his hatred should be
known.
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- The plan behind the
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between the
States was to prevent a powerful consolidated government and
the inevitable tyranny that always occurs, as we see today.
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- The Articles of
Confederation did not provide for a lucrative way to pay for
the Union government because the ones who wrote it liked it
that way, vesting all real authority in the thirteen State
governments. The last thing they wanted was another
tyrannical imperial government such as that they had just
got shed of.
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- Patrick Henry
thought the Articles of Confederation and the Union of
States that it defined were just right. He was a Virginian,
a man of the South, and wanted no part of being merged with
Northerners.
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- To Henry and those
like him, the States were republics that required
independence from each other. Others, however, demanded that
the Articles be modified in a federal convention in
Philadelphia in 1787 to provide for taxation to pay off war
debt and to give the federal government some authority to
represent the whole Union in foreign affairs.
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- The Articles of
Confederation were the supreme law of the land from March,
1781 through March, 1789. At first, Henry was enthusiastic
in his support of an American federal government, perhaps
because his good Virginian friend, George Washington, was in
favor of it. Something happened in 1786 to cause him to
become the implacable enemy of federalism.
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- He learned that
John Jay, the foreign secretary, had negotiated a secret
agreement with the Spanish government to turn over to Spain
exclusive rights to the Mississippi River for thirty years!
The six Southern States would have been prohibited from
using the river, which they all knew would be indispensable
for future commerce and progress.
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- The Northerners
couldn't have cared less and were willing to give it away
for trade advantages with Spain. Then he read the proposed
new Constitution and refused to take part in the convention,
much to the shock of all - especially George Washington.
Rhode Island refused to send any delegates at all. The
proposed Constitution had no provision for guaranteeing or
even acknowledging our natural rights!
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- Henry thought this
outrageous and ominous. What he found most astonishing was
the expression, "We, the People," in the Preamble.
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- Today, this phrase
seems somehow sacred and fundamental to American rights but
to Patrick Henry it signified a monstrous deception. The
Confederation between the States was just that - an
agreement or contract between the thirteen new and
independent States. The people were represented by their
legislatures in the States but the States were the only
entities that could participate in the Perpetual Union
Between the States. Henry saw in the "We, the People" phrase
something akin to Lenin's use of "people" one hundred thirty
years later - a power-grab "in the name of the People." In
Lenin's case, "the People" would mean the Communist Party.
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- On June 5, 1788
Henry spoke again in the Virginia Convention on this
subject: "I rose yesterday to ask a question, which arose in
my mind. When I asked that question, I thought the meaning
of my interrogation was obvious: the fate of this question
and of America may depend on this. Have they said, We, the
states? Have they made a proposal of a compact between
states? If they had, this would be a confederation: it is
otherwise most clearly a consolidated government.
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- The question turns,
sir, on the expression, We, the People, instead of, the
States of America. I need not take much pains to show that
the principles of this system are extremely pernicious,
impolitic and dangerous. Is this a monarchy, like England -
a compact between prince and people: with checks on the
former to secure the liberty of the latter? Is this a
confederacy, like Holland - an association of a number of
independent States, each of which retains its individual
sovereignty?
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- Had these
principles been adhered to, we should not have been brought
to this alarming transition, from a confederacy to a
consolidated government. We have no detail of those great
considerations which, in my opinion, ought to have abounded
before we should recur to a government of this kind. Here is
a revolution as radical as that which separated us from
Great Britain. It is as radical, if, in this transition, our
rights and privileges are endangered, and the sovereignty of
the States relinquished. And cannot we plainly see? The
rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press,
all your immunities and franchises, all pretentions to human
rights and privileges, are rendered insecure, if not lost,
by this change.
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- "To encourage us to
adopt it, they tell us, that there is a plain, easy way of
getting amendments. When I come to contemplate this part, I
suppose that I am mad, or that my countrymen are so. The way
to amendments is, in my conception, shut.
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- "Will the great
rights of the people be secured? Is this an easy mode of
securing the public liberty? It is, sir, a most fearful
situation, when the most contemptible minority can prevent
the alteration of the most oppressive government, for it
may, in many respects, prove to be such. Is this the spirit
of republicanism?
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- "SI have just
proved that one-tenth, or less, of the people of America - a
most despicable minority, may prevent this reform, or
alteration. Suppose the people of Virginia should wish to
alter their government, can a majority of them do it? No,
because they are connected with other men; or, in other
words, consolidated with other States.
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- "The honorable
gentleman who presides, told us, that to prevent abuses in
our government, we will assemble in Convention, recall our
delegated powers, and punish our servants for abusing the
trust reposed in them. Oh, sir, we should have fine times
indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to
assemble the people. Your arms, wherewith you could defend
yourself, are gone.
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- Let me here call
your attention to that part which gives the Congress power
'To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the
militia, and for governing such parts of them as may be
employed in the service of the United States, reserving to
the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and
the authority of training the militia, according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress.'
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- By this, sir, you
see that their control over our last and best defense is
unlimited. If they neglect or refuse to discipline or arm
our militia, they will be useless: the States can do
neither, this power being exclusively given to Congress. The
power of appointing officers over men not disciplined or
armed, is ridiculous: so that this pretended little remnant
of power, left to the States, may, at the pleasure of
Congress, be rendered nugatory. Our situation will be
deplorable indeed: nor can we ever expect to get this
government amended; since I have already shown, that a very
small minority may prevent it.
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- Will the oppressor
let go the oppressed? Was there ever an instance? Can the
annals of mankind exhibit one single example, where rulers,
overcharged with power, willingly let go the oppressed,
though solicited and requested most earnestly? The
application for amendments will therefore be fruitless. We
drew the spirit of liberty from our British ancestors: by
that spirit we have triumphed over every difficulty. But
now, sir, the American spirit, assisted by the ropes and
chains of consolidation, is about to convert this country
into a powerful and mighty empire. If you make the citizens
of this country agree to become the subjects of one great
consolidated empire of America, your government will not
have sufficient energy to keep them together: such a
government is incompatible with the genius of republicanism.
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- "Where are the
checks in this Constitution? There will be no checks, no
real balances, in this government. What can avail your
specious, imaginary balances, your rope-dancing,
chain-rattling, ridiculous ideal checks and contrivances?
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- "The Senate, by
making treaties, may destroy your liberty and laws, for want
of responsibility. Two-thirds of those that shall happen to
be present, can, with the President, make treaties that
shall be the supreme law of the land: they may make the most
ruinous treaties, and yet there is no punishment for them."
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- On another day he
said, "Congress may introduce the practice of the civil law,
in preference to that of the common law. They may introduce
the practice of France, Spain and Germany - of torturing, to
extort the confession of the crime. They will tell you that
there is such a necessity of strengthening the arm of
government, that they must have a criminal equity, and
extort confession by torture, in order to punish with still
more relentless severity." In other words, Patrick Henry saw
exactly where the United States government would go in the
future. Despite the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
which he demanded to protect us against torture, the US
government openly tortures prisoners today, both foreign and
domestic.
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- Henry's struggle
against the coming US empire failed and the Constitution was
passed, although with some watered-down amendments. He made
some grim observations and some dire predictions.
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- Henry's
great-grandson, Edward Fontaine, wrote the following in
1870:
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- "While living in
retirement with his family, as planter, and practicing
lawyer, the pamphlet containing the Constitution and the
additional 12 amendments adopted by the majority of States
requisite to make them part of the instrument, was brought
to him and examined by him most carefully in the presence of
my father and Mr. Dandridge.
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- He seemed to have
been suspicious of the character of some of the framers of
the Constitution, and of the crafty politicians through
whose hands it had passed since its adoption by Virginia,
that he feared they had not only altered the amendments
adopted by the Virginia convention, but had tampered with
the body of the instrument itself.
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- After reading it
carefully, satisfying himself that they had not changed the
original paper, he read carefully the amendments to the
tenth. When he read this he threw down the pamphlet upon the
table, and remarked with great solemnity:
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- 'I find that these
shrewd Northern Statesmen have outwitted our Southern men
again in the wording of these amendments. They determined
when this Constitution was framed to make this a great
consolidated National Government of all the people of the
States. To secure this object they inserted in its preamble
the words 'We, the People of the United States,' instead of
We, the States.
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- Their object was to
make it a government of a majority of the whole people, that
is a Government of the Northern People; for they have this
majority; and under such a government holding this power
they can and will exercise it oppressively to the South for
their own advantage. To prevent this, and to hinder this
majority from doing whatever they may think proper for 'the
general welfare,' which they will construe to mean their own
sectional welfare, I wrote the first 20 amendments adopted,
and recommended by the Convention of Virginia in these
words: 'Each State in the Union shall respectively retain
every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not by this
Constitution delegated to the Congress of the United States,
or to the departments of the Federal Government.'
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- This was intended
to secure the rights of the States, and to prevent the
exercise of doubtful powers by the Federal Government, but
they have omitted it, and substituted for it this equivocal
thing to which they have tacked the objectionable and
dangerous words of 'the people.' 'The powers not delegated
to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by
it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.' Why did they add, 'or to the people?'
They determined to make it a consolidated government. They
added these words to neutralize the amendment of Virginia,
and they have done it effectually. This government cannot
last. It will not last a century. We can only get rid of its
oppression by a most violent and bloody struggle."
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- "He at once
discerned the craft displayed by this ingenious amendment,
worded to deceive the conventions of the different States.
They were intended to persuade them that they embraced the
strong safeguard to their rights furnished by the clear and
explicit amendment of Patrick Henry. The amendment does this
[up] to the word respectively. If the amendment had ended
there, its meaning could not have been perverted. But the
trickery is veiled in the words added "or to the people."
They are superfluous verbiage, if they were added to curb
federal power, and guard state sovereignty, which the
amendment was adopted to effect.
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- But the cunning
politicians who inserted them did so with a design of using
them to suit their purpose when occasion should arise in the
future. We are not "states respectively" with any reserved
and sovereign rights. "We are a nation" ruled first by a
northern majority, and then by a "contemptible minority" of
oligarchs. The violent and bloody struggle has ensued, and
it is not yet ended. The Constitution is destroyed. The
Government has been over-turned, and the century has not yet
rolled away. Our present Government is not that framed in
Philadelphia; that did not last a century. The new dominion,
which has arisen out of it, is changing continually. What it
is now is difficult to define. It requires another Henry to
predict."
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- This brings up a
sore subject: the War of Northern Aggression, the War to
Prevent Southern Independence, Lincoln's War, the Second
American Revolution - the Civil War - predicted by Patrick
Henry in 1789 because of the Northern greed and lust for
dominance he recognized in the US Constitution. Whatever one
thinks about the Constitution, it ceased to exist as seven
articles and twelve articles of amendments when eleven
states announced in 1861 that they were no longer under its
authority. The seven articles and their three branches of
government remained in force in the Northern states, but the
so-called Bill of Rights evaporated under Lincoln's
dictatorial rule. Thousands of Northern protesters were
arrested and denied Habeas Corpus. Hundreds of Northern
newspapers were shut down and their editors and publishers
thrown in prison to rot for years. 620,000 died from 1861 to
1865 and for what? So that all Americans could live under
the protection of the US Constitution? I'll leave it to the
reader to ponder the effect of the Civil War on the American
Experiment.
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- In the aftermath of
the war, Southerners were forced back in the Union. The
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were rammed into the
Constitution at gunpoint. The Southern States were under
Federal military rule for twelve years. No Southern
Congressman was allowed back in the Congress until his state
ratified the 14th Amendment. We all know that. And we all
know that the 16th Amendment, making the IRS the collection
agency for the Federal Reserve Corporation, was never
ratified although it became law in February, 1913. What many
of us do not realize is that the 17th Amendment, which
became law two months later, obliterated what was left of
the US Constitution (the first seven articles, since the
first ten amendments, "the Bill of Rights," were just fond
memories).
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- The 17th Amendment
provided for the direct election of Senators. The US
Constitution was in effect a contract between the states and
the people. The people were represented in the federal
government in the House of Representatives, the members of
which were elected by popular vote. The states were
represented in the Senate, and Senators were appointed by
the State legislatures. When the 17th Amendment forced the
popular vote for Senators, the Constitution, the contract,
ceased to exist. It was rendered technically null and void.
Lincoln had rendered it meaningless, but the 17th made it
official.
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- The fraudulent
legal trickery of 1913 also included the passage of the
Federal Reserve Act in December. All of this was
accomplished in the first year of Woodrow Wilson's
administration, which was run by a mysterious little
character from Texas named Edward Mandell House. Much can be
learned about the 20th Century by studying this Rothschild
agent and his shockingly bad novel, Philip Dru:
Administrator. House was the kingmaker and fixer who gave us
both Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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- Anyway, the reader
may be saying, okay, the Constitution is certainly flawed
and maybe not even in effect today. But if Ron Paul uses it
as his guide for voting on legislation, isn't that better
than what the other politicians do?
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- It seems to me that
everything depends on the philosophy of the politician
rather than on seven articles and twenty-seven amendments of
a dead document. Ron Paul's value is in his personal
morality and philosophy, which he may disguise as an
adherence to the US Constitution. The first seven articles
are the framework of the three branches of our government,
which thanks to the two-party system, have merged into a
gigantic and deadly dictatorship which has just recently
killed about two million Iraqis. The twenty-seven amendments
are a mishmash of force and fraud, a playground for lawyers
and judges and as Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush have
demonstrated, of no value whatsoever for our personal
protection.
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- This writer was
responsible for the armed mass movement known as "the
militia," which lasted for a few years. I naturally took a
special interest in the 2nd Amendment, which reads, "A
well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed."
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- You must admit that
this is a strangely-crafted sentence. Whether you like guns
or hate them, the sentence is a mess. Patrick Henry and
George Mason both demanded that our right to keep and bear
arms be at or near the top of their Bill of Rights. We've
already read what Henry thought about the militia clause
(#16) in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. He
thought it was a joke. In glancing through the revised Bill
of Rights that day he got the pamphlet, when he fixed upon
the deception of the 10th Amendment, he might have missed
the deception of the 2nd.
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- In the book I wrote
to kick off the resistance movement I called "the militia,"
I discussed fifty-four federal court decisions having to do
with guns and the militia. The great scam that the writers
of the 2nd Amendment started was that the keeping and
bearing of arms would all depend on some connection to "the
militia." And what do you know? Virtually all 54 cases in
the US Code Annotated from 1858 to 1980 were decided so that
there is no individual right to keep and bear arms; there's
only a "collective right" and only if you're in the militia,
which has not been officially recognized since 1916, when
something very deceptive called the "National Guard" was
invented. Even before that, even before the colonies became
a country, the militia was feared and hated by those who
sought power over their fellow man. The reason for changing
its name to the French term, "National Guard," was to be
able to draft all the militiamen for the coming Great War
and obviously you can't do that if it's still called The
Militia. The only actual Supreme Court decision in the bunch
(Miller - 1939) produced the idea that a sawed-off shotgun
is not a militia-style weapon and is therefore illegal as
hell. "Collective right" is legalese for "no right." This is
what the Supreme Court is going to think about next year,
whether the 2nd Amendment means the right shall or shall not
be infringed.
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- So that's why I
called my resistance movement "the militia."
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- Patrick Henry
showed in the Powder Affair what the militia can do. One
thing it cannot do is be "well-regulated." A careful reading
of the US Constitution reveals that no one in the government
is authorized to regulate the militia, because "regulate"
means regular and regulations and that means the army. You
can't regulate the armed male civilian population of this
country and you shouldn't even try. This is what the Supreme
Court knows and is why it really doesn't want to touch this
thing.
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- Punctuation back in
1789 was overdone. The 2nd Amendment has way too many commas
in it and too many words. That amendment has two clauses in
it: the independent clause and the dependent clause. The
first half of the sentence is the dependent clause. The
independent clause reads, "the right of the people to keep
and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Why there's a comma
after Arms, I have no idea. Why the dependent clause ties
our guns to a "well-regulated Militia," I know very well. It
was written to try to keep unruly American men under control
somehow. Some have told me, oh, well-regulated simply means
disciplined and ship-shape, supplied and so forth. No, it
doesn't. Regulate means "to adjust or control by rule."
There is no such authority for regulating the militia in the
US Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 14 says the
Congress shall have the power to make rules for the
government and regulation of the land and naval forces. The
land force is the army, which is the antithesis of the
militia. The 5th Amendment reads "except in cases arising in
the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual
service in time of War or public danger."
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- The writers of the
2nd Amendment really messed things up with that militia
clause. Every court in our history has used it against us,
until the DC court decided recently that the independent
clause is what counts. Think of how life could have been if
the guys had just written, "The right of the people to keep
and bear arms shall not be infringed." But they had to mess
it up.
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- The US Constitution
is full of this contradictory and confusing language, but
that really doesn't concern us anymore, because it's been
dead since 1861. Since we are under the Law of the Gun, we
all need to become good lawyers.
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